The Gospel According to Matthew

1 Genealogy of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham:

2 Abraham had a son Isaac; and Isaac, Jacob; and Jacob, Judah and his brothers; 3 and Judah, Peres and Zerah by Tamar; and Peres, Hesron; and Hesron, Ram; 4 and Ram, Amminadab; and Amminadab, Nahshon; and Nahshon, Salmon; 5 and Salmon, Boaz by Rahab; and Boaz, Obed by Ruth; and Obed, Jesse; 6 and Jesse, king David; and David, Solomon by Uriah’s widow; 7 and Solomon, Rehoboam; and Rehoboam, Abijah; and Abijah, Asa; 8 and Asa, Jehoshaphat; and Jehoshaphat, Jehoram; and Jehoram, Uzziah; 9 and Uzziah, Jotham; and Jotham, Ahaz; and Ahaz, Hezekiah; 10 and Hezekiah, Manasseh; and Manasseh, Amon; and Amon, Josiah; 11 and Josiah, Jeconiah and his brothers, at the time of the removal to Babylon. 12 And after the removal to Babylon Jeconiah had a son Shealtiel; and Shealtiel, Zerubbabel; 13 and Zerubbabel, Abihud; and Abihud, Eliakim; and Eliakim, Azzur; 14 and Azzur, Sadok; and Sadok, Jachin; and Jachin, Elihud; 15 and Elihud, Eleazar; and Eleazar, Mattan; and Mattan, Jacob; 16 and Jacob, Joseph, the husband of Mary who had for her son Jesus, known as the Messiah. 17 So there are in all fourteen generations from Abraham down to David, and fourteen generations from David down to the removal to Babylon, and fourteen generations from the removal to Babylon down to the Messiah.

18 And the birth of Jesus Christ was thus: His mother Mary being engaged to Joseph, before they came together it was found that she was pregnant by the Holy Spirit. 19 And Joseph her husband, being an honest man and unwilling to make a spectacle of her, wanted to divorce her privately. 20 But while he was thinking of this, lo, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take your wife Mary. For what has been generated in her is by the Holy Spirit; 21 and she shall bear a son, and you shall name him Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins. 22 And all this has come to pass in order that what was said by the Lord through the prophet in the words 23 ‘Lo, the maiden shall be pregnant and bear a son, and they shall name him Immanuel’”—which means “God-is-with-us”—“should be fulfilled.” 24 And on waking from his sleep Joseph did as the angel of the Lord directed him, and took his wife 25 and did not know her until she bore a son, and named him Jesus.

2 And after Jesus was born at Bethlehem in Judea in the days of Herod the king, lo, magi from the East arrived in Jerusalem 2 saying “Where is the King of the Jews that has been born? for we saw his star coming up and have come to do him reverence.” 3 And at hearing it King Herod was alarmed, and all Jerusalem with him; 4 and he called together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, and inquired of them where the Messiah was to be born. 5 And they said to him “At Bethlehem in Judea; for so it is written through the prophet, 6 ‘And you, Bethlehem, land of Judah, are by no means least among the chieftains of Judah; for out of you shall come a ruler who shall govern my people Israel.’” 7 Then Herod called the magi privately and got from them the precise time of the star’s appearing, 8 and sent them to Bethlehem and said “Go and learn the precise facts about the child, and when you find him bring word to me, so that I may come myself and do him reverence.” 9 And they listened to the king and went; and lo, the star that they had seen coming up went ahead of them till it came and stood still over where the child was; 10 and when they saw the star they were glad, and their gladness was very great. 11 And they came to the house and saw the child with Mary his mother, and prostrated themselves and did him reverence; and they opened their coffers and offered gifts to him, gold and frankincense and myrrh. 12 And, it being revealed to them in a dream that they should not go back to Herod, they withdrew to their own country by another route. 13 And when they had withdrawn, lo, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream saying “Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and be there till I tell you; for Herod is going to be looking for the child to make away with him.” 14 And he rose and took the child and his mother by night and withdrew to Egypt, 15 and was there till Herod’s death, in order that what was said by the Lord through the prophet in the words “Out of Egypt I called my son” should be fulfilled.

16 Then Herod was greatly enraged at seeing that he had been made a fool of by the magi, and sent and took the lives of all the boys in Bethlehem and in all its territory, from two years old down, to correspond to the precise time which he had got from the magi. 17 Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah in the words 18 “A sound was heard in Ramah, weeping and much lamenting—Rachel weeping for her children and not letting herself be comforted, because they are not” was fulfilled.

19 And after Herod’s death, lo, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in Egypt in a dream, 20 saying “Rise, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel; for those who were seeking the child’s life are dead.” 21 And he rose, took the child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel. 22 But, hearing that Archelaus was king of Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there, and, a revelation being made to him in a dream, he withdrew to the parts of Galilee, 23 and came and settled in a city called Nazareth, so that what was said through the prophets, “He shall be called a Nazarene,” should be fulfilled.

3 And in those days John the Baptist came, proclaiming in the wilderness of Judea 2 “Repent, for the Reign of Heaven is almost here.” 3 For this is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah in the words “The voice of one calling out in the wilderness ‘Get ready the Lord’s road, make his thoroughfares straight.’” 4 And he, John, had his garment of camel-hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was grasshoppers and wild honey.

5 Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region of the Jordan went out to him 6 and had themselves baptized in the river Jordan by him, confessing their sins. 7 But at seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to the baptism he said to them “Spawn of vipers, who has given you notice to flee from the future wrath? 8 Produce fruit appropriate to repentance, then, 9 and do not think to say to yourselves ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell you God can raise up children to Abraham out of these stones. 10 And the ax is already lying at the root of the trees, so every tree that does not produce good fruit is to be cut out and thrown into a fire. 11 I am baptizing you in water to repentance, but he who is coming behind me is stronger than I, whose shoes I am not fit to carry: he will baptize you in Holy Spirit and fire— 12 he whose winnowing-fork is in his hand, and who will clean up his threshing-floor and gather his wheat into his barn, but burn up the chaff with inextinguishable fire.”

13 Then came Jesus from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him. 14 But John checked him, saying “I need to be baptized by you, and are you coming to me?” 15 But Jesus answered him “Let me now, for it befits us to fulfill all righteousness thus.” Then he let him. 16 And when Jesus was baptized, at once he came up from the water, and lo, the sky opened and he saw God’s Spirit come down like a dove and come upon him; 17 and lo, a voice out of the sky saying “This is my dear son in whom I take pleasure.”

4 Then Jesus was brought up to the wilderness by the Spirit to be tempted by the Devil. 2 And upon fasting forty days and forty nights he afterward grew hungry. 3 And the tempter approached him and told him “If you are Son of God, say the word for these stones to become bread.” 4 But he answered “It is written ‘Not upon bread alone shall man live, but upon every word that comes out of God’s mouth.’” 5 Then the Devil took him to the sacred city and set him on the wing of the temple-precinct, 6 and said to him “If you are Son of God, throw yourself down; for it is written ‘He will give his angels commands about you, and they will lift you on their hands, for fear you should strike your foot against a stone.’” 7 Said Jesus to him “It is written again ‘You shall not put the Lord your God on trial.’” 8 Again the Devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory, 9 and told him “All this I will give you if you will drop down and do me reverence.” 10 Then Jesus said to him “Go, Satan: for it is written ‘You shall do reverence to the Lord your God, and worship him alone.’” 11 Then the Devil left him: and lo, angels came to him and waited on his needs.

12 But upon hearing that John was committed to prison he retired to Galilee, 13 and left Nazareth and came and settled in Capernaum on the seacoast, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali, 14 that what was said through the prophet Isaiah in the words 15 “The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, seaward on the other side of the Jordan, Galilee of the nations— 16 the people that was sitting in darkness has seen a great light, and to those who were sitting in the country and shadow of death a light has risen,” might be fulfilled. 17 Thenceforth Jesus began to proclaim “Repent, for the Reign of Heaven is almost here.”

18 And in walking by the Sea of Galilee he saw two brothers, Simon, the one who is known as Peter, and his brother Andrew, throwing a casting-net in the sea—for they were fishermen— 19 and said to them “Come here after me, and I will make you fishers of men”; 20 and they left their nets at once and followed him. 21 And he went on from there and saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and his brother John, in their boat with their father Zebedee putting their nets to rights, and called them; 22 and they left the boat and their father at once and followed him.

23 And he went around in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the Reign and curing every disease and every ailment among the people. 24 And the report about him went to all Syria; and they brought to him all who were ill with various diseases and suffering agonies, demoniacs and epileptics and paralytics, and he cured them; 25 and there followed him great crowds from Galilee and Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judea and the other side of the Jordan.

5 And when he saw the crowds he went up on the mountainside; and he sat down, and his disciples came to him, 2 and he opened his mouth and taught them, saying

3 “Happy are the poor at heart, because the Reign of Heaven is theirs. 4 Happy are mourners, because they shall be comforted. 5 Happy are the meek, because they shall inherit the earth. 6 Happy are the hungry and thirsty for righteousness, because they shall have their meal. 7 Happy are the pitiful, because they shall be pitied. 8 Happy are the clean in mind, because they shall see God. 9 Happy are peacemakers, because they shall be called sons of God. 10 Happy are the persecuted who have been persecuted on account of righteousness, because the Reign of Heaven is theirs. 11 Happy are you when they twit you and persecute you and say everything vile about you falsely on my account; 12 be glad and exult, because your reward is great in heaven, for thus they persecuted the prophets who came before you.

13 “You are the salt of the earth; but if salt loses its strength, with what shall it be salted? it will no longer do for anything but to be thrown out and trodden underfoot by men. 14 You are the light of the world; a city located on a mountaintop cannot be hidden, 15 nor do they light a lamp and put it under the peck measure, but on the stand—and it shines for everybody in the house. 16 Let your light shine thus before men, so that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.

17 “Do not suppose that I came to tear down the law or the prophets; I did not come to tear down but to fill up. 18 For I tell you verily, till the heavens and the earth pass away, not the dot of an i nor the cross of a t in the law shall pass away, till everything is done. 19 So whoever breaks one of the pettiest of those commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called petty in the Reign of Heaven; but whoever does them and teaches them shall be called great in the Reign of Heaven. 20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness outdoes the scribes and Pharisees you shall not get into the Reign of Heaven.

21 “You have heard that it was said to the ancients ‘You shall not commit murder; and whoever commits murder shall be liable to judgment.’ 22 But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment; and whoever says ‘Raka’ to his brother shall be liable to the Sanhedrin Court; and whoever says ‘You fool’ shall be liable to the fire of hell. 23 So, if you are offering your gift on the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, 24 leave your gift there before the altar and go and make up with your brother first; then come and offer your gift. 25* Be quick to make friends with your antagonist while you are on the road to court with him, for fear your antagonist should hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison; 26 I tell you verily, you shall not get out from there till you pay the last copper.

27 “You have heard that it was said ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to desire her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 And if your right eye is tripping you up, take it out and throw it from you; for it is well for you that one of your organs should perish and not your whole body be thrown into hell. 30 And if your right hand is tripping you up, cut it away and throw it from you; for it is well for you that one of your organs should perish and not your whole body go to hell.

