field, 'Come immediately and sit down at the table,' 017:008 and will not rather tell him, 'Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink. Afterward you shall eat and drink'? 017:009 Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded? I think not. 017:010 Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, 'We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.'" 017:011 It happened as he was on his way to Jerusalem, that he was passing along the borders of Samaria and Galilee. 017:012 As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers met him, who stood at a distance. 017:013 They lifted up their voices, saying, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!" 017:014 When he saw them, he said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." It happened that as they went, they were cleansed. 017:015 One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice. 017:016 He fell on his face at Jesus' feet, giving him thanks; and he was a Samaritan. 017:017 Jesus answered, "Weren't the ten cleansed? But where are the nine? 017:018 Were there none found who returned to give glory to God, except this stranger?" 017:019 Then he said to him, "Get up, and go your way. Your faith has healed you." 017:020 Being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, he answered them, "The Kingdom of God doesn't come with observation; 017:021 neither will they say, 'Look, here!' or, 'Look, there!' for behold, the Kingdom of God is within you." 017:022 He said to the disciples, "The days will come, when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. 017:023 They will tell you, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!' Don't go away, nor follow after them, 017:024 for as the lightning, when it flashes out of the one part under the sky, shines to the other part under the sky; so will the Son of Man be in his day. 017:025 But first, he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. 017:026 As it happened in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man. 017:027 They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. 017:028 Likewise, even as it happened in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; 017:029 but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all. 017:030 It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed. 017:031 In that day, he who will be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back. 017:032 Remember Lot's wife! 017:033 Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it. 017:034 I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed. The one will be taken, and the other will be left. 017:035 There will be two grinding grain together. One will be taken, and the other will be left." 017:036 {Some Greek manuscripts add: "Two will be in the field: the one taken, and the other left."} 017:037 They answering, asked him, "Where, Lord?" He said to them, "Where the body is, there will the vultures also be gathered together." 018:001 He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up, 018:002 saying, "There was a judge in a certain city who didn't fear God, and didn't respect man. 018:003 A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, 'Defend me from my adversary!' 018:004 He wouldn't for a while, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God, nor respect man, 018:005 yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.'" 018:006 The Lord said, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge says. 018:007 Won't God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them? 018:008 I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?" 018:009 He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others. 018:010 "Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector. 018:011 The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 018:012 I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.' 018:013 But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn't even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!' 018:014 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted." 018:015 They were also bringing their babies to him, that he might touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. 018:016 Jesus summoned them, saying, "Allow the little children to come to me, and don't hinder them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these. 018:017 Most certainly, I tell you, whoever doesn't receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it." 018:018 A certain ruler asked him, saying, "Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" 018:019 Jesus asked him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good, except one—God. 018:020 You know the commandments: 'Don't commit adultery,' 'Don't murder,' 'Don't steal,' 'Don't give false testimony,' 'Honor your father and your mother.'"{Exodus 20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20} 018:021 He said, "I have observed all these things from my youth up." 018:022 When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, "You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me." 018:023 But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was very rich. 018:024 Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, "How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God! 018:025 For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God." 018:026 Those who heard it said, "Then who can be saved?" 018:027 But he said, "The things which are impossible with men are possible with God." 018:028 Peter said, "Look, we have left everything, and followed you." 018:029 He said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God's sake, 018:030 who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life." 018:031 He took the twelve aside, and said to them, "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed. 018:032 For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on. 018:033 They will scourge and kill him. On the third day, he will rise again." 018:034 They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they didn't understand the things that were said. 018:035 It happened, as he came near Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the road, begging. 018:036 Hearing a multitude going by, he asked what this meant. 018:037 They told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by. 018:038 He cried out, "Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!" 018:039 Those who led the way rebuked him, that he should be quiet; but he cried out all the more, "You son of David, have mercy on me!" 018:040 Standing still, Jesus commanded him to be brought to him. When he had come near, he asked him, 018:041 "What do you want me to do?" He said, "Lord, that I may see again." 018:042 Jesus said to him, "Receive your sight. Your faith has healed you." 018:043 Immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, praised God. 019:001 He entered and was passing through Jericho. 019:002 There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich. 019:003 He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn't because of the crowd, because he was short. 019:004 He ran on ahead, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was to pass that way. 019:005 When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, "Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house." 