The Gospel of Mark
Chapter 9
1 And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see that the kingdom of God has come with power.”
2 And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves; and he was transfigured before them,
3 and his garments became glistening, intensely white, as no fuller on earth could bleach them.
4 And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, and they were talking to Jesus.
5 And Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it is well that we are here; let us make three booths, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.”
6 For he did not know what to say, for they were exceedingly afraid.
7 And a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is my beloved Son; listen to him.”
8 And suddenly looking around they no longer saw any one with them but Jesus only.
9 And as they were coming down the mountain, he charged them to tell no one what they had seen, until the Son of man should have risen from the dead.
10 So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what the rising from the dead meant.
11 And they asked him, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
12 And he said to them, “Elijah does come first to restore all things; and how is it written of the Son of man, that he should suffer many things and be treated with contempt?
13 But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they did to him whatever they pleased, as it is written of him.”
14 And when they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd about them, and scribes arguing with them.
15 And immediately all the crowd, when they saw him, were greatly amazed and ran up to him and greeted him.
16 And he asked them, “What are you discussing with them?”
17 And one of the crowd answered him, “Teacher, I brought my son to you, for he has a dumb spirit;
18 and wherever it seizes him, it dashes him down; and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid; and I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they were not able.”
19 And he answered them, “O faithless generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him to me.”
20 And they brought the boy to him; and when the spirit saw him, immediately it convulsed the boy, and he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth.
21 And Jesus asked his father, “How long has he had this?” And he said, “From childhood.
22 And it has often cast him into the fire and into the water, to destroy him; but if you can do anything, have pity on us and help us.”
23 And Jesus said to him, “If you can! All things are possible to him who believes.”
24 Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!”
25 And when Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You dumb and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again.”
26 And after crying out and convulsing him terribly, it came out, and the boy was like a corpse; so that most of them said, “He is dead.”
27 But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose.
28 And when he had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?”
29 And he said to them, “This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer and fasting.”
30 They went on from there and passed through Galilee. And he would not have any one know it;
31 for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of man will be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, after three days he will rise.”
32 But they did not understand the saying, and they were afraid to ask him.
33 And they came to Capernaum; and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?”
34 But they were silent; for on the way they had discussed with one another who was the greatest.
35 And he sat down and called the twelve; and he said to them, “If any one would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”
36 And he took a child, and put him in the midst of them; and taking him in.
Here is the extract from Chapter 10 of the book of Mark from the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Holy Bible:
Chapter 10
1 And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again; and again, as his custom was, he taught them.
2 And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
3 He answered them, “What did Moses command you?”
4 They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce, and to put her away.”
5 But Jesus said to them, “For your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.
6 But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’
7 ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,
8 and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh.
9 What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder.”
10 And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter.
11 And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another, commits adultery against her;
12 and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
13 And they were bringing children to him, that he might touch them; and the disciples rebuked them.
14 But when Jesus saw it he was indignant, and said to them, “Let the children come to me, do not hinder them; for to such belongs the kingdom of God.
15 Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”
16 And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands upon them.
17 And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
18 And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone.
19 You know the commandments: ‘Do not kill, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.'”
20 And he said to him, “Teacher, all these I have observed from my youth.”
21 And Jesus looking upon him loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing; go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
22 At that saying his countenance fell, and he went away sorrowful; for he had great possessions.
23 And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it will be for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God!”
24 And the disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!
25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
26 And they were exceedingly astonished, and said to him, “Then who can be saved?”
27 Jesus looked at them and said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with God.”
28 Peter began to say to him, “Lo, we have left everything and followed you.”
29 Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel,
30 who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.
31 But many that are first will be last, and the last first.”
32 And they were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them; and they were amazed, and those who followed were afraid. And taking the twelve again, he began to tell them what was to happen to him,
33 saying, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death, and deliver him to the Gentiles;
34 and they will mock him, and spit upon him, and scourge him, and kill him; and after three days he will rise.”
Here is the extract from Chapter 11 of the book of Mark from the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Holy Bible:
Chapter 11
1 And when they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,
2 and said to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat; untie it and bring it.
3 If any one says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord has need of it and will send it back here immediately.'”
4 And they went away and found a colt tied at the door out in the open street; and they untied it.
5 And those who stood there said to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt?”
6 And they told them what Jesus had said; and they let them go.
7 And they brought the colt to Jesus, and threw their garments on it; and he sat upon it.
8 And many spread their garments on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.
9 And those who went before and those who followed cried out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!
10 Blessed is the kingdom of our father David that is coming! Hosanna in the highest!”
11 And he entered Jerusalem, and went into the temple; and when he had looked round at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.
12 On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry.
13 And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.
14 And he said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard it.
15 And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons.
16 And he would not allow any one to carry anything through the temple.
17 And he taught, and said to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.”
18 And the chief priests and the scribes heard it and sought a way to destroy him; for they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.
19 And when evening came, Jesus and his disciples went out of the city.
20 As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away to its roots.
21 And Peter remembered and said to him, “Master, look! The fig tree which you cursed has withered.”
22 And Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God.
23 Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.
24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you receive it, and you will.
25 And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against any one; so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”
27 And they came again to Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to him,
28 and they said to him, “By what authority are you doing these things, or who gave you this authority to do them?”
