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Matthew
2 Abraham was the father of Isaac, and
Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, 3and
Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron,
and Hezron the father of Aram, 4and Aram the father of Aminadab, and
Aminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon, 5and
Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and
Obed the father of Jesse, 6and Jesse the father of King David.
And David was the father of
Solomon by the wife of Uriah, 7and Solomon the father of Rehoboam,
and Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asaph,*
8and Asaph*
the father of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the
father of Uzziah, 9and Uzziah the father of Jotham, and Jotham the
father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah, 10and Hezekiah the
father of Manasseh, and Manasseh the father of Amos,*
and Amos* the father of
Josiah, 11and Josiah the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at
the time of the deportation to Babylon.
12 And after the deportation to Babylon: Jechoniah
was the father of Salathiel, and Salathiel the father of Zerubbabel, 13and
Zerubbabel the father of Abiud, and Abiud the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim
the father of Azor, 14and Azor the father of Zadok, and Zadok the
father of Achim, and Achim the father of Eliud, 15and Eliud the
father of Eleazar, and Eleazar the father of Matthan, and Matthan the father of
Jacob, 16and Jacob the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom
Jesus was born, who is called the Messiah.*
17 So all the generations from Abraham to
David are fourteen generations; and from David to the deportation to Babylon,
fourteen generations; and from the deportation to Babylon to the Messiah,*
fourteen generations.
18 Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah*
took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but
before they lived together, she was found to be with child from the Holy
Spirit. 19Her husband Joseph, being a righteous man and unwilling to
expose her to public disgrace, planned to dismiss her quietly. 20But
just when he had resolved to do this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a
dream and said, ‘Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your
wife, for the child conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21She
will bear a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people
from their sins.’ 22All this took place to fulfil what had been
spoken by the Lord through the prophet:
23 ‘Look, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son,
and they shall name him Emmanuel’,
which means, ‘God is with us.’ 24When Joseph awoke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him; he took her as his wife, 25but had no marital relations with her until she had borne a son;* and he named him Jesus.
23 ‘Look, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son,
and they shall name him Emmanuel’,
which means, ‘God is with us.’ 24When Joseph awoke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him; he took her as his wife, 25but had no marital relations with her until she had borne a son;* and he named him Jesus.
2In the time of
King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men*
from the East came to Jerusalem, 2asking, ‘Where is the child who
has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star at its rising,*
and have come to pay him homage.’ 3When King Herod heard this, he
was frightened, and all Jerusalem with him; 4and calling together
all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the
Messiah* was to be born. 5They
told him, ‘In Bethlehem of Judea; for so it has been written by the prophet:
6 “And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
are by no means least among the rulers of Judah;
for from you shall come a ruler
who is to shepherd* my people Israel.” ’
6 “And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
are by no means least among the rulers of Judah;
for from you shall come a ruler
who is to shepherd* my people Israel.” ’
7 Then Herod secretly called for the
wise men* and learned from
them the exact time when the star had appeared. 8Then he sent them
to Bethlehem, saying, ‘Go and search diligently for the child; and when you
have found him, bring me word so that I may also go and pay him homage.’ 9When
they had heard the king, they set out; and there, ahead of them, went the star
that they had seen at its rising,*
until it stopped over the place where the child was. 10When they saw
that the star had stopped,*
they were overwhelmed with joy. 11On entering the house, they saw
the child with Mary his mother; and they knelt down and paid him homage. Then,
opening their treasure-chests, they offered him gifts of gold, frankincense,
and myrrh. 12And having been warned in a dream not to return to
Herod, they left for their own country by another road.
13 Now after they had left, an angel of
the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, ‘Get up, take the child and
his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is
about to search for the child, to destroy him.’ 14Then Joseph*
got up, took the child and his mother by night, and went to Egypt, 15and
remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfil what had been
spoken by the Lord through the prophet, ‘Out of Egypt I have called my son.’
16 When Herod saw that he had been
tricked by the wise men,*
he was infuriated, and he sent and killed all the children in and around
Bethlehem who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had
learned from the wise men.*
17Then was fulfilled what had been spoken through the prophet
Jeremiah:
18 ‘A voice was heard in Ramah,
wailing and loud lamentation,
Rachel weeping for her children;
she refused to be consoled, because they are no more.’
18 ‘A voice was heard in Ramah,
wailing and loud lamentation,
Rachel weeping for her children;
she refused to be consoled, because they are no more.’
19 When Herod died, an angel of the Lord
suddenly appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, 20‘Get up,
take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were
seeking the child’s life are dead.’ 21Then Joseph*
got up, took the child and his mother, and went to the land of Israel. 22But
when he heard that Archelaus was ruling over Judea in place of his father
Herod, he was afraid to go there. And after being warned in a dream, he went
away to the district of Galilee. 23There he made his home in a town
called Nazareth, so that what had been spoken through the prophets might be
fulfilled, ‘He will be called a Nazorean.’
3In those days John
the Baptist appeared in the wilderness of Judea, proclaiming, 2‘Repent,
for the kingdom of heaven has come near.’*
3This is the one of whom the prophet Isaiah spoke when he said,
‘The voice of one crying out in the wilderness:
“Prepare the way of the Lord,
make his paths straight.” ’
4Now John wore clothing of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey. 5Then the people of Jerusalem and all Judea were going out to him, and all the region along the Jordan, 6and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.
‘The voice of one crying out in the wilderness:
“Prepare the way of the Lord,
make his paths straight.” ’
4Now John wore clothing of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey. 5Then the people of Jerusalem and all Judea were going out to him, and all the region along the Jordan, 6and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.
7 But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees
coming for baptism, he said to them, ‘You brood of vipers! Who warned you to
flee from the wrath to come? 8Bear fruit worthy of repentance. 9Do
not presume to say to yourselves, “We have Abraham as our ancestor”; for I tell
you, God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham. 10Even
now the axe is lying at the root of the trees; every tree therefore that does
not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
11 ‘I baptize you with*
water for repentance, but one who is more powerful than I is coming after me; I
am not worthy to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with*
the Holy Spirit and fire.
12 His winnowing-fork is in his hand, and he will clear his
threshing-floor and will gather his wheat into the granary; but the chaff he
will burn with unquenchable fire.’
13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to John
at the Jordan, to be baptized by him. 14John would have prevented
him, saying, ‘I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?’ 15But
Jesus answered him, ‘Let it be so now; for it is proper for us in this way to
fulfil all righteousness.’ Then he consented. 16And when Jesus had been baptized, just as he came up from
the water, suddenly the heavens were opened to him and he saw the Spirit of God
descending like a dove and alighting on him. 17And a voice from heaven
said, ‘This is my Son, the Beloved,*
with whom I am well pleased.’
4Then Jesus was led
up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2He fasted for forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was famished. 3The
tempter came and said to him, ‘If you are the Son of God, command these stones
to become loaves of bread.’ 4But he answered, ‘It is written,
“One does not live by bread alone,
but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.” ’
“One does not live by bread alone,
but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.” ’
5 Then the devil took him to the holy city and
placed him on the pinnacle of the temple, 6saying to him, ‘If you
are the Son of God, throw yourself down; for it is written,
“He will command his angels concerning you”,
and “On their hands they will bear you up,
so that you will not dash your foot against a stone.” ’
7Jesus said to him, ‘Again it is written, “Do not put the Lord your God to the test.” ’
“He will command his angels concerning you”,
and “On their hands they will bear you up,
so that you will not dash your foot against a stone.” ’
7Jesus said to him, ‘Again it is written, “Do not put the Lord your God to the test.” ’
8 Again, the devil took him to a very high
mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendour; 9and
he said to him, ‘All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship
me.’ 10Jesus said to him, ‘Away with you, Satan! for it is written,
“Worship the Lord your God,
and serve only him.” ’
11Then the devil left him, and suddenly angels came and waited on him.
“Worship the Lord your God,
and serve only him.” ’
11Then the devil left him, and suddenly angels came and waited on him.
12 Now when Jesus*
heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew
to Galilee. 13He left
Nazareth and made his home in Capernaum by the lake, in the territory of
Zebulun and Naphtali, 14so that what had been spoken through the
prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled:
15 ‘Land of Zebulun, land of Naphtali,
on the road by the sea, across the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles—
16 the people who sat in darkness
have seen a great light,
and for those who sat in the region and shadow of death
light has dawned.’
17From that time Jesus began to proclaim, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.’*
15 ‘Land of Zebulun, land of Naphtali,
on the road by the sea, across the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles—
16 the people who sat in darkness
have seen a great light,
and for those who sat in the region and shadow of death
light has dawned.’
17From that time Jesus began to proclaim, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.’*
18 As he walked by the Sea of Galilee,
he saw two brothers, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother,
casting a net into the lake—for they were fishermen. 19And he said
to them, ‘Follow me, and I will make you fish for people.’ 20Immediately
they left their nets and followed him. 21As he went from there, he
saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John, in the boat
with their father Zebedee, mending their nets, and he called them. 22Immediately
they left the boat and their father, and followed him.
23 Jesus*
went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news* of the
kingdom and curing every disease and every sickness among the people. 24So his fame spread throughout
all Syria, and they brought to him all the sick, those who were afflicted with
various diseases and pains, demoniacs, epileptics, and paralytics, and he cured
them. 25And great crowds followed him from Galilee, the Decapolis,
Jerusalem, Judea, and from beyond the Jordan.
5When Jesus*
saw the crowds, he went up the mountain; and after he sat down, his disciples
came to him. 2Then he began to speak, and
taught them, saying:
3 ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4 ‘Blessed are those who mourn, for they
will be comforted.
5 ‘Blessed are the meek, for they will
inherit the earth.
6 ‘Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
7 ‘Blessed are the merciful, for they
will receive mercy.
8 ‘Blessed are the pure in heart, for
they will see God.
9 ‘Blessed are the peacemakers, for they
will be called children of God.
10 ‘Blessed are those who are persecuted for
righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 ‘Blessed are you when people revile you and
persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely* on my account. 12Rejoice
and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for in the same way they
persecuted the prophets who were before you.
13 ‘You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how can its
saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything, but is thrown
out and trampled under foot.
14 ‘You are the light of the world. A
city built on a hill cannot be hidden. 15No one after lighting a
lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light
to all in the house. 16In
the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your
good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.
17 ‘Do not think that I have come to
abolish the law or the prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfil. 18For truly I tell you, until
heaven and earth pass away, not one letter,* not one stroke of a letter, will pass from the
law until all is accomplished. 19Therefore, whoever breaks*
one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, will
be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does them and teaches
them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20For I tell
you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you
will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
21 ‘You have heard that it was said to
those of ancient times, “You shall not murder”; and “whoever murders shall be
liable to judgement.” 22But I say to you that if you are angry with
a brother or sister,*
you will be liable to judgement; and if you insult*
a brother or sister,*
you will be liable to the council; and if you say, “You fool”, you will be
liable to the hell* of fire. 23So
when you are offering your gift at the altar, if you remember that your brother
or sister* has something
against you, 24leave your gift there before the altar and go; first
be reconciled to your brother or sister,*
and then come and offer your gift. 25Come to terms quickly with your
accuser while you are on the way to court* with him, or your accuser may
hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you will be thrown
into prison. 26Truly I tell you, you will never get out until you
have paid the last penny.
