AMEN

Mot hébr., que l'usage liturgique a fait passer en grec, et qui a subsisté dans tous les cultes chrétiens.

La racine hébraïque contient les idées de fermeté, de fidélité, de vérité. La forme adverbiale employée pour approuver ce qui vient d'être dit (=ainsi soit-il ! cf. De 27) ou pour annoncer une affirmation de valeur particulière, a été peu à peu réservée à l'affirmation solennelle des vérités divines et limitée à l'usage religieux. Jésus l'emploie quand il veut souligner le caractère d'autorité divine de ses paroles (Mt 5, Mt 6, Mt 8, Mt 10, Mt 16, Mt 18, Mt 21, Mt 24, Mt 25, Mt 26, Mr 10, Mr 12, Lu 4, Lu 12, Lu 23).

Par sa répétition, Amen prend encore plus de solennité. « En vérité, en vérité, je vous dis... » (Jn 3, Jn 5, Jn 6, Jn 8, Jn 10, Jn 12, Jn 14, Jn 16). Mais, dans ce cas, nos Évangiles, souvent, traduisent en grec l'amen hébr., et dans chaque langue il a ses équivalents. Il n'aurait donc pas pu passer tel quel dans le langage religieux de tous les peuples chrétiens, s'il n'avait pris en Israël un caractère liturgique.

Au temps du Christ, il était usité à la synagogue ; l'assemblée saluait de l'Amen la louange ou la lecture de la Loi. Jésus et ses apôtres ont donc trouvé dans le culte de la synagogue l'Amen rituel, liturgique, condensant tout ce que la congrégation veut exprimer de sincérité, de ferveur et de soumission, dans la prière ou dans la louange. De la synagogue, Amen est tout naturellement passé dans le culte chrétien, où il se perpétue comme le mot liturgique le plus riche et le plus universel.

Quand l'Apocalypse fait d'Amen un titre du Christ, elle résume en quelque sorte le caractère absolu de la révélation en lui : il est l'Amen (Ap 3:14). Mais il faut noter que, dans le langage religieux, Amen souligne l'acceptation de la révélation plutôt que la révélation même. Le Christ, proclamé l'Amen, est le Christ reconnu et acclamé comme l'incarnation même de la Vérité. (cf. 2Co 1:20) Dans les textes chrétiens sur papyrus, Amen est ordinairement écrit par le symbole des deux lettres grecques signifiant 99, ce nombre étant l'équivalent numérique de la somme des lettres du mot (1 + 40 + 8 + 50). Et. C.

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  Matthieu 5
  
  1 Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him.
  
  2 He opened his mouth and taught them, saying,
  
  3 "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
  
  4 Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
  
  5 Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.
  
  6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
  
  7 Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
  
  8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
  
  9 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.
  
  10 Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
  
  11 "Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
  
  12 Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
  
  13 "You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.
  
  14 You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can't be hidden.
  
  15 Neither do you light a lamp, and put it under a measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house.
  
  16 Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
  
  17 "Don't think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn't come to destroy, but to fulfill.
  
  18 For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.
  
  19 Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.
  
  20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
  
  21 "You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, 'You shall not murder;' and 'Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.'
  
  22 But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother, 'Raca !' shall be in danger of the council; and whoever shall say, 'You fool!' shall be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.
  
  23 "If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,
  
  24 leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
  
  25 Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him in the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.
  
  26 Most certainly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there, until you have paid the last penny.
  
  27 "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery;'
  
  28 but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
  
  29 If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
  
  30 If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
  
  31 "It was also said, 'Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,'
  
  32 but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.
  
  33 "Again you have heard that it was said to them of old time, 'You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,'
  
  34 but I tell you, don't swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God;
  
  35 nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.
  
  36 Neither shall you swear by your head, for you can't make one hair white or black.
  
  37 But let your 'Yes' be 'Yes' and your 'No' be 'No.' Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.
  
  38 "You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.'
  
  39 But I tell you, don't resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.
  
  40 If anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him have your cloak also.
  
  41 Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.
  
  42 Give to him who asks you, and don't turn away him who desires to borrow from you.
  
  43 "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy. '
  
  44 But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,
  
  45 that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.
  
  46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?
  
  47 If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?
  
  48 Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
  
  Matthieu 6
  
  1 "Be careful that you don't do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
  
  2 Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don't sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
  
  3 But when you do merciful deeds, don't let your left hand know what your right hand does,
  
  4 so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
  
  5 "When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.
  
  6 But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
  
  7 In praying, don't use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.
  
  8 Therefore don't be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.
  
  9 Pray like this: 'Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
  
  10 Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.
  
  11 Give us today our daily bread.
  
  12 Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.
  
  13 Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen. '
  
  14 "For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
  
  15 But if you don't forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
  
  16 "Moreover when you fast, don't be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
  
  17 But you, when you fast, anoint your head, and wash your face;
  
  18 so that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.
  
  19 "Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
  
  20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don't break through and steal;
  
  21 for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
  
  22 "The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.
  
  23 But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
  
  24 "No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon.
  
  25 Therefore I tell you, don't be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn't life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
  
  26 See the birds of the sky, that they don't sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you of much more value than they?
  
  27 "Which of you, by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?
  
  28 Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin,
  
  29 yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these.
  
  30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won't he much more clothe you, you of little faith?
  
  31 "Therefore don't be anxious, saying, 'What will we eat?', 'What will we drink?' or, 'With what will we be clothed?'
  
  32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
  
  33 But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
  
  34 Therefore don't be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day's own evil is sufficient.
  
  Matthieu 8
  
  1 When he came down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.
  
  2 Behold, a leper came to him and worshiped him, saying, "Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean."
  
  3 Jesus stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, "I want to. Be made clean." Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
  
  4 Jesus said to him, "See that you tell nobody, but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them."
  
  5 When he came into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking him,
  
  6 and saying, "Lord, my servant lies in the house paralyzed, grievously tormented."
  
  7 Jesus said to him, "I will come and heal him."
  
  8 The centurion answered, "Lord, I'm not worthy for you to come under my roof. Just say the word, and my servant will be healed.
  
  9 For I am also a man under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, 'Go,' and he goes; and tell another, 'Come,' and he comes; and tell my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."
  
  10 When Jesus heard it, he marveled, and said to those who followed, "Most certainly I tell you, I haven't found so great a faith, not even in Israel.
  
  11 I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven,
  
  12 but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
  
  13 Jesus said to the centurion, "Go your way. Let it be done for you as you have believed." His servant was healed in that hour.
  
  14 When Jesus came into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother lying sick with a fever.
  
  15 He touched her hand, and the fever left her. She got up and served him.
  
  16 When evening came, they brought to him many possessed with demons. He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick;
  
  17 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying: "He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases."
  