29 Jesus said to them, “I will ask you a question; answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.
30 Was the baptism of John from heaven or from men? Answer me.”
31 And they argued with one another, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’
32 But shall we say, ‘From men’?”—they were afraid of the people, for all held that John was a real prophet.
33 So they answered Jesus, “We do not know.” And Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”
Here is the extract from Chapter 12 of the book of Mark from the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Holy Bible:
Chapter 12
1 And he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and dug a pit for the wine press, and built a tower, and let it out to tenants, and went into another country.
2 When the season came, he sent a servant to the tenants, to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.
3 And they took him and beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.
4 Again he sent to them another servant, and they wounded him in the head, and treated him shamefully.
5 And he sent another, and him they killed; and so with many others, beating some and killing others.
6 He had still one other, a beloved son; finally he sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’
7 But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’
8 And they took him and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
9 What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants, and give the vineyard to others.
10 Have you not read this scripture: ‘The very stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner;
11 this was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”
12 And they tried to arrest him, but feared the multitude, for they perceived that he had told the parable against them; so they left him and went away.
13 And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and some of the Herodians, to entrap him in his talk.
14 And they came and said to him, “Teacher, we know that you are true, and care for no man; for you do not regard the position of men, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?
15 Should we pay them, or should we not?” But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, “Why put me to the test? Bring me a coin, and let me look at it.”
16 And they brought one. And he said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?” They said to him, “Caesar’s.”
17 Jesus said to them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” And they were amazed at him.
18 And Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection; and they asked him a question, saying,
19 “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife, but no child, the man must take the wife, and raise up children for his brother.
20 There were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and when he died left no children;
21 and the second took her, and died, leaving no children; and the third likewise.
22 And the seven left no children. Last of all the woman also died.
23 In the resurrection whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as wife.”
24 Jesus said to them, “Is not this why you are wrong, that you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God?
25 For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
26 And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?
27 He is not God of the dead, but of the living; you are quite wrong.”
28 And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the first of all?”
29 Jesus answered, “The first is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one;
30 and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’
31 The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
32 And the scribe said to him, “Well, Teacher, you have spoken truly, for he is one, and there is no other but he;
33 and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
34 And when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.
Here is the extract from Chapter 13 of the book of Mark from the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Holy Bible:
Chapter 13
1 And as he came out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Look, Teacher, what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings!”
2 And Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone upon another, that will not be thrown down.”
3 And as he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately,
4 “Tell us, when will this be, and what will be the sign when these things are all to be accomplished?”
5 And Jesus began to say to them, “Take heed that no one leads you astray.
6 Many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he!’ and they will lead many astray.
7 And when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed; this must take place, but the end is not yet.
8 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places, there will be famines; this is but the beginning of the birth-pangs.
9 But take heed to yourselves; for they will deliver you up to councils; and you will be beaten in synagogues; and you will stand before governors and kings for my sake, to bear testimony before them.
10 And the gospel must first be preached to all nations.
11 And when they bring you to trial and deliver you up, do not be anxious beforehand what you are to say; but say whatever is given you in that hour, for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.
12 And brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death;
13 and you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.
14 But when you see the desolating sacrilege set up where it ought not to be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains;
15 let him who is on the housetop not go down, nor enter his house, to take anything away;
16 and let him who is in the field not turn back to take his mantle.
17 And alas for those who are with child and for those who are nursing in those days!
18 Pray that it may not happen in winter.
19 For in those days there will be such tribulation as has not been from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be.
20 And if the Lord had not shortened the days, no human being would be saved; but for the sake of the elect, whom he chose, he shortened the days.
21 And then if any one says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘Look, there he is!’ do not believe it.
22 False Christs and false prophets will arise and show signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, the elect.
23 But take heed; I have told you all things beforehand.
24 But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light,
25 and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.
26 And then they will see the Son of man coming in clouds with great power and glory.
27 And then he will send out the angels, and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.
28 From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near.
29 So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that he is near, at the very gates.
30 Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away before all these things take place.
31 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
32 But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
33 Take heed, watch; for you do not know when the time will come.
34 It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to be on the watch.
35 Watch therefore—for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrow, or in the morning—
36 lest he come suddenly and find you asleep.
37 And what I say to you I say to all: Watch.”
Here is the extract from Chapter 14 of the book of Mark from the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Holy Bible:
Chapter 14
1 It was now two days before the Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth, and kill him;
2 for they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be a tumult of the people.”
3 And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head.
4 But there were some who said to themselves indignantly, “Why was the ointment thus wasted?
5 For this ointment might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor.” And they reproached her.
6 But Jesus said, “Let her alone; why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.
7 For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you will, you can do good to them; but you will not always have me.
8 She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for burying.
9 And truly, I say to you, wherever the gospel is preached in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.”
10 Then Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went to the chief priests in order to betray him to them.
11 And when they heard it they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought an opportunity to betray him.
12 And on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the passover lamb, his disciples said to him, “Where will you have us go and prepare for you to eat the passover?”
13 And he sent two of his disciples, and said to them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you; follow him,
14 and wherever he enters, say to the householder, ‘The Teacher says, Where is my guest room, where I am to eat the passover with my disciples?’
15 And he will show you a large upper room furnished and ready; there prepare for us.”
16 And the disciples set out and went to the city, and found it as he had told them; and they prepared the passover.
17 And when it was evening, he came with the twelve.
18 And as they were at table eating, Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me, one who is eating with me.”
19 They began to be sorrowful, and to say to him one after another, “Is it I?”
20 He said to them, “It is one of the twelve, one who is dipping bread in the dish with me.
21 For the Son of man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”
22 And as they were eating, he took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to them, and said, “Take; this is my body.”