31 “And it was said ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ 32* But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except on grounds 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 the ancients ‘You shall not perjure yourself, but discharge your oaths to the Lord.’ 34 But I tell you not to swear at all; neither by heaven, because it is God’s throne, 35 nor by the earth, because it is the footstool of his feet, nor by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King. 36 And do not swear by your head either, because you cannot make one hair white or black. 37 But let your language be yes, yes, no, no; anything in excess of this is so much of bad.

38 “You have heard that it was said ‘an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ 39 But I tell you not to oppose the bad; but whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn him the other too, 40 and when a man wants to sue you and get your shirt let him have your cloak too, 41 and go two miles with whoever requisitions you for one. 42 Give to him who asks you, and do not turn your back on him who wants to borrow from you.

43 “You have heard that it was said ‘you shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for your persecutors, 45 so as to act as sons of your Father in heaven, because he makes his sun rise on bad and good, and sends rain on honest men and rascals. 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? do not even customhouse officers do the same? 47 and if you salute only your brothers, what are you doing that is special? do not even the heathen do the same?

48 “So you are to be thorough as your heavenly Father is thorough.

6 But beware of doing your righteousness before men, to be viewed by them; if you do, you have no reward with your Father in heaven. 2 So when you give charity do not have a trumpet blown before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be glorified by men; I tell you verily, they have got their reward. 3 But at your giving charity let your left hand not find out what your right is doing, 4 so that your charity may be under cover, and your Father who sees under cover will repay you.

5 “And when you pray you are not to be as the hypocrites are; for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and at the corners of the main streets, so that they may be visible to men; I tell you verily, they have got their reward. 6 But do you, when you pray, go into your closet, and shut the door and pray to your Father who is present in hidden places; and your Father who sees in hidden places will reward you. 7 And in praying do not parrot off words like the heathen; for they think they will get themselves listened to by the quantity of what they say. 8* So do not be like them; for your Father knows the things you need before you ask him. 9 Do you, then, pray in this way: ‘Father in heaven, may thy name be kept holy, 10 thy reign come, thy will be done on earth as in heaven; 11 give us today our next day’s bread, 12 and forgive us our debts as we too have forgiven our debtors, 13* and do not have us fall under temptation but deliver us from evil.’ 14 For if you forgive men their offenses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you; 15 but if you do not forgive men, no more will your Father forgive your offenses.

16 “And when you are fasting do not be lugubrious like the hypocrites; for they make their faces unsightly so that it may be seen by men that they are fasting; I tell you verily, they have got their reward. 17 But do you in fasting put oil on your head and wash your face, 18 so that it may not be seen by men that you are fasting but by your Father who is present in secret places; and your Father who sees in secret places will reward you,

19 “Do not lay up stores for yourselves on earth where moth and decay consume, and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but lay up stores for yourselves in heaven where neither moth nor decay consumes and where thieves do not break in nor steal; 21 for where your stores are, there your heart too will be. 22* The lamp of the body is the eye; therefore if your eye is free your whole body will be light, 23 but if your eye is mean your whole body will be dark,—so if the light in you is darkness, what must the darkness be! 24 No one can belong to two masters, for he will either hate the one and love the other or be attentive to the one and despise the other: you cannot belong to God and money. 25** For this reason I tell you, do not fret over your soul what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor over your body what you shall put on; is not the soul more than the food, and the body than the garment? 26 Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and your heavenly Father feeds them; are you not more important than they? 27* and which of you by fretting can add to his height one foot? 28 And why do you fret about dress? Observe the lilies of the field, how they grow: they do not labor nor spin, 29 but I tell you not even Solomon in all his glory was clad like one of these. 30 But if God robes the plants in the field so, that are there today and are thrown in a firepot tomorrow, will he not much more you, little-faiths? 31 So do not fret and say ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wrap ourselves in?’ 32 for the foreigners hunt after all this. For your heavenly Father knows that you want all this. 33 But seek first the Reign, and his righteousness, and you will have all this added. 34 So do not fret over tomorrow, for to morrow will do its own fretting; a day’s evil is a sufficiency for that day.

7 “Do not be judging, 2* that you may not be judged; for the judgments that you pass shall be passed upon you, and the measure that you give shall be given to you. 3 And why is it that you can see the particle of straw in your brother’s eye, but do not observe the beam of timber in your own eye? 4 or how will you say to your brother ‘Let me get the particle out of your eye,’ when in your eye there is the timber? 5 Hypocrite, first get the timber out of your eye, and then you will have good eyesight to get the particle out of your brother’s eye.

6* “Do not give sacred things to the dogs, nor throw your pearls before the hogs, for fear they should trample them with their feet and turn and tear you to pieces.

7 “Ask, and you will have things given to you; look, and you will find; knock, and you will be opened to. 8 For every asker receives, and the seeker finds, and the knocker will be opened to. 9* Or what man is there of you that his son will ask for bread and he will hand him a stone? 10 or ask for a fish and he will hand him a snake? 11 So if you, being bad, 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 “Everything that you want to have men do to you, then, do so yourselves to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

13* “Enter by the narrow gate, because wide and spacious is the road that leads to perdition, and many are they who enter it, 14* because narrow is the gate and contracted the road that leads to life, and few are they who find it. 15 Beware of pretended prophets who come to you in the garb of sheep but are rapacious wolves inside. 16* You will recognize them by their fruits: do people pick grapes from thorns or figs from cockleburs? 17 thus every good tree produces good fruit, but a foul tree produces bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor a foul tree good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not produce good fruit is cut out and thrown into a fire. 20 Hence you will recognize them by their fruits. 21 Not everyone who says to me ‘Lord, Lord’ will get into the Reign of Heaven, but he who does the will of my Father in heaven: 22 many will say to me in that day ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy by your name and expel demons by your name and work many miracles by your name?’ 23 and then ‘I will avow to them ‘I never knew you; begone from me, you that practice wickedness.’

24 “So everyone who hears these words of mine and does them will resemble a sensible man who built his house on the rock; 25 and the rain came down and the rivers ran and the winds blew, and they struck against that house and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. 26 And everyone that hears these words of mine and does not do them will resemble a foolish man who built his house on the sand; 27 and the rain came down and the rivers ran and the winds blew, and they beat against that house and it fell, and its fall was great.”

28 And when Jesus had finished these words the crowds were astonished at his teaching; 29 for he taught them as having authority, and not like their scribes.

8 And when he came down from the mountain great crowds followed him.

2 And lo, a leper approached him and did him reverence, saying “Sir, if you will you can cleanse me.” 3 And he reached out his hand and touched him, saying “I will; be cleansed”; and at once his leprosy was cleansed. 4 And Jesus said to him “See that you do not tell anybody, but go show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses directed, for an attestation to them.”

5 And when he came into Capernaum a centurion approached him, appealing to him with the words 6 “Sir, my boy is in the house down with paralysis and suffering frightful tortures.” 7 He said to him “I will come and cure him.” 8* But the centurion answered “Sir, I am not fit to have you come under my roof, but just say the word and my boy will be healed. 9 For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to this one ‘Go,’ and he goes; and to another ‘Come,’ and he comes; and to my servant ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” 10 And at hearing it Jesus wondered, and said to those who were following “I tell you verily, I have not found in Israel so much faith shown by anyone. 11 But I tell you many will come from the east and the west and go to the table with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the Reign of Heaven, 12* but the native sons of the Reign will be put out into the outside darkness; there will the weeping and the grinding of teeth be.” 13 And Jesus said to the centurion “Go, have it as you believed”; and the boy was healed at that moment.

14 And Jesus came into Peter’s house and saw his mother-in-law down with a fever; 15 and he touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she rose and waited on his needs. 16* And when evening was come they brought him many demoniacs; and he expelled the spirits by his word, and cured all that were ill, 17 so that what was said through the prophet Isaiah in the words “He took our sicknesses and carried our diseases” should be fulfilled.

18 But Jesus, seeing a crowd around him, gave the word to go off to the other side. 19 And a scribe approached him and said to him “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.” 20 And Jesus said to him “The foxes have dens and the birds of the air have roosts, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

21 And another of his disciples said to him “Sir, permit me first to go and bury my father.” 22 But Jesus said to him “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their dead.”

23 And when he got into the boat his disciples followed him. 24 And lo, there came a great commotion in the sea, so that the boat was being covered by the waves; and he was asleep. 25 And they approached him and roused him, saying “Help, sir! we are lost!” 26 And he said to them “Why are you timorous, little-faiths?” Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there came a great calm. 27 But the men wondered, saying “What a man this is, that even the winds and the sea obey him!”

28 And when he came to the other side, to the country of the Gadarenes, there met him two demoniacs coming out of the tombs, exceedingly intractable, so that nobody was able to pass along that road; 29 and lo, they screamed out “What have we to do with you, Son of God? have you come here to torture us before it is time?” 30 And a long way off from them there was a numerous herd of hogs feeding; 31 and the demons appealed to him with the request “If you are expelling us, send us into the herd of hogs.” 32 And he said to them “Go.” And they came out and went into the hogs, and lo, all the herd bolted down the steep bank into the sea, and lost their lives in the water; 33 and the men who were tending them ran away, and went to the city and reported everything, including the part about the demoniacs. 34 And out came all the city to meet Jesus; and when they saw him they appealed to him to pass on away from their territory;

9 and he got into a boat and crossed over and came to his own city.

2 And lo, they brought him a paralyzed man lying helpless on a couch. And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralyzed man “It is all right, my child, your sins are forgiven.” 3 Said some of the scribes to themselves, “This man is blaspheming.” 4 And Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said “What are you inwardly thinking wicked thoughts for? 5 why, which is easier, to say ‘your sins are forgiven’ or to say ‘rise and walk’? 6 But, that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—then he said to the paralyzed man, “Rise, take up your couch and go home.” 7 And he rose and went off to his home. 8 And at this sight the crowds were afraid and glorified God who had given such authority to men.

9 And in passing on his way from there Jesus saw sitting in a customhouse office a man known as Matthew, and said to him “Follow me”; and he rose and followed him. 10 And as he was eating a meal in the house, there came to the table with Jesus and his disciples many customhouse officers and people of bad character. 11 And the Pharisees, seeing it, said to his disciples “Why does your teacher eat with the customhouse officers and people of bad character?” 12 But he, hearing it, said “Not the able-bodied, but the ill, need a physician. 13 But go and learn what ‘I want pity, and not sacrifice’ is; for I have not come to call saints, but sinners.”

14 Then John’s disciples came to him with the words “Why is it that we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not?” 15 And Jesus said to them “Can the wedding guests mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but there will come days, when the bridegroom is taken from them, and then they will fast. 16 But nobody puts a patch of unfulled cloth on an old cloak; for the filler takes away some from the cloak, and a worse hole is made. 17 Neither do they put new wine in old skins; if they do, the skins burst, and the wine runs out and the skins are wasted; but they put new wine into fresh skins, and both together are preserved.”

18* While he was telling them this, lo, a ruler approached him and did him reverence, saying “My daughter is just passing away; but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live.” 19 And Jesus and his disciples rose and followed the man. 20 And lo, a woman who had had a flow of blood for twelve years came up behind and touched the tassel of his cloak; 21 for she said to herself, “If I only touch his cloak I shall be made well.” 22 But Jesus turned and saw her and said “It is all right, daughter, your faith has made you well.” And the woman was well from that moment. 23 And when Jesus came into the ruler’s house and saw the flute-players, and the crowd making a commotion, 24 he said “Stand aside, for the girl is not dead but asleep”; and they laughed at him. 25* But when the crowd was put out he went in and grasped her hand, and the girl woke up. 26 And the rumor of this went out to that whole land.