  18 Now when Jesus saw great multitudes around him, he gave the order to depart to the other side.
  
  19 A scribe came, and said to him, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go."
  
  20 Jesus said to him, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head."
  
  21 Another of his disciples said to him, "Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father."
  
  22 But Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead."
  
  23 When he got into a boat, his disciples followed him.
  
  24 Behold, a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves, but he was asleep.
  
  25 They came to him, and woke him up, saying, "Save us, Lord! We are dying!"
  
  26 He said to them, "Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?" Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.
  
  27 The men marveled, saying, "What kind of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"
  
  28 When he came to the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes, two people possessed by demons met him there, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that nobody could pass that way.
  
  29 Behold, they cried out, saying, "What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?"
  
  30 Now there was a herd of many pigs feeding far away from them.
  
  31 The demons begged him, saying, "If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs."
  
  32 He said to them, "Go!" They came out, and went into the herd of pigs: and behold, the whole herd of pigs rushed down the cliff into the sea, and died in the water.
  
  33 Those who fed them fled, and went away into the city, and told everything, including what happened to those who were possessed with demons.
  
  34 Behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their borders.
  
  Matthieu 10
  
  1 He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness.
  
  2 Now the names of the twelve apostles are these. The first, Simon, who is called Peter; Andrew, his brother; James the son of Zebedee; John, his brother;
  
  3 Philip; Bartholomew; Thomas; Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus; Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus;
  
  4 Simon the Canaanite; and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
  
  5 Jesus sent these twelve out, and commanded them, saying, "Don't go among the Gentiles, and don't enter into any city of the Samaritans.
  
  6 Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
  
  7 As you go, preach, saying, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!'
  
  8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers , and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.
  
  9 Don't take any gold, nor silver, nor brass in your money belts.
  
  10 Take no bag for your journey, neither two coats, nor shoes, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.
  
  11 Into whatever city or village you enter, find out who in it is worthy; and stay there until you go on.
  
  12 As you enter into the household, greet it.
  
  13 If the household is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it isn't worthy, let your peace return to you.
  
  14 Whoever doesn't receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake off the dust from your feet.
  
  15 Most certainly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.
  
  16 "Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
  
  17 But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.
  
  18 Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.
  
  19 But when they deliver you up, don't be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say.
  
  20 For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
  
  21 "Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.
  
  22 You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
  
  23 But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel, until the Son of Man has come.
  
  24 "A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord.
  
  25 It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!
  
  26 Therefore don't be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed; and hidden that will not be known.
  
  27 What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.
  
  28 Don't be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
  
  29 "Aren't two sparrows sold for an assarion coin ? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father's will,
  
  30 but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
  
  31 Therefore don't be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.
  
  32 Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, him I will also confess before my Father who is in heaven.
  
  33 But whoever denies me before men, him I will also deny before my Father who is in heaven.
  
  34 "Don't think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn't come to send peace, but a sword.
  
  35 For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
  
  36 A man's foes will be those of his own household.
  
  37 He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me.
  
  38 He who doesn't take his cross and follow after me, isn't worthy of me.
  
  39 He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.
  
  40 He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.
  
  41 He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet's reward. He who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man's reward.
  
  42 Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward."
  
  Matthieu 16
  
  1 The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.
  
  2 But he answered them, "When it is evening, you say, 'It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.'
  
  3 In the morning, 'It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.' Hypocrites! You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you can't discern the signs of the times!
  
  4 An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah." He left them, and departed.
  
  5 The disciples came to the other side and had forgotten to take bread.
  
  6 Jesus said to them, "Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees."
  
  7 They reasoned among themselves, saying, "We brought no bread."
  
  8 Jesus, perceiving it, said, "Why do you reason among yourselves, you of little faith, 'because you have brought no bread?'
  
  9 Don't you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?
  
  10 Nor the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up?
  
  11 How is it that you don't perceive that I didn't speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees."
  
  12 Then they understood that he didn't tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
  
  13 Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, "Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?"
  
  14 They said, "Some say John the Baptizer, some, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets."
  
  15 He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"
  
  16 Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
  
  17 Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
  
  18 I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
  
  19 I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven; and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven."
  
  20 Then he commanded the disciples that they should tell no one that he was Jesus the Christ.
  
  21 From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.
  
  22 Peter took him aside, and began to rebuke him, saying, "Far be it from you, Lord! This will never be done to you."
  
  23 But he turned, and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men."
  
  24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
  
  25 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.
  
  26 For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
  
  27 For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.
  
  28 Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste of death, until they see the Son of Man coming in his Kingdom."
  
  Matthieu 18
  
  1 In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, "Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?"
  
  2 Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in their midst,
  
  3 and said, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
  
  4 Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.
  
  5 Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,
  
  6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.
  
  7 "Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!
  
  8 If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.
  
  9 If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.
  
  10 See that you don't despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
  
  11 For the Son of Man came to save that which was lost.
  
  12 "What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn't he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?
  
  13 If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.
  
  14 Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
  
  15 "If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.
  
  16 But if he doesn't listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.
  
  17 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.
  
  18 Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on earth will have been released in heaven.
  
  19 Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven.
  
  20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in their midst."
  
  21 Then Peter came and said to him, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?"
  
  22 Jesus said to him, "I don't tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven.
  
  23 Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants.
  
  24 When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.
  
  25 But because he couldn't pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
  
  26 The servant therefore fell down and kneeled before him, saying, 'Lord, have patience with me, and I will repay you all!'
  
  27 The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.
  
  28 "But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, who owed him one hundred denarii, and he grabbed him, and took him by the throat, saying, 'Pay me what you owe!'
  
  29 "So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, 'Have patience with me, and I will repay you!'
  
  30 He would not, but went and cast him into prison, until he should pay back that which was due.
  
  31 So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and came and told to their lord all that was done.
  
  32 Then his lord called him in, and said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me.
  
  33 Shouldn't you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?'
  
  34 His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors, until he should pay all that was due to him.
  
  35 So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don't each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds."
  
  Matthieu 21
  
  1 When they drew near to Jerusalem, and came to Bethsphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,
  
  2 saying to them, "Go into the village that is opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them, and bring them to me.
  
  3 If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, 'The Lord needs them,' and immediately he will send them."
  
  4 All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying,
  
  5 "Tell the daughter of Zion, behold, your King comes to you, humble, and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey."
  
  6 The disciples went, and did just as Jesus commanded them,
  
  7 and brought the donkey and the colt, and laid their clothes on them; and he sat on them.
  
  8 A very great multitude spread their clothes on the road. Others cut branches from the trees, and spread them on the road.
  