27 ‘You have heard that it was said, “You
shall not commit adultery.” 28But I say to you that everyone who
looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his
heart. 29If your right
eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away; it is better for you to
lose one of your members than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.*
30And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it
away; it is better for you to lose one of your members than for your whole body
to go into hell.*
31 ‘It was also said, “Whoever divorces
his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.” 32But I say to
you that anyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of unchastity, causes her to commit
adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
33 ‘Again, you have heard that it was
said to those of ancient times, “You shall not swear falsely, but carry out the
vows you have made to the Lord.” 34But I say to you, Do not swear at
all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God, 35or by the
earth, for it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the
great King. 36And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make one
hair white or black. 37Let your word be “Yes, Yes” or “No, No”;
anything more than this comes from the evil one.*
38 ‘You have heard that it was said, “An eye
for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” 39But I say to you, Do not
resist an evildoer. But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn
the other also; 40and if anyone wants to sue you and take your coat,
give your cloak as well; 41and
if anyone forces you to go one mile, go also the second mile. 42Give
to everyone who begs from you, and do
not refuse anyone who wants to borrow from you.
43 ‘You have heard that it was said, “You shall
love your neighbour and hate your enemy.” 44But I say to you,
love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45so that you may be children of
your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good,
and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous. 46For
if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the
tax-collectors do the same? 47And
if you greet only your brothers and sisters,*
what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? 48Be
perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
6‘Beware of
practising your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you
have no reward from your Father in heaven.
2 ‘So whenever you give alms, do not
sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the
streets, so that they may be praised by others. Truly I tell you, they have
received their reward. 3But when you give alms, do not let your left
hand know what your right hand is doing, 4so that your alms may be
done in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.*
5 ‘And whenever you pray, do not be like
the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the
street corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have
received their reward. 6But whenever you pray, go into your room and
shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who
sees in secret will reward you.*
7 ‘When you are praying, do not heap up
empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard
because of their many words. 8Do not be like them, for your Father
knows what you need before you ask him.
9 ‘Pray
then in this way:
Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
10 Your kingdom come.
Your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.*
12 And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 And do not bring us to the time of trial,*
but rescue us from the evil one.*
14For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you; 15but if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
10 Your kingdom come.
Your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.*
12 And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 And do not bring us to the time of trial,*
but rescue us from the evil one.*
14For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you; 15but if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
16 ‘And whenever you fast, do not look
dismal, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces so as to show
others that they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their
reward. 17But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your
face, 18so that your fasting may be seen not by others but by your
Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.*
19 ‘Do not store up for yourselves treasures
on earth, where moth and rust* consume and where thieves
break in and steal; 20but store up for yourselves treasures in
heaven, where neither moth nor rust* consumes and where thieves do
not break in and steal. 21For where your treasure is, there your
heart will be also.
22 ‘The
eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will
be full of light; 23but if your eye is unhealthy, your whole body
will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
24 ‘No one can serve two masters; for a slave
will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and
despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.*
25 ‘Therefore I tell you, do not worry about
your life, what you will eat or what you will drink,* or about your body, what you
will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26Look
at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and
yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27And
can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life?* 28And why do you
worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they
neither toil nor spin, 29yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his
glory was not clothed like one of these. 30But if God so clothes the
grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven,
will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31Therefore do
not worry, saying, “What will we eat?” or “What will we drink?” or “What will
we wear?” 32For it is the Gentiles who strive for all these things;
and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33But
strive first for the kingdom of God* and his* righteousness, and all these things will
be given to you as well.
34 ‘So do not worry about tomorrow, for
tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today’s trouble is enough for today.
7‘Do not judge, so that you may
not be judged. 2For with the judgement you make you will be judged,
and the measure you give will be the measure you get. 3Why do you see
the speck in your neighbour’s* eye, but do not notice the
log in your own eye? 4Or how can you say to your neighbour,* “Let me take the speck out of
your eye”, while the log is in your own eye? 5You hypocrite, first
take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the
speck out of your neighbour’s* eye.
6 ‘Do not give what is holy to dogs; and
do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under foot and
turn and maul you.
7 ‘Ask, and it will be given to you; search,
and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. 8For
everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone
who knocks, the door will be opened. 9Is there anyone among you who,
if your child asks for bread, will give a stone? 10Or if the child asks for a fish, will give a
snake? 11If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to
your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
12 ‘In everything do to others as you would
have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets.
13 ‘Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road is easy*
that leads to destruction, and there are many who take it. 14For the
gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are few who
find it.
15 ‘Beware of false prophets, who come to
you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16You will
know them by their fruits.
Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles? 17In the
same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. 18A
good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19Every tree that does not bear
good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20Thus you will
know them by their fruits.
21 ‘Not everyone who says to me, “Lord, Lord”,
will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only one who does the will of my Father
in heaven. 22On that day many will say to
me, “Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your
name, and do many deeds of power in your name?” 23Then I will
declare to them, “I never knew you; go away from me, you evildoers.”
24 ‘Everyone then who hears these words of
mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. 25The
rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it
did not fall, because it had been founded on rock. 26And everyone
who hears these words of mine and does not act on them will be like a foolish
man who built his house on sand. 27The rain fell, and the floods
came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was
its fall!’
28 Now when Jesus had finished saying
these things, the crowds were
astounded at his teaching, 29for he taught them as one having
authority, and not as their scribes.
8When Jesus*
had come down from the mountain, great crowds followed him; 2and
there was a leper* who came to him and
knelt before him, saying, ‘Lord, if you choose, you can make me clean.’ 3He
stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, ‘I do choose. Be made clean!’
Immediately his leprosy*
was cleansed. 4Then Jesus said to him, ‘See that you say nothing to
anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses
commanded, as a testimony to them.’
5 When he entered Capernaum, a centurion came
to him, appealing to him 6and saying, ‘Lord, my servant is lying at
home paralysed, in terrible distress.’ 7And he said to him, ‘I will
come and cure him.’ 8The centurion answered, ‘Lord, I am not worthy
to have you come under my roof; but only speak the word, and my servant will be
healed. 9For I also am a man under authority, with soldiers under
me; and I say to one, “Go”, and he goes, and to another, “Come”, and he comes,
and to my slave, “Do this”, and the slave does it.’ 10When Jesus
heard him, he was amazed and said to those who followed him, ‘Truly I tell you,
in no one* in Israel have I found such
faith. 11I
tell you, many will come from east and west and will eat with Abraham and Isaac
and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven,
12while the heirs of the
kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be
weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ 13And
to the centurion Jesus said, ‘Go; let it be done for you according to your
faith.’ And the servant was healed in that hour.
14 When Jesus entered Peter’s house, he
saw his mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever; 15he touched her
hand, and the fever left her, and she got up and began to serve him. 16That
evening they brought to him many who were possessed by demons; and he cast out
the spirits with a word, and cured all who were sick. 17This was to fulfil what had been spoken through the
prophet Isaiah, ‘He took our infirmities and bore our diseases.’
18 Now when Jesus saw great crowds around him,
he gave orders to go over to the other side. 19A scribe then approached and said,
‘Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.’ 20And Jesus said to
him, ‘Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man has
nowhere to lay his head.’ 21Another of his disciples said to him,
‘Lord, first let me go and bury my father.’ 22But Jesus said to him,
‘Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.’
23 And when he got into the boat, his
disciples followed him. 24A gale arose on the lake, so great that
the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep. 25And
they went and woke him up, saying, ‘Lord, save us! We are perishing!’ 26And he said to them, ‘Why are
you afraid, you of little faith?’ Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the
sea; and there was a dead calm. 27They were amazed, saying, ‘What
sort of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him?’
28 When he came to the other side, to
the country of the Gadarenes,*
two demoniacs coming out of the tombs met him. They were so fierce that no one
could pass that way. 29Suddenly they shouted, ‘What have you to do
with us, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?’ 30Now
a large herd of swine was feeding at some distance from them. 31The
demons begged him, ‘If you cast us out, send us into the herd of swine.’ 32And
he said to them, ‘Go!’ So they came out and entered the swine; and suddenly,
the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and perished in the
water. 33The swineherds ran off, and on going into the town, they
told the whole story about what had happened to the demoniacs. 34Then
the whole town came out to meet Jesus; and when they saw him, they begged him
to leave their neighbourhood.
91And
after getting into a boat he crossed the water and came to his own town.
2 And just then some people were
carrying a paralysed man lying on a bed. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to
the paralytic, ‘Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven.’ 3Then some
of the scribes said to themselves, ‘This man is blaspheming.’ 4But
Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, said, ‘Why do you think evil in your hearts? 5For
which is easier, to say, “Your sins are forgiven”, or to say, “Stand up and
walk”? 6But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority
on earth to forgive sins’—he then said to the paralytic—‘Stand up, take your
bed and go to your home.’ 7And he stood up and went to his home. 8When
the crowds saw it, they were filled with awe, and they glorified God, who had given such authority to human
beings.
9 As Jesus was walking along, he saw a
man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth; and he said to him, ‘Follow me.’
And he got up and followed him.
10 And as he sat at dinner*
in the house, many tax-collectors and sinners came and were sitting*
with him and his disciples. 11When the Pharisees saw this, they said
to his disciples, ‘Why does your teacher eat with tax-collectors and sinners?’ 12But
when he heard this, he said, ‘Those who are well have no need of a physician,
but those who are sick. 13Go
and learn what this means, “I desire mercy, not sacrifice.”
For I have come to call not the righteous but sinners.’
14 Then the disciples of John came to
him, saying, ‘Why do we and the Pharisees fast often,*
but your disciples do not fast?’ 15And Jesus said to them, ‘The
wedding-guests cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they?
The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they
will fast. 16No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak,
for the patch pulls away from the cloak, and a worse tear is made. 17Neither
is new wine put into old wineskins; otherwise, the skins burst, and the wine is
spilled, and the skins are destroyed; but new wine is put into fresh wineskins,
and so both are preserved.’
18 While he was saying these things to
them, suddenly a leader of the synagogue*
came in and knelt before him, saying, ‘My daughter has just died; but come and
lay your hand on her, and she will live.’ 19And Jesus got up and
followed him, with his disciples. 20Then suddenly a woman who had
been suffering from haemorrhages for twelve years came up behind him and
touched the fringe of his cloak, 21for she said to herself, ‘If I
only touch his cloak, I will be made well.’ 22Jesus turned, and
seeing her he said, ‘Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well.’ And
instantly the woman was made well. 23When Jesus came to the leader’s
house and saw the flute-players and the crowd making a commotion, 24he
said, ‘Go away; for the girl is not dead but sleeping.’ And they laughed at
him. 25But when the crowd had been put outside, he went in and took
her by the hand, and the girl got up. 26And the report of this
spread throughout that district.
27 As Jesus went on from there, two blind men
followed him, crying loudly, ‘Have mercy on us, Son of David!’ 28When
he entered the house, the blind men came to him; and Jesus said to them, ‘Do you believe that I am able to do this?’
They said to him, ‘Yes, Lord.’ 29Then he touched their eyes and
said, ‘According to your faith let it be done to you.’ 30And their eyes were opened. Then Jesus sternly ordered them, ‘See that no one knows of this.’ 31But
they went away and spread the news about him throughout that district.