27 And as Jesus was passing on his way from there two blind men followed him, crying out “Take pity on us, Son of David.” 28 And when he came into the house the blind men came up to him; and Jesus said to them “Do you believe I can do this?” They said to him “Yes, sir.” 29 Then he touched their eyes, saying “Have it as you have faith for”; 30 and their eyes were opened. And Jesus said to them sternly “See that nobody finds it out.” 31 But they went out and spread the report about him in that whole land.

32 And as these were going out, lo, they brought him a dumb man who was demon-ridden; 33 and when the demon was expelled the dumb man spoke. And the crowds wondered, saying “Never was the like seen in Israel”; 34 but the Pharisees said “It is by having the head of the demons that he expels the demons.”

35 And Jesus went the round of all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the Reign and curing every disease and every ailment. 36 But at seeing the crowds he was sorry for them because they were harassed and homeless like sheep without a shepherd. 37 Then he said to his disciples “The crop to harvest is great, but the workers are few; 38 so beg the owner of the crop to send out workers to his harvest”;

16 “Here I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; so be as cunning as snakes and as innocent as doves. 17 But beware of men; for they will have you arrested and taken into court, and flogged in their synagogues; 18 and you will be brought before governors and kings on my account, for an attestation to them and the nations. 19 But when they have you arrested, do not fret over how or what you are to speak; for it will be given to you at that moment what to speak, 20 for it is not you that speak but your Father’s Spirit that speaks in you.

21 “And a brother will have a brother arrested and put to death, and a father a child; and children will stand up against parents and have them put to death; 22 and you will be hated by all because of my name; but he who holds out to the end, he will come safe through. 23 But when they persecute you in this city flee to the other; for I tell you verily you will not finish the cities of Israel till the Son of Man comes.

24 “A pupil is not above his teacher nor a servant above his master. 25 It is sufficient for the pupil that he be made like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they have dubbed the head of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they the rest of his family! 26 So do not fear them. For there is nothing covered that will not be uncovered, or secret that will not be found out. 27 What I tell you in the dark, say in the light; and what you hear whispered in your ear, proclaim on the roofs. 28 And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul, but fear rather him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. 29 Why, sparrows are sold two for a penny, and not one of them will fall to the earth without your Father; 30 but of your heads even the hairs are all counted; 31 so do not fear, you are more important than a great many sparrows. 32 Everyone who shall acknowledge me before men, then, I myself will acknowledge before my Father in heaven; 33 but whoever repudiates me before men I myself will repudiate before my Father in heaven.

34 “Do not suppose that I came to launch peace on the earth: I did not come to launch peace, but the sword, 35 for I came to put a man in antagonism to his father and a daughter to her mother and a daughter-in-law to her mother-in-law, 36 and the members of a man’s family shall be his enemies. 37 He who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me; 38 and he who does not take his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. 39 He who finds his self shall lose it, and he who loses his self on my account shall find it.

40 “He who receives you is receiving me, and he who receives me is receiving him who sent me. 41* He who receives a prophet as being a prophet shall get a prophet’s reward, and he who receives a saint as being a saint shall get a saint’s reward; 42 and anybody who gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink as being a disciple, I tell you verily, shall not lose his reward.”

11 And when Jesus had finished giving directions to his twelve disciples he passed on from there to teach and make the proclamation in their cities.

2 And John, hearing in his prison the deeds of the Messiah, sent by his disciples 3 and said to him “Are you the Coming One or are we to expect another?” 4 And Jesus answered them “Go and report to John what you hear and see: 5 blind men are recovering their sight and cripples are walking, lepers are being cleansed and deaf men are hearing, and dead men are being raised and poor men are being given the gospel; 6 and happy is anyone who is not staggered over me.”

7* And while these were on their way Jesus began to say to the crowds about John “What did you go out into the wilderness for? to gaze at reeds shaking in the wind? 8 But what did you go out for? to see a man robed in soft fabrics? for the wearers of soft fabrics, go to kings’ houses. 9 But what did you go out for? to see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet; 10 this is he of whom it is written ‘Lo, I am sending before your face my messenger who shall prepare your road before you,’ 11 I tell you verily, there has not arisen among all that are born of women a greater than John the Baptist; but the littlest in the Reign of Heaven is greater than he. 12 But from John the Baptist’s days till now the Reign of Heaven is being forced and violent men are pouncing on it. 13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John’s coming; 14 and if you are willing to have it, he is the Elijah who was to come; 15 let him who has ears hear! 16 But to what shall I compare this generation? it is like children sitting in the marketplaces, that call out to the others 17 and say ‘We played to you and you did not dance, we lamented and you did not wail.’ 18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say ‘He has a demon’; 19 the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say ‘Here is a gormandizer and a drinker, a friend of customhouse officers and people of bad character’; and wisdom is justified by her works.” 20 Then he began to reproach the cities in which most of his miracles had been done, because they did not repent: 21 “Woe to you, Chorazin! woe to you, Bethsaida! because if the miracles that have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon they would have repented in sackcloth and ashes long ago; 22 I tell you, though, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment than for you. 23 And you, Capernaum, are you to be lifted up to heaven? you are to go down to the world of the dead, because if the miracles that have been done in you had been done in Sodom it would have lasted till today; 24 I tell you, though, it will be more bearable for Sodom at the day of judgment than for you.”

25 At that time Jesus answered “I give thee praise, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou didst hide these things from the wise and discerning and disclose them to infants; 26 yes, Father, because such was thy pleasure. 27 Everything has been committed to me by my Father; and no one is acquainted with the Son except the Father, nor is anyone acquainted with the Father except the Son and he to whom the Son chooses to disclose him. 28 Come to me, all you toilers, all who are loaded down, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and lowly in heart; and you shall find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my load light.”

12 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the sabbath. And his disciples grew hungry and began to pick ears and eat them; 2 and the Pharisees, seeing it, said to him “There, your disciples are doing what it is not lawful to do on a Sabbath.” 3 But he said to them “Have you not read what David did when he and those who were with him were hungry? 4 how he went into the house of God and they ate the showbread, which it was not allowable for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? 5 or have you not read in the law that on the sabbath the priests in the temple profane the sabbath and are guiltless? 6 but I tell you there is something greater than the temple here. 7 But if you knew what ‘I want pity, and not sacrifice’ is, you would not have condemned the guiltless; 8 for the Son of Man is master of the sabbath.”

9 And he passed from that place to their synagogue; 10 and lo, there was a man there with a shriveled hand, and they put the question to him “Is it lawful to cure on the sabbath?” that they might arraign him. 11* But he said to them “What man will there be of you that will have one sheep, and if that falls into a pit on the sabbath will not catch hold of it and get it on its feet? 12 How much more important, then, is a man than a sheep! So that it is lawful to do a good turn on the sabbath.” 13 Then he said to the man “Stretch out your hand”; and he stretched it out and it was restored, sound like the other. 14 But the Pharisees went out and laid a plot against him to make away with him; 15 but Jesus, finding it out, retired from that place. And many followed him, and he cured them all, 16 and told them peremptorily not to make him known, 17 that what was said through the prophet Isaiah in the words 18 “Here is my servant whom I like well, my dear one in whom my soul takes pleasure; I will put my Spirit upon him, and he shall announce judgment to the nations. 19 He will not wrangle, nor shout, nor will anyone hear his voice on the streets. 20 He will not break a crushed reed, and will not put out smoldering flax, till he brings judgment out to victory; 21 and in his name shall nations hope” should be fulfilled.

22 Then there was brought to him a blind and dumb demoniac; and he cured him, so that the dumb man spoke and saw. 23 And all the crowds were surprised and said “Can it be that this is the Son of David?” 24* But the Pharisees, hearing it, said “It is simply by Beelzebul the head of the demons that this man expels the demons.” 25 But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them “Any kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and any city or family divided against itself will not be kept up; 26 and if Satan is expelling Satan, he is divided against himself—so how shall his kingdom be kept up? 27 And if it is by Beelzebul that I expel the demons, by whom do your sons expel them? accordingly they shall be your judges. 28 But if I expel the demons by the Spirit of God, then the Reign of God has overtaken you. 29 Or how can one enter a strong man’s house and carry off his goods unless he first binds the strong man? and then he shall plunder his house. 30 He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters. 31 Accordingly I tell you, men will be forgiven every sin and blasphemy, but not the blasphemy of the Spirit. 32 And anyone who says a thing against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but one who says it against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven either in this or in the future age. 33 Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree foul and its fruit foul; for the tree is known by the fruit. 34 Spawn of vipers, how can you be bad and speak good? for what the mouth speaks comes out of what is overflowing in the heart. 35 A good man brings out good things from his good stock, and a bad man brings out bad things from his bad stock. 36 But I tell you, every idle word that men shall speak they shall account for at the day of judgment; 37 for you shall be acquitted on your own words and condemned on your own words.”

38 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him “Teacher, we want to see a token from you.” 39 But he answered them “A wicked and adulterous generation is in quest of a token, and will be given none but the token of the prophet Jonah. 40 For as Jonah was in the whale’s belly three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights. 41 The men of Nineveh shall indict this generation and convict it, because they repented at Jonah’s proclamation and now here is more than Jonah. 42* The queen of the south shall indict this generation and convict it, because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to Solomon’s wisdom, and now here is more than Solomon. 43 But when an unclean spirit comes out of a man it goes through waterless tracts looking for a resting-place, and does not find one; 44 then it says ‘I will turn back to my home that I came from,’ and when it gets there it finds it unoccupied, swept and put in order; 45 then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits worse than itself, and they go in and live there, and that man’s last stage comes to be worse than his first. It will be the same with this wicked generation.”

46 While he was still speaking to the crowds, his mother and brothers made their appearance, standing outside and wanting to speak to him. 47 —— 48 But he replied to the one who told him of it “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” 49 and he stretched out his hand toward his disciples and said “Here are my mother and my brothers; 50 for whoever does the will of my Father in heaven, he is my brother and sister and mother.”

13 On that day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the seaside; 2 and great crowds gathered to him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it, and all the crowd stood on the beach; 3 and he spoke much to them in parables, saying “Once upon a time a sower went out to sow. 4 And in his sowing some fell on the roadside, and the birds came and ate it up; 5 and some fell on the rocky ground where it had not much soil, and came up at once because of not having any depth of soil, 6 but was scorched when the sun rose, and dried up because of not having roots; 7 and some fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and smothered it; 8 and some fell on the good soil and yielded a crop, one grain a hundred and another sixty and another thirty. 9 Let him who has ears hear!” 10 And the disciples approached and said to him “Why do you speak to them in parables?” 11* and he answered “Because it is given to you to know the secrets of the Reign of Heaven, but it is not given to them. 12 For whoever has, more shall be given to him, and he shall have enough and to spare; but whoever has not, even what he has shall be taken from him. 13 This is why I speak to them in parables, because when they see they do not see, and when they hear they do not hear nor understand; 14 and Isaiah’s prophecy which says ‘Hear you shall, and not understand; and see you shall, and not perceive; 15 for this people’s wits are thickened, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have shut, for fear they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their wits, and turn back, and I should heal them’ is fulfilled to them. 16 But happy are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear; 17 for I tell you verily that many prophets and saints desired to see what you see and to hear what you hear, and did not. 18 Hear then, you, the parable of the sower. 19 When anyone hears the word of the Reign and does not understand it, the Evil One comes and carries off what has been sowed in his heart; this is the one that was sowed on the roadside. 20 And the one who has sowed on the rocky ground, he is the one who hears the word and at once receives it with joy, 21 yet has no root in him but is temporary, and when there comes distress or persecution because of the word he is staggered at once. 22 And the one who was sowed among the thorns, he is the one who hears the word, and temporal anxieties and the deceits of wealth stifle the word and it becomes unfruitful. 23 And the one who was sowed on the good soil, he is the one who hears and understands the word; who bears his crop, and produces one a hundred and another sixty and another thirty.”