  9 The multitudes who went before him, and who followed kept shouting, "Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!"
  
  10 When he had come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred up, saying, "Who is this?"
  
  11 The multitudes said, "This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee."
  
  12 Jesus entered into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers' tables and the seats of those who sold the doves.
  
  13 He said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a den of robbers!"
  
  14 The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.
  
  15 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, "Hosanna to the son of David!" they were indignant,
  
  16 and said to him, "Do you hear what these are saying?" Jesus said to them, "Yes. Did you never read, 'Out of the mouth of babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise?'"
  
  17 He left them, and went out of the city to Bethany, and lodged there.
  
  18 Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.
  
  19 Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, "Let there be no fruit from you forever!" Immediately the fig tree withered away.
  
  20 When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, "How did the fig tree immediately wither away?"
  
  21 Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith, and don't doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' it would be done.
  
  22 All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive."
  
  23 When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, "By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?"
  
  24 Jesus answered them, "I also will ask you one question, which if you tell me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things.
  
  25 The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?" They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask us, 'Why then did you not believe him?'
  
  26 But if we say, 'From men,' we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet."
  
  27 They answered Jesus, and said, "We don't know." He also said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.
  
  28 But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, 'Son, go work today in my vineyard.'
  
  29 He answered, 'I will not,' but afterward he changed his mind, and went.
  
  30 He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, 'I go, sir,' but he didn't go.
  
  31 Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said to him, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into the Kingdom of God before you.
  
  32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn't believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn't even repent afterward, that you might believe him.
  
  33 "Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a winepress in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.
  
  34 When the season for the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his fruit.
  
  35 The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.
  
  36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they treated them the same way.
  
  37 But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, 'They will respect my son.'
  
  38 But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and seize his inheritance.'
  
  39 So they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.
  
  40 When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?"
  
  41 They told him, "He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season."
  
  42 Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes?'
  
  43 "Therefore I tell you, the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation bringing forth its fruit.
  
  44 He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust."
  
  45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke about them.
  
  46 When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet.
  
  Matthieu 24
  
  1 Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple.
  
  2 But he answered them, "You see all of these things, don't you? Most certainly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another, that will not be thrown down."
  
  3 As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?"
  
  4 Jesus answered them, "Be careful that no one leads you astray.
  
  5 For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will lead many astray.
  
  6 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren't troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet.
  
  7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places.
  
  8 But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.
  
  9 Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name's sake.
  
  10 Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.
  
  11 Many false prophets will arise, and will lead many astray.
  
  12 Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.
  
  13 But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.
  
  14 This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
  
  15 "When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
  
  16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
  
  17 Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out things that are in his house.
  
  18 Let him who is in the field not return back to get his clothes.
  
  19 But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!
  
  20 Pray that your flight will not be in the winter, nor on a Sabbath,
  
  21 for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.
  
  22 Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.
  
  23 "Then if any man tells you, 'Behold, here is the Christ,' or, 'There,' don't believe it.
  
  24 For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
  
  25 "Behold, I have told you beforehand.
  
  26 If therefore they tell you, 'Behold, he is in the wilderness,' don't go out; 'Behold, he is in the inner rooms,' don't believe it.
  
  27 For as the lightning flashes from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
  
  28 For wherever the carcass is, there is where the vultures gather together.
  
  29 But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;
  
  30 and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory.
  
  31 He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.
  
  32 "Now from the fig tree learn this parable. When its branch has now become tender, and puts forth its leaves, you know that the summer is near.
  
  33 Even so you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
  
  34 Most certainly I tell you, this generation will not pass away, until all these things are accomplished.
  
  35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
  
  36 But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
  
  37 "As the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
  
  38 For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship,
  
  39 and they didn't know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
  
  40 Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and one will be left;
  
  41 two women grinding at the mill, one will be taken and one will be left.
  
  42 Watch therefore, for you don't know in what hour your Lord comes.
  
  43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.
  
  44 Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don't expect, the Son of Man will come.
  
  45 "Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?
  
  46 Blessed is that servant whom his lord finds doing so when he comes.
  
  47 Most certainly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has.
  
  48 But if that evil servant should say in his heart, 'My lord is delaying his coming,'
  
  49 and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards,
  
  50 the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn't expect it, and in an hour when he doesn't know it,
  
  51 and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.
  
  Matthieu 25
  
  1 "Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.
  
  2 Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.
  
  3 Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them,
  
  4 but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
  
  5 Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.
  
  6 But at midnight there was a cry, 'Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!'
  
  7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
  
  8 The foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.'
  
  9 But the wise answered, saying, 'What if there isn't enough for us and you? You go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.'
  
  10 While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.
  
  11 Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us.'
  
  12 But he answered, 'Most certainly I tell you, I don't know you.'
  
  13 Watch therefore, for you don't know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
  
  14 "For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them.
  
  15 To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey.
  
  16 Immediately he who received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents.
  
  17 In the same way, he also who got the two gained another two.
  
  18 But he who received the one went away and dug in the earth, and hid his lord's money.
  
  19 "Now after a long time the lord of those servants came, and reconciled accounts with them.
  
  20 He who received the five talents came and brought another five talents, saying, 'Lord, you delivered to me five talents. Behold, I have gained another five talents besides them.'
  
  21 "His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'
  
  22 "He also who got the two talents came and said, 'Lord, you delivered to me two talents. Behold, I have gained another two talents besides them.'
  
  23 "His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'
  
  24 "He also who had received the one talent came and said, 'Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter.
  
  25 I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have what is yours.'
  
  26 "But his lord answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn't sow, and gather where I didn't scatter.
  
  27 You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.
  
  28 Take away therefore the talent from him, and give it to him who has the ten talents.
  
  29 For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who doesn't have, even that which he has will be taken away.
  
  30 Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
  
  31 "But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.
  
  32 Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
  
  33 He will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
  
  34 Then the King will tell those on his right hand, 'Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
  
  35 for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.
  
  36 I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.'
  
  37 "Then the righteous will answer him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you; or thirsty, and give you a drink?
  
  38 When did we see you as a stranger, and take you in; or naked, and clothe you?
  
  39 When did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you?'
  
  40 "The King will answer them, 'Most certainly I tell you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers , you did it to me.'
  
  41 Then he will say also to those on the left hand, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
  
  42 for I was hungry, and you didn't give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink;
  
  43 I was a stranger, and you didn't take me in; naked, and you didn't clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn't visit me.'
  
  44 "Then they will also answer, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn't help you?'
  
  45 "Then he will answer them, saying, 'Most certainly I tell you, inasmuch as you didn't do it to one of the least of these, you didn't do it to me.'
  