32 After they had gone away, a demoniac
who was mute was brought to him. 33And
when the demon had been cast out,
the one who had been mute spoke; and the crowds were amazed and said, ‘Never has anything like this been
seen in Israel.’ 34But
the Pharisees said, ‘By the ruler of the demons he casts out the demons.’*
35 Then Jesus went about all the cities
and villages, teaching in their
synagogues, and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and curing every disease and every
sickness. 36When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them,
because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. 37Then
he said to his disciples, ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few;
38therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers into
his harvest.’
10Then Jesus*
summoned his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to
cast them out, and to cure
every disease and every sickness.
2These are the names of the
twelve apostles: first, Simon, also known as Peter, and his brother Andrew;
James son of Zebedee, and his brother John; 3Philip and Bartholomew;
Thomas and Matthew the tax-collector; James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;*
4Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, the one who betrayed him.
5 These twelve Jesus sent out with the
following instructions: ‘Go nowhere among the Gentiles, and enter no town of
the Samaritans, 6but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of
Israel. 7 As you go, proclaim the good news, “The kingdom of
heaven has come near.”* 8Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers,*
cast out demons. You received without payment; give without payment. 9Take no gold, or silver, or copper in your belts, 10no
bag for your journey, or two tunics, or sandals, or a staff; for labourers deserve their food. 11Whatever
town or village you enter, find out
who in it is worthy, and stay there until you leave. 12As
you enter the house, greet it. 13If the house is worthy, let your
peace come upon it; but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you. 14If anyone will not welcome you
or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet as you leave that
house or town. 15Truly
I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgement
than for that town.
16 ‘See, I am sending you out like
sheep into the midst of wolves; so be
wise as serpents and innocent as doves. 17Beware of them, for they will hand you over to councils
and flog you in their synagogues; 18and you will be dragged before
governors and kings because of me, as a testimony to them and the Gentiles. 19When
they hand you over, do not worry about how you are to speak or what you are to
say; for what you are to say will be given to you at that time; 20for
it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you. 21Brother
will betray brother to death, and a father his child, and children will rise
against parents and have them put to death; 22and you will be hated
by all because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
23When they persecute you in
one town, flee to the next; for truly I tell you, you will not have gone through
all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
24 ‘A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a
slave above the master; 25it is enough for the disciple to be like
the teacher, and the slave like the master. If they have
called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those
of his household!
26 ‘So have no fear of them; for
nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered, and nothing secret that will
not become known. 27What I say to you in the dark, tell in the
light; and what you hear whispered, proclaim from the housetops. 28Do
not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who
can destroy both soul and body in hell.* 29Are not two
sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground
unperceived by your Father. 30And even the hairs of your head are
all counted. 31So do not be afraid; you are of more value than many
sparrows.
32 ‘Everyone therefore who acknowledges me
before others, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven; 33but
whoever denies me before others, I also will deny before my Father in heaven.
34 ‘Do not think that I have come to bring
peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
35 For I have come to set a man against his father,
and a daughter against her mother,
and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
36 and one’s foes will be members of one’s own household.
37Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; 38and whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.
35 For I have come to set a man against his father,
and a daughter against her mother,
and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
36 and one’s foes will be members of one’s own household.
37Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; 38and whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.
40 ‘Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and
whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. 41Whoever welcomes a prophet in the name of a prophet will
receive a prophet’s reward; and whoever welcomes a righteous person in the name
of a righteous person will receive the reward of the righteous; 42and whoever gives even a cup
of cold water to one of these little
ones in the name of a disciple —truly I tell you, none of these will lose their reward.’
11Now when Jesus had
finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and
proclaim his message in their cities.
2 When John heard in prison what the Messiah* was doing, he sent word by
his* disciples 3and
said to him, ‘Are you the one who is to come, or are we to wait for another?’ 4Jesus
answered them, ‘Go and tell John what you hear and see: 5the blind
receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers* are cleansed, the deaf hear,
the dead are raised, and the poor have good news brought to them. 6And
blessed is anyone who takes no offence at me.’
7 As they went away, Jesus began to speak to
the crowds about John: ‘What did you go out into the wilderness to look at? A
reed shaken by the wind? 8What then did you go out to see? Someone* dressed in soft robes? Look,
those who wear soft robes are in royal palaces. 9What then did you
go out to see? A prophet?* Yes, I tell you, and more
than a prophet. 10This is the one about whom it is written,
“See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you,
who will prepare your way before you.”
11Truly I tell you, among those born of women no one has arisen greater than John the Baptist; yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. 12From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence,* and the violent take it by force. 13For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John came; 14and if you are willing to accept it, he is Elijah who is to come. 15Let anyone with ears* listen!
“See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you,
who will prepare your way before you.”
11Truly I tell you, among those born of women no one has arisen greater than John the Baptist; yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. 12From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence,* and the violent take it by force. 13For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John came; 14and if you are willing to accept it, he is Elijah who is to come. 15Let anyone with ears* listen!
16 ‘But to what will I compare this
generation? It is like children sitting in the market-places and calling to one
another,
17 “We played the flute for you, and you did not dance;
we wailed, and you did not mourn.”
18For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, “He has a demon”; 19the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, “Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax-collectors and sinners!” Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.’*
17 “We played the flute for you, and you did not dance;
we wailed, and you did not mourn.”
18For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, “He has a demon”; 19the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, “Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax-collectors and sinners!” Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.’*
20 Then he began to reproach the cities in
which most of his deeds of power had been done, because they did not repent.
21‘Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the deeds
of power done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented
long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22But I tell you, on the day of
judgement it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon than for you. 23And
you, Capernaum,
will you be exalted to heaven?
No, you will be brought down to Hades.
For if the deeds of power done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. 24But I tell you that on the day of judgement it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom than for you.’
will you be exalted to heaven?
No, you will be brought down to Hades.
For if the deeds of power done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. 24But I tell you that on the day of judgement it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom than for you.’
25 At that time Jesus said, ‘I thank* you, Father, Lord of heaven
and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the
intelligent and have revealed them to infants; 26yes, Father, for
such was your gracious will.* 27All things have
been handed over to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the
Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son
chooses to reveal him.
28 ‘Come to me, all you that are weary
and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. 29Take my
yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you
will find rest for your souls. 30For my yoke is easy, and my burden
is light.’
12At that time Jesus
went through the cornfields on the sabbath; his disciples were hungry, and they
began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. 2When the Pharisees saw
it, they said to him, ‘Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do
on the sabbath.’ 3He said to them, ‘Have you not read what David did
when he and his companions were hungry? 4He entered the house of God
and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him or his
companions to eat, but only for the priests. 5Or
have you not read in the law that on the sabbath the priests in the temple
break the sabbath and yet are guiltless? 6I tell you, something
greater than the temple is here. 7But if you had known what this
means, “I desire mercy and not sacrifice”, you would not have condemned the
guiltless. 8For the Son
of Man is lord of the sabbath.’
9 He left that place and entered their
synagogue; 10a man was there with a withered hand, and they asked
him, ‘Is it lawful to cure on the sabbath?’ so that they might accuse him. 11He said to them, ‘Suppose one
of you has only one sheep and it falls into a pit on the sabbath; will you not
lay hold of it and lift it out? 12How much more valuable is a human
being than a sheep! So it is lawful
to do good on the sabbath.’ 13Then he said to the man, ‘Stretch out
your hand.’ He stretched it out, and it was restored, as sound as the other. 14But
the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how to destroy him.
15 When Jesus became aware of this, he departed.
Many crowds*
followed him, and he cured all of them, 16and he ordered them not to
make him known. 17This
was to fulfil what had been spoken through the prophet Isaiah:
18 ‘Here is my servant, whom I have chosen,
my beloved, with whom my soul is well pleased.
I will put my Spirit upon him,
and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles.
19 He will not wrangle or cry aloud,
nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets.
20 He will not break a bruised reed
or quench a smouldering wick
until he brings justice to victory.
21 And in his name the Gentiles will hope.’
18 ‘Here is my servant, whom I have chosen,
my beloved, with whom my soul is well pleased.
I will put my Spirit upon him,
and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles.
19 He will not wrangle or cry aloud,
nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets.
20 He will not break a bruised reed
or quench a smouldering wick
until he brings justice to victory.
21 And in his name the Gentiles will hope.’
22 Then they brought to him a demoniac
who was blind and mute; and he cured him, so that the one who had been mute
could speak and see. 23All
the crowds were amazed and said, ‘Can this be the Son of David?’ 24But when the Pharisees heard
it, they said, ‘It is only by Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons, that this
fellow casts out the demons.’ 25He knew what they were thinking and
said to them, ‘Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city
or house divided against itself will stand. 26If Satan casts out
Satan, he is divided against himself; how then will his kingdom stand? 27If
I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your own exorcists* cast them out? Therefore they
will be your judges. 28But if it is by the Spirit of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God
has come to you. 29Or how
can one enter a strong man’s house and plunder his property, without first
tying up the strong man? Then indeed the house can be plundered. 30Whoever
is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.
31Therefore I tell you,
people will be forgiven for every sin and blasphemy, but blasphemy against the
Spirit will not be forgiven. 32Whoever speaks a word against
the Son of Man will be forgiven, but
whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.
33 ‘Either make the tree good, and its fruit
good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; for the
tree is known by its fruit. 34You brood of vipers! How can you speak good things, when you are
evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. 35The
good person brings good things out of a good treasure, and the evil person
brings evil things out of an evil treasure. 36I tell you, on the day of judgement you will have to give
an account for every careless word you utter; 37for by your words
you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.’
38 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said
to him, ‘Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.’ 39But he
answered them, ‘An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except
the sign of the prophet Jonah. 40For just as Jonah was for three days and three nights in the
belly of the sea monster, so for three days and three nights the Son of Man
will be in the heart of the earth. 41The people of Nineveh
will rise up at the judgement with this generation and condemn it, because they
repented at the proclamation of Jonah, and see, something greater than Jonah is
here! 42The queen of the South will rise up at the judgement with
this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to
listen to the wisdom of Solomon, and see, something greater than Solomon is
here!
43 ‘When the unclean spirit has gone out of a
person, it wanders through waterless regions looking for a resting-place, but
it finds none. 44Then it says, “I will return to my house from which
I came.” When it comes, it finds it empty, swept, and put in order. 45Then
it goes and brings along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they
enter and live there; and the last state of that person is worse than the
first. So will it be also with this evil generation.’
46 While he was still speaking to the
crowds, his mother and his brothers were standing outside, wanting to speak to
him. 47Someone told him, ‘Look, your mother and your brothers are
standing outside, wanting to speak to you.’*
48But to the one who had told him this, Jesus*
replied, ‘Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?’ 49And pointing
to his disciples, he said, ‘Here are my mother
and my brothers! 50For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven
is my brother and sister and mother.’
13That same day
Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the lake. 2Such great
crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat there, while the
whole crowd stood on the beach. 3And
he told them many things in parables, saying: ‘Listen! A sower went out to sow.
4And as he sowed, some seeds fell on the path, and the birds came
and ate them up. 5Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did
not have much soil, and they sprang up quickly, since they had no depth of
soil. 6But when the sun rose, they were scorched; and since they had
no root, they withered away. 7Other seeds fell among thorns, and the
thorns grew up and choked them. 8Other seeds fell on good soil and
brought forth grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. 9Let
anyone with ears* listen!’
10 Then the disciples came and asked him, ‘Why
do you speak to them in parables?’ 11He answered, ‘To you it has
been given to know the secrets*
of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. 12For to those who have,
more will be given, and they will have an abundance; but from those who have
nothing, even what they have will be taken away. 13The reason I speak to them in parables is that “seeing
they do not perceive, and hearing they do not listen, nor do they understand.”