24 He set before them another parable, saying “The Reign of Heaven resembles a man who sowed good seed in his field; 25 but while men were asleep his enemy came and sowed darnel in among the wheat, and went off. 26* And when the stalks began to ear and made heads, then the darnel too showed itself; 27 and the proprietor’s servants came and said to him ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? then how comes it to have darnel?’ 28 And he said to them ‘An enemy did that.’ And the servants say to him ‘Then do you want us to go and pick them out?’ 29 But he says to them ‘No, for fear that in picking out the darnel you should pull up the wheat along with it. 30 Leave both to grow together till harvest; and at harvesttime I will tell the harvesters “Pull out the darnel first and tie it in bundles to burn, but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”

31 He set before them another parable, saying “The Reign of Heaven is like a grain of mustard which a man took and sowed in his field; 32 which is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it grows it is the largest of the plants and becomes a tree so that the birds of the air come and perch in its branches.”

33 He spoke to them another parable: “The Reign of Heaven is like a bit of yeast which a woman took and buried in forty quarts of flour till it all grew yeasty.”

34 All this Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables, and spoke nothing to them without parable, 35 so that what was said through the prophet in the words “I will open my mouth in parables, I will emit things hidden since the foundation of the world” should be fulfilled.

36 Then he left the crowds and came into the house; and his disciples approached him, saying “Explain the parable of the darnel in the field to us.” 37 And he answered “The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man; 38 and the field is the world; and the good seed, that is the men of the Reign, and the darnel is the men of evil; 39 and the enemy that sowed it is the devil; and the harvest is the final time, and the harvesters are angels. 40 As darnel, then, is picked out and burned up, so it will be at the final time: 41 the Son of Man will send out his angels and they will pick out from his kingdom all snares that trip people up, and men that do wickedness, 42* and throw them into the furnace of fire; there will the weeping and the grinding of teeth be.

43 Then will the righteous shine out like the sun in their Father’s reign. Let him who has ears hear!

44 “The Reign of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man has found and hid, and in his gladness he goes and sells all he has and buys that field.

45 “Again, the Reign of Heaven is like a merchant who is looking for fine pearls, 46 and, having found one very valuable pearl, has gone and sold everything he had and bought it.

47 “Again, the Reign of Heaven is like a seine that is thrown into the sea and gathers all sorts, 48* and when it is filled they draw it up on the beach and sit down and sort the good into tubs, but throw out the foul. 49 So it will be at the final time: the angels will go out and separate the wicked from among the righteous 50* and throw them into the furnace of fire; there will the weeping and the grinding of teeth be.

52 And he said to them “Accordingly, every scribe who has become a disciple of the Reign of Heaven is like a householder who draws out from his stock new things and old things.”

53 And when Jesus had finished these parables he took his departure from that place; 54 and he came to his hometown and taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said “Where does this man get this wisdom and these miracles? 55* why, this is the carpenter’s son, his mother is named Mary and his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judah, 56 and his sisters are all of them among us—so where does this man get all this?” 57 and they were staggered at him. But Jesus said to them “A prophet is not unhonored anywhere but in his hometown and in his house”; 58 and he did not do many miracles there because of their unbelievingness.

14 At that time the tetrarch Herod heard the report about Jesus, 2 and said to his servants “This is John the Baptist; he has risen from the dead, and that is why the powers are operating in him.” 3 For Herod had seized John and put him in chains and put him away in prison on account of Herodias his brother Philip’s wife; 4 for John used to tell him “It is not lawful for you to have her”; 5 and, while he wished to kill him, he was afraid of the people, because they regarded him as a prophet. 6 But when Herod’s birthday came Herodias’s daughter danced before the company, and pleased Herod, 7 whereat he pledged himself with an oath to give her anything she asked for; 8 but she, prompted by her mother, said “Give me here on a platter John the Baptist’s head.” 9 And the king, though it grieved him, ordered it given to her because of the oaths and of those who were with him at the table; 10 and he sent and beheaded John in the prison, 11 and his head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother; 12 and his disciples went to his corpse and took it up and buried it, and came and reported the matter to Jesus.

13 And at hearing it Jesus retired in a boat from there to a lonely place by himself; and the crowds heard of it and followed him by land from the cities, 14 and upon landing he saw a great crowd and had pity on them and cured their sick. 15 But when evening came his disciples approached him saying “The place is lonely and the hour is now advanced; so dismiss the crowds, that they may go to the villages and buy themselves eatables.” 16 But Jesus said to them “They need not go; give them something to eat yourselves.” 17 And they said to him “We have nothing here but five cakes of bread and two fishes.” 18 But he said “Bring me them here”; 19 and, bidding the crowd to take their places on the grass, he took the five cakes and the two fishes and looked up to the sky and pronounced the blessing, and broke the cakes and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples to the crowd, 20 and they all ate and had their fill; and they took up what was left over of fragments, twelve full baskets,— 21 and it was about five thousand men, apart from women and children, that ate. 22* And at once he made the disciples get into the boat and go to the other side ahead of him while he dismissed the crowds.

23 And when he had dismissed the crowds he went up on the mountainside by himself to pray. And when evening came he was there alone; 24** but the boat was now two or three miles away from the land, having a hard time with the waves, for the wind was contrary. 25 But in the fourth watch of the night he came toward them walking on the sea. 26 And the disciples, seeing him walking on the sea, were alarmed, saying “It is an apparition,” and screamed with fear. 27 But at once Jesus spoke to them, saying “All right, it is I, do not be afraid.” 28 And Peter answered him “Sir, if it is you, bid me come to you on the water.” 29 And he said “Come”; and Peter, stepping out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. 30 But when he saw the wind he was frightened, and, beginning to sink, cried out “Master, help!” 31 And at once Jesus reached out his hand and took hold of him, and said to him “Little-faith, what did you get uncertain for?” 32 and when they stepped into the boat the wind lulled. 33 And those who were in the boat did him reverence, saying “You certainly are the Son of God.”

34 And when they got across they came to land in Gennesaret; 35 and upon recognizing him the men of that place sent to all that region and brought to him all who were ill, 36 and appealed to him that they might just touch the tassel of his cloak; and as many as touched it were made well.

15* Then scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem approached Jesus saying 2 “Why do your disciples violate the tradition of the elders? for they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.” 3 And he answered them “Why do you too violate the commandment of God because of your tradition? 4 for God said ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Let him who uses bad language to his father or mother suffer death’; 5 but you say ‘Whoever says to his father or mother “Whatever you get any good of from me is dedicated” 6* shall not honor his father or his mother’; and you have nullified God’s word because of your tradition. 7 Hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, 8 ‘This people honors me with the lips, but their hearts are remote from me; 9 and they adore me vainly, inculcating teachings that are commands of men.’” 10 And he called the crowd to him and said to them “Listen and understand: 11 it is not what comes into the mouth that defiles the man, it is just what goes out of the mouth that defiles the man.” 12 Then the disciples came to him and said “Do you know that the Pharisees were staggered when they heard the saying?” 13 And he answered “Every plantation that my Heavenly Father did not set out shall be uprooted. 14 Let them be: they are blind guides of blind men, and if a blind man is guiding a blind man they will both fall into a pit.” 15 But Peter answered him, “Expound the parable to us.” 16 And he said “Are you, too, still unable to see a point? 17 do you not see that anything that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is discharged into a latrine? 18 but what goes out of the mouth comes from the heart, and these defile the man. 19 For from the heart come evil designs, murders, adulteries, unchastities, thefts, false testimonies, abusive language: 20 these things are what defile the man; but eating with unwashed hands does not.”

21 And Jesus went out from there and withdrew to the parts about Tyre and Sidon. 22 And lo, a Canaanite woman had come out of that territory and was screaming “Son of David, sir, take pity on me; my daughter is grievously demon-ridden”; 23 but he made no answer to her. And his disciples approached him and asked him “Send her off, for she is screaming after us”; 24 but he answered “I was not sent to any but the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” 25 And she came and did him reverence, saying “Help me, sir”; 26 but he answered “It is not a good thing to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.” 27* But she said “Yes, sir—for the dogs eat of the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.” 28 Then Jesus answered her “Woman, great is your faith; have it as you will.” And her daughter was healed from that moment.

29 And Jesus passed from there to the Sea of Galilee, and went up on the mountainside and sat there; 30 and there came to him great crowds having with them cripples, mutilated men, blind men, dumb men, and many others, and threw them down at his feet; and he cured them, 31 so that the crowd wondered at seeing dumb men speaking, mutilated men sound, and cripples walking and blind men seeing, and glorified the God of Israel. 32 But Jesus called his disciples to him and said “I feel for the crowd, because it is now three days they have been staying with me and not had anything to eat; and I do not want to dismiss them fasting, for fear they should grow faint on the road.” 33 And the disciples said to him “Where are we to get so much bread in the wilderness as to give such a crowd their fill?” 34 and Jesus said to them “How much bread have you?” and they said “Seven cakes, and a few little fish.” 35 And he instructed the crowd to take their places on the ground, 36 and took the seven cakes and the fishes, and gave thanks and broke them and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples to the crowds, 37 and they all ate and had their fill; and they took up what was left over of fragments, seven full hampers— 38 and it was four thousand men, apart from women and children, that ate. 39 And he dismissed the crowds and got into the boat and came to the territory of Magadan.

16 And the Pharisees and Sadducees came to him and, as a test challenged him to show them a token from heaven; 2* but he answered them 3 —— 4 “A wicked and adulterous generation is in quest of a token, and will be given none but the token of Jonah”; and he left them and went away. 5 And the disciples failed to take bread when they came to the other side; 6 and Jesus said to them “See that you beware of Pharisee and Sadducee yeast.” 7 And they questioned among themselves, saying “We did not take bread.” 8 But Jesus, finding it out, said “Why are you questioning among yourselves, little-faiths, because you have not bread? 9 do you not yet see the point, nor remember the five cakes of bread for the five thousand and how many baskets you got? 10 nor the seven cakes for the four thousand and how many hampers you got? 11 how is it you do not see that I did not speak to you of bread? but beware of Pharisee and Sadducee yeast.” 12* Then they understood that he had not been telling them to beware of yeast of bread, but of Pharisee and Sadducee teaching.

