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<pb/>Therefore, <i>after</i> the men saw the sign which Jesus did, they were saying, This truly is the prophet who is coming into the world. <pb/><br/><n>{Mar 6:45-56 & Mat 14:22-36 & Joh 6:15-21.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Therefore Jesus, having known that they are about to come and seize him, in order that they might make* him king, departed by himself into the mountain alone.


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and having stepped into the ship and they were going beyond-that <i>area</i> of the sea to Capernaum. And it had already become dark and Jesus had not <i>yet</i> come to them.


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Therefore, having rowed approximately twenty five or thirty furlongs, they view Jesus walking upon the sea and happening <i>to be</i> near the ship and they were afraid.


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Therefore they were willing to receive him onto the ship and immediately the ship happened <i>to be</i> upon the land in which they were going. <pb/><br/><n>{Joh 6:22-71 Synagogue in Capernaum; no parallel.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>On the next-day the crowd which is standing beyond-that <i>area</i> of the sea, saw that no other small-boat was there, except this one in which his disciples <i>had</i> stepped into, and that Jesus did not enter together with his disciples into the small-boat, but his disciples went away alone


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(but other small-boats came from Tiberias near to the place where they ate the bread <i>after</i> the Lord gave-thanks).


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Therefore, when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves also stepped into the ships and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.


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And having found him beyond-that <i>area</i> of the sea, they said to him, Rabbi, when did you come* here?


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<pb/>Jesus answered them and said, <J>Assuredly, assuredly, I say to you°, You° are seeking me, not because you° saw signs, but because you° ate from the loaves and were fully-fed.</J>


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<J>Do° not work <i>for</i> the food which perishes, but <i>for</i> the food which remains to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will be giving to you°; for* God, the Father, sealed this one.</J>


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<pb/>Jesus answered and said to them, <J>This is the work of God, in order that you° might believe in the one whom that one sent</J>.


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<pb/>Therefore they said to him, Therefore what are you doing for a sign, in order that we may see <i>it</i> and should believe in you? What are you working <i>for us</i>?


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Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it has been written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. <n>{Exo 16:21, Num 11:8}</n>


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<pb/>Therefore Jesus said to them, <J>Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you°, Moses has not given the bread from heaven to you°, but my Father is <i>the one</i> giving the true bread from heaven to you°.</J>


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<pb/>But Jesus said to them, <J>I am the bread of life. He who is coming to me should never hunger and he who believes in me should never be thirsty at anytime.</J>


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<J>All that the Father gives me will be coming to me, and the one who is coming to me I should never cast outside.</J>


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<J>Because I have descended down from heaven, not in order that I should do my own will, but <i>do</i> the will of the one who sent me.</J>


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<J>But this is the will of my Father who sent me, that* of all that he has given me, I should not lose any out of it, but will raise* it up in the last day.</J>


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<J>But this is the will of the one who sent me, in order that everyone who views the Son and believes in him, may have everlasting life, and I will raise* him up in the last day.</J>


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<pb/>Therefore the Jews were murmuring concerning him, because he said, I am the bread who descended from heaven.


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And they were saying, Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? Therefore how does he now say, I descended from heaven?


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<J>No one is able to come to me, if the Father who sent me does not attract him and I will raise* him up in the last day.</J>


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<J>It has been written in the prophets, ‘And they will all be taught from God.’</J> <n>{Isa 54:13}</n> <J>Therefore, everyone who hears from the Father and <i>has</i> learned, is coming to me.</J>


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<J>Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God, this one has seen the Father.</J>


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<J>This is the bread who is descending from heaven, in order that anyone may eat from it and may not die.</J>


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<J>I am the living bread who descended from heaven; if anyone eats from this bread, he will be living forever and also the bread which I will be giving is my flesh, which I will be giving on behalf of the life of the world.</J>


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<pb/>Therefore the Jews were quarreling with one another, saying, How is this one able to give us <i>his</i> flesh to eat?


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<pb/>Therefore Jesus said to them, <J>Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you°, If you° do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you° do not have life in yourselves.</J>


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<J>He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has everlasting life and I will raise* him up in the last day.</J>


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<J>Just-as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father; so he who eats me, he will also be living because of me.</J>


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<J>This is the bread who descended from heaven not like the manna your fathers ate and died; he who is eating this bread will be living forever.</J>


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<pb/>Therefore many out of his disciples, having heard <i>this</i>, said, This is a harsh speech; who is able to hear it?


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<pb/>But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured concerning this, said to them, <J>Is this offending you°?</J>


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<J>It is the spirit who is giving-life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you° are spirit and are life.</J>


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<J>But there are some out of you° who do not believe.</J> For* Jesus knew from <i>the</i> beginning who they are who do not believe and who is one who will be giving him up.


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And he said, <J>Because of this, I have said to you°, that no one is able to come to me, if it is not given to him from my Father.</J>


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<pb/>Many of his disciples went away from this <i>speech</i> to things <i>left</i> behind and were walking no more with him.


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<pb/>Therefore Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom will we go? You have the words of everlasting life.


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<pb/>Jesus answered them, <J>Did I not choose you° the twelve and one out of you° is a slanderer?</J>


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Now he was speaking of Judas Iscariot<i>,</i> Simon’s <i>son</i>, being one out of the twelve, for* he was about to give him up <i>to the Jews</i>.


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<pb/><n>{Mar 7:1-23 & Mat 15:1-20 & Joh 7:1 Galilee, probably Capernaum Spring 29 AD.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/>And after these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee; for* he was not wishing to walk in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him. <pb/><br/><n>{Joh 7:2-9; Galilee, probably Capernaum. Sept., 29 AD.}</n><br/><pb/>


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Therefore his brethren said to him, Go-away from here and go into Judea, in order that your disciples may also view your works which you are doing


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for* no one does anything in secret, and <i>then</i> seeks to be <i>known</i> publicly. If you are doing these things, manifest yourself to the world.


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<J>The world is not able to hate you°, but it hates me, because I am testifying concerning it, that its works are evil.</J>


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<J>You°, go-up° to this feast. I am not going-up to this feast yet, because my time has not yet been fulfilled.</J>


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<pb/>Now having said these things to them, he remained <i>behind</i> in Galilee. <pb/><br/><n>{Luk 9:51-56 & Joh 7:10; Samaria, Sept., 29 AD.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Now as his brethren went-up to the feast, then he also went-up, not openly, but like in secret. <pb/><br/><n>{Joh 7:11-10:21; Jerusalem, Oct., 29 AD; no parallel.}</n><br/><pb/>


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And there was much murmuring among the crowds concerning him. Some were saying, He is a good man; others said, Not <i>so</i>, but he misleads the crowd.


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<pb/>But <i>while</i> it is already in the middle of the feast, Jesus went-up into the temple and was teaching.


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And the Jews were marveling, saying, How does this one know <i>the</i> Scriptures, having not learned <i>them</i>?


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<pb/>Therefore Jesus answered them and said, <J>My teaching is not mine, but from the one who sent me.</J>


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<J>If anyone is willing to practice his will, he will know concerning the teaching, of what sort <i>it is</i>, <i>whether</i> from God or I speak from myself.</J>


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<J>He who speaks from himself is seeking his own glory, but he who is seeking the glory from the one who sent him, this one is true and no unrighteousness is in him.</J>


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<J>Has Moses not given you° the law and <i>yet</i> none out of you° are practicing the law? Why do you° seek to kill me?</J>


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<J>Because of this, Moses has given you° circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and on the Sabbath you° circumcise a man.</J>


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<J>If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath, in order that the Law of Moses may not be torn-down. Are you° bitterly-angry with me, because I made* a man entirely healthy on the Sabbath?</J>


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<pb/>Therefore some out of those from Jerusalem said, Is this not the one whom they are seeking to kill?


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And behold, he speaks publicly and they say nothing to him. Maybe the rulers truly know <n>{Or: recognized}</n> that this one is truly the Christ.


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But we know where this one is from, but whenever the Christ comes, no one knows from where he is <i>coming</i>.


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<pb/>Therefore Jesus cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, <J>You° both know me and know where I am from, and I have not come from myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you° do not know.</J>


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Therefore they were seeking to arrest him and <i>yet</i> no one put his hand upon him (because his hour had not come yet).


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<pb/>But many out of the crowd believed in him, and they were saying, Whenever the Christ comes, he will not be doing signs more-than those which this one did, will he?


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The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things concerning him, and the Pharisees and the high-priests sent attendants in order that they might arrest him.