019:006 He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully. 019:007 When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, "He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner." 019:008 Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much." 019:009 Jesus said to him, "Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham. 019:010 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost." 019:011 As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that the Kingdom of God would be revealed immediately. 019:012 He said therefore, "A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return. 019:013 He called ten servants of his, and gave them ten mina coins,{10 minas was more than 3 years' wages for an agricultural laborer.} and told them, 'Conduct business until I come.' 019:014 But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, 'We don't want this man to reign over us.' 019:015 "It happened when he had come back again, having received the kingdom, that he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by conducting business. 019:016 The first came before him, saying, 'Lord, your mina has made ten more minas.' 019:017 "He said to him, 'Well done, you good servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.' 019:018 "The second came, saying, 'Your mina, Lord, has made five minas.' 019:019 "So he said to him, 'And you are to be over five cities.' 019:020 Another came, saying, 'Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief, 019:021 for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn't lay down, and reap that which you didn't sow.' 019:022 "He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn't lay down, and reaping that which I didn't sow. 019:023 Then why didn't you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?' 019:024 He said to those who stood by, 'Take the mina away from him, and give it to him who has the ten minas.' 019:025 "They said to him, 'Lord, he has ten minas!' 019:026 'For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn't have, even that which he has will be taken away from him. 019:027 But bring those enemies of mine who didn't want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.'" 019:028 Having said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. 019:029 It happened, when he drew near to Bethsphage{TR, NU read "Bethpage" instead of "Bethsphage"} and Bethany, at the mountain that is called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples, 019:030 saying, "Go your way into the village on the other side, in which, as you enter, you will find a colt tied, whereon no man ever yet sat. Untie it, and bring it. 019:031 If anyone asks you, 'Why are you untying it?' say to him: 'The Lord needs it.'" 019:032 Those who were sent went away, and found things just as he had told them. 019:033 As they were untying the colt, the owners of it said to them, "Why are you untying the colt?" 019:034 They said, "The Lord needs it." 019:035 They brought it to Jesus. They threw their cloaks on the colt, and set Jesus on them. 019:036 As he went, they spread their cloaks in the way. 019:037 As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen, 019:038 saying, "Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord!{Psalm 118:26} Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!" 019:039 Some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to him, "Teacher, rebuke your disciples!" 019:040 He answered them, "I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out." 019:041 When he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it, 019:042 saying, "If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes. 019:043 For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side, 019:044 and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn't know the time of your visitation." 019:045 He entered into the temple, and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it, 019:046 saying to them, "It is written, 'My house is a house of prayer,'{Isaiah 56:7} but you have made it a 'den of robbers'!"{Jeremiah 7:11} 019:047 He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him. 019:048 They couldn't find what they might do, for all the people hung on to every word that he said. 020:001 It happened on one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the Good News, that the {TR adds "chief"}priests and scribes came to him with the elders. 020:002 They asked him, "Tell us: by what authority do you do these things? Or who is giving you this authority?" 020:003 He answered them, "I also will ask you one question. Tell me: 020:004 the baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?" 020:005 They reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Why didn't you believe him?' 020:006 But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet." 020:007 They answered that they didn't know where it was from. 020:008 Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things." 020:009 He began to tell the people this parable. "A {NU (in brackets) and TR add "certain"}man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time. 020:010 At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty. 020:011 He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty. 020:012 He sent yet a third, and they also wounded him, and threw him out. 020:013 The lord of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.' 020:014 "But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.' 020:015 They threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them? 020:016 He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others." When they heard it, they said, "May it never be!" 020:017 But he looked at them, and said, "Then what is this that is written, 'The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the chief cornerstone?'{Psalm 118:22} 020:018 Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust." 020:019 The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people—for they knew he had spoken this parable against them. 020:020 They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor. 020:021 They asked him, "Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and aren't partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. 020:022 Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?" 020:023 But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, "Why do you test me? 020:024 Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?" They answered, "Caesar's." 020:025 He said to them, "Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." 020:026 They weren't able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer, and were silent. 020:027 Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection. 020:028 They asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man's brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up children for his brother. 020:029 There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died childless. 020:030 The second took her as wife, and he died childless. 020:031 The third took her, and likewise the seven all left no children, and died. 020:032 Afterward the woman also died. 020:033 Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them will she be? For the seven had her as a wife." 020:034 Jesus said to them, "The children of this age marry, and are given in marriage. 020:035 But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage. 020:036 For they can't die any more, for they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection. 