14With them indeed is
fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah that says:
“You will indeed listen, but never understand,
and you will indeed look, but never perceive.
15 For this people’s heart has grown dull,
and their ears are hard of hearing,
and they have shut their eyes;
so that they might not look with their eyes,
and listen with their ears,
and understand with their heart and turn—
and I would heal them.”
16But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. 17Truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, but did not see it, and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it.
“You will indeed listen, but never understand,
and you will indeed look, but never perceive.
15 For this people’s heart has grown dull,
and their ears are hard of hearing,
and they have shut their eyes;
so that they might not look with their eyes,
and listen with their ears,
and understand with their heart and turn—
and I would heal them.”
16But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. 17Truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, but did not see it, and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it.
18 ‘Hear then the parable of the sower. 19When
anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one
comes and snatches away what is sown in the heart; this is what was sown on the
path. 20As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who
hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; 21yet such a
person has no root, but endures only for a while, and when trouble or
persecution arises on account of the word, that person immediately falls away.*
22As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the
word, but the cares of the world and the lure of wealth choke the word, and it
yields nothing. 23But as for what was sown on good soil, this is the
one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields,
in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.’
24 He put before them another parable:
‘The kingdom of heaven may be compared to someone who sowed good seed in his
field; 25but while everybody was asleep, an enemy came and sowed
weeds among the wheat, and then went away. 26So when the plants came
up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared as well. 27And the slaves
of the householder came and said to him, “Master, did you not sow good seed in
your field? Where, then, did these weeds come from?” 28He answered,
“An enemy has done this.” The slaves said to him, “Then do you want us to go
and gather them?” 29But he replied, “No; for in gathering the weeds
you would uproot the wheat along with them. 30Let both of them grow
together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the reapers,
Collect the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the
wheat into my barn.” ’
31 He put before them another parable:
‘The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took
and sowed in his field; 32it is the smallest of all the seeds, but
when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the
birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.’
33 He told them another parable: ‘The kingdom
of heaven is like yeast that a woman
took and mixed in with* three measures of flour until
all of it was leavened.’
34 Jesus told the crowds all these
things in parables; without a parable he told them nothing. 35This was to fulfil what had
been spoken through the prophet:*
‘I will open my mouth to speak in parables;
I will proclaim what has been hidden from the foundation of the world.’*
‘I will open my mouth to speak in parables;
I will proclaim what has been hidden from the foundation of the world.’*
36 Then he left the crowds and went into
the house. And his disciples approached him, saying, ‘Explain to us the parable
of the weeds of the field.’ 37He answered, ‘The one who sows the
good seed is the Son of Man; 38the field is the world, and the good
seed are the children of the kingdom; the weeds are the children of the evil
one, 39and the enemy who sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the
end of the age, and the reapers are angels. 40Just as the weeds are
collected and burned up with fire, so will it be at the end of the age. 41The
Son of Man will send his angels, and they will collect out of his kingdom all
causes of sin and all evildoers, 42and they will throw them into the
furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 43Then
the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Let anyone with ears*
listen!
44 ‘The kingdom of heaven is like
treasure hidden in a field, which someone found and hid; then in his joy he
goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
45 ‘Again, the kingdom of heaven is like
a merchant in search of fine pearls; 46on finding one pearl of great
value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it.
47 ‘Again, the kingdom of heaven is like
a net that was thrown into the sea and caught fish of every kind; 48when
it was full, they drew it ashore, sat down, and put the good into baskets but
threw out the bad. 49So it will be at the end of the age. The angels
will come out and separate the evil from the righteous 50and throw
them into the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of
teeth.
51 ‘Have you understood all this?’ They
answered, ‘Yes.’ 52And he said to them, ‘Therefore every scribe who
has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a household
who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.’ 53When
Jesus had finished these parables, he left that place.
54 He came to his home town and began to
teach the people* in their
synagogue, so that they were astounded and said, ‘Where did this man get this
wisdom and these deeds of power? 55Is not this the carpenter’s son?
Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James and Joseph and
Simon and Judas? 56And are not all his sisters with us? Where then
did this man get all this?’ 57And they took offence at him. But
Jesus said to them, ‘Prophets are not without honour except in their own
country and in their own house.’ 58And
he did not do many deeds of power there, because of their unbelief.
14At that time Herod
the ruler* heard reports
about Jesus; 2and he said to his servants, ‘This is John the
Baptist; he has been raised from the dead, and for this reason these powers are
at work in him.’ 3For Herod had arrested John,
bound him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s
wife,* 4because
John had been telling him, ‘It is not lawful for you to have her.’ 5Though Herod*
wanted to put him to death, he feared the crowd, because they regarded him as a
prophet. 6But when Herod’s birthday came,
the daughter of Herodias danced before the company, and she pleased Herod 7so
much that he promised on oath to grant her whatever she might ask. 8Prompted
by her mother, she said, ‘Give me the head of John the Baptist here on a
platter.’ 9The king was grieved, yet out of regard for his oaths and
for the guests, he commanded it to be given; 10he sent and had John
beheaded in the prison. 11The head was brought on a platter and
given to the girl, who brought it to her mother. 12His disciples came
and took the body and buried it; then
they went and told Jesus.
13 Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a
deserted place by himself. But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on
foot from the towns. 14When he went ashore, he saw a great crowd;
and he had compassion for them and cured their sick. 15When it was evening, the
disciples came to him and said, ‘This is a deserted place, and the hour is now
late; send the crowds away so that they may go into the villages and buy food
for themselves.’ 16Jesus said to them, ‘They need not go away; you
give them something to eat.’ 17They replied, ‘We have nothing here
but five loaves and two fish.’ 18And he said, ‘Bring them here to
me.’ 19Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking
the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven, and blessed and broke
the loaves, and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the
crowds. 20And all ate and were filled; and they took up what was
left over of the broken pieces, twelve baskets full. 21And those who
ate were about five thousand men, besides
women and children.
22 Immediately he made the disciples get
into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds.
23And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up the mountain by
himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone, 24but by
this time the boat, battered by the waves, was far from the land,*
for the wind was against them. 25And early in the morning he came
walking towards them on the lake. 26But when the disciples saw him
walking on the lake, they were terrified, saying, ‘It is a ghost!’ And they
cried out in fear. 27But immediately Jesus spoke to them and said,
‘Take heart, it is I; do not be afraid.’
28 Peter answered him, ‘Lord, if it is
you, command me to come to you on the water.’ 29He said, ‘Come.’ So
Peter got out of the boat, started walking on the water, and came towards
Jesus. 30But when he noticed the strong wind,*
he became frightened, and beginning to sink, he cried out, ‘Lord, save me!’ 31Jesus
immediately reached out his hand and caught him, saying to him, ‘You of little
faith, why did you doubt?’ 32When they got into the boat, the wind
ceased. 33And those in the boat worshipped him, saying, ‘Truly you
are the Son of God.’
34 When they had crossed over, they came
to land at Gennesaret. 35After the people of that place recognized
him, they sent word throughout the region and brought all who were sick to him,
36and begged him that they might touch even the fringe of his cloak;
and all who touched it were healed.
15Then Pharisees and
scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, 2‘Why do your
disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands
before they eat.’ 3He answered them, ‘And why do
you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? 4For God said,*
“Honour your father and your mother,” and, “Whoever speaks evil of father or
mother must surely die.” 5But you say that whoever tells father or
mother, “Whatever support you might have had from me is given to God”,*
then that person need not honour the father.*
6So, for the sake of your tradition, you make void the word*
of God. 7You hypocrites! Isaiah
prophesied rightly about you when he said:
8 “This people honours me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me;
9 in vain do they worship me,
teaching human precepts as doctrines.” ’
8 “This people honours me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me;
9 in vain do they worship me,
teaching human precepts as doctrines.” ’
10 Then he called the crowd to him and
said to them, ‘Listen and understand: 11it is not what goes into the
mouth that defiles a person, but it is what comes out of the mouth that
defiles.’ 12Then the
disciples approached and said to him, ‘Do you know that the Pharisees took
offence when they heard what you said?’ 13He answered, ‘Every plant
that my heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted. 14Let them
alone; they are blind guides of the blind.*
And if one blind person guides another, both will fall into a pit.’ 15But
Peter said to him, ‘Explain this parable to us.’ 16Then he said, ‘Are you also still without understanding? 17Do
you not see that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach, and goes out
into the sewer? 18But
what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this is what defiles. 19For
out of the heart come evil intentions, murder, adultery, fornication, theft,
false witness, slander. 20These are what defile a person, but to eat
with unwashed hands does not defile.’
21 Jesus left that place and went away
to the district of Tyre and Sidon.
22Just then a Canaanite woman
from that region came out and started
shouting, ‘Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is tormented by a demon.’ 23But he
did not answer her at all. And his disciples came and urged him, saying, ‘Send
her away, for she keeps shouting after us.’ 24He answered, ‘I was sent only to the lost sheep of the
house of Israel.’ 25But
she came and knelt before him, saying, ‘Lord, help me.’ 26He
answered, ‘It is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the
dogs.’ 27She said, ‘Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that
fall from their masters’ table.’ 28Then Jesus answered her, ‘Woman,
great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish.’ And her daughter was
healed instantly.
29 After Jesus had left that place, he
passed along the Sea of Galilee, and he went up the mountain, where he sat
down. 30Great crowds came
to him, bringing with them the lame, the maimed, the blind, the mute, and many
others. They put them at his feet, and he cured them, 31so that the
crowd was amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the maimed whole, the lame
walking, and the blind seeing. And they praised the God of Israel.
32 Then Jesus called his disciples to
him and said, ‘I have compassion for the crowd, because they have been with me
now for three days and have nothing to eat; and I do not want to send them away
hungry, for they might faint on the way.’ 33The disciples said to
him, ‘Where are we to get enough bread in the desert to feed so great a crowd?’
34Jesus asked them, ‘How many loaves have you?’ They said, ‘Seven,
and a few small fish.’ 35Then ordering the crowd to sit down on the
ground, 36he took the seven loaves and the fish; and after giving
thanks he broke them and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave
them to the crowds. 37And all of them ate and were filled; and they
took up the broken pieces left over, seven baskets full. 38Those who
had eaten were four thousand men, besides
women and children. 39After
sending away the crowds, he got into
the boat and went to the region of Magadan.*
16The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to
test Jesus* they asked him to
show them a sign from heaven. 2He
answered them, ‘When it is evening, you say, “It will be fair weather, for the
sky is red.” 3And in the morning, “It will be stormy today, for the
sky is red and threatening.” You know how to interpret the appearance of
the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.* 4An evil and
adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign
will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.’ Then he left them and went away.