  46 These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."
  
  Matthieu 26
  
  1 It happened, when Jesus had finished all these words, that he said to his disciples,
  
  2 "You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified."
  
  3 Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.
  
  4 They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.
  
  5 But they said, "Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people."
  
  6 Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
  
  7 a woman came to him having an alabaster jar of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table.
  
  8 But when his disciples saw this, they were indignant, saying, "Why this waste?
  
  9 For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor."
  
  10 However, knowing this, Jesus said to them, "Why do you trouble the woman? Because she has done a good work for me.
  
  11 For you always have the poor with you; but you don't always have me.
  
  12 For in pouring this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.
  
  13 Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of as a memorial of her."
  
  14 Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests,
  
  15 and said, "What are you willing to give me, that I should deliver him to you?" They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.
  
  16 From that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
  
  17 Now on the first day of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him, "Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?"
  
  18 He said, "Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, 'The Teacher says, "My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples."'"
  
  19 The disciples did as Jesus commanded them, and they prepared the Passover.
  
  20 Now when evening had come, he was reclining at the table with the twelve disciples.
  
  21 As they were eating, he said, "Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me."
  
  22 They were exceedingly sorrowful, and each began to ask him, "It isn't me, is it, Lord?"
  
  23 He answered, "He who dipped his hand with me in the dish, the same will betray me.
  
  24 The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born."
  
  25 Judas, who betrayed him, answered, "It isn't me, is it, Rabbi?" He said to him, "You said it."
  
  26 As they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks for it, and broke it. He gave to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is my body."
  
  27 He took the cup, gave thanks, and gave to them, saying, "All of you drink it,
  
  28 for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.
  
  29 But I tell you that I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on, until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father's Kingdom."
  
  30 When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
  
  31 Then Jesus said to them, "All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'
  
  32 But after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee."
  
  33 But Peter answered him, "Even if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to stumble."
  
  34 Jesus said to him, "Most certainly I tell you that tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times."
  
  35 Peter said to him, "Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you." All of the disciples also said likewise.
  
  36 Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to his disciples, "Sit here, while I go there and pray."
  
  37 He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled.
  
  38 Then he said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me."
  
  39 He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire."
  
  40 He came to the disciples, and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "What, couldn't you watch with me for one hour?
  
  41 Watch and pray, that you don't enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
  
  42 Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, "My Father, if this cup can't pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done."
  
  43 He came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.
  
  44 He left them again, went away, and prayed a third time, saying the same words.
  
  45 Then he came to his disciples, and said to them, "Sleep on now, and take your rest. Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
  
  46 Arise, let's be going. Behold, he who betrays me is at hand."
  
  47 While he was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priest and elders of the people.
  
  48 Now he who betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, "Whoever I kiss, he is the one. Seize him."
  
  49 Immediately he came to Jesus, and said, "Hail, Rabbi!" and kissed him.
  
  50 Jesus said to him, "Friend, why are you here?" Then they came and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.
  
  51 Behold, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck the servant of the high priest, and struck off his ear.
  
  52 Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword.
  
  53 Or do you think that I couldn't ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?
  
  54 How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?"
  
  55 In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, "Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn't arrest me.
  
  56 But all this has happened, that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples left him, and fled.
  
  57 Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.
  
  58 But Peter followed him from a distance, to the court of the high priest, and entered in and sat with the officers, to see the end.
  
  59 Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;
  
  60 and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward,
  
  61 and said, "This man said, 'I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.'"
  
  62 The high priest stood up, and said to him, "Have you no answer? What is this that these testify against you?"
  
  63 But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, "I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God."
  
  64 Jesus said to him, "You have said it. Nevertheless, I tell you, after this you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of the sky."
  
  65 Then the high priest tore his clothing, saying, "He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy.
  
  66 What do you think?" They answered, "He is worthy of death!"
  
  67 Then they spit in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,
  
  68 saying, "Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who hit you?"
  
  69 Now Peter was sitting outside in the court, and a maid came to him, saying, "You were also with Jesus, the Galilean!"
  
  70 But he denied it before them all, saying, "I don't know what you are talking about."
  
  71 When he had gone out onto the porch, someone else saw him, and said to those who were there, "This man also was with Jesus of Nazareth."
  
  72 Again he denied it with an oath, "I don't know the man."
  
  73 After a little while those who stood by came and said to Peter, "Surely you are also one of them, for your speech makes you known."
  
  74 Then he began to curse and to swear, "I don't know the man!" Immediately the rooster crowed.
  
  75 Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said to him, "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times." He went out and wept bitterly.
  
  Marc 10
  
  1 He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them.
  
  2 Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"
  
  3 He answered, "What did Moses command you?"
  
  4 They said, "Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her."
  
  5 But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.
  
  6 But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.
  
  7 For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,
  
  8 and the two will become one flesh, so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.
  
  9 What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."
  
  10 In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter.
  
  11 He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.
  
  12 If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery."
  
  13 They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them.
  
  14 But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, "Allow the little children to come to me! Don't forbid them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
  
  15 Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."
  
  16 He took them in his arms, and blessed them, laying his hands on them.
  
  17 As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?"
  
  18 Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except one--God.
  
  19 You know the commandments: 'Do not murder,' 'Do not commit adultery,' 'Do not steal,' 'Do not give false testimony,' 'Do not defraud,' 'Honor your father and mother.'"
  
  20 He said to him, "Teacher, I have observed all these things from my youth."
  
  21 Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, "One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross."
  
  22 But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was one who had great possessions.
  
  23 Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples, "How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!"
  
  24 The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, "Children, how hard is it for those who trust in riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!
  
  25 It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."
  
  26 They were exceedingly astonished, saying to him, "Then who can be saved?"
  
  27 Jesus, looking at them, said, "With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God."
  
  28 Peter began to tell him, "Behold, we have left all, and have followed you."
  
  29 Jesus said, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,
  
  30 but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.
  
  31 But many who are first will be last; and the last first."
  
  32 They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going in front of them, and they were amazed; and those who followed were afraid. He again took the twelve, and began to tell them the things that were going to happen to him.
  
  33 "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will deliver him to the Gentiles.
  
  34 They will mock him, spit on him, scourge him, and kill him. On the third day he will rise again."
  
  35 James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came near to him, saying, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask."
  
  36 He said to them, "What do you want me to do for you?"
  
  37 They said to him, "Grant to us that we may sit, one at your right hand, and one at your left hand, in your glory."
  
  38 But Jesus said to them, "You don't know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?"
  
  39 They said to him, "We are able." Jesus said to them, "You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and you shall be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with;
  
  40 but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give, but for whom it has been prepared."
  