13 And Jesus came into the parts about Caesarea Philippi, and there he asked his disciples “Who do people say the Son of Man is?” 14 and they said “Some John the Baptist, and others Elijah; and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” 15 Said he to them, “And who do you say I am?” 16 and Simon Peter answered “You are the Messiah, the son of the living God.” 17 And Jesus answered him “Happy are you, Simon Bar-Jonah; because it was not flesh and blood that disclosed it to you, but my Father in heaven. 18 And I tell you, you are Peter” [in English, “you are a Rock”], “and on this rock I will build my church; and the gates of the realm of death shall not prevail against it. 19 I will give you the keys of the Reign of Heaven, and what you declare unlawful on earth shall be declared unlawful in heaven, and what you declare lawful on earth shall be declared lawful in heaven.” 20* Then he told the disciples peremptorily not to say to anyone that he was the Messiah.

21 Thenceforth Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer a great deal from the elders and chief priests and scribes and be killed, and rise on the third day. 22* And Peter took him in hand and began to rebuke him, saying “Away with the thought, sir; this shall not happen to you.” 23 But he turned and said to Peter “Go behind me, Satan; you are my snare, because you do not have God’s ideas but men’s.”

24 Then Jesus said to his disciples “If anyone wishes to come after me, let him disown himself and take up his cross and follow me. 25* For whoever wishes to save his self will lose it, but whoever loses his self on my account will find it. 26 For what good will a man get if he makes a profit of the whole world and a loss of his self? or what shall a man give as an equivalent for his self? 27 For the Son of Man is to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and will then repay each one according to his actions. 28 I tell you verily there are some of those who stand here who shall not taste death till they see the Son of Man coming in his royal reign.”

17 And after six days Jesus took Peter and James and his brother John and brought them up on the side of a high mountain by themselves, 2 and was transfigured before them; and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light. 3 And lo, there appeared to them Moses and Elijah talking with him. 4 But Peter answered by saying to Jesus “Sir, it is a good thing we are here: if you wish, I will make three booths here, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.” 5 While he was still speaking, lo, a luminous cloud overshadowed them; and lo, out of the cloud there was a voice saying “This is my dear son in whom I take pleasure; listen to him”; 6 and at hearing it the disciples threw themselves down on their faces and were greatly afraid. 7 And Jesus came up to them and touched them and said “Rise, and do not be afraid”; 8* and, raising their eyes, they saw nobody but only Jesus himself.

9 And as they were coming down from the mountain Jesus gave them the injunction “Do not tell the vision to anybody till the Son of Man has risen from the dead.” 10 And his disciples put the question to him “Why is it, then, that the scribes say Elijah must come first?” 11 and he answered “O, Elijah is to come and restore everything; 12 but I tell you Elijah has come already, and they did not recognize him but did with him whatever they wished; so will the Son of Man too suffer at their hands.” 13 Then the disciples understood that he had been speaking to them of John the Baptist.

14 And when they got to the crowd a man came up to him kneeling to him and saying 15 “Sir, take pity on my son, because he has the epilepsy and is in a bad way; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water; 16 and I brought him to your disciples and they could not cure him.” 17 And Jesus answered “O unbelieving and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I bear with you? Bring him here for me.” 18 And Jesus gave him a peremptory order, and the demon came out of him, and the boy was cured from that moment. 19 Then the disciples approached Jesus when they were by themselves and said “Why was it we could not expel it?” 20 And he said to them “Because of your little faith; for I tell you verily, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed you will say to this mountain ‘Pass from here to there’ and it will; and nothing will be impossible to you.” 21 ——

22 And as a body of them were getting together in Galilee, Jesus said to them “The Son of Man is to be given over into the hands of men, 23 and they will kill him, and the third day he will rise”; and they took it very hard.

24* And upon their coming to Capernaum the men who took the half-shekels came to Peter and said “Does your teacher not pay half-shekels?” 25 He said “Yes.” And when he came into the house Jesus spoke first to him, saying “What do you think, Simon? from whom do the kings of the earth take duties or poll-tax, from their sons or from strangers?” 26 And when he said “From strangers,” Jesus said to him “Hence the sons are free. 27 But in order that we may not stagger them, go to the sea and throw in a hook; and take the first fish that comes up, and by opening its mouth you will find a shekel. Take that and give it to them for me and you.”

18 At that same time the disciples came to Jesus, saying “Who then is greatest in the Reign of Heaven?” 2 And he called a child to him and set it in the middle among them, 3 and said “I tell you verily, if you do not turn and become like the children you shall not get into the Reign of Heaven. 4 So whoever makes himself small like this child, he is greatest in the Reign of Heaven. 5 And anybody who receives one such child in my name is receiving me; 6 but anybody who trips up one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be well for him that an ass-power millstone should be hung around his neck and that he should be sunk in the sea far from land. 7 Woe to the world for trippings-up! for the trippings-up have to come, yet woe to the man through whom the tripping-up comes. 8 And if your hand or your foot is tripping you up, cut it away and throw it from you; it is a better thing for you to pass into life one-armed or a cripple than to be thrown into the eternal fire with two hands or two feet. 9 And if your eye is tripping you up, take it out and throw it from you; it is a better thing for you to pass into life one-eyed than to be thrown into the hell of fire with two eyes.

10 “See that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I tell you that in heaven their angels continually see the face of my Father in heaven. 11 —— 12 What do you think? if some man has a hundred sheep and one of them strays, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go looking for the stray? 13 and if he does find it, I tell you verily he is gladder of it than of the ninety-nine that did not stray. 14 Just so it is no will of my Father in heaven that one of these little ones should be lost.

15 “But if your brother sins, go bring it home to him between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. 16 But if he does not listen, take with you one or two more, so that every point may be established at the mouth of two or three witnesses; 17 and if he disregards their words, tell the church; and if he disregards the words of the church too, let him be to you as the heathen and the customhouse officer are. 18 I tell you verily, such things as you declare unlawful on earth shall be declared unlawful in heaven, and such things as you declare lawful on earth shall be declared lawful in heaven. 19* Again, I tell you verily that if on earth two of you agree about anything that they ask for, they shall have it from my Father in heaven. 20 For where two or three are met in my name, there am I among them.”

21 Then Peter came to him and said to him “Sir, how many times shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? up to seven times?” 22 Jesus said to him “I do not tell you ‘up to seven times,’ but up to seventy-seven times. 23* For this reason the Reign of Heaven resembles a king who wanted to have an accounting with his servants; 24* and when he began his accounting there was one brought to him who was debtor to the amount of ten thousand talents; 25 and, he not being able to pay, his master gave orders that he be sold, and his wife and his children and everything that he had, and that payment be made. 26 So the servant threw himself down and did him reverence, saying ‘Have patience with me and I will pay you everything.’ 27 And that servant’s master was moved to pity, and set him at liberty and released him from the loan. 28 But when that servant went out he found one of his fellow-servants who owed him a hundred denarii, and he took hold of him and went to choking him, saying ‘Pay whatever you owe.’ 29 So his fellow-servant threw himself down and appealed to him, saying ‘Have patience with me and I will pay you’; 30 but he would not, but went off and threw him into prison till he should pay what was due. 31 So when his fellow-servants saw what happened they were greatly grieved, and came and informed their master of all that had happened. 32* Then his master called him to him and said to him ‘You villain, I released you from all that debt, since you had appealed to me; 33 ought not you too to have taken pity on your fellow-servant the same as I did on you?’ 34 and in anger his master handed him over to the torturers till he should pay all that was due him. 35 So will my heavenly Father also do to you if you do not each forgive your brother from your heart.”

19 And when Jesus had finished these words he took his departure from Galilee and came into the Jewish territory on the other side of the Jordan; 2 and great crowds followed him, and he cured them there. 3 And Pharisees approached him to put him to a test, saying “is it lawful to divorce one’s wife on every ground?” 4* And he answered “Have you not read that their Creator made them male and female from the first 5 and said ‘On this account a man shall leave his father and mother and form a connection with his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? 6 so that they are no longer two but one flesh. So let not a man part what God has joined.” 7 They said to him “Then why did Moses command that one should give her a certificate of separation and divorce her?” 8 He said to them “Because in view of your obduracy Moses did permit you to divorce your wives; but from the first it has not been so. 9 But I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, not for unchastity, and marries another, commits adultery.”

10 The disciples said to him “If a man’s predicament with his wife is like that, it is not well to marry.” 11* But he said to them “Not all can live up to those words, but they to whom it is given. 12* For there are eunuchs who were originally born so, and there are eunuchs who were made such by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves such on account of the Reign of Heaven. Let him live up to it who can.”

13 Then there were brought to him children to have him lay his hands on them and pray; but the disciples rebuked them. 14 But Jesus said “Let the children alone, and do not interfere with their coming to me, for to such belongs the Reign of Heaven.” 15 And he laid his hands on them, and went on his way.

16 And there came one to him and said “Teacher, what good thing shall I do to have eternal life?” 17 And he said to him “Why do you ask me about the good? One is the Good. But if you want to pass into life, keep the commandments.” 18 He said to him “Which?” And Jesus said “‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You shall not give false testimony,’ 19 ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’” 20 The young man said to him “I have kept all these; what am I still deficient in?” 21 Jesus said to him “If you want to be thorough, go; sell everything you have and give the money to poor men, and you shall have a fund laid by in heaven; and come and follow me.” 22 But at hearing the words the young man went away grieving; for he owned great possessions.

23 And Jesus said to his disciples “I tell you verily that a rich man will have hard work to get into the Reign of Heaven. 24 And I tell you again: it is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into the Reign of God.” 25 And at hearing it the disciples showed great astonishment, saying “Then who can be saved?” 26 but Jesus looked at them and said “With men this is impossible, but with God everything is possible.” 27 Then Peter answered him “We here did leave everything and followed you; then what shall we have?” 28 And Jesus said to them “I tell you verily that you who have followed me shall at the rebirth, when the Son of Man sits on his throne of glory, sit on twelve thrones yourselves, judging the twelve tribes of Israel; 29* and everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands on account of my name shall receive many times as much, and shall inherit eternal life. 30 But many of the first will be last, and of the last first.

20 “For the Reign of Heaven is like a proprietor who went out at six in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. 2 And he agreed with the laborers on a denarius a day and sent them to his vineyard. 3 And he went out at about nine o’clock and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, 4 and said to those ‘Go to the vineyard too, and I will give you what is right’; and they went. 5 And he went out again about twelve and three o’clock and did the same way. 6 And about five o’clock he went out and found others standing there, and said to them ‘Why are you standing idle here all day?’ 7 They said to him ‘Because nobody has hired us.’ He said to them ‘Go to the vineyard too.’ 8* And when evening came the owner of the vineyard said to his superintendent ‘Call the laborers and pay the wages, beginning with the last and going on to the first.’ 9 And the five o’clock ones came and got a denarius each; 10 and the first came and supposed they would get more, and they too got the denarius each. 11 And when they got it they grumbled at the proprietor, 12 saying ‘These last did one hour, and you made them equal to us that bore the weight of the day and the scorching wind.’ 13 But he answered one of them ‘Comrade, I am not wronging you: did you not agree with me for a denarius? 14 take up your money and go, but I choose to give the same to this last one as to you. 15 Is it not my right to do what I choose with my own things? or do you grudge because I am liberal?’ 16 Thus the last shall be first and the first last.”

17* And when Jesus was about to go up to Jerusalem he took the twelve with him by themselves, and said to them on the road 18 “Here we are going up to Jerusalem; and the Son of Man will be put into the hands of the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death 19 and hand him over to the foreigners to outrage and flog and crucify, and on the third day he will rise.”