5 When the disciples reached the other
side, they had forgotten to bring any bread. 6Jesus said to them,
‘Watch out, and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.’ 7They
said to one another, ‘It is because we have brought no bread.’ 8And
becoming aware of it, Jesus said, ‘You of little faith, why are you talking
about having no bread? 9Do you still not perceive? Do you not
remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you
gathered? 10Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many
baskets you gathered? 11How could you fail to perceive that I was
not speaking about bread? Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!’ 12Then
they understood that he had not told them to beware of the yeast of bread, but
of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
13 Now when Jesus came into the district
of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, ‘Who do people say that the Son
of Man is?’ 14And they said, ‘Some say John the Baptist, but others
Elijah, and still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.’ 15He said
to them, ‘But who do you say that I am?’ 16Simon Peter answered,
‘You are the Messiah,* the Son of the living God.’ 17And
Jesus answered him, ‘Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For flesh and blood
has not revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven. 18And I tell
you, you are Peter,*
and on this rock* I will build my
church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it. 19I will
give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will
be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.’ 20Then he sternly ordered the disciples not to tell anyone
that he was* the Messiah.*
21 From that time on, Jesus began to
show his disciples that he must go to
Jerusalem and undergo great
suffering at the hands of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be
killed, and on the third day be raised. 22And Peter took him aside
and began to rebuke him, saying, ‘God forbid it, Lord! This must never happen
to you.’ 23But he turned and said to Peter, ‘Get behind me, Satan!
You are a stumbling-block to me; for you are setting your mind not on divine
things but on human things.’
24 Then Jesus told his disciples, ‘If
any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their
cross and follow me. 25For those who want to save their life will
lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it. 26For
what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life?
Or what will they give in return for their life?
27 ‘For the Son of Man is to come with
his angels in the glory of his Father, and
then he will repay everyone for what has been done. 28Truly I tell you, there are some standing here who will
not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.’
17Six days later,
Jesus took with him Peter and James and his brother John and led them up a high
mountain, by themselves. 2And he was transfigured before them, and
his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became dazzling white. 3Suddenly
there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, talking with him. 4Then
Peter said to Jesus, ‘Lord, it is good for us to be here; if you wish, I*
will make three dwellings*
here, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.’ 5While he was
still speaking, suddenly a bright cloud overshadowed them, and from the cloud a
voice said, ‘This is my Son, the Beloved;*
with him I am well pleased; listen to him!’ 6When
the disciples heard this, they fell to the ground and were overcome by fear.
7But Jesus came and touched
them, saying, ‘Get up and do not be afraid.’ 8And when they looked up, they saw no one except
Jesus himself alone.
9 As they were coming down the
mountain, Jesus ordered them, ‘Tell no one about the vision until after the Son
of Man has been raised from the dead.’ 10And the disciples asked
him, ‘Why, then, do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?’ 11He
replied, ‘Elijah is indeed coming and will restore all things; 12but
I tell you that Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but
they did to him whatever they pleased. So also the Son of Man is about to
suffer at their hands.’ 13Then
the disciples understood that he was speaking to them about John the Baptist.
14 When they came to the crowd, a man
came to him, knelt before him, 15and said, ‘Lord, have mercy on my
son, for he is an epileptic and he suffers terribly; he often falls into the
fire and often into the water. 16And I brought him to your
disciples, but they could not cure him.’ 17Jesus answered, ‘You
faithless and perverse generation, how much longer must I be with you? How much
longer must I put up with you? Bring him here to me.’ 18And Jesus rebuked the demon,*
and it* came out of him,
and the boy was cured instantly. 19Then the disciples came to Jesus
privately and said, ‘Why could we not cast it out?’ 20He said to
them, ‘Because of your little faith. For truly I
tell you, if you have faith the size of a*
mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, “Move from here to there”, and it
will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.’*
22 As they were gathering*
in Galilee, Jesus said to them, ‘The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into
human hands, 23and they will kill him, and on the third day he will
be raised.’ And they were greatly distressed.
24 When they reached Capernaum, the
collectors of the temple tax*
came to Peter and said, ‘Does your teacher not pay the temple tax?’*
25He said, ‘Yes, he does.’ And when he came home, Jesus spoke of it
first, asking, ‘What do you think, Simon? From whom do kings of the earth take
toll or tribute? From their children or from others?’ 26When Peter*
said, ‘From others’, Jesus said to him, ‘Then the children are free. 27However,
so that we do not give offence to them, go to the lake and cast a hook; take
the first fish that comes up; and when you open its mouth, you will find a
coin;* take that and
give it to them for you and me.’
18At that time the
disciples came to Jesus and asked, ‘Who is the greatest in the kingdom of
heaven?’ 2He called a child, whom he put among them, 3and
said, ‘Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will
never enter the kingdom of heaven. 4Whoever becomes humble like this
child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 5Whoever welcomes
one such child in my name welcomes me.
6 ‘If any of you put a stumbling-block
before one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for you
if a great millstone were fastened around your neck and you were drowned in the
depth of the sea. 7Woe to
the world because of stumbling-blocks! Occasions for stumbling are bound
to come, but woe to the one by whom the stumbling-block comes!
8 ‘If your hand or your foot causes you
to stumble, cut it off and throw it away; it is better for you to enter life
maimed or lame than to have two hands or two feet and to be thrown into the
eternal fire. 9And if your eye causes you to stumble, tear it out
and throw it away; it is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have
two eyes and to be thrown into the hell*
of fire.
10 ‘Take care that you do not despise one
of these little ones; for, I tell you, in heaven their angels continually see
the face of my Father in heaven.* 12What do you think? If
a shepherd has a hundred
sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on
the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? 13And if
he finds it, truly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the
ninety-nine that never went astray.
14So it is not the will of
your* Father in heaven
that one of these little ones should be lost.
15 ‘If
another member of the church* sins against you,* go and point out the fault when
the two of you are alone.
If the member listens to you, you have
regained that one.* 16But
if you are not listened to, take one or two others along with you, so that
every word may be confirmed by the evidence of two or three witnesses. 17If
the member refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if the
offender refuses to listen even to the church, let such a one be to you as a
Gentile and a tax-collector. 18Truly
I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever
you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. 19Again, truly I tell you, if two of you agree on earth
about anything you ask, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. 20For
where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them.’
21 Then Peter came and said to him, ‘Lord,
if another member of the church* sins against me, how often
should I forgive? As many as seven times?’ 22Jesus
said to him, ‘Not seven times, but, I tell you, seventy-seven*
times.
23 ‘For this reason the kingdom of heaven
may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his slaves. 24When
he began the reckoning, one who owed him ten thousand talents*
was brought to him; 25and, as he could not pay, his lord ordered him
to be sold, together with his wife and children and all his possessions, and
payment to be made. 26So the slave fell on his knees before him,
saying, “Have patience with me, and I will pay you everything.” 27And
out of pity for him, the lord of that slave released him and forgave him the
debt. 28But that same slave, as he went out, came upon one of his
fellow-slaves who owed him a hundred denarii;*
and seizing him by the throat, he said, “Pay what you owe.” 29Then
his fellow-slave fell down and pleaded with him, “Have patience with me, and I
will pay you.” 30But he refused; then he went and threw him into
prison until he should pay the debt. 31When his fellow-slaves saw
what had happened, they were greatly distressed, and they went and reported to
their lord all that had taken place. 32Then his lord summoned him
and said to him, “You wicked slave! I forgave you all that debt because you
pleaded with me. 33Should you not have had mercy on your
fellow-slave, as I had mercy on you?” 34And in anger his lord handed
him over to be tortured until he should pay his entire debt. 35So my
heavenly Father will also do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your
brother or sister* from your heart.’
19When Jesus had
finished saying these things, he left
Galilee and went to the region of Judea beyond the Jordan. 2Large
crowds followed him, and he cured
them there.
3 Some Pharisees came to him, and to
test him they asked, ‘Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause?’ 4He answered, ‘Have you not read that the one who made them
at the beginning “made them male and female”, 5and said, “For this
reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and
the two shall become one flesh”? 6So they are no longer two, but one
flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.’ 7They
said to him, ‘Why then did Moses command us to give a certificate of dismissal
and to divorce her?’ 8He said to them, ‘It was because you were so
hard-hearted that Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but at the beginning
it was not so. 9And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for unchastity, and marries another commits adultery.’*
10 His disciples said to him, ‘If such is
the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry.’ 11But
he said to them, ‘Not everyone can accept this teaching, but only those to whom
it is given. 12For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth,
and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others, and there are
eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven.
Let anyone accept this who can.’
13 Then little children were being
brought to him in order that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The
disciples spoke sternly to those who brought them; 14but Jesus said,
‘Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; for it is to such as
these that the kingdom of heaven belongs.’ 15And he laid his
hands on them and went on his way.
16 Then someone came to him and said,
‘Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life?’ 17And he
said to him, ‘Why do you ask me about
what is good? There is only one who
is good. If you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments.’ 18He
said to him, ‘Which ones?’ And Jesus said, ‘You shall not murder; You shall not
commit adultery; You shall not steal; You shall not bear false witness; 19Honour
your father and mother; also, You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ 20The
young man said to him, ‘I have kept all these;*
what do I still lack?’ 21Jesus said to him, ‘If you wish to be
perfect, go, sell your possessions, and give the money*
to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.’ 22When
the young man heard this word, he went away grieving, for he had many
possessions.
23 Then Jesus said to his disciples,
‘Truly I tell you, it will be hard for a rich person to enter the kingdom of
heaven. 24Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through
the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.’ 25When
the disciples heard this, they were greatly astounded and said, ‘Then who can be
saved?’ 26But Jesus looked at them and said, ‘For mortals it is
impossible, but for God all things are possible.’
27 Then Peter said in reply, ‘Look, we
have left everything and followed you. What then will we have?’ 28Jesus
said to them, ‘Truly I tell you, at the renewal of all things, when the Son
of Man is seated on the throne of his glory, you who have followed me will also
sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 29And everyone who has left
houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields, for my
name’s sake, will receive a hundredfold,*
and will inherit eternal life. 30But many who are first will be
last, and the last will be first.
20‘For the kingdom
of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire
labourers for his vineyard. 2After agreeing with the labourers for
the usual daily wage,*
he sent them into his vineyard. 3When he went out about nine
o’clock, he saw others standing idle in the market-place; 4and he
said to them, “You also go into the vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is
right.” So they went. 5When he went out again about noon and about
three o’clock, he did the same. 6And about five o’clock he went out
and found others standing around; and he said to them, “Why are you standing
here idle all day?” 7They said to him, “Because no one has hired
us.” He said to them, “You also go into the vineyard.” 8When evening
came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, “Call the labourers and
give them their pay, beginning with the last and then going to the first.” 9When
those hired about five o’clock came, each of them received the usual daily
wage.* 10Now
when the first came, they thought they would receive more; but each of them
also received the usual daily wage.*
11And when they received it, they grumbled against the landowner, 12saying,
“These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have
borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.” 13But he
replied to one of them, “Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree
with me for the usual daily wage?*
14Take what belongs to you and go; I choose to give to this last the
same as I give to you. 15Am I not allowed to do what I choose with
what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?”*
16So the last will be first, and the first will
be last.’*
17 While Jesus was going up to
Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside by themselves, and said to them
on the way, 18‘See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man
will be handed over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him
to death; 19then they will hand him over to the Gentiles to be
mocked and flogged and crucified; and on the third day he will be raised.’
20 Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee
came to him with her sons, and kneeling before him, she asked a favour of him. 21And
he said to her, ‘What do you want?’ She said to him, ‘Declare that these two
sons of mine will sit, one at your
right hand and one at your left, in your kingdom.’ 22But Jesus answered, ‘You do not know what you are asking.
Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink?’*
They said to him, ‘We are able.’ 23He said to them, ‘You will indeed
drink my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left, this is not mine to
grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.’