23 And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, and they all drank of it.
24 And he said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.
25 Truly, I say to you, I shall not drink again of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”
26 And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
27 And Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away; for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’
28 But after I am raised up, I will go before you to Galilee.”
29 Peter said to him, “Even though they all fall away, I will not.”
30 And Jesus said to him, “Truly, I say to you, this very night, before the cock crows twice, you will deny me three times.”
31 But Peter said to him, “Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you.”
Here is the extract from Chapter 15 of the book of Mark from the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Holy Bible:
Chapter 15
1 And as soon as it was morning, the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council. And they bound Jesus and led him away and delivered him to Pilate.
2 And Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” And he answered him, “You have said so.”
3 And the chief priests accused him of many things.
4 And Pilate again asked him, “Have you no answer to make? See how many charges they bring against you.”
5 But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate wondered.
6 Now at the feast he used to release for them one prisoner for whom they asked.
7 And among the rebels in prison, who had committed murder in the insurrection, there was a man called Barabbas.
8 And the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do as he was wont to do for them.
9 And he answered them, “Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?”
10 For he perceived that it was out of envy that the chief priests had delivered him up.
11 But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release for them Barabbas instead.
12 And Pilate again said to them, “Then what shall I do with the man whom you call the King of the Jews?”
13 And they cried out again, “Crucify him.”
14 And Pilate said to them, “Why, what evil has he done?” But they cried out all the more, “Crucify him.”
15 So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released for them Barabbas; and having scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
16 And the soldiers led him away inside the palace (that is, the Praetorium); and they called together the whole battalion.
17 And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and plaiting a crown of thorns they put it on him.
18 And they began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
19 And they struck his head with a reed, and spat upon him, and they knelt down in homage to him.
20 And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak, and put his own clothes on him. And they led him out to crucify him.
21 And they compelled a passer-by, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross.
22 And they brought him to the place called Golgotha (which means the place of a skull).
23 And they offered him wine mingled with myrrh; but he did not take it.
24 And they crucified him, and divided his garments among them, casting lots for them, to decide what each should take.
25 And it was the third hour, when they crucified him.
26 And the inscription of the charge against him read, “The King of the Jews.”
27 And with him they crucified two robbers, one on his right and one on his left.
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29 And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Aha! You who would destroy the temple and build it in three days,
30 save yourself, and come down from the cross!”
31 So also the chief priests mocked him to one another with the scribes, saying, “He saved others; he cannot save himself.
32 Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe.” Those who were crucified with him also reviled him.
33 And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabach-thani?” which means, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”
35 And some of the bystanders hearing it said, “Behold, he is calling Elijah.”
36 And one ran and filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down.”
37 And Jesus uttered a loud cry, and breathed his last.
38 And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom.
39 And when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that he thus breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!”
40 There were also women looking on from afar, among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome,
41 who, when he was in Galilee, followed him.
Chapter 16
1 And when the sabbath was past, Mary Mag’dalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salo’me, bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him.
2 And very early on the first day of the week they went to the tomb when the sun had risen.
3 And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the door of the tomb?”
4 And looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back; — it was very large.
5 And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe; and they were amazed.
6 And he said to them, “Do not be amazed; you seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen, he is not here; see the place where they laid him.
7 But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going before you to Galilee; there you will see him, as he told you.”
8 And they went out and fled from the tomb; for trembling and astonishment had come upon them; and they said nothing to any one, for they were afraid.
9 Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Mag’dalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.
10 She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept.
11 But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it.
12 After this he appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country.
13 And they went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them.
14 Afterward he appeared to the eleven themselves as they sat at table; and he upbraided them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen.
15 And he said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation.
16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.
17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
18 they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
19 So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.
20 And they went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that attended it. Amen.
THE GOSPEL OF LUKE
Chapter 1
1 Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things which have been accomplished among us,
2 just as they were handed down to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word,
3 it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent The-oph’ilus,
4 that you may know the truth concerning the things of which you have been informed.
5 In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechari’ah, of the division of Abi’jah; and he had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
7 But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and both were advanced in years.
8 Now while he was serving as priest before God when his division was on duty,
9 according to the custom of the priesthood, it fell to him by lot to enter the temple of the Lord and burn incense.
10 And the whole multitude of the people were praying outside at the hour of incense.
11 And there appeared to him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.
12 And Zechari’ah was troubled when he saw him, and fear fell upon him.
13 But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechari’ah, for your prayer is heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son,
14 and you shall call his name John.
15 And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth;
16 for he will be great before the Lord, and he shall drink no wine nor strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.
17 And he will turn many of the sons of Israel to the Lord their God,
18 and he will go before him in the spirit and power of Eli’jah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared.”
19 And Zechari’ah said to the angel, “How shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in years.”
20 And the angel answered him, “I am Gabriel, who stand in the presence of God; and I was sent to speak to you, and to bring you this good news.
21 And behold, you will be silent and unable to speak until the day that these things come to pass, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their time.”
22 And the people waited for Zechari’ah, and they wondered at his delay in the temple.
23 And when he came out, he could not speak to them, and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple; and he made signs to them and remained dumb.
24 After these days his wife Elizabeth conceived, and for five months she hid herself, saying,
25 “Thus the Lord has done to me in the days when he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.”
26 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth,
27 to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.
28 And he came to her and said, “Hail, O favored one, the Lord is with you!”
29 But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and considered in her mind what sort of greeting this might be.
