The Gospel According to Luke

1 Theophilus, inasmuch as many have undertaken to recite the things that have been consummated among us 2 as those who from the first had been eyewitnesses and agents of the word delivered them to us, 3 I also, having followed up everything accurately from the beginning, have resolved to write it for your excellency consecutively, 4 that you might be acquainted with the certainties about the matters in which you were instructed.

5 There was in the days of Herod king of Palestine a certain priest, by name Zachariah, of the course of Abijah; and he had a wife from among the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth. 6 And both of them were upright before God, going by all the Lord’s commandments and prescriptions irreproachably. 7 And they had no child, as Elisabeth was barren and both were advanced in years.

8 And when he was performing his priestly functions before God 9 in the order of his course, in the customary drawing of lots for the priestly service it fell to him to go into the temple of the Lord and burn incense; 10 and the whole body of the people were praying outside at the hour of the incense-burning; 11 and there appeared to him an angel of the Lord standing on the right of the altar of incense. 12 And Zachariah was alarmed at the sight, and fear fell upon him. 13 But the angel said to him “Do not be afraid, Zachariah, because your petition has been listened to, and your wife Elisabeth shall bear you a son, and you shall name him John; 14 and you shall have joy and gladness, and many shall be glad at his birth. 15 For he shall be a great man before the Lord, and shall not drink wine or beer, and shall be filled with Holy Spirit from his very birth; 16 and many of the sons of Israel shall he bring back to the Lord their God; 17 he shall go before him with Elijah’s power and spirit, to bring the hearts of fathers back to their children and disobedient men into the mind of the upright, to get ready for the Lord a prepared people.” 18 And Zachariah said to the angel “By what shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife advanced in years.” 19 And the angel answered him “I am Gabriel who attend on God, and I was sent to speak to you and bring you this word; 20 and lo, you shall be silent and not able to speak till the day that this comes to pass, for your not believing my words, which shall be fulfilled in their time.” 21 And the people were expecting Zachariah to come out, and wondering at his staying late in the temple; 22 but when he came out he could not speak to them, and they recognized that he had seen a manifestation in the temple. And he communicated with them by signs, and remained dumb. 23 And when his days of service were full, he went home.

24 And after these days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and secluded herself five months, saying 25 “Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he turned his eye to remove my disgrace among men.”

26 And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city in Galilee whose name was Nazareth, 27 to a maiden engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the family of David; and the maiden’s name was Mary. 28* And he came in where she was and said “Hail, maiden highly favored, the Lord be with you”; 29 and she was disconcerted at the words, and wondered what sort of salutation that was. 30 And the angel said to her “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God; 31 and lo, you will conceive and bear a son, and you will name him Jesus. 32 He will be great, and will be called the son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David; 33 and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and there will be no end to his reign.” 34 And Mary said to the angel “How is this to be, since I do not know man?” 35 and the angel answered her “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; wherefore what is born will be called holy too, the Son of God. 36 And lo, your kinswoman Elisabeth has herself conceived a son also in her old age, and this is her sixth month, she who was called barren; 37* for from God nothing will be impossible.” 38 And Mary said “Here I am, the Lord’s property; be it with me according to your word.” And the angel left her.

39* And during those days Mary started out and took her way in haste to the highlands, to a city in Judah, 40 and came into Zachariah’s house and greeted Elisabeth. 41 And when Elisabeth heard Mary’s greeting the child leaped in her body, and Elisabeth was filled with Holy Spirit 42 and gave a great shout and said “Blessed are you among women, and blessed the fruit of your body! 43 And to what do I owe this, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? 44 for here the child leaped in my body for glee when the sound of your greeting came into my ears. 45 And happy is she who believed that there would be an accomplishment of what she had been told from the Lord.”

47 And my spirit exults in God my Savior,

50 And his mercy is to generations and generations for those who fear him.

52 Brought potentates down from their thrones and set lowly men on high,

56 And Mary stayed with her about three months, and returned to her home.

57 And Elisabeth came to her full time for bearing, and had a son. 58 And her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her. 59 And on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and were naming him Zachariah after his father; 60 and his mother answered “No, he is to be named John.” 61 And they said to her “There is no one in your family who bears that name”; 62 and they made signs to his father to know what name he would wish to have given him. 63 And he asked for a tablet and wrote “His name is John”; and they all wondered. 64* And immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue liberated, and he spoke, blessing God. 65 And fear came upon all who lived in the neighborhood; and in all the highland of Judea all these matters were talked of, 66* and all who heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying “What, then, will this child be?”—for the Lord’s hand was with him.

67 And his father Zachariah was filled with Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying 68 “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has visited and redeemed his people 69 and raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David 70 as he spoke by the mouths of his old-time holy prophets— 71 salvation from our enemies and from the hands of all who hate us, 72 to show mercy to our fathers and remember his holy covenant, 73 the oath that he swore to Abraham our father— 74 to grant to us that without fear, delivered from enemies’ hands, we should worship him in his presence 75 in godliness and honesty all our days. 76 And you too, child, you shall be called the prophet of the Most High; for you shall go in advance of the Lord to get ready his roads, 77 to give his people knowledge of salvation in the pardoning of their sins 78 because of our God’s heart of pity, whereby a sunrise from on high 79 shall visit us to shine on those who are sitting in darkness and the shadow of death, that it may guide our feet into the way of peace.”

80 And the child grew, and strengthened in spirit, and was in the wildernesses till the day of his commission to Israel.

2 And in those days a decree was issued by Caesar Augustus that all the world of men should be registered. 2 (This was the first registration while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3 And everybody went to be registered at his own city; 4 and Joseph, among the rest, went up from the city of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to David’s city, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of David’s house and clan, 5 to have himself registered with Mary his wife, she being with child. 6 And while they were there she came to her full number of days for bearing, 7 and gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the lodgings.

8 And there were shepherds in that same country camping out in the fields and keeping night-watches over their flock; 9 and an angel of the Lord came and stood over them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid. 10 And the angel said to them “Do not be afraid; for lo, I bring you the news of a great gladness which there shall be for all the people: 11* that there is born for you today a savior, who is the Lord Messiah, in the city of David. 12* And this is a sign for you: you shall find a wrapped baby lying in a manger.” 13 And all of a sudden there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying 14 “Glory on high to God, and on earth peace among men of grace.” 15 And when the angels had gone away from them into the heavens the shepherds told each other “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, which the Lord has made known to us.” 16 And they came in haste and hunted them up, Mary and Joseph and the baby lying in the manger; 17 and when they saw them they gave an account of the thing that had been told them about this child. 18 And all who heard it wondered over what they were told by the shepherds; 19 but Mary kept track of all these things, putting them together in her mind. 20 And the shepherds went back glorifying and praising God for all that they had heard and seen, as they had been told.

21 And when a week was full for circumcising him, he was named Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived.

22 And when their days of cleansing according to the law of Moses were full they took him up to Jerusalem to present him before the Lord, 23 as it is written in the law of the Lord “Every male that opens up a womb shall be sacred to the Lord,” 24 and to give a sacrifice in accordance with what it says in the law of the Lord, “a pair of turtledoves or two squabs.” 25 Now there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Symeon, and this man was upright and godly, one who was watching for the comforting of Israel, and there was Holy Spirit upon him; 26* and it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he saw the Lord’s Messiah. 27 And he came into the temple-precinct in the Spirit; and upon the parents’ bringing in the child Jesus, that they might do on his account such things as are usual according to the law, 28 he received him in his arms and blessed God and said 29 “Now thou dost, Master, in accordance with thy word, send thy servant away with a blessing; 30 for my eyes have seen thy salvation 31 which thou hast made ready before the face of all peoples, 32 a light for the revelation of the nations and the glory of thy people Israel.” 33 And his father and mother were wondering at what they were told about him; 34 and Symeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother “Lo, this boy is destined for the falling and rising up of many in Israel, and for a disparaged token, 35 and you yourself shall have a sword go through your soul; that designs in many hearts may be disclosed.”

36 And there was a prophetess Hannah daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was greatly advanced in years, having lived with a husband seven years from her maidenhood 37* and been a widow as much as eighty-four years) who never quitted the temple-precinct, worshiping night and day with fasts and prayers; 38 and she came at that very moment and stood before them and gave praise to God, and told about him to all who were watching for the redemption of Jerusalem.

39 And when they had finished everything that the law of the Lord requires, they returned to Galilee, to their own city Nazareth. 40 And the child grew and strengthened, filling with wisdom, and the grace of God was on him.

41 And his parents used to go to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover. 42 And when he was twelve years old, and they were going up in accordance with the custom of the feast 43 and had completed the days, at their returning the child Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem; and his parents did not know of it, 44 but, supposing him to be in the company, went a day’s journey and looked all about for him among their relatives and acquaintances, and, 45 not finding him, returned to Jerusalem to look him up. 46 And after three days they found him in the temple-precinct sitting among the teachers and listening to them and putting questions to them; 47 and all who heard him were surprised at his insight and his answers. 48* And at seeing him they were astonished, and his mother said to him “Child, why did you do such a thing to us? here are your father and I hunting for you and suffering pain over you.” 49 And he said to them “How came it you were hunting for me? didn’t you know I must be at my Father’s?” 50 and they did not understand the word that he spoke to them. 51 And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was under their control; and his mother kept the run of all these matters in her mind; 52 and Jesus kept growing in wisdom and height, and in favor with God and men.

3 And in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee and his brother Philip was tetrarch of the Trachonite Iturean country and Lysanias tetrarch of the Abilene, 2 in the high-priesthood of Hannas and Caiaphas, the word of God came upon Zachariah’s son John in the wilderness; 3 and he came to all the region of the Jordan proclaiming baptism for repentance to the pardoning of sins, 4 as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah “The voice of one calling out in the wilderness ‘Get ready the Lord’s road, make his thoroughfares straight; 5 every ravine shall be filled and every mountain and hill brought low, and the crooked shall become straight roads and the rough ones smooth, 6 and all flesh shall see God’s salvation.’”

7 So he said to the crowds that went out to be baptized by him “Spawn of vipers, who has given you notice to flee from the future wrath? 8 Produce fruits appropriate to repentance, then, and do not begin 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. 9 And the ax is already lying at the root of the trees too, so every tree that does not produce good fruit is to be cut out and thrown into a fire.” 10 And the crowds put the question to him “Then what shall we do?” 11 and he answered them “Let him who has two shirts share with him who has none, and let him who has eatables do likewise.” 12 And customhouse officers too came to be baptized, and said to him “Teacher, what shall we do?” 13 and he said to them “Do not demand any more than is prescribed to you.” 14 And enlisted men too put the question to him “And we, what shall we do?” and he said to them “Do not intimidate nor blackmail anybody, and be content with your pay.” 15 And while the people were in expectation and all were inwardly questioning about John whether he might be the Messiah, 16 John answered by saying to all “I am baptizing you with water, but he who is stronger than I is coming, whose shoestring I am not fit to untie; he will baptize you with Holy Spirit and fire— 17 he whose winnowingfork is in his hand to clean up his threshing-floor and gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire.”

18 Much more exhortation he gave as he preached the gospel to the people; 19 but the tetrarch Herod, being reproved by him about Herodias his brother’s wife and about all the wicked things that Herod did, 20 added to the whole this one more—he shut up John in prison.

21 But when, upon the baptizing of the entire people, Jesus also was baptized and was praying, the sky opened 22 and the Holy Spirit came down upon him in bodily form like a dove, and there was a voice out of the sky “You are my dear son, in you I take pleasure.”