24 When the ten heard it, they were
angry with the two brothers. 25But Jesus called them to him and
said, ‘You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their
great ones are tyrants over them. 26It will not be so among you; but
whoever wishes to be great among you must be your servant, 27and
whoever wishes to be first among you must be your slave; 28just as
the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a
ransom for many.’
29 As they were leaving Jericho, a large
crowd followed him. 30There were two blind men sitting by the
roadside. When they heard that Jesus was passing by, they shouted, ‘Lord,*
have mercy on us, Son of David!’ 31The crowd sternly ordered them to
be quiet; but they shouted even more loudly, ‘Have mercy on us, Lord, Son of
David!’ 32Jesus stood still and called them, saying, ‘What do you
want me to do for you?’ 33They said to him, ‘Lord, let our eyes be
opened.’ 34Moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes.
Immediately they regained their sight and followed him.
21When they had come
near Jerusalem and had reached Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent
two disciples, 2saying to them, ‘Go into the village ahead of you,
and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her; untie them
and bring them to me. 3If anyone says anything to you, just say
this, “The Lord needs them.” And he will send them immediately.*’
4This took place to
fulfil what had been spoken through the prophet, saying,
5 ‘Tell the daughter of Zion,
Look, your king is coming to you,
humble, and mounted on a donkey,
and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’
6The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them; 7they brought the donkey and the colt, and put their cloaks on them, and he sat on them. 8A very large crowd* spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. 9The crowds that went ahead of him and that followed were shouting,
‘Hosanna to the Son of David!
Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!
Hosanna in the highest heaven!’
10When he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was in turmoil, asking, ‘Who is this?’ 11The crowds were saying, ‘This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth in Galilee.’
5 ‘Tell the daughter of Zion,
Look, your king is coming to you,
humble, and mounted on a donkey,
and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’
6The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them; 7they brought the donkey and the colt, and put their cloaks on them, and he sat on them. 8A very large crowd* spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. 9The crowds that went ahead of him and that followed were shouting,
‘Hosanna to the Son of David!
Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!
Hosanna in the highest heaven!’
10When he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was in turmoil, asking, ‘Who is this?’ 11The crowds were saying, ‘This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth in Galilee.’
12 Then Jesus entered the temple*
and drove out all who were selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned
the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold doves. 13He
said to them, ‘It is written,
“My house shall be called a house of prayer”;
but you are making it a den of robbers.’
“My house shall be called a house of prayer”;
but you are making it a den of robbers.’
14 The blind and the lame came to him in
the temple, and he cured them. 15But when the chief priests and the
scribes saw the amazing things that he did, and heard*
the children crying out in the temple, ‘Hosanna to the Son of David’, they
became angry 16and said to him, ‘Do you hear what these are saying?’
Jesus said to them, ‘Yes; have you never read,
“Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babies
you have prepared praise for yourself”?’
17He left them, went out of the city to Bethany, and spent the night there.
“Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babies
you have prepared praise for yourself”?’
17He left them, went out of the city to Bethany, and spent the night there.
18 In the morning, when he returned to
the city, he was hungry. 19And seeing a fig tree by the side of the
road, he went to it and found nothing at all on it but leaves. Then he said to
it, ‘May no fruit ever come from you again!’ And the fig tree withered at once. 20When the disciples saw it, they were amazed, saying, ‘How
did the fig tree wither at once?’ 21Jesus
answered them, ‘Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only
will you do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this
mountain, “Be lifted up and thrown into the sea”, it will be done. 22Whatever
you ask for in prayer with faith, you will receive.’
23 When he entered the temple, the chief
priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said,
‘By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this
authority?’ 24Jesus said to them, ‘I will also ask you one question;
if you tell me the answer, then I will also tell you by what authority I do
these things. 25Did the baptism of John come from heaven, or was it
of human origin?’ And they argued with one another, ‘If we say, “From heaven”,
he will say to us, “Why then did you not believe him?” 26But if we
say, “Of human origin”, we are afraid of the crowd; for all regard John as a
prophet.’ 27So they answered Jesus, ‘We do not know.’ And he said to
them, ‘Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.
28 ‘What do you think? A man had two
sons; he went to the first and said, “Son, go and work in the vineyard today.” 29He
answered, “I will not”; but later he changed his mind and went. 30The
father* went to the
second and said the same; and he answered, “I go, sir”; but he did not go. 31Which
of the two did the will of his father?’ They said, ‘The first.’ Jesus said to
them, ‘Truly I tell you, the tax-collectors and the prostitutes are going into
the kingdom of God ahead of you. 32For John came to you in the way
of righteousness and you did not believe him, but the tax-collectors and the
prostitutes believed him; and even after you saw it, you did not change your
minds and believe him.
33 ‘Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a
vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a
watch-tower. Then he leased it to tenants and went to another country. 34When
the harvest time had come, he sent his slaves to the tenants to collect his
produce. 35But the tenants seized his slaves and beat one, killed
another, and stoned another. 36Again he sent other slaves, more than
the first; and they treated them in the same way. 37Finally he sent
his son to them, saying, “They will respect my son.” 38But when the
tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, “This is the heir; come, let us
kill him and get his inheritance.” 39So they seized him, threw him
out of the vineyard, and killed him. 40Now when the owner of the
vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?’ 41They said to
him, ‘He will put those wretches to a miserable death, and lease the vineyard
to other tenants who will give him the produce at the harvest time.’
42 Jesus said to them, ‘Have you never
read in the scriptures:
“The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone;*
this was the Lord’s doing,
and it is amazing in our eyes”?
43Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that produces the fruits of the kingdom.* 44The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and it will crush anyone on whom it falls.’*
“The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone;*
this was the Lord’s doing,
and it is amazing in our eyes”?
43Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that produces the fruits of the kingdom.* 44The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and it will crush anyone on whom it falls.’*
45 When the chief priests and the
Pharisees heard his parables, they realized that he was speaking about them. 46They
wanted to arrest him, but they feared the crowds, because they regarded him as a prophet.
22Once more Jesus spoke
to them in parables, saying: 2‘The kingdom of heaven may be
compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son. 3He sent his
slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding banquet, but they
would not come. 4Again he sent other slaves, saying, “Tell those who
have been invited: Look, I have
prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and
everything is ready; come to the wedding banquet.” 5But
they made light of it and went away, one to his farm, another to his business, 6while
the rest seized his slaves, maltreated them, and killed them. 7The
king was enraged. He sent his troops,
destroyed those murderers, and burned their city. 8Then he said to
his slaves, “The wedding is ready, but those invited were not worthy. 9Go
therefore into the main streets,
and invite everyone you find to the
wedding banquet.” 10Those slaves went out into the streets and
gathered all whom they found, both good and bad; so the wedding hall was filled
with guests.
11 ‘But when the king came in to see the
guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing a wedding robe, 12and
he said to him, “Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding robe?” And
he was speechless. 13Then the king said to the attendants, “Bind him
hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be
weeping and gnashing of teeth.” 14For many are called, but few are
chosen.’
15 Then the Pharisees went and plotted
to entrap him in what he said. 16So they sent their disciples to
him, along with the Herodians, saying, ‘Teacher, we know that you are sincere,
and teach the way of God in accordance with truth, and show deference to no
one; for you do not regard people with partiality. 17Tell us, then,
what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to the emperor, or not?’ 18But
Jesus, aware of their malice, said, ‘Why are you putting me to the test, you
hypocrites? 19Show me the coin used for the tax.’ And they brought
him a denarius. 20Then he said to them, ‘Whose head is this, and
whose title?’ 21They answered, ‘The emperor’s.’ Then he said to
them, ‘Give therefore to the emperor the things that are the emperor’s, and to
God the things that are God’s.’ 22When they heard this, they were
amazed; and they left him and went
away.
23 The same day some Sadducees came to
him, saying there is no resurrection;*
and they asked him a question, saying, 24‘Teacher, Moses said, “If a
man dies childless, his brother shall marry the widow, and raise up children
for his brother.” 25Now there were seven brothers among us; the
first married, and died childless, leaving the widow to his brother. 26The
second did the same, so also the third, down to the seventh. 27Last
of all, the woman herself died. 28In the resurrection, then, whose
wife of the seven will she be? For all of them had married her.’
29 Jesus answered them, ‘You are wrong,
because you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God. 30For
in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like
angels* in heaven. 31And
as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by
God, 32“I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob”? He is God not of the dead, but of the living.’ 33And when the crowd heard it, they were astounded at his
teaching.
34 When the Pharisees heard that he had
silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, 35and one of them,
a lawyer, asked him a question to
test him. 36‘Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?’ 37He said to him, ‘ “You shall love the Lord your God with
all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.” 38This
is the greatest and first commandment. 39And a second is like it:
“You shall love your neighbour as yourself.” 40On these two commandments hang all the law and the
prophets.’
41 Now while the Pharisees were gathered
together, Jesus asked them this question: 42‘What do you think of the Messiah?* Whose son is he?’
They said to him, ‘The son of David.’ 43He said to them, ‘How is it then that David by the Spirit*
calls him Lord, saying,
44 “The Lord said to my Lord,
‘Sit at my right hand,
until I put your enemies under your feet’ ”?
45If David thus calls him Lord, how can he be his son?’ 46No one was able to give him an answer, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions.
44 “The Lord said to my Lord,
‘Sit at my right hand,
until I put your enemies under your feet’ ”?
45If David thus calls him Lord, how can he be his son?’ 46No one was able to give him an answer, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions.
23Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, 2‘The scribes and the Pharisees
sit on Moses’ seat; 3therefore, do whatever they teach you and
follow it; but do not do as they do, for they do not practise what they teach. 4They
tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear,*
and lay them on the shoulders of others; but they themselves are unwilling to
lift a finger to move them. 5They do all their deeds to be seen by
others; for they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long. 6They love to have the place of honour at banquets and the
best seats in the synagogues, 7and to be greeted with respect in the
market-places, and to have people
call them rabbi. 8But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have
one teacher, and you are all students.*
9And call no one your father on earth, for you have one Father—the
one in heaven. 10Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have
one instructor, the Messiah.*
11The greatest among you will be your servant. 12All who
exalt themselves will be humbled, and all who humble themselves will be
exalted.
13 ‘But woe to you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! For you lock people out of the kingdom of heaven. For
you do not go in yourselves, and when others are going in, you stop them.*
15Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cross sea
and land to make a single convert, and you make the new convert twice as much a
child of hell* as yourselves.
16 ‘Woe to you, blind guides, who say,
“Whoever swears by the sanctuary is bound by nothing, but whoever swears by the
gold of the sanctuary is bound by the oath.” 17You blind fools! For
which is greater, the gold or the sanctuary that has made the gold sacred? 18And
you say, “Whoever swears by the altar is bound by nothing, but whoever swears
by the gift that is on the altar is bound by the oath.” 19How blind
you are! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift
sacred? 20So whoever swears by the altar, swears by it and by
everything on it; 21and whoever swears by the sanctuary, swears by
it and by the one who dwells in it; 22and whoever swears by heaven,
swears by the throne of God and by the one who is seated upon it.
23 ‘Woe to you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cummin, and have neglected
the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. It is these you ought to have practised
without neglecting the others. 24You
blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel!
25 ‘Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside
they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26You blind Pharisee!
First clean the inside of the cup,*
so that the outside also may become clean.