30 And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.
31 And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus.
32 He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,
33 and he will reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there will be no end.”
34 And Mary said to the angel, “How shall this be, since I have no husband?”
35 And the angel said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God.
36 And behold, your kinswoman Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.
37 For with God nothing will be impossible.”
38 And Mary said, “Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.
39 In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a city of Judah,
40 and she entered the house of Zechari’ah and greeted Elizabeth.
41 And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit
42 and she exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!
43 And why is this granted me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
44 For behold, when the voice of your greeting came to my ears, the babe in my womb leaped for joy.
45 And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfilment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.”
46 And Mary said,
“My soul magnifies the Lord,
47 and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,
48 for he has regarded the low estate of his handmaiden.
For behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed;
49 for he who is mighty has done great things for me,
and holy is his name.
50 And his mercy is on those who fear him
from generation to generation.
51 He has shown strength with his arm,
he has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts,
52 he has put down the mighty from their thrones,
and exalted those of low degree;
53 he has filled the hungry with good things,
and the rich he has sent empty away.
54 He has helped his servant Israel,
in remembrance of his mercy,
55 as he spoke to our fathers,
to Abraham and to his posterity for ever.”
56 And Mary remained with her about three months, and returned to her home.
57 Now the time came for Elizabeth to be delivered, and she gave birth to a son.
58 And her neighbors and kinsfolk heard that the Lord had shown great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her.
59 And on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they would have named him Zechari’ah after his father,
60 but his mother said, “Not so; he shall be called John.”
61 And they said to her, “None of your kindred is called by this name.”
62 And they made signs to his father, inquiring what he would have him called.
63 And he asked for a writing tablet, and wrote, “His name is John.” And they all marveled.
64 And immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed, and he spoke, blessing God.
65 And fear came on all their neighbors. And all these things were talked about through all the hill country of Judea;
66 and all who heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, “What then will this child be?” For the hand of the Lord was with him.
67 And his father Zechari’ah was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying,
68 “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,
for he has visited and redeemed his people,
69 and has raised up a horn of salvation for us
in the house of his servant David,
70 as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old,
71 that we should be saved from our enemies,
and from the hand of all who hate us;
72 to perform the mercy promised to our fathers,
and to remember his holy covenant,
73 the oath which he swore to our father Abraham,
74 to grant us that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies,
might serve him without fear,
75 in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.
76 And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High;
for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,
77 to give knowledge of salvation to his people
in the forgiveness of their sins,
78 through the tender mercy of our God,
when the day shall dawn upon us from on high
79 to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,
to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
80 And the child grew and became strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness till the day of his manifestation to Israel.
Chapter 2
1 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Au-gus’tus that all the world should be enrolled.
2 This was the first enrollment, when Quir-i’ni-us was governor of Syria.
3 And all went to be enrolled, each to his own city.
4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David,
5 to be enrolled with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child.
6 And while they were there, the time came for her to be delivered.
7 And she gave birth to her first-born son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.
8 And in that region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
9 And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with fear.
10 And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of a great joy which will come to all the people;
11 for to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
12 And this will be a sign for you: you will find a babe wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.”
13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,
14 “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among men with whom he is pleased!”
15 When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”
16 And they went with haste, and found Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.
17 And when they saw it they made known the saying which had been told them concerning this child;
18 and all who heard it wondered at what the shepherds told them.
19 But Mary kept all these things, pondering them in her heart.
20 And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them.
21 And at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
22 And when the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord
23 (as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male that opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”)
24 and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the law of the Lord, “a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.”
25 Now there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and this man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.
26 And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.
27 And inspired by the Spirit he came into the temple; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him according to the custom of the law,
28 he took him up in his arms and blessed God and said,
29 “Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word;
30 for mine eyes have seen thy salvation
31 which thou hast prepared in the presence of all peoples,
32 a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to thy people Israel.”
33 And his father and mother marveled at what was said about him;
34 and Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is spoken against
35 (and a sword will pierce through your own soul also), that thoughts out of many hearts may be revealed.”
36 And there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phan’u-el, of the tribe of Asher; she was of a great age, having lived with her husband seven years from her girlhood,
37 and as a widow till she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.
38 And coming up at that very hour she gave thanks to God, and spoke of him to all who were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem.
39 And when they had performed everything according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own
Here is Chapter 3 of the book of Luke from the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Holy Bible:
Chapter 3
1 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiber’i-us Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Iturae’a and Trachoni’tis, and Lysa’ni-as tetrarch of Abile’ne,
2 in the high-priesthood of Annas and Ca’iaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechari’ah in the wilderness;
3 and he went into all the region about the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
4 As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
5 Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;
6 and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.”
7 He said therefore to the multitudes that came out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
8 Bear fruits that befit repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father’; for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.
9 Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees; every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”
10 And the multitudes asked him, “What then shall we do?”
11 And he answered them, “He who has two coats, let him share with him who has none; and he who has food, let him do likewise.”
12 Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and said to him, “Teacher, what shall we do?”
13 And he said to them, “Collect no more than is appointed you.”
14 Soldiers also asked him, “And we, what shall we do?” And he said to them, “Rob no one by violence or by false accusation, and be content with your wages.”
15 As the people were in expectation, and all men questioned in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he were the Christ,
16 John answered them all, “I baptize you with water; but he who is mightier than I is coming, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie; he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
17 His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor, and to gather the wheat into his granary, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”
18 So, with many other exhortations, he preached good news to the people.
19 But Herod the tetrarch, who had been reproved by him for Hero’di-as, his brother’s wife, and for all the evil things that Herod had done,
20 added this to them all, that he shut up John in prison.