23 And he, Jesus, was beginning to be about thirty years old, being the son, as was supposed, of Joseph the son of Eli 24 the son of Mattath the son of Levi the son of Melchi the son of Jannai the son of Joseph 25 the son of Mattathiah the son of Amos the son of Nahum the son of Hesli the son of Naggai 26 the son of Mahath the son of Mattathiah the son of Shimei the son of Jose the son of Jodah 27 the son of Johanan the son of Resha the son of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel the son of Neri 28 the son of Melchi the son of Addi the son of Kosam the son of Elmadam the son of Er 29 the son of Jeshua the son of Eliezer the son of Jorim the son of Mattath the son of Levi 30 the son of Symeon the son of Judah the son of Joseph the son of Jonam the son of Eliakim 31 the son of Maleah the son of Menna the son of Mattatha the son of Nathan the son of David 32 the son of Jesse the son of Obed the son of Boaz the son of Salmon the son of Nahshon 33 the son of Amminadab the son of Aram the son of Hesron the son of Peres the son of Judah 34 the son of Jacob the son of Isaac the son of Abraham the son of Terah the son of Nahor 35 the son of Serug the son of Reghu the son of Peleg the son of Eber the son of Shelah 36 the son of Kenan the son of Arpachshad the son of Shem the son of Noah the son of Lamech 37 the son of Methuselah the son of Enoch the son of Jared the son of Mahalaleel the son of Cainan 38 the son of Enosh the son of Seth the son of Adam the son of God.

4 And Jesus, full of Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led about the wilderness under the Spirit’s influence 2 forty days being tempted by the Devil. And he ate nothing during those days, and when they came to an end he was hungry; 3 and the Devil told him “If you are Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.” 4 And Jesus answered him “It is written that not upon bread alone shall man live.” 5** And he led him up and showed him all the kingdoms in the world of men in an instant; 6 and the Devil said to him “I will give all of this dominion and their glory to you, because it has been handed over to me and I give it to anyone that I choose to; 7 so if you do reverence before me it shall all be yours.” 8 And Jesus answered him “It is written ‘You shall do reverence to the Lord your God, and worship him alone.’” 9 And he led him to Jerusalem and set him on the wing of the temple-precinct, and said to him “If you are Son of God, throw yourself down from here; 10 for it is written that he will give his angels commands about you to protect you, 11 and that they will lift you on their hands, for fear you should strike your foot against a stone.” 12 And Jesus answered him “It says ‘You shall not put the Lord your God on trial.’” 13 And when the Devil had ended every temptation he quitted him for a time. 14 And Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit; and a rumor about him went out all over the countryside.

15 And he was teaching in their synagogues, glorified by everybody, 16 and he came to Nazareth where he was brought up, and went to the synagogue on the sabbath day as was his custom, and stood up to read; 17 and he was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah, and opened the book and found the place where it said 18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, forasmuch as he has anointed me to give the gospel to poor men; he has sent me to proclaim release to captives and recovery of sight to blind men, to let the crushed go free, 19 to proclaim the Lord’s accepted year.” 20 And he closed the book and gave it back to the attendant and sat down, and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him; 21 and he began to say to them “Today you are hearing of this text fulfilled.” 22 And all commended him, and wondered at the eloquent words which issued from his mouth, and said “why, that is Joseph’s son!” 23 And he said to them “You will be sure to quote this proverb to me, ‘Doctor, cure yourself; what we have heard of your doing in Capernaum do here too, in your hometown.’” 24 But he said “I tell you verily no prophet is accepted in his hometown. 25 But I tell you, to a certainty there were many widows in Elijah’s days in Israel, at the time that the sky was shut up three years and six months, when there came a great famine all over the land; 26 and to not one of them was Elijah sent, but to a certain widow at Sarephath in Sidonia; 27 and there were many lepers in Israel at the time of the prophet Elisha, and not one of them was cleansed but Naaman the Syrian.” 28 And they all flew into a rage in the synagogue when they heard this, 29 and stood up and hustled him out of the city, and brought him to the brow of the mountain that their city was built on in order to throw him down the precipice; 30 but he passed through the midst of them and went his way.

31 And he came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and was teaching them on the sabbath, 32 and they were astonished at his teaching because his words were spoken with authority. 33* And in the synagogue there was a man under the control of an unclean demon, and he shouted out loudly 34 “Ha, what have you to do with us, Jesus, you Nazarene? have you come to destroy us? I know you, I know who you are, the Holy One of God.” 35 And Jesus rebuked him, saying “Silence, and come out of him.” And, after flinging him out on the floor, the demon came out of him without doing him any harm. 36 And amazement came upon them all, and they talked to each other, saying “What does this mean, that he gives orders with authority and power to the unclean spirits and they come out?” 37 and a noise about him went out to every place in the region.

38* And he rose and left the synagogue and came to Simon’s house. And Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering with a severe fever, and they asked him to do something for her; 39 and he went and stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her; and immediately she got up and waited on their needs. 40 And after sunset one and all who had people sick with various diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on each one of them and cured them. 41* And demons also came out from many, shouting out “You are the Son of God”; and he stopped them peremptorily and would not allow them to speak, because they knew him to be the Messiah.

42 And when daylight came he went out and away to a lonely place; and the crowds went in quest of him and came to where he was, and held him back to keep him from going away from them. 43 But he said to them “I must bring word of the Reign of God to the other cities too, because that is what I was sent for.” 44* And he was making his proclamation in the synagogues of Palestine.

5 And while the crowd was pressing upon him and listening to the word of God, he was standing by the edge of the Lake of Gennesaret 2 and saw two boats standing at the water’s edge; but the fishermen had got out of them and were washing the nets. 3 And he got into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land; and he sat down and taught the crowds from the boat. 4 And when he stopped speaking he said to Simon “Put out to the deep water and let down your nets for a catch.” 5 And Simon answered “Master, we worked hard all night and got nothing; but at your word I will let down the nets.” 6 And they did this and enclosed a great number of fish, and their nets were tearing, 7 and they beckoned to their partners in the other boat to come and lend a hand; and they came, and filled both boats so that they were on the point of going to the bottom. 8 And at seeing it Simon Peter threw himself down at Jesus’s knees, saying “Take yourself away from me, because I am a sinful man, sir”; 9 for amazement had come over him and all who were with him at the haul of fish that they had caught, 10 and over James and John the sons of Zebedee too, who were in business with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon “Do not be afraid; henceforth you shall be catching men.” 11 And when they had brought their boats to land they left everything and followed him.

12 And while he was in one of the cities, there there appeared a man full of leprosy; and, seeing Jesus, he threw himself down on his face and implored him, saying “Sir, if you will you can cleanse me;” 13 And he reached out his hand and touched him, saying “I will; be cleansed”; and at once the leprosy went away from him. 14 And he instructed him not to tell anybody, but “go show yourself to the priest and make the offerings on account of your cleansing as Moses directed, for an attestation to them.” 15 But the talk about him spread all the more, and great crowds came together to hear and to be cured of their sicknesses; 16 but he kept out of the way in lonely places and prayed.

17 And on one of the days he was teaching, and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by who had come from every village in Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem, and there was power of the Lord for his healing, 18 and men arrived bringing on a couch a man who was paralyzed; and they tried to bring him in and lay him before him, 19* and, not finding any way to bring him in because of the crowd, they got up on the roof and let him down through the tiles, cot and all, into the middle before Jesus. 20 And, seeing their faith, he said “Man, you are forgiven for your sins.” 21 And the scribes and the Pharisees began to question, saying “Who is this that speaks blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God alone?” 22 But Jesus, recognizing their questionings, answered them “Why are you inwardly questioning? 23 which is easier, to say ‘you are forgiven for your sins’ or to say ‘rise and walk’? 24 But, that you may know that the Son of Man has authority to forgive sins on earth—” said he to the paralyzed man, “I say to you, Rise, and take up your cot and go home.” 25 And immediately he stood up before them and took up what he had been lying on, and went off to his home glorifying God. 26 And surprise came over them one and all, and they glorified God, and were filled with fear, saying “We have seen strange things today.”

27 And after this he went out and observed a customhouse officer, Levi by name, sitting in the customhouse office, and said to him “Follow me”; 28 and he left everything and rose and followed him. 29 And Levi gave a great banquet for him in his house: and there was a great crowd of customhouse officers and so on who were at the table with them, 30* and the Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples “Why do you eat and drink with customhouse officers and people of bad character?” 31 And Jesus answered them “Not the able-bodied, but the ill, need a physician; 32 I have not come to call saints, but sinners, to repentance.”

33 And they said to him “John’s disciples fast frequently and make prayers, and so do those of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink.” 34 But Jesus said to them “Can you make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? 35 but there will come days, and when the bridegroom is taken from them, then they will fast in those days.” 36 And he told them a parable too: “Nobody cuts a patch from a new cloak and sews it on an old cloak; if one does, he will be cutting the new one and the patch from the new one will not match the old one. 37 And nobody puts new wine in old skins; if one does, the new wine will burst the skins, and it will run out and the skins will be wasted; 38 but new wine is to be put in fresh skins. 39 And nobody when he has been drinking old wine wants new; for he says ‘The old is best.’”

6* And on a sabbath it befell that he was walking through grainfields and his disciples were picking and eating the ears, rubbing them down in their hands. 2 But some of the Pharisees said “Why are you doing what is not lawful on the sabbath?” 3 And Jesus replied to them “Have you not even read this that David did when he, and those who were with him, were hungry? 4 that he went into the house of God and took and ate the showbread, and gave it to those who were with him, which it is not lawful that anybody but the priests alone should eat?” 5** and he said to them “The Son of Man is master of the sabbath.”

6 And on another sabbath it befell that he went into the synagogue and was teaching; and there was a man there whose right hand was shriveled. 7* And the scribes and the Pharisees were watching him to see if he cured on the sabbath, that they might find a chance to arraign him; 8 but he knew their designs. And he said to the man with his hand shriveled “Rise and stand forward”; and he got up and stood. 9 And Jesus said to them “I put the question to you whether it is lawful on the sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save a life or to kill”; 10 and he looked around at them all and said to him “Stretch out your hand”; and he did, and his hand was restored. 11 But they were seized with fatuity, and talked together of what they should do to Jesus.

27 “But I tell you who hear me, love your enemies, do good turns to those who hate you, 28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who do spiteful things to you; 29 to him who cuffs you on the cheek offer the other cheek too, and from him who takes away your cloak do not withhold your shirt either; 30 give to everybody who asks you, and do not demand your things back from the one who takes them; 31 and as you would have men do to you, do likewise to them. 32 And if you love those who love you, what credit is it to you? for sinners too love those who love them. 33* And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is it to you? sinners too do the same. 34 And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is it to you? sinners too lend to sinners to receive payment in full. 35 But do love your enemies, and do good and lend without hoping to get any payment; and your reward shall be great, and you shall be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. 36 Be tenderhearted, as your Father is. 37 And do not be judging, and you shall not be judged; and do not condemn, and you shall not be condemned. Release and you shall be released; 38* give and you shall have gifts given to you; good measure, pressed in, shaken down, running over, they will give into your lap. For the measure that you measure out shall be measured back to you.”

39 And he also told them a parable: “Can a blind man guide a blind man? will they not both tumble into a pit? 40 a pupil is not above his teacher, but everyone thoroughly trained will be like his teacher. 41* 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? 42 how can you say to your brother ‘Brother, let me get out the particle in your eye,’ when you cannot see the timber in your own eye? Hypocrite, first get the timber out of your eye, and then you will have good eyesight to get out the particle in your brother’s eye. 43 For there is no such thing as a good tree producing foul fruit, nor yet a foul tree producing good fruit; 44 for each tree is known by its particular fruit; for people do not pick figs off thorns, nor gather grapes off a bramble. 45 A good man brings forth a good thing out of the good stock in his heart, and a bad man out of the bad a bad thing; for what his mouth speaks comes out of what is overflowing in his heart.

46* “And why do you call me ‘Sir,’ ‘Sir,’ and not do what I say? 47 Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will let you know whom he is like: 48 he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid a foundation on the rock, and when a flood came the river dashed against that house and was not able to shake it, because it was built well. 49 But he who hears and does not do is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the river dashed, and at once it fell in and was a total wreck.”