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<pb/>Therefore Jesus said, <J>I am still with you° <i>for</i> a little time and I go to the one who sent me.</J>


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<J>You° will be seeking me and will not be finding <i>me</i> and where I am, you° are not able to come.</J>


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<pb/>Therefore the Jews said to themselves, Where is this one about to travel that we will not be finding him? He is not about to travel to the Dispersion of the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?


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What is this speech that he said, You° will be seeking me and will not be finding <i>me</i>, and where I am, you° are not able to come?


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<pb/>Now on the last day, the great <i>day</i> of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, <J>If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and let him drink.</J>


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<J>He who believes in me, like the Scripture <i>has</i> said, Rivers of living water will be flowing out of his belly.</J> <n>{Joh 4:14}</n>


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But he spoke this concerning the Spirit, of which those who believe in him were about to receive; for* <i>the</i> Holy Spirit was not yet <i>given</i>, because Jesus was not yet glorified.


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<pb/>Others were saying, This is the Christ. Others were saying, For* the Christ does not come out of Galilee, does he?


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Did the Scripture not say that the Christ comes out of the seed of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David was? <n>{2Sam. 7:12, Mic 5:2}</n>


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<pb/>Therefore, the attendants came to the high-priests and Pharisees, and those <i>men</i> said to them, Why did you° not lead him <i>here</i>?


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Our law is not judging a man, if it does not hear from him beforehand and may know what he is doing, does it?


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<pb/>They answered and said to him, You are not also from Galilee, are you? Search and behold that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.


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<pb/>Now from daybreak, he came* again into the temple and all the people were coming to him, and having sat <i>down</i>, he was teaching them.


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<pb/>Now the scribes and the Pharisees lead a woman having been overtaken in adultery to him. And having stood her in the middle <i>of them</i>,


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they say to him, testing <i>him</i>, Teacher, this woman was overtaken in the very-act <i>of</i> committing adultery.


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But they were saying this thing, testing him, in order that they may have <i>something</i> to accuse him. <pb/>But Jesus stooped downward and was writing in the soil with <i>his</i> finger and making-like not <i>anything was happening</i>.


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Now as they were remaining, asking him, he stood-erect and said to them, <J>The sinless <i>one</i> among you°, let him cast <i>the</i> first stone upon her.</J>


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<pb/>Now <i>when</i> they heard <i>it</i>, being convicted by their conscience, they were going out one by one, having begun from the elder ones and Jesus was being left alone, and the woman being in <i>his</i> midst.


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<pb/>Now Jesus stood-erect and saw no one the woman and said to her, <J>Where are those <i>men</i>, your accusers? Did no one condemn you?</J>


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<pb/>Now she said, No one, Lord. <pb/>Now Jesus said, <J>Neither do I judge you. Travel on <i>and</i> sin no longer!</J>


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<pb/>Therefore, again Jesus spoke to them, saying, <J>I am the light of the world. He who is following me should never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.</J> <pb/>


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Therefore the Pharisees said to him, You are testifying concerning yourself; your testimony is not true.


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<pb/>Jesus answered and said to them, <J>Even if I testify concerning myself, my testimony is true, because I know from where I come and where I am going, but you° do not know from where I come or where I am going.</J>


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<J>And even if I judge, my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent me.</J>


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<J>And it has been written in your° law, that the testimony of two men is true.</J> <n>{Deu 19:15}</n>


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<J>I am he who is testifying concerning myself and the Father who sent me is testifying concerning me.</J>


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<pb/>Therefore they were saying to him, Where is your Father? <pb/>Jesus answered, <J>You° know neither me, nor my Father; if you° knew me, you° would also know my Father.</J>


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(Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, <i>while</i> teaching in the temple and no one arrested him, because his hour had not come yet.)


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<pb/>Therefore Jesus said again to them, <J>I am going away and you° will be seeking me and will be dying in your° sin; where I am going, you° are not able to come.</J>


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<pb/>Therefore the Jews were saying, Will he kill himself, because he says, Where I am going, you° are not able to come?


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<pb/>And he said to them, <J>You° are from below; I am from above. You° are from this world; I am not from this world.</J>


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<J>Therefore I said to you°, that you° will be dying in your° sins; for* if you° do not believe that I am, you° will be dying in your° sins.</J>


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<pb/>Therefore they were saying to him, Who are you? <pb/>And Jesus said to them, <J>The beginning, which <i>is</i> something <i>that</i> I am also speaking to you°.</J>


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<J>I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you°, but he who sent me is true, and the things which I heard from him, I am saying these things to the world.</J>


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Therefore Jesus said to them, <J>Whenever you° exalt the Son of Man, then you° will know that I am <i>he</i> and <i>that</i> I am doing nothing from myself, but just-as my Father taught me, I am speaking these things <i>to the world</i>.</J>


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<J>And he who sent me is with me; the Father did not left me alone, because I am always doing <i>those</i> things pleasing to him.</J>


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<pb/>Therefore Jesus said to those Jews who have believed in him, <J>If you° abide in my word, <i>then</i> you° truly are my disciples;</J>


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They answered him, We are Abraham’s seed and have been enslaved to no one at anytime. How do you say, You° will become free?


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<pb/>Jesus answered them, <J>Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you°, Everyone who practices sin is the bondservant of sin.</J>


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<J>I know that you° are Abraham’s seed; yet you° are seeking to kill me, because my word is not making room in you° <i>in your</i></J>° <J><i>hearts</i>.</J>


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<J>I am speaking the things which I have seen from my Father and therefore you° are practicing what you° have seen from your° father.</J>


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<pb/>They answered and said to him, Our father is Abraham. <pb/>Jesus says to them, <J>If you° were Abraham’s children, were you° <i>ever</i> practicing the works of Abraham?</J>


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<J>But now you° are seeking to kill me, a man who has spoken the truth to you°, which I heard from God. Abraham did not <i>ever</i> do this.</J>


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<J>You° are practicing the works of your° father.</J> <pb/>Therefore they said to him, We have not been born from fornication; we have one Father– God.


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<pb/>Therefore Jesus said to them, <J>If God was your° Father, you° would love* me; for* I came out and am coming from God; for* neither have I come from myself, but <i>from</i> that one who sent me.</J>


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<J>You° are from your° father, the devil, and you° are willing to do the lusts of your° father. That <i>one</i> was a murderer from <i>the</i> beginning and is not standing in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own things, because he is a liar and the father of it.</J>


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<J>Which out of you° convicts me concerning sin? But if I speak <i>the</i> truth, why are you° not believing in me?</J>


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<J>He who is from God hears the declarations of God<i>, but</i> because of this, you° do not hear <i>them</i>, because you° are not from God.</J> <pb/>


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Therefore the Jews answered and said to him, Do we not say well that you are a Samaritan and you have a demon?


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<pb/>Jesus answered, <J>I do not have a demon, but I am honoring my Father and you° are dishonoring me.</J>


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<J>Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you°, If anyone keeps my word, he should never view <i>his</i> death forever.</J>


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<pb/>Therefore the Jews said to him, Now we have known that you have a demon. Abraham died and the prophets, and you say, If anyone keeps my word, he should never taste of death forever.


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You are not greater <i>than</i> our father Abraham, who died, are you? And the prophets died; whom are you making* yourself <i>out to be</i>?


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<pb/>Jesus answered, <J>If I am glorifying myself, my glory is nothing; it is my Father who is glorifying me; of whom you° say, that he is our God.</J>


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<J>And you° have not known him, but I know him, and if I say, I do not know him, I will be similar to you°, a liar, but I know him and I am keeping his word.</J>


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<pb/>Therefore the Jews said to him, You do not yet have fifty years <i>in</i> and you have seen Abraham?


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<pb/>Jesus said to them, <J>Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you°, Before Abraham was born, I am.</J>


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Therefore, they took up stones in order that they might cast <i>them</i> at him, but Jesus was hidden and went forth out of the temple, having gone <i>right</i> through the middle of them and so he was passing away.


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And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this one or his parents, that* he should be born blind?


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<pb/>Jesus answered, <J>Neither did this one sin, nor his parents, but in order that the works of God should be manifest in him.</J>


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<J>It is essential <i>for</i> me to work the works of the one who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one is able to work.</J>


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Having said these things, he spits on <i>the</i> level-ground and made* clay from the spit and anointed the clay on the eyes of the blind <i>man</i>,


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and said to him, <J>Go, wash in the pool of Siloam</J> (which is by translation, Sent). Therefore, he went away and washed and came <i>back</i> seeing.


