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No one is asking you for any input... That should save some... :ugeek:

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here i am - without duplicating the character count:

Luke 16
1. And he said also unto his disciples, `A certain man was rich, who had a steward, and he was accused to him as scattering his goods;
2. and having called him, he said to him, What [is] this I hear about thee? render the account of thy stewardship, for thou mayest not any longer be steward.
3. `And the steward said in himself, What shall I do, because my lord doth take away the stewardship from me? to dig I am not able, to beg I am ashamed: --
4. I have known what I shall do, that, when I may be removed from the stewardship, they may receive me to their houses.
5. `And having called near each one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first, How much dost thou owe to my lord?
6. and he said, A hundred baths of oil; and he said to him, Take thy bill, and having sat down write fifty.
7. `Afterward to another he said, And thou, how much dost thou owe? and he said, A hundred cors of wheat; and he saith to him, Take thy bill, and write eighty.
8. `And the lord commended the unrighteous steward that he did prudently, because the sons of this age are more prudent than the sons of the light, in respect to their generation.
9. and I say to you, Make to yourselves friends out of the mammon of unrighteousness, that when ye may fail, they may receive you to the age-during tabernacles.
10. `He who is faithful in the least, [is] also faithful in much; and he who in the least [is] unrighteous, is also unrighteous in much;
11. if, then, in the unrighteous mammon ye became not faithful -- the true who will entrust to you?
12. and if in the other's ye became not faithful -- your own, who shall give to you?
13. `No domestic is able to serve two lords, for either the one he will hate, and the other he will love; or one he will hold to, and of the other he will be heedless; ye are not able to serve God and mammon.'
14. And also the Pharisees, being lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and were deriding him,
15. and he said to them, `Ye are those declaring yourselves righteous before men, but God doth know your hearts; because that which among men is high, [is] abomination before God;
16. the law and the prophets [are] till John; since then the reign of God is proclaimed good news, and every one doth press into it;
17. and it is easier to the heaven and the earth to pass away, than of the law one tittle to fall.
18. `Every one who is sending away his wife, and marrying another, doth commit adultery; and every one who is marrying her sent away from a husband doth commit adultery.
19. `And -- a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day,
20. and there was a certain poor man, by name Lazarus, who was laid at his porch, full of sores,
21. and desiring to be filled from the crumbs that are falling from the table of the rich man; yea, also the dogs, coming, were licking his sores.
22. `And it came to pass, that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the messengers to the bosom of Abraham -- and the rich man also died, and was buried;
23. and in the hades having lifted up his eyes, being in torments, he doth see Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom,
24. and having cried, he said, Father Abraham, deal kindly with me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and may cool my tongue, because I am distressed in this flame.
25. `And Abraham said, Child, remember that thou did receive -- thou -- thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus in like manner the evil things, and now he is comforted, and thou art distressed;
26. and besides all these things, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that they who are willing to go over from hence unto you are not able, nor do they from thence to us pass through.
27. `And he said, I pray thee, then, father, that thou mayest send him to the house of my father,
28. for I have five brothers, so that he may thoroughly testify to them, that they also may not come to this place of torment.
29. `Abraham saith to him, They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them;
30. and he said, No, father Abraham, but if any one from the dead may go unto them, they will reform.
31. And he said to him, If Moses and the prophets they do not hear, neither if one may rise out of the dead will they be persuaded.'



Luke 17
1. And he said unto the disciples, `It is impossible for the stumbling blocks not to come, but wo [to him] through whom they come;
2. it is more profitable to him if a weighty millstone is put round about his neck, and he hath been cast into the sea, than that he may cause one of these little ones to stumble.
3. `Take heed to yourselves, and, if thy brother may sin in regard to thee, rebuke him, and if he may reform, forgive him,
4. and if seven times in the day he may sin against thee, and seven times in the day may turn back to thee, saying, I reform; thou shalt forgive him.'
5. And the apostles said to the Lord, `Add to us faith;'
6. and the Lord said, `If ye had faith as a grain of mustard, ye would have said to this sycamine, Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea, and it would have obeyed you.
7. `But, who is he of you -- having a servant ploughing or feeding -- who, to him having come in out of the field, will say, Having come near, recline at meat?
8. but will not [rather] say to him, Prepare what I may sup, and having girded thyself about, minister to me, till I eat and drink, and after these things thou shalt eat and drink?
9. Hath he favour to that servant because he did the things directed? I think not.
10. `So also ye, when ye may have done all the things directed you, say -- We are unprofitable servants, because that which we owed to do -- we have done.'
11. And it came to pass, in his going on to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee,
12. and he entering into a certain village, there met him ten leprous men, who stood afar off,
13. and they lifted up the voice, saying, `Jesus, master, deal kindly with us;'
14. and having seen [them], he said to them, `Having gone on, shew yourselves to the priests;' and it came to pass, in their going, they were cleansed,
15. and one of them having seen that he was healed did turn back, with a loud voice glorifying God,
16. and he fell upon [his] face at his feet, giving thanks to him, and he was a Samaritan.
17. And Jesus answering said, `Were not the ten cleansed, and the nine -- where?
18. There were not found who did turn back to give glory to God, except this alien;'
19. and he said to him, `Having risen, be going on, thy faith hath saved thee.'
20. And having been questioned by the Pharisees, when the reign of God doth come, he answered them, and said, `The reign of God doth not come with observation;
21. nor shall they say, Lo, here; or lo, there; for lo, the reign of God is within you.'
22. And he said unto his disciples, `Days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and ye shall not behold [it];
23. and they shall say to you, Lo, here; or lo, there; ye may not go away, nor follow;
24. for as the lightning that is lightning out of the one [part] under heaven, to the other part under heaven doth shine, so shall be also the Son of Man in his day;
25. and first it behoveth him to suffer many things, and to be rejected by this generation.
26. `And, as it came to pass in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man;
27. they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage, till the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the deluge came, and destroyed all;
28. in like manner also, as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building;
29. and on the day Lot went forth from Sodom, He rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed all.
30. `According to these things it shall be, in the day the Son of Man is revealed;
31. in that day, he who shall be on the house top, and his vessels in the house, let him not come down to take them away; and he in the field, in like manner, let him not turn backward;
32. remember the wife of Lot.
33. Whoever may seek to save his life, shall lose it; and whoever may lose it, shall preserve it.
34. `I say to you, In that night, there shall be two men on one couch, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left;
35. two women shall be grinding at the same place together, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left;
36. two men shall be in the field, the one shall be taken, and the other left.'
37. And they answering say to him, `Where, sir?' and he said to them, `Where the body [is], there will the eagles be gathered together.'



Luke 18
1. And he spake also a simile to them, that it behoveth [us] always to pray, and not to faint,
2. saying, `A certain judge was in a certain city -- God he is not fearing, and man he is not regarding --
3. and a widow was in that city, and she was coming unto him, saying, Do me justice on my opponent,
4. and he would not for a time, but after these things he said in himself, Even if God I do not fear, and man do not regard,
5. yet because this widow doth give me trouble, I will do her justice, lest, perpetually coming, she may plague me.'
6. And the Lord said, `Hear ye what the unrighteous judge saith:
7. and shall not God execute the justice to His choice ones, who are crying unto Him day and night -- bearing long in regard to them?
8. I say to you, that He will execute the justice to them quickly; but the Son of Man having come, shall he find the faith upon the earth?'
9. And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile:
10. `Two men went up to the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-gatherer;
11. the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer;
12. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all things -- as many as I possess.
13. `And the tax-gatherer, having stood afar off, would not even the eyes lift up to the heaven, but was smiting on his breast, saying, God be propitious to me -- the sinner!
14. I say to you, this one went down declared righteous, to his house, rather than that one: for every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'
15. And they were bringing near also the babes, that he may touch them, and the disciples having seen did rebuke them,
16. and Jesus having called them near, said, `Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the reign of God;
17. verily I say to you, Whoever may not receive the reign of God as a little child, may not enter into it.'
18. And a certain ruler questioned him, saying, `Good teacher, what having done -- shall I inherit life age-during?'
19. And Jesus said to him, `Why me dost thou call good? no one [is] good, except One -- God;
20. the commands thou hast known: Thou mayest not commit adultery, Thou mayest do no murder, Thou mayest not steal, Thou mayest not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.'
21. And he said, `All these I did keep from my youth;'
22. and having heard these things, Jesus said to him, `Yet one thing to thee is lacking; all things -- as many as thou hast -- sell, and distribute to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come, be following me;'
23. and he, having heard these things, became very sorrowful, for he was exceeding rich.
24. And Jesus having seen him become very sorrowful, said, `How hardly shall those having riches enter into the reign of God!
25. for it is easier for a camel through the eye of a needle to enter, than for a rich man into the reign of God to enter.'
26. And those who heard, said, `And who is able to be saved?'
27. and he said, `The things impossible with men are possible with God.'
28. And Peter said, `Lo, we left all, and did follow thee;'
29. and he said to them, `Verily I say to you, that there is not one who left house, or parents, or brothers, or wife, or children, for the sake of the reign of God,
30. who may not receive back manifold more in this time, and in the coming age, life age-during.'
31. And having taken the twelve aside, he said unto them, `Lo, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things shall be completed -- that have been written through the prophets -- to the Son of Man,
32. for he shall be delivered up to the nations, and shall be mocked, and insulted, and spit upon,
33. and having scourged they shall put him to death, and on the third day he shall rise again.'
34. And they none of these things understood, and this saying was hid from them, and they were not knowing the things said.
35. And it came to pass, in his coming nigh to Jericho, a certain blind man was sitting beside the way begging,
36. and having heard a multitude going by, he was inquiring what this may be,
37. and they brought him word that Jesus the Nazarene doth pass by,
38. and he cried out, saying, `Jesus, Son of David, deal kindly with me;'
39. and those going before were rebuking him, that he might be silent, but he was much more crying out, `Son of David, deal kindly with me.'
40. And Jesus having stood, commanded him to be brought unto him, and he having come nigh, he questioned him,
41. saying, `What wilt thou I shall do to thee?' and he said, `Sir, that I may receive sight.'
42. And Jesus said to him, `Receive thy sight; thy faith hath saved thee;'
43. and presently he did receive sight, and was following him, glorifying God; and all the people, having seen, did give praise to God.



Luke 19 [Commentary] [Map] Biblical Art and Illustrations
1. And having entered, he was passing through Jericho,
2. and lo, a man, by name called Zaccheus, and he was a chief tax-gatherer, and he was rich,
3. and he was seeking to see Jesus, who he is, and was not able for the multitude, because in stature he was small,
4. and having run forward before, he went up on a sycamore, that he may see him, because through that [way] he was about to pass by.
5. And as Jesus came up to the place, having looked up, he saw him, and said unto him, `Zaccheus, having hastened, come down, for to-day in thy house it behoveth me to remain;'
6. and he having hastened did come down, and did receive him rejoicing;
7. and having seen [it], they were all murmuring, saying -- `With a sinful man he went in to lodge!'
8. And Zaccheus having stood, said unto the Lord, `Lo, the half of my goods, sir, I give to the poor, and if of any one anything I did take by false accusation, I give back fourfold.'
9. And Jesus said unto him -- `To-day salvation did come to this house, inasmuch as he also is a son of Abraham;
10. for the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.'
11. And while they are hearing these things, having added he spake a simile, because of his being nigh to Jerusalem, and of their thinking that the reign of God is about presently to be made manifest.
12. He said therefore, `A certain man of birth went on to a far country, to take to himself a kingdom, and to return,
13. and having called ten servants of his own, he gave to them ten pounds, and said unto them, Do business -- till I come;
14. and his citizens were hating him, and did send an embassy after him, saying, We do not wish this one to reign over us.
15. `And it came to pass, on his coming back, having taken the kingdom, that he commanded these servants to be called to him, to whom he gave the money, that he might know what any one had done in business.
16. `And the first came near, saying, Sir, thy pound did gain ten pounds;
17. and he said to him, Well done, good servant, because in a very little thou didst become faithful, be having authority over ten cities.
18. `And the second came, saying, Sir, thy pound made five pounds;
19. and he said also to this one, And thou, become thou over five cities.
20. `And another came, saying, Sir, lo, thy pound, that I had lying away in a napkin;
21. for I was afraid of thee, because thou art an austere man; thou takest up what thou didst not lay down, and reapest what thou didst not sow.
22. `And he saith to him, Out of thy mouth I will judge thee, evil servant: thou knewest that I am an austere man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow!
23. and wherefore didst thou not give my money to the bank, and I, having come, with interest might have received it?
24. `And to those standing by he said, Take from him the pound, and give to him having the ten pounds --
25. (and they said to him, Sir, he hath ten pounds) --
26. for I say to you, that to every one having shall be given, and from him not having, also what he hath shall be taken from him,
27. but those my enemies, who did not wish me to reign over them, bring hither and slay before me.'
28. And having said these things, he went on before, going up to Jerusalem.
29. And it came to pass, as he came nigh to Bethphage and Bethany, unto the mount called of the Olives, he sent two of his disciples,
30. having said, Go away to the village over-against, in which, entering into, ye shall find a colt bound, on which no one of men did ever sit, having loosed it, bring [it];
31. and if any one doth question you, Wherefore do ye loose [it]? thus ye shall say to him -- The Lord hath need of it.'
32. And those sent, having gone away, found according as he said to them,
33. and while they are loosing the colt, its owners said unto them, `Why loose ye the colt?'
34. and they said, `The Lord hath need of it;'
35. and they brought it unto Jesus, and having cast their garments upon the colt, they did set Jesus upon it.
36. And as he is going, they were spreading their garments in the way,
37. and as he is coming nigh now, at the descent of the mount of the Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began rejoicing to praise God with a great voice for all the mighty works they had seen,
38. saying, `blessed [is] he who is coming, a king in the name of the Lord; peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.'
39. And certain of the Pharisees from the multitude said unto him, `Teacher, rebuke thy disciples;'
40. and he answering said to them, `I say to you, that, if these shall be silent, the stones will cry out!'
41. And when he came nigh, having seen the city, he wept over it,
42. saying -- `If thou didst know, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things for thy peace; but now they were hid from thine eyes.
43. `Because days shall come upon thee, and thine enemies shall cast around thee a rampart, and compass thee round, and press thee on every side,
44. and lay thee low, and thy children within thee, and they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone, because thou didst not know the time of thy inspection.'
45. And having entered into the temple, he began to cast forth those selling in it, and those buying,
46. saying to them, `It hath been written, My house is a house of prayer -- but ye made it a den of robbers.'
47. And he was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes were seeking to destroy him -- also the chiefs of the people --
48. and they were not finding what they shall do, for all the people were hanging on him, hearing him.




Luke 20
1. And it came to pass, on one of those days, as he is teaching the people in the temple, and proclaiming good news, the chief priests and the scribes, with the elders, came upon [him],
2. and spake unto him, saying, `Tell us by what authority thou dost these things? or who is he that gave to thee this authority?'
3. And he answering said unto them, `I will question you -- I also -- one thing, and tell me:
4. the baptism of John, from heaven was it, or from men?'
5. And they reasoned with themselves, saying -- `If we may say, From heaven, he will say, Wherefore, then, did ye not believe him?
6. and if we may say, From men, all the people will stone us, for they are having been persuaded John to be a prophet.'
7. And they answered, that they knew not whence [it was],
8. and Jesus said to them, `Neither do I say to you by what authority I do these things.'
9. And he began to speak unto the people this simile: `A certain man planted a vineyard, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad for a long time,
10. and at the season he sent unto the husbandmen a servant, that from the fruit of the vineyard they may give to him, but the husbandmen having beat him, did send [him] away empty.
11. `And he added to send another servant, and they that one also having beaten and dishonoured, did send away empty;
12. and he added to send a third, and this one also, having wounded, they did cast out.
13. `And the owner of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I will send my son -- the beloved, perhaps having seen this one, they will do reverence;
14. and having seen him, the husbandmen reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir; come, we may kill him, that the inheritance may become ours;
15. and having cast him outside of the vineyard, they killed [him]; what, then, shall the owner of the vineyard do to them?
16. He will come, and destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.' And having heard, they said, `Let it not be!'
17. and he, having looked upon them, said, `What, then, is this that hath been written: A stone that the builders rejected -- this became head of a corner?
18. every one who hath fallen on that stone shall be broken, and on whom it may fall, it will crush him to pieces.'
19. And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him in that hour, and they feared the people, for they knew that against them he spake this simile.
20. And, having watched [him], they sent forth liers in wait, feigning themselves to be righteous, that they might take hold of his word, to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor,
21. and they questioned him, saying, `Teacher, we have known that thou dost say and teach rightly, and dost not accept a person, but in truth the way of God dost teach;
22. Is it lawful to us to give tribute to Caesar or not?'
23. And he, having perceived their craftiness, said unto them, `Why me do ye tempt?
24. shew me a denary; of whom hath it an image and superscription?' and they answering said, `Of Caesar:'
25. and he said to them, `Give back, therefore, the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God;'
26. and they were not able to take hold on his saying before the people, and having wondered at his answer, they were silent.
27. And certain of the Sadducees, who are denying that there is a rising again, having come near, questioned him,
28. saying, `Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If any one's brother may die, having a wife, and he may die childless -- that his brother may take the wife, and may raise up seed to his brother.
29. `There were, then, seven brothers, and the first having taken a wife, died childless,
30. and the second took the wife, and he died childless,
31. and the third took her, and in like manner also the seven -- they left not children, and they died;
32. and last of all died also the woman:
33. in the rising again, then, of which of them doth she become wife? -- for the seven had her as wife.'
34. And Jesus answering said to them, `The sons of this age do marry and are given in marriage,
35. but those accounted worthy to obtain that age, and the rising again that is out of the dead, neither marry, nor are they given in marriage;
36. for neither are they able to die any more -- for they are like messengers -- and they are sons of God, being sons of the rising again.
37. `And that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the Bush, since he doth call the Lord, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob;
38. and He is not a God of dead men, but of living, for all live to Him.'
39. And certain of the scribes answering said, `Teacher, thou didst say well;'
40. and no more durst they question him anything.
41. And he said unto them, `How do they say the Christ to be son of David,
42. and David himself saith in the Book of Psalms, The Lord said to my lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
43. till I shall make thine enemies thy footstool;
44. David, then, doth call him lord, and how is he his son?'
45. And, all the people hearing, he said to his disciples,
46. `Take heed of the scribes, who are wishing to walk in long robes, and are loving salutations in the markets, and first seats in the synagogues, and first couches in the suppers,
47. who devour the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, these shall receive more abundant judgment.'