21 Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heaven was opened,
22 and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form, as a dove, and a voice came from heaven, “Thou art my beloved Son; with thee I am well pleased.”
23 Jesus, when he began his ministry, was about thirty years of age, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,
24 the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Jan’nai, the son of Joseph,
25 the son of Mattathi’as, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Nag’ga-i,
26 the son of Ma’ath, the son of Mattathi’as, the son of Sem’e-in, the son of Josek, the son of Joda,
27 the son of Jo’an-an, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerub’babel, the son of She-al’ti-el, the son of Neri,
28 the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elma’dam, the son of Er,
29 the son of Joshua, the son of Elie’zer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi,
30 the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonam, the son of Eli’akim.
Here is Chapter 4 of the book of Luke from the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Holy Bible:
Chapter 4
1 And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit
2 for forty days in the wilderness, tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing in those days; and when they were ended, he was hungry.
3 The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”
4 And Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone.'”
5 And the devil took him up, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time,
6 and said to him, “To you I will give all this authority and their glory; for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will.”
7 If you, then, will worship me, it shall all be yours.”
8 And Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.'”
9 And he took him to Jerusalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here;
10 for it is written, ‘He will give his angels charge of you, to guard you,’
11 and ‘On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.'”
12 And Jesus answered him, “It is said, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.'”
13 And when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from him until an opportune time.
14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and a report concerning him went out through all the surrounding country.
15 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.
16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up; and he went to the synagogue, as his custom was, on the sabbath day. And he stood up to read;
17 and there was given to him the book of the prophet Isaiah. He opened the book and found the place where it was written,
18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
19 to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”
20 And he closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant, and sat down; and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him.
21 And he began to say to them, “Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”
22 And all spoke well of him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth; and they said, “Is not this Joseph’s son?”
23 And he said to them, “Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, ‘Physician, heal yourself; what we have heard you did at Caper’na-um, do here also in your own country.'”
24 And he said, “Truly, I say to you, no prophet is acceptable in his own country.
25 But in truth, I say to you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Eli’jah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when there came a great famine over all the land;
26 and Eli’jah was sent to none of them but only to Zar’ephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.
27 And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Eli’sha; and none of them was cleansed, but only Na’aman the Syrian.”
28 When they heard this, all in the synagogue were filled with wrath.
29 And they rose up and put him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that they might throw him down headlong.
30 But passing through the midst of them he went away.
31 And he went down to Caper’na-um, a city of Galilee. And he was teaching them on the sabbath;
32 and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word was with authority.
33 And in the synagogue there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon; and he cried out with a loud voice,
34 “Ah! What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God.”
35 But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent, and come out of him!” And when the demon had thrown him down in the midst, he came out of him, having done him no harm.
Here is Chapter 16 of the book of Luke from the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Holy Bible:
Luke 16
- He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a steward, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his goods.
- And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your stewardship, for you can no longer be steward.’
- And the steward said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the stewardship away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg.
- I have decided what to do, so that people may receive me into their houses when I am put out of the stewardship.’
- So, summoning his master’s debtors one by one, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’
- He said, ‘A hundred measures of oil.’ And he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’
- Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred measures of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’
- The master commended the dishonest steward for his prudence; for the sons of this world are wiser in their own generation than the sons of light.
- And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal habitations.
- He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much; and he who is dishonest in a very little is dishonest also in much.
- If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust to you the true riches?
- And if you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?
- No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
- The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all this, and they scoffed at him.
- But he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts; for what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
- The law and the prophets were until John; since then the good news of the kingdom of God is preached, and every one enters it violently.
- But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one dot of the law to become void.
- Every one who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.
- There was a rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.
- And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, full of sores,
- who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table; moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
- The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried;
- and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus in his bosom.
- And he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy upon me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am in anguish in this flame.’
- But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish.
- And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.’
- And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father’s house,
- for I have five brothers, that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’
- But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.’
- And he said, ‘No, father Abraham; but if some one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’
- He said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced if some one should rise from the dead.'”
Here is Chapter 17 of the book of Luke from the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Holy Bible:
Luke 17:1-10
1 And he said to his disciples, “Temptations to sin are sure to come; but woe to him by whom they come!
2 It would be better for him if a millstone were hung round his neck and he were cast into the sea, than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.
3 Take heed to yourselves; if your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him;
4 and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, and says, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”
5 The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!”
6 And the Lord said, “If you had faith as a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this sycamine tree, ‘Be rooted up and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.
Luke 17:11-19
11 On the way to Jerusalem he was passing along between Samar’ia and Galilee.
12 And as he entered a village, he was met by ten lepers, who stood at a distance
13 and lifted up their voices and said, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.”
14 When he saw them he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went, they were cleansed.
15 Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice;
16 and he fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving thanks to him. Now he was a Samaritan.
17 Then Jesus said, “Were not ten cleansed? Where are the nine?
18 Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?”
19 And he said to him, “Rise and go your way; your faith has made you well.”
Luke 17:20-37
20 Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming, he answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed;
21 nor will they say, ‘Lo, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.”
22 And he said to the disciples, “The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and you will not see it.
23 And they will say to you, ‘Lo, there!’ or ‘Lo, here!’ Do not go, do not follow them.
24 For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of man be in his day.
25 But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.
26 As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of man.
27 They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
28 Likewise as it was in the days of Lot — they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built,
29 but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom fire and sulphur rained from heaven and destroyed them all —
30 so will it be on the day when the Son of man is revealed.