7 After he had finished speaking all his words in the hearing of the people, he came into Capernaum. 2 And a certain centurion’s servant, whom he prized highly, was ill and ready to die; 3 and, hearing about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and save his servant’s life; 4 and they came to Jesus and appealed to him earnestly, saying “He deserves to have you do this for him; 5 for he loves our nation, and it was he who built us the synagogue.” 6 And Jesus went with them. But when he was now not far from the house the centurion sent friends to him with the message “Sir, do not put yourself out, for I am not fit to have you come under my roof— 7* that is the reason why I did not presume to come to you myself—but say the word, and let my boy be healed. 8 For I too am a man in a position 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.” 9 And Jesus, hearing this, wondered at him, and turned and said to the crowd that was following him “I tell you, I have not found so much faith even in Israel.” 10 And the men that had been sent to him returned to the house and found the servant well.

11* And before long he went to a city named Nain, and his disciples and a great crowd were going along with him; 12 and when he drew near the gate of the city, there was a man being carried out dead who was his mother’s only son, and she was a widow; and there was quite a crowd from the city with her. 13 And at seeing her the Lord was sorry for her and said to her “Do not weep,” 14* and went up and touched the coffin; and the bearers stopped, and he said “Young man—I am speaking to you—rise!” 15 and the dead man sat up and began to speak; and he gave him to his mother. 16 And fear came over them all, and they glorified God, saying “a great prophet has arisen among us” and “God has visited his people”; 17 and this talk about him went out all over Palestine and all its neighborhood.

18 And John’s disciples reported to him about all this; 19 and John called to him two disciples of his and sent them to the Lord with the message “Are you the Coming One or are we to expect another?” 20 And the men came to him and said “John the Baptist has sent us to you to ask, are you the Coming One or are we to expect another?” 21 Thereupon he cured many of diseases and defects and evil spirits, and granted sight to many blind men, 22 and answered them by saying “Go and report to John what you saw and heard: blind men are recovering their sight, cripples are walking, lepers are being cleansed and deaf men are hearing, dead men are being raised, poor men are being given the gospel; 23 and happy is anyone who is not staggered over me.”

24** And when John’s messengers had gone 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? 25 But what did you go out for? to see a man robed in soft fabrics? for those who are in magnificent clothing and in luxury, go to royal palaces. 26 But what did you go out for? to see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet; 27 this is he of whom it is written ‘Lo, I am sending before your face my messenger who shall prepare your road before you.’ 28* I tell you, among all that are born of women no one is greater than John; but the littlest in the Reign of God is greater than he. 29 And all the people and the customhouse officers, when they heard, justified God, receiving John’s baptism; 30 but the Pharisees and the legists set aside God’s plan for themselves, not receiving baptism from him. 31 To what, then, shall I compare the men of this generation, and what are they like? 32 they are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to each other, that say ‘We played to you and you did not dance, we lamented and you did not weep.’ 33 For John the Baptist has come not eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say ‘He has a demon’; 34 the Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say ‘Here is a gormandizer and a drinker, a friend of customhouse officers and people of bad character’; 35 and wisdom is justified by all her children.”

36 And one of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house and took a place at the table. 37 Now a sinful woman in the city, having ascertained that he was at the table in the Pharisee’s house, got an alabaster vial of perfume 38 and stood behind him by his feet weeping, and began to wet his feet with her tears and wiped them off with the hair of her head, and kept kissing his feet and rubbing them with the perfume. 39* And when the Pharisee that had invited him saw it he thought to himself “If this man were a prophet he would know who and what the woman that is touching him is, that she is a sinner.” 40 And Jesus answered him “Simon, I have something to say to you.” And he said “Say it, sir.” 41 “Once upon a time there was a lender who had two debtors: the one owed five hundred denarii and the other fifty. 42 As they were not able to pay, he gave them both a release. Then which of the two will love him the most?” 43 Simon answered “I suppose, the one to whom he gave the release for most.” And he said to him “You judge rightly.” 44* And, turning to the woman, he said to Simon “Do you see this woman? I came into your house; you did not give me water for my feet; but she wetted my feet with her tears and wiped them off with her hair. 45 You did not give me a kiss; but she has kept kissing my feet without a pause ever since I came in. 46 You did not put oil on my head; but she has been putting perfume on my feet. 47 For which reason I tell you her many sins are forgiven; because she has loved much, but he who is forgiven little loves little.” 48 And he said to her “Your sins are forgiven”; 49 and those who were at the table with him began to say to themselves “Who is this that even forgives sins?” 50 But he said to the woman “Your faith has saved you; go, and good betide you.”

8 And thereafter he was making a tour city by city and village by village, preaching and bringing word of the Reign of God, and with him the Twelve 2 and certain women who had been cured of evil spirits and sickness,—Mary known as the Magdalene, from whom seven demons had come out, 3* and Johanna the widow of Herod’s superintendent Chuzas, and Susanna, and many others, who supplied the men’s needs out of their property, 4 —and as a great crowd was coming together, and the people from city after city were flocking to him, he said in a parable 5 “The sower went out to sow his seed. And in his sowing some fell on the roadside and was trampled on, and the birds of the air ate it up; 6 and some more dropped on the rock, and after it came up it dried out because of not having any moisture; 7 and some more fell among the thorns, and the thorns came up with it and smothered it; 8 and some more fell on the good soil, and after it came up it produced a hundredfold crop.” Saying this, he called out “Let him who has ears to hear, hear!”

9 And his disciples put the question to him what that parable stood for; 10 and he said “To you it is given to know the secrets of the Reign of God; but to the rest it is in parables, that when they see they may not see and when they hear they may not understand. 11 But this is what the parable stands for. The seed is the word of God; 12 and the ones on the roadside are those who hear and then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, that they may not believe and be saved; 13 and the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear, accept the word with joy, while they have no root—who believe temporarily and quit in testing-time; 14 and what fell among the thorns, these are the ones who hear, and, as they go on, are stifled by life’s anxieties and riches and pleasures, and do not ripen a crop; 15 and what was in soil that was all right, these are those who hear and retain the word in a right and good heart, and bear their crop by holding out.

16 “But nobody after lighting a lamp covers it with a jar or sets it under a couch, but sets it on a stand so that those who enter can see the light. 17 For there is no secret thing that will not be laid open, nor a thing concealed that shall not be found out and brought to light. 18 So look out how you hear; for to one who has, more shall be given, and from one who has not, even what he seems to have shall be taken away.”

19 And his mother and his brothers came to him, and could not get at him because of the crowd; 20 and he was told “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside wanting to see you.” 21 But he answered them “My mother and my brothers, they are those who listen to God’s word and do it.”

22 And on one of the days he and his disciples had got into a boat, and he said to them “Let us go across to the other side of the lake,” and they started; 23 and during the passage he fell asleep. And a squall of wind came down on the lake, and they were getting swamped and were in danger; 24 and they approached him and roused him up, saying “Master, master, we are lost.” But when he was roused he rebuked the wind and the surging of the water, and they stopped and there was a calm. 25* And he said to them “Where is your faith?” And they were afraid and wondered, saying to each other “Who then is this, that he gives orders to the winds and the water and they obey him?” 26* And they came to land in the country of the Gerasenes, which is on the opposite side from Galilee.

27 And when he had landed there met him a certain man out of the city who had demons, and had not for a considerable time had on a garment, and did not stay in a house but in the tombs. 28 And at seeing Jesus he screamed out and threw himself down before him and said in a loud voice “What have I to do with you, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, do not torture me”; 29 for he was enjoining the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For at many times it had seized him, and he used to be manacled with fetters and chains and kept under guard, and he would burst the fastenings and be driven to the wildernesses by the demon. 30 And Jesus put the question to him “What is your name?” and he said “Brigade,” because many demons had entered him. 31 And they were appealing to him not to order them to go to the abyss. 32 Now there was there a considerable herd of hogs feeding on the mountainside; and they appealed to him to permit them to enter those; and he gave them permission, 33 and the demons came out of the man and entered the hogs, and the herd bolted down the steep bank into the lake and were drowned. 34 And the men who were tending them, at seeing what had happened, ran away and reported it in the city and in the fields; 35 and they came out to see what had happened, and came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had come out sitting at Jesus’s feet, clothed and sane, and they were afraid. 36 And those who had seen it reported to them how the demon-ridden man had been brought to himself. 37 And the entire populace of the region of the Gerasenes asked him to go away from their country, because they were under the strain of a great fear; and he got into a boat and returned. 38 And the man from whom the demons had come out begged to be with him; but he dismissed him, saying 39 “Return home and tell what things God has done for you”; and he went off through the whole city proclaiming what things Jesus had done for him.

40 And at Jesus’s return the crowd was there to welcome him; for they were all expecting him. 41 And there came a man whose name was Jair—and he was a director in the synagogue—and threw himself down at Jesus’s feet and appealed to him to come to his house, 42 because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. And while he was on the way the crowds were suffocating him; 43 and a woman who had been having a flow of blood for twelve years, who had not succeeded in getting cured by anybody, 44 came up behind and touched the tassel of his cloak, and immediately her flow of blood stopped. 45* And Jesus said “Who was it that touched me?” but everybody denied it, while Peter said “Master, the crowds are hemming you in and crushing you.” 46 But Jesus said “Somebody touched me; for I felt that a power had gone out from me.” 47 And the woman, seeing that she had not escaped notice, came trembling and threw herself down before him and told him before all the people the reason why she touched him, and how she was healed immediately; 48 and he said to her “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go, and good betide you.”

49 While he was still speaking, someone came from the director’s house saying “Your daughter is dead; do not put the teacher out anymore.” 50 But Jesus, hearing it, answered him “Do not be afraid, only believe, and she shall get well.” 51 And when he came to the house he would not let anyone go in with him but Peter and John and James and the girl’s father and mother. 52 And everybody was weeping and wailing for her; but he said “Do not weep, she is not dead but asleep.” 53 And they laughed at him, knowing that she was dead. 54 But he grasped her hand and called “Girl, rise”; 55 and her spirit came back, and she stood up immediately; and he directed that she should be given something to eat. 56 And her parents were astounded; but he instructed them to tell nobody what had taken place.

9 And he called together the Twelve and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases, 2 and sent them to proclaim the Reign of God and to heal, 3 and said to them “Do not take anything for the journey, neither a walking-stick nor a wallet nor bread nor money, nor have two shirts to a man. 4 And whatever house you go into, stay there and come out from there. 5 And whatever people do not receive you, in coming out of that city shake off the dust from your feet for an attestation against them.” 6 And they went out and went along through the villages, preaching the gospel and curing people of sickness everywhere. 7 And the tetrarch Herod heard of all that was going on, and was puzzled, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead, and by some that Elijah had appeared, 8 and by others that some old-time prophet had arisen. 9 But Herod said “John I beheaded; but who is this about whom I hear such things?” and tried to get a chance to see him.

10 And the apostles returned and told him the story of everything they had done; and he took them and withdrew with them by himself to a city named Bethsaida. 11 But the crowds, finding it out, followed him; and he made them welcome and spoke to them about the Reign of God, and healed those who needed a cure. 12 But the day began to decline; and the Twelve came to him and said to him “Dismiss the crowd, so that they may go to the villages and farmlands round about and get lodged and find provisions, because here we are in an uninhabited place.” 13 But he said to them “Give them something to eat yourselves.” And they said “We have no more than five cakes of bread and two fishes, unless it is for us to go and buy eatables for all these people”— 14 for there were about five thousand men. But he said to his disciples “Have them lie down by groups of about fifty each”; 15 and they did so, and got them one and all lying down. 16 And he took the five cakes and the two fishes, and looked up to the sky and blessed them and broke them up and gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd; 17 and they all ate and had their fill, and there were taken up what they had of fragments left over, twelve baskets.