Luke 21
1. And having looked up, he saw those who did cast their gifts to the treasury -- rich men,
2. and he saw also a certain poor widow casting there two mites,
3. and he said, `Truly I say to you, that this poor widow did cast in more than all;
4. for all these out of their superabundance did cast into the gifts to God, but this one out of her want, all the living that she had, did cast in.'
5. And certain saying about the temple, that with goodly stones and devoted things it hath been adorned, he said,
6. `These things that ye behold -- days will come, in which there shall not be left a stone upon a stone, that shall not be thrown down.'
7. And they questioned him, saying, `Teacher, when, then, shall these things be? and what [is] the sign when these things may be about to happen?'
8. And he said, `See -- ye may not be led astray, for many shall come in my name, saying -- I am [he], and the time hath come nigh; go not on then after them;
9. and when ye may hear of wars and uprisings, be not terrified, for it behoveth these things to happen first, but the end [is] not immediately.'
10. Then said he to them, `Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom,
11. great shakings also in every place, and famines, and pestilences, there shall be; fearful things also, and great signs from heaven there shall be;
12. and before all these, they shall lay on you their hands, and persecute, delivering up to synagogues and prisons, being brought before kings and governors for my name's sake;
13. and it shall become to you for a testimony.
14. `Settle, then, to your hearts, not to meditate beforehand to reply,
15. for I will give to you a mouth and wisdom that all your opposers shall not be able to refute or resist.
16. `And ye shall be delivered up also by parents, and brothers, and kindred, and friends, and they shall put of you to death;
17. and ye shall be hated by all because of my name --
18. and a hair out of your head shall not perish;
19. in your patience possess ye your souls.
20. `And when ye may see Jerusalem surrounded by encampments, then know that come nigh did her desolation;
21. then those in Judea, let them flee to the mountains; and those in her midst, let them depart out; and those in the countries, let them not come in to her;
22. because these are days of vengeance, to fulfil all things that have been written.
23. `And wo to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days; for there shall be great distress on the land, and wrath on this people;
24. and they shall fall by the mouth of the sword, and shall be led captive to all the nations, and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by nations, till the times of nations be fulfilled.
25. `And there shall be signs in sun, and moon, and stars, and on the land [is] distress of nations with perplexity, sea and billow roaring;
26. men fainting at heart from fear, and expectation of the things coming on the world, for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.
27. `And then they shall see the Son of Man, coming in a cloud, with power and much glory;
28. and these things beginning to happen bend yourselves back, and lift up your heads, because your redemption doth draw nigh.'
29. And he spake a simile to them: `See the fig-tree, and all the trees,
30. when they may now cast forth, having seen, of yourselves ye know that now is the summer nigh;
31. so also ye, when ye may see these things happening, ye know that near is the reign of God;
32. verily I say to you -- This generation may not pass away till all may have come to pass;
33. the heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words may not pass away.
34. `And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,
35. for as a snare it shall come on all those dwelling on the face of all the land,
36. watch ye, then, in every season, praying that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.'
37. And he was during the days in the temple teaching, and during the nights, going forth, he was lodging at the mount called of Olives;
38. and all the people were coming early unto him in the temple to hear him.




Luke 22
1. And the feast of the unleavened food was coming nigh, that is called Passover,
2. and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they may take him up, for they were afraid of the people.
3. And the Adversary entered into Judas, who is surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve,
4. and he, having gone away, spake with the chief priests and the magistrates, how he might deliver him up to them,
5. and they rejoiced, and covenanted to give him money,
6. and he agreed, and was seeking a favourable season to deliver him up to them without tumult.
7. And the day of the unleavened food came, in which it was behoving the passover to be sacrificed,
8. and he sent Peter and John, saying, `Having gone on, prepare to us the passover, that we may eat;'
9. and they said to him, `Where wilt thou that we might prepare?'
10. And he said to them, `Lo, in your entering into the city, there shall meet you a man, bearing a pitcher of water, follow him to the house where he doth go in,
11. and ye shall say to the master of the house, The Teacher saith to thee, Where is the guest-chamber where the passover with my disciples I may eat?
12. and he shall show you a large upper room furnished, there make ready;'
13. and they, having gone away, found as he hath said to them, and they made ready the passover.
14. And when the hour come, he reclined (at meat), and the twelve apostles with him,
15. and he said unto them, `With desire I did desire to eat this passover with you before my suffering,
16. for I say to you, that no more may I eat of it till it may be fulfilled in the reign of God.'
17. And having taken a cup, having given thanks, he said, `Take this and divide to yourselves,
18. for I say to you that I may not drink of the produce of the vine till the reign of God may come.'
19. And having taken bread, having given thanks, he brake and gave to them, saying, `This is my body, that for you is being given, this do ye -- to remembrance of me.'
20. In like manner, also, the cup after the supping, saying, `This cup [is] the new covenant in my blood, that for you is being poured forth.
21. `But, lo, the hand of him delivering me up [is] with me on the table,
22. and indeed the Son of Man doth go according to what hath been determined; but wo to that man through whom he is being delivered up.'
23. And they began to reason among themselves, who then of them it may be, who is about to do this thing.
24. And there happened also a strife among them -- who of them is accounted to be greater.
25. And he said to them, `The kings of the nations do exercise lordship over them, and those exercising authority upon them are called benefactors;
26. but ye [are] not so, but he who is greater among you -- let him be as the younger; and he who is leading, as he who is ministering;
27. for who is greater? he who is reclining (at meat), or he who is ministering? is it not he who is reclining (at meat)? and I -- I am in your midst as he who is ministering.
28. `And ye -- ye are those who have remained with me in my temptations,
29. and I appoint to you, as my Father did appoint to me, a kingdom,
30. that ye may eat and may drink at my table, in my kingdom, and may sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.'
31. And the Lord said, `Simon, Simon, lo, the Adversary did ask you for himself to sift as the wheat,
32. and I besought for thee, that thy faith may not fail; and thou, when thou didst turn, strengthen thy brethren.'
33. And he said to him, `Sir, with thee I am ready both to prison and to death to go;'
34. and he said, `I say to thee, Peter, a cock shall not crow to-day, before thrice thou mayest disown knowing me.'
35. And he said to them, `When I sent you without bag, and scrip, and sandals, did ye lack anything?' and they said, `Nothing.'
36. Then said he to them, `But, now, he who is having a bag, let him take [it] up, and in like manner also a scrip; and he who is not having, let him sell his garment, and buy a sword,
37. for I say to you, that yet this that hath been written it behoveth to be fulfilled in me: And with lawless ones he was reckoned, for also the things concerning me have an end.'
38. And they said, `Sir, lo, here [are] two swords;' and he said to them, `It is sufficient.'
39. And having gone forth, he went on, according to custom, to the mount of the Olives, and his disciples also followed him,
40. and having come to the place, he said to them, `Pray ye not to enter into temptation.'
41. And he was withdrawn from them, as it were a stone's cast, and having fallen on the knees he was praying,
42. saying, `Father, if Thou be counselling to make this cup pass from me --; but, not my will, but Thine be done.' --
43. And there appeared to him a messenger from heaven strengthening him;
44. and having been in agony, he was more earnestly praying, and his sweat became, as it were, great drops of blood falling upon the ground.
45. And having risen up from the prayer, having come unto the disciples, he found them sleeping from the sorrow,
46. and he said to them, `Why do ye sleep? having risen, pray that ye may not enter into temptation.'
47. And while he is speaking, lo, a multitude, and he who is called Judas, one of the twelve, was coming before them, and he came nigh to Jesus to kiss him,
48. and Jesus said to him, `Judas, with a kiss the Son of Man dost thou deliver up?'
49. And those about him, having seen what was about to be, said to him, `Sir, shall we smite with a sword?'
50. And a certain one of them smote the servant of the chief priest, and took off his right ear,
51. and Jesus answering said, `Suffer ye thus far,' and having touched his ear, he healed him.
52. And Jesus said to those having come upon him -- chief priests, and magistrates of the temple, and elders -- `As upon a robber have ye come forth, with swords and sticks?
53. while daily I was with you in the temple, ye did stretch forth no hands against me; but this is your hour and the power of the darkness.'
54. And having taken him, they led and brought him to the house of the chief priest. And Peter was following afar off,
55. and they having kindled a fire in the midst of the court, and having sat down together, Peter was sitting in the midst of them,
56. and a certain maid having seen him sitting at the light, and having earnestly looked at him, she said, `And this one was with him!'
57. and he disowned him, saying, `Woman, I have not known him.'
58. And after a little, another having seen him, said, `And thou art of them!' and Peter said, `Man, I am not.'
59. And one hour, as it were, having intervened, a certain other was confidently affirming, saying, `Of a truth this one also was with him, for he is also a Galilean;'
60. and Peter said, `Man, I have not known what thou sayest;' and presently, while he is speaking, a cock crew.
61. And the Lord having turned did look on Peter, and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he said to him -- `Before a cock shall crow, thou mayest disown me thrice;'
62. and Peter having gone without, wept bitterly.
63. And the men who were holding Jesus were mocking him, beating [him];
64. and having blindfolded him, they were striking him on the face, and were questioning him, saying, `Prophesy who he is who smote thee?'
65. and many other things, speaking evilly, they spake in regard to him.
66. And when it became day there was gathered together the eldership of the people, chief priests also, and scribes, and they led him up to their own sanhedrim,
67. saying, `If thou be the Christ, tell us.' And he said to them, `If I may tell you, ye will not believe;
68. and if I also question [you], ye will not answer me or send me away;
69. henceforth, there shall be the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of the power of God.'
70. And they all said, `Thou, then, art the Son of God?' and he said unto them, `Ye say [it], because I am;'
71. and they said, `What need yet have we of testimony? for we ourselves did hear [it] from his mouth.'





Luke 23
1. And having risen, the whole multitude of them did lead him to Pilate,
2. and began to accuse him, saying, `This one we found perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying himself to be Christ a king.'
3. And Pilate questioned him, saying, `Thou art the king of the Jews?' and he answering him, said, `Thou dost say [it].'
4. And Pilate said unto the chief priests, and the multitude, `I find no fault in this man;'
5. and they were the more urgent, saying -- `He doth stir up the people, teaching throughout the whole of Judea -- having begun from Galilee -- unto this place.'
6. And Pilate having heard of Galilee, questioned if the man is a Galilean,
7. and having known that he is from the jurisdiction of Herod, he sent him back unto Herod, he being also in Jerusalem in those days.
8. And Herod having seen Jesus did rejoice exceedingly, for he was wishing for a long [time] to see him, because of hearing many things about him, and he was hoping some sign to see done by him,
9. and was questioning him in many words, and he answered him nothing.
10. And the chief priests and the scribes stood vehemently accusing him,
11. and Herod with his soldiers having set him at nought, and having mocked, having put around him gorgeous apparel, did send him back to Pilate,
12. and both Pilate and Herod became friends on that day with one another, for they were before at enmity between themselves.
13. And Pilate having called together the chief priests, and the rulers, and the people,
14. said unto them, `Ye brought to me this man as perverting the people, and lo, I before you having examined, found in this man no fault in those things ye bring forward against him;
15. no, nor yet Herod, for I sent you back unto him, and lo, nothing worthy of death is having been done by him;
16. having chastised, therefore, I will release him,'
17. for it was necessary for him to release to them one at every feast,
18. and they cried out -- the whole multitude -- saying, `Away with this one, and release to us Barabbas,'
19. who had been, because of a certain sedition made in the city, and murder, cast into prison.
20. Pilate again then -- wishing to release Jesus -- called to them,
21. but they were calling out, saying, `Crucify, crucify him.'
22. And he a third time said unto them, `Why, what evil did he? no cause of death did I find in him; having chastised him, then, I will release [him].'
23. And they were pressing with loud voices asking him to be crucified, and their voices, and those of the chief priests, were prevailing,
24. and Pilate gave judgment for their request being done,
25. and he released him who because of sedition and murder hath been cast into the prison, whom they were asking, and Jesus he gave up to their will.
26. And as they led him away, having taken hold on Simon, a certain Cyrenian, coming from the field, they put on him the cross, to bear [it] behind Jesus.
27. And there was following him a great multitude of the people, and of women, who also were beating themselves and lamenting him,
28. and Jesus having turned unto them, said, `Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but for yourselves weep ye, and for your children;
29. for, lo, days do come, in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and wombs that did not bare, and paps that did not give suck;
30. then they shall begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us, and to the hills, Cover us; --
31. for, if in the green tree they do these things -- in the dry what may happen?'
32. And there were also others -- two evil-doers -- with him, to be put to death;
33. and when they came to the place that is called Skull, there they crucified him and the evil-doers, one on the right hand and one on the left.
34. And Jesus said, `Father, forgive them, for they have not known what they do;' and parting his garments they cast a lot.
35. And the people were standing, looking on, and the rulers also were sneering with them, saying, `Others he saved, let him save himself, if this be the Christ, the choice one of God.'
36. And mocking him also were the soldiers, coming near and offering vinegar to him,
37. and saying, `If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.'
38. And there was also a superscription written over him, in letters of Greek, and Roman, and Hebrew, `This is the King of the Jews.'
39. And one of the evil-doers who were hanged, was speaking evil of him, saying, `If thou be the Christ, save thyself and us.'
40. And the other answering, was rebuking him, saying, `Dost thou not even fear God, that thou art in the same judgment?
41. and we indeed righteously, for things worthy of what we did we receive back, but this one did nothing out of place;'
42. and he said to Jesus, `Remember me, lord, when thou mayest come in thy reign;'
43. and Jesus said to him, `Verily I say to thee, To-day with me thou shalt be in the paradise.'
44. And it was, as it were, the sixth hour, and darkness came over all the land till the ninth hour,
45. and the sun was darkened, and the vail of the sanctuary was rent in the midst,
46. and having cried with a loud voice, Jesus said, `Father, to Thy hands I commit my spirit;' and these things having said, he breathed forth the spirit.
47. And the centurion having seen what was done, did glorify God, saying, `Really this man was righteous;'
48. and all the multitudes who were come together to this sight, beholding the things that came to pass, smiting their breasts did turn back;
49. and all his acquaintances stood afar off, and women who did follow him from Galilee, beholding these things.
50. And lo, a man, by name Joseph, being a counsellor, a man good and righteous,
51. -- he was not consenting to their counsel and deed -- from Arimathea, a city of the Jews, who also himself was expecting the reign of God,
52. he, having gone near to Pilate, asked the body of Jesus,
53. and having taken it down, he wrapped it in fine linen, and placed it in a tomb hewn out, where no one was yet laid.
54. And the day was a preparation, and sabbath was approaching,
55. and the women also who have come with him out of Galilee having followed after, beheld the tomb, and how his body was placed,
56. and having turned back, they made ready spices and ointments, and on the sabbath, indeed, they rested, according to the command.





Luke 24
1. And on the first of the sabbaths, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, bearing the spices they made ready, and certain [others] with them,
2. and they found the stone having been rolled away from the tomb,
3. and having gone in, they found not the body of the Lord Jesus.
4. And it came to pass, while they are perplexed about this, that lo, two men stood by them in glittering apparel,
5. and on their having become afraid, and having inclined the face to the earth, they said to them, `Why do ye seek the living with the dead?
6. he is not here, but was raised; remember how he spake to you, being yet in Galilee,
7. saying -- It behoveth the Son of Man to be delivered up to the hands of sinful men, and to be crucified, and the third day to rise again.'
8. And they remembered his sayings,
9. and having turned back from the tomb told all these things to the eleven, and to all the rest.
10. And it was the Magdalene Mary, and Joanna, and Mary of James, and the other women with them, who told unto the apostles these things,
11. and their sayings appeared before them as idle talk, and they were not believing them.
12. And Peter having risen, did run to the tomb, and having stooped down he seeth the linen clothes lying alone, and he went away to his own home, wondering at that which was come to pass.
13. And, lo, two of them were going on during that day to a village, distant sixty furlongs from Jerusalem, the name of which [is] Emmaus,
14. and they were conversing with one another about all these things that have happened.
15. And it came to pass in their conversing and reasoning together, that Jesus himself, having come nigh, was going on with them,
16. and their eyes were holden so as not to know him,
17. and he said unto them, `What [are] these words that ye exchange with one another, walking, and ye are sad?'
18. And the one, whose name was Cleopas, answering, said unto him, `Art thou alone such a stranger in Jerusalem, that thou hast not known the things that came to pass in it in these days?'
19. And he said to them, `What things?' And they said to him, `The things about Jesus of Nazareth, who became a man -- a prophet -- powerful in deed and word, before God and all the people,
20. how also the chief priests and our rulers did deliver him up to a judgment of death, and crucified him;
21. and we were hoping that he it is who is about to redeem Israel, and also with all these things, this third day is passing to-day, since these things happened.
22. `And certain women of ours also astonished us, coming early to the tomb,
23. and not having found his body, they came, saying also to have seen an apparition of messengers, who say he is alive,
24. and certain of those with us went away unto the tomb, and found as even the women said, and him they saw not.'
25. And he said unto them, `O inconsiderate and slow in heart, to believe on all that the prophets spake!
26. Was it not behoving the Christ these things to suffer, and to enter into his glory?'
27. and having begun from Moses, and from all the prophets, he was expounding to them in all the Writings the things about himself.
28. And they came nigh to the village whither they were going, and he made an appearance of going on further,
29. and they constrained him, saying, `Remain with us, for it is toward evening,' and the day did decline, and he went in to remain with them.
30. And it came to pass, in his reclining (at meat) with them, having taken the bread, he blessed, and having broken, he was giving to them,
31. and their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he became unseen by them.
32. And they said one to another, `Was not our heart burning within us, as he was speaking to us in the way, and as he was opening up to us the Writings?'
33. And they, having risen up the same hour, turned back to Jerusalem, and found gathered together the eleven, and those with them,
34. saying -- `The Lord was raised indeed, and was seen by Simon;'
35. and they were telling the things in the way, and how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread,
36. and as they are speaking these things, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith to them, `Peace -- to you;'
37. and being amazed, and becoming affrighted, they were thinking themselves to see a spirit.
38. And he said to them, `Why are ye troubled? and wherefore do reasonings come up in your hearts?
39. see my hands and my feet, that I am he; handle me and see, because a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me having.'
40. And having said this, he shewed to them the hands and the feet,
41. and while they are not believing from the joy, and wondering, he said to them, `Have ye anything here to eat?'
42. and they gave to him part of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb,
43. and having taken, he did eat before them,
44. and he said to them, `These [are] the words that I spake unto you, being yet with you, that it behoveth to be fulfilled all the things that are written in the Law of Moses, and the Prophets, and the Psalms, about me.'
45. Then opened he up their understanding to understand the Writings,
46. and he said to them -- `Thus it hath been written, and thus it was behoving the Christ to suffer, and to rise out of the dead the third day,
47. and reformation and remission of sins to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem:
48. and ye -- ye are witnesses of these things.
49. `And, lo, I do send the promise of my Father upon you, but ye -- abide ye in the city of Jerusalem till ye be clothed with power from on high.'
50. And he led them forth without -- unto Bethany, and having lifted up his hands he did bless them,
51. and it came to pass, in his blessing them, he was parted from them, and was borne up to the heaven;
52. and they, having bowed before him, did turn back to Jerusalem with great joy,
53. and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.