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<pb/>Therefore the neighbors and those viewing him beforehand, that he was blind, were saying, Is this one not the one, sitting and begging <i>earlier</i>?


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Others were saying, It is he. But others said, He is similar to him. <pb/>That <i>man</i> said, I am <i>he.</i>


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<pb/>That <i>man</i> answered and said, A man called* Jesus made* clay and anointed my eyes and said to me, <J>Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.</J> And I went away and washed and I recovered <i>my</i> sight.


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Therefore, again the Pharisees were also asking him how he recovered his sight. <pb/>Now he said to them, He placed clay upon my eyes and I washed and I <i>can</i> see.


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<pb/>Therefore, some out of the Pharisees were saying, This man is not from God, because he is not keeping the Sabbath. <pb/>Others said, How is a man, a sinner, able to do such signs? And there was a split among them.


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They say to the blind man again, What do you say concerning him, <i>in</i> that he opened your eyes? <pb/>Now he said, He is a prophet.


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<pb/>Therefore the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he was blind and <i>had</i> recovered his sight, until which <i>time</i> they summoned the parents of the one who had recovered his sight,


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and asked them, saying, Is this your° son, who you° say was born blind? Therefore how does he see now?


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but how he <i>can</i> now see, we do not know; or who opened his eyes, we do not know. He has <i>come of</i> age*; ask° him; he will be speaking concerning himself.


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His parents said these things, because they feared the Jews; for* the Jews, themselves, had covenanted together already, in order that if anyone confesses him <i>as</i> Christ, he should become expelled from the synagogue.


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<pb/>Therefore they summoned the man who was blind a second-time and said to him, Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.


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<pb/>Therefore that <i>man</i> answered and said, I do not know if he is a sinner. I know one thing, that I was blind, <i>but</i> now I <i>can</i> see.


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<pb/>He answered them, I spoke to you° already and you° did not hear; why are you° wishing to hear it again? Do you° wish also to become his disciples?


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<pb/>They reviled him and said, You are a disciple of that <i>man</i>, but we are disciples of Moses.


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<pb/>The man answered and said to them, For* a marvelous thing is in this, because you° do not know where he is from and <i>yet</i> he opened my eyes.


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But we know that God does not hear sinners, but if anyone is God-fearing and <i>if</i> he is practicing his will, he hears him.


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It was not heard from the <i>beginning of the</i> world, that anyone opened the eyes of one who has been born blind.


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<pb/>They answered and said to him, You were born entirely in sins and you are teaching us! And they cast him outside.


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<pb/>Jesus heard that they had cast him outside, and having found him, he said to him, <J>Do you believe in the Son of God?</J>


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<pb/>Now Jesus said to him, <J>You have both seen him and he who speaks with you is that <i>man</i>.</J>


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<pb/>And Jesus said, <J>I came into this world *for judgment, in order that those who do not see, may see, and those who see, may become blind.</J>


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<pb/>And those who were with him from the Pharisees heard these things and said to him, We are not also blind, are we?


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<pb/>Jesus said to them, <J>If you° were blind, you° would have no sin, but now you° say, We see, therefore your° sin remains.</J>


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<pb/><J>Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you°, He who does not enter in through the door into the sheep’s pen, but goes-up elsewhere, that <i>man</i> is a thief and a robber.</J>


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<J>The doorkeeper opens to him, and the sheep hear his voice and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.</J>


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<J>And whenever he cast forth his own sheep, he travels before them and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.</J>


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<J>But they should never follow another man, but will be fleeing from him, because they do not know the voice of others.</J>


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(Jesus was speaking this metaphor to them, but those <i>men</i> did not know what it was that he was speaking to them.)


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<pb/>Therefore Jesus said again to them, <J>Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you°, I am the door of the sheep.</J>


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<J>All things, as many things as came <i>before</i> are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.</J>


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<J>I am the door; if anyone enters through me, he will be saved and will enter and will go out and will find pasture.</J>


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<J>The thief does not come, except that* he may steal, and may sacrifice and may destroy <i>you</i>. I came in order that they may have life and may have <i>it</i> even-more.</J>


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<J>But the hired-servant and not being <i>the</i> shepherd, whose sheep are not his own, views the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees and the wolf seizes them and scatters the sheep.</J>


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<J>Now the hired-servant flees because he is a hired-servant and he himself does not care concerning the sheep.</J>


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<J>just-as the Father knows me and I know the Father, and I lay <i>down</i> my life on behalf of the sheep.</J>


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<J>And I have other sheep, which are not out of this pen; it is also essential for me to lead those and they will be hearing my voice and there will become one flock, one shepherd.</J>


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<J>Because of this, the Father loves* me, because I lay down my life, in order that I may again take <i>it</i>.</J>


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<J>No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down out of myself. I have authority to lay it down and I have authority to take it <i>up</i> again. I received this commandment from my Father.</J>


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And many out of them were saying, He has a demon and is insane; why are you° listening <i>to</i> him?


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<pb/>Others were saying, These are not the words of one being demon-possessed. A demon is not able to open the eyes of the blind, is it? <pb/><br/><n>{Joh 10:22-42; Jerusalem and beyond Jordan; no parallel.}</n><br/><pb/>


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Therefore the Jews surrounded him and were saying to him, Until when, are you lifting <i>this question from</i> our souls: tell us frankly, if you are the Christ?


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<pb/>Jesus answered them, <J>I spoke to you° and you° do not believe. The works which I am doing in my Father’s name, these are testifying concerning me.</J>


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<J>and I give to them everlasting life, and they should never perish forever and not anyone will be seizing them from my hand.</J>


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<J>My Father, who has given <i>them</i> to me, he is greater <i>than</i> all, and no one is able to seize <i>them</i> out of my Father’s hand.</J>


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Jesus answered them, <J>I showed you° many good works from my Father, because of what work from those do you° stone me?</J>


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<pb/>The Jews answered him, saying, We do not stone you concerning a good work, but concerning blasphemy, and because you being a man, are making* yourself God.


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<pb/>Jesus answered them, <J>Has it not been written in your° law, <i>that</i> I said, You° are gods?</J> <n>{Psa 82:6?}</n>


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<J>If he called those <i>men</i> gods, to whom the word of God came* (and the Scripture is not able to be torn-down),</J>


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<J>do you° say of him, whom the Father made holy and sent into the world, You blaspheme, because I said, I am <i>the</i> Son of God?</J>


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<J>But if I am doing them, even if you° do° not believe in me, believe° in the works; in order that you° may know and may believe that the Father is in me and I in him.</J>


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<pb/>And he went away again beyond-that <i>area</i> of the Jordan into the place where John was first immersing*, and he remained there.


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And many came to him and they were saying, John indeed did no sign, but all things, as many things as John spoke concerning this one were true.


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<pb/><n>{Joh 11:1-46; Peraea to Bethany, Jan. 30 AD; no parallel.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/>Now a certain one was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, from the village of Mary and her sister Martha.


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Now it was <i>this</i> Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.


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<pb/>But having heard it, Jesus said, <J>This sickness is not to death, but on behalf of the glory of God, in order that the Son of God may be glorified through it.</J>


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Therefore, as he heard that he was sick, then indeed, he remained in the place in which he was for two days.


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Thereafter, after this <i>time</i>, he says to the disciples, <J>We should proceed into Judea again.</J>


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<pb/>The disciples say to him, Rabbi, the Jews <i>just</i> now were seeking to stone you, and you are going <i>back</i> there again?


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<pb/>Jesus answered, <J>Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he is not stumbling, because he sees the light of this world.</J>


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He spoke these things and he says to them after this, <J>Our friend Lazarus has fallen-asleep, but I am traveling in order that I may wake him.</J>


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<pb/>(Now Jesus had spoken concerning his death, but those <i>men</i> thought that he is speaking concerning the restfulness of sleep.)


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<J>And I rejoice because of you° that I myself was not there, in order that you° may believe; but we should proceed to him.</J>


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<pb/>Therefore Thomas, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, We should also proceed, in order that we may die with him.


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and many from the Jews had come to those around Martha and Mary, in order that they may console them concerning their brother.


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Therefore Martha, as she heard that Jesus is coming, met with him, but Mary was still sitting in the house.


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<pb/>Jesus said to her, <J>I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, even if he dies, he will be living;</J>


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<J>and everyone who is living and believes in me should never die– forever. Do you believe this?</J>


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<pb/>She says to him, Yes, Lord. I have believed that you are the Christ, the Son of God, he who comes into the world.