20 Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, doing him reverence and asking something of him. 21 And he said to her “What do you want?” Said she to him, “Say that these two sons of mine shall sit one on your right and one on your left in your reign.” 22 But Jesus answered “You do not know what you are asking for. Can you drink the cup that I am going to drink?” Said they to him, “We can.” 23* Said he to them, “Drink my cup you shall; but as to sitting on my right and on my left, this is not mine to give, but belongs to those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”

24 And at hearing of it the ten were offended with the two brothers; 25 but Jesus called them to him and said “You know that the rulers of the nations lord it over them and their great men domineer over them. 26* It is not so among you, but anyone who wishes to be great among you shall be your serving-man, 27 and anyone who wishes to be first among you shall be your slave, 28* just as the Son of Man did not come to be waited on but to wait on the needs of others, and to give his life as ransom for many.”

29 And as they were going out of Jericho a great crowd followed him; 30 and lo, two blind men sitting by the roadside, hearing that Jesus was passing by, cried out “Son of David, sir, take pity on us!” 31 but the crowd rebuked them, telling them to be still. But they cried out louder “Son of David, sir, take pity on us!” 32 And Jesus stopped and called them and said “What do you want me to do for you?” 33 Said they to him, “Sir, for our eyes to be opened.” 34 And Jesus was moved with pity and touched their eyes; and at once they recovered their sight, and followed him.

21 And when they drew near to Jerusalem, and came to Bethany on the slope of the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, 2 saying to them “Go to the village opposite you, and at once you will find an ass hitched and a colt with it; unhitch them and bring them to me. 3 And if anyone says anything to you, you are to say ‘The Lord needs them,’ and he will send them at once. 4 And this has come to pass in order that what was said through the prophet in the words 5 ‘Say to the daughter of Sion “Here is your king coming to you, meek, and mounted on an ass, and on a colt an ass’s foal”’ should be fulfilled.” 6 And the disciples went and did as Jesus directed them 7 and brought the ass and the colt; and they laid their cloaks on them, and he took his seat upon them; 8 and the great crowd spread their cloaks in the road, and others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them in the road. 9 And the crowds that went ahead of him and that followed were crying out “Hosanna to the Son of David; blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord; hosanna on high!” 10 And when he came into Jerusalem all the city was shaken, saying “Who is this?” 11 and the crowds said “This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth in Galilee.”

12 And Jesus went into the temple-precinct and turned out all those who were buying and selling in the precinct, and threw down the money-changers’ tables and the pigeon-sellers’ seats, 13 and said to them “It is written ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it a robbers’ cave.” 14 And blind and lame men approached him in the precinct, and he cured them. 15 But at seeing the marvels that he did, and the children shouting “Hosanna to the Son of David” in the temple-precinct, the chief priests and the scribes took offense 16 and said to him “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them “Yes; did you never read ‘Out of the mouths of infants, and of babies at the breast, thou hast instituted praise’?” 17 And he left them and went out of the city to Bethany and spent the night there.

18 And in the morning, as he was on his way back to the city, he grew hungry; 19 and, seeing a single fig-tree by the roadside, he went to it, and found nothing on it but only leaves, and said to it “Never again shall there be any fruit from you”; and the fig-tree withered immediately. 20 And at seeing it the disciples wondered, saying “How was it that immediately the fig-tree withered?” 21 But Jesus answered them “I tell you verily, if you have faith and do not doubt you will not only do this of the fig-tree, but even if you say to this mountain ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea’ it will be done; 22 and everything that you ask for in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

23 And after he had come into the temple-precinct the chief priests and the elders of the people approached him as he was teaching and said “By what authority are you doing these things? and who gave you this authority?” 24 But Jesus answered them “I will ask you one thing myself, and if you tell me that, so will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things. 25* Where was John’s baptizing from? from heaven or from men?” And they went over the question to themselves, thinking “If we say ‘From heaven’ he will say to us ‘Then why did you not believe him?’ 26 but if we say ‘From men’ we are afraid of the populace, for they all look on John as a prophet.” 27 And they answered Jesus “We do not know.” Said he in turn to them, “And neither do I tell you by what authority I am doing these things. 28 But what do you think? A man had two children. He went to the first and said ‘My child, go today and work in the vineyard’; 29** but he answered ‘I’ll be there, sir’ and did not go. 30 And he went to the second and said the same; but he answered ‘I don’t want to.’ Afterward he changed his mind and went. 31 Which of the two did what his father would have him?” They said “The last.” Said Jesus to them, “I tell you verily that the customhouse officers and the prostitutes are passing into the Reign of God ahead of you. 32 For John came to you along the road to right living and you did not believe him, but the customhouse officers and prostitutes did; and you, when you saw it, did not even afterward change your mind and believe him.

33 “Listen to another parable. There was a proprietor who set out a vineyard, and put a fence round it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower, and rented it to farmers and went abroad. 34 And when the season for the crop drew near he sent his servants to the farmers to receive his crop; 35 and the farmers took his servants and beat this one and killed that and stoned that. 36 Again he sent other servants, more numerous than the first; and they did the same way with them. 37 But afterward he sent his son to them, thinking ‘They will have some respect for my son.’ 38 But the farmers, when they saw the son, said to themselves ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him and have his inheritance’; 39 and they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. 40 Then when the owner of the vineyard comes what will he do with those farmers?”

41 They said to him “He will kill them off like the rascals they are, and rent the vineyard to other farmers who will deliver him the crops in their seasons.”

42 Said Jesus to them “Did you never read in the Scriptures ‘The stone that the builders condemned, that stone has come to be the top of the corner: this was from the Lord, and is wonderful in our eyes’? 43 I tell you accordingly, the Reign of God will be taken away from you and given to a nation that produces its fruits.” 44* ——

45 And the chief priests and the Pharisees, hearing his parables, knew that he was speaking about them; 46 and they tried to seize him but were afraid of the crowds, since they looked upon him as a prophet.

22 And Jesus again answered them in parables, saying 2* “The Reign of Heaven resembles a king who made a wedding-feast for his son, 3 and sent his servants to call those who had been invited to the feast, and they would not come. 4 Again he sent other servants, saying ‘Tell those who are invited, “Here I have prepared my lunch, my steers and my fatlings are killed and everything is ready; come to the wedding-feast.”’ 5 And they paid no attention, but went off, one to his field and another to his trading, 6 and the rest seized his servants and maltreated them and killed them. 7 And the king was angry, and sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city; 8 then he said to his servants ‘The wedding-feast is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy; 9 so go to the crossroads and call to the wedding-feast as many as you find.’ 10 And those servants went out on the roads and gathered everybody that they found, bad and good, and the wedding-hall was filled with feasters. 11 But the king came in to view the feasters, and saw there a man who did not have on a wedding garment, 12 and said to him ‘Comrade, how is it you have come in here without a wedding garment?’ and he was speechless. 13* Then the king said to the attendants ‘Tie him hand and foot and put him out into the outer darkness.’ There will the weeping and the grinding of teeth be. 14 For there are many that are called but few that are chosen.”

15 Then the Pharisees went and laid a plot for entrapping him in talk; 16 and they sent him their disciples with the Herodians to say “Teacher, we know that you are truthful and teach the way of God in truth, and care for nobody, for you do not look at men’s faces; 17 so tell us what you think: is paying taxes to Caesar lawful or not?” 18 But Jesus, discovering their rascality, said “Why are you trying tricks on me, you hypocrites? 19 show me the coin for the taxes.” And they brought him a denarius. 20 And he said to them “Whose is this portrait and this inscription?” 21 They say “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them “Then pay what is Caesar’s to Caesar and what is God’s to God.” 22 And at hearing it they wondered, and left him and went away.

23 On that day Sadducees (people who say there is no such thing as a resurrection) approached him and put the question to him 24 “Teacher, Moses said ‘If one dies without children, his brother shall marry his widow and set up a posterity for his brother.’ 25 But among us there were seven brothers, and the first married and passed away, and, not having issue, left his wife to his brother; 26 and similarly the second and the third, and so on down to the seventh. 27 And last of all the woman died. 28 So at the resurrection which of the seven will she be the wife of? for all of them had her.” 29 But Jesus answered them “You go wrong by not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God: 30 for in the resurrection they do not marry but are like angels in heaven. 31 But as to the resurrection of the dead have you not read what was said to you by God in the words 32* ‘I am the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob’? He is not the God of dead men but of living men.” 33 And upon hearing it the crowds were astonished at his teaching.

34 But, hearing that he had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees gathered together, 35 and one of them, a lawyer, put the question to him to test him, 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?” 37 And he said to him “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind,’ 38 this is the greatest commandment, the first. 39* A second like it is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments hangs all the law and the prophets.”

41 And while the Pharisees were gathered Jesus put the question to them 42 “What do you think about the Messiah? whose son is he to be?” They said to him “David’s.” 43 He said to them “How is it then that David in the Spirit calls him lord, in the words 44 ‘The Lord said to my lord “Sit at my right hand till I put your enemies underneath your feet”’? 45 if then David calls him lord, how is he to be his son?” 46 And nobody could give him any answer, and from that day on no one any longer dared to put any question to him.

23 Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and his disciples, saying 2 “The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’s seat; 3 so do and observe everything that they tell you; but do not imitate their deeds, for they say things and do not do them. 4* And they pack heavy loads and lay them on men’s shoulders, but will not move them with a finger themselves. 5 And all their moral acts they do with an eye to being viewed by men; for they make their phylacteries broad and their tassels long. 6 And they are fond of the first place at dinners and the first seats in synagogues, 7 and greetings in the marketplaces, and being called ‘Rabbi’ by men. 8 But do not you be called ‘Rabbi,’ for one is your teacher and you are all of you brothers; 9 and do not call one your father on earth, for one, the heavenly, is your Father. 10 And do not be called spiritual directors either; for one, the Messiah, is your spiritual director. 11 But the greatest one of you shall be serving-man to you. 12 And whoever shall lift himself up will be put down, and whoever shall put himself down will be lifted up.