18 And there was a time, while he was praying in private, that the disciples were with him and he put the question to them “Who do the crowds say I am?” 19 And they answered “John the Baptist—and others, Elijah—and others, that one of the old-time prophets has arisen.” 20 And he said to them “And who do you say I am?” And Peter answered “God’s Messiah.” 21 But he peremptorily enjoined them not to tell this to anyone, 22 saying that the Son of Man must suffer a great deal, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and rise on the third day. 23 And he said to all “If anyone wishes to come after me, let him repudiate himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. 24 For whoever wishes to save his self will lose it; but whoever loses his self on my account, he will save it. 25* For what good will a man get by making a profit of the whole world and a loss of himself? 26 For whoever is ashamed of me and my words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when he comes in his glory and his Father’s and the holy angels’. 27 But I tell you truly, there are some of those who stand here who shall not taste death till they see the Reign of God.”

28 And about a week after these things he took with him Peter and John and James and went up on the mountainside to pray. 29 And while he was praying the look of his face became different and his clothes flashing white; 30 and lo, there were two men talking with him; it was Moses and Elijah, 31 who, appearing in glory, spoke of his departure which he was to consummate at Jerusalem. 32 But Peter and those who were with him were weighed down with sleep, but when they waked up they saw his glory and the two men that were standing with him. 33 And while those were parting from him Peter said to Jesus “Master, it is a good thing we are here: let us make three booths, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah”—not knowing what he was saying. 34 And as he was saying these things there was a cloud, and it overshadowed them; and they were afraid when they entered the cloud. 35 And there came a voice out of the cloud, “This is my chosen son: listen to him.” 36 And as the voice came, Jesus alone was to be found. And they kept silence and did not report any of the things they had seen to anybody in those days.

46 And the question came up among them which of them was greatest. 47 But Jesus, knowing their inward questioning, took a child and had it stand at his side, 48 and said to them “Anybody who receives this child in my name is receiving me, and anybody who receives me is receiving him who sent me; for he who is smallest among you all, he is greatest.”

49 And John answered “Master, we saw somebody expelling demons in your name and we stopped him because he does not follow with us.” 50 But Jesus said to him “Do not stop him, because he who is not against us is for us.”

51 And when the days for his being taken up came around, he set his face to go to Jerusalem 52 and sent messengers ahead of him; and they went, and came into a village of Samaritans to make preparations for him; 53 and they did not receive him, because he was headed toward Jerusalem. 54 And when the disciples James and John saw it they said “Sir, will you have us say the word for fire to come down out of the sky and consume them?” 55* But he turned and rebuked them, 56 and they went to another village.

57 And while they were going along somebody said to him on the road “I will follow you wherever you go.” 58 And Jesus said to him “The foxes have dens and the birds of the air perches, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

59 And he said to another “Follow me”; but he said “Permit me first to go and bury my father.” 60 And he said to him “Leave the dead to bury their dead, but for your part go and advertise the Reign of God.”

61 And still another said “I will follow you, sir; but first permit me to bid farewell to the people at home.” 62* But Jesus said to him “Nobody who puts his hand to a plow and looks back is fit for the Reign of God.”

10* And after this the Lord designated seventy-two others and sent them out ahead of him two by two to every city and place where he himself was going to come. 2 And he said to them “The harvest is great, but the workers are few; so beg the owner of the harvest to send out workers to his harvest. 3 Go; here I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. 4 Carry no purse, no wallet, no shoes, and salute no one on the road. 5 And whatever house you enter, first say ‘Peace to this house’; 6 and if there be a man for peace there, your peace shall rest upon him, but if not it shall come back to you. 7 And stay in that same house, eating and drinking what they furnish, for a worker deserves his pay. Do not move from house to house. 8 And whatever city you come into and they receive you, eat what is set before you, 9 and cure the sick in it, and say to them ‘The Reign of God is almost upon you.’ 10 And whatever city you come into and they do not receive you, come out into its main streets and say 11 ‘We wipe off the very dust that has stuck to our feet out of your city; know this though, that the Reign of God is almost here.’ 12 I tell you it will be more bearable for Sodom in that day than for that city. 13 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 long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes; 14 it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment, though, than for you. 15* And you, Capernaum, are you to be lifted up to heaven? you are to go down to the world of the dead.— 16* He who listens to you is listening to me, and he who disregards you is disregarding me; and he who disregards me is disregarding him who sent me.”

17 And the seventy-two returned with joy, saying “Sir, even the demons submit to us at your name.” 18 But he said to them “I saw Satan fall from heaven like lightning. 19 Lo, I have empowered you to tread upon snakes and scorpions and on all the Enemy’s power, and nothing shall injure you. 20 Do not rejoice at this, though, that the spirits submit to you; but rejoice because your names are enrolled in heaven.”

21 At that same time he exulted in the Holy Spirit and said “I give thee praise, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou didst conceal these things from the wise and discerning and disclose them to infants; yes, Father, because such was thy pleasure. 22 Everything has been committed to me by my Father; and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, nor who the Father is except the Son and he to whom the Son chooses to disclose him.” 23 And he turned to his disciples and said to them by themselves “Happy are the eyes that see what you see; 24 for I tell you many prophets and kings wanted to see what you see and to hear what you hear, and did not.”

25* And up stood a legist to put him to a test, saying “Teacher, what should I do to inherit eternal life?” 26 And he said to him “What is written in the law? what do you read?” 27 And he answered “You shall love the Lord your God out of all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” 28 And he answered him “You have answered right: do this and you shall live.” 29 But he, wanting to vindicate himself, said to Jesus “And who is my neighbor?” 30 Jesus rejoined “Once upon a time a man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers; who stripped him and gave him a clubbing, and went off leaving him half dead. 31 And by chance a certain priest was going down by that road, and saw him and went past on the other side. 32 And similarly a Levite came to the place and saw and went past on the other side. 33 But a certain wayfaring Samaritan came where he was, and saw him and was moved to pity, 34 and went up to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine; and he set him on his own beast and brought him to an inn and took care of him. 35 And in the morning he pulled out two denarii and gave them to the landlord and said ‘Take care of him, and what more you spend I will pay you when I am coming back.’ 36 Which of these three do you think showed himself neighbor to the man who had fallen among the robbers?” 37 And he said “The one that did him the kindness.” And Jesus said to him “Go and do like that yourself.” 38 And once while they were traveling along he had come into a village, and a woman, Martha by name, had taken him into her house; 39 and this woman had a sister named Mary, who had seated herself at the Lord’s feet and was listening to his words; 40 but Martha was having to bustle this way and that with a great deal to be done for the guests. And she came and stood before him and said “Sir, do you not care that my sister has left me to attend to things alone? so tell her to take hold and help me.” 41* But the Lord answered her “Martha, Martha, you are fretting and getting worried about many things, 42* but what is wanted is only a few, or one. For Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.”

11 And as he was in a certain place praying, one of his disciples said to him when he ceased “Sir, teach us to pray, the same as John taught his disciples.” 2 And he said to them “When you pray, say ‘Father, may thy name be kept holy, thy reign come; 3 give us our next day’s bread day by day. 4* And forgive us our sins, for so do we forgive everyone who owes us anything. And do not have us fall under temptation.’”

5 And he said to them “Which of you shall have a friend and go to him at midnight and say to him ‘Friend, lend me three cakes of bread, 6 since a friend of mine has arrived at my house and I have nothing to set before him,’ 7 and he shall answer from inside ‘Do not bother me; the door is locked now, and my children are in the bed with me; I cannot get up and give you anything’— 8 I tell you, even if he shall not get up and give him anything because of being his friend, for his unashamedness he will rise and give him whatever he wants. 9 And I tell you, ask and you will have things given to you; look and you will find; knock and you will be opened to; 10 for every asker receives, and the seeker finds, and the knocker will be opened to. 11 And which of you that is a father will his son ask for a fish and he hand him a snake instead of a fish? 12 or ask for an egg and he hand him a scorpion? 13 So if you, being bad, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father from heaven give Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

14 And he was expelling a demon, a dumb one, and when the demon had gone out the dumb man spoke. And the crowds wondered; 15 but some of them said “It is by Beelzebul the head of the demons that he expels the demons,” 16 and others, to test him, tried to get from him a token out of heaven. 17 But he, knowing their ideas, said to them “Any kingdom that is divided against itself is laid waste, and house falls upon house. 18 And if Satan too is divided against himself how shall his kingdom be kept up? since you say it is by Beelzebul that I expel the demons. 19 But if it is by Beelzebul that I expel the demons, by whom do your sons expel them? accordingly they shall be your judges. 20 But if I expel the demons by the finger of God, then the Reign of God has overtaken you. 21 When a strong man, armed, guards his own premises, his property is in safety; 22 but when a stronger man comes on and defeats him he takes from him the weapons and armor in which he had trusted, and gives away the spoils. 23 He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters. 24 When an unclean spirit comes out of a man it goes through waterless tracts looking for a resting-place, and upon not finding one it says ‘I will return to my home that I came from’; 25 and when it gets there it finds it swept and put in order; 26 then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits viler than itself, and they go in and live there, and that man’s last stage comes to be worse than his first.”

27 And while he was saying this, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him “Happy the body in which you were carried, and the breasts that you sucked!” 28 But he said “Nay, happy are those who listen to God’s word and live up to it.”

29 And while the crowds were collecting round him he began to say “This generation is a wicked generation; it is looking for a token and will be given none but the token of Jonah; 30 for as Jonah was a token to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to this generation. 31* The queen of the south shall indict the men of this generation and convict them, because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to Solomon’s wisdom, and now here is more than Solomon. 32 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. 33* Nobody after lighting a lamp puts it in a cupboard or under the peck measure, but on the stand, that those who step in may see the glow. 34 Your eye is the body’s lamp: when your eye is free your whole body too is light, but when it is mean your body too is dark. 35 So be looking to see whether the light in you is not darkness. 36 If, then, your body is all light, not having any part dark, it shall be all light as when the lamp lights you with its blaze.”

37 And while he was speaking a Pharisee asked him to lunch with him; and he went in and took his place at the table. 38 And at seeing this the Pharisee wondered that he had not first dipped in water before lunch. 39 But the Lord said to him “At present you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but your inside is full of rapacity and rascality. 40 Silly men, did not the maker of the outside make the inside too? 41* Instead, give in charity what is in the dishes, and you have everything clean. 42 But woe to you Pharisees, because you tithe the mint and the rue and every vegetable and you slight justice and the love of God; but you ought to have done these and not let those slip. 43 Woe to you Pharisees, because you love the first seat in synagogues, and greetings in the marketplaces. 44 Woe to you because you are like unmarked tombs that men walk over without knowing it.”

45 And one of the legists answered him “Teacher, in saying these things you are insulting us too.” 46 But he said “Woe to you too, you legists, because you load men down with loads hard to carry and do not touch the loads yourselves with one of your fingers. 47 Woe to you because you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them; 48 you are witnesses, then, and approve of your fathers’ deeds, because they killed them and you build. 49 Accordingly God’s wisdom has said ‘I will send among them prophets and apostles, and some they will kill and will persecute, 50 that this generation may answer for the blood of all the prophets, shed since the foundation of the world, 51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah who perished between the altar and the house:’ yes, I tell you, this generation shall answer for it. 52 Woe to you legists, because you have taken away the key of knowledge; you did not go in yourselves and you prevented those who were going in.”

53 And when he came out from there the scribes and the Pharisees began to be savagely hostile and to quiz him about numerous things, 54 watching him for a chance to snap up something out of his mouth;

12* during which the crowds gathered round by tens of thousands so that they trampled each other, and he began to say to his disciples “First and foremost beware of Pharisee yeast; that is, hypocrisy. 2 But there is nothing covered up that will not be uncovered, or secret that will not be found out; 3 on the contrary, whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have spoken into someone’s ear in the closets will be proclaimed on the roofs. 4 And I say to you friends of mine, do not fear those who kill the body and after that are not able to do anything further; 5 but I will let you know whom to fear—fear him who has authority after killing to send to hell: yes, I tell you, fear him. 6 Why, sparrows are sold nine for twopence, and not one of them is forgotten before God, 7 but even the hairs of your heads are all counted. Do not fear, you are more important than a great many sparrows. 8 But I tell you, everyone who acknowledges me before men the Son of Man will in his turn acknowledge before the angels of God, 9 but he who repudiates me before men will be disowned before the angels of God; 10 and everyone who says a thing against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven. 11 But when they bring you in before synagogues and governments and authorities, do not fret over how you shall make your defense or what it shall be or what you shall say; 12 for the Holy Spirit will teach you at the moment what you must say.”