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Re: Bible verse by verse

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your turn, littlenipper - please don't explain what should i - or we - interpret from ylt

I did indeed observe that the Yahoos were the only animals in this country subject to any diseases; which, however, were much fewer than horses have among us, and contracted, not by any ill-treatment they meet with, but by the nastiness and greediness of that sordid brute. Neither has their language any more than a general appellation for those maladies, which is borrowed from the name of the beast, and called hnea-yahoo, or Yahoo’s evil; and the cure prescribed is a mixture of their own dung and urine, forcibly put down the Yahoo’s throat. This I have since often known to have been taken with success, and do here freely recommend it to my countrymen for the public good, as an admirable specific against all diseases produced by repletion.

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English: Young's Literal Translation
John 1 [Commentary] [Map] Biblical Art and Illustrations
1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God;
2. this one was in the beginning with God;
3. all things through him did happen, and without him happened not even one thing that hath happened.
4. In him was life, and the life was the light of men,
5. and the light in the darkness did shine, and the darkness did not perceive it.
6. There came a man -- having been sent from God -- whose name [is] John,
7. this one came for testimony, that he might testify about the Light, that all might believe through him;
8. that one was not the Light, but -- that he might testify about the Light.
9. He was the true Light, which doth enlighten every man, coming to the world;
10. in the world he was, and the world through him was made, and the world did not know him:
11. to his own things he came, and his own people did not receive him;
12. but as many as did receive him to them he gave authority to become sons of God -- to those believing in his name,
13. who -- not of blood nor of a will of flesh, nor of a will of man but -- of God were begotten.
14. And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.
15. John doth testify concerning him, and hath cried, saying, `This was he of whom I said, He who after me is coming, hath come before me, for he was before me;'
16. and out of his fulness did we all receive, and grace over-against grace;
17. for the law through Moses was given, the grace and the truth through Jesus Christ did come;
18. God no one hath ever seen; the only begotten Son, who is on the bosom of the Father -- he did declare.
19. And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent out of Jerusalem priests and Levites, that they might question him, `Who art thou?'
20. and he confessed and did not deny, and confessed -- `I am not the Christ.'
21. And they questioned him, `What then? Elijah art thou?' and he saith, `I am not.' -- `The prophet art thou?' and he answered, `No.'
22. They said then to him, `Who art thou, that we may give an answer to those sending us? what dost thou say concerning thyself?'
23. He said, `I [am] a voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.'
24. And those sent were of the Pharisees,
25. and they questioned him and said to him, `Why, then, dost thou baptize, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?'
26. John answered them, saying, `I baptize with water, but in midst of you he hath stood whom ye have not known, this one it is who is coming after me, who hath been before me,
27. of whom I am not worthy that I may loose the cord of his sandal.'
28. These things came to pass in Bethabara, beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing,
29. on the morrow John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, `Lo, the Lamb of God, who is taking away the sin of the world;
30. this is he concerning whom I said, After me doth come a man, who hath come before me, because he was before me:
31. and I knew him not, but, that he might be manifested to Israel, because of this I came with the water baptizing.
32. And John testified, saying -- `I have seen the Spirit coming down, as a dove, out of heaven, and it remained on him;
33. and I did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water, He said to me, On whomsoever thou mayst see the Spirit coming down, and remaining on him, this is he who is baptizing with the Holy Spirit;
34. and I have seen, and have testified, that this is the Son of God.'
35. On the morrow, again, John was standing, and two of his disciples,
36. and having looked on Jesus walking, he saith, `Lo, the Lamb of God;'
37. and the two disciples heard him speaking, and they followed Jesus.
38. And Jesus having turned, and having beheld them following, saith to them, `What seek ye?' and they said to them, `Rabbi, (which is, being interpreted, Teacher,) where remainest thou?'
39. He saith to them, `Come and see;' they came, and saw where he doth remain, and with him they remained that day and the hour was about the tenth.
40. Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard from John, and followed him;
41. this one doth first find his own brother Simon, and saith to him, `We have found the Messiah,' (which is, being interpreted, The Anointed,)
42. and he brought him unto Jesus: and having looked upon him, Jesus saith, `Thou art Simon, the son of Jonas, thou shalt be called Cephas,' (which is interpreted, A rock.)
43. On the morrow, he willed to go forth to Galilee, and he findeth Philip, and saith to him, `Be following me.'
44. And Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter;
45. Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith to him, `Him of whom Moses wrote in the Law, and the prophets, we have found, Jesus the son of Joseph, who [is] from Nazareth;'
46. and Nathanael said to him, `Out of Nazareth is any good thing able to be?' Philip said to him, `Come and see.'
47. Jesus saw Nathanael coming unto him, and he saith concerning him, `Lo, truly an Israelite, in whom guile is not;'
48. Nathanael saith to him, `Whence me dost thou know?' Jesus answered and said to him, `Before Philip's calling thee -- thou being under the fig-tree -- I saw thee.'
49. Nathanael answered and saith to him, `Rabbi, thou art the Son of God, thou art the king of Israel.'
50. Jesus answered and said to him, `Because I said to thee, I saw thee under the fig-tree, thou dost believe; greater things than these thou shalt see;'
51. and he saith to him, `Verily, verily, I say to you, henceforth ye shall see the heaven opened, and the messengers of God going up and coming down upon the Son of Man.'
John 2 [Commentary] [Map] Biblical Art and Illustrations
1. And the third day a marriage happened in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there,
2. and also Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage;
3. and wine having failed, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, `Wine they have not;'
4. Jesus saith to her, `What -- to me and to thee, woman? not yet is mine hour come.'
5. His mother saith to the ministrants, `Whatever he may say to you -- do.'
6. And there were there six water-jugs of stone, placed according to the purifying of the Jews, holding each two or three measures.
7. Jesus saith to them, `Fill the water-jugs with water;' and they filled them -- unto the brim;
8. and he saith to them, `Draw out, now, and bear to the director of the apartment;' and they bare.
9. And as the director of the apartment tasted the water become wine, and knew not whence it is, (but the ministrants knew, who have drawn the water,) the director of the feast doth call the bridegroom,
10. and saith to him, `Every man, at first, the good wine doth set forth; and when they may have drunk freely, then the inferior; thou didst keep the good wine till now.'
11. This beginning of the signs did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory, and his disciples believed in him;
12. after this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples; and there they remained not many days.
13. And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,
14. and he found in the temple those selling oxen, and sheep, and doves, and the money-changers sitting,
15. and having made a whip of small cords, he put all forth out of the temple, also the sheep, and the oxen; and of the money-changers he poured out the coins, and the tables he overthrew,
16. and to those selling the doves he said, `Take these things hence; make not the house of my Father a house of merchandise.'
17. And his disciples remembered that it is written, `The zeal of Thy house did eat me up;'
18. the Jews then answered and said to him, `What sign dost thou shew to us -- that thou dost these things?'
19. Jesus answered and said to them, `Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up.'
20. The Jews, therefore, said, `Forty and six years was this sanctuary building, and wilt thou in three days raise it up?'
21. but he spake concerning the sanctuary of his body;
22. when, then, he was raised out of the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this to them, and they believed the Writing, and the word that Jesus said.
23. And as he was in Jerusalem, in the passover, in the feast, many believed in his name, beholding his signs that he was doing;
24. and Jesus himself was not trusting himself to them, because of his knowing all [men],
25. and because he had no need that any should testify concerning man, for he himself was knowing what was in man.
John 3 [Commentary] [Map] Biblical Art and Illustrations
1. And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews,
2. this one came unto him by night, and said to him, `Rabbi, we have known that from God thou hast come -- a teacher, for no one these signs is able to do that thou dost, if God may not be with him.'
3. Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'
4. Nicodemus saith unto him, `How is a man able to be born, being old? is he able into the womb of his mother a second time to enter, and to be born?'
5. Jesus answered, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born of water, and the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the reign of God;
6. that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit.
7. `Thou mayest not wonder that I said to thee, It behoveth you to be born from above;
8. the Spirit where he willeth doth blow, and his voice thou dost hear, but thou hast not known whence he cometh, and whither he goeth; thus is every one who hath been born of the Spirit.'
9. Nicodemus answered and said to him, `How are these things able to happen?'
10. Jesus answered and said to him, `Thou art the teacher of Israel -- and these things thou dost not know!
11. `Verily, verily, I say to thee -- What we have known we speak, and what we have seen we testify, and our testimony ye do not receive;
12. if the earthly things I said to you, and ye do not believe, how, if I shall say to you the heavenly things, will ye believe?
13. and no one hath gone up to the heaven, except he who out of the heaven came down -- the Son of Man who is in the heaven.
14. `And as Moses did lift up the serpent in the wilderness, so it behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up,
15. that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during,
16. for God did so love the world, that His Son -- the only begotten -- He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.
17. For God did not send His Son to the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him;
18. he who is believing in him is not judged, but he who is not believing hath been judged already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19. `And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;
20. for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;
21. but he who is doing the truth doth come to the light, that his works may be manifested, that in God they are having been wrought.'
22. After these things came Jesus and his disciples to the land of Judea, and there he did tarry with them, and was baptizing;
23. and John was also baptizing in Aenon, nigh to Salem, because there were many waters there, and they were coming and were being baptized --
24. for John was not yet cast into the prison --
25. there arose then a question from the disciples of John with [some] Jews about purifying,
26. and they came unto John, and said to him, `Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou didst testify, lo, this one is baptizing, and all are coming unto him.'
27. John answered and said, `A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven;
28. ye yourselves do testify to me that I said, I am not the Christ, but, that I am having been sent before him;
29. he who is having the bride is bridegroom, and the friend of the bridegroom, who is standing and hearing him, with joy doth rejoice because of the voice of the bridegroom; this, then, my joy hath been fulfilled.
30. `Him it behoveth to increase, and me to become less;
31. he who from above is coming is above all; he who is from the earth, from the earth he is, and from the earth he speaketh; he who from the heaven is coming is above all.
32. `And what he hath seen and heard this he doth testify, and his testimony none receiveth;
33. he who is receiving his testimony did seal that God is true;
34. for he whom God sent, the sayings of God he speaketh; for not by measure doth God give the Spirit;
35. the Father doth love the Son, and all things hath given into his hand;
36. he who is believing in the Son, hath life age-during; and he who is not believing the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God doth remain upon him.'
John 4 [Commentary] [Map] Biblical Art and Illustrations
1. When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus more disciples doth make and baptize than John,
2. (though indeed Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples,)
3. he left Judea and went away again to Galilee,
4. and it was behoving him to go through Samaria.
5. He cometh, therefore, to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the place that Jacob gave to Joseph his son;
6. and there was there a well of Jacob. Jesus therefore having been weary from the journeying, was sitting thus on the well; it was as it were the sixth hour;
7. there cometh a woman out of Samaria to draw water. Jesus saith to her, `Give me to drink;'
8. for his disciples were gone away to the city, that they may buy victuals;
9. the Samaritan woman therefore saith to him, `How dost thou, being a Jew, ask drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?' for Jews have no dealing with Samaritans.
10. Jesus answered and said to her, `If thou hadst known the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked him, and he would have given thee living water.'
11. The woman saith to him, `Sir, thou hast not even a vessel to draw with, and the well is deep; whence, then, hast thou the living water?
12. Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who did give us the well, and himself out of it did drink, and his sons, and his cattle?'
13. Jesus answered and said to her, `Every one who is drinking of this water shall thirst again;
14. but whoever may drink of the water that I will give him, may not thirst -- to the age; and the water that I will give him shall become in him a well of water, springing up to life age-during.'
15. The woman saith unto him, `Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come hither to draw.'
16. Jesus saith to her, `Go, call thy husband, and come hither;'
17. the woman answered and said, `I have not a husband.' Jesus saith to her, `Well didst thou say -- A husband I have not;
18. for five husbands thou hast had, and, now, he whom thou hast is not thy husband; this hast thou said truly.'
19. The woman saith to him, `Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet;
20. our fathers in this mountain did worship, and ye -- ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where it behoveth to worship.'
21. Jesus saith to her, `Woman, believe me, that there doth come an hour, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father;
22. ye worship what ye have not known; we worship what we have known, because the salvation is of the Jews;
23. but, there cometh an hour, and it now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father also doth seek such to worship him;
24. God [is] a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.'
25. The woman saith to him, `I have known that Messiah doth come, who is called Christ, when that one may come, he will tell us all things;'
26. Jesus saith to her, `I am [he], who am speaking to thee.'
27. And upon this came his disciples, and were wondering that with a woman he was speaking, no one, however, said, `What seekest thou?' or `Why speakest thou with her?'
28. The woman then left her water-jug, and went away to the city, and saith to the men,
29. `Come, see a man, who told me all things -- as many as I did; is this the Christ?'
30. They went forth therefore out of the city, and were coming unto him.
31. And in the meanwhile his disciples were asking him, saying, `Rabbi, eat;'
32. and he said to them, `I have food to eat that ye have not known.'
33. The disciples then said one to another, `Did any one bring him anything to eat?'
34. Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;
35. do not say that it is yet four months, and the harvest cometh; lo, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and see the fields, that they are white unto harvest already.
36. `And he who is reaping doth receive a reward, and doth gather fruit to life age-during, that both he who is sowing and he who is reaping may rejoice together;
37. for in this the saying is the true one, that one is the sower and another the reaper.
38. I sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured; others laboured, and ye into their labour have entered.
39. And from that city many believed in him, of the Samaritans, because of the word of the woman testifying, -- `He told me all things -- as many as I did.'
40. When, then, the Samaritans came unto him, they were asking him to remain with them, and he remained there two days;
41. and many more did believe because of his word,
42. and said to the woman -- `No more because of thy speaking do we believe; for we ourselves have heard and known that this is truly the Saviour of the world -- the Christ.'
43. And after the two days he went forth thence, and went away to Galilee,
44. for Jesus himself testified that a prophet in his own country shall not have honour;
45. when then, he came to Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all things that he did in Jerusalem in the feast -- for they also went to the feast.
46. Jesus came, therefore, again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine, and there was a certain courtier, whose son was ailing in Capernaum,
47. he, having heard that Jesus is come out of Judea to Galilee, went away unto him, and was asking him that he may come down and may heal his son, for he was about to die.
48. Jesus then said unto him, `If signs and wonders ye may not see, ye will not believe.'
49. The courtier saith unto him, `Sir, come down before my child die;'
50. Jesus saith to him, `Be going on; thy son doth live.' And the man believed the word that Jesus said to him, and was going on,
51. and he now going down, his servants met him, and told, saying -- `Thy child doth live;'
52. he inquired then of them the hour in which he became better, and they said to him -- `Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him;'
53. then the father knew that [it was] in that hour in which Jesus said to him -- `Thy son doth live,' and he himself believed, and his whole house;
54. this again a second sign did Jesus, having come out of Judea to Galilee.
John 5 [Commentary] [Map] Biblical Art and Illustrations
1. After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,
2. and there is in Jerusalem by the sheep-[gate] a pool that is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches,
3. in these were lying a great multitude of the ailing, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water,
4. for a messenger at a set time was going down in the pool, and was troubling the water, the first then having gone in after the troubling of the water, became whole of whatever sickness he was held.
5. and there was a certain man there being in ailment thirty and eight years,
6. him Jesus having seen lying, and having known that he is already a long time, he saith to him, `Dost thou wish to become whole?'
7. The ailing man answered him, `Sir, I have no man, that, when the water may be troubled, he may put me into the pool, and while I am coming, another doth go down before me.'
8. Jesus saith to him, `Rise, take up thy couch, and be walking;'
9. and immediately the man became whole, and he took up his couch, and was walking, and it was a sabbath on that day,
10. the Jews then said to him that hath been healed, `It is a sabbath; it is not lawful to thee to take up the couch.'
11. He answered them, `He who made me whole -- that one said to me, Take up thy couch, and be walking;'
12. they questioned him, then, `Who is the man who is saying to thee, Take up thy couch and be walking?'
13. But he that was healed had not known who he is, for Jesus did move away, a multitude being in the place.
14. After these things, Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said to him, `Lo, thou hast become whole; sin no more, lest something worse may happen to thee.'
15. The man went away, and told the Jews that it is Jesus who made him whole,
16. and because of this were the Jews persecuting Jesus, and seeking to kill him, because these things he was doing on a sabbath.
17. And Jesus answered them, `My Father till now doth work, and I work;'
18. because of this, then, were the Jews seeking the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the sabbath, but he also called God his own Father, making himself equal to God.
19. Jesus therefore responded and said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything of himself, if he may not see the Father doing anything; for whatever things He may do, these also the Son in like manner doth;
20. for the Father doth love the Son, and doth shew to him all things that He himself doth; and greater works than these He will shew him, that ye may wonder.
21. `For, as the Father doth raise the dead, and doth make alive, so also the Son doth make alive whom he willeth;
22. for neither doth the Father judge any one, but all the judgment He hath given to the Son,
23. that all may honour the Son according as they honour the Father; he who is not honouring the Son, doth not honour the Father who sent him.
24. `Verily, verily, I say to you -- He who is hearing my word, and is believing Him who sent me, hath life age-during, and to judgment he doth not come, but hath passed out of the death to the life.
25. `Verily, verily, I say to you -- There cometh an hour, and it now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those having heard shall live;
26. for, as the Father hath life in himself, so He gave also to the Son to have life in himself,
27. and authority He gave him also to do judgment, because he is Son of Man.
28. `Wonder not at this, because there doth come an hour in which all those in the tombs shall hear his voice,
29. and they shall come forth; those who did the good things to a rising again of life, and those who practised the evil things to a rising again of judgment.
30. `I am not able of myself to do anything; according as I hear I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me.
31. `If I testify concerning myself, my testimony is not true;
32. another there is who is testifying concerning me, and I have known that the testimony that he doth testify concerning me is true;
33. ye have sent unto John, and he hath testified to the truth.
34. `But I do not receive testimony from man, but these things I say that ye may be saved;
35. he was the burning and shining lamp, and ye did will to be glad, for an hour, in his light.
36. `But I have the testimony greater than John's, for the works that the Father gave me, that I might finish them, the works themselves that I do, they testify concerning me, that the Father hath sent me.
37. `And the Father who sent me Himself hath testified concerning me; ye have neither heard His voice at any time, nor His appearance have ye seen;
38. and His word ye have not remaining in you, because whom He sent, him ye do not believe.
39. `Ye search the Writings, because ye think in them to have life age-during, and these are they that are testifying concerning me;
40. and ye do not will to come unto me, that ye may have life;
41. glory from man I do not receive,
42. but I have known you, that the love of God ye have not in yourselves.
43. `I have come in the name of my Father, and ye do not receive me; if another may come in his own name, him ye will receive;
44. how are ye able -- ye -- to believe, glory from one another receiving, and the glory that [is] from God alone ye seek not?
45. `Do not think that I will accuse you unto the Father; there is who is accusing you, Moses -- in whom ye have hoped;
46. for if ye were believing Moses, ye would have been believing me, for he wrote concerning me;
47. but if his writings ye believe not, how shall ye believe my sayings?'
John 6 [Commentary] [Map] Biblical Art and Illustrations
1. After these things Jesus went away beyond the sea of Galilee (of Tiberias),
2. and there was following him a great multitude, because they were seeing his signs that he was doing on the ailing;
3. and Jesus went up to the mount, and he was there sitting with his disciples,
4. and the passover was nigh, the feast of the Jews.
5. Jesus then having lifted up [his] eyes and having seen that a great multitude doth come to him, saith unto Philip, `Whence shall we buy loaves, that these may eat?' --
6. and this he said, trying him, for he himself had known what he was about to do.
7. Philip answered him, `Two hundred denaries' worth of loaves are not sufficient to them, that each of them may receive some little;'
8. one of his disciples -- Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter -- saith to him,
9. `There is one little lad here who hath five barley loaves, and two fishes, but these -- what are they to so many?'
10. And Jesus said, `Make the men to sit down;' and there was much grass in the place, the men then sat down, in number, as it were, five thousand,
11. and Jesus took the loaves, and having given thanks he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those reclining, in like manner, also of the little fishes as much as they wished.
12. And when they were filled, he saith to his disciples, `Gather together the broken pieces that are over, that nothing may be lost;'
13. they gathered together, therefore, and filled twelve hand-baskets with broken pieces, from the five barley loaves that were over to those having eaten.
14. The men, then, having seen the sign that Jesus did, said -- `This is truly the Prophet, who is coming to the world;'
15. Jesus, therefore, having known that they are about to come, and to take him by force that they may make him king, retired again to the mountain himself alone.
16. And when evening came, his disciples went down to the sea,
17. and having entered into the boat, they were going over the sea to Capernaum, and darkness had already come, and Jesus had not come unto them,
18. the sea also -- a great wind blowing -- was being raised,
19. having pushed onwards, therefore, about twenty-five or thirty furlongs, they behold Jesus walking on the sea, and coming nigh to the boat, and they were afraid;
20. and he saith to them, `I am [he], be not afraid;'
21. they were willing then to receive him into the boat, and immediately the boat came unto the land to which they were going.