27 ‘Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which on the outside look
beautiful, but inside they are full of the bones of the dead and of all kinds
of filth. 28So you also on the outside look righteous to others, but
inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
29 ‘Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the graves of
the righteous, 30and you say, “If we had lived in the days of our
ancestors, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the
prophets.” 31Thus you testify against yourselves that you are descendants
of those who murdered the prophets. 32Fill up, then, the measure of
your ancestors. 33You snakes, you brood of vipers! How can you
escape being sentenced to hell?*
34Therefore I send you prophets, sages, and scribes, some of whom
you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue
from town to town, 35so that upon you may come all the righteous
blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah
son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. 36Truly
I tell you, all this will come upon this generation.
37 ‘Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills
the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to
gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and
you were not willing! 38See, your house is left to you, desolate.* 39For I tell you,
you will not see me again until you say, “Blessed is the one who comes in the
name of the Lord.” ’
24As Jesus came out
of the temple and was going away, his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. 2Then
he asked them, ‘You see all these, do you not? Truly I tell you, not one stone
will be left here upon another; all will be thrown down.’
3 When he was sitting on the Mount of
Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, ‘Tell us, when will this
be, and what will be the sign of your
coming and of the end of the age?’ 4Jesus
answered them, ‘Beware that no one leads you astray. 5For many will
come in my name, saying, “I am the Messiah!”*
and they will lead many astray. 6And you will hear of wars and
rumours of wars; see that you are not alarmed; for this must take place, but
the end is not yet. 7For nation will rise against nation, and
kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines*
and earthquakes in various places: 8all this is but the beginning of
the birth pangs.
9 ‘Then they will hand you over to be tortured and will put you to death,
and you will be hated by all nations because of my name. 10Then many
will fall away,* and they will
betray one another and hate one another. 11And many false prophets
will arise and lead many astray. 12And because of the increase of
lawlessness, the love of many will grow cold. 13But
anyone who endures to the end will be saved. 14And this good news*
of the kingdom will be proclaimed
throughout the world, as a testimony to all the nations;
and then the end will come.
15 ‘So when you see the desolating
sacrilege standing in the holy place, as
was spoken of by the prophet Daniel (let
the reader understand), 16then those in Judea must flee to the
mountains; 17someone on the housetop must not go down to take what
is in the house; 18someone in the field must not turn back to get a
coat. 19Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing
infants in those days! 20Pray
that your flight may not be in winter or
on a sabbath. 21For at
that time there will be great suffering, such as has not been from the
beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be. 22And if
those days had not been cut short, no one would be saved; but for the sake of
the elect those days will be cut short. 23Then if anyone says to
you, “Look! Here is the Messiah!”*
or “There he is!”—do not believe it. 24For false messiahs*
and false prophets will appear and produce great signs and omens, to lead
astray, if possible, even the elect. 25Take note, I have told you
beforehand. 26So, if they say to you, “Look!
He is in the wilderness”, do not go out. If they say, “Look! He is in the inner
rooms”, do not believe it. 27For as the lightning comes from
the east and flashes as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of
Man. 28Wherever the
corpse is, there the vultures will gather.
29 ‘Immediately after the suffering of
those days
the sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not give its light;
the stars will fall from heaven,
and the powers of heaven will be shaken.
30Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see “the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven” with power and great glory. 31And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
the sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not give its light;
the stars will fall from heaven,
and the powers of heaven will be shaken.
30Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see “the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven” with power and great glory. 31And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
32 ‘From the fig tree learn its lesson:
as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that
summer is near. 33So also, when you see all these things, you know
that he* is near, at the
very gates. 34Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away
until all these things have taken place. 35Heaven and earth will
pass away, but my words will not pass away.
36 ‘But about that day and hour no one
knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son,*
but only the Father. 37For
as the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 38For
as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and
giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark, 39and they
knew nothing until the flood came and swept them all away, so too will be the
coming of the Son of Man. 40Then two will be in the field; one will be taken and one
will be left. 41Two women will be grinding meal together; one will
be taken and one will be left. 42Keep
awake therefore, for you do not know on what day* your Lord is
coming. 43But
understand this: if the owner of the house had known in what part of the night
the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his
house be broken into. 44Therefore you also must be ready, for the
Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour.
45 ‘Who then is the faithful and wise slave,
whom his master has put in charge of his household, to give the other slaves* their allowance of food at
the proper time? 46Blessed is that slave whom his master will find
at work when he arrives. 47Truly I tell you, he will put that one in
charge of all his possessions. 48But if that wicked slave says to
himself, “My master is delayed”, 49and he begins to beat his
fellow-slaves, and eats and drinks with drunkards, 50the master of
that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour that
he does not know. 51He will cut him in pieces* and put him with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
25‘Then the kingdom
of heaven will be like this. Ten bridesmaids*
took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom.*
2Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. 3When the
foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them; 4but the wise
took flasks of oil with their lamps. 5As the bridegroom was delayed,
all of them became drowsy and slept. 6But at midnight there was a
shout, “Look! Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.” 7Then
all those bridesmaids*
got up and trimmed their lamps. 8The foolish said to the wise, “Give
us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.” 9But the wise
replied, “No! there will not be enough for you and for us; you had better go to
the dealers and buy some for yourselves.” 10And while they went to
buy it, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went with him into the
wedding banquet; and the door was shut. 11Later the other
bridesmaids* came also,
saying, “Lord, lord, open to us.” 12But he replied, “Truly I tell
you, I do not know you.”
13Keep awake therefore, for
you know neither the day nor the hour.*
14 ‘For it is as if a man, going on a
journey, summoned his slaves and entrusted his property to them; 15to one he gave five talents,*
to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. 16The
one who had received the five talents went off at once and traded with them,
and made five more talents. 17In the same way, the one who had the
two talents made two more talents. 18But the one who had received
the one talent went off and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s
money. 19After a long time the master of those slaves came
and settled accounts with them. 20Then
the one who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five more talents, saying,
“Master, you handed over to me five
talents; see, I have made five
more talents.” 21His master said to him, “Well done, good
and trustworthy slave; you have
been trustworthy in a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your
master.” 22And the one
with the two talents also came forward, saying, “Master, you handed over to me
two talents; see, I have made two
more talents.” 23His master said to him, “Well done, good and trustworthy slave; you
have been trustworthy in a few things, I will put you in charge of many things;
enter into the joy of your master.” 24Then
the one who had received the one talent also came forward, saying, “Master, I knew that you were a harsh
man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter seed; 25so I
was afraid, and I went and hid your
talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.” 26But his master replied, “You
wicked and lazy slave! You knew, did you, that I reap where I did not sow, and gather where I did not scatter? 27Then you ought
to have invested my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have
received what was my own with interest. 28So
take the talent from him,
and give it to the one with the ten talents.
29For to all those who have, more will be given, and they will have an abundance; but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken
away. 30As for this
worthless slave, throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping
and gnashing of teeth.”
31 ‘When the Son of Man comes in his
glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his
glory. 32All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will
separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the
goats, 33and he will put the sheep at his right hand and the goats
at the left. 34Then the king will say to those at his right hand,
“Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you
from the foundation of the world; 35for I was hungry and you gave me
food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and
you welcomed me, 36I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick
and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.” 37Then
the righteous will answer him, “Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and
gave you food, or thirsty and gave you something to drink? 38And
when was it that we saw you a stranger and welcomed you, or naked and gave you
clothing? 39And when was it that we saw you sick or in prison and
visited you?” 40And the king will answer them, “Truly I tell you,
just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family,*
you did it to me.” 41Then he will say to those at his left hand,
“You that are accursed, depart from me into the eternal fire prepared for the
devil and his angels; 42for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I
was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43I was a stranger and
you did not welcome me, naked and you did not give me clothing, sick and in
prison and you did not visit me.” 44Then they also will answer,
“Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or
sick or in prison, and did not take care of you?” 45Then he will
answer them, “Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least
of these, you did not do it to me.” 46And these will go away into
eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.’
26When Jesus had
finished saying all these things, he said to his disciples, 2‘You
know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the
Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified.’
3 Then the chief priests and the
elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, who was called
Caiaphas, 4and they
conspired to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him. 5But they said,
‘Not during the festival, or there may be a riot among the people.’
6 Now while Jesus was at Bethany in the house
of Simon the leper,*
7a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very costly ointment,
and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table. 8But when the disciples saw it, they were angry and said, ‘Why this waste? 9For this
ointment could have been sold for a large sum, and the money given to the
poor.’ 10But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, ‘Why do you trouble
the woman? She has performed a good service for me. 11For you always
have the poor with you, but you will not always have me. 12By
pouring this ointment on my body she has prepared me for burial. 13Truly
I tell you, wherever this good news*
is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in remembrance
of her.’
14 Then one of the twelve, who was called
Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests 15and said, ‘What will you give me if I betray him to you?’ They paid him thirty pieces of silver. 16And from that moment he began to look for an opportunity to
betray him.
17 On the first day of Unleavened Bread the
disciples came to Jesus, saying, ‘Where do you want us to make the preparations
for you to eat the Passover?’ 18He
said, ‘Go into the city to a certain
man, and say to him, “The Teacher
says, My time is near; I will keep the Passover at your house with my
disciples.” ’ 19So the
disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the Passover meal.
20 When it was evening, he took his place with the twelve;* 21and while they were eating, he said, ‘Truly I tell you,
one of you will betray me.’ 22And they became greatly distressed and
began to say to him one after another, ‘Surely not I, Lord?’ 23He
answered, ‘The one who has dipped his hand into the bowl with me will betray
me. 24The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that
one by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that one
not to have been born.’ 25Judas,
who betrayed him, said, ‘Surely not I, Rabbi?’ He replied, ‘You have said so.’
26 While they were eating, Jesus took a
loaf of bread, and after blessing it he broke it, gave it to the disciples, and
said, ‘Take, eat; this is my body.’ 27Then he took a cup, and after
giving thanks he gave it to them, saying,
‘Drink from it, all of you; 28for this is my blood of the*
covenant, which is poured out for many for the
forgiveness of sins. 29I
tell you, I will never again drink of this fruit of the vine until that day
when I drink it new with you in my
Father’s kingdom.’
30 When they had sung the hymn, they went out
to the Mount of Olives.
31 Then Jesus said to them, ‘You will
all become deserters because of me
this night; for it is written,
“I will strike the shepherd,
and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.”
32But after I am raised up, I will go ahead of you to Galilee.’ 33Peter said to him, ‘Though all become deserters because of you, I will never desert you.’ 34Jesus said to him, ‘Truly I tell you, this very night, before the cock crows, you will deny me three times.’ 35Peter said to him, ‘Even though I must die with you, I will not deny you.’ And so said all the disciples.
“I will strike the shepherd,
and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.”
32But after I am raised up, I will go ahead of you to Galilee.’ 33Peter said to him, ‘Though all become deserters because of you, I will never desert you.’ 34Jesus said to him, ‘Truly I tell you, this very night, before the cock crows, you will deny me three times.’ 35Peter said to him, ‘Even though I must die with you, I will not deny you.’ And so said all the disciples.