13 And one of the crowd said to him “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” 14 But he said to him “Man, who has set me as a judge or divider over you?” 15 And he said to them “See that you keep clear of all overreaching, because it is not by having an oversupply that one has his living out of his property.”

16 And he told them a parable: “Once upon a time a rich man’s lands bore a great crop, 17* and he was going over the question to himself ‘What shall I do, because I have nowhere to put my crops when I gather them?’ 18* and he said ‘This is what I will do: pull down my barns and build larger ones, and put all my wheat and the rest of my good things in them, 19* and say to my soul “Soul, you have a great stock of good things laid up for years: rest, eat, drink, be gay”’; 20 but God said to him ‘Silly man, this night your soul is to be called for, and who will have what you have got ready?’ 21* That is what the man is like who lays by for himself and is not rich toward God.”

22* And he said to his disciples “For this reason I tell you, do not fret over your soul what you shall eat, nor over your body what you shall put on; 23 for the soul is more than the food, and the body than the garment. 24 Observe the ravens, that they neither sow nor reap, they who have no storeroom nor barn, and God feeds them: how much more important you are than the birds! 25* And which of you by fretting can add a foot to his height? 26 so if you cannot do even a trifling thing why do you fret about the rest? 27* Observe the lilies, how they neither spin nor weave, but, I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was clad like one of these. 28 But if in the field God so attires the plants, that are there today and are thrown in a firepot tomorrow, how much more he will you, little-faiths! 29 And do not you be seeking things to eat and to drink, and do not be nervous; 30 for the nations of the world hunt after all this, but your Father knows that you want this. 31 But do seek his Reign, and you will have this added.

32* “Do not be afraid, little flock; because your Father has been pleased to give you the kingship. 33 Sell your property and give charity: make yourselves purses that do not grow old, an inexhaustible store in heaven where thief does not come near and moth does not spoil; 34 for where your stores are, there your heart too will be. 35 Let your loins be girded and your lamps lighted, 36 and you like men watching for their master, for the time when he comes away from the wedding, that when he comes and knocks they may open to him at once. 37 Happy are those servants whom the master, when he comes, shall find awake: I tell you verily he will put on an apron and send them to the table and come and wait on them. 38 And if he comes in the second watch and finds them so, and if in the third, happy are they. 39* But be sure of this, that if the man of the house had known at which hour the thief was coming he would not have let his house be broken into. 40 Be ready yourselves, because it will be at the hour when you are not thinking of it that the Son of Man comes.”

41 And Peter said “Sir, are you telling this parable with reference to us ourselves or to everybody?”

42 And the Lord said “Who, then, is the intelligent faithful steward whom the master will set over his help to give them their rations punctually? 43 Happy is that servant whom his master, when he comes, shall find doing thus: 44 I tell you truly he will set him over all his property. 45 But if that servant says to himself ‘My master is late about coming’ and begins to beat the men and the maids, and to eat and drink and get drunk, 46 that servant’s master will come on a day when he does not expect it and at an hour that he does not know, and will cut him up and allot him a part among the faithless; 47 and that servant who knew his master’s wishes and did not get things ready or do in accordance with his wishes will have many strokes of the whip, 48 but the one who did not know and did things that deserve whipping will have few; and everyone to whom much was given will be called on for much, and on him to whom they entrusted most they will make most of a demand.

49 “I came to throw out fire on the earth, and how I wish it was already kindled! 50 And I have a water to plunge in, and what a pressure I am under till it is done! 51 Do you think I have come to give peace on earth? no, I tell you, but disunion. 52 For from now on five in one family will be parted three against two and two against three; 53 they will part so that father will be against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against her mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”

54 And to the crowds too he said “When you see a cloud rising in the west, at once you say ‘there is a shower coming,’ and so it does; 55 and when you see the wind in the south you say ‘there will be a scorcher,’ and there is. 56* You hypocrites, you know enough to judge of the face of the earth and the face of the sky, how is it you fail to judge of these times? 57 And why do you not of yourselves decide on the right? 58 While you are going with your antagonist to appear before a magistrate, make it an object to get clear of him on the road, for fear he should drag you to the judge and the judge should hand you over to the officer and the officer should put you in prison: 59 I tell you, you shall not get out from there till you pay the very last copper.”

13 And at that very time there were some present who reported to him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices; 2 and he answered them “Do you think these Galileans had been bigger sinners than any of the Galileans, that they suffered this 3 no, I tell you, but if you do not repent all of you will perish similarly. 4 Or those eighteen on whom the tower fell in Siloam and killed them, do you think they had more of an account standing against them than any of the people that live in Jerusalem? 5 no, I tell you, but if you do not repent you will all perish in the same way.”

6 And he told this parable: “A man had a fig-tree planted in his orchard, and came looking for fruit on it and did not find any. 7 And he said to the orchardman ‘Here it is three years since I have been coming to look for fruit on this tree and not finding any: cut it away, what is it keeping the land idle for into the bargain?’ 8 And he answered him ‘Sir, let it be this one year more till I dig around it and put in manure; 9 and if it does produce fruit for the coming year—well, if not, you shall cut it away.’”

10 And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath, 11 and there was a woman who had had a sickness-spirit eighteen years, and was bent over and unable to stand perfectly erect. 12 And Jesus, seeing her, called out to her and said “Woman, you are released from your sickness,” 13 and laid his hands on her; and immediately she straightened up and glorified God. 14 But the director of the synagogue, taking offense at Jesus’s having cured on the sabbath, answered by saying to the crowd “There are six days in which work ought to be done: so come in them and be cured, and not on the sabbath day.” 15 But the Lord answered him “Hypocrites, does not each of you on the sabbath untie his ox or ass from the manger, and lead it away and water it? 16 and ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan had tied up these eighteen years, to be untied from this tether on the sabbath day?” 17 And as he said this all his opponents were put to shame, and all the crowd rejoiced over all the magnificent things that were being done by him.

18 So he said “What is the Reign of God like, and to what shall I compare it? 19 it is like a grain of mustard which a man took and dropped into his garden, and it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air perched in its branches.”

20 And again he said “To what shall I compare the Reign of God? 21 it is like a bit of yeast which a woman took and hid in forty quarts of flour till it all grew yeasty.”

22 And he was passing through city after city and village after village teaching and traveling toward Jerusalem, 23 and someone said to him “Sir, are there few who are saved?” and he said to them 24 “Push to get in through the narrow gate; because, I tell you, a great many will try to get in and not be able. 25 After the head of the house rises and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door, saying ‘Open to us, sir,’ and he shall answer you ‘I do not know you to tell where you are from,’ 26 then you will begin to say ‘We have eaten and drunk before you, and you have taught in our streets’; 27* and he will tell you ‘I do not know where you are from: take yourselves away from me, all you doers of wrong.’ 28* There will the weeping and the grinding of teeth be, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the Reign of God and yourselves put out. 29 And they will come from east and west and from north and south and go to the table in the Reign of God; 30 and there are last who will be first and there are first who will be last.”

31 At that moment certain Pharisees approached him saying “Go out and away from here, because Herod is wanting to kill you.” 32 And he said to them “Go and tell that fox ‘I am expelling demons and performing cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I come to my consummation. 33 I must go on my way, though, today and tomorrow and the next day, because it is not possible that a prophet should perish outside Jerusalem. 34 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 brood under her wings, and you would not! 35 Lo, your house is left to you. And I tell you, you shall not see me until there comes the time when you say ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’”

14 And when he came into the home of one of the heads of the Pharisees on a sabbath to eat a meal, they were watching him, 2 and there before him was a man with the dropsy. 3 And Jesus answered by saying to the legists and Pharisees “Is it lawful on the sabbath to cure, or not?” 4 but they made no move. And he took him and healed him and dismissed him, 5 and said to them “Which one of you, if his son or his steer falls into a well, will not at once pull him out on the sabbath day?” 6 And they were not able to reply to that.

7 And he told the guests a parable, noticing how they were choosing the first places at the table: 8 “When you are invited to a wedding by anybody, do not take the first place, for fear there may have been invited by him a man of more account than you, 9 and the one who invited you and him shall come and say to you ‘Make room for this man,’ and then you will begin to occupy the last place with humiliation; 10 but when you are invited go and take the last place, in order that when the one who has invited you comes he may say to you ‘Friend, come further up’—then it will redound to your honor before all who are at the table with you. 11 For everyone who lifts himself up will be put down, and he who puts himself down will be lifted up.”

12 And he also said to the one who had invited him “When you give a lunch or a dinner, do not call your friends nor your brothers nor your relatives nor rich neighbors, for fear they should return the invitation themselves and you should have a compensation; 13 but when you give a banquet invite poor men, maimed men, cripples, blind men, 14 and happy shall you be, because they are not able to compensate you; for you shall be compensated at the resurrection of the righteous.”

15 And one of his fellow-guests heard this and said to him “Happy is he who shall eat bread in the Reign of God.” 16 But he said to him “Once upon a time there was a man who gave a great dinner and invited many; 17 and he sent his servant at the hour for the dinner to tell the invited guests ‘Come, it is ready now.’ 18 And right off they all began to excuse themselves: the first said to him ‘I have bought a field and am obliged to go out and see it; pray excuse me’; 19 and another said ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen and am on my way to see what they are worth; pray excuse me’; 20 and another said ‘I have got married and consequently cannot come’; 21 and the servant came and reported it to his master. Then the host was angry, and said to his servant ‘Go right out to the streets and alleys of the city and bring the poor and maimed and crippled and blind in here.’ 22 And the servant said ‘Sir, what you ordered has been done and there is still room.’ 23 And the master said to the servant ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and make people come in, so that my house shall be full; 24 for I tell you none of those guests that were invited shall taste my dinner.’”

25 And great crowds were going along with him, and he turned and said to them 26 “If one comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and his own self besides, he cannot be a disciple of mine. 27 Whoever does not carry his cross and come after me cannot be a disciple of mine. 28 For which of you, if he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the expense, whether he has enough for carrying it through, 29 for fear lest when he has laid a foundation and is not able to complete it everybody who sees this should begin to make fun of him 30 and say ‘That man began to build and was not able to complete it’? 31 Or what king, marching to join battle with another king, will not sit down and deliberate as to whether with ten thousand he is in a condition to meet the one who is coming against him with twenty thousand? 32 and if not, while he is still a long way off he sends an embassy and asks for terms of peace. 33 So in the same way anyone of you who does not bid farewell to all his property cannot be my disciple.

34 “Salt is a good thing, then, but if the very salt loses its strength with what shall it be seasoned? 35 it is not desirable either on land or on a manure-heap: they throw it outside. Let him who has ears to hear hear!”

15 And all the customhouse officers and the people of bad character were nearing him to listen to him; 2 and the Pharisees and the scribes went to talking and said “This man receives people of bad character and eats with them.” 3 But he told them this parable: 4 “What man among you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the lost one till he finds it? 5 and upon finding it he joyfully takes it on his shoulder, 6 and when he gets home he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them ‘Rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep.’ 7 I tell you, just so there will be rejoicing in heaven over one repenting sinner more than over ninety-nine saints who are in no need of repentance. 8 Or what woman, having ten drachmas, if she loses one does not light a lamp and sweep the house and look carefully till she finds it? 9 and upon finding it she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying ‘Rejoice with me because I have found the drachma I lost.’ 10 Just so, I tell you, there is a rejoicing before the angels of God over one repenting sinner.”