22. On the morrow, the multitude that was standing on the other side of the sea, having seen that there was no other little boat there except one -- that into which his disciples entered -- and that Jesus went not in with his disciples into the little boat, but his disciples went away alone,
23. (and other little boats came from Tiberias, nigh the place where they did eat the bread, the Lord having given thanks),
24. when therefore the multitude saw that Jesus is not there, nor his disciples, they also themselves did enter into the boats, and came to Capernaum seeking Jesus;
25. and having found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, `Rabbi, when hast thou come hither?'
26. Jesus answered them and said, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw signs, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were satisfied;
27. work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal -- [even] God.'
28. They said therefore unto him, `What may we do that we may work the works of God?'
29. Jesus answered and said to them, `This is the work of God, that ye may believe in him whom He did send.'
30. They said therefore to him, `What sign, then, dost thou, that we may see and may believe thee? what dost thou work?
31. our fathers the manna did eat in the wilderness, according as it is having been written, Bread out of the heaven He gave them to eat.'
32. Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread out of the heaven; but my Father doth give you the true bread out of the heaven;
33. for the bread of God is that which is coming down out of the heaven, and giving life to the world.'
34. They said, therefore, unto him, `Sir, always give us this bread.'
35. And Jesus said to them, `I am the bread of the life; he who is coming unto me may not hunger, and he who is believing in me may not thirst -- at any time;
36. but I said to you, that ye also have seen me, and ye believe not;
37. all that the Father doth give to me will come unto me; and him who is coming unto me, I may in no wise cast without,
38. because I have come down out of the heaven, not that I may do my will, but the will of Him who sent me.
39. `And this is the will of the Father who sent me, that all that He hath given to me I may not lose of it, but may raise it up in the last day;
40. and this is the will of Him who sent me, that every one who is beholding the Son, and is believing in him, may have life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day.'
41. The Jews, therefore, were murmuring at him, because he said, `I am the bread that came down out of the heaven;'
42. and they said, `Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we have known? how then saith this one -- Out of the heaven I have come down?'
43. Jesus answered, therefore, and said to them, `Murmur not one with another;
44. no one is able to come unto me, if the Father who sent me may not draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day;
45. it is having been written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God; every one therefore who heard from the Father, and learned, cometh to me;
46. not that any one hath seen the Father, except he who is from God, he hath seen the Father.
47. `Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is believing in me, hath life age-during;
48. I am the bread of the life;
49. your fathers did eat the manna in the wilderness, and they died;
50. this is the bread that out of the heaven is coming down, that any one may eat of it, and not die.
51. `I am the living bread that came down out of the heaven; if any one may eat of this bread he shall live -- to the age; and the bread also that I will give is my flesh, that I will give for the life of the world.'
52. The Jews, therefore, were striving with one another, saying, `How is this one able to give us [his] flesh to eat?'
53. Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, If ye may not eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and may not drink his blood, ye have no life in yourselves;
54. he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, hath life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day;
55. for my flesh truly is food, and my blood truly is drink;
56. he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, doth remain in me, and I in him.
57. `According as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, he also who is eating me, even that one shall live because of me;
58. this is the bread that came down out of the heaven; not as your fathers did eat the manna, and died; he who is eating this bread shall live -- to the age.'
59. These things he said in a synagogue, teaching in Capernaum;
60. many, therefore, of his disciples having heard, said, `This word is hard; who is able to hear it?'
61. And Jesus having known in himself that his disciples are murmuring about this, said to them, `Doth this stumble you?
62. if then ye may behold the Son of Man going up where he was before?
63. the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;
64. but there are certain of you who do not believe;' for Jesus had known from the beginning who they are who are not believing, and who is he who will deliver him up,
65. and he said, `Because of this I have said to you -- No one is able to come unto me, if it may not have been given him from my Father.'
66. From this [time] many of his disciples went away backward, and were no more walking with him,
67. Jesus, therefore, said to the twelve, `Do ye also wish to go away?'
68. Simon Peter, therefore, answered him, `Sir, unto whom shall we go? thou hast sayings of life age-during;
69. and we have believed, and we have known, that thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.'
70. Jesus answered them, `Did not I choose you -- the twelve? and of you -- one is a devil.
71. And he spake of Judas, Simon's [son], Iscariot, for he was about to deliver him up, being one of the twelve.
John 7 [Commentary] [Map] Biblical Art and Illustrations
1. And Jesus was walking after these things in Galilee, for he did not wish to walk in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him,
2. and the feast of the Jews was nigh -- that of tabernacles --
3. his brethren, therefore, said unto him, `Remove hence, and go away to Judea, that thy disciples also may behold thy works that thou dost;
4. for no one in secret doth anything, and himself seeketh to be in public; if thou dost these things -- manifest thyself to the world;'
5. for not even were his brethren believing in him.
6. Jesus, therefore, saith to them, `My time is not yet present, but your time is always ready;
7. the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.
8. Ye -- go ye up to this feast; I do not yet go up to this feast, because my time hath not yet been fulfilled;'
9. and saying these things to them, he remained in Galilee.
10. And when his brethren went up, then also he himself went up to the feast, not manifestly, but as in secret;
11. the Jews, therefore, were seeking him, in the feast, and said, `Where is that one?'
12. and there was much murmuring about him among the multitudes, some indeed said -- `He is good;' and others said, `No, but he leadeth astray the multitude;'
13. no one, however, was speaking freely about him, through fear of the Jews.
14. And it being now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up to the temple, and he was teaching,
15. and the Jews were wondering, saying, `How hath this one known letters -- not having learned?'
16. Jesus answered them and said, `My teaching is not mine, but His who sent me;
17. if any one may will to do His will, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is of God, or -- I do speak from myself.
18. `He who is speaking from himself his own glory doth seek, but he who is seeking the glory of him who sent him, this one is true, and unrighteousness is not in him;
19. hath not Moses given you the law? and none of you doth the law; why me do ye seek to kill?'
20. The multitude answered and said, `Thou hast a demon, who doth seek to kill thee?'
21. Jesus answered and said to them, `One work I did, and ye all wonder,
22. because of this, Moses hath given you the circumcision -- not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers -- and on a sabbath ye circumcise a man;
23. if a man doth receive circumcision on a sabbath that the law of Moses may not be broken, are ye wroth with me that I made a man all whole on a sabbath?
24. judge not according to appearance, but the righteous judgment judge.'
25. Certain, therefore, of the Jerusalemites said, `Is not this he whom they are seeking to kill?
26. and, lo, he doth speak freely, and they say nothing to him; did the rulers at all know truly that this is truly the Christ?
27. but this one -- we have known whence he is; and the Christ, when he doth come, no one doth know whence he is.'
28. Jesus cried, therefore, in the temple, teaching and saying, `Ye have both known me, and ye have known whence I am; and I have not come of myself, but He who sent me is true, whom ye have not known;
29. and I have known Him, because I am from Him, and He did send me.'
30. They were seeking, therefore, to seize him, and no one laid the hand on him, because his hour had not yet come,
31. and many out of the multitude did believe in him, and said -- `The Christ -- when he may come -- will he do more signs than these that this one did?'
32. The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers that they may take him;
33. Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Yet a little time I am with you, and I go away unto Him who sent me;
34. ye will seek me, and ye shall not find; and where I am, ye are not able to come.'
35. The Jews, therefore, said among themselves, `Whither is this one about to go that we shall not find him? -- to the dispersion of the Greeks is he about to go? and to teach the Greeks;
36. what is this word that he said, Ye will seek me, and ye shall not find? and, Where I am, ye are not able to come?'
37. And in the last, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, `If any one doth thirst, let him come unto me and drink;
38. he who is believing in me, according as the Writing said, Rivers out of his belly shall flow of living water;'
39. and this he said of the Spirit, which those believing in him were about to receive; for not yet was the Holy Spirit, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
40. Many, therefore out of the multitude, having heard the word, said, `This is truly the Prophet;'
41. others said, `This is the Christ;' and others said, `Why, out of Galilee doth the Christ come?
42. Did not the Writing say, that out of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem -- the village where David was -- the Christ doth come?'
43. A division, therefore, arose among the multitude because of him.
44. And certain of them were willing to seize him, but no one laid hands on him;
45. the officers came, therefore, unto the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, `Wherefore did ye not bring him?'
46. The officers answered, `Never so spake man -- as this man.'
47. The Pharisees, therefore, answered them, `Have ye also been led astray?
48. did any one out of the rulers believe in him? or out of the Pharisees?
49. but this multitude, that is not knowing the law, is accursed.'
50. Nicodemus saith unto them -- he who came by night unto him -- being one of them,
51. `Doth our law judge the man, if it may not hear from him first, and know what he doth?'
52. They answered and said to him, `Art thou also out of Galilee? search and see, that a prophet out of Galilee hath not risen;'
53. and each one went on to his house, but Jesus went on to the mount of the Olives.
John 8 [Commentary] [Map] Biblical Art and Illustrations
1. And at dawn he came again to the temple,
2. and all the people were coming unto him, and having sat down, he was teaching them;
3. and the scribes and the Pharisees bring unto him a woman having been taken in adultery, and having set her in the midst,
4. they say to him, `Teacher, this woman was taken in the very crime -- committing adultery,
5. and in the law, Moses did command us that such be stoned; thou, therefore, what dost thou say?'
6. and this they said, trying him, that they might have to accuse him. And Jesus, having stooped down, with the finger he was writing on the ground,
7. and when they continued asking him, having bent himself back, he said unto them, `The sinless of you -- let him first cast the stone at her;'
8. and again having stooped down, he was writing on the ground,
9. and they having heard, and by the conscience being convicted, were going forth one by one, having begun from the elders -- unto the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
10. And Jesus having bent himself back, and having seen no one but the woman, said to her, `Woman, where are those -- thine accusers? did no one pass sentence upon thee?'
11. and she said, `No one, Sir;' and Jesus said to her, `Neither do I pass sentence on thee; be going on, and no more sin.'
12. Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, `I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'
13. The Pharisees, therefore, said to him, `Thou of thyself dost testify, thy testimony is not true;'
14. Jesus answered and said to them, `And if I testify of myself -- my testimony is true, because I have known whence I came, and whither I go, and ye -- ye have not known whence I come, or whither I go.
15. `Ye according to the flesh do judge; I do not judge any one,
16. and even if I do judge my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent me;
17. and also in your law it hath been written, that the testimony of two men are true;
18. I am [one] who is testifying of myself, and the Father who sent me doth testify of me.'
19. They said, therefore, to him, `Where is thy father?' Jesus answered, `Ye have neither known me nor my Father: if me ye had known, my Father also ye had known.'
20. These sayings spake Jesus in the treasury, teaching in the temple, and no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come;
21. therefore said Jesus again to them, `I go away, and ye will seek me, and in your sin ye shall die; whither I go away, ye are not able to come.'
22. The Jews, therefore, said, `Will he kill himself, because he saith, Whither I go away, ye are not able to come?'
23. and he said to them, `Ye are from beneath, I am from above; ye are of this world, I am not of this world;
24. I said, therefore, to you, that ye shall die in your sins, for if ye may not believe that I am [he], ye shall die in your sins.'
25. They said, therefore, to him, `Thou -- who art thou?' and Jesus said to them, `Even what I did speak of to you at the beginning;
26. many things I have to speak concerning you and to judge, but He who sent me is true, and I -- what things I heard from Him -- these I say to the world.'
27. They knew not that of the Father he spake to them;
28. Jesus, therefore, said to them, `When ye may lift up the Son of Man then ye will know that I am [he]; and of myself I do nothing, but according as my Father did teach me, these things I speak;
29. and He who sent me is with me; the Father did not leave me alone, because I, the things pleasing to Him, do always.'
30. As he is speaking these things, many believed in him;
31. Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, `If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth,
32. and the truth shall make you free.'
33. They answered him, `Seed of Abraham we are; and to no one have we been servants at any time; how dost thou say -- Ye shall become free?'
34. Jesus answered them, `Verily, verily, I say to you -- Every one who is committing sin, is a servant of the sin,
35. and the servant doth not remain in the house -- to the age, the son doth remain -- to the age;
36. if then the son may make you free, in reality ye shall be free.
37. `I have known that ye are seed of Abraham, but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you;
38. I -- that which I have seen with my Father do speak, and ye, therefore, that which ye have seen with your father -- ye do.'
39. They answered and said to him, `Our father is Abraham;' Jesus saith to them, `If children of Abraham ye were, the works of Abraham ye were doing;
40. and now, ye seek to kill me -- a man who hath spoken to you the truth I heard from God; this Abraham did not;
41. ye do the works of your father.' They said, therefore, to him, `We of whoredom have not been born; one Father we have -- God;'
42. Jesus then said to them, `If God were your father, ye were loving me, for I came forth from God, and am come; for neither have I come of myself, but He sent me;
43. wherefore do ye not know my speech? because ye are not able to hear my word.
44. `Ye are of a father -- the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar -- also his father.
45. `And because I say the truth, ye do not believe me.
46. Who of you doth convict me of sin? and if I speak truth, wherefore do ye not believe me?
47. he who is of God, the sayings of God he doth hear; because of this ye do not hear, because of God ye are not.'
48. The Jews, therefore, answered and said to him, `Do we not say well, that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a demon?'
49. Jesus answered, `I have not a demon, but I honour my Father, and ye dishonour me;
50. and I do not seek my own glory; there is who is seeking and is judging;
51. verily, verily, I say to you, If any one may keep my word, death he may not see -- to the age.'
52. The Jews, therefore, said to him, `Now we have known that thou hast a demon; Abraham did die, and the prophets, and thou dost say, If any one may keep my word, he shall not taste of death -- to the age!
53. Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who died? and the prophets died; whom dost thou make thyself?'
54. Jesus answered, `If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing; it is my Father who is glorifying me, of whom ye say that He is your God;
55. and ye have not known Him, and I have known Him, and if I say that I have not known Him, I shall be like you -- speaking falsely; but I have known Him, and His word I keep;
56. Abraham, your father, was glad that he might see my day; and he saw, and did rejoice.'
57. The Jews, therefore, said unto him, `Thou art not yet fifty years old, and Abraham hast thou seen?'
58. Jesus said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham's coming -- I am;'
59. they took up, therefore, stones that they may cast at him, but Jesus hid himself, and went forth out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
John 9 [Commentary] [Map] Biblical Art and Illustrations
1. And passing by, he saw a man blind from birth,
2. and his disciples asked him, saying, `Rabbi, who did sin, this one or his parents, that he should be born blind?'
3. Jesus answered, `Neither did this one sin nor his parents, but that the works of God may be manifested in him;
4. it behoveth me to be working the works of Him who sent me while it is day; night doth come, when no one is able to work: --
5. when I am in the world, I am a light of the world.'
6. These things saying, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and rubbed the clay on the eyes of the blind man, and said to him,
7. `Go away, wash at the pool of Siloam,' which is, interpreted, Sent. He went away, therefore, and did wash, and came seeing;
8. the neighbours, therefore, and those seeing him before, that he was blind, said, `Is not this he who is sitting and begging?'
9. others said -- `This is he;' and others -- `He is like to him;' he himself said, -- `I am [he].'
10. They said, therefore, to him, `How were thine eyes opened?'
11. he answered and said, `A man called Jesus made clay, and rubbed my eyes, and said to me, Go away to the pool of Siloam, and wash; and having gone away and having washed, I received sight;'
12. they said, therefore, to him, `Where is that one?' he saith, `I have not known.'
13. They bring him to the Pharisees who once [was] blind,
14. and it was a sabbath when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.
15. Again, therefore, the Pharisees also were asking him how he received sight, and he said to them, `Clay he did put upon my eyes, and I did wash -- and I see.'
16. Of the Pharisees, therefore, certain said, `This man is not from God, because the sabbath he doth not keep;' others said, `How is a man -- a sinful one -- able to do such signs?' and there was a division among them.
17. They said to the blind man again, `Thou -- what dost thou say of him -- that he opened thine eyes?'
18. and he said -- `He is a prophet.' The Jews, therefore, did not believe concerning him that he was blind and did receive sight, till that they called the parents of him who received sight,
19. and they asked them, saying, `Is your son, of whom ye say that he was born blind? how then now doth he see?'
20. His parents answered them and said, `We have known that this is our son, and that he was born blind;
21. and how he now seeth, we have not known; or who opened his eyes, we have not known; himself is of age, ask him; he himself shall speak concerning himself.'
22. These things said his parents, because they were afraid of the Jews, for already had the Jews agreed together, that if any one may confess him -- Christ, he may be put out of the synagogue;
23. because of this his parents said -- `He is of age, ask him.'
24. They called, therefore, a second time the man who was blind, and they said to him, `Give glory to God, we have known that this man is a sinner;'
25. he answered, therefore, and said, `If he be a sinner -- I have not known, one thing I have known, that, being blind, now I see.'
26. And they said to him again, `What did he to thee? how did he open thine eyes?'
27. He answered them, `I told you already, and ye did not hear; why again do ye wish to hear? do ye also wish to become his disciples?'
28. They reviled him, therefore, and said, `Thou art his disciple, and we are Moses' disciples;
29. we have known that God hath spoken to Moses, but this one -- we have not known whence he is.'
30. The man answered and said to them, `Why, in this is a wonderful thing, that ye have not known whence he is, and he opened my eyes!
31. and we have known that God doth not hear sinners, but, if any one may be a worshipper of God, and may do His will, him He doth hear;
32. from the age it was not heard, that any one did open eyes of one who hath been born blind;
33. if this one were not from God, he were not able to do anything.'
34. They answered and said to him, `In sins thou wast born altogether, and thou dost teach us!' and they cast him forth without.
35. Jesus heard that they cast him forth without, and having found him, he said to him, `Dost thou believe in the Son of God?'
36. he answered and said, `Who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?'
37. And Jesus said to him, `Thou hast both seen him, and he who is speaking with thee is he;'
38. and he said, `I believe, sir,' and bowed before him.
39. And Jesus said, `For judgment I to this world did come, that those not seeing may see, and those seeing may become blind.'
40. And those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and they said to him, `Are we also blind?'
41. Jesus said to them, `If ye were blind, ye were not having had sin, but now ye say -- We see, therefore doth your sin remain.
John 10 [Commentary] [Map] Biblical Art and Illustrations
1. `Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is not entering through the door to the fold of the sheep, but is going up from another side, that one is a thief and a robber;
2. and he who is entering through the door is shepherd of the sheep;
3. to this one the doorkeeper doth open, and the sheep hear his voice, and his own sheep he doth call by name, and doth lead them forth;
4. and when his own sheep he may put forth, before them he goeth on, and the sheep follow him, because they have known his voice;
5. and a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him, because they have not known the voice of strangers.'
6. This similitude spake Jesus to them, and they knew not what the things were that he was speaking to them;
7. Jesus said therefore again to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you -- I am the door of the sheep;
8. all, as many as came before me, are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them;
9. I am the door, through me if any one may come in, he shall be saved, and he shall come in, and go out, and find pasture.
10. `The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have [it] abundantly.
11. `I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd his life layeth down for the sheep;
12. and the hireling, and not being a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, doth behold the wolf coming, and doth leave the sheep, and doth flee; and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep;
13. and the hireling doth flee because he is an hireling, and is not caring for the sheep.
14. `I am the good shepherd, and I know my [sheep], and am known by mine,
15. according as the Father doth know me, and I know the Father, and my life I lay down for the sheep,
16. and other sheep I have that are not of this fold, these also it behoveth me to bring, and my voice they will hear, and there shall become one flock -- one shepherd.
17. `Because of this doth the Father love me, because I lay down my life, that again I may take it;
18. no one doth take it from me, but I lay it down of myself; authority I have to lay it down, and authority I have again to take it; this command I received from my Father.'
19. Therefore, again, there came a division among the Jews, because of these words,
20. and many of them said, `He hath a demon, and is mad, why do ye hear him?'
21. others said, `These sayings are not those of a demoniac; is a demon able blind men's eyes to open?'
22. And the dedication in Jerusalem came, and it was winter,
23. and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the porch of Solomon,
24. the Jews, therefore, came round about him, and said to him, `Till when our soul dost thou hold in suspense? if thou art the Christ, tell us freely.'
25. Jesus answered them, `I told you, and ye do not believe; the works that I do in the name of my Father, these testify concerning me;
26. but ye do not believe, for ye are not of my sheep,
27. according as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, and I know them, and they follow me,
28. and life age-during I give to them, and they shall not perish -- to the age, and no one shall pluck them out of my hand;
29. my Father, who hath given to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to pluck out of the hand of my Father;
30. I and the Father are one.'
31. Therefore, again, did the Jews take up stones that they may stone him;
32. Jesus answered them, `Many good works did I shew you from my Father; because of which work of them do ye stone me?'
33. The Jews answered him, saying, `For a good work we do not stone thee, but for evil speaking, and because thou, being a man, dost make thyself God.'
34. Jesus answered them, `Is it not having been written in your law: I said, ye are gods?
35. if them he did call gods unto whom the word of God came, (and the Writing is not able to be broken,)
36. of him whom the Father did sanctify, and send to the world, do ye say -- Thou speakest evil, because I said, Son of God I am?
37. if I do not the works of my Father, do not believe me;
38. and if I do, even if me ye may not believe, the works believe, that ye may know and may believe that in me [is] the Father, and I in Him.'
39. Therefore were they seeking again to seize him, and he went forth out of their hand,
40. and went away again to the other side of the Jordan, to the place where John was at first baptizing, and remained there,
41. and many came unto him, and said -- `John, indeed, did no sign, and all things, as many as John said about this one were true;'
42. and many did believe in him there.