13 “But woe to you, hypocrite scribes and Pharisees, because you lock the Reign of Heaven in men’s faces; for you do not go in yourselves and neither do you let those go in who are going in. 14 —— 15 Woe to you, hypocrite scribes and Pharisees, because you go the rounds of the sea and the land to make one proselyte, and when you get him you make him more of a candidate for hell twice over than you are yourselves. 16 Woe to you, blind guides that say ‘If anyone swears by the temple it is nothing, but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple he is bound’— 17 foolish and blind men! for which is greater, the gold or the temple that made the gold sacred? 18 and ‘If anyone swears by the altar it is nothing, but if anyone swears by the gift upon it he is bound’— 19 blind! for which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred? 20 He who swears by the altar, then, is swearing by it and by everything upon it; 21 and he who swears by the temple is swearing by it and by him who lives in it; 22 and he who swears by heaven is swearing by God’s throne and by him who sits upon it. 23 Woe to you, hypocrite scribes and Pharisees, because you tithe mint and dill and cumin and have let slip the weightier things in the law, judgment and mercy and faith; but you ought to have done these and not let those slip— 24 blind guides! strainers-out of a gnat and swallowers of a camel! 25 Woe to you, hypocrite scribes and Pharisees, because you clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full with rapacity and sensuality. 26 Blind Pharisee, clean the inside of the cup first, that the outside of it too may come to be clean. 27 Woe to you, hypocrite scribes and Pharisees, because you are the like of whitewashed graves that appear beautiful on the outside but are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness inside; 28 in the same way you appear to men saintly on the outside but are full of hypocrisy and wickedness inside. 29 Woe to you, hypocrite scribes and Pharisees, because you build memorials over the graves of the prophets, and decorate the sepulchers of the saints, 30 and say ‘If we had been there in our fathers’ days we should not have been sharers with them in the blood of the prophets’— 31 so that you testify for yourselves that you are sons of the murderers of the prophets; 32 fill up your fathers’ measure yourselves! 33 Snakes, spawn of vipers, how are you to escape sentence to hell? 34 Accordingly I am sending to you prophets and sages and divines: some of them you shall kill and crucify, and some of them you shall flog in your synagogues and persecute from city to city, 35 that there may come upon you all saintly blood that has been shed on earth from the blood of the sainted Abel to the blood of Zachariah the son of Barachiah whom you murdered between the temple and the altar— 36 I tell you verily, all this will come upon this generation. 37* Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killer of the prophets and stoner of those that are sent to her—how many times I have wished to gather her children as a bird gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not! 38 Lo, your house is left to you. 39 For I tell you, you shall not see me henceforth until you say ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’”

24 And Jesus came out from the temple-precinct and was going on his way; and his disciples came up to show him the architecture of the precinct. 2 And he answered them “You see all this, do you not? I tell you verily, there shall not be one stone left upon another here that shall not be torn down.”

3 And as he was sitting on the Mount of Olives the disciples came to him by themselves, saying “Tell us when this will be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the final time.”

4 And Jesus answered them “Look out that no one deludes you. 5 For many will come under my name, saying ‘I am the Messiah,’ and delude many. 6 And you are going to hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that you are not disquieted; for they have to come, but it is not yet the end. 7 For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in one place and another; 8 but all this is the beginning of the birth-pangs. 9 Then they will have you arrested and cruelly treated, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all the nations because of my name. 10 And then many will be staggered and have each other arrested and hate each other; 11 and many pretended prophets will arise and delude many; 12 and, because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will cool;— 13 but he who holds out to the end, he will come safe through;— 14 and this gospel of the Reign will be proclaimed in all the world of men, for an attestation to all the nations. And then the end will come.

15 “So when you see standing in a sacred place the desolating abomination spoken of by the prophet Daniel (let the reader note), 16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains; 17 let him who is on the roof not go down to take away what is in his house, 18 and let him who is in the field not go back to pick up his cloak; 19 and woe to women who are pregnant and nursing in those days! 20 But pray that your flight may not come in winter or on a sabbath; 21 for then there will be such great distress as there has not been from the beginning of the world till now, nor shall be. 22 And if those days had not been cut short no flesh would have come safe through; but because of the chosen those days will be cut short. 23 Then if anybody says to you ‘here is the Messiah at this place or this’ do not believe it; 24* for there will arise pretended Messiahs and pretended prophets, and they will exhibit great tokens and wonders, so as to delude even the chosen if possible; 25 now I have told you beforehand. 26 So if they say to you ‘here he is, in the wilderness,’ do not go out; ‘here he is, in the closets,’ do not believe it; 27 for as the lightning comes out of the eastern horizon and shines to the western, so shall be the coming of the Son of Man; 28 wherever the carcass is, there the vultures will gather.

29 “But directly after the distress of those days the sun will turn dark and the moon will not give its radiance, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken; 30 and then will the token of the Son of Man appear in the sky; and then will all the tribes of the earth wail, and see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory; 31 and he will send out his angels with the sound of a great trumpet, and they will gather his chosen from the four winds, from one edge of the sky to the other. 32 But learn from the fig-tree this parable: when its twigs come to be tender and put out their leaves you know that the summer is near; 33 so you too, when you see all this, are to know that he is near, at the doors. 34 I tell you verily that this generation shall not pass away till all this has taken place. 35 The heavens and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not. 36 But as to that day and hour nobody knows, not even the angels of heaven nor the Son, but the Father alone. 37 For as were the days of Noah, so will the coming of the Son of Man be. 38 For as in those days before the flood they ate and drank, married and got their children married, till the day that Noah went into the ark, 39 and before they knew it the flood came and carried off one and all, so shall be also the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Then there will be two men in the field, one is taken along and one is left; 41 two women grinding at the mill, one is taken along and one is left.

42 “So keep awake, because you do not know on what day your Master is coming. 43 But be sure of this, that if the man of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming he would have kept awake and not allowed his house to be broken into. 44 Accordingly be ready yourselves, because it will be at the moment when you are not thinking of it that the Son of Man comes. 45 Who, then, is the faithful and intelligent servant whom the master has set over his household to give them their food at the right time? 46 Happy is that servant whom his master, when he comes, shall find doing thus: 47 I tell you verily he will set him over all his property. 48 But if that worthless servant says to himself ‘My master is staying late’ 49 and begins to beat his fellowservants and eats and drinks with the drunken, 50 that servant’s master will come on a day when he does not expect it and at an hour that he does not know, 51* and will cut him in two and allot him a part among the hypocrites: there will the weeping and the grinding of teeth be.

25 “Then the Reign of Heaven will resemble ten maidens who took their torches and went out to meet a bridegroom. 2 And five of them were foolish and five sensible; 3 for the foolish ones did not take oil with them when they took their torches, 4* but the sensible took oil in pitchers with their torches. 5 And as the bridegroom was long in coming they all grew drowsy and fell asleep. 6 But at midnight there came a shout ‘Here is the bridegroom! come out to meet him!’ 7 Then all those maidens woke up and put their torches in order. 8 And the foolish ones said to the sensible ones ‘Give us some of your oil, because our torches are going out’; 9 but the sensible ones answered ‘It might not be sufficient for us and you both; better go to those who have it to sell and buy yourselves some.’ 10 But while they were away buying, the bridegroom came, and the ones who were ready went in with him to the wedding, and the door was shut. 11 And afterward the rest of the maidens also came saying ‘Sir, sir, open to us.’ 12 But he answered ‘I tell you verily, I do not know you.’ 13 So keep awake, because you do not know the day nor the hour.

14* “For it is as when a man who was going abroad called his servants and handed over his property to them 15* and gave to one five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his individual ability, and went away. 16 At once the one who had received the five talents went and set up a business with them and made five more; 17 similarly the one who had received the two made two more; 18 but the one who had received the one went off and dug in the ground and hid his master’s money. 19 And after a long time the master of those servants came and had an accounting with them; 20 and the one who had received the five talents came up and brought five talents more, saying ‘Sir, you handed over five talents to me; here I have made five talents more.’ 21* His master said to him ‘Well done, good trusty man; you were faithful over a little, I will set you over much; go in to your master’s rejoicing.’ 22 The one who had received the two talents also came up and said ‘Sir, you handed over two talents to me; here I have made two talents more.’ 23 His master said to him ‘Well done, good trusty man; you were faithful over a little, I will set you over much; go in to your master’s rejoicing.’ 24 And the one who had received the one talent also came up and said ‘Sir, I knew you for a hard man, harvesting where you did not sow and picking up where you did not drop, 25 and I was afraid and went off and hid your talent in the ground; here you have your property.’ 26* But his master answered him ‘You lazy villain, you knew, did you, that I harvest where I did not sow and pick up where I did not drop? 27 then you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and when I came I should have got my property with interest.— 28 So take the talent away from him and give it to the one with the ten talents; 29 for everyone who has shall have more given to him, and shall have enough and to spare, but from him who has not there shall be taken away even what he has. 30* And put out the inefficient servant into the outside darkness; there will the’ weeping and the grinding of teeth be.’

31 “But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angel with him, then he will take his seat on his throne of glory, 32 and all the nations will be brought before him; and he will separate them from each other as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, 33 and will set the sheep on his right, but the goats on his left. 34 Then the King will say to those on his right ‘Come here, blessed of my Father, inherit the empire that has been prepared for you since the foundation of the world: 35 for I was hungry and you gave me a meal, I was thirsty and you gave me a drink, I was a stranger and you lodged me, 36 naked and you clad me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ 37 Then the right-doers will answer him ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you a drink? 38 And when did we see you a stranger and lodge you, or naked and clothe you? 39 And when did we see you sick or in prison and come to you?’ 40 And the King will answer them ‘I tell you verily, insofar as you did it to one of the littlest of these brothers of mine, you did it to me.’ 41 Then he will also say to those on his left ‘Go from me, accursed men, to the eternal fire prepared for the Devil and his angels: 42 for I was hungry and you did not give me a meal, I was thirsty and you did not give me a drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not lodge me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’ 44 Then they too will answer ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and not attend to your needs?’ 45 Then he will answer them ‘I tell you verily, insofar as you did not do it to one of the littlest of these, to me also you did not do it.’ 46 And these will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”

26 And when Jesus had finished all these words he said to his disciples 2 “You know that in two days the passover comes, and the Son of Man is given to the executioners to be crucified.” 3 Then the chief priests and the elders of the people met in the court of the house of the high priest, who was known as Caiaphas, 4 and planned together to seize Jesus by trickery and kill him; 5 but they said “Not during the feast, so that there will not be a disturbance among the people.”

6 And when Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, 7 a woman with an alabaster vial of high-priced perfume approached him and poured it on his head while he was at the table. 8 And the disciples took offense at the sight, saying “Why this waste? 9 for this could have been sold for a good deal and given to poor people.” 10 And Jesus, finding it out, said to them “Why are you worrying the woman? for she has done a good deed to me; 11 for you always have the poor with you, but me you do not always have. 12 For she, in putting this perfume on my body, has done this toward burying me. 13 I tell you verily, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she did shall also be spoken of for a memorial of her.” 14 Then one of the twelve, he who was known as Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests 15 and said “What will you give me to put him into your hands?” and they weighed to him thirty pieces of silver, 16 and from that time on he was looking for a good opportunity to put him into their hands.

17 And on the first day of matzoth-time the disciples approached Jesus saying “Where will you have us make the preparations for you to eat the passover?” 18 and he said “Go into the city to such a man and say to him ‘The Teacher says, “My time is near; I am keeping the passover at your house with my disciples.”’” 19 And the disciples did as Jesus directed them to, and got ready the passover; 20 and when evening came, he came to the table with his twelve disciples.

21 And while they were eating he said “I tell you verily that one of you will have me arrested.” 22 And, greatly pained, they began each one to say to him “Am I the one, sir?” 23 And he answered “He who dipped his hand in the dish with me, he will have me arrested. 24 The Son of Man goes as is written of him; but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is put under arrest! it would have been well for that man if he had not been born.” 25 And Judas, who was to have him arrested, answered him “Am I the one, Rabbi?” He said to him “As you say.”

26 And while they were eating Jesus took a cake of bread, and spoke the blessing and broke it, and, giving it to the disciples, said “Take this and eat it; this is my body.” 27 And he took a cup and gave thanks over it and gave it to them, saying “Drink of it, all of you; 28 for this is my covenant blood poured out for many to the pardoning of sins. 29 But I tell you, henceforth I will not drink of this produce of the vine till that day when I drink it new in my Father’s reign with you.”