31 On that day, let him who is on the housetop, with his goods in the house, not come down to take them away; and likewise let him who is in the field not turn back.
32 Remember Lot’s wife.
33 Whoever seeks to gain his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.
34 I tell you, on that night there will be two men in one bed; one will be taken and the other left.
35 There will be two women grinding together; one will be taken and the other left.”
37 And they said to him, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together.”
Here is Chapter 18 of the book of Luke from the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Holy Bible:
Luke 18
- And he told them a parable, to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.
- He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor regarded man;
- and there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Vindicate me against my adversary.’
- For a while he refused; but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor regard man,
- yet because this widow bothers me, I will vindicate her, or she will wear me out by her continual coming.'”
- And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says.
- And will not God vindicate his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them?
- I tell you, he will vindicate them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of man comes, will he find faith on earth?”
- He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others:
- “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
- The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God, I thank thee that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
- I fast twice a week, I give tithes of all that I get.'”
- But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, “God, be merciful to me a sinner!”
- I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for every one who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
- Now they were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them; and when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
- But Jesus called them to him, saying, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them; for to such belongs the kingdom of God.
- Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”
- And a ruler asked him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
- And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone.
- You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother.”
- And he said, “All these I have observed from my youth.”
- And when Jesus heard it, he said to him, “One thing you still lack. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
- But when he heard this he became sad, for he was very rich.
- Jesus looking at him said, “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God!
- For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
- Those who heard it said, “Then who can be saved?”
- But he said, “What is impossible with men is possible with God.”
- And Peter said, “Lo, we have left our homes and followed you.”
- And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there is no man who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,
- who will not receive manifold more in this time, and in the age to come eternal life.”
- And taking the twelve, he said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written of the Son of man by the prophets will be accomplished.
- For he will be delivered to the Gentiles and will be mocked and shamefully treated and spit upon;
- they will scourge him and kill him, and on the third day he will rise.”
- But they understood none of these things; this saying was hid from them, and they did not grasp what was said.
Here is Chapter 19 of the book of Luke from the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Holy Bible:
Luke 19
- He entered Jericho and was passing through it.
- And there was a man named Zacchae’us; he was a chief tax collector, and rich.
- And he sought to see who Jesus was, but could not, on account of the crowd, because he was small of stature.
- So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was to pass that way.
- And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchae’us, make haste and come down; for I must stay at your house today.”
- So he made haste and came down, and received him joyfully.
- And when they saw it they all murmured, “He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.”
- And Zacchae’us stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have defrauded any one of anything, I restore it fourfold.”
- And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, since he also is a son of Abraham.
- For the Son of man came to seek and to save the lost.”
- As they heard these things, he proceeded to tell a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately.
- He said therefore, “A nobleman went into a far country to receive a kingdom and then return.
- Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten pounds, and said to them, ‘Trade with these till I come.’
- But his citizens hated him and sent an embassy after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’
- When he returned, having received the kingdom, he ordered these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by trading.
- The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your pound has made ten pounds more.’
- And he said to him, ‘Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.’
- And the second came, saying, ‘Lord, your pound has made five pounds.’
- And he said to him, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’
- Then another came, saying, ‘Lord, here is your pound, which I kept laid away in a napkin;
- for I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man; you take up what you did not lay down, and reap what you did not sow.’
- He said to him, ‘I will condemn you out of your own mouth, you wicked servant! You knew that I was a severe man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow?
- Why then did you not put my money into the bank, and at my coming I should have collected it with interest?’
- And he said to those who stood by, ‘Take the pound from him, and give it to him who has the ten pounds.’
- (And they said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten pounds!’)
- ‘I tell you, that to every one who has will more be given; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
- But as for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me.'”
- And when he had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.
- When he drew near to Beth’phage and Bethany, at the mount that is called Olivet, he sent two of the disciples,
- saying, “Go into the village opposite, where on entering you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever yet sat; untie it and bring it here.
- If any one asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ you shall say this, ‘The Lord has need of it.'”
- So those who were sent went away and found it as he had told them.
- And as they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, “Why are you untying the colt?”
- And they said, “The Lord has need of it.”
- And they brought it to Jesus, and throwing their garments on the colt they set Jesus upon it.
- And as he rode along, they spread their garments on the road.
Here is Chapter 20 of the book of Luke from the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Holy Bible:
Luke 20
- One day, as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes with the elders came up
- and said to him, “Tell us, by what authority do you do these things? Or who is it that gave you this authority?”
- He answered them, “I also will ask you a question; now tell me:
- Was the baptism of John from heaven or from men?”
- And they discussed it with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’
- But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us; for they are convinced that John was a prophet.”
- So they answered that they did not know whence it was.
- And Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”
- And he began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, and let it out to tenants, and went into another country for a long while.
- When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants, that they should give him some of the fruit of the vineyard; but the tenants beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.
- And he sent another servant; him also they beat and treated shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed.
- And he sent yet a third; this one they wounded and cast out.
- Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; it may be they will respect him.’
- But when the tenants saw him, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir; let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.’
- And they cast him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?”
- He will come and destroy those tenants, and give the vineyard to others. When they heard this, they said, “God forbid!”
- But he looked at them and said, “What then is this that is written: ‘The very stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner’?