  41 When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant towards James and John.
  
  42 Jesus summoned them, and said to them, "You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.
  
  43 But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.
  
  44 Whoever of you wants to become first among you, shall be bondservant of all.
  
  45 For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
  
  46 They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.
  
  47 When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out, and say, "Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!"
  
  48 Many rebuked him, that he should be quiet, but he cried out much more, "You son of David, have mercy on me!"
  
  49 Jesus stood still, and said, "Call him." They called the blind man, saying to him, "Cheer up! Get up. He is calling you!"
  
  50 He, casting away his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus.
  
  51 Jesus asked him, "What do you want me to do for you?" The blind man said to him, "Rabboni, that I may see again."
  
  52 Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your faith has made you well." Immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.
  
  Marc 12
  
  1 He began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the winepress, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.
  
  2 When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard.
  
  3 They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty.
  
  4 Again, he sent another servant to them; and they threw stones at him, wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated.
  
  5 Again he sent another; and they killed him; and many others, beating some, and killing some.
  
  6 Therefore still having one, his beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.'
  
  7 But those farmers said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.'
  
  8 They took him, killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
  
  9 What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.
  
  10 Haven't you even read this Scripture: 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner.
  
  11 This was from the Lord, it is marvelous in our eyes'?"
  
  12 They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him, and went away.
  
  13 They sent some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words.
  
  14 When they had come, they asked him, "Teacher, we know that you are honest, and don't defer to anyone; for you aren't partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?
  
  15 Shall we give, or shall we not give?" But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, "Why do you test me? Bring me a denarius, that I may see it."
  
  16 They brought it. He said to them, "Whose is this image and inscription?" They said to him, "Caesar's."
  
  17 Jesus answered them, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." They marveled greatly at him.
  
  18 There came to him Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection. They asked him, saying,
  
  19 "Teacher, Moses wrote to us, 'If a man's brother dies, and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.'
  
  20 There were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and dying left no offspring.
  
  21 The second took her, and died, leaving no children behind him. The third likewise;
  
  22 and the seven took her and left no children. Last of all the woman also died.
  
  23 In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be of them? For the seven had her as a wife."
  
  24 Jesus answered them, "Isn't this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?
  
  25 For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
  
  26 But about the dead, that they are raised; haven't you read in the book of Moses, about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob' ?
  
  27 He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are therefore badly mistaken."
  
  28 One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together. Knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, "Which commandment is the greatest of all?"
  
  29 Jesus answered, "The greatest is, 'Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one:
  
  30 you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.' This is the first commandment.
  
  31 The second is like this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."
  
  32 The scribe said to him, "Truly, teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but he,
  
  33 and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."
  
  34 When Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, "You are not far from the Kingdom of God." No one dared ask him any question after that.
  
  35 Jesus responded, as he taught in the temple, "How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?
  
  36 For David himself said in the Holy Spirit, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet."'
  
  37 Therefore David himself calls him Lord, so how can he be his son?" The common people heard him gladly.
  
  38 In his teaching he said to them, "Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and to get greetings in the marketplaces,
  
  39 and the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts:
  
  40 those who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation."
  
  41 Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much.
  
  42 A poor widow came, and she cast in two small brass coins, which equal a quadrans coin.
  
  43 He called his disciples to himself, and said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving into the treasury,
  
  44 for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on."
  
  Luc 4
  
  1 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness
  
  2 for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.
  
  3 The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread."
  
  4 Jesus answered him, saying, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.'"
  
  5 The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
  
  6 The devil said to him, "I will give you all this authority, and their glory, for it has been delivered to me; and I give it to whomever I want.
  
  7 If you therefore will worship before me, it will all be yours."
  
  8 Jesus answered him, "Get behind me Satan! For it is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.'"
  
  9 He led him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down from here,
  
  10 for it is written, 'He will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you;'
  
  11 and, 'On their hands they will bear you up, lest perhaps you dash your foot against a stone.'"
  
  12 Jesus answering, said to him, "It has been said, 'You shall not tempt the Lord your God.'"
  
  13 When the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until another time.
  
  14 Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and news about him spread through all the surrounding area.
  
  15 He taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.
  
  16 He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.
  
  17 The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written,
  
  18 "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,
  
  19 and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord."
  
  20 He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him.
  
  21 He began to tell them, "Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."
  
  22 All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, "Isn't this Joseph's son?"
  
  23 He said to them, "Doubtless you will tell me this parable, 'Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.'"
  
  24 He said, "Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.
  
  25 But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.
  
  26 Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.
  
  27 There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian."
  
  28 They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things.
  
  29 They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.
  
  30 But he, passing through their midst, went his way.
  
  31 He came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. He was teaching them on the Sabbath day,
  
  32 and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word was with authority.
  
  33 In the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,
  
  34 saying, "Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!"
  
  35 Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be silent, and come out of him!" When the demon had thrown him down in their midst, he came out of him, having done him no harm.
  
  36 Amazement came on all, and they spoke together, one with another, saying, "What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!"
  
  37 News about him went out into every place of the surrounding region.
  
  38 He rose up from the synagogue, and entered into Simon's house. Simon's mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever, and they begged him for her.
  
  39 He stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her. Immediately she rose up and served them.
  
  40 When the sun was setting, all those who had any sick with various diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.
  
  41 Demons also came out from many, crying out, and saying, "You are the Christ, the Son of God!" Rebuking them, he didn't allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.
  
  42 When it was day, he departed and went into an uninhabited place, and the multitudes looked for him, and came to him, and held on to him, so that he wouldn't go away from them.
  
  43 But he said to them, "I must preach the good news of the Kingdom of God to the other cities also. For this reason I have been sent."
  
  44 He was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.
  
  Luc 12
  
  1 Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
  
  2 But there is nothing covered up, that will not be revealed, nor hidden, that will not be known.
  
  3 Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.
  
  4 "I tell you, my friends, don't be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
  
  5 But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him, who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear him.
  
  6 "Aren't five sparrows sold for two assaria coins ? Not one of them is forgotten by God.
  
  7 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore don't be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.
  
  8 "I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, him will the Son of Man also confess before the angels of God;
  
  9 but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of the angels of God.
  
  10 Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
  
  11 When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don't be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say;
  
  12 for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you must say."
  
  13 One of the multitude said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me."
  
  14 But he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?"
  
  15 He said to them, "Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses."
  
  16 He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.
  
  17 He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?'
  
  18 He said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
  
  19 I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."'
  
  20 "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?'
  
  21 So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."
  
  22 He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, don't be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.
  
  23 Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.
  
  24 Consider the ravens: they don't sow, they don't reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!
  
  25 Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height?
  
  26 If then you aren't able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest?
  
  27 Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
  
  28 But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith?
  
  29 Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.
  