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And having said these things, she went away and secretly summoned Mary her sister, and said, The Teacher is here and is summoning you.


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<pb/>Therefore the Jews who are with her in the house and consoling her, <i>after</i> they saw Mary, that she stood up quickly and went out, they followed her, saying, She is going to the tomb in order that she may weep there.


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<pb/>Therefore Mary, as she came where Jesus was and saw him, fell <i>down</i> at his feet there*, saying to him, Lord, if you had been here, my brother would have not died.


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<pb/>Therefore, as Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews <i>also</i> weeping who came together with her, he sighed in the spirit and <i>was</i> disturbed,


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<pb/>But some out of them said, Was this one, who opened the eyes of the blind <i>man</i>, not able to do <i>something</i> in order that this one might not <i>have</i> even died?


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<pb/>Therefore Jesus again, sighing in himself, comes to the tomb. Now it was a cave and a stone was laying upon it.


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Jesus says, <J>Lift° up the stone</J>. <pb/>Martha, the sister to the one who has died, says to him, Lord, already <i>the body</i> stinks <i>from decay</i>; for* it is four days <i>old</i>.


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<pb/>Jesus says to her, <J>Did I not say to you, that, if you believed, you will be seeing the glory of God?</J>


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Therefore they lifted the stone where the one who died was laying. Now Jesus lifted <i>his</i> eyes upward and said, <J>Father, I am giving-thanks to you because you heard me.</J>


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<J>And I knew that you always hear me, but because of the crowd who is standing around I said <i>it</i>, in order that they may believe that you sent me.</J>


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And having said these things, he cried-out with a loud voice, <J>Lazarus, come-here! <i>Come</i> outside!</J>


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And he came out, the one who had died, having been bound hand and foot with burial wrappings, and his vision had been bound around with a handkerchief. Jesus says to them, <J>Loose° him and allow° <i>him</i> to go away.</J>


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But some out of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus did. <pb/><br/><n>{Joh 11:47-54; Jerusalem and Ephraim in Judea; no parallel.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Therefore, the high-priests and the Pharisees gathered together a council and were saying, What are we doing because this man is doing many signs?


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If we allow him <i>to continue</i> so; all will believe in him. And the Romans will be coming and taking away both our place and the nation.


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<pb/>But a certain one out of them, Caiaphas, being <i>the</i> high-priest of that year, said to them, You° know nothing,


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nor are you° reasoning that it is advantageous for us that* one man should die on behalf of the people and <i>that*</i> the whole nation should not perish.


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(Now he said this not from himself, but being high-priest of that year, he prophesied that Jesus was about to die on behalf of the nation;


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and not only on behalf of the nation, but in order that he should also gather together into one the children of God who have been scattered.)


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<pb/>Therefore, Jesus was not walking publicly anymore among the Jews, but went away <i>from</i> there into the region near to the wilderness, into a city called* Ephraim, and he was staying there with his disciples. <pb/><br/><n>{Joh 11:55-12:1, 9-11 Bethany March 31- April 1, 30 AD; no parallel.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Now the Passover of the Jews was near and many went-up to Jerusalem out of the region before the Passover, in order that they might purify themselves.


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Therefore, they were seeking Jesus and were speaking with one another <i>while</i> standing in the temple, What are you° thinking? He should never come to the feast, <i>or</i> may be?


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Now both the high-priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, in order that, if anyone knows where he was, he should divulge <i>it</i>, *that they might arrest him.


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<pb/><n>{The week of Jesus’ crucifixion. Mar 11:1-11 & Mat 21:1-12, 14-17 & Luk 19:29-44 & Joh 12:12-19 Bethany to Jerusalem and back Sun. April 2, 30 AD.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/>Therefore, Jesus came to Bethany six days before the Passover, where Lazarus was, who had died, whom he raised from the dead. <pb/><br/><n>{Mar 14:10-11 & Mat 26:14-16 & Luk 22:3-6 & Joh 12:2-8.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Therefore they made* him a supper there and Martha was serving, but Lazarus was one of those who reclined <i>at the meal</i> together with him.


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Therefore, Mary took a pound of perfume of precious undiluted nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair and the house was filled from the aroma of the perfume.


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Therefore Judas Iscariot, Simon’s <i>son</i>, one out of his disciples, who is about to give him up, says,


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Now this he said, not because he was caring concerning the poor, but because he was a thief and had the box and was bearing what was put <i>in it</i>.


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<pb/>Therefore, a large crowd out of the Jews knew that he was there and they came, not only because of Jesus, but in order that they might also see Lazarus, whom he <i>had</i> raised from the dead.


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<pb/>A large crowd came to the feast on the next-day, having heard that Jesus is coming into Jerusalem,


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<i>and</i> they took the limbs of the palm trees and went forth to a meeting with him and was crying out, Hosanna. He who is coming in the name of the Lord has been blessed, the King of Israel!


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‘Do not fear, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King is coming, sitting upon a donkey’s young-donkey.’ <n>{Isa 40:9, 62:11, Zec 9:9}</n>


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(But his disciples did not know these things <i>at</i> first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they were reminded that these things had been written on <i>the basis of</i> him and <i>that</i> they <i>had</i> done these things to him.)


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<pb/>Therefore, the crowd who was with him was witnessing when he summoned Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him up from the dead.


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Therefore the Pharisees said to themselves, You are viewing that you° profit nothing. Behold, the world <i>has</i> gone after him. <pb/><br/><n>{Joh 12:20-50</n><br/><pb/><br/><n>In the Temple, Tues.; no parallel.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Now there were some Greeks from them, coming-up, in order that they might worship at the feast;


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therefore these came to Philip, the one from Bethsaida of Galilee and asked him, saying, Lord, we wish to see Jesus.


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<pb/>But Jesus answered them, saying, <J>The hour has come, that* the Son of Man should be glorified.</J>


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<J>Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you°, If a kernel of the grain did not fall into the soil and died, it remains alone, but if it dies, it is bringing forth much fruit.</J>


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<J>He who loves his life will be losing <i>it</i>, and he who hates his life in this world will be keeping <i>it</i> to everlasting life.</J>


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<J>If anyone serves me, let him follow me, and where I am, my servant will also be there. And if anyone serves me, the Father will be honoring him.</J>


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<J>Now my soul has been disturbed, and what should I say? Father, save me from this hour? But I came to this hour because of this.</J>


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<J>Father, glorify your name.</J> <pb/>Therefore, a voice came from heaven, <i>saying</i>, <J>I both glorified it and will be glorifying it again.</J>


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<pb/>Therefore, the crowd standing <i>there</i> and heard it, was saying, Thunder has happened. <pb/>Others said, A messenger has spoken to him.


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<pb/>Jesus answered and said, <J>This voice has not happened because of me, but because of you°.</J>


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<pb/>The crowd answered him, We heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever and how do you say, It is essential <i>for</i> the Son of Man to be exalted? Who is this Son of Man?


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<pb/>Therefore Jesus said to them, <J>The light is still with you° <i>for</i> a little time. Walk° while you° have the light, in order that darkness might not overtake you° and he who is walking in the darkness does not know where he is going.</J>


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<J>While you° have the light, believe° in the light, in order that you° might become sons of light.</J> <pb/>Jesus spoke these things and he went away and hid <i>himself</i> from them.


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in order that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, ‘Lord, who believed our report? And to whom was the arm of the Lord revealed?’ <n>{Isa 53:1}</n>


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‘He has blinded their eyes and he has hardened their heart; in order that they should not see with their eyes and should perceive with their heart and should turn and <i>that*</i> I might heal them.’ <n>{Isa 6:9, 10}</n>


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Nevertheless even many out of the rulers also believed in him, but they were not confessing <i>it</i> because of the Pharisees, in order that they might not become expelled from the synagogue;


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<pb/>Now Jesus cried out and said, <J>He who believes in me, does not believe in me, but in the one who sent me.</J>


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<J>I have come <i>like</i> a light into the world, in order that everyone who believes in me may not remain in the darkness.</J>


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<J>And if anyone hears and does not believe my declarations, I do not judge him; for* I did not come in order that I may judge the world, but in order that I may save the world.</J>


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<J>He who is rejecting me, and is not receiving my declarations has the one who judges him; the word which I spoke that will be judging him in the last day.</J>


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<J>Because I did not speak from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment <i>of</i> what I should say and what I should speak.</J>


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<J>And I know that his commandment is everlasting life. Therefore the things which I speak, just-as the Father has said to me, so I speak <i>to you</i>.</J>


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<pb/><n>{Joh 13:1-20 Thur. Evening; no parallel.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/>Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that his hour has come in order that he should go-away out of this world to his Father; having loved* his own who were in the world, he loved* them to <i>the</i> end.