- Every one who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces; but when it falls on any one it will crush him.”
- The scribes and the chief priests tried to lay hands on him at that very hour, but they feared the people; for they perceived that he had told this parable against them.
- So they watched him, and sent spies, who pretended to be sincere, that they might take hold of what he said, so as to deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.
- They asked him, “Teacher, we know that you speak and teach rightly, and show no partiality, but truly teach the way of God.
- Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar, or not?”
- But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them,
- “Show me a coin. Whose likeness and inscription has it?” They said, “Caesar’s.”
- He said to them, “Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”
- And they were not able in the presence of the people to catch him by what he said; but marveling at his answer they were silent.
- There came to him some Sadducees, those who say that there is no resurrection,
- and they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man must take the wife and raise up children for his brother.
- Now there were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and died childless;
- then the second and the third took her, and likewise all seven, and they left no children and died.
- Afterward the woman also died.
- In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had her as wife.”
- And Jesus said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage;
- but those who are accounted worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage,
- for they cannot die any more, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.
- But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.
Here is Chapter 21 of the book of Luke from the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Holy Bible:
Luke 21
- He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury;
- and he saw a poor widow putting in two copper coins.
- And he said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them;
- for they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all the living that she had.”
- And as some spoke of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, he said,
- “As for these things which you see, the days will come when there shall not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”
- And they asked him, “Teacher, when will this be, and what will be the sign when this is about to take place?”
- And he said, “Take heed that you are not led astray; for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he!’ and, ‘The time is at hand!’ Do not go after them.
- And when you hear of wars and tumults, do not be terrified; for this must first take place, but the end will not be at once.”
- Then he said to them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom;
- there will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences; and there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
- But before all this they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name’s sake.
- This will be a time for you to bear testimony.
- Settle it therefore in your minds not to meditate beforehand how to answer;
- for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.
- You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and kinsmen and friends, and some of you they will put to death;
- you will be hated by all for my name’s sake.
- But not a hair of your head will perish.
- By your endurance you will gain your lives.
- But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come.
- Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are inside the city depart, and let not those who are out in the country enter it;
- for these are days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.
- Alas for those who are with child and for those who give suck in those days! For great distress shall be upon the earth and wrath upon this people;
- they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led captive among all nations; and Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
- And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and upon the earth distress of nations in perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea,
- men fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
- And then they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
- Now when these things begin to take place, look up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”
- And he told them a parable: “Look at the fig tree, and all the trees;
- as soon as they come out in leaf, you see for yourselves and know that the summer is already near.
- So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that the kingdom of God is near.
- Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away till all has taken place.
- Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
- But take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a snare;
- for it will come upon all who dwell upon the face of the whole earth.
- But watch at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that will take place, and to stand before the Son of man.”
Here is Chapter 22 of the book of Luke from the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Holy Bible:
Luke 22
- Now the feast of Unleavened Bread drew near, which is called the Passover.
- And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to put him to death; for they feared the people.
- Then Satan entered into Judas called Iscariot, who was of the number of the twelve;
- he went away and conferred with the chief priests and officers how he might betray him to them.
- And they were glad, and engaged to give him money.
- So he agreed, and sought an opportunity to betray him to them in the absence of the multitude.
- Then came the day of Unleavened Bread, on which the passover lamb had to be sacrificed.
- So Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the passover for us, that we may eat it.”
- They said to him, “Where will you have us prepare it?”
- He said to them, “Behold, when you have entered the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you; follow him into the house which he enters,
- and tell the householder, ‘The Teacher says to you, Where is the guest room, where I am to eat the passover with my disciples?’
- And he will show you a large upper room furnished; there make ready.”
- And they went, and found it as he had told them; and they prepared the passover.
- And when the hour came, he sat at table, and the apostles with him.
- And he said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer;
- for I tell you I shall not eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”
- And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he said, “Take this, and divide it among yourselves;
- for I tell you that from now on I shall not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”
- And he took bread, and when he had given thanks he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
- And likewise the cup after supper, saying, “This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.”
- But behold the hand of him who betrays me is with me on the table.
- For the Son of man goes as it has been determined; but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!”
- And they began to question one another, which of them it was that would do this.
- A dispute also arose among them, which of them was to be regarded as the greatest.
- And he said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and those in authority over them are called benefactors.
- But not so with you; rather let the greatest among you become as the youngest, and the leader as one who serves.
- For which is the greater, one who sits at table, or one who serves? Is it not the one who sits at table? But I am among you as one who serves.
- “You are those who have continued with me in my trials;
- and I assign to you, as my Father assigned to me, a kingdom,
- that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
- “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat,
- but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail; and when you have turned again, strengthen your brethren.”
- And he said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death.”
- He said, “I tell you, Peter, the cock will not crow this day, until you three times deny that you know me.”
- And he said to them, “When I sent you out with no purse or bag or sandals, did you lack anything?” They said, “Nothing.”
- He said to them, “But now, let him who has a purse take it, and likewise a bag. And let him who has no sword sell his mantle and buy one.
- For I tell you that this scripture must be fulfilled in me.
Here is Chapter 23 of the book of Luke from the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Holy Bible:
Luke 23
- Then the whole company of them arose, and brought him before Pilate.
- And they began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting our nation, and forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ a king.”
- And Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” And he answered him, “You have said so.”
- And Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, “I find no crime in this man.”
- But they were urgent, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, from Galilee even to this place.”
- When Pilate heard this, he asked whether the man was a Galilean.