  30 For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.
  
  31 But seek God's Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.
  
  32 Don't be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
  
  33 Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.
  
  34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
  
  35 "Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.
  
  36 Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him.
  
  37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you, that he will dress himself, and make them recline, and will come and serve them.
  
  38 They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them so.
  
  39 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into.
  
  40 Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don't expect him."
  
  41 Peter said to him, "Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?"
  
  42 The Lord said, "Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?
  
  43 Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so when he comes.
  
  44 Truly I tell you, that he will set him over all that he has.
  
  45 But if that servant says in his heart, 'My lord delays his coming,' and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,
  
  46 then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn't expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn't know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.
  
  47 That servant, who knew his lord's will, and didn't prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,
  
  48 but he who didn't know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.
  
  49 "I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.
  
  50 But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
  
  51 Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division.
  
  52 For from now on, there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.
  
  53 They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."
  
  54 He said to the multitudes also, "When you see a cloud rising from the west, immediately you say, 'A shower is coming,' and so it happens.
  
  55 When a south wind blows, you say, 'There will be a scorching heat,' and it happens.
  
  56 You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don't interpret this time?
  
  57 Why don't you judge for yourselves what is right?
  
  58 For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.
  
  59 I tell you, you will by no means get out of there, until you have paid the very last penny. "
  
  Luc 23
  
  1 The whole company of them rose up and brought him before Pilate.
  
  2 They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king."
  
  3 Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered him, "So you say."
  
  4 Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, "I find no basis for a charge against this man."
  
  5 But they insisted, saying, "He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place."
  
  6 But when Pilate heard Galilee mentioned, he asked if the man was a Galilean.
  
  7 When he found out that he was in Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem during those days.
  
  8 Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad, for he had wanted to see him for a long time, because he had heard many things about him. He hoped to see some miracle done by him.
  
  9 He questioned him with many words, but he gave no answers.
  
  10 The chief priests and the scribes stood, vehemently accusing him.
  
  11 Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.
  
  12 Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before that they were enemies with each other.
  
  13 Pilate called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,
  
  14 and said to them, "You brought this man to me as one that perverts the people, and see, I have examined him before you, and found no basis for a charge against this man concerning those things of which you accuse him.
  
  15 Neither has Herod, for I sent you to him, and see, nothing worthy of death has been done by him.
  
  16 I will therefore chastise him and release him."
  
  17 Now he had to release one prisoner to them at the feast.
  
  18 But they all cried out together, saying, "Away with this man! Release to us Barabbas!"--
  
  19 one who was thrown into prison for a certain revolt in the city, and for murder.
  
  20 Then Pilate spoke to them again, wanting to release Jesus,
  
  21 but they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify him!"
  
  22 He said to them the third time, "Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him."
  
  23 But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed.
  
  24 Pilate decreed that what they asked for should be done.
  
  25 He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus up to their will.
  
  26 When they led him away, they grabbed one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it after Jesus.
  
  27 A great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him.
  
  28 But Jesus, turning to them, said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, don't weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
  
  29 For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.'
  
  30 Then they will begin to tell the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and tell the hills, 'Cover us.'
  
  31 For if they do these things in the green tree, what will be done in the dry?"
  
  32 There were also others, two criminals, led with him to be put to death.
  
  33 When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified him there with the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left.
  
  34 Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing." Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.
  
  35 The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!"
  
  36 The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar,
  
  37 and saying, "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!"
  
  38 An inscription was also written over him in letters of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew: "THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS."
  
  39 One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, "If you are the Christ, save yourself and us!"
  
  40 But the other answered, and rebuking him said, "Don't you even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation?
  
  41 And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong."
  
  42 He said to Jesus, "Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom."
  
  43 Jesus said to him, "Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise."
  
  44 It was now about the sixth hour , and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.
  
  45 The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two.
  
  46 Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!" Having said this, he breathed his last.
  
  47 When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, "Certainly this was a righteous man."
  
  48 All the multitudes that came together to see this, when they saw the things that were done, returned home beating their breasts.
  
  49 All his acquaintances, and the women who followed with him from Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these things.
  
  50 Behold, a man named Joseph, who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man
  
  51 (he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for the Kingdom of God:
  
  52 this man went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus' body.
  
  53 He took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no one had ever been laid.
  
  54 It was the day of the Preparation, and the Sabbath was drawing near.
  
  55 The women, who had come with him out of Galilee, followed after, and saw the tomb, and how his body was laid.
  
  56 They returned, and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
  
  Jean 3
  
  1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
  
  2 The same came to him by night, and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him."
  
  3 Jesus answered him, "Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can't see the Kingdom of God."
  
  4 Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born?"
  
  5 Jesus answered, "Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can't enter into the Kingdom of God!
  
  6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
  
  7 Don't marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born anew.'
  
  8 The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don't know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."
  
  9 Nicodemus answered him, "How can these things be?"
  
  10 Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and don't understand these things?
  
  11 Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don't receive our witness.
  
  12 If I told you earthly things and you don't believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
  
  13 No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.
  
  14 As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
  
  15 that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
  
  16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
  
  17 For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
  
  18 He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn't believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
  
  19 This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
  
  20 For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
  
  21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God."
  
  22 After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them, and baptized.
  
  23 John also was baptizing in Enon near Salim, because there was much water there. They came, and were baptized.
  
  24 For John was not yet thrown into prison.
  
  25 There arose therefore a questioning on the part of John's disciples with some Jews about purification.
  
  26 They came to John, and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, the same baptizes, and everyone is coming to him."
  
  27 John answered, "A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.
  
  28 You yourselves testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ,' but, 'I have been sent before him.'
  
  29 He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.
  
  30 He must increase, but I must decrease.
  
  31 He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.
  
  32 What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness.
  
  33 He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.
  
  34 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.
  
  35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.
  
  36 One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."
  
  Jean 5
  
  1 After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
  
  2 Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, "Bethesda," having five porches.
  
  3 In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water;
  
  4 for an angel went down at certain times into the pool, and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was made whole of whatever disease he had.
  
  5 A certain man was there, who had been sick for thirty-eight years.
  
  6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to be made well?"
  
  7 The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I'm coming, another steps down before me."
  
  8 Jesus said to him, "Arise, take up your mat, and walk."
  
  9 Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked. Now it was the Sabbath on that day.
  
  10 So the Jews said to him who was cured, "It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat."
  
  11 He answered them, "He who made me well, the same said to me, 'Take up your mat, and walk.'"
  
  12 Then they asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up your mat, and walk'?"
  
  13 But he who was healed didn't know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place.
  
  14 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you."
  