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And it happened <i>during</i> supper, the devil had already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s <i>son</i>, in order that he should give him up.


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Jesus, knowing that the Father has given all the things into his hands and that he came forth from God and is going to God,


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Thereafter he puts water into the washbasin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe <i>them</i> with the towel in which he was girded.


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<pb/>Therefore, he comes to Simon Peter and that <i>man</i> says to him, Lord, <i>why</i> are you washing my feet?


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<pb/>Jesus answered and said to him, <J>What I do you do not know now, but you will know after these things.</J>


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<pb/>Peter says to him, never wash my feet– forever. <pb/>Jesus answered him, <J>If I do not wash you, you have no part with me.</J>


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<pb/>Jesus says to him, <J>He who has been fully-washed does not need to wash himself, <i>other</i> than the feet, but is entirely clean and you° are clean, but not all.</J>


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<pb/>Therefore, when he <i>had</i> washed their feet and <i>had</i> taken <i>up</i> his garments, having leaned-back again, he said to them, <J>Do you° know what I have done for you°?</J>


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<J>Therefore, if I, the Lord and the Teacher, washed your° feet, you° also ought to wash one another’s feet.</J>


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<J>Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you°, A bondservant is not greater <i>than</i> his lord; nor <i>is</i> an apostle greater <i>than</i> he who sent him.</J>


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<pb/><J>I do not speak concerning all of you°. I know whom I have chosen, but in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me, lifted up his heel against me.’</J> <n>{Psa 41:9}</n>


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<J>From now on I tell you° before it <i>is</i> to happen, in order that, whenever it happens, you° may believe that I am <i>he.</i></J>


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<J>Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you°, He who receives anyone, whomever I send, receives me, and he who receives me receives the one who sent me.</J> <pb/><br/><n>{Mat 26:21-25, 26:31-35 & Mar 14:18-21, 14:27-31 & Luk 22:21-23, 22:31-38 & Joh 13:21-38.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Jesus having said these things, was disturbed in the spirit and testified and said, <J>Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you°, that one out of you° will be giving me up.</J> <pb/>


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Therefore the disciples were looking toward one another, being perplexed concerning whom he is speaking <i>about</i>.


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Therefore, Simon Peter signals to him to inquire, whoever it might be, concerning whom he is speaking <i>about</i>.


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<pb/>Jesus answers, <J>It is that <i>man</i> to whom I dipped the morsel, and I will be giving it to him.</J> And having dipped the morsel, he takes and gives it to Judas Iscariot, Simon’s <i>son</i>.


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And after the morsel, then the Adversary entered into him. Therefore Jesus says to that <i>man</i>, <J>What you are doing, do quickly.</J>


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(Now no one of those reclining <i>at the table</i> knew for what <i>purpose</i> he spoke this to him.


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For* some were thinking, since Judas had the box, that Jesus said to him, Buy what things we have need of *for the feast; or, in order that he should give something to the poor.)


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<pb/>Therefore, when he went out, Jesus says, <J>Now the Son of Man was glorified and God was glorified in him;</J>


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<J>If God was glorified in him, God will also be glorifying him in himself and immediately he will be glorifying him.</J>


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<J>Little-children, I am still with you° <i>for</i> a little <i>while</i>. You° will be seeking me and just-as I said to the Jews, Where I am going, you° are not able to come. Also now I am saying to you°,</J>


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<J>I am giving to you° a new commandment, in order that you° should love* one another; just-as I loved* you°, in order that you° also should love* one another.</J>


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<J>All men will know that you° are my disciples in this, if you° have love* among one another.</J> <pb/>


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Simon Peter says to him, Lord, where are you going? <pb/>Jesus answered him, <J>I am going where you are not able to follow now, but you will be following me later.</J> <pb/>


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Peter says to him, Lord, why am I not able to follow you <i>even</i> now? I will lay <i>down</i> my life on your behalf. <pb/>


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Jesus answered him, <J>Will you lay <i>down</i> your life on my behalf? Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you, The rooster should never crow, until you will be denying me three-times.</J>


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<pb/><n>{Joh 14:1-17:26 Thur. Night, Fri. to the Jews; no parallel.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/><J>Do not let your° heart be disturbed; you° believe in God, believe° also in me.</J>


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<J>Many abodes are in my Father’s house; otherwise, I would have told you°. I am traveling on to prepare a place for you°.</J>


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<J>And if I travel on, I will be preparing a place for you°. I am coming again and will be receiving you° to myself; in order that where I am, you° may also be <i>there</i>.</J>


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<pb/>Jesus says to him, <J>I am the way and the truth and the life; no one is coming to the Father, except through me.</J>


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<J>If you° had known me, you° would have also known my Father; from now on you° know him and have seen him.</J> <pb/>


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Jesus says to him, <J>So-much time I am with you° and you have not known me Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. And how <i>can</i> you say <i>this</i>? Show us the Father.</J>


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<J>Do you not believe that I <i>am</i> in the Father and the Father in me? The words that I say to you°, I do not speak from myself, but the Father who is abiding in me; he is doing the works.</J>


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<J><i>Either</i> believe° me, that I am in the Father and the Father in me, otherwise believe° me because of the works themselves.</J>


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<J>Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you°, He who believes in me, the works which I am doing, he will also be doing, and he will be doing greater <i>works than</i> these, because I am traveling on to my Father.</J>


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<J>And if you° ask anything in my name, I will do this, in order that the Father might be glorified in the Son.</J>


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<pb/><J>And I will be requesting <i>of</i> the Father and he will be giving you° another Helper*, in order that he may abide with you° forever,</J>


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<J>the Spirit of the truth, whom the world is not able to receive, because it does not view him, nor knows him, but you° know him, because he is abiding with you° and will be in you°.</J>


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<J>Still a little <i>while</i> and the world views me no more, but you° view me, because I am living, you° will also be living.</J>


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<J>He who holds my commandments and is keeping them, that one is he who loves* me and he who loves* me will be loved* by my Father and I will love* him and will be manifesting myself to him.</J> <pb/>


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Judas (not Iscariot) says to him, Lord, what has happened that you are about to manifest yourself to us and not to the world?


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<pb/>Jesus answered and said to him, <J>If anyone loves* me, he will be keeping my word and my Father will love* him, and we will be coming to him and we will be making* our abode with him.</J>


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<J>He who does not love* me, is not keeping my words.</J> <pb/><J>And the word which you° hear is not mine, but the Father’s, <i>he</i> who sent me.</J> <pb/>


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<J>But the Helper*, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will be sending in my name, that one will be teaching you° all things and will be reminding you° of all things which I said to you°.</J>


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<J>I am leaving peace with you°. I am giving my peace to you°; not like the world gives, I am giving to you°. Let your° heart not be disturbed, nor let it be cowardly.</J>


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<J>You° heard that I said to you°, I am going away and I am coming to you°. If you° loved* me, you° would have rejoiced, because I said, I am traveling on to the Father, because the Father is greater <i>than</i> I.</J>


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<J>And now I have spoken <i>this</i> to you° before <i>it is</i> to happen, in order that, whenever it happens, you° may believe.</J>


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<J>I will not be speaking much anymore with you°, for* the ruler of the world is coming and he has nothing in me;</J>


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<J>but in order that the world may know that I love* the Father and just-as the Father commanded me, thus I am doing.</J> <pb/><J>Arise°, we should proceed from here.</J>


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<J>Every branch <i>which is</i> not bringing forth fruit in me, he takes it away and every <i>branch which is</i> bringing forth fruit, he prunes it, in order that it may bring forth more fruit.</J>


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<J>Abide° in me and I in you°. Just-as the branch is not able to bring forth fruit from itself, if it does not abide in the vine; so neither <i>can</i> you° if you° do not abide in me.</J>


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<J>I am the vine, you° are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him, this one is bringing forth much fruit, because you° are not able to do anything separate from me.</J>


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<J>If anyone is not abiding in me, he was cast outside like a branch and was dried up, and they gather them and cast them into the fire and it is burned.</J>


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<J>If you° abide in me, and <i>then</i> my words should abide in you°, ask whatever you° wish, and it will happen for you°.</J>