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John 11 [Commentary] [Map] Biblical Art and Illustrations
1. And there was a certain one ailing, Lazarus, from Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister --
2. and it was Mary who did anoint the Lord with ointment, and did wipe his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ailing --
3. therefore sent the sisters unto him, saying, `Sir, lo, he whom thou dost love is ailing;'
4. and Jesus having heard, said, `This ailment is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.'
5. And Jesus was loving Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus,
6. when, therefore, he heard that he is ailing, then indeed he remained in the place in which he was two days,
7. then after this, he saith to the disciples, `We may go to Judea again;'
8. the disciples say to him, `Rabbi, now were the Jews seeking to stone thee, and again thou dost go thither!'
9. Jesus answered, `Are there not twelve hours in the day? if any one may walk in the day, he doth not stumble, because the light of this world he doth see;
10. and if any one may walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.'
11. These things he said, and after this he saith to them, `Lazarus our friend hath fallen asleep, but I go on that I may awake him;'
12. therefore said his disciples, `Sir, if he hath fallen asleep, he will be saved;'
13. but Jesus had spoken about his death, but they thought that about the repose of sleep he speaketh.
14. Then, therefore, Jesus said to them freely, `Lazarus hath died;
15. and I rejoice, for your sake, (that ye may believe,) that I was not there; but we may go to him;'
16. therefore said Thomas, who is called Didymus, to the fellow-disciples, `We may go -- we also, that we may die with him,'
17. Jesus, therefore, having come, found him having been four days already in the tomb.
18. And Bethany was nigh to Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off,
19. and many of the Jews had come unto Martha and Mary, that they might comfort them concerning their brother;
20. Martha, therefore, when she heard that Jesus doth come, met him, and Mary kept sitting in the house.
21. Martha, therefore, said unto Jesus, `Sir, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;
22. but even now, I have known that whatever thou mayest ask of God, God will give to thee;'
23. Jesus saith to her, `Thy brother shall rise again.'
24. Martha saith to him, `I have known that he will rise again, in the rising again in the last day;'
25. Jesus said to her, `I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live;
26. and every one who is living and believing in me shall not die -- to the age;
27. believest thou this?' she saith to him, `Yes, sir, I have believed that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming to the world.'
28. And these things having said, she went away, and called Mary her sister privately, saying, `The Teacher is present, and doth call thee;'
29. she, when she heard, riseth up quickly, and doth come to him;
30. and Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was in the place where Martha met him;
31. the Jews, therefore, who were with her in the house, and were comforting her, having seen Mary that she rose up quickly and went forth, followed her, saying -- `She doth go away to the tomb, that she may weep there.'
32. Mary, therefore, when she came where Jesus was, having seen him, fell at his feet, saying to him, `Sir, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;'
33. Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, did groan in the spirit, and troubled himself, and he said,
34. `Where have ye laid him?' they say to him, `Sir, come and see;'
35. Jesus wept.
36. The Jews, therefore, said, `Lo, how he was loving him!'
37. and certain of them said, `Was not this one, who did open the eyes of the blind man, able to cause that also this one might not have died?'
38. Jesus, therefore, again groaning in himself, cometh to the tomb, and it was a cave, and a stone was lying upon it,
39. Jesus saith, `Take ye away the stone;' the sister of him who hath died -- Martha -- saith to him, `Sir, already he stinketh, for he is four days dead;'
40. Jesus saith to her, `Said I not to thee, that if thou mayest believe, thou shalt see the glory of God?'
41. They took away, therefore, the stone where the dead was laid, and Jesus lifted his eyes upwards, and said, `Father, I thank Thee, that Thou didst hear me;
42. and I knew that Thou always dost hear me, but, because of the multitude that is standing by, I said [it], that they may believe that Thou didst send me.'
43. And these things saying, with a loud voice he cried out, `Lazarus, come forth;'
44. and he who died came forth, being bound feet and hands with grave-clothes, and his visage with a napkin was bound about; Jesus saith to them, `Loose him, and suffer to go.'
45. Many, therefore, of the Jews who came unto Mary, and beheld what Jesus did, believed in him;
46. but certain of them went away unto the Pharisees, and told them what Jesus did;
47. the chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered together a sanhedrim, and said, `What may we do? because this man doth many signs?
48. if we may let him alone thus, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and will take away both our place and nation.'
49. and a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being chief priest of that year, said to them, `Ye have not known anything,
50. nor reason that it is good for us that one man may die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.'
51. And this he said not of himself, but being chief priest of that year, he did prophesy that Jesus was about to die for the nation,
52. and not for the nation only, but that also the children of God, who have been scattered abroad, he may gather together into one.
53. From that day, therefore, they took counsel together that they may kill him;
54. Jesus, therefore, was no more freely walking among the Jews, but went away thence to the region nigh the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there he tarried with his disciples.
55. And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves;
56. they were seeking, therefore, Jesus, and said one with another, standing in the temple, `What doth appear to you -- that he may not come to the feast?'
57. and both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command, that if any one may know where he is, he may shew [it], so that they may seize him.
John 12 [Commentary] [Map] Biblical Art and Illustrations
1. Jesus, therefore, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where was Lazarus, who had died, whom he raised out of the dead;
2. they made, therefore, to him a supper there, and Martha was ministering, and Lazarus was one of those reclining together (at meat) with him;
3. Mary, therefore, having taken a pound of ointment of spikenard, of great price, anointed the feet of Jesus and did wipe with her hair his feet, and the house was filled from the fragrance of the ointment.
4. Therefore saith one of his disciples -- Judas Iscariot, of Simon, who is about to deliver him up --
5. `Wherefore was not this ointment sold for three hundred denaries, and given to the poor?'
6. and he said this, not because he was caring for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and what things were put in he was carrying.
7. Jesus, therefore, said, `Suffer her; for the day of my embalming she hath kept it,
8. for the poor ye have always with yourselves, and me ye have not always.'
9. A great multitude, therefore, of the Jews knew that he is there, and they came, not because of Jesus only, but that Lazarus also they may see, whom he raised out of the dead;
10. and the chief priests took counsel, that also Lazarus they may kill,
11. because on account of him many of the Jews were going away, and were believing in Jesus.
12. On the morrow, a great multitude that came to the feast, having heard that Jesus doth come to Jerusalem,
13. took the branches of the palms, and went forth to meet him, and were crying, `Hosanna, blessed [is] he who is coming in the name of the Lord -- the king of Israel;'
14. and Jesus having found a young ass did sit upon it, according as it is written,
15. `Fear not, daughter of Sion, lo, thy king doth come, sitting on an ass' colt.'
16. And these things his disciples did not know at the first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were having been written about him, and these things they did to him.
17. The multitude, therefore, who are with him, were testifying that he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and did raise him out of the dead;
18. because of this also did the multitude meet him, because they heard of his having done this sign,
19. the Pharisees, therefore, said among themselves, `Ye see that ye do not gain anything, lo, the world did go after him.'
20. And there were certain Greeks out of those coming up that they may worship in the feast,
21. these then came near to Philip, who [is] from Bethsaida of Galilee, and were asking him, saying, `Sir, we wish to see Jesus;'
22. Philip cometh and telleth Andrew, and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus.
23. And Jesus responded to them, saying, `The hour hath come that the Son of Man may be glorified;
24. verily, verily, I say to you, if the grain of the wheat, having fallen to the earth, may not die, itself remaineth alone; and if it may die, it doth bear much fruit;
25. he who is loving his life shall lose it, and he who is hating his life in this world -- to life age-during shall keep it;
26. if any one may minister to me, let him follow me, and where I am, there also my ministrant shall be; and if any one may minister to me -- honour him will the Father.
27. `Now hath my soul been troubled, and what? shall I say -- Father, save me from this hour? -- but because of this I came to this hour;
28. Father, glorify Thy name.' There came, therefore, a voice out of the heaven, `I both glorified, and again I will glorify [it];'
29. the multitude, therefore, having stood and heard, were saying that there hath been thunder; others said, `A messenger hath spoken to him.'
30. Jesus answered and said, `Not because of me hath this voice come, but because of you;
31. now is a judgment of this world, now shall the ruler of this world be cast forth;
32. and I, if I may be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto myself.'
33. And this he said signifying by what death he was about to die;
34. the multitude answered him, `We heard out of the law that the Christ doth remain -- to the age; and how dost thou say, That it behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up? who is this -- the Son of Man?'
35. Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Yet a little time is the light with you; walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he who is walking in the darkness hath not known where he goeth;
36. while ye have the light, believe in the light, that sons of light ye may become.' These things spake Jesus, and having gone away, he was hid from them,
37. yet he having done so many signs before them, they were not believing in him,
38. that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he said, `Lord, who gave credence to our report? and the arm of the Lord -- to whom was it revealed?'
39. Because of this they were not able to believe, that again Isaiah said,
40. `He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart, that they might not see with the eyes, and understand with the heart, and turn back, and I might heal them;'
41. these things said Isaiah, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.
42. Still, however, also out of the rulers did many believe in him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing, that they might not be put out of the synagogue,
43. for they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God.
44. And Jesus cried and said, `He who is believing in me, doth not believe in me, but in Him who sent me;
45. and he who is beholding me, doth behold Him who sent me;
46. I a light to the world have come, that every one who is believing in me -- in the darkness may not remain;
47. and if any one may hear my sayings, and not believe, I -- I do not judge him, for I came not that I might judge the world, but that I might save the world.
48. `He who is rejecting me, and not receiving my sayings, hath one who is judging him, the word that I spake, that will judge him in the last day,
49. because I spake not from myself, but the Father who sent me, He did give me a command, what I may say, and what I may speak,
50. and I have known that His command is life age-during; what, therefore, I speak, according as the Father hath said to me, so I speak.'
John 13 [Commentary] Biblical Art and Illustrations
1. And before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour hath come, that he may remove out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own who [are] in the world -- to the end he loved them.
2. And supper being come, the devil already having put [it] into the heart of Judas of Simon, Iscariot, that he may deliver him up,
3. Jesus knowing that all things the Father hath given to him -- into [his] hands, and that from God he came forth, and unto God he goeth,
4. doth rise from the supper, and doth lay down his garments, and having taken a towel, he girded himself;
5. afterward he putteth water into the basin, and began to wash the feet of his disciples, and to wipe with the towel with which he was being girded.
6. He cometh, therefore, unto Simon Peter, and that one saith to him, `Sir, thou -- dost thou wash my feet?'
7. Jesus answered and said to him, `That which I do thou hast not known now, but thou shalt know after these things;'
8. Peter saith to him, `Thou mayest not wash my feet -- to the age.' Jesus answered him, `If I may not wash thee, thou hast no part with me;'
9. Simon Peter saith to him, `Sir, not my feet only, but also the hands and the head.'
10. Jesus saith to him, `He who hath been bathed hath no need save to wash his feet, but he is clean altogether; and ye are clean, but not all;'
11. for he knew him who is delivering him up; because of this he said, `Ye are not all clean.'
12. When, therefore, he washed their feet, and took his garments, having reclined (at meat) again, he said to them, `Do ye know what I have done to you?
13. ye call me, The Teacher and The Lord, and ye say well, for I am;
14. if then I did wash your feet -- the Lord and the Teacher -- ye also ought to wash one another's feet.
15. `For an example I gave to you, that, according as I did to you, ye also may do;
16. verily, verily, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his lord, nor an apostle greater than he who sent him;
17. if these things ye have known, happy are ye, if ye may do them;
18. not concerning you all do I speak; I have known whom I chose for myself; but that the Writing may be fulfilled: He who is eating the bread with me, did lift up against me his heel.
19. `From this time I tell you, before its coming to pass, that, when it may come to pass, ye may believe that I am [he];
20. verily, verily, I say to you, he who is receiving whomsoever I may send, doth receive me; and he who is receiving me, doth receive Him who sent me.'
21. These things having said, Jesus was troubled in the spirit, and did testify, and said, `Verily, verily, I say to you, that one of you will deliver me up;'
22. the disciples were looking, therefore, one at another, doubting concerning whom he speaketh.
23. And there was one of his disciples reclining (at meat) in the bosom of Jesus, whom Jesus was loving;
24. Simon Peter, then, doth beckon to this one, to inquire who he may be concerning whom he speaketh,
25. and that one having leant back on the breast of Jesus, respondeth to him, `Sir, who is it?'
26. Jesus answereth, `That one it is to whom I, having dipped the morsel, shall give it;' and having dipped the morsel, he giveth [it] to Judas of Simon, Iscariot.
27. And after the morsel, then the Adversary entered into that one, Jesus, therefore, saith to him, `What thou dost -- do quickly;'
28. and none of those reclining at meat knew for what intent he said this to him,
29. for certain were thinking, since Judas had the bag, that Jesus saith to him, `Buy what we have need of for the feast;' or that he may give something to the poor;
30. having received, therefore, the morsel, that one immediately went forth, and it was night.
31. When, therefore, he went forth, Jesus saith, `Now was the Son of Man glorified, and God was glorified in him;
32. if God was glorified in him, God also will glorify him in Himself; yea, immediately He will glorify him.
33. `Little children, yet a little am I with you; ye will seek me, and, according as I said to the Jews -- Whither I go away, ye are not able to come, to you also I do say [it] now.
34. `A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;
35. in this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye may have love one to another.'
36. Simon Peter saith to him, `Sir, whither dost thou go away?' Jesus answered him, `Whither I go away, thou art not able now to follow me, but afterward thou shalt follow me.'
37. Peter saith to him, `Sir, wherefore am I not able to follow thee now? my life for thee I will lay down;'
38. Jesus answered him, `Thy life for me thou wilt lay down! verily, verily, I say to thee, a cock will not crow till thou mayest deny me thrice.'
John 14 [Commentary] Biblical Art and Illustrations
1. `Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe;
2. in the house of my Father are many mansions; and if not, I would have told you; I go on to prepare a place for you;
3. and if I go on and prepare for you a place, again do I come, and will receive you unto myself, that where I am ye also may be;
4. and whither I go away ye have known, and the way ye have known.'
5. Thomas saith to him, `Sir, we have not known whither thou goest away, and how are we able to know the way?'
6. Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;
7. if ye had known me, my Father also ye would have known, and from this time ye have known Him, and have seen Him.'
8. Philip saith to him, `Sir, shew to us the Father, and it is enough for us;'
9. Jesus saith to him, `So long time am I with you, and thou hast not known me, Philip? he who hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how dost thou say, Shew to us the Father?
10. Believest thou not that I [am] in the Father, and the Father is in me? the sayings that I speak to you, from myself I speak not, and the Father who is abiding in me, Himself doth the works;
11. believe me, that I [am] in the Father, and the Father in me; and if not, because of the works themselves, believe me.
12. `Verily, verily, I say to you, he who is believing in me, the works that I do -- that one also shall do, and greater than these he shall do, because I go on to my Father;
13. and whatever ye may ask in my name, I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son;
14. if ye ask anything in my name I will do [it].
15. `If ye love me, my commands keep,
16. and I will ask the Father, and another Comforter He will give to you, that he may remain with you -- to the age;
17. the Spirit of truth, whom the world is not able to receive, because it doth not behold him, nor know him, and ye know him, because he doth remain with you, and shall be in you.
18. `I will not leave you bereaved, I come unto you;
19. yet a little, and the world doth no more behold me, and ye behold me, because I live, and ye shall live;
20. in that day ye shall know that I [am] in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you;
21. he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.'
22. Judas saith to him, (not the Iscariot), `Sir, what hath come to pass, that to us thou are about to manifest thyself, and not to the world?'
23. Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;
24. he who is not loving me, my words doth not keep; and the word that ye hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.
25. `These things I have spoken to you, remaining with you,
26. and the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and remind you of all things that I said to you.
27. `Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;
28. ye heard that I said to you -- I go away, and I come unto you; if ye did love me, ye would have rejoiced that I said -- I go on to the Father, because my Father is greater than I.
29. `And now I have said [it] to you before it come to pass, that when it may come to pass, ye may believe;
30. I will no more talk much with you, for the ruler of this world doth come, and in me he hath nothing;
31. but that the world may know that I love the Father, and according as the Father gave me command so I do; arise, we may go hence.
John 15 [Commentary] Biblical Art and Illustrations
1. `I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman;
2. every branch in me not bearing fruit, He doth take it away, and every one bearing fruit, He doth cleanse by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit;
3. already ye are clean, because of the word that I have spoken to you;
4. remain in me, and I in you, as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, if it may not remain in the vine, so neither ye, if ye may not remain in me.
5. `I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything;
6. if any one may not remain in me, he was cast forth without as the branch, and was withered, and they gather them, and cast to fire, and they are burned;
7. if ye may remain in me, and my sayings in you may remain, whatever ye may wish ye shall ask, and it shall be done to you.
8. `In this was my Father glorified, that ye may bear much fruit, and ye shall become my disciples.
9. According as the Father did love me, I also loved you, remain in my love;
10. if my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do remain in His love;
11. these things I have spoken to you, that my joy in you may remain, and your joy may be full.
12. `This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;
13. greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;
14. ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever I command you;
15. no more do I call you servants, because the servant hath not known what his lord doth, and you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I did make known to you.
16. `Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and did appoint you, that ye might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, He may give you.
17. `These things I command you, that ye love one another;
18. if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you;
19. if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not -- but I chose out of the world -- because of this the world hateth you.
20. `Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; if me they did persecute, you also they will persecute; if my word they did keep, yours also they will keep;
21. but all these things will they do to you, because of my name, because they have not known Him who sent me;
22. if I had not come and spoken to them, they were not having sin; but now pretext they have not for their sin.
23. `He who is hating me, doth hate also my Father;
24. if I did not do among them the works that no other hath done, they were not having sin, and now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father;
25. but -- that the word may be fulfilled that was written in their law -- They hated me without a cause.