11 And he said “Once upon a time there was a man who had two sons, 12 and the younger of them said to his father ‘Father, give me my share of the property.’ And he apportioned his means between them; 13 and after not many days the younger son got everything together and went off to a distant country, and there he scattered his property in a life of dissipation. 14 And when he had spent everything there came a hard famine in that country, and he began to be in want 15 and went and fastened himself upon one of the citizens of that country; and he sent him to his fields to tend hogs. 16* And he was wishing he could fill his stomach with the pods that the hogs ate, and nobody gave him anything. 17 But he came to himself and said ‘How many hired men of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I am starving to death here! 18 I will be going, and go to my father, and say to him “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, 19 I no longer deserve to be called your son; make me like one of your hired men”’; 20 and he set out and came to his father. But when he was still far off his father saw him, and his heart was moved, and he ran and threw himself on his neck and went to kissing him. 21 And his son said to him ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, I no longer deserve to be called your son’— 22 but the father said to his servants ‘Bring the best robe out quick and put it on him, and give us a ring for his hand and sandals for his feet; 23 and bring the stall-fed calf, kill it, and let us eat and have a gay time, 24 because my son here was dead and has come back to life, he was lost and has been found.’ And they began to be gay. 25 But his older son was in the field; and when in coming home he drew near the house he heard a bagpipe and dancing, 26 and he called one of the servants and inquired what that might be. 27 And he told him ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the stall-fed calf because he had got him back safe and sound’; 28 and he was angry and would not go in. And his father went out and pleaded with him; 29 but he answered his father ‘Here have I been slaving for you so many years, and never went against a command of yours, and you never gave me a kid to have a gay time with my friends; 30 but when this son of yours who has been eating up your means with prostitutes came, you killed the stall-fed calf for him.’ 31 But he said to him ‘My boy, you are with me always, and everything of mine is yours; 32 but we had to have a glad gay time because this brother of yours had been dead and came to life, had been lost and was found.’”

16 And he also said to the disciples “Once upon a time there was a rich man who had a steward, and word was passed to him that the steward was throwing away his property; 2 and he called him and said to him ‘What is this I hear about you? hand in the accounts for your stewardship, for you cannot be steward any longer.’ 3 And the steward said to himself ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking away the stewardship from me? I am not able to dig, I am ashamed to beg. 4 I know what I will do, so that when I am turned out of the stewardship they will receive me into their homes’; 5 and he called each of his master’s debtors to him and said to the first ‘How much do you owe my master?’ 6 and he said ‘A thousand gallons of oil,’ and he said to him ‘Here is your note; sit right down and write “five hundred.”’ 7 Then he said to another ‘And how much do you owed?’ and he said ‘A thousand bushels of wheat.’ He said to him ‘Here is your note; write “eight hundred.”’ 8* And the master praised the fraudful steward for having done sagaciously, because the sons of the times are more sagacious than the sons of light for their own generation. 9 And I tell you, get friends for yourselves out of fraudful money, that when it gives out they may receive you into the eternal habitations. 10 He who is faithful about a trifle is also faithful about a great thing, and he who is fraudulent about a trifle is also fraudulent about a great thing. 11 So if you have not proved faithful about fraudulent money who will entrust you with the real? 12* and if you have not proved faithful about a thing of somebody else’s, who will give you your own? 13 No domestic 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.”

14 And the Pharisees, being money-lovers, heard all this and sneered at him; 15 and he said to them “You are the ones who make yourselves out righteous before men, but God knows your hearts; because what is lofty among men is an abomination before God. 16 There was the law and the prophets until John; since then the gospel of the Reign of God is being preached and everybody is pushing into it. 17 But it is easier for the heavens and the earth to pass away than for the dot of one i in the law to drop away. 18 Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and so does he who marries a divorced woman.

19 “But once upon a time there was a rich man, and he used to wear purple and lawn in a round of gaiety and splendor day after day. 20 And a poor man, Lazarus by name, lay sick on the ground at his gate, ulcerated 21 and wishing he could have a meal out of what dropped on the floor from the rich man’s table; yes, and the dogs too came and licked over his sores. 22 Well, the poor man died, and he was carried off to Abraham’s bosom by the angels. And the rich man died too, and was buried; 23 and in the world of the dead, being in tortures, he raised his eyes and saw Abraham in the distance, and Lazarus in his bosom. 24 And he called out ‘Father Abraham, take pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in pain in this flame’; 25 but Abraham said ‘My child, remember that you had your good things paid over during your life, and Lazarus his bad likewise; but now here he is comforted and you are in pain. 26 And withal between us and you there is planted a great gulf so that those who want to go over from here to you may not be able, and that they may not cross from there to us.’ 27 And he said ‘Then, father, pray send him to my family 28 (for I have five brothers) to testify to them, that they may not also come to this place of torture’; 29 but Abraham said ‘They have Moses and the prophets, let them listen to them.’ 30 And he said ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them they will repent’; 31 but he told him ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be satisfied even if someone rises from the dead.’”

17 And he said to his disciples “It is impossible for trippings-up not to come, but woe to him through whom they come! 2 it would pay him if he had a millstone round his neck and were thrown into the sea, sooner than that he should trip up one of these little ones; 3 beware! If your brother sins rebuke him, and if he repents forgive him; 4 and if he sins against you seven times a day and turns back to you seven times saying ‘I am sorry’ you shall forgive him.”

5 And the apostles said to the Lord “Give us more faith.” 6 But the Lord said “Had you faith like a mustard-seed, you would say to this sycamine tree ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea’ and it would have obeyed you. 7 But which of you is there who, if he has a servant plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he comes in from the field ‘Come on and have dinner at once’ 8 and not ‘Get something ready for my dinner, and put on your apron and wait on me till I have eaten and drunk, and after that you shall eat and drink yourself’? 9 is he thankful to the servant because he has done what was prescribed? 10 So with you: when you have done everything that was prescribed to you, say ‘We are inefficient servants—it was what we were in duty bound to do that we did.’”

11 And while he was on his way to Jerusalem he was passing between Samaria and Galilee, 12 and as he came into a certain village he met with ten leprous men, who stopped and stood far off; 13 and they lifted their voice in the cry “Jesus, master, take pity on us.” 14 And, seeing it, he said to them “Go and show yourselves to the priests”; and as they went they were cleansed. 15 And one of them, upon seeing that he was healed, returned glorifying God in a loud voice, 16 and threw himself down on his face at Jesus’s feet thanking him; and he was a Samaritan. 17 And Jesus answered by saying “Why, the ten were cleansed: where are the nine? 18 were there not any found that returned to give glory to God except this alien?” 19 And he said to him “Stand up and go on your way; your faith has made you well.”

20 And, having the question “When is the Reign of God to come?” put to him by the Pharisees, he answered them “The Reign of God is not to come under watching, 21 and they will not say ‘Here it is’ or ‘there’; for the place to find the Reign of God is within you.”

22 And he said to the disciples “There will come days when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man and will not, 23 and they will say to you ‘Off there,’ ‘Right here’—do not go; do not chase after them. 24 For as the lightning flashing from one horizon shines to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day. 25 But first he must suffer a great deal, and be rejected by this generation. 26 And as it was in Noah’s days, so it will be in the Son of Man’s too: 27 they were eating, drinking, marrying, until the day that Noah went into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 Or again, as it was in Lot’s days, they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building, 29 but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and sulfur from the sky and destroyed them all,— 30 it will be the same on the day that the Son of Man is disclosed. 31 On that day let him who is on the roof, and his things in the house, not go down to take them; and so he who is in the field, let him not turn back— 32 remember Lot’s wife! 33 Whoever tries to keep his soul alive will lose it, and whoever loses it will have it alive. 34 I tell you, that night there will be two on one couch, the one will be taken along and the other left; 35 there will be two women grinding in company, the one will be taken along and the other left.” 36 —— 37 And they answered him “Where, sir?” And he said to them “Where the body is is where the vultures will gather around.”

18 And he told them a parable of which the point was that they must always pray and never give up: 2 “Once upon a time there was in a certain city a judge who did not fear God nor care for public opinion. 3 And there was a widow in that city, and she came to him saying ‘Avenge me on the man I have a case against’; 4 and he would not for a while, but after that he said to himself ‘Even if I do not fear God nor care for public opinion, 5 because of the way this woman worries me I will avenge her, that she may not make a show of me with coming forever.’” 6 And the Lord said “Hear what the unjust judge says; 7 and shall not God do vengeance for his chosen, who clamor to him day and night and he has patience over them? 8 I tell you he will do vengeance for them soon. Yet when the Son of Man comes will he find faith on earth?”

9 And he also told this parable, pointed at certain self-righteous people who scorned the rest: 10 “Two men went up to the temple-precinct to pray, the one a Pharisee and the other a customhouse officer. 11 The Pharisee took his stand and made this prayer, talking to himself: ‘O God, I thank thee that I am not as the rest of mankind are, grasping, dishonest, adulterous, or else like this customhouse officer: 12 I fast twice a week, I tithe everything I get’; 13 but the customhouse officer stood at a distance and would not even raise his eyes toward heaven, but beat his breast saying ‘O God, be friendly to sinful me.’ 14 I tell you, this man, rather than the other, went down to his home justified; because everyone who lifts himself up will be put down, and he who puts himself down will be lifted up.”

15 And they brought the babies to him to have him touch them; but the disciples, seeing it, rebuked them. 16 But Jesus called the babies to him, saying “Let the children come to me and do not interfere with them; for to such belongs the Reign of God. 17 I tell you verily, anyone who does not receive the Reign of God like a child shall not get into it.”

18 And a certain ruler put the question to him “Good teacher, what should I do to inherit eternal life?” 19 But Jesus said to him “Why do you call me good? nobody is good except one, God. 20 You know the commandments, ‘Do not commit adultery, do not commit murder, do not steal, do not testify falsely, honor your father and mother.’” 21 But he said “All this I have observed ever since my youth.” 22 And Jesus, hearing that, said to him “One thing you still lack: sell everything you have and distribute the money to the poor, and you will have a fund laid by in heaven; and come and follow me.” 23 But at hearing this he grew sad, for he was very rich.

24 And Jesus, seeing him, said “What hard work the wealthy will have to go into the Reign of God! 25 for 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.” 26 And those who heard it said “And who can be saved?” 27 but he said “What is impossible with men is possible with God.” 28 And Peter said “We here did leave our own and follow you.” 29 And he said to them “I tell you verily there is no one who has left a house or a wife or brothers or parents or children on account of the Reign of God 30* who shall not receive many times as much in this time and in the coming age eternal life.”

31 And he took the Twelve with him and said to them “Here we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that has been written through the prophets will be accomplished to the Son of Man. 32 For he will be handed over to the foreigners and abused and outraged and spit upon, 33 and they will flog him and kill him, and on the third day he will rise.” 34 And they did not understand any of these things; and this word was hidden from them, and they did not know what he was talking of.

35 And as he drew near Jericho a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging, 36 and, hearing a crowd going along, inquired what that was; 37 and they told him that Jesus the Nazarene was coming along. 38 And he made an outcry, “Jesus, son of David, take pity on me!” 39 And those who were going ahead rebuked him, telling him to be quiet; but he cried out more and more “Son of David, take pity on me!” 40 And Jesus halted and ordered him brought to him; and when he came near he put the question to him 41 “What do you want me to do for you?” And he said “Sir, that I may have my eyesight back.” 42 And Jesus said to him “Have your eyesight back; your faith has made you well,” 43 and immediately he recovered his sight and followed him, glorifying God. And all the people, seeing it, gave praise to God.

19 And he came into Jericho and was passing through. 2 And there was a man named Zaccheus—he was a head officer of the customhouse, and was rich— 3 who was trying to see Jesus and see what he was like, and could not in consequence of the crowd because he was a small-sized man; 4 and he ran ahead and got up into a sycamore tree to see him, because he was to pass that way. 5 And when Jesus came to the place he looked up and said to him “Zaccheus, come right down, for I must stay at your house tonight.” 6 And down he came and gladly took him in.