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<J>My Father is glorified in this, in order that you° may bring forth much fruit and will become my disciples.</J>


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<J>If you° keep my commandments, you° will be abiding in my love*; just-as I have kept my Father’s commandments and am abiding in his love*.</J>


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<J>I have spoken to you° these things, in order that my joy may abide in you° and <i>in order that</i> your° joy should be fulfilled.</J>


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<J>No one has greater love* <i>than</i> this: in order that someone should lay <i>down</i> his life on behalf of his friends.</J>


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<J>I call* you° bondservants no more, because the bondservant does not know what his lord is doing, but I have spoken to you° <i>as</i> friends, because all the things which I heard from my Father, I made known to you°.</J>


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<J>You° did not choose me, but I chose you° and appointed* you°, in order that you° should go and should bring forth fruit and <i>in order that</i> your° fruit should abide, that* if you° ask anything of the Father in my name, he should give <i>it to</i> you°.</J>


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<J>If you° were from the world, the world would love its own, but because you° are not from the world, but I chose you° out of the world, the world is hating you° because of this.</J>


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<J>Remember° the word which I said to you°, A bondservant is not greater <i>than</i> his lord. If they persecuted me, they will also be persecuting you°; if they kept my word, they will also be keeping yours°.</J>


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<J>But they will be doing all these things to you° because of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.</J>


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<J>If I did not come and <i>did not</i> speak to them, they were holding</J> <n>{i.e. would have. Or: were having}</n> <J>no sin, but now they have no excuse concerning their sin.</J>


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<J>If I did not do the works which no other has done among them, <i>then</i> they were having</J> <n>{i.e. would have. Or: were holding}</n> <J>no sin, but now they both have seen and have hated both me and my Father.</J>


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<J>But <i>this happened</i>, in order that the word might be fulfilled that has been written in their law, ‘They hated me undeservedly.’</J> <n>{Psa 109:3}</n>


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<pb/><J>But whenever the Helper* comes, whom I will be sending to you° from the Father, <i>who is</i> the Spirit of the truth, who travels from the Father, that one will be testifying concerning me;</J>


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<J>They will be doing the expelling of you° from the synagogues. But the hour is coming, that* everyone who kills you° may think that he is offering divine service to God.</J>


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<J>And they will be doing these things <i>to</i> you°, because they did not know the Father, nor me.</J>


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<J>But I have spoken these things to you°, that* whenever the hour comes, you° may remember them, that I spoke <i>them</i> to you°. Now I did not say these things to you° from <i>the</i> beginning, because I was with you°.</J>


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<J>But now I am going to the one who sent me, and none out of you° asks me, Where are you going?</J>


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<J>But I tell you° the truth. It is advantageous for you° that* I should go away; for* if I do not go away, the Helper* will not be coming to you°, but if I travel on, I will be sending him to you°.</J>


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<J>And <i>after</i> he has come, that one will be convicting the world concerning sin and concerning righteousness and concerning judgment.</J>


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<J>But whenever that one, the Spirit of the truth, comes, he will be guiding you° into all the truth; for* he will not be speaking from himself, but as many things as he may hear, <i>these</i> he will be speaking and he will be reporting to you° the things which are coming.</J>


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<J>That one will be glorifying me, because he will receive from me and will be proclaiming <i>it</i> to you°.</J>


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<J>All things, as many things as the Father has <i>are</i> mine, because of this, I said, He is receiving from me and will be proclaiming <i>it</i> to you°.</J>


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<J>A little <i>while</i> and you° do not view me, and again a little <i>while</i> and you° will see me, because I am going to the Father.</J> <pb/>


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Therefore<i>, some</i> out of his disciples said to one another, What is this thing which he says to us, A little <i>while</i> and you° do not view me, and again a little <i>while</i> and you° will see me. Also, Because I am going to the Father?


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<pb/>Therefore they were saying, What is this thing which he says, A little <i>while</i>? We do not know <i>the meaning of</i> what he says.


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<pb/>Therefore, Jesus knew that they were wishing to ask him, and he said to them, <J>Are you° debating with one another concerning this thing which I said, A little <i>while</i> and you° do not view me, and again, A little <i>while</i> and you° will see me?</J> <pb/>


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<J>Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you°, that you° will be weeping and will be mourning, but the world will rejoice. But you° will be sorrowful, but your° sorrow will happen <i>leading</i> you° to joy.</J>


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<J>A woman has sorrow whenever she gives-birth, because her hour came. But whenever the child is born, she remembers the affliction no more, because of the joy that a man was born into the world.</J>


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<J>And therefore, you° now indeed have sorrow, but I will see you° again and your° heart will be rejoicing and no one takes your° joy away from you°.</J>


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<J>And you° will not be asking me anything in that day. Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you°, that as many things as you° may ask the Father in my name, he will be giving <i>them</i> to you°.</J>


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<J>Until now you° asked for nothing in my name. Ask° and you° will receive, in order that your° joy may be fulfilled.</J> <pb/>


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<J>I have spoken these things to you° in metaphors, but the hour is coming, when I will no more be speaking to you° in metaphors, but will be proclaiming to you° frankly concerning the Father.</J>


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<J>You° will be asking in that day, in my name and I do not say to you° that I will request <i>of</i> the Father concerning you°;</J>


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<J>for* the Father himself loves you°, because you° have loved me and have believed that I came forth from God.</J>


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<J>I came out from the Father and have come into the world; again, I am leaving the world and I am traveling on to the Father.</J> <pb/>


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<i>Then</i> his disciples say to him, Behold, now you speak frankly and are not speaking <i>in</i> a metaphor.


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Now we know that you know all things and do not have need that* anyone should ask you. In this we believe that you came forth from God with this <i>speech</i>.


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<J>Behold, the hour is coming and has now come, in order that you° might be scattered, each one to his own and you° may leave me alone and <i>yet</i> I am not alone, because the Father is with me.</J>


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<J>I have spoken to you° these things, in order that you° may have peace in me. You° have affliction in the world, but have° courage; I overcame the world.</J>


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<pb/>Jesus spoke these things, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, <J>Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son, in order that your Son may also glorify you;</J>


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<J>just-as you gave him authority over all flesh, in order that to all whom you have given him, he will be giving everlasting life to them.</J>


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<J>But this is everlasting life, in order that they should know you, the only true God, and Jesus <i>the</i> Christ, whom you sent.</J>


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<J>I glorified you upon the earth. I completed the work which you have given me, that* I should be doing.</J>


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<J>And now, Father, glorify me with yourself in the glory which I was holding with you before the world was.</J>


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<J>I manifested your name to the men whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours and you have given them to me, and they have kept your word.</J>


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<J>because the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them and they truly knew that I came forth from you and they believed that you sent me.</J> <pb/>


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<J>I am requesting concerning them. I am not requesting concerning the world, but concerning those whom you have given to me, because they are yours.</J>


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<J>And I am no more in the world and <i>yet</i> these are in the world and I am coming to you.</J> <pb/><br/><n>{Joh 17:11b-17:26 The Lord’s Prayer; no parallel.}</n><br/><pb/><J>Holy Father, keep them in your name whom you have given me, in order that they may be one, just-as we <i>are one.</i></J>


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<J>When I was with them in the world, I was keeping them in your name whom you have given me. I guarded <i>them</i> and not one out of them perished, except the son of destruction; in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled.</J>


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<J>But now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world, in order that they may have my joy, having been fulfilled in themselves.</J>


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<J>I have given them your word, and the world hated them, because they are not from the world, just-as I am not from the world.</J>


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<pb/><J>I am not requesting that* you should take them from the world, but in order that you should keep them from the evil <i>one</i>.</J>


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<J>And I make myself holy on their behalf, in order that they themselves may also be made holy in truth.</J>


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<pb/><J>I am not requesting concerning these only, but concerning those who also believe in me through their word;</J>


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<J>in order that they may all be one; just-as you, Father, <i>are</i> in me and I in you; in order that they may also be one in us; in order that the world may believe that you sent me.</J>


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<J>And the glory which you have given me I have given to them; in order that they may be one, just-as we are one;</J>


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<J>I <i>am</i> in them and you <i>are</i> in me, in order that they may be completed into one and the world may know that you sent me and you loved* them, just-as you loved* me.</J>


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<J>Father, I wish that* they, whom you have given me, may also be with me where I am, in order that they may view my glory, which you gave me, because you loved* me before the conception of the world.</J>


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<J>Righteous Father, the world did not know you, but I knew you, and these knew that you sent me;</J>


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<J>and I made known to them your name and will be making it known; in order that the love* in which you loved* me may be in them and I <i>am</i> in them.</J>


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<pb/><n>{Mar 14:26, 14:32-42 & Mat 26:30, 26:36-46 & Luk 22:39-46 & Joh 18:1 Garden between Stream of Kidron and Mountain of Olives, Late Thur. night.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/>Jesus, having said these things, went forth together with his disciples beyond-that <i>area</i> of the winter-stream of Kidron <i>valley</i> <n>{Or: of the Cedars}</n> , where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered. <pb/><br/><n>{Mar 14:43-52 & Mat 26:47-56 & Luk 22:47-53 & Joh 18:2-11 Gethsemane, Fri. a few hours before dawn.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Now Judas, (who is giving him up), also knew the place, because Jesus gathered there often together with his disciples.