26. `And when the Comforter may come, whom I will send to you from the Father -- the Spirit of truth, who from the Father doth come forth, he will testify of me;
27. and ye also do testify, because from the beginning ye are with me.
John 16 [Commentary] Biblical Art and Illustrations
1. `These things I have spoken to you, that ye may not be stumbled,
2. out of the synagogues they will put you; but an hour doth come, that every one who hath killed you, may think to offer service unto God;
3. and these things they will do to you, because they did not know the Father, nor me.
4. `But these things I have spoken to you, that when the hour may come, ye may remember them, that I said [them] to you, and these things to you from the beginning I did not say, because I was with you;
5. and now I go away to Him who sent me, and none of you doth ask me, Whither dost thou go?
6. but because these things I have said to you, the sorrow hath filled your heart.
7. `But I tell you the truth; it is better for you that I go away, for if I may not go away, the Comforter will not come unto you, and if I go on, I will send Him unto you;
8. and having come, He will convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment;
9. concerning sin indeed, because they do not believe in me;
10. and concerning righteousness, because unto my Father I go away, and no more do ye behold me;
11. and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world hath been judged.
12. `I have yet many things to say to you, but ye are not able to bear [them] now;
13. and when He may come -- the Spirit of truth -- He will guide you to all the truth, for He will not speak from Himself, but as many things as He will hear He will speak, and the coming things He will tell you;
14. He will glorify me, because of mine He will take, and will tell to you.
15. `All things, as many as the Father hath, are mine; because of this I said, That of mine He will take, and will tell to you;
16. a little while, and ye do not behold me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go away unto the Father.'
17. Therefore said [some] of his disciples one to another, `What is this that he saith to us, A little while, and ye do not behold me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me, and, Because I go away unto the Father?'
18. they said then, `What is this he saith -- the little while? we have not known what he saith.'
19. Jesus, therefore, knew that they were wishing to ask him, and he said to them, `Concerning this do ye seek one with another, because I said, A little while, and you do not behold me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me?
20. verily, verily, I say to you, that ye shall weep and lament, and the world will rejoice; and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow joy will become.
21. `The woman, when she may bear, hath sorrow, because her hour did come, and when she may bear the child, no more doth she remember the anguish, because of the joy that a man was born to the world.
22. `And ye, therefore, now, indeed, have sorrow; and again I will see you, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one doth take from you,
23. and in that day ye will question me nothing; verily, verily, I say to you, as many things as ye may ask of the Father in my name, He will give you;
24. till now ye did ask nothing in my name; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
25. `These things in similitudes I have spoken to you, but there cometh an hour when no more in similitudes will I speak to you, but freely of the Father, will tell you.
26. `In that day, in my name ye will make request, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father for you,
27. for the Father himself doth love you, because me ye have loved, and ye have believed that I from God came forth;
28. I came forth from the Father, and have come to the world; again I leave the world, and go on unto the Father.'
29. His disciples say to him, `Lo, now freely thou dost speak, and no similitude speakest thou;
30. now we have known that thou hast known all things, and hast no need that any one do question thee; in this we believe that from God thou didst come forth.'
31. Jesus answered them, `Now do ye believe? lo, there doth come an hour,
32. and now it hath come, that ye may be scattered, each to his own things, and me ye may leave alone, and I am not alone, because the Father is with me;
33. these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage -- I have overcome the world.'
John 17 [Commentary] Biblical Art and Illustrations
1. These things spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to the heaven, and said -- `Father, the hour hath come, glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son also may glorify Thee,
2. according as Thou didst give to him authority over all flesh, that -- all that Thou hast given to him -- he may give to them life age-during;
3. and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send -- Jesus Christ;
4. I did glorify Thee on the earth, the work I did finish that Thou hast given me, that I may do [it].
5. `And now, glorify me, Thou Father, with Thyself, with the glory that I had before the world was, with Thee;
6. I did manifest Thy name to the men whom Thou hast given to me out of the world; Thine they were, and to me Thou hast given them, and Thy word they have kept;
7. now they have known that all things, as many as Thou hast given to me, are from Thee,
8. because the sayings that Thou hast given to me, I have given to them, and they themselves received, and have known truly, that from Thee I came forth, and they did believe that Thou didst send me.
9. `I ask in regard to them; not in regard to the world do I ask, but in regard to those whom Thou hast given to me, because Thine they are,
10. and all mine are Thine, and Thine [are] mine, and I have been glorified in them;
11. and no more am I in the world, and these are in the world, and I come unto Thee. Holy Father, keep them in Thy name, whom Thou hast given to me, that they may be one as we;
12. when I was with them in the world, I was keeping them in Thy name; those whom Thou hast given to me I did guard, and none of them was destroyed, except the son of the destruction, that the Writing may be fulfilled.
13. `And now unto Thee I come, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves;
14. I have given to them Thy word, and the world did hate them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world;
15. I do not ask that Thou mayest take them out of the world, but that Thou mayest keep them out of the evil.
16. `Of the world they are not, as I of the world am not;
17. sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth;
18. as Thou didst send me to the world, I also did send them to the world;
19. and for them do I sanctify myself, that they also themselves may be sanctified in truth.
20. `And not in regard to these alone do I ask, but also in regard to those who shall be believing, through their word, in me;
21. that they all may be one, as Thou Father [art] in me, and I in Thee; that they also in us may be one, that the world may believe that Thou didst send me.
22. `And I, the glory that thou hast given to me, have given to them, that they may be one as we are one;
23. I in them, and Thou in me, that they may be perfected into one, and that the world may know that Thou didst send me, and didst love them as Thou didst love me.
24. `Father, those whom Thou hast given to me, I will that where I am they also may be with me, that they may behold my glory that Thou didst give to me, because Thou didst love me before the foundation of the world.
25. `Righteous Father, also the world did not know Thee, and I knew Thee, and these have known that Thou didst send me,
26. and I made known to them Thy name, and will make known, that the love with which Thou lovedst me in them may be, and I in them.'
John 18 [Commentary] [Map] Biblical Art and Illustrations
1. These things having said, Jesus went forth with his disciples beyond the brook of Kedron, where was a garden, into which he entered, himself and his disciples,
2. and Judas also, who delivered him up, had known the place, because many times did Jesus assemble there with his disciples.
3. Judas, therefore, having taken the band and officers out of the chief priests and Pharisees, doth come thither with torches and lamps, and weapons;
4. Jesus, therefore, knowing all things that are coming upon him, having gone forth, said to them, `Whom do ye seek?'
5. they answered him, `Jesus the Nazarene;' Jesus saith to them, `I am [he];' -- and Judas who delivered him up was standing with them; --
6. when, therefore, he said to them -- `I am [he],' they went away backward, and fell to the ground.
7. Again, therefore, he questioned them, `Whom do ye seek?' and they said, `Jesus the Nazarene;'
8. Jesus answered, `I said to you that I am [he]; if, then, me ye seek, suffer these to go away;'
9. that the word might be fulfilled that he said -- `Those whom Thou hast given to me, I did not lose of them even one.'
10. Simon Peter, therefore, having a sword, drew it, and struck the chief priest's servant, and cut off his right ear -- and the name of the servant was Malchus --
11. Jesus, therefore, said to Peter, `Put the sword into the sheath; the cup that the Father hath given to me, may I not drink it?'
12. The band, therefore, and the captain, and the officers of the Jews, took hold on Jesus, and bound him,
13. and they led him away to Annas first, for he was father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was chief priest of that year,
14. and Caiaphas was he who gave counsel to the Jews, that it is good for one man to perish for the people.
15. And following Jesus was Simon Peter, and the other disciple, and that disciple was known to the chief priest, and he entered with Jesus to the hall of the chief priest,
16. and Peter was standing at the door without, therefore went forth the other disciple who was known to the chief priest, and he spake to the female keeping the door, and he brought in Peter.
17. Then said the maid keeping the door to Peter, `Art thou also of the disciples of this man?' he saith, `I am not;'
18. and the servants and the officers were standing, having made a fire of coals, because it was cold, and they were warming themselves, and Peter was standing with them, and warming himself.
19. The chief priests, therefore, questioned Jesus concerning his disciples, and concerning his teaching;
20. Jesus answered him, `I spake freely to the world, I did always teach in a synagogue, and in the temple, where the Jews do always come together; and in secret I spake nothing;
21. why me dost thou question? question those having heard what I spake to them; lo, these have known what I said.'
22. And he having said these things, one of the officers standing by did give Jesus a slap, saying, `Thus dost thou answer the chief priest?'
23. Jesus answered him, `If I spake ill, testify concerning the ill; and if well, why me dost thou smite?'
24. Annas then sent him bound to Caiaphas the chief priest.
25. And Simon Peter was standing and warming himself, they said then to him, `Art thou also of his disciples?' he denied, and said, `I am not.'
26. One of the servants of the chief priest, being kinsman of him whose ear Peter cut off, saith, `Did not I see thee in the garden with him?'
27. again, therefore, Peter denied, and immediately a cock crew.
28. They led, therefore, Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium, and it was early, and they themselves did not enter into the praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the passover;
29. Pilate, therefore, went forth unto them, and said, `What accusation do ye bring against this man?'
30. they answered and said to him, `If he were not an evil doer, we had not delivered him to thee.'
31. Pilate, therefore, said to them, `Take ye him -- ye -- and according to your law judge him;' the Jews, therefore, said to him, `It is not lawful to us to put any one to death;'
32. that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled which he said, signifying by what death he was about to die.
33. Pilate, therefore, entered into the praetorium again, and called Jesus, and said to him, `Thou art the King of the Jews?'
34. Jesus answered him, `From thyself dost thou say this? or did others say it to thee about me?'
35. Pilate answered, `Am I a Jew? thy nation, and the chief priests did deliver thee up to me; what didst thou?'
36. Jesus answered, `My kingdom is not of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my officers had struggled that I might not be delivered up to Jews; but now my kingdom is not from hence.'
37. Pilate, therefore, said to him, `Art thou then a king?' Jesus answered, `Thou dost say [it]; because a king I am, I for this have been born, and for this I have come to the world, that I may testify to the truth; every one who is of the truth, doth hear my voice.'
38. Pilate saith to him, `What is truth?' and this having said, again he went forth unto the Jews, and saith to them, `I do find no fault in him;
39. and ye have a custom that I shall release to you one in the passover; will ye, therefore, [that] I shall release to you the king of the Jews?'
40. therefore they all cried out again, saying, `Not this one -- but Barabbas;' and Barabbas was a robber.
John 19 [Commentary] [Map] Biblical Art and Illustrations
1. Then, therefore, did Pilate take Jesus and scourge [him],
2. and the soldiers having plaited a crown of thorns, did place [it] on his head, and a purple garment they put around him,
3. and said, `Hail! the king of the Jews;' and they were giving him slaps.
4. Pilate, therefore, again went forth without, and saith to them, `Lo, I do bring him to you without, that ye may know that in him I find no fault;'
5. Jesus, therefore, came forth without, bearing the thorny crown and the purple garment; and he saith to them, `Lo, the man!'
6. When, therefore, the chief priests and the officers did see him, they cried out, saying, `Crucify, crucify;' Pilate saith to them, `Take ye him -- ye, and crucify; for I find no fault in him;'
7. the Jews answered him, `We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, for he made himself Son of God.'
8. When, therefore, Pilate heard this word, he was the more afraid,
9. and entered again to the praetorium, and saith to Jesus, `Whence art thou?' and Jesus gave him no answer.
10. Pilate, therefore, saith to him, `To me dost thou not speak? hast thou not known that I have authority to crucify thee, and I have authority to release thee?'
11. Jesus answered, `Thou wouldst have no authority against me, if it were not having been given thee from above; because of this, he who is delivering me up to thee hath greater sin.'
12. From this [time] was Pilate seeking to release him, and the Jews were crying out, saying, `If this one thou mayest release, thou art not a friend of Caesar; every one making himself a king, doth speak against Caesar.'
13. Pilate, therefore, having heard this word, brought Jesus without -- and he sat down upon the tribunal -- to a place called, `Pavement,' and in Hebrew, Gabbatha;
14. and it was the preparation of the passover, and as it were the sixth hour, and he saith to the Jews, `Lo, your king!'
15. and they cried out, `Take away, take away, crucify him;' Pilate saith to them, `Your king shall I crucify?' the chief priests answered, `We have no king except Caesar.'
16. Then, therefore, he delivered him up to them, that he may be crucified, and they took Jesus and led [him] away,
17. and bearing his cross, he went forth to the place called [Place] of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew Golgotha;
18. where they crucified him, and with him two others, on this side, and on that side, and Jesus in the midst.
19. And Pilate also wrote a title, and put [it] on the cross, and it was written, `Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews;'
20. this title, therefore, read many of the Jews, because the place was nigh to the city where Jesus was crucified, and it was having been written in Hebrew, in Greek, in Roman.
21. The chief priests of the Jews said, therefore, to Pilate, `Write not -- The king of the Jews, but that one said, I am king of the Jews;'
22. Pilate answered, `What I have written, I have written.'
23. The soldiers, therefore, when they did crucify Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to each soldier a part, also the coat, and the coat was seamless, from the top woven throughout,
24. they said, therefore, to one another, `We may not rend it, but cast a lot for it, whose it shall be;' that the Writing might be fulfilled, that is saying, `They divided my garments to themselves, and upon my raiment they did cast a lot;' the soldiers, therefore, indeed, did these things.
25. And there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary of Cleopas, and Mary the Magdalene;
26. Jesus, therefore, having seen [his] mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he was loving, he saith to his mother, `Woman, lo, thy son;'
27. afterward he saith to the disciple, `Lo, thy mother;' and from that hour the disciple took her to his own [home].
28. After this, Jesus knowing that all things now have been finished, that the Writing may be fulfilled, saith, `I thirst;'
29. a vessel, therefore, was placed full of vinegar, and they having filled a sponge with vinegar, and having put [it] around a hyssop stalk, did put [it] to his mouth;
30. when, therefore, Jesus received the vinegar, he said, `It hath been finished;' and having bowed the head, gave up the spirit.
31. The Jews, therefore, that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, since it was the preparation, (for that sabbath day was a great one,) asked of Pilate that their legs may be broken, and they taken away.
32. The soldiers, therefore, came, and of the first indeed they did break the legs, and of the other who was crucified with him,
33. and having come to Jesus, when they saw him already having been dead, they did not break his legs;
34. but one of the soldiers with a spear did pierce his side, and immediately there came forth blood and water;
35. and he who hath seen hath testified, and his testimony is true, and that one hath known that true things he speaketh, that ye also may believe.
36. For these things came to pass, that the Writing may be fulfilled, `A bone of him shall not be broken;'
37. and again another Writing saith, `They shall look to him whom they did pierce.'
38. And after these things did Joseph of Arimathea -- being a disciple of Jesus, but concealed, through the fear of the Jews -- ask of Pilate, that he may take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave leave; he came, therefore, and took away the body of Jesus,
39. and Nicodemus also came -- who came unto Jesus by night at the first -- bearing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, as it were, a hundred pounds.
40. They took, therefore, the body of Jesus, and bound it with linen clothes with the spices, according as it was the custom of the Jews to prepare for burial;
41. and there was in the place where he was crucified a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one was yet laid;
42. there, therefore, because of the preparation of the Jews, because the tomb was nigh, they laid Jesus.
John 20 [Commentary] Biblical Art and Illustrations
1. And on the first of the sabbaths, Mary the Magdalene doth come early (there being yet darkness) to the tomb, and she seeth the stone having been taken away out of the tomb,
2. she runneth, therefore, and cometh unto Simon Peter, and unto the other disciple whom Jesus was loving, and saith to them, `They took away the Lord out of the tomb, and we have not known where they laid him.'
3. Peter, therefore, went forth, and the other disciple, and they were coming to the tomb,
4. and the two were running together, and the other disciple did run forward more quickly than Peter, and came first to the tomb,
5. and having stooped down, seeth the linen clothes lying, yet, indeed, he entered not.
6. Simon Peter, therefore, cometh, following him, and he entered into the tomb, and beholdeth the linen clothes lying,
7. and the napkin that was upon his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but apart, having been folded up, in one place;
8. then, therefore, entered also the other disciple who came first unto the tomb, and he saw, and did believe;
9. for not yet did they know the Writing, that it behoveth him out of the dead to rise again.
10. The disciples therefore went away again unto their own friends,
11. and Mary was standing near the tomb, weeping without; as she was weeping, then, she stooped down to the tomb, and beholdeth two messengers in white, sitting,
12. one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been laid.
13. And they say to her, `Woman, why dost thou weep?' she saith to them, `Because they took away my Lord, and I have not known where they laid him;'
14. and these things having said, she turned backward, and seeth Jesus standing, and she had not known that it is Jesus.
15. Jesus saith to her, `Woman, why dost thou weep? whom dost thou seek;' she, supposing that he is the gardener, saith to him, `Sir, if thou didst carry him away, tell me where thou didst lay him, and I will take him away;'
16. Jesus saith to her, `Mary!' having turned, she saith to him, `Rabbouni;' that is to say, `Teacher.'
17. Jesus saith to her, `Be not touching me, for I have not yet ascended unto my Father; and be going on to my brethren, and say to them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, and to my God, and to your God.'
18. Mary the Magdalene cometh, telling to the disciples that she hath seen the Lord, and [that] these things he said to her.
19. It being, therefore, evening, on that day, the first of the sabbaths, and the doors having been shut where the disciples were assembled, through fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and saith to them, `Peace to you;'
20. and this having said, he shewed them his hands and side; the disciples, therefore, rejoiced, having seen the Lord.
21. Jesus, therefore, said to them again, `Peace to you; according as the Father hath sent me, I also send you;'
22. and this having said, he breathed on [them], and saith to them, `Receive the Holy Spirit;
23. if of any ye may loose the sins, they are loosed to them; if of any ye may retain, they have been retained.'
24. And Thomas, one of the twelve, who is called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came;
25. the other disciples, therefore, said to him, `We have seen the Lord;' and he said to them, `If I may not see in his hands the mark of the nails, and may put my finger to the mark of the nails, and may put my hand to his side, I will not believe.'
26. And after eight days, again were his disciples within, and Thomas with them; Jesus cometh, the doors having been shut, and he stood in the midst, and said, `Peace to you!'
27. then he saith to Thomas, `Bring thy finger hither, and see my hands, and bring thy hand, and put [it] to my side, and become not unbelieving, but believing.'
28. And Thomas answered and said to him, `My Lord and my God;'
29. Jesus saith to him, `Because thou hast seen me, Thomas, thou hast believed; happy those not having seen, and having believed.'
30. Many indeed, therefore, other signs also did Jesus before his disciples, that are not written in this book;
31. and these have been written that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye may have life in his name.'