7 And at seeing it everybody went to talking and saying “He has gone in to lodge with a man of bad character.” 8 But Zaccheus stood and said to the Lord “Half my property, sir, I give to the poor, and whatever I have got out of anybody by blackmail I give back fourfold.” 9* And Jesus said to him “Today salvation for this house has come, as he too is a son of Abraham. 10 For the Son of Man has come to look for what was lost and save it.”

11 And while they were listening to this he added a parable because he was near Jerusalem and they thought the Reign of God was to come out immediately; 12 he said “Once upon a time a man of high birth went to a distant country to get a kingship and to return; 13* and he called ten servants of his and gave them ten minas of silver and said to them ‘Go into business till I come’; 14 but the citizens of his country hated him and sent after him an embassy with the message ‘We are not willing to have this man reign over us.’ 15 And when he had got the kingship and came back he gave the word to have those servants to whom he had given the money called, that he might know what each had made in his business. 16 And the first presented himself saying ‘Sir, your mina has earned ten minas more’; 17 and he said to him ‘Well done, good servant; because you were faithful about a trifle, have authority over ten cities.’ 18 And the second came saying ‘Your mina, sir, has made five minas’; 19 and to him also he said ‘You too be over five cities.’ 20 And another came saying ‘Sir, here is your mina, which I have been keeping laid up in a handkerchief; 21 for I was afraid of you because you are a stiff man, you take up what you did not put down and harvest what you did not sow.’ 22** He said to him ‘I will judge you out of your own mouth, you villain; you knew I am a stiff man, taking up what I did not put down and harvesting what I did not sow, 23 and why did you not put my money in a bank? and when I came I should have collected it with interest.’ 24 And he said to those who were present ‘Take the mina away from him and give it to the one with the ten minas.’ 25 (And they said to him ‘Sir, he has ten minas.’) 26 ‘I tell you everyone who has shall have more given to him, but from him who has not there shall be taken away even what he has. 27 As for those enemies of mine, though, who did not want to have me reign over them, bring them here and kill them before me.’” 28 And, saying this, he went forward on his way up to Jerusalem.

39 And some of the Pharisees said to him out of the crowd “Teacher, rebuke your disciples”; 40 and he answered “I tell you, if these are silent the stones will shout.”

41 And when he came near, at seeing the city he wept over it, 42 saying “If you too had known this day what were the conditions of peace! but now they have been hidden from your eyes— 43 because there will come upon you days that your enemies will throw up entrenchments against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side, 44 and they will dash you to the ground and your children in you, and not leave stone on stone in you, in return for your not knowing your time of visitation!”

45 And he went into the temple-precinct and began to turn out those who were selling, 46 saying to them “It is written ‘And my house shall be a house of prayer’; but you have been making it a robbers’ cave.”

47 And he taught in the temple-precinct day by day. But the chief priests and the scribes, as well as the leading laymen, were looking for a chance to make away with him, 48 and could not find anything to do, for the entire people was hanging on his words.

20 And on one of the days, as he was teaching the people in the temple-precinct and giving them the gospel, in came the chief priests and the scribes, with the elders, 2 and said to him “Tell us by what authority you are doing these things, or who it was that gave you this authority.” 3 But he answered them “I will ask you a question myself—tell me, 4 was John’s baptizing from heaven or from men?” 5 And they made a calculation, saying to themselves “If we say ‘From heaven’ he will say ‘Why did you not believe him?’ 6 but if we say ‘From men’ the whole people will stone us to death, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet”; 7 and they answered that they did not know where it was from, 8 and Jesus said to them “And neither do I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.”

9 And he began to tell the people this parable: “A man set out a vineyard and rented it to farmers, and went abroad for a considerable time; 10 and in due season he sent a servant to the farmers to have them give him some of the produce of the vineyard; but the farmers gave him a beating and sent him off empty-handed. 11 And he went on to send another servant; but him too they beat and insulted and sent off empty-handed. 12 And he went on to send a third, but this one too they wounded and drove out. 13 And the owner of the vineyard said ‘What shall I do? I will send my dear son, perhaps they will have some respect for him.’ 14 But at seeing him the farmers talked up a plan among them, saying ‘This is the heir; let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours’; 15 and they put him out of the vineyard and killed him. So what will the owner of the vineyard do to them? 16 he will come and kill off these farmers, and give the vineyard to others.” And at hearing it they said “Perish the thought!” 17 But he looked at them and said “Then what is this that is written, ‘The stone that the builders condemned, that stone has come to be the top of the corner’? 18 Everyone who falls on that stone will be mangled; but him on whom it falls it will scatter to the winds.”

19 And the scribes and the chief priests tried to lay hands on him on the spot, and were afraid of the people, for they perceived that he had aimed the parable at them; 20* and they watched their chance and sent emissaries, who pretended to be honest men, to get a hold on him by his talk so as to have him arrested by the authority of the governor’s administration; 21 and they put the question to him “Teacher, we know you are straightforward in what you say and teach, and show no fear or favor, but teach the way of God in good faith: 22 is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?” 23 But, seeing into their duplicity, he said to them 24 “Show me a denarius. Whose portrait and inscription does it have?” And they said “Caesar’s.” 25 And he said to them “Well, then, pay what is Caesar’s to Caesar and what is God’s to God.” 26* And they were not able to get a hold on him before the people by any phrase; and they wondered at his answer, and kept silence.

27 And some of the Sadducees (those who deny that there is any such thing as resurrection) approached him and put the question to him 28 “Teacher, Moses wrote for us, if one’s brother dies having a wife, and is childless, that his brother should take his widow and set up a posterity for his brother. 29 So there were seven brothers, and the first took a wife and died childless, 30 and the second 31 and the third took her, and in the same way the seven of them left no children and died. 32 Afterward the woman died too. 33 So at the resurrection which of them is the woman to be wife to? for the seven had her as wife.” 34 And Jesus said to them “The children of this world marry, 35 but those who are held worthy to enjoy that world and the resurrection from the dead do not; 36 for they cannot any longer die either, but are equal to the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection. 37 But that the dead are raised even Moses informs us, in the part about the bush, when he speaks of the Lord as the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob— 38 but he is not the God of dead men but of living men, for all live to him.” 39 And some of the scribes answered “Well said, teacher”; 40 for they no longer dared to put any question to him.

41 And he said to them “How is it that they say the Messiah is to be a son of David? 42 for David himself says in the Book of Psalms ‘The Lord said to my lord “Sit at my right hand 43 till I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”; 44 so David calls him lord, and how is he going to be his son?’”

45 And in the hearing of all the people he said to his disciples 46 “Beware of the scribes, who want to go in robes and are fond of greetings in the marketplaces and the first seats in synagogues and the first places at dinners, 47 those who eat up widows’ houses and make a pretense of long prayers; these shall receive more of a sentence.”

21 And he looked up and saw the rich men who were dropping their gifts into the treasury. 2 And he saw a certain poverty-stricken widow drop two mites there, 3 and said “I tell you truly this poor widow dropped in more than any: 4 for all these dropped into the gifts part of what they had to spare, but she out of her want dropped in all she had to live on.”

5* And when some were saying of the temple-precinct that it was adorned with blocks of beautiful stone and works of art, 6 he said “As to this that you see, days will come in which there will not be one stone left on another that will not be torn down.” 7 And they put the question to him “Then, teacher, when will this be and what will be the sign when this is to take place?” 8* And he said “Look out that you be not misled; for many will come under my name, saying ‘I am he’ and ‘The time is at hand’; do not go after them. 9 And when you hear of wars and disorders, do not be terrified; for these things have to go first, but the end does not come at once.”

10 Then he said to them “Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom; 11 and there will be great earthquakes, and in one place and another pestilences and famines; and there will be sights of terror, and out of the sky great portents. 12 But before all this they will lay hands on you and persecute you, arresting you and taking you to synagogues and prisons, haling you before kings and governors because of my name. 13 It will turn out an attestation for you. 14 So fix it in your minds not to study a defense beforehand; 15 for I will give you eloquence and wisdom which all your opponents cannot confront or controvert. 16 And you will be arrested at the instigation of parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and they will have some of you put to death, 17 and you will be hated by all because of my name; 18 and not a hair of your heads shall be lost. 19 In your endurance you shall get your souls.

20 “But when you see Jerusalem encircled by camps, then know that her desolation has drawn near. 21 Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are in the midst of her pass out and those who are in the country not go into her; 22 because those are days of vengeance, for all that is written to be fulfilled. 23* Woe to those who are pregnant and nursing in those days! for there will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people, 24 and they will fall by the edge of the sword and be carried off to all the nations as captives, and Jerusalem will be trodden underfoot by the nations, until the times of the nations have run their full course.

25 “And there will be tokens in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth excitement of nations bewildered with the noise and swell of the sea, 26 while men faint for fear and expectation of the things that are coming upon the world of men; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 27 And then will they see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with great power and glory. 28 But when these things begin to take place straighten up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”

29 And he told them a parable: “See the fig-tree, and all the trees; 30 when they are leaving out you know for yourselves by seeing it that summer is now near; 31 so you too, when you see these things taking place, are to know that the Reign of God is near. 32 I tell you verily that this generation shall not pass away till all has taken place. 33 The heavens and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not. 34* But beware, for fear your hearts should be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the anxieties of living, and that day should be upon you suddenly, 35 like a trap; for it shall come upon all that dwell on the face of all the earth. 36 But keep on the alert at every time, praying that you may succeed in escaping all these things that are to come to pass, and in presenting yourselves before the Son of Man.”

37 And through the days he was in the temple-precinct teaching, but for the nights he went out and found quarters on what is known as the Mount of Olives; 38* and all the people came early to the temple-precinct to listen to him.

22 And the feast of the matzoth, known as the passover, was drawing near; 2 and the chief priests and the scribes were trying to find out how to take his life, for they were afraid of the people. 3 And Satan entered Judas known as the Iscariot, who was of the number of the Twelve, 4 and he went and talked with the chief priests and provosts about how to put him into their hands; 5 and they were glad and engaged to give him money. 6 And he pledged himself to it, and went to looking for a good opportunity for putting him into their hands without a crowd.

7 And Matzoth Day came, when the passover was to be sacrificed; 8 and he sent off Peter and John, telling them “Go and get the passover ready for us, so that we may eat it.” 9 And they said to him “Where will you have us get it ready?” 10 And he told them “Well, when you enter the city you will encounter a man carrying a pitcher of water; follow him into the house that he enters. 11 And you will say to the man of the house ‘The teacher says to you “Where is my room where I am to eat the passover with my disciples?”’ 12 and he will show you a large upper room, all spread; make our preparations there.” 13 And they went and found things as he had told them, and got ready the passover.

14 And when the hour came he came to the table, and the apostles with him. 15 And he said to them “I specially desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer; 16* for I tell you, I shall eat it no more until it is fulfilled in the Reign of God.” 17 And upon receiving a cup he gave thanks over it and said “Take this and divide it among you; 18 for I tell you, from this time on I will not drink of the produce of the vine till the Reign of God comes.” 19* And he took a cake of bread, and gave thanks and broke it and gave it to them, saying “This is my body. 20 —— 21 Yet here is my betrayer’s hand on the table with mine; 22 because the Son of Man goes in accordance with what is ordained, yet woe to that man through whom he is put under arrest!” 23 and they began to discuss between themselves which of them it might be that was to commit this deed. 24 And they also got into a wrangle as to which of them was regarded as the greatest; 25 but he said to them “The kings of the nations play the owner with them, and those who govern them are called Benefactors; 26 not so you, but let the greatest one among you take the position of a junior, and the leader that of a waiter on the rest. 27 For which is greater, the diner or the waiter? is not the diner? but I am in the position of waiter among you. 28 But you are the ones who have stayed by me in my temptations, 29 and I invest you, as my Father did me, with kingship, 30* so as to have you eat and drink at my table in my Reign; and you shall sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 31 Simon, Simon, Satan has been demanding to have you and the others surrendered to him to sift like wheat, 32 but I have been praying for you that your faith may not give out; and do you, when once you have come back, brace up your brothers.” 33 And he said to him “Sir, with you I am ready to go either to prison or to death”; 34 but he said “I tell you, Peter, there will not a cock crow today till you have three times disavowed knowing me.”