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Therefore, having received the cohort <n>{600 soldiers}</n> and attendants from the high-priests and <i>the</i> Pharisees, Judas comes there with lanterns and torches and weapons.


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Therefore Jesus, knowing all the things which were coming upon him, went forth and said to them, <J>Whom are you° seeking?</J> <pb/>


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They answered him, Jesus the Nazarene. <pb/>Jesus says to them, <J>I am <i>he</i>.</J> And Judas, who was giving him up, stood also with them.


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Therefore, as he said to them, <J>I am <i>he</i>,</J> they went behind <n>{i.e. backed up}</n> and fell to <i>the</i> level-ground.


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Therefore again he asked them, <J>Whom are you° seeking?</J> <pb/>And they said, Jesus the Nazarene.


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<pb/>Jesus answered, <J>I said to you° that I am <i>he</i>; therefore if you° seek me, allow° these <i>men</i> to go away.</J>


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<i>(This happened</i> in order that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, <J>I did not lose one out of those whom you have given me.</J>)


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Therefore, Simon Peter, having a sword, dragged it out <n>{i.e. unsheathed}</n> and struck the high-priest’s bondservant and cut off his right ear. Now the bondservant’s name was Malchus.


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Therefore Jesus said to Peter, <J>Put <i>your</i> sword into the sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, should I not drink it?</J> <pb/><br/><n>{Joh 18:12-14, 18:19-23 Fri. before dawn; no parallel.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Therefore the cohort <n>{600 soldiers}</n> and the commander and the attendants of the Jews, took Jesus and bound him,


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and led him to Annas first; for* he was <i>the</i> father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was high-priest that year.


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But it was Caiaphas, who planned together with the Jews that it was advantageous for one man to perish on behalf of the people. <pb/><br/><n>{Mar 14:54 & Mat 26:58 & Luk 22:54b-62 & Joh 18:15-18 Courtyard of High Priest’s residence, Fri. around dawn.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Now Simon Peter and the other disciple was following Jesus. Now that disciple was known to the high-priest and entered in together with Jesus into the courtyard of the high-priest;


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but Peter was standing outside at the door. Therefore the other disciple, who was known to the high-priest, went out and spoke to the doorkeeper and led in Peter.


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<pb/>Therefore, the maidservant <i>who was</i> the doorkeeper says to Peter, Are you also <i>one</i> out of this man’s disciples? <pb/>That <i>man</i> says, I am not.


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<pb/>Now the bondservants and the attendants were standing <i>there</i>, having made* a coal-fire, because it was cold, and they were warming <i>themselves</i> and Peter was standing and warming himself with them. <pb/><br/><n>{See Joh 18:12-14 above.}</n><br/><pb/>


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Jesus answered him, <J>I spoke publicly to the world. I always taught in <i>the</i> synagogue<i>s</i> and in the temple, where the Jews always come together, and I spoke nothing in secret.</J>


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<J>Why are you asking me? Ask those who have heard <i>me</i>, what I spoke to them. Behold, these know what I said.</J> <pb/>


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Now having said these things, one of the attendants standing beside <i>him</i> gave a slap on the cheek to Jesus, saying, <i>Why</i> are you answering the high-priest so?


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<pb/>Jesus answered him, <J>If I spoke evilly, testify concerning the evil, but if good, why are you whipping me?</J> <pb/><br/><n>{Mar 14:53 & Mat 26:57 & Luk 22:54a & Joh 18:24 Palace of Caiaphas, before dawn.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Annas sent him to Caiaphas the high-priest, having been bound. <pb/><br/><n>{Mar 14:66-72 & Mat 26:69-75 & Luk 22:55-62 & Joh 18:25-27.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. Therefore they said to him, Are you also <i>one</i> out of his disciples? <pb/>Therefore that <i>man</i> denied and said, I am not.


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<pb/>One out of the bondservants of the high-priest, being a relative of the one whose ear Peter cut off, says, Did I not see you in the garden with him?


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<pb/>Therefore Peter denied again and immediately the rooster crowed. <pb/><br/><n>{Mar 15:1 & Mat 27:1-2 Luk 22:66-23:1 & Joh 18:28a Jerusalem early Fri. morning.}</n><br/><pb/><br/><n>{Mar 15:2-5 & Mat 27:11-14 & Luk 23:2-5 & Joh 18:28b-38 Jerusalem early Fri. morning.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Therefore they lead Jesus from Caiaphas into the palace, and it was morning, and they themselves did not enter into the palace, in order that they might not be defiled, but in order that they might eat the Passover.


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<pb/>They answered and said to him, If this one was not an evildoer, we would not have given him up to you.


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<pb/>Therefore Pilate said to them, You°, take° him and judge° him according to your° law. <pb/>Therefore the Jews said to him, It is not legal for us to kill anyone.


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<i>(This happened</i> in order that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke signifying by what <i>sort of</i> death he was about to die.)


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<pb/>Therefore, Pilate entered again into the palace, and summoned Jesus and said to him, Are you the King of the Jews?


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<pb/>Jesus answered him, <J>Do you say this from yourself or did others say <i>this</i> to you concerning me?</J>


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<pb/>Pilate answered, I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the high-priests gave you up to me. What did you do?


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<pb/>Jesus answered, <J>My kingdom is not from this world; if my kingdom was from this world, <i>then</i> my attendants would fight in order that I might not be given up to the Jews, but now my kingdom is not from here.</J>


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<pb/>Therefore Pilate said to him, Therefore are you not a king? <pb/>Jesus answered, <J>You are saying that I am a king. I have been born to this <i>end</i> and I have come into the world to this <i>end</i>, in order that I might testify to the truth. Everyone who is from the truth hears my voice.</J> <pb/>


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Pilate says to him, What is truth? And having said this, he went out again to the Jews and says to them, I am finding no crime in him. <pb/><br/><n>{Mar 15:6-19 & Mat 27:15-30 & Joh 18:39-19:16 Fri., April 7, 30AD.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>But it is a custom with you°, that* I should release to you° one <i>prisoner</i> at the Passover; therefore, do you° will that I should release to you° the King of the Jews?


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<pb/>Therefore they all cried-out again, saying, Not this one, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.


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And having braided a crown out of thorns, the soldiers placed it on his head and dressed him in a purple garment;


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<pb/>Therefore Pilate went outside again and says to them, Behold, I lead him outside to you°, in order that you° may know that I am finding no crime in him.


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Therefore Jesus came outside, wearing the thorny crown and the purple garment. And he says to them, Behold, the man!


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<pb/>Therefore when the high-priests and the attendants saw him, they cried-out, saying, Crucify° <i>him</i>, crucify° him! <pb/>Pilate says to them, You°, take° him and crucify him; for* I am finding no crime in him.


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<pb/>The Jews answered him, We have a law and according to our law he ought to die, because he made* himself the Son of God.


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and he entered into the palace again and says to Jesus, Where are you from? But Jesus gave him no answer.


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Therefore Pilate says to him, <i>Why</i> do you not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and have authority to crucify you?


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<pb/>Jesus answered, <J>You have no authority against me, except what was given to you from above. He who gave me to you has <i>the</i> greater sin because of this.</J> <pb/>


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From this <i>time</i>, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews were crying out, saying, If you release this one, you are no friend of Caesar. Everyone who makes* himself a king speaks against Caesar.


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Therefore having heard this word, Pilate led Jesus outside and sat down upon the judicial-seat in a place called* The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha.


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But it was the Preparation of the Passover and was approximately the sixth hour <n>{i.e. Noon}</n> . <pb/>Now he says to the Jews, Behold, your° King!