  15 The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
  
  16 For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.
  
  17 But Jesus answered them, "My Father is still working, so I am working, too."
  
  18 For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
  
  19 Jesus therefore answered them, "Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.
  
  20 For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel.
  
  21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.
  
  22 For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son,
  
  23 that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn't honor the Son doesn't honor the Father who sent him.
  
  24 "Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
  
  25 Most certainly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God's voice; and those who hear will live.
  
  26 For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.
  
  27 He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man.
  
  28 Don't marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice,
  
  29 and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.
  
  30 I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don't seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.
  
  31 "If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid.
  
  32 It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true.
  
  33 You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.
  
  34 But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved.
  
  35 He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
  
  36 But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.
  
  37 The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.
  
  38 You don't have his word living in you; because you don't believe him whom he sent.
  
  39 "You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
  
  40 Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.
  
  41 I don't receive glory from men.
  
  42 But I know you, that you don't have God's love in yourselves.
  
  43 I have come in my Father's name, and you don't receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
  
  44 How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don't seek the glory that comes from the only God?
  
  45 "Don't think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
  
  46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.
  
  47 But if you don't believe his writings, how will you believe my words?"
  
  Jean 6
  
  1 After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias.
  
  2 A great multitude followed him, because they saw his signs which he did on those who were sick.
  
  3 Jesus went up into the mountain, and he sat there with his disciples.
  
  4 Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.
  
  5 Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread, that these may eat?"
  
  6 This he said to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.
  
  7 Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that everyone of them may receive a little."
  
  8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him,
  
  9 "There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so many?"
  
  10 Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was much grass in that place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
  
  11 Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were sitting down; likewise also of the fish as much as they desired.
  
  12 When they were filled, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost."
  
  13 So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves, which were left over by those who had eaten.
  
  14 When therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said, "This is truly the prophet who comes into the world."
  
  15 Jesus therefore, perceiving that they were about to come and take him by force, to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain by himself.
  
  16 When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea,
  
  17 and they entered into the boat, and were going over the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them.
  
  18 The sea was tossed by a great wind blowing.
  
  19 When therefore they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing near to the boat; and they were afraid.
  
  20 But he said to them, "It is I . Don't be afraid."
  
  21 They were willing therefore to receive him into the boat. Immediately the boat was at the land where they were going.
  
  22 On the next day, the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, except the one in which his disciples had embarked, and that Jesus hadn't entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had gone away alone.
  
  23 However boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks.
  
  24 When the multitude therefore saw that Jesus wasn't there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats, and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.
  
  25 When they found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, "Rabbi, when did you come here?"
  
  26 Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.
  
  27 Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him."
  
  28 They said therefore to him, "What must we do, that we may work the works of God?"
  
  29 Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent."
  
  30 They said therefore to him, "What then do you do for a sign, that we may see, and believe you? What work do you do?
  
  31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, 'He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.'"
  
  32 Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, it wasn't Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven.
  
  33 For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world."
  
  34 They said therefore to him, "Lord, always give us this bread."
  
  35 Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.
  
  36 But I told you that you have seen me, and yet you don't believe.
  
  37 All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.
  
  38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
  
  39 This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.
  
  40 This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day."
  
  41 The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, "I am the bread which came down out of heaven."
  
  42 They said, "Isn't this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, 'I have come down out of heaven?'"
  
  43 Therefore Jesus answered them, "Don't murmur among yourselves.
  
  44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.
  
  45 It is written in the prophets, 'They will all be taught by God.' Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to me.
  
  46 Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father.
  
  47 Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.
  
  48 I am the bread of life.
  
  49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
  
  50 This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die.
  
  51 I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."
  
  52 The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"
  
  53 Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.
  
  54 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
  
  55 For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
  
  56 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.
  
  57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.
  
  58 This is the bread which came down out of heaven--not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever."
  
  59 He said these things in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.
  
  60 Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?"
  
  61 But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, "Does this cause you to stumble?
  
  62 Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?
  
  63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
  
  64 But there are some of you who don't believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn't believe, and who it was who would betray him.
  
  65 He said, "For this cause have I said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father."
  
  66 At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
  
  67 Jesus said therefore to the twelve, "You don't also want to go away, do you?"
  
  68 Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
  
  69 We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
  
  70 Jesus answered them, "Didn't I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?"
  
  71 Now he spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for it was he who would betray him, being one of the twelve.
  
  Jean 8
  
  1 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
  
  2 Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down, and taught them.
  
  3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the midst,
  
  4 they told him, "Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act.
  
  5 Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such. What then do you say about her?"
  
  6 They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger.
  
  7 But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her."
  
  8 Again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground.
  
  9 They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.
  
  10 Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, "Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?"
  
  11 She said, "No one, Lord." Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more."
  
  12 Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life."
  
  13 The Pharisees therefore said to him, "You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid."
  
  14 Jesus answered them, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don't know where I came from, or where I am going.
  
  15 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.
  
  16 Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me.
  
  17 It's also written in your law that the testimony of two people is valid.
  
  18 I am one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me."
  
  19 They said therefore to him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me, nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also."
  
  20 Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.
  
  21 Jesus said therefore again to them, "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can't come."
  
  22 The Jews therefore said, "Will he kill himself, that he says, 'Where I am going, you can't come?'"
  
  23 He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.
  
  24 I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins."
  
  25 They said therefore to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.
  
  26 I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world."
  
  27 They didn't understand that he spoke to them about the Father.
  
  28 Jesus therefore said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.
  
  29 He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn't left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him."
  
  30 As he spoke these things, many believed in him.
  
  31 Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, "If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.
  
  32 You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."
  
  33 They answered him, "We are Abraham's seed, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, 'You will be made free?'"
  
  34 Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.
  
  35 A bondservant doesn't live in the house forever. A son remains forever.
  
  36 If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.
  
  37 I know that you are Abraham's seed, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.
  
  38 I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father."
  
  39 They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.
  
  40 But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham didn't do this.
  
  41 You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."
  
  42 Therefore Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven't come of myself, but he sent me.
  
  43 Why don't you understand my speech? Because you can't hear my word.
  
  44 You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.
  
  45 But because I tell the truth, you don't believe me.
  
  46 Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
  
  47 He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don't hear, because you are not of God."
  
  48 Then the Jews answered him, "Don't we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?"
  
  49 Jesus answered, "I don't have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.
  
  50 But I don't seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges.
  
  51 Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death."
  
  52 Then the Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and you say, 'If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.'
  
  53 Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?"
  
  54 Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.
  
  55 You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, 'I don't know him,' I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his word.
  
  56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad."
  
  57 The Jews therefore said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?"
  
  58 Jesus said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM. "
  
  59 Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through their midst, and so passed by.
  
  Jean 10
  
  1 "Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn't enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
  
  2 But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
  
  3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.
  
