as yourself.'{Leviticus 19:18}
022:040 The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."
022:041 Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked
them a question,
022:042 saying, "What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he?"
They said to him, "Of David."
022:043 He said to them, "How then does David in the Spirit call
him Lord, saying,
022:044 'The Lord said to my Lord, sit on my right hand, until I make
your enemies a footstool for your feet?'{Psalm 110:1}
022:045 "If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?"
022:046 No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare
ask him any more questions from that day forth.
023:001 Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,
023:002 saying, "The scribes and the Pharisees sat on Moses' seat.
023:003 All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe,
observe and do, but don't do their works; for they say,
and don't do.
023:004 For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne,
and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will
not lift a finger to help them.
023:005 But all their works they do to be seen by men.
They make their phylacteries{phylacteries (tefillin in Hebrew)
are small leather pouches that some Jewish men wear on their
forehead and arm in prayer. They are used to carry a small
scroll with some Scripture in it. See Deuteronomy 6:8.} broad,
enlarge the fringes{or, tassels} of their garments,
023:006 and love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats
in the synagogues,
023:007 the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called
'Rabbi, Rabbi' by men.
023:008 But don't you be called 'Rabbi,' for one is your teacher,
the Christ, and all of you are brothers.
023:009 Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father,
he who is in heaven.
023:010 Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ.
023:011 But he who is greatest among you will be your servant.
023:012 Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles
himself will be exalted.
023:013 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you
devour widows' houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers.
Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
023:014 "But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men;
for you don't enter in yourselves, neither do you allow
those who are entering in to enter.{Some Greek manuscripts
reverse the order of verses 13 and 14, and some omit verse 13,
numbering verse 14 as 13.}
023:015 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you
travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte;
and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much of a son
of Gehenna{or, Hell} as yourselves.
023:016 "Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, 'Whoever swears by the temple,
it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple,
he is obligated.'
023:017 You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple
that sanctifies the gold?
023:018 'Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears
by the gift that is on it, he is obligated?'
023:019 You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar
that sanctifies the gift?
023:020 He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it, and by
everything on it.
023:021 He who swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him who was
living in it.
023:022 He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God,
and by him who sits on it.
023:023 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you
tithe mint, dill, and cumin,{ cumin is an aromatic seed from
Cuminum cyminum, resembling caraway in flavor and appearance.
It is used as a spice.} and have left undone the weightier
matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith.
But you ought to have done these, and not to have left
the other undone.
023:024 You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!
023:025 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean
the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are
full of extortion and unrighteousness.{TR reads "self-indulgence"
instead of "unrighteousness"}
023:026 You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of
the platter, that the outside of it may become clean also.
023:027 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you
are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful,
but inwardly are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
023:028 Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly
you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
023:029 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you
build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs
of the righteous,
023:030 and say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn't
have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.'
023:031 Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children
of those who killed the prophets.
023:032 Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.
023:033 You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape
the judgment of Gehenna{or, Hell}?
023:034 Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes.
Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you
will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;
023:035 that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth,
from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah
son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary
and the altar.
023:036 Most certainly I tell you, all these things will come
upon this generation.
023:037 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones
those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered
your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks
under her wings, and you would not!
023:038 Behold, your house is left to you desolate.
023:039 For I tell you, you will not see me from now on, until you say,
'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!'"{Psalm 118:26}
024:001 Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way.
His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple.
024:002 But he answered them, "Don't you see all of these things?
Most certainly I tell you, there will not be left here one
stone on another, that will not be thrown down."
024:003 As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to
him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be?
What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?"
024:004 Jesus answered them, "Be careful that no one leads you astray.
024:005 For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Christ,'
and will lead many astray.
024:006 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you
aren't troubled, for all this must happen, but the end
is not yet.
024:007 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom;
and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes
in various places.
024:008 But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.
024:009 Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you.
You will be hated by all of the nations for my name's sake.
024:010 Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another,
and will hate one another.
024:011 Many false prophets will arise, and will lead many astray.
024:012 Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many
will grow cold.
024:013 But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.
024:014 This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world
for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
024:015 "When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation,{Daniel 9:27;
11:31; 12:11} which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet,
standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
024:016 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
024:017 Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out things
that are in his house.
024:018 Let him who is in the field not return back to get his clothes.
024:019 But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers
in those days!
024:020 Pray that your flight will not be in the winter, nor on a Sabbath,
024:021 for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been
from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.
024:022 Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved.
But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.
024:023 "Then if any man tells you, 'Behold, here is the Christ,'
or, 'There,' don't believe it.
024:024 For there will arise false christs, and false prophets,
and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray,
if possible, even the chosen ones.
024:025 "Behold, I have told you beforehand.
024:026 If therefore they tell you, 'Behold, he is in the wilderness,'
don't go out; 'Behold, he is in the inner chambers,'
don't believe it.