020:037 But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he called the Lord 'The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.'{Exodus 3:6} 020:038 Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him." 020:039 Some of the scribes answered, "Teacher, you speak well." 020:040 They didn't dare to ask him any more questions. 020:041 He said to them, "Why do they say that the Christ is David's son? 020:042 David himself says in the book of Psalms, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, 020:043 until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet."'{Psalm 110:1} 020:044 "David therefore calls him Lord, so how is he his son?" 020:045 In the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples, 020:046 "Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts; 020:047 who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation." 021:001 He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury. 021:002 He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins.{literally, "two lepta." 2 lepta was about 1% of a day's wages for an agricultural laborer.} 021:003 He said, "Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them, 021:004 for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on." 021:005 As some were talking about the temple and how it was decorated with beautiful stones and gifts, he said, 021:006 "As for these things which you see, the days will come, in which there will not be left here one stone on another that will not be thrown down." 021:007 They asked him, "Teacher, so when will these things be? What is the sign that these things are about to happen?" 021:008 He said, "Watch out that you don't get led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, 'I am he{or, I AM},' and, 'The time is at hand.' Therefore don't follow them. 021:009 When you hear of wars and disturbances, don't be terrified, for these things must happen first, but the end won't come immediately." 021:010 Then he said to them, "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. 021:011 There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in various places. There will be terrors and great signs from heaven. 021:012 But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name's sake. 021:013 It will turn out as a testimony for you. 021:014 Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand how to answer, 021:015 for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict. 021:016 You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death. 021:017 You will be hated by all men for my name's sake. 021:018 And not a hair of your head will perish. 021:019 "By your endurance you will win your lives. 021:020 "But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is at hand. 021:021 Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let those who are in the midst of her depart. Let those who are in the country not enter therein. 021:022 For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. 021:023 Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people. 021:024 They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. 021:025 There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves; 021:026 men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 021:027 Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 021:028 But when these things begin to happen, look up, and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near." 021:029 He told them a parable. "See the fig tree, and all the trees. 021:030 When they are already budding, you see it and know by your own selves that the summer is already near. 021:031 Even so you also, when you see these things happening, know that the Kingdom of God is near. 021:032 Most certainly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all things are accomplished. 021:033 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away. 021:034 "So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly. 021:035 For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the surface of all the earth. 021:036 Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man." 021:037 Every day Jesus was teaching in the temple, and every night he would go out and spend the night on the mountain that is called Olivet. 021:038 All the people came early in the morning to him in the temple to hear him. 022:001 Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the Passover, drew near. 022:002 The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people. 022:003 Satan entered into Judas, who was surnamed Iscariot, who was numbered with the twelve. 022:004 He went away, and talked with the chief priests and captains about how he might deliver him to them. 022:005 They were glad, and agreed to give him money. 022:006 He consented, and sought an opportunity to deliver him to them in the absence of the multitude. 022:007 The day of unleavened bread came, on which the Passover must be sacrificed. 022:008 He sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat." 022:009 They said to him, "Where do you want us to prepare?" 022:010 He said to them, "Behold, when you have entered into the city, a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you. Follow him into the house which he enters. 022:011 Tell the master of the house, 'The Teacher says to you, "Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?"' 022:012 He will show you a large, furnished upper room. Make preparations there." 022:013 They went, found things as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover. 022:014 When the hour had come, he sat down with the twelve apostles. 022:015 He said to them, "I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer, 022:016 for I tell you, I will no longer by any means eat of it until it is fulfilled in the Kingdom of God." 022:017 He received a cup, and when he had given thanks, he said, "Take this, and share it among yourselves, 022:018 for I tell you, I will not drink at all again from the fruit of the vine, until the Kingdom of God comes." 022:019 He took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and gave to them, saying, "This is my body which is given for you. Do this in memory of me." 022:020 Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you. 022:021 But behold, the hand of him who betrays me is with me on the table. 022:022 The Son of Man indeed goes, as it has been determined, but woe to that man through whom he is betrayed!" 022:023 They began to question among themselves, which of them it was who would do this thing. 022:024 There arose also a contention among them, which of them was considered to be greatest. 022:025 He said to them, "The kings of the nations lord it over them, and those who have authority over them are called 'benefactors.' 022:026 But not so with you. But one who is the greater among you, let him become as the younger, and one who is governing, as one who serves. 022:027 For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Isn't it he who sits at the table? But I am in the midst of you as one who serves. 022:028 But you are those who have continued with me in my trials. 022:029 I confer on you a kingdom, even as my Father conferred on me, 022:030 that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom. You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel." 022:031 The Lord said, "Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat, 022:032 but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn't fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers{The word for "brothers" here may be also correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}." 