  4 Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
  
  5 They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don't know the voice of strangers."
  
  6 Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn't understand what he was telling them.
  
  7 Jesus therefore said to them again, "Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep's door.
  
  8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn't listen to them.
  
  9 I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.
  
  10 The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
  
  11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
  
  12 He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.
  
  13 The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn't care for the sheep.
  
  14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I'm known by my own;
  
  15 even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.
  
  16 I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.
  
  17 Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.
  
  18 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father."
  
  19 Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words.
  
  20 Many of them said, "He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?"
  
  21 Others said, "These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn't possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?"
  
  22 It was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem.
  
  23 It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon's porch.
  
  24 The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, "How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."
  
  25 Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you don't believe. The works that I do in my Father's name, these testify about me.
  
  26 But you don't believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.
  
  27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
  
  28 I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
  
  29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand.
  
  30 I and the Father are one."
  
  31 Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.
  
  32 Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?"
  
  33 The Jews answered him, "We don't stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God."
  
  34 Jesus answered them, "Isn't it written in your law, 'I said, you are gods?'
  
  35 If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can't be broken),
  
  36 do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You blaspheme,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God?'
  
  37 If I don't do the works of my Father, don't believe me.
  
  38 But if I do them, though you don't believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father."
  
  39 They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.
  
  40 He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and there he stayed.
  
  41 Many came to him. They said, "John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true."
  
  42 Many believed in him there.
  
  Jean 12
  
  1 Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
  
  2 So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him.
  
  3 Mary, therefore, took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.
  
  4 Then Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, one of his disciples, who would betray him, said,
  
  5 "Why wasn't this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?"
  
  6 Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.
  
  7 But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial.
  
  8 For you always have the poor with you, but you don't always have me."
  
  9 A large crowd therefore of the Jews learned that he was there, and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
  
  10 But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,
  
  11 because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.
  
  12 On the next day a great multitude had come to the feast. When they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
  
  13 they took the branches of the palm trees, and went out to meet him, and cried out, "Hosanna ! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!"
  
  14 Jesus, having found a young donkey, sat on it. As it is written,
  
  15 "Don't be afraid, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King comes, sitting on a donkey's colt."
  
  16 His disciples didn't understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.
  
  17 The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, was testifying about it.
  
  18 For this cause also the multitude went and met him, because they heard that he had done this sign.
  
  19 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, "See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him."
  
  20 Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast.
  
  21 These, therefore, came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, "Sir, we want to see Jesus."
  
  22 Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn, Andrew came with Philip, and they told Jesus.
  
  23 Jesus answered them, "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
  
  24 Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.
  
  25 He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.
  
  26 If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
  
  27 "Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? 'Father, save me from this time?' But for this cause I came to this time.
  
  28 Father, glorify your name!" Then there came a voice out of the sky, saying, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again."
  
  29 The multitude therefore, who stood by and heard it, said that it had thundered. Others said, "An angel has spoken to him."
  
  30 Jesus answered, "This voice hasn't come for my sake, but for your sakes.
  
  31 Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.
  
  32 And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself."
  
  33 But he said this, signifying by what kind of death he should die.
  
  34 The multitude answered him, "We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever. How do you say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up?' Who is this Son of Man?"
  
  35 Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn't overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn't know where he is going.
  
  36 While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light." Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.
  
  37 But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn't believe in him,
  
  38 that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, "Lord, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"
  
  39 For this cause they couldn't believe, for Isaiah said again,
  
  40 "He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them."
  
  41 Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.
  
  42 Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn't confess it, so that they wouldn't be put out of the synagogue,
  
  43 for they loved men's praise more than God's praise.
  
  44 Jesus cried out and said, "Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me.
  
  45 He who sees me sees him who sent me.
  
  46 I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.
  
  47 If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn't believe, I don't judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
  
  48 He who rejects me, and doesn't receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day.
  
  49 For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
  
  50 I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak."
  
  Jean 14
  
  1 "Don't let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.
  
  2 In my Father's house are many homes. If it weren't so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.
  
  3 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.
  
  4 Where I go, you know, and you know the way."
  
  5 Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going. How can we know the way?"
  
  6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
  
  7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him."
  
  8 Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us."
  
  9 Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, 'Show us the Father?'
  
  10 Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.
  
  11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works' sake.
  
  12 Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.
  
  13 Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
  
  14 If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.
  
  15 If you love me, keep my commandments.
  
  16 I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,--
  
  17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world can't receive; for it doesn't see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.
  
  18 I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.
  
  19 Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.
  
  20 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
  
  21 One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him."
  
  22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?"
  
  23 Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
  
  24 He who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The word which you hear isn't mine, but the Father's who sent me.
  
  25 I have said these things to you, while still living with you.
  
  26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.
  
  27 Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don't let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
  
  28 You heard how I told you, 'I go away, and I come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said 'I am going to my Father;' for the Father is greater than I.
  
  29 Now I have told you before it happens so that, when it happens, you may believe.
  
  30 I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.
  
  31 But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here.
  
  Jean 16
  
  1 "These things have I spoken to you, so that you wouldn't be caused to stumble.
  
  2 They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.
  
  3 They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.
  
  4 But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn't tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
  
  5 But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?'
  
  6 But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart.
  
  7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don't go away, the Counselor won't come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
  
  8 When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment;
  
  9 about sin, because they don't believe in me;
  
  10 about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won't see me any more;
  
  11 about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.
  
  12 "I have yet many things to tell you, but you can't bear them now.
  
  13 However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.
  
  14 He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine, and will declare it to you.
  
  15 All things whatever the Father has are mine; therefore I said that he takes of mine, and will declare it to you.
  
  16 A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me."
  
  17 Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, "What is this that he says to us, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;' and, 'Because I go to the Father?'"
  
  18 They said therefore, "What is this that he says, 'A little while?' We don't know what he is saying."
  
  19 Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, "Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?'
  
  20 Most certainly I tell you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.
  
  21 A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn't remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.
  
  22 Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
  
  23 "In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
  
  24 Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.
  
  25 I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.
  
  26 In that day you will ask in my name; and I don't say to you, that I will pray to the Father for you,
  
  27 for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from God.
  
  28 I came out from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father."
  
  29 His disciples said to him, "Behold, now you speak plainly, and speak no figures of speech.
  
  30 Now we know that you know all things, and don't need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came forth from God."
  
  31 Jesus answered them, "Do you now believe?
  
  32 Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
  
  33 I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world."
  
  2 Corinthiens 1
  
  20 For however many are the promises of God, in him is the "Yes." Therefore also through him is the "Amen," to the glory of God through us.
  
  Apocalypse 3
  
  14 "To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: "The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Head of God's creation, says these things:

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