024:027 For as the lightning flashes from the east, and is seen even
to the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
024:028 For wherever the carcass is, there is where the vultures{or,
eagles} gather together.
024:029 But immediately after the oppression of those days,
the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light,
the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens
will be shaken;{Isaiah 13:10; 34:4}
024:030 and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky.
Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see
the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power
and great glory.
024:031 He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet,
and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds,
from one end of the sky to the other.
024:032 "Now from the fig tree learn this parable. When its branch
has now become tender, and puts forth its leaves, you know
that the summer is near.
024:033 Even so you also, when you see all these things, know that it
is near, even at the doors.
024:034 Most certainly I tell you, this generation{The word for "generation"
(genea) can also be translated as "race."} will not pass away,
until all these things are accomplished.
024:035 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
024:036 But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels
of heaven, but my Father only.
024:037 "As the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
024:038 For as in those days which were before the flood they
were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage,
until the day that Noah entered into the ark,
024:039 and they didn't know until the flood came, and took them all away,
so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
024:040 Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and one
will be left;
024:041 two women grinding at the mill, one will be taken and one
will be left.
024:042 Watch therefore, for you don't know in what hour your Lord comes.
024:043 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what
watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched,
and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.
024:044 Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don't expect,
the Son of Man will come.
024:045 "Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has
set over his household, to give them their food in due season?
024:046 Blessed is that servant whom his lord finds doing so when he comes.
024:047 Most certainly I tell you that he will set him over all
that he has.
024:048 But if that evil servant should say in his heart, 'My lord
is delaying his coming,'
024:049 and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink
with the drunkards,
024:050 the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn't
expect it, and in an hour when he doesn't know it,
024:051 and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with
the hypocrites. There is where the weeping and grinding
of teeth will be.
025:001 "Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins,
who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.
025:002 Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.
025:003 Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no
oil with them,
025:004 but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
025:005 Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.
025:006 But at midnight there was a cry, 'Behold! The bridegroom is coming!
Come out to meet him!'
025:007 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.{The end
of the wick of an oil lamp needs to be cut off periodically
to avoid having it become clogged with carbon deposits.
The wick height is also adjusted so that the flame burns evenly
and gives good light without producing a lot of smoke.}
025:008 The foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil,
for our lamps are going out.'
025:009 But the wise answered, saying, 'What if there isn't
enough for us and you? You go rather to those who sell,
and buy for yourselves.'
025:010 While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those
who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast,
and the door was shut.
025:011 Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, 'Lord, Lord,
open to us.'
025:012 But he answered, 'Most certainly I tell you, I don't know you.'
025:013 Watch therefore, for you don't know the day nor the hour
in which the Son of Man is coming.
025:014 "For it is like a man, going into another country, who called
his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them.
025:015 To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one;
to each according to his own ability. Then he went
on his journey.
025:016 Immediately he who received the five talents went and traded
with them, and made another five talents.
025:017 In like manner he also who got the two gained another two.
025:018 But he who received the one went away and dug in the earth,
and hid his lord's money.
025:019 "Now after a long time the lord of those servants came,
and reconciled accounts with them.
025:020 He who received the five talents came and brought another
five talents, saying, 'Lord, you delivered to me five talents.
Behold, I have gained another five talents besides them.'
025:021 "His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.
You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you
over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'
025:022 "He also who got the two talents came and said, 'Lord,
you delivered to me two talents. Behold, I have gained
another two talents besides them.'
025:023 "His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.
You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you
over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'
025:024 "He also who had received the one talent came and said, 'Lord, I knew
you that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow,
and gathering where you did not scatter.
025:025 I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the earth.
Behold, you have what is yours.'
025:026 "But his lord answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant.
You knew that I reap where I didn't sow, and gather where
I didn't scatter.
025:027 You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers,
and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.
025:028 Take away therefore the talent from him, and give it to him
who has the ten talents.
025:029 For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have abundance,
but from him who doesn't have, even that which he has will
be taken away.
025:030 Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness,
where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
025:031 "But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy
angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.
025:032 Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate
them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep
from the goats.
025:033 He will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats
on the left.
025:034 Then the King will tell those on his right hand, 'Come,
blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you
from the foundation of the world;
025:035 for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat; I was thirsty,
and you gave me drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in;
025:036 naked, and you clothed me; I was sick, and you visited me;
I was in prison, and you came to me.'
025:037 "Then the righteous will answer him, saying, 'Lord, when did we
see you hungry, and feed you; or thirsty, and give you a drink?
025:038 When did we see you as a stranger, and take you in; or naked,
and clothe you?
025:039 When did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you?'
025:040 "The King will answer them, 'Most certainly I tell you,
inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my
brothers{The word for "brothers" here may be also correctly
translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}, you did
it to me.'