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Luke 16:1-31

Speaking to the disciples, Jesus said: “There was a rich man who employed a general manager. Charges were brought to him that his manager was squandering his resources.

So he summoned him and asked him, ‘What is this I'm hearing concerning you? Turn in your accounts --- you're no longer manager.’

‘What will I do?’ reasoned the manager. ‘My boss is firing me, I’m not strong enough to be a laborer, and I’m ashamed to beg.

What! I have a plan — something that will make people accept me into their homes after I’ve lost my job here!’

So, after setting appointments with his employer’s debtors, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my boss?’

‘800 gallons of olive oil,’ he replied. ‘Take your note back,’ he told him. ‘Now, quickly! Sit down and write one for 400!’

To the next he asked, ‘How much do you owe?’ ‘A 1000 bushels of wheat,’ was the reply. ‘Take your note back and write one for 800.’

And the employer of this dishonest manager applauded him for being shrewd! For the worldly have more prudence than those who have received the light — in dealing with their own sort!

Now, this is what I'm telling you: use worldly wealth to make friends for yourselves, so that when it gives out, you may be welcomed into the eternal home.

Someone who is trustworthy in a small issues is also trustworthy in large ones, and someone who is dishonest in a small matter is also dishonest in large ones.

So if you haven’t been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who is going to trust you with the real thing?

And if you haven’t been trustworthy with what belongs to someone else, who will give you what should be yours?

No servant can be slave to 2 masters, for he will either hate one and love the other, or scorn the second and be loyal to the first. You can’t be a slave to both God and money.”

The Pharisees heard this, and since they were money-lovers, they ridiculed him.

Jesus said to them, “You people make yourselves look righteous to others, but God knows your hearts. What people regard highly is an abomination before God!

Up to the time of John there were the Law and the Prophets. Since then the Good News of the Kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone is aggressively trying to enter.

But it is easier for heaven and earth to end than for one stroke of a letter in the Law to be voided.

Every man who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and a man who marries a woman divorced by her husband commits adultery.

Once there was a rich man who used to dress in extravagant clothing and spent his days in total luxury.

At his gate had been laid a beggar named Lazarus who was covered with sores.

Lazarus would have enjoyed eating the scraps that fell from the rich man’s table; but instead, the dogs would come and lick his sores.

In time the beggar died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s side; the rich man also died and was buried.

“In Sheol, where he was in torment, the rich man looked up and saw Abraham at a far distance with Lazarus by his side.

The rich man cried out, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me, and send Lazarus just to dip the tip of his finger in water to cool my tongue, because I agonize in this fire!’

However, Avraham said, ‘Son, remember that when you were alive, you received good things while he received the bad; but now he gets consolation here, while you are the one in agonizing.

Yet that isn’t all: between you and us a deep rift has been set, so that those who would like to pass from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.’

He answered, ‘Then, father, I beg you to send him to my father’s house,

where I have 5 brothers, to warn them; so that they may be spared ending up in this place of torment too.’

However Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; they should listen to them.’

However, he said, ‘No, father Abraham, they need something extra. If someone from the dead goes to them, they’ll repent!’

But Abraham replied, ‘If they won’t listen to Moses and the Prophets, they won’t be convinced even if someone comes back from the dead!’”

Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
1 And he said also unto his disciples, `A certain man was rich, who had a steward, and he was accused to him as scattering his goods;

2 and having called him, he said to him, What [is] this I hear about thee? render the account of thy stewardship, for thou mayest not any longer be steward.

3 `And the steward said in himself, What shall I do, because my lord doth take away the stewardship from me? to dig I am not able, to beg I am ashamed: --

4 I have known what I shall do, that, when I may be removed from the stewardship, they may receive me to their houses.

5 `And having called near each one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first, How much dost thou owe to my lord?

6 and he said, A hundred baths of oil; and he said to him, Take thy bill, and having sat down write fifty.

7 `Afterward to another he said, And thou, how much dost thou owe? and he said, A hundred cors of wheat; and he saith to him, Take thy bill, and write eighty.

8 `And the lord commended the unrighteous steward that he did prudently, because the sons of this age are more prudent than the sons of the light, in respect to their generation9 and I say to you, Make to yourselves friends out of the mammon of unrighteousness, that when ye may fail, they may receive you to the age-during tabernacles.

10 `He who is faithful in the least, [is] also faithful in much; and he who in the least [is] unrighteous, is also unrighteous in much;

11 if, then, in the unrighteous mammon ye became not faithful -- the true who will entrust to you?

12 and if in the other's ye became not faithful -- your own, who shall give to you?

13 `No domestic is able to serve two lords, for either the one he will hate, and the other he will love; or one he will hold to, and of the other he will be heedless; ye are not able to serve God and
mammon.'

14 And also the Pharisees, being lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and were deriding him,

15 and he said to them, `Ye are those declaring yourselves righteous before men, but God doth know your hearts; because that which among men is high, [is] abomination before God;

16 the law and the prophets [are] till John; since then the reign of God is proclaimed good news, and every one doth press into it;

17 and it is easier to the heaven and the earth to pass away, than of the law one tittle to fall.

18 `Every one who is sending away his wife, and marrying another, doth commit adultery; and every one who is marrying her sent away from a husband doth commit adultery.

19 `And -- a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day,

20 and there was a certain poor man, by name Lazarus, who was laid at his porch, full of sores,

21 and desiring to be filled from the crumbs that are falling from the table of the rich man; yea, also the dogs, coming, were licking his sores.

22 `And it came to pass, that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the messengers to the bosom of Abraham -- and the rich man also died, and was buried;

23 and in the hades having lifted up his eyes, being in torments, he doth see Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom,

24 and having cried, he said, Father Abraham, deal kindly with me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and may cool my tongue, because I am distressed in this flame.

25 `And Abraham said, Child, remember that thou did receive -- thou -- thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus in like manner the evil things, and now he is comforted, and thou art distressed;

26 and besides all these things, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that they who are willing to go over from hence unto you are not able, nor do they from thence to us pass through.

27 `And he said, I pray thee, then, father, that thou mayest send him to the house of my father,

28 for I have five brothers, so that he may thoroughly testify to them, that they also may not come to this place of torment.

29 `Abraham saith to him, They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them;

30 and he said, No, father Abraham, but if any one from the dead may go unto them, they will reform.

31 And he said to him, If Moses and the prophets they do not hear, neither if one may rise out of the dead will they be persuaded.'
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Re: Bible verse by verse

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Choyo Chagas wrote:[
false parallels

ussr is simply the bad copy of russia - which was led by father tsar
today's tsar is putin, who is the best friend of orthodox church

the same case is china (prc) which has outgrown from imperial - religious - china
true, they weren't christian ever...


in another thread 'the ccc' wrote:
"But we'd never become a country in the first place without the help of the French."
at that time the french was far more atheist than your then wannabe country


Sorry, Choyo, Nipper doesn't believe in history. :lol: Which is probably a good thing since he doesn't know any.
"God" is the original deus ex machina. --Maksutov
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The true story of Jesus from the Urantia Book:

"PAPER 129 — THE LATER ADULT LIFE OF Jesus"


Jesus had fully and finally separated himself
from the management of the domestic
affairs of the Nazareth family and from the
immediate direction of its individuals. He
continued, right up to the event of his baptism,
to contribute to the family finances and
to take a keen personal interest in the spiritual
welfare of every one of his brothers and sisters.
And always was he ready to do everything
humanly possible for the comfort and happiness
of his widowed mother.

2 The Son of Man had now made every preparation
for detaching himself permanently from
the Nazareth home; and this was not easy for
him to do. Jesus naturally loved his people; he
loved his family, and this natural affection had
been tremendously augmented by his extraordinary
devotion to them. The more fully we
bestow ourselves upon our fellows, the more
we come to love them; and since Jesus had
given himself so fully to his family, he loved
them with a great and fervent affection.

3 All the family had slowly awakened to the
realization that Jesus was making ready to
leave them. The sadness of the anticipated
separation was only tempered by this graduated
method of preparing them for the announcement
of his intended departure. For
more than four years they discerned that he
was planning for this eventual separation.

1. THE TWENTY-SEVENTH YEAR (A.D. 21)
1 In January of this year, A.D. 21, on a rainy
Sunday morning, Jesus took unceremonious
leave of his family, only explaining that he was
going over to Tiberias and then on a visit to
other cities about the Sea of Galilee. And thus
he left them, never again to be a regular member
of that household.

2 He spent one week at Tiberias, the new city
which was soon to succeed Sepphoris as the
capital of Galilee; and finding little to interest
him, he passed on successively through Magdala
and Bethsaida to Capernaum, where he
stopped to pay a visit to his father’s friend
Zebedee. Zebedee’s sons were fishermen; he
himself was a boatbuilder. Jesus of Nazareth
was an expert in both designing and building;
he was a master at working with wood; and
Zebedee had long known of the skill of the
Nazareth craftsman. For a long time Zebedee
had contemplated making improved boats;
he now laid his plans before Jesus and invited
the visiting carpenter to join him in the enterprise,
and Jesus readily consented.

3 Jesus worked with Zebedee only a little
more than one year, but during that time he
created a new style of boat and established
entirely new methods of boatmaking. By superior
technique and greatly improved methods
of steaming the boards, Jesus and Zebedee
began to build boats of a very superior type,
craft which were far more safe for sailing the
lake than were the older types. For several
years Zebedee had more work, turning out
these new-style boats, than his small establishment
could handle; in less than five years practically
all the craft on the lake had been built
in the shop of Zebedee at Capernaum. Jesus
became well known to the Galilean fisherfolk
as the designer of the new boats.

4 Zebedee was a moderately well-to-do man;
his boatbuilding shops were on the lake to the
south of Capernaum, and his home was situated
down the lake shore near the fishing
headquarters of Bethsaida. Jesus lived in the
home of Zebedee during the year and more he
remained at Capernaum. He had long worked
alone in the world, that is, without a father,
and greatly enjoyed this period of working
with a father-partner.

5 Zebedee’s wife, Salome, was a relative of
Annas, onetime high priest at Jerusalem and
still the most influential of the Sadducean
group, having been deposed only eight years
previously. Salome became a great admirer of
Jesus. She loved him as she loved her own
sons, James, John, and David, while her four
daughters looked upon Jesus as their elder
brother. Jesus often went out fishing with
James, John, and David, and they learned that
he was an experienced fisherman as well as an
expert boatbuilder.

6 All this year Jesus sent money each month
to James. He returned to Nazareth in October
to attend Martha’s wedding, and he was not
again in Nazareth for over two years, when he
returned shortly before the double wedding of
Simon and Jude.

7 Throughout this year Jesus built boats and
continued to observe how men lived on earth.
Frequently he would go down to visit at the
caravan station, Capernaum being on the direct
travel route from Damascus to the south.
Capernaum was a strong Roman military post,
and the garrison’s commanding officer was a
gentile believer in Yahweh, “a devout man,” as
the Jews were wont to designate such proselytes.
This officer belonged to a wealthy Roman
family, and he took it upon himself to
build a beautiful synagogue in Capernaum,
which had been presented to the Jews a short
time before Jesus came to live with Zebedee.
Jesus conducted the services in this new synagogue
more than half the time this year, and
some of the caravan people who chanced to
attend remembered him as the carpenter
from Nazareth.

8 When it came to the payment of taxes,
Jesus registered himself as a “skilled craftsman
of Capernaum.” From this day on to the end
of his earth life he was known as a resident of
Capernaum. He never claimed any other legal
residence, although he did, for various reasons,
permit others to assign his residence to
Damascus, Bethany, Nazareth, and even Alexandria.

9 At the Capernaum synagogue he found
many new books in the library chests, and he
spent at least five evenings a week at intense
study. One evening he devoted to social life
with the older folks, and one evening he spent
with the young people. There was something
gracious and inspiring about the personality
of Jesus which invariably attracted young people.
He always made them feel at ease in his
presence. Perhaps his great secret in getting
along with them consisted in the twofold fact
that he was always interested in what they
were doing, while he seldom offered them
advice unless they asked for it.

10 The Zebedee family almost worshiped
Jesus, and they never failed to attend the conferences
of questions and answers which he
conducted each evening after supper before
he departed for the synagogue to study. The
youthful neighbors also came in frequently
to attend these after-supper meetings. To these
little gatherings Jesus gave varied and advanced
instruction, just as advanced as they
could comprehend. He talked quite freely
with them, expressing his ideas and ideals
about politics, sociology, science, and philosophy,
but never presumed to speak with authoritative
finality except when discussing
religion—the relation of man to God.

11 Once a week Jesus held a meeting with the
entire household, shop, and shore helpers,
for Zebedee had many employees. And it was
among these workers that Jesus was first called
“the Master.” They all loved him. He enjoyed
his labors with Zebedee in Capernaum, but he
missed the children playing out by the side of
the Nazareth carpenter shop.

12 Of the sons of Zebedee, James was the
most interested in Jesus as a teacher, as a philosopher.
John cared most for his religious
teaching and opinions. David respected him
as a mechanic but took little stock in his religious
views and philosophic teachings.

13 Frequently Jude came over on the Sabbath
to hear Jesus talk in the synagogue and
would tarry to visit with him. And the more
Jude saw of his eldest brother, the more he
became convinced that Jesus was a truly great
man.

14 This year Jesus made great advances in the
ascendant mastery of his human mind and attained
new and high levels of conscious contact
with his indwelling Thought Adjuster.

15 This was the last year of his settled life.
Never again did Jesus spend a whole year in
one place or at one undertaking. The days of
his earth pilgrimages were rapidly approaching.
Periods of intense activity were not far in
the future, but there were now about to intervene
between his simple but intensely active
life of the past and his still more intense and
strenuous public ministry, a few years of extensive
travel and highly diversified personal activity.
His training as a man of the realm had
to be completed before he could enter upon
his career of teaching and preaching as the
perfected God-man of the divine and posthuman
phases of his Urantia bestowal.

2. THE TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR (A.D. 22)
1 In March, A.D. 22, Jesus took leave of
Zebedee and of Capernaum. He asked for a
small sum of money to defray his expenses to
Jerusalem. While working with Zebedee he
had drawn only small sums of money, which
each month he would send to the family at
Nazareth. One month Joseph would come
down to Capernaum for the money; the next
month Jude would come over to Capernaum,
get the money from Jesus, and take it up to
Nazareth. Jude’s fishing headquarters was
only a few miles south of Capernaum.
2 When Jesus took leave of Zebedee’s family,
he agreed to remain in Jerusalem until Passover
time, and they all promised to be present
for that event. They even arranged to celebrate
the Passover supper together. They all sorrowed
when Jesus left them, especially the
daughters of Zebedee.
3 Before leaving Capernaum, Jesus had a
long talk with his new-found friend and close
companion, John Zebedee. He told John that
he contemplated traveling extensively until
“my hour shall come” and asked John to act in
his stead in the matter of sending some money
to the family atNazareth each month until the
funds due him should be exhausted. And
John made him this promise: “My Teacher,
go about your business, do your work in the
world; I will act for you in this or any other
matter, and I will watch over your family even
as I would foster my own mother and care for
my own brothers and sisters. I will disburse
your funds which my father holds as you have
directed and as they may be needed, and when
your money has been expended, if I do not receive
more from you, and if your mother is in
need, then will I share my own earnings with
her. Go your way in peace. I will act in your
stead in all these matters.”

4 Therefore, after Jesus had departed for
Jerusalem, John consulted with his father,
Zebedee, regarding the money due Jesus, and
he was surprised that it was such a large sum.
As Jesus had left the matter so entirely in their
hands, they agreed that it would be the better
plan to invest these funds in property and use
the income for assisting the family at Nazareth;
and since Zebedee knew of a little house
in Capernaum which carried a mortgage and
was for sale, he directed John to buy this
house with Jesus’ money and hold the title in
trust for his friend. And John did as his father
advised him. For two years the rent of this
house was applied on the mortgage, and this,
augmented by a certain large fund which Jesus
presently sent up to John to be used as needed
by the family, almost equaled the amount of
this obligation; and Zebedee supplied the difference,
so that John paid up the remainder of
the mortgage when it fell due, thereby securing
clear title to this two-room house. In this
way Jesus became the owner of a house in
Capernaum, but he had not been told about it.

5 When the family at Nazareth heard that
Jesus had departed from Capernaum, they,

not knowing of this financial arrangement
with John, believed the time had come for
them to get along without any further help
from Jesus. James remembered his contract
with Jesus and, with the help of his brothers,
forthwith assumed full responsibility for the
care of the family.