36 Then Jesus went with them to a place called
Gethsemane; and he said to his disciples, ‘Sit here while I go over there and pray.’ 37He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee,
and began to be grieved and agitated. 38Then he said to them, ‘I am
deeply grieved, even to death; remain here, and stay awake with me.’ 39And
going a little farther, he threw himself on the ground and prayed, ‘My Father,
if it is possible, let this cup pass
from me; yet not what I want but what you want.’ 40Then he came to
the disciples and found them sleeping; and he said to Peter, ‘So, could you not
stay awake with me one hour? 41Stay awake and pray that you may not
come into the time of trial;*
the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.’ 42Again he
went away for the second time and prayed, ‘My Father,
if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done.’ 43Again he came and found them
sleeping, for their eyes were heavy. 44So leaving them again, he
went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same words. 45Then
he came to the disciples and said to them, ‘Are you still sleeping and taking
your rest? See, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is
betrayed into the hands of sinners. 46Get up, let us be going. See,
my betrayer is at hand.’
47 While he was still speaking, Judas, one of
the twelve, arrived; with him was a large crowd with swords and clubs, from the
chief priests and the elders of the people. 48Now the betrayer had
given them a sign, saying, ‘The one I will kiss is the man; arrest him.’ 49At
once he came up to Jesus and said, ‘Greetings, Rabbi!’ and kissed him. 50Jesus said to him, ‘Friend, do
what you are here to do.’ Then they
came and laid hands on Jesus and arrested him. 51Suddenly, one
of those with Jesus put his hand on his sword, drew it, and
struck the slave of the high priest, cutting off his ear. 52Then Jesus said to him, ‘Put your sword back into its place; for all
who take the sword will perish by the sword. 53Do you think that I
cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve
legions of angels? 54But how then would the scriptures be fulfilled,
which say it must happen in this way?’ 55At
that hour Jesus said to the crowds, ‘Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest me as though I were
a bandit? Day after day I sat in the temple teaching, and you did not arrest
me. 56But all this has
taken place, so that the scriptures
of the prophets may be fulfilled.’ Then all the disciples deserted him and fled.
57 Those who had arrested Jesus took him to Caiaphas the high priest, in whose house the scribes and the elders had gathered.
58But Peter was
following him at a distance, as far as the courtyard of the high priest; and
going inside, he sat with the guards in
order to see how this would end. 59Now
the chief priests and the whole council were looking for false testimony against Jesus so that they might put him to death, 60but
they found none, though many false witnesses came forward. At last two came forward 61and said, ‘This fellow said, “I am able to
destroy the temple of God and to build it in three days.” ’ 62The
high priest stood up and said, ‘Have you no answer? What is it that they
testify against you?’ 63But Jesus was silent. Then the high priest said to him, ‘I put you
under oath before the living God,
tell us if you are the Messiah,*
the Son of God.’ 64Jesus said to him, ‘You have said so.
But I tell you,
From now on you will see the Son of Man
seated at the right hand of Power
and coming on the clouds of heaven.’
65Then the high priest tore his clothes and said, ‘He has blasphemed! Why do we still need witnesses? You have now heard his blasphemy. 66What is your verdict?’ They answered, ‘He deserves death.’ 67Then they spat in his face and struck him; and some slapped him, 68saying, ‘Prophesy to us, you Messiah!* Who is it that struck you?’
From now on you will see the Son of Man
seated at the right hand of Power
and coming on the clouds of heaven.’
65Then the high priest tore his clothes and said, ‘He has blasphemed! Why do we still need witnesses? You have now heard his blasphemy. 66What is your verdict?’ They answered, ‘He deserves death.’ 67Then they spat in his face and struck him; and some slapped him, 68saying, ‘Prophesy to us, you Messiah!* Who is it that struck you?’
69 Now Peter was sitting outside in the
courtyard. A servant-girl came to him and said, ‘You also were with Jesus the
Galilean.’ 70But he denied it before all of them, saying, ‘I do not
know what you are talking about.’ 71When he went out to the porch,
another servant-girl saw him, and she said to the bystanders, ‘This man was
with Jesus of Nazareth.’*
72Again he denied it with an
oath, ‘I do not know the man.’ 73After
a little while the bystanders came up and said to Peter, ‘Certainly you are
also one of them, for your accent
betrays you.’ 74Then he
began to curse, and he swore an oath, ‘I do not know the man!’ At that moment
the cock crowed. 75Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said:
‘Before the cock crows, you will deny me three times.’ And he went out
and wept bitterly.
27When morning came,
all the chief priests and the elders of the people conferred together against Jesus in order to bring about his death. 2They bound him, led him away,
and handed him over to Pilate the governor.
3 When Judas, his betrayer, saw that
Jesus* was condemned, he
repented and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and
the elders. 4He said, ‘I have sinned by betraying innocent*
blood.’ But they said, ‘What is that to us? See to it yourself.’ 5Throwing
down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed; and he went and hanged
himself. 6But the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said,
‘It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since they are blood money.’ 7After
conferring together, they used them to buy the potter’s field as a place to
bury foreigners. 8For this reason that field has been called the
Field of Blood to this day. 9Then was fulfilled what had been spoken
through the prophet Jeremiah,*
‘And they took* the thirty pieces
of silver, the price of the one on whom a price had been set,*
on whom some of the people of Israel had set a price, 10and they
gave* them for the
potter’s field, as the Lord commanded me.’
11 Now Jesus stood before the governor; and
the governor asked him, ‘Are you the King of the Jews?’ Jesus said, ‘You say
so.’ 12But when he was accused by the chief priests
and elders, he did not answer. 13Then Pilate said to him, ‘Do
you not hear how many accusations they make against you?’ 14But he
gave him no answer, not even to a single charge, so that the governor was
greatly amazed.
15 Now at the festival the governor was
accustomed to release a prisoner for the crowd, anyone whom they wanted. 16At
that time they had a notorious prisoner, called Jesus* Barabbas.
17So after they had gathered,
Pilate said to them, ‘Whom do you
want me to release for you, Jesus*
Barabbas or Jesus who is called the Messiah?’* 18For he realized that it was out of jealousy that they had
handed him over. 19While
he was sitting on the judgement seat, his wife sent word to him, ‘Have nothing
to do with that innocent man, for today I have suffered a great deal because of
a dream about him.’ 20Now
the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus killed. 21The governor again said to
them, ‘Which of the two do you want
me to release for you?’ And they said, ‘Barabbas.’ 22Pilate said to them, ‘Then what should I do with Jesus who is called the Messiah?’* All of them said, ‘Let him be crucified!’ 23Then he asked, ‘Why, what evil has he done?’ But they
shouted all the more, ‘Let him be crucified!’
24 So when Pilate saw that he could do
nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took some water and washed
his hands before the crowd, saying, ‘I am innocent of this man’s blood;*
see to it yourselves.’ 25Then the people as a whole answered, ‘His
blood be on us and on our children!’ 26So
he released Barabbas for them; and after flogging Jesus, he handed him over to
be crucified.
27 Then the soldiers of the governor
took Jesus into the governor’s headquarters,*
and they gathered the whole cohort around him. 28They stripped him
and put a scarlet robe on him, 29and after twisting some thorns into
a crown, they put it on his head. They put a
reed in his right hand and knelt before him and mocked him, saying, ‘Hail, King of the Jews!’ 30They
spat on him, and took the reed and struck him on the head. 31After
mocking him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then
they led him away to crucify him.
32 As they went out, they came upon a
man from Cyrene named Simon; they compelled this man to carry his cross. 33And
when they came to a place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull), 34they
offered him wine to drink, mixed with gall; but when he tasted it, he would not
drink it. 35And when they had crucified him, they divided his
clothes among themselves by casting lots;* 36then they sat down there and kept watch over him. 37Over his head they put the charge against him, which
read, ‘This is Jesus, the King of the Jews.’
38 Then two bandits were crucified with
him, one on his right and one on his left. 39Those who passed by
derided* him, shaking
their heads 40and saying, ‘You who would destroy the temple and
build it in three days, save yourself! If you are
the Son of God, come down from the
cross.’ 41In the same way the chief priests also, along with the
scribes and elders, were mocking him, saying, 42‘He
saved others; he cannot save himself.*
He is the King of Israel; let him come down from the cross now, and we will
believe in him. 43He trusts in God; let God
deliver him now, if he wants to; for he said, “I am God’s Son.” ’ 44The bandits who were crucified
with him also taunted him in the same
way.
45 From noon on, darkness came over the
whole land* until three in
the afternoon. 46And about three o’clock Jesus cried with a loud
voice, ‘Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?’ that is, ‘My God, my God, why have you
forsaken me?’ 47When some of the bystanders heard it, they said,
‘This man is calling for Elijah.’ 48At once one of them ran and got
a sponge, filled it with sour wine, put it on a stick, and gave it to him to
drink. 49But the others said, ‘Wait, let us see whether Elijah will
come to save him.’* 50Then
Jesus cried again with a loud voice and breathed his last.*
51At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top
to bottom. The earth shook, and the rocks were split. 52The
tombs also were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep
were raised. 53After his
resurrection they came out of the tombs and entered the holy city and appeared
to many. 54Now when the
centurion and those with him, who were keeping watch over Jesus, saw the
earthquake and what took place, they were terrified and said, ‘Truly this man
was God’s Son!’*
55 Many women were also there, looking
on from a distance; they had followed Jesus from Galilee and had provided for
him. 56Among them were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James
and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.
57 When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who was also a disciple of Jesus. 58He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus; then
Pilate ordered it to be given to him. 59So Joseph took the body and
wrapped it in a clean linen cloth 60and laid it in his own new tomb,
which he had hewn in the rock. He then rolled a great stone to the door of the
tomb and went away. 61Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there,
sitting opposite the tomb.
62 The next day, that is, after the
day of Preparation, the chief priests
and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate 63and said, ‘Sir, we
remember what that impostor said while he was still alive, “After three days I
will rise again.” 64Therefore command that the tomb be made secure
until the third day; otherwise his disciples may go and steal him away, and
tell the people, “He has been raised from the dead”, and the last deception
would be worse than the first.’ 65Pilate said to them, ‘You have a
guard* of soldiers; go,
make it as secure as you can.’*
66So they went with the guard and made the tomb secure by sealing
the stone.
28After the sabbath,
as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see
the tomb. 2And suddenly
there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord, descending from heaven,
came and rolled back the stone and sat on it. 3His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow. 4For fear of him the guards shook and became like
dead men. 5But the angel said to the women, ‘Do not be afraid; I know that you are looking for
Jesus who was crucified. 6He is not here; for he has been raised, as
he said. Come, see the place where he*
lay. 7Then go quickly and tell his disciples, “He has been raised from the
dead,* and indeed he is going ahead of you to Galilee; there you will see him.” This is my message for you.’ 8So they left the tomb quickly
with fear and great joy, and ran to
tell his disciples. 9Suddenly Jesus met them and said, ‘Greetings!’
And they came to him, took hold of his feet, and worshipped him. 10Then
Jesus said to them, ‘Do not be afraid; go and tell my brothers to go to
Galilee; there they will see me.’
11 While they were going, some of the
guard went into the city and told the chief priests everything that had
happened. 12After the priests*
had assembled with the elders, they devised a plan to give a large sum of money
to the soldiers, 13telling them, ‘You must say, “His disciples came
by night and stole him away while we were asleep.” 14If this comes
to the governor’s ears, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.’ 15So
they took the money and did as they were directed. And this story is still told
among the Jews to this day.
16 Now the eleven disciples went to
Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. 17When
they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted. 18And Jesus
came and said to them, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to
me. 19Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them
in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20and
teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am
with you always, to the end of the age.’*