025:041 Then he will say also to those on the left hand, 'Depart from me,
you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil
and his angels;
025:042 for I was hungry, and you didn't give me food to eat;
I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink;
025:043 I was a stranger, and you didn't take me in; naked, and you didn't
clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn't visit me.'
025:044 "Then they will also answer, saying, 'Lord, when did we see
you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick,
or in prison, and didn't help you?'
025:045 "Then he will answer them, saying, 'Most certainly I tell you,
inasmuch as you didn't do it to one of the least of these,
you didn't do it to me.'
025:046 These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous
into eternal life."
026:001 It happened, when Jesus had finished all these words,
that he said to his disciples,
026:002 "You know that after two days the Passover is coming,
and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified."
026:003 Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people
were gathered together in the court of the high priest,
who was called Caiaphas.
026:004 They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit,
and kill him.
026:005 But they said, "Not during the feast, lest a riot occur
among the people."
026:006 Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
026:007 a woman came to him having an alabaster jar of very
expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat
at the table.
026:008 But when his disciples saw this, they were indignant, saying,
"Why this waste?
026:009 For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given
to the poor."
026:010 However, knowing this, Jesus said to them, "Why do you trouble
the woman? Because she has done a good work for me.
026:011 For you always have the poor with you; but you don't
always have me.
026:012 For in pouring this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare
me for burial.
026:013 Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News is preached
in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be
spoken of as a memorial of her."
026:014 Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot,
went to the chief priests,
026:015 and said, "What are you willing to give me, that I should deliver
him to you?" They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.
026:016 From that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
026:017 Now on the first day of unleavened bread, the disciples came
to Jesus, saying to him, "Where do you want us to prepare
for you to eat the Passover?"
026:018 He said, "Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him,
'The Teacher says, "My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover
at your house with my disciples."'"
026:019 The disciples did as Jesus commanded them, and they
prepared the Passover.
026:020 Now when evening had come, he was reclining at the table
with the twelve disciples.
026:021 As they were eating, he said, "Most certainly I tell you
that one of you will betray me."
026:022 They were exceedingly sorrowful, and each began to ask him,
"It isn't me, is it, Lord?"
026:023 He answered, "He who dipped his hand with me in the dish,
the same will betray me.
026:024 The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe
to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed!
It would be better for that man if he had not been born."
026:025 Judas, who betrayed him, answered, "It isn't me,
is it, Rabbi?" He said to him, "You said it."
026:026 As they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks for{TR
reads "blessed" instead of "gave thanks for"} it, and broke it.
He gave to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is my body."
026:027 He took the cup, gave thanks, and gave to them, saying, "All of
you drink it,
026:028 for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured
out for many for the remission of sins.
026:029 But I tell you that I will not drink of this fruit of the vine
from now on, until that day when I drink it anew with you
in my Father's Kingdom."
026:030 When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
026:031 Then Jesus said to them, "All of you will be made to stumble because
of me tonight, for it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd,
and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'{Zechariah 13:7}
026:032 But after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee."
026:033 But Peter answered him, "Even if all will be made to stumble
because of you, I will never be made to stumble."
026:034 Jesus said to him, "Most certainly I tell you that tonight,
before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times."
026:035 Peter said to him, "Even if I must die with you, I will not
deny you." All of the disciples also said likewise.
026:036 Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said
to his disciples, "Sit here, while I go there and pray."
026:037 He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began
to be sorrowful and severely troubled.
026:038 Then he said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful,
even to death. Stay here, and watch with me."
026:039 He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying,
"My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me;
nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire."
026:040 He came to the disciples, and found them sleeping, and said
to Peter, "What, couldn't you watch with me for one hour?
026:041 Watch and pray, that you don't enter into temptation.
The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
026:042 Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, "My Father,
if this cup can't pass away from me unless I drink it,
your desire be done."
026:043 He came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.
026:044 He left them again, went away, and prayed a third time,
saying the same words.
026:045 Then he came to his disciples, and said to them, "Sleep on now,
and take your rest. Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son
of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
026:046 Arise, let's be going. Behold, he who betrays me is at hand."
026:047 While he was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve,
came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs,
from the chief priest and elders of the people.
026:048 Now he who betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, "Whoever I kiss,
he is the one. Seize him."
026:049 Immediately he came to Jesus, and said, "Hail, Rabbi!"
and kissed him.
026:050 Jesus said to him, "Friend, why are you here?" Then they came
and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.
026:051 Behold, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand,
and drew his sword, and struck the servant of the high priest,
and struck off his ear.
026:052 Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place,
for all those who take the sword will die by the sword.
026:053 Or do you think that I couldn't ask my Father, and he would
even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?
026:054 How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?"
026:055 In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, "Have you come
out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me?
I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn't arrest me.
026:056 But all this has happened, that the Scriptures of the prophets
might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples left him, and fled.
026:057 Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest,
where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.
026:058 But Peter followed him from a distance, to the court of
the high priest, and entered in and sat with the officers,