6 But let us go back to observe Jesus in Jerusalem.
For almost two months he spent the
greater part of his time listening to the temple
discussions with occasional visits to the various
schools of the rabbis. Most of the Sabbath
days he spent at Bethany.

7 Jesus had carried with him to Jerusalem a
letter from Salome, Zebedee’s wife, introducing
him to the former high priest, Annas, as
“one, the same as my own son.” Annas spent
much time with him, personally taking him
to visit the many academies of the Jerusalem
religious teachers. While Jesus thoroughly
inspected these schools and carefully observed
their methods of teaching, he never so much
as asked a single question in public. Although
Annas looked upon Jesus as a great man, he
was puzzled as to how to advise him. He recognized
the foolishness of suggesting that he
enter any of the schools of Jerusalem as a student,
and yet he well knew Jesus would never
be accorded the status of a regular teacher inasmuch
as he had never been trained in these
schools.

8 Presently the time of the Passover drew
near, and along with the throngs from every
quarter there arrived at Jerusalem from Capernaum,
Zebedee and his entire family. They
all stopped at the spacious home of Annas,
where they celebrated the Passover as one
happy family.

9 Before the end of this Passover week, by
apparent chance, Jesus met a wealthy traveler
and his son, a young man about seventeen
years of age. These travelers hailed from India,
and being on their way to visit Rome and various
other points on the Mediterranean, they
had arranged to arrive in Jerusalem during the
Passover, hoping to find someone whom they
could engage as interpreter for both and tutor
for the son. The father was insistent that Jesus
consent to travel with them. Jesus told him
about his family and that it was hardly fair
to go away for almost two years, during which
time they might find themselves in need.
Whereupon, this traveler from the Orient
proposed to advance to Jesus the wages of one
year so that he could intrust such funds to his
friends for the safeguarding of his family against
want. And Jesus agreed to make the trip.

10 Jesus turned this large sum over to John
the son of Zebedee. And you have been told
how John applied this money toward the liquidation
of the mortgage on the Capernaum
property. Jesus took Zebedee fully into his
confidence regarding this Mediterranean
journey, but he enjoined him to tell no man,
not even his own flesh and blood, and Zebedee
never did disclose his knowledge of Jesus’
whereabouts during this long period of almost
two years. Before Jesus’ return from this trip
the family at Nazareth had just about given
him up as dead. Only the assurances of Zebedee,
who went up to Nazareth with his son
John on several occasions, kept hope alive in
Mary’s heart.

11 During this time the Nazareth family got
along very well; Jude had considerably increased
his quota and kept up this extra contribution
until he was married. Notwithstanding
that they required little assistance, it
was the practice of John Zebedee to take presents
each month to Mary and Ruth, as Jesus
had instructed him.

3. THE TWENTY-NINTH YEAR (A.D. 23)
1 The whole of Jesus’ twenty-ninth year was
spent finishing up the tour of the Mediterranean
world. The main events, as far as we
have permission to reveal these experiences,
constitute the subjects of the narratives which
immediately follow this paper.

2 Throughout this tour of the Roman world,
for many reasons, Jesus was known as the
Damascus scribe. At Corinth and other stops
on the return trip he was, however, known as
the Jewish tutor.

3 This was an eventful period in Jesus’ life.

While on this journey he made many contacts
with his fellow men, but this experience is a
phase of his life which he never revealed to any
member of his family nor to any of the apostles.
Jesus lived out his life in the flesh and departed
from this world without anyone (save
Zebedee of Bethsaida) knowing that he had
made this extensive trip. Some of his friends
thought he had returned to Damascus; others
thought he had gone to India. His own family
inclined to the belief that he was in Alexandria,
as they knew that he had once been invited
to go there for the purpose of becoming
an assistant chazan.

4 When Jesus returned to Palestine, he did
nothing to change the opinion of his family
that he had gone from Jerusalem to Alexandria;
he permitted them to continue in the
belief that all the time he had been absent
from Palestine had been spent in that city of
learning and culture. Only Zebedee the boatbuilder
of Bethsaida knew the facts about
these matters, and Zebedee told no one.

5 In all your efforts to decipher the meaning
of Jesus’ life on Urantia, you must be mindful
of the motivation of the Michael bestowal. If
you would comprehend the meaning of many
of his apparently strange doings, you must
discern the purpose of his sojourn on your
world. He was consistently careful not to build
up an overattractive and attention-consuming
personal career. He wanted to make no unusual
or overpowering appeals to his fellow
men. He was dedicated to the work of revealing
the heavenly Father to his fellow mortals
and at the same time was consecrated to the
sublime task of living his mortal earth life all
the while subject to the will of the same Paradise
Father.

6 It will also always be helpful in understanding
Jesus’ life on earth if all mortal students of
this divine bestowal will remember that, while
he lived this life of incarnation on Urantia, he
lived it for his entire universe. There was something
special and inspiring associated with the
life he lived in the flesh of mortal nature for
every single inhabited sphere throughout all
the universe of Nebadon. The same is also
true of all those worlds which have become
habitable since the eventful times of his sojourn
on Urantia. And it will likewise be
equally true of all worlds which may become
inhabited by will creatures in all the future history
of this local universe.

7 The Son of Man, during the time and
through the experiences of this tour of the
Roman world, practically completed his educational
contact-training with the diversified
peoples of the world of his day and generation.
By the time of his return to Nazareth,
through the medium of this travel-training he
had just about learned how man lived and
wrought out his existence on Urantia.

8 The real purpose of his trip around the
Mediterranean basin was to know men. He
came very close to hundreds of humankind
on this journey. He met and loved all manner
of men, rich and poor, high and low, black
and white, educated and uneducated, cultured
and uncultured, animalistic and spiritual,
religious and irreligious, moral and
immoral.

9 On this Mediterranean journey Jesus
made great advances in his human task of
mastering the material and mortal mind, and
his indwelling Adjuster made great progress
in the ascension and spiritual conquest of this
same human intellect. By the end of this tour
Jesus virtually knew—with all human certainty
—that he was a Son of God, a Creator Son of
the Universal Father. The Adjuster more and
more was able to bring up in the mind of the
Son of Man shadowy memories of his Paradise
experience in association with his divine
Father ere he ever came to organize and administer
this local universe of Nebadon. Thus
did the Adjuster, little by little, bring to Jesus’
human consciousness those necessary memories
of his former and divine existence in the
various epochs of the well-nigh eternal past.
The last episode of his prehuman experience
to be brought forth by the Adjuster was his
farewell conference with Immanuel of Salvington
just before his surrender of conscious
personality to embark upon theUrantia incarnation.
And this final memory picture of
prehuman existence was made clear in Jesus’
consciousness on the very day of his baptism
by John in the Jordan.

4. THE HUMAN Jesus
1 To the onlooking celestial intelligences of
the local universe, this Mediterranean trip was
the most enthralling of all Jesus’ earth experiences,
at least of all his career right up to the
event of his crucifixion and mortal death.
This was the fascinating period of his personal
ministry in contrast with the soon-following
epoch of public ministry. This unique episode
was all the more engrossing because he was at
this time still the carpenter of Nazareth, the
boatbuilder of Capernaum, the scribe of Damascus;
he was still the Son of Man. He had
not yet achieved the complete mastery of his
human mind; the Adjuster had not fully mastered
and counterparted the mortal identity.
He was still a man among men.
2 The purely human religious experience—
the personal spiritual growth—of the Son of
Man well-nigh reached the apex of attainment
during this, the twenty-ninth year. This experience
of spiritual development was a consistently
gradual growth from the moment of the
arrival of his Thought Adjuster until the day
of the completion and confirmation of that
natural and normal human relationship between
the material mind of man and the
mind-endowment of the spirit—the phenomenon
of the making of these two minds one,
the experience which the Son of Man attained
in completion and finality, as an incarnated
mortal of the realm, on the day of his baptism
in the Jordan.
3 Throughout these years, while he did not
appear to engage in so many seasons of formal
communion with his Father in heaven, he
perfected increasingly effective methods of
personal communication with the indwelling
spirit presence of the Paradise Father. He lived
a real life, a full life, and a truly normal, natural,
and average life in the flesh. He knows
from personal experience the equivalent of
the actuality of the entire sum and substance
of the living of the life of human beings on the
material worlds of time and space.
4 The Son of Man experienced those wide
ranges of human emotion which reach from
superb joy to profound sorrow. He was a child
of joy and a being of rare good humor; likewise
was he a “man of sorrows and acquainted
with grief.” In a spiritual sense, he did live
through the mortal life from the bottom to
the top, from the beginning to the end. From
a material point of view, he might appear to
have escaped living through both social extremes
of human existence, but intellectually
he became wholly familiar with the entire and
complete experience of humankind.
5 Jesus knows about the thoughts and feelings,
the urges and impulses, of the evolutionary
and ascendant mortals of the realms, from
birth to death. He has lived the human life
from the beginnings of physical, intellectual,
and spiritual selfhood up through infancy,
childhood, youth, and adulthood—even to
the human experience of death. He not only
passed through these usual and familiar
human periods of intellectual and spiritual
advancement, but he also fully experienced
those higher and more advanced phases of human
and Adjuster reconciliation which so few
Urantia mortals ever attain. And thus he experienced
the full life of mortal man, not only as
it is lived on your world, but also as it is lived
on all other evolutionary worlds of time and
space, even on the highest and most advanced
of all the worlds settled in light and life.
6 Although this perfect life which he lived in
the likeness of mortal flesh may not have received
the unqualified and universal approval
of his fellow mortals, those who chanced to
be his contemporaries on earth, still, the life
which Jesus of Nazareth lived in the flesh and
on Urantia did receive full and unqualified
acceptance by the Universal Father as constituting
at one and the same time, and in one
and the same personality-life, the fullness of
the revelation of the eternal God to mortal
man and the presentation of perfected human
personality to the satisfaction of the Infinite
Creator.
7 And this was his true and supreme purpose.
He did not come down to live on Urantia
as the perfect and detailed example for any
child or adult, any man or woman, in that age
or any other. True it is, indeed, that in his full,
rich, beautiful, and noble life we may all find
much that is exquisitely exemplary, divinely
inspiring, but this is because he lived a true
and genuinely human life. Jesus did not live
his life on earth in order to set an example for
all other human beings to copy. He lived this
life in the flesh by the same mercy ministry
that you all may live your lives on earth; and as
he lived his mortal life in his day and as he
was, so did he thereby set the example for all
of us thus to live our lives in our day and as we
are. You may not aspire to live his life, but you
can resolve to live your lives even as, and by the
same means that, he lived his. Jesus may not
be the technical and detailed example for all
the mortals of all ages on all the realms of this
local universe, but he is everlastingly the inspiration
and guide of all Paradise pilgrims from
the worlds of initial ascension up through a
universe of universes and on through Havona
to Paradise. Jesus is the new and living way
from man to God, from the partial to the perfect,
from the earthly to the heavenly, from
time to eternity.
8 By the end of the twenty-ninth year Jesus of
Nazareth had virtually finished the living of the
life required of mortals as sojourners in the
flesh. He came on earth the fullness of God to
be manifest to man; he had now become wellnigh
the perfection of man awaiting the occasion
to become manifest to God. And he did
all of this before he was thirty years of age.

............

As you can see, the inadequacy and incompleteness of the Bible on the subject of Jesus required clarification. The Urantia Book is the result. :wink:


http://www.urantiabook.org/downloads.htm
"God" is the original deus ex machina. --Maksutov
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Re: Bible verse by verse

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Maksutov wrote:
Choyo Chagas wrote:false parallels

ussr is simply the bad copy of russia - which was led by father tsar
today's tsar is putin, who is the best friend of orthodox church

the same case is china (prc) which has outgrown from imperial - religious - china
true, they weren't christian ever...


in another thread 'the ccc' wrote:
"But we'd never become a country in the first place without the help of the French."
at that time the french was far more atheist than your then wannabe country
Sorry, Choyo, Nipper doesn't believe in history. :lol: Which is probably a good thing since he doesn't know any.

he should read some books, not only THAT one...



Maksutov wrote:The true story of Jesus from the Urantia Book:
...
http://www.urantiabook.org/downloads.htm
thank you the hint
i've downloaded the hu version; i can read it faster than english, i think understandably
sitting at the desk of reception, i have enough time to read - i must stress, not on the screen of official pc, but on my kindle

if i may suggest, the king Jesus by robert graves is a good book
its style is about seventy seven times better than urantia or Book of Mormon
same tale regarding Jesus' life but written by an educated guy...

anyway, graves is a good writer, search for his works
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Re: Bible verse by verse

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Luke 17:1-37

Jesus said to His disciples, “Traps will most diffidently be set. But judgement will come to the person setting them!

It would be advantageous that he have a millstone hung about his neck and he be thrown into the sea, rather than that he ensnare one of these little ones.

Watch yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him. And if he repents, forgive him.

Also, if 7 times a day he sins against you, and seven times he comes to you and says, ‘I'm very sorry,’ you are to forgive him.”

The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our trust.”

The Lord replied, “If you had trust even as minute as a mustard seed, you could say to this fig tree, ‘Be uprooted and replanted in the sea!’ and it would obey you.

If one of you has a servant tending the sheep or plowing, when he comes back from the field, will you say to him, ‘Come along now, sit down and eat’?

No, you’ll say, ‘Get my supper ready, dress for work, and serve me until I have finished eating and drinking --- after that, you may eat and drink.’

Does he thank the servant because he did what he was commanded to do? No!

It’s the same with you — when you have done everything you were told to do, you should be saying, ‘We’re just plain servants. We've only done our duty.’”

On His way to Jerusalem, Jesus passed along the border country between Samaria and the Galilee.

As Jesus entered one of the villages, 10 men infected with Leprosy met Him. They stood at a distance

and wailed, “Jesus! Teacher! Take pity on us!”

On seeing them, Jesus said, “Go and let the priest examine you!” And as they went, they were cleansed.

One of them, as soon as he realized that he had been healed, returned shouting praises to God,

and fell on his face before Jesus' feet to thank him. Now he was from Samaria.

Jesus said, “Weren’t 10 healed? Where are the other 9 ?

Was no one found coming back to glorify God except this foreigner?”

And to the Samaritan Jesus said, “Get up, you may go; your trust has saved you.”

20 The Pharisees asked Jesus when the Kingdom of God would arrive. Jesus replied, “The Kingdom of God, does not come with visible signs;

nor will people be able to say, ‘See! Here it is!’ or, ‘Over there!’ Because, understand, the Kingdom of God is among you.”

Then He said to His disciples, “The time will coming when you will desire to see even one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.

People will say to you, ‘Look! Here!’ or, ‘See! ^There!’ Don’t run off, don’t follow them,

because the Son of Man in His day will be like lightning that flashes and streak across the sky.

But first He must endure horrible suffering and be rejected by this generation.

“Also, at the time of the Son of Man, it will be a duplicate of Noah's day.

People ate and drank, and men and women married, right up until the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

Similarly, as it was in the time of Lot — people ate and drank, bought and sold, planted and built;

but the day Lot deserted Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed the citizens.

That is how it will be on the day the Son of Man is revealed.

On that day, if someone is on the roof with his belongings inside, he must not venture down to take them away. Similarly, if someone is in the field, he must not return home.

Remember Lot’s wife!

Whoever aims at preserving his own life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will remain.

I tell you, at that time there will be two people in one bed — one will be raptured and the other left behind.

There will be 2 grinding grain together — one will be raptured and the other left behind.”

They asked him, “Where, Lord?” He answered, “Wherever there’s a corpse, that’s where the vultures gather.”


Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

1 And he said unto the disciples, `It is impossible for the stumbling blocks not to come, but wo [to him] through whom they come;

2 it is more profitable to him if a weighty millstone is put round about his neck, and he hath been cast into the sea, than that he may cause one of these little ones to stumble.

3 `Take heed to yourselves, and, if thy brother may sin in regard to thee, rebuke him, and if he may reform, forgive him,

4 and if seven times in the day he may sin against thee, and seven times in the day may turn back to thee, saying, I reform; thou shalt forgive him.'

5 And the apostles said to the Lord, `Add to us faith;'

6 and the Lord said, `If ye had faith as a grain of mustard, ye would have said to this sycamine, Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea, and it would have obeyed you.

7 `But, who is he of you -- having a servant ploughing or feeding -- who, to him having come in out of the field, will say, Having come near, recline at meat?

8 but will not [rather] say to him, Prepare what I may sup, and having girded thyself about, minister to me, till I eat and drink, and after these things thou shalt eat and drink?

9 Hath he favour to that servant because he did the things directed? I think not.

10 `So also ye, when ye may have done all the things directed you, say -- We are unprofitable servants, because that which we owed to do -- we have done.'

11 And it came to pass, in his going on to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee,

12 and he entering into a certain village, there met him ten leprous men, who stood afar off,

13 and they lifted up the voice, saying, `Jesus, master, deal kindly with us;'

14 and having seen [them], he said to them, `Having gone on, shew yourselves to the priests;' and it came to pass, in their going, they were cleansed,

15 and one of them having seen that he was healed did turn back, with a loud voice glorifying God,

16 and he fell upon [his] face at his feet, giving thanks to him, and he was a Samaritan.

17 And Jesus answering said, `Were not the ten cleansed, and the nine -- where?

18 There were not found who did turn back to give glory to God, except this alien;'

19 and he said to him, `Having risen, be going on, thy faith hath saved thee.'

20 And having been questioned by the Pharisees, when the reign of God doth come, he answered them, and said, `The reign of God doth not come with observation;

21 nor shall they say, Lo, here; or lo, there; for lo, the reign of God is within you.'

22 And he said unto his disciples, `Days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and ye shall not behold [it];

23 and they shall say to you, Lo, here; or lo, there; ye may not go away, nor follow;

24 for as the lightning that is lightning out of the one [part] under heaven, to the other part under heaven doth shine, so shall be also the Son of Man in his day;

25 and first it behoveth him to suffer many things, and to be rejected by this generation.

26 `And, as it came to pass in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man;

27 they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were given in marriage, till the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the deluge came, and destroyed all;

28 in like manner also, as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building;

29 and on the day Lot went forth from Sodom, He rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed all.

30 `According to these things it shall be, in the day the Son of Man is revealed;

31 in that day, he who shall be on the house top, and his vessels in the house, let him not come down to take them away; and he in the field, in like manner, let him not turn backward;

32 remember the wife of Lot.

33 Whoever may seek to save his life, shall lose it; and whoever may lose it, shall preserve it.

34 `I say to you, In that night, there shall be two men on one couch, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left;

35 two women shall be grinding at the same place together, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left;

36 two men shall be in the field, the one shall be taken, and the other left.'

37 And they answering say to him, `Where, sir?' and he said to them, `Where the body [is], there will the eagles be gathered together.'
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Re: Bible verse by verse

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LittleNipper wrote:Luke 17:1-37

what? luke?

we are stepped over john 1-10, 11-20
without your mishmash, ehm?

don't you read your own thread? O ye of little faith?

And he saith to them, `Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?' Then having risen, he rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm;
YLT... your pet ...
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Six months after its publication Soviet authorities banned the book and attempted to remove it from libraries and bookshops.
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