30 And they sang a hymn and went out to the Mount of Olives. 31 Then Jesus said to them “You will be staggered over me this night all of you; for it is written ‘I will strike down the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will scatter’; 32 but after my rising I will go ahead of you to Galilee.” 33 But Peter answered him “If everybody will be staggered over you, I never will be staggered.” 34 Jesus said to him “I tell you verily that this night, before a cock has crowed, you will disown me three times.” 35 Said Peter to him “Even if I have to die with you I will not disown you”; and so said all the disciples.

36 Then Jesus came with them to an enclosure known as Gethsemane, and said to the disciples “Sit here while I go there and pray.” 37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be unhappy and uneasy; 38 then he said to them “My soul is sad, deathly sad; stay here and keep awake with me”; 39 and he went a little further and threw himself down on his face praying “Father, if it is possible let this cup pass away from me; yet not as I will but as you will.” 40 And he came to the disciples and found them asleep, and said to Peter “Were you so unable to keep awake with me one moment? 41* Keep awake and pray, that you may not fall under temptation: the spirit is enthusiastic but the flesh is weak.” 42 Again he went away for the second time and prayed “Father, if this cannot pass away without my drinking it, your will be done.” 43 And he came and found them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy. 44 And he left them and went away again and prayed for the third time, saying the same words again. 45* Then he came to the disciples and said to them “Well, then, sleep and rest; the moment is close at hand, and the Son of Man is to be given up into the hands of sinners— 46 rise, let us be going; here is the one who gives me up to them, close at hand.”

47 And while he was still speaking, in came Judas, one of the twelve, and with him a great crowd with swords and sticks from the chief priests and elders of the people. 48 And the one who was giving him up had given them a sign, telling them “Whichever I kiss is he; take him.” 49 And at once he went up to Jesus and said “Good evening, Rabbi,” and went to kissing him. 50 But Jesus said to him “What you are here for, comrade!” Then they came up and put their hands on him and took him. 51 And lo, one of those who were with Jesus reached and drew his sword and hit the high priest’s servant and took off his ear. 52 Then Jesus said to him “Put your sword back in its place; for all who take the sword will perish by the sword. 53 Or do you think I cannot appeal to my Father and have him furnish me more than twelve brigades of angels now? 54 so how are the Scriptures to be fulfilled, that it must be this way?” 55 At the same time Jesus said to the crowds “You come out as if it were against a robber, with swords and sticks, to arrest me; I had been sitting in the temple-precinct day by day teaching, and you did not take me. 56 But this has all of it come about in order that the scriptures of the prophets should be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and ran.

57 And those who had taken Jesus brought him to the house of Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had met. 58 And Peter followed him at a distance up to the high priest’s courtyard, and went inside and sat with the officers to see the end. 59 And the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for false testimony against Jesus so that they might put him to death; 60 and they did not find any, though many false witnesses came forward. But in the end two came forward 61 and said “This man said ‘I can tear down the temple of God and build it up in three days.’” 62 And the high priest stood up and said to him “Do you make no answer? what is it that these are testifying against you?” 63 but Jesus was silent. And the high priest said to him “I adjure you by the living God to tell us whether you are the Messiah, the Son of God.” 64 Jesus said to him “As you say; I tell you, though, henceforth it will be sitting at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of the heavens that you see the Son of Man.” 65 Then the high priest tore his clothes, saying “He has blasphemed! what further need have we of witnesses? here, you have heard the blasphemy now, 66 what do you think?” And they answered “It is a case for death.”

67 Then they spat into his face and struck him with their fists, and some slapped him 68 saying “Prophesy for us, Messiah, who was it that hit you?”

69 But Peter was sitting out in the courtyard; and one maid came up to him, saying “You were with Jesus the Galilean too”; 70 but he denied it before everybody, saying “I do not know what you are talking about.” 71 And he went out to the porch; and there another girl saw him and said to those who were there “That man was with Jesus the Nazarene”; 72 and again he denied it with an oath, “I do not know the man,” 73 And after a little those who were standing around came up and said to Peter “You positively are one of them yourself—your language betrays you.” 74 Then he began to curse and swear that he “did not know the man”; and at once a cock crowed; 75 and Peter remembered Jesus’s word, how he had said “Before a cock has crowed you will disown me three times”; and he went outside and wept bitterly.

27 And when morning came all the chief priests and the elders of the people laid their plan against Jesus for putting him to death, 2 and bound him and took him to Pilate, the governor, and handed him over to him.

3 Then, upon seeing that he had been condemned, Judas who had been the agent in his arrest regretted his action and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, 4 saying “I have sinned in bringing innocent blood to its death.” But they said “What concern of ours is that? you see to that.” 5 And he threw the pieces into the temple and withdrew, and went away and hanged himself. 6 But the chief priests took the money and said “It is not lawful to deposit it in the temple treasury, because it is the price of blood”; 7 and they decided on buying the potter’s field with it for a burying-ground for strangers, and did so; 8 for which reason that field has been called the Blood Field to this day. 9* Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah in the words “And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of the Priced whom they priced on the part of the sons of Israel, 10 and gave them for the potter’s field, in accordance with what the Lord directed me,” was fulfilled.

11 But Jesus was set before the governor; and the governor put the question to him “Are you the ‘king of the Jews’?” and Jesus said “As you say.” 12 And while the accusations were being made against him by the chief priests and elders he made no answer. 13 Then Pilate said to him “Do you not hear how many charges against you they are testifying to?” 14 And to not one word of it did he give him an answer, so that the governor wondered exceedingly.

15 And every feast-time it was the governor’s custom to release for the crowd one prisoner whom they wanted. 16* And they had then a conspicuous prisoner known as Jesus Bar-Abbas. 17 So when they had gathered Pilate said to them “Which will you have me release for you, Jesus Bar-Abbas or Jesus known as the Messiah?” 18 For he knew that it was out of jealousy that they had had him arrested; 19 and while he was sitting on the bench his wife had sent a message to him, “Do not have anything to do with that saint; for today I had a great deal happen to me in a dream because of him.” 20 But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Bar-Abbas and have Jesus perish; 21 and the governor answered them “Which of the two will you have me release for you?” and they said “Bar-Abbas.” 22* Said Pilate to them, “Then what shall I do with the Jesus who is known as the Messiah?” They all said “Have him crucified.” 23 Said he, “Why, what harm has he done?” but they screamed more and more “Have him crucified.” 24 And Pilate, seeing that he was doing no good but rather a disturbance was beginning, took water and washed his hands in front of the people, saying “I am innocent of this blood; you shall see to it.” 25 And all the people answered “His blood be on us and on our children.” 26 Then he released Bar-Abbas for them, but scourged Jesus and gave him in charge to be crucified.

27 Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the praetorium and got together the whole cohort over him, 28 and stripped him and threw a scarlet cape over him, 29 and braided a wreath out of thorns and put it on his head and a reed in his right hand, and knelt before him and made fun of him, saying “Hail, King of the Jews!” 30 and spat on him and took the reed and beat him over the head. 31 And when they had had their fun with him they took the cape off him and put his own clothes on him, and led him away to be crucified.

32 And as they were going out they found a Cyrene man, by name Simon: this man they requisitioned to take up his cross.

33 And when they came to a place known as Golgotha, which is to say the Skull place, 34 they gave him wine mixed with gall to drink; and when he had tasted it he would not drink. 35 And they crucified him and divided up his clothes, throwing lots, 36 and they sat and kept watch over him there. 37 And they put up over his head a written statement of his offense, “This is Jesus the King of the Jews.” 38 Then two robbers were crucified with him, one on the right and one on the left.

39 And those who went past taunted him, shaking their heads 40* and saying “You that were tearing down the temple and building it up in three days, save yourself, if you are Son of God, and get down off the cross.” 41 In the same way the chief priests, making fun of him with the scribes and elders, said 42** “He saved others; he cannot save himself! He is the King of Israel: let him get down off the cross now, and we will believe on him. 43 He trusts in God, let him deliver him now if he wants him—for he said ‘I am Son of God.’” 44 And the robbers too, who were crucified with him, gave him the same twitting.

45 And from twelve o’clock on there came a darkness over all the land till three. 46 And about three o’clock Jesus shrieked out loudly “Elí, Elí, Lemá shabaktáni?” that is, “My God, my God, why hast thou abandoned me?” 47 And some of those who were standing there said when they heard it “That man is calling Eliah” [for that was the way Elijah’s name was then pronounced]. 48 And at once one of them ran and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar and stuck it on a reed, and offered him the drink; 49* but the rest said “Let be and let us see if Elijah is coming to save him.” 50* And Jesus again gave a loud cry, and breathed his last; 51 and lo, the curtain of the temple split from top to bottom into two parts, and the earth quaked, and the rocks split, 52 and the tombs opened and many bodies of holy men who had gone to their rest rose, 53 and, coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, came into the sacred city and appeared to many. 54* And when the centurion and those who were with him keeping watch over Jesus saw the earthquake and the rest, they were greatly afraid, saying “This positively was the son of God.”

55 And there were many women there looking on from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, waiting on his needs; 56 among them was Mary the Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

57 And when evening came there came a rich man from Arimathea, Joseph by name, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus; 58 this man went to Pilate and asked for Jesus’s body. Then Pilate ordered it turned over to him. 59 And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen wrapper, 60 and laid it in his new tomb which he had cut out in the rock, and rolled a great stone against the door of the tomb, and went away. 61 And Mary the Magdalene and the other Mary were there, sitting opposite the front of the grave.

62* But on the following day—that is, after Friday—the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered at Pilate’s residence 63 saying “Sir, we recollect that that delusionist, while he was still alive, said ‘After three days I rise,’ 64 So order the grave made secure till the third day, for fear the disciples should come and spirit him away and say to the people ‘He has risen from the dead,’ and the final delusion will be worse than the first.” 65 Said Pilate to them, “You may have a guard: go make it as sure as you know how.” 66 And they went and made the grave sure by sealing the stone, in addition to the guard.

28* But at the close of the sabbath, in the twilight of the first day of the week, Mary the Magdalene and the other Mary came to look over the grave; 2 and lo, there came a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down out of the sky and went to the stone and rolled it away and sat on it. 3 And his aspect was like lightning, and his dress white as snow; 4 and in their fear of him the watchers shook and became like dead men. 5 And the angel answered the women “Do not you be afraid; for I know you are looking for Jesus, the one who was crucified. 6 He is not here, for he has risen, as he said he would. Come and see the place where he lay, 7 and go quickly and tell his disciples ‘He has risen from the dead, and lo, he is going ahead of you to Galilee; there you shall see him.’ Lo, I have told you.” 8* And they went quickly away from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to report it to his disciples; 9 and lo, Jesus met them, saying “Good morning.” And they came up and grasped his feet and did him reverence. 10 Then Jesus said to them “Do not be afraid: go carry word to my brothers to go to Galilee, and there they shall see me.”

11 But while they were on their way, in came some of the guard to the city and reported to the chief priests the whole of what had taken place. 12 And they held a conference with the elders and decided on a policy, and gave the soldiers a considerable quantity of money, 13 telling them “Say ‘His disciples came in the night and stole him away while we were sleeping’; 14 and if this comes to a hearing before the governor we will see him and make everything all right for you.” 15* And they took money and did as they were instructed, and this story was spread among the Jews to this day.

16 But the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus made the appointment for them; 17 and when they saw him they did him reverence, but some hesitated. 18 And Jesus approached them and spoke to them, saying “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth: 19* so go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to keep everything that I commanded you; and I am with you all the days to the end of time.”

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