022:033 He said to him, "Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!" 022:034 He said, "I tell you, Peter, the rooster will by no means crow today until you deny that you know me three times." 022:035 He said to them, "When I sent you out without purse, and wallet, and shoes, did you lack anything?" They said, "Nothing." 022:036 Then he said to them, "But now, whoever has a purse, let him take it, and likewise a wallet. Whoever has none, let him sell his cloak, and buy a sword. 022:037 For I tell you that this which is written must still be fulfilled in me: 'He was counted with the lawless.'{Isaiah 53:12} For that which concerns me has an end." 022:038 They said, "Lord, behold, here are two swords." He said to them, "That is enough." 022:039 He came out, and went, as his custom was, to the Mount of Olives. His disciples also followed him. 022:040 When he was at the place, he said to them, "Pray that you don't enter into temptation." 022:041 He was withdrawn from them about a stone's throw, and he knelt down and prayed, 022:042 saying, "Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done." 022:043 An angel from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him. 022:044 Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground. 022:045 When he rose up from his prayer, he came to the disciples, and found them sleeping because of grief, 022:046 and said to them, "Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation." 022:047 While he was still speaking, behold, a multitude, and he who was called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He came near to Jesus to kiss him. 022:048 But Jesus said to him, "Judas, do you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?" 022:049 When those who were around him saw what was about to happen, they said to him, "Lord, shall we strike with the sword?" 022:050 A certain one of them struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear. 022:051 But Jesus answered, "Let me at least do this"—and he touched his ear, and healed him. 022:052 Jesus said to the chief priests, captains of the temple, and elders, who had come against him, "Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs? 022:053 When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn't stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness." 022:054 They seized him, and led him away, and brought him into the high priest's house. But Peter followed from a distance. 022:055 When they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard, and had sat down together, Peter sat among them. 022:056 A certain servant girl saw him as he sat in the light, and looking intently at him, said, "This man also was with him." 022:057 He denied Jesus, saying, "Woman, I don't know him." 022:058 After a little while someone else saw him, and said, "You also are one of them!" But Peter answered, "Man, I am not!" 022:059 After about one hour passed, another confidently affirmed, saying, "Truly this man also was with him, for he is a Galilean!" 022:060 But Peter said, "Man, I don't know what you are talking about!" Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed. 022:061 The Lord turned, and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the Lord's word, how he said to him, "Before the rooster crows you will deny me three times." 022:062 He went out, and wept bitterly. 022:063 The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him. 022:064 Having blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him, "Prophesy! Who is the one who struck you?" 022:065 They spoke many other things against him, insulting him. 022:066 As soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people was gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying, 022:067 "If you are the Christ, tell us." But he said to them, "If I tell you, you won't believe, 022:068 and if I ask, you will in no way answer me or let me go. 022:069 From now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God." 022:070 They all said, "Are you then the Son of God?" He said to them, "You say it, because I am." 022:071 They said, "Why do we need any more witness? For we ourselves have heard from his own mouth!" 023:001 The whole company of them rose up and brought him before Pilate. 023:002 They began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king." 023:003 Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered him, "So you say." 023:004 Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, "I find no basis for a charge against this man." 023:005 But they insisted, saying, "He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place." 023:006 But when Pilate heard Galilee mentioned, he asked if the man was a Galilean. 023:007 When he found out that he was in Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem during those days. 023:008 Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad, for he had wanted to see him for a long time, because he had heard many things about him. He hoped to see some miracle done by him. 023:009 He questioned him with many words, but he gave no answers. 023:010 The chief priests and the scribes stood, vehemently accusing him. 023:011 Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate. 023:012 Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before that they were enemies with each other. 023:013 Pilate called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people, 023:014 and said to them, "You brought this man to me as one that perverts the people, and see, I have examined him before you, and found no basis for a charge against this man concerning those things of which you accuse him. 023:015 Neither has Herod, for I sent you to him, and see, nothing worthy of death has been done by him. 023:016 I will therefore chastise him and release him." 023:017 Now he had to release one prisoner to them at the feast. 023:018 But they all cried out together, saying, "Away with this man! Release to us Barabbas!"— 023:019 one who was thrown into prison for a certain revolt in the city, and for murder. 023:020 Then Pilate spoke to them again, wanting to release Jesus, 023:021 but they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify him!" 023:022 He said to them the third time, "Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him." 023:023 But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed. 023:024 Pilate decreed that what they asked for should be done. 023:025 He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus up to their will. 023:026 When they led him away, they grabbed one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it after Jesus. 023:027 A great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him. 023:028 But Jesus, turning to them, said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, don't weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. 023:029 For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.' 023:030 Then they will begin to tell the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and tell the hills, 'Cover us.'{Hosea 10:8} 023:031 For if they do these things in the green tree, what will be done in the dry?" 023:032 There were also others, two criminals, led with him to be put to death. 023:033 When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified him there with the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left. 023:034 Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing." Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots. 023:035 The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!" 023:036 The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar, 023:037 and saying, "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!" 023:038 An inscription was also written over him in letters of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew: "THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS." 023:039 One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, "If you are the Christ, save yourself and us!" 023:040 But the other answered, and rebuking him said, "Don't you even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation? 023:041 And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong." 023:042 He said to Jesus, "Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom." 023:043 Jesus said to him, "Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise." 023:044 It was now about the sixth hour{Time was counted from sunrise, so the sixth hour was about noon.}, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.{3:00 PM} 023:045 The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two. 023:046 Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!" Having said this, he breathed his last. 023:047 When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, "Certainly this was a righteous man." 023:048 All the multitudes that came together to see this, when they saw the things that were done, returned home beating their breasts. 023:049 All his acquaintances, and the women who followed with him from Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these things. 023:050 Behold, a man named Joseph, who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man 023:051 (he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for the Kingdom of God: 023:052 this man went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus' body. 023:053 He took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no one had ever been laid. 023:054 It was the day of the Preparation, and the Sabbath was drawing near. 023:055 The women, who had come with him out of Galilee, followed after, and saw the tomb, and how his body was laid. 023:056 They returned, and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment. 024:001 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared. 024:002 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb. 024:003 They entered in, and didn't find the Lord Jesus' body. 024:004 It happened, while they were greatly perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling clothing. 024:005 Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth. They said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead? 024:006 He isn't here, but is risen. Remember what he told you when he was still in Galilee, 024:007 saying that the Son of Man must be delivered up into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again?" 024:008 They remembered his words, 024:009 returned from the tomb, and told all these things to the eleven, and to all the rest. 024:010 Now they were Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James. The other women with them told these things to the apostles. 024:011 These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they didn't believe them. 024:012 But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. Stooping and looking in, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he departed to his home, wondering what had happened. 024:013 Behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia{60 stadia = about 11 kilometers or about 7 miles.} from Jerusalem. 024:014 They talked with each other about all of these things which had happened. 024:015 It happened, while they talked and questioned together, that Jesus himself came near, and went with them. 024:016 But their eyes were kept from recognizing him. 024:017 He said to them, "What are you talking about as you walk, and are sad?" 024:018 One of them, named Cleopas, answered him, "Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who doesn't know the things which have happened there in these days?" 024:019 He said to them, "What things?" They said to him, "The things concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people; 024:020 and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him. 024:021 But we were hoping that it was he who would redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened. 024:022 Also, certain women of our company amazed us, having arrived early at the tomb; 024:023 and when they didn't find his body, they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive. 024:024 Some of us went to the tomb, and found it just like the women had said, but they didn't see him." 024:025 He said to them, "Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! 024:026 Didn't the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?" 024:027 Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself. 024:028 They drew near to the village, where they were going, and he acted like he would go further. 024:029 They urged him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over." He went in to stay with them. 024:030 It happened, that when he had sat down at the table with them, he took the bread and gave thanks. Breaking it, he gave to them. 024:031 Their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he vanished out of their sight. 024:032 They said one to another, "Weren't our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?" 024:033 They rose up that very hour, returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and those who were with them, 024:034 saying, "The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!" 024:035 They related the things that happened along the way, and how he was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread. 024:036 As they said these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, "Peace be to you." 024:037 But they were terrified and filled with fear, and supposed that they had seen a spirit. 024:038 He said to them, "Why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise in your hearts? 024:039 See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn't have flesh and bones, as you see that I have." 024:040 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. 024:041 While they still didn't believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, "Do you have anything here to eat?" 024:042 They gave him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb. 024:043 He took them, and ate in front of them. 024:044 He said to them, "This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled." 024:045 Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures. 024:046 He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, 024:047 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 024:048 You are witnesses of these things. 024:049 Behold, I send forth the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high." 024:050 He led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. 024:051 It happened, while he blessed them, that he withdrew from them, and was carried up into heaven. 024:052 They worshiped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy, 024:053 and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.

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