- And when he learned that he belonged to Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him over to Herod, who was himself in Jerusalem at that time.
- When Herod saw Jesus, he was very glad, for he had long desired to see him, because he had heard about him, and he was hoping to see some sign done by him.
- So he questioned him at some length; but Jesus made no answer.
- The chief priests and the scribes stood by, vehemently accusing him.
- And Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him; then, arraying him in gorgeous apparel, he sent him back to Pilate.
- And Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before this they had been at enmity with each other.
- Pilate then called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,
- and said to them, “You brought me this man as one who was perverting the people; and after examining him before you, behold, I did not find this man guilty of any of your charges against him.
- Neither did Herod, for he sent him back to us. Behold, nothing deserving death has been done by him;
- I will therefore chastise him and release him.”
- But they all cried out together, “Away with this man, and release to us Barab’bas” —
- a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection started in the city, and for murder.
- Pilate addressed them once more, desiring to release Jesus;
- but they shouted out, “Crucify, crucify him!”
- A third time he said to them, “Why, what evil has he done? I have found in him no crime deserving death; I will therefore chastise him and release him.”
- But they were urgent, demanding with loud cries that he should be crucified. And their voices prevailed.
- So Pilate gave sentence that their demand should be granted.
- He released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, whom they asked for; but Jesus he delivered up to their will.
- And as they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyre’ne, who was coming in from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it behind Jesus.
- And there followed him a great multitude of the people, and of women who bewailed and lamented him.
- But Jesus turning to them said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
- For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never gave suck!’
- Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us’; and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’
- For if they do this when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”
- Two others also, who were criminals, were led away to be put to death with him.
- And when they came to the place which is called The Skull, there they crucified him, and the criminals, one on the right and one on the left.
- And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.
- And the people stood by, watching; but the rulers scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others; let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, his Chosen One!”
- The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him vinegar,
- and saying, “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!”
- There was also an inscription over him, “This is the King of the Jews”
39 One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!”
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40 But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?
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41 And we indeed justly; for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong.”
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42 And he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”
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43 And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”
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44 It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour,
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45 while the sun’s light failed; and the curtain of the temple was torn in two.
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46 Then Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last.
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47 Now when the centurion saw what had taken place, he praised God, and said, “Certainly this man was innocent!”
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48 And all the multitudes who assembled to see the sight, when they saw what had taken place, returned home beating their breasts.
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49 And all his acquaintances and the women who had followed him from Galilee stood at a distance and saw these things.
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50 Now there was a man named Joseph from the Jewish town of Arimathe’a. He was a member of the council, a good and righteous man,
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51 who had not consented to their purpose and deed, and he was looking for the kingdom of God.
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52 This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.
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53 Then he took it down and wrapped it in a linen shroud, and laid him in a rock-hewn tomb, where no one had ever yet been laid.
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54 It was the day of Preparation, and the sabbath was beginning.
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55 The women who had come with him from Galilee followed, and saw the tomb, and how his body was laid;
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56 then they returned, and prepared spices and ointments. On the sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
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Here is Chapter 24 of the book of Luke from the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Holy Bible:
Luke 24
- But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices which they had prepared.
- And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb,
- but when they went in they did not find the body.
- While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel:
- and as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead?
- Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee,
- that the Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise.”
- And they remembered his words,
- and returning from the tomb they told all this to the eleven and to all the rest.
- Now it was Mary Mag’dalene and Jo-an’na and Mary the mother of James and the other women with them who told this to the apostles.
- But these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them.
- But Peter rose and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; and he went home wondering at what had happened.
- That very day two of them were going to a village named Emma’us, about seven miles from Jerusalem,
- and talking with each other about all these things that had happened.
- While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them.
- But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.
- And he said to them, “What is this conversation which you are holding with each other as you walk?” And they stood still, looking sad.
- Then one of them, named Cle’opas, answered him, “Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?”
- And he said to them, “What things?” And they said to him, “Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people,
- and how our chief priests and rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.
- But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since this happened.
- Moreover, some women of our company amazed us. They were at the tomb early in the morning
- and did not find his body; and they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.
- Some of those who were with us went to the tomb, and found it just as the women had said; but him they did not see.”
- And he said to them, “O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
- Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?”
- And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
- So they drew near to the village to which they were going. He appeared to be going further,
- but they constrained him, saying, “Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is now far spent.” So he went in to stay with them.
- When he was at table with them, he took the bread and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to them.
- And their eyes were opened and they recognized him; and he vanished out of their sight.
- They said to each other, “Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the scriptures?”
- And they rose that same hour and returned to Jerusalem; and they found the eleven gathered together and those who were with them,
- who said, “The Lord has risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!”
- Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he was known to them in the breaking of the bread.
- As they were saying this, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, “Peace to you.”
- But they were startled and frightened, and thought they saw a spirit.
- And he said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do questionings rise in your hearts?
- See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself; handle me, and see; for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see that I have.”
41 And while they still disbelieved for joy, and wondered, he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?”
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42 They gave him a piece of broiled fish,
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43 and he took it and ate before them.
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44 Then he said to them, “These are my words which I spoke to you, while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled.”
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45 Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures,
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46 and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead,
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47 and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
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48 You are witnesses of these things.
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49 And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you; but stay in the city, until you are clothed with power from on high.”
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50 Then he led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up his hands he blessed them.
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51 While he blessed them, he parted from them, and was carried up into heaven.
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52 And they returned to Jerusalem with great joy,
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53 and were continually in the temple blessing God.
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