35 And he said to them “When I sent you out without purse and wallet and shoes, did you run short of anything?” And they said “Nothing.” 36 And he said to them “But now let him who has a purse take it, and the same with a wallet, and let him who has none sell his cloak and buy a sword; 37 for I tell you that this that is written must come true for me, ‘and he was counted with lawbreakers’—for what is about me is coming true.” 38 And they said “Sir, here are two swords”; and he said to them “It is enough.”

39 And he came out and went, in accordance with his habit, to the Mount of Olives; and the disciples followed him. 40* And when he came to the place he said to them “Pray that you may not fall under temptation”; 41 and he moved about a stone’s throw away from them, and, going down on his knees, prayed 42 “Father, if you are willing, pass by me with this cup; yet not my will but yours be done.” 43* [And there appeared to him an angel from heaven strengthening him. 44 And he fell into a quiver of excitement, and prayed more ardently; and his sweat became like gouts of blood running down to the ground.] 45 And, rising from his prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping for grief, 46 and said to them “Why do you go to sleep? stand up and pray, that you may not fall under temptation.”

47* While he was still speaking, in came a crowd, with the man who was known as Judas Iscarioth, one of the twelve, going in front of them; and he drew near to Jesus to kiss him. 48 But Jesus said to him “Judas, are you bringing the police on the Son of Man with a kiss?” 49 And his companions, seeing what was coming next, said “Sir, shall we take to the sword?” 50 and one or another of them struck at the high priest’s servant and took off his right ear. 51 But Jesus answered “Allow this much” and touched the ear and healed him. 52 And Jesus said to those chief priests and provosts of the temple-precinct and elders who had come to help take him “You come out as if it were against a robber, with swords and sticks; 53* when I was with you in the temple-precinct day by day you did not lift your hands against me, but this is your moment, under the license of darkness.”

54 And they arrested him and led him off, and brought him to the high priest’s house. And Peter followed at a distance; 55 and when they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat in the midst of them; 56 and a certain maid, seeing him sitting in the light, fixed her eyes on him and said “This one was with him too”; 57 but he denied it, saying “I do not know him, woman.” 58 And after a short time another servant saw him and said “You are one of them too”; but Peter said “Man, I am not.” 59 And when about one hour had elapsed someone else said positively “To a certainty this one was with him too—for he is a Galilean”; 60 but Peter said “Man, I do not know what you are talking about”; and immediately, while he was still speaking, a cock crowed, 61 and the Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter was reminded of the Lord’s words, how he had said to him “Before a cock crows you will disown me three times”; 62 and he went outside and wept bitterly.

63 And the men who had him under arrest beat him for fun, 64 and would cover him up and put the question to him “Prophesy, who was it that hit you?” 65 and many other taunts they uttered against him.

66 And when day came the council of elders of the people assembled, both chief priests and scribes, and took him before their session, saying 67 “If you are the Messiah, tell us so”; but he told them “If I tell you you will not believe, 68 and if I ask you questions you will not answer; 69 but from this time on the Son of Man shall be seated at the right hand of the power of God.” 70 And they all said “So you are the son of God?” And he said to them “As you say, I am.” 71 And they said “What further need have we of testimony? for we ourselves have heard from his own mouth.”

23 And the entire body of them stood up and brought him to Pilate.

2 And they began to accuse him, saying “We have found this man inciting our nation to disloyalty and keeping them from paying taxes to Caesar, and asserting himself to be King Messiah.” 3 And Pilate asked him “Are you the ‘king of the Jews’?” and he answered him “As you say.” 4 And Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds “I do not find anything punishable in this man.” 5 But they said more and more positively “He agitates the people, teaching all over Palestine, beginning from Galilee and clear to here.”

6 But Pilate, hearing it, put the question whether the man was a Galilean, 7 and, ascertaining that he was from Herod’s jurisdiction, sent him up to Herod, he too being in Jerusalem during those days. 8 And Herod was exceedingly glad to see Jesus; for he had for a considerable time been wanting to see him because he heard him talked of, and he hoped to see some token done by him; 9 and he questioned him at considerable length, but he gave him no answer. 10 And the chief priests and the scribes stood there accusing him energetically. 11* And Herod, with his soldiery, scorned him and made fun of him, and put splendid vestures on him and sent him back to Pilate; 12 and that very day Herod and Pilate became friends, for they had previously been at enmity.

13 But Pilate, calling together the chief priests and the rulers and the people, 14 said to them “You brought this man to me as an alienator of the people, and here have I examined this man before you and not found in him anything punishable under the accusations you bring against him; 15 neither did Herod, for he sent him back to us. And here he has committed no act to deserve death; 16 so I will give him a lesson and release him.” 17 —— 18 But they screamed out, the whole mass of them, “Get that fellow out of the way and release Bar-Abbas for us”— 19 which Bar-Abbas had been thrown into prison for a certain riot that had taken place in the city, and for murder. 20 And Pilate called out to them again, wanting to release Jesus; 21 but they raised a hue and cry “Crucify, crucify him.” 22 And he said to them a third time “Why, what harm has this man done? I have not found in him anything punishable with death; so I will give him a lesson and release him.” 23 But they pressed their demand with loud cries, asking that he be crucified, and their cries prevailed, 24 and Pilate passed sentence that what they asked should be done; 25 and he released the man thrown into prison for riot and murder, whom they asked for, but gave Jesus up to their will.

26 And as they were leading him to execution they took one Simon, a Cyrenian, who was coming from the country, and put the cross on him to carry it behind Jesus. 27 And there followed him a great number of the people, and of women who bewailed and lamented him; 28 but Jesus turned toward them and said “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but do weep for yourselves and your children; 29 for here are days coming in which they will say ‘Happy are the barren, and the bodies that have not held children, and the breasts that have not fed.’ 30 Then they will begin to say to the mountains ‘Fall on us’ and to the hills ‘Cover us’; 31 because if they do this with a green stick, what will be done with the dry one?” 32 And two other criminals also were led with him to be put to death.

33 And when they came to the place known as the Skull, there they crucified him, and the criminals, one on the right and one on the left. 34* [But Jesus said “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”] And to divide up his clothes they threw lots; 35* and the people stood looking on. And the rulers too sneered at him, saying “He saved others; let him save himself, if this is God’s chosen Messiah.” 36 And the soldiers too made fun of him, putting vinegar up to him 37 and saying “If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself.” 38 And there was an inscription over him too, “This is the king of the Jews.” 39 And one of the criminals that were hanging there taunted him: “You are the Messiah, aren’t you? save yourself and us”; 40 but the other answered him in rebuke, “Do you not even fear God, when you are under the same sentence? 41 and we justly, for we are being paid as our acts deserved, but this man had done nothing out of the way,” 42* and said, “Jesus, remember me when you come to your Reign”; 43 and he said to him “I tell you verily, today you shall be with me in Paradise.”

44 And it was now about twelve o’clock, and there came a darkness all over the land till three, 45 the sun going dark; and the curtain of the temple split down the middle, 46 and Jesus, with a loud cry, said “Father, to your hands I commit my spirit”; and with this he expired. 47 And the centurion, seeing what had happened, glorified God, saying “This man really was a saint”; 48 and all the crowds that had thronged to that sight returned beating their breasts after they saw what happened. 49 And all his acquaintances were standing at a distance, and so were women who had come along with him from Galilee, seeing these things.

50 And now a man by name Joseph, who was a member of the Council, a good honest man 51 (he had not assented to their plan and their action) from Arimathea, a city of the Jews, one who was watching for the Reign of God,— 52 this man went to Pilate and asked for Jesus’s body, 53 and took it down and wrapped it in a linen wrapper and laid it in a rock-cut tomb where as yet no one was lying. 54 And it was Friday, and the eve of the sabbath had begun; 55 but the women who had come from Galilee with him followed after and viewed the tomb, and how his body was laid, 56 and returned and got ready spices and perfumes. And through the sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

24 But on the first of the week at early dawn they came to the tomb bringing the spices they had got ready. 2 And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb; 3 but when they went in they did not find the body. 4 And while they were in perplexity over this, lo, there before them stood two men in vestures flashing with light; 5 and, when they were terror-struck and stood bending their faces to the ground, these said to them “Why are you looking for the living among the dead? 6* Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, 7 that the Son of Man must be given over into the hands of sinful men and crucified, and rise on the third day.” 8 And they remembered his words, 9* and returned and reported all this to the Eleven and all the rest. 10 There were the Magdalene Mary and Johanna, and James’s Mary, and the rest with them; they told the apostles this, 11 and the statements appeared to them like nonsense, and they disbelieved the women. 12 ——

13 And lo, that very day two of them were on their way to a village seven miles out from Jerusalem, named Emmaus, 14 conversing together about all these things that had befallen; 15 and while they were conversing and discussing, Jesus himself drew near and went along with them 16 (but their eyes were held from recognizing him) 17 and said to them “What talk is this that you are carrying on with each other as you walk?” and they stood still with dejected faces. 18 And one, Cleopas by name, answered him “Are you the one man who is visiting Jerusalem and has not learned of the things that have been going on in it these days?” 19 And he said to them “What things?” And they said to him “About Jesus the Nazarene, who showed himself a prophet powerful in deed and word before God and all the people, 20 and how the chief priests and our rulers gave him over to a sentence of death and crucified him; 21 but we were hoping it was he who was to redeem Israel. Yes, and, besides all this, now is the third day since these things happened. 22 Yes, and some women in our party have been startling us: having been to the tomb at daybreak 23 and not found his body, they came telling us they had also seen a manifestation of angels, who said he was alive; 24 and some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found things the same as the women said, but him they did not see.” 25* And he said to them “O you stupid men, with hearts slow to believe on everything that the prophets spoke! 26 did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and enter on his glory?” 27 and, beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things about himself.

28 And they drew near the village where they were going, and he pretended to be going further; 29 and they pressed him insistently with the invitation “Stay with us, because it is toward evening and the day is already getting low,” and he went in to stay with them. 30 And when he went to the table with them he took the bread, and spoke the blessing and broke it and handed it to them. 31 And their eyes were opened and they recognized him; and he became invisible to them. 32* And they said to each other “Were not our hearts burning in us as he talked to us on the road, as he opened the scriptures to us?” 33 and that very moment they rose and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven and those who were with them collected together, 34 saying “The Lord has really risen, and has appeared to Simon,” 35 and gave an account of their experiences on the road and how he became known to them in the breaking of the bread.

36 And while they were thus speaking he himself stood in their midst. 37 And they, terror-struck and unnerved, thought they were seeing a spirit; 38 and he said to them “Why are you alarmed, and why do questionings come up in your hearts? 39 see my hands and my feet, that it is I myself; feel of me and see, because a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have.” 40 —— 41 And while they were still disbelieving for very joy and wondering at it, he said to them “Have you anything eatable here?” 42* And they handed him part of a broiled fish, 43 and he took it before them and ate it.

44 And he said to them “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms about me must be fulfilled.” 45 Then he opened their mind to understand the scriptures, 46 and said to them “Thus it is written, that the Messiah suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, 47* and that repentance to the pardoning of sins be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning with Jerusalem. 48 You are witnesses to these things. 49* And lo, I am sending out upon you what my Father promised; but do you keep in the city till you are clothed with power from on high.”

50 And he brought them out nearly to Bethany, and raised his hands and blessed them; 51 and in the act of blessing them he moved away from them. 52 And they returned to Jerusalem in great gladness, 53 and were in the temple-precinct continually, blessing God.

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