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<pb/>But they cried-out, Take <i>him</i>, take <i>him</i>, crucify him! <pb/>Pilate says to them, Will I crucify your° King? <pb/>The high-priests answered, We have no king except Caesar.


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Therefore, then he gave him up to them in order that he might be crucified and they took Jesus and led <i>him away</i>. <pb/><br/><n>{Mar 15:20-23 & Mat 27:31-34 & Luk 23:26-33 & Joh 19:17 Road to the Cross, Fri. morning.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>And he went out, bearing his cross, to the place called*, The Place of a Skull, <i>which</i> is called* in Hebrew, Golgotha, <pb/><br/><n>{Mar 15:24-32 & Mat 27:35-44 & Luk 23:33-43 & Joh 19:18-27 9:00 AM to Noon, Fri.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>where they crucified him and two others with him, <i>was</i> from here and from there <n>{i.e. on this side and on that side}</n> and Jesus in the middle.


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But Pilate also wrote a title and placed it upon the cross. Now it was written, Jesus the Nazarene, the King of the Jews.


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Therefore, many of the Jews read this title, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, in Greek and in Latin.


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<pb/>Therefore, the high-priests of the Jews were saying to Pilate, Do not write, The King of the Jews, but, That <i>man</i> said, I am King of the Jews.


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<pb/>Therefore the soldiers, when they crucified Jesus, took his garments and made* four parts, a part to each soldier, and also the tunic. Now the tunic was seamless from the top, because <i>it was</i> entirely woven.


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Therefore they said to one another, We should not split-apart <i>this tunic</i>, but should do a lot concerning it; whose it will be. <i>This happened</i> in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says, ‘They divided my garments for themselves and they cast a lot upon my garment.’ <n>{Psa 22.18}</n> Therefore indeed, the soldiers did these things.


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But, his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the <i>wife</i> of Clopas and Mary the Magdalene stood beside the cross of Jesus.


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<pb/>Therefore, <i>after</i> Jesus saw his mother and the disciple, whom he loved*, standing beside <i>her</i>, he says to his mother, <J>Woman, behold your son!</J>


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Thereafter he says to the disciple, <J>Behold, your mother!</J> And from that hour the disciple took her to his own <i>home</i>. <pb/><br/><n>{Mar 15:34-41 & Mat 27:46-56 & Luk 23:45-49 & Joh 19:28-30 around 5:00 PM.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>After this Jesus, having seen that all things have already been completed, in order that the Scripture might be completed, which says, <J>‘I am thirsty.’</J> <n>{Psa 69:21}</n>


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Therefore, a vessel was laying full of vinegar, and having filled a sponge from <i>the</i> vinegar and having placed it around a hyssop, they brought it to his mouth.


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Therefore, when Jesus <i>had</i> received the vinegar, he said, <J>It has been completed.</J> And having bowed <i>his</i> head, he gave up the spirit. <pb/><br/><n>{Mar 15:42-47 & Mat 27:57-66 & Luk 23:50-56 & Joh 19:31-42 Before The Sabbath.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Therefore the Jews asked Pilate, in order that the bodies should not remain upon the cross upon the Sabbath since it was the Preparation, (for* the day of that Sabbath <i>was</i> a great <i>day</i>), that* their legs might be fractured and <i>that*</i> they might be taken away.


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Therefore, the soldiers came, and indeed fractured the legs of <i>the</i> first and of the other <i>one</i> who was crucified together with him,


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but <i>after</i> they came upon Jesus, as they saw he was already dead, they did not fracture his legs;


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And he who has seen, has testified and his testimony is true and he knows that he says true things, in order that you° might believe.


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For* these things happened in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled, ‘A bone from him will not be crushed.’ <n>{Exo 12:46 & Num 9:12 & Psa 34:20}</n>


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And again a different Scripture says, ‘They will be looking at the one whom they stabbed.’ <n>{Zec 12:10}</n>


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<pb/>After these things, Joseph from Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but having been hidden because of <i>his</i> fear of the Jews, asked Pilate in order that he might take away the body of Jesus and Pilate permitted <i>him</i>. Therefore he came and took the body of Jesus.


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Now Nicodemus also came, he who came to Jesus the first <i>time</i> by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, approximately a hundred pounds <i>of it</i>.


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Therefore they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen-strips with the spices, just-as the custom of the Jews is to bury <i>one</i>.


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Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and a new tomb <i>was</i> in the garden in which no one was yet laid.


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<pb/><n>{Mar 16:1-8 & Mat 28:1-8 & Luk 24:1-8, 12 & Joh 20:1-10 Dawn and very early Sun.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/>Now on the first <i>day</i> of the week Mary the Magdalene comes in the morning, <i>while</i> being still dark, to the tomb and sees the stone has been lifted away from the tomb.


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Therefore she runs and comes to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and says to them, They took away the Lord from the tomb and we do not know where they placed him.


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Now the two were running in unison and the other disciple ran quickly ahead of Peter and came to the tomb first;


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and having peered <i>inside</i> and he sees the linen-strips laying; nevertheless he did not enter in.


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Therefore Simon Peter comes, following him and entered into the tomb, and he views the linen-strips laying,


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and the handkerchief which was upon his head, was not laying with the linen-strips, but has been entwined in one separate place.


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Therefore, the other disciple also entered in then, who came first to the tomb, and he saw and believed.


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Therefore the disciples went away again to themselves. <pb/><br/><n>{Mar 16:9-11 & Mat 28:9-10 & Luk 24:9-11 & Joh 20:11-18.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>But Mary stood outside before the tomb, weeping. Therefore as she was weeping, she peered into the tomb;


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and she views two messengers in white sitting, one toward the head and one toward the feet, where the body of Jesus was laying.


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And those <i>men</i> say to her, Woman, why are you weeping? <pb/>She says to them, They took my Lord and I do not know where they placed him.


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And having said these things, she was turned toward the behind <i>side of her</i> and views Jesus standing and did not know that it was Jesus.


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<pb/>Jesus says to her, <J>Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?</J> <pb/>That <i>woman</i>, thinking that it is the gardener, says to him, Lord, if you bore him <i>away</i> from here, tell me where you placed him and I will take him.


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<pb/>Jesus says to her, <J>Mary</J>. <pb/>That <i>woman</i> having turned <i>around</i>, says to him, Rabboni; which is saying: Teacher.


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<pb/>Jesus says to her, <J>Do not be touching me; for* I have not yet ascended to my Father, but travel to my brethren and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your° Father and my God and your° God.</J> <pb/>


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Mary the Magdalene comes, reporting to the disciples, that she has seen the Lord, and <i>that</i> he <i>had</i> said these things to her. <pb/><br/><n>{Mar 16:14 & Luk 24:36-43 & Joh 20:19-25 Sun. Evening.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Therefore being evening on that day, the first <i>day</i> of the week, and <i>after</i> the doors had been locked where the disciples were gathered because of fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle, and says to them, <J>Peace to you°.</J>


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And having said this, he showed to them the hands and his ribs. Therefore the disciples rejoiced, having seen the Lord.


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<pb/>Therefore Jesus said to them again, <J>Peace to you°; just-as the Father has sent me; I am also sending you°.</J>


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And <i>after</i> having said this, he infused <i>them</i> and says to them, <J>Receive° <i>the</i> Holy Spirit.</J>


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<J>If you° forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven to them; if you° hold-fast anyone’s <i>sins, those sins</i> have been held-fast.</J> <n>{Mat 16:19, 18:18}</n>


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<pb/>But Thomas, one out of the twelve, who is called* Didymus <n>{twin}</n> , was not with them when Jesus came.


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Therefore, the other disciples said to him, We have seen the Lord. <pb/>But he said to them, If I do not see the pattern of the nails in his hands and may put my finger into the pattern of the nails and may put my hand into his ribs, I will never believe. <pb/><br/><n>{Joh 20:26-31 & 1Co 15:5 Sun. after resurrection.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>And after eight days his disciples were inside again and Thomas with them. Jesus comes, the doors having been locked and stood in the middle and said, <J>Peace to you°.</J>


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Thereafter he says to Thomas, <J>Bring your finger here and behold the hands, and bring your hand <i>here</i> and put it into my ribs and do not become unbelieving, but <i>become</i> believing.</J> <pb/>


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<pb/>Jesus says to him, <J>Because you have seen me, you have believed<i>, but</i> the fortunate ones did not see and <i>yet have</i> believed.</J>


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<pb/>Therefore, Jesus indeed did many other signs also in the sight of his disciples, which are not written in this book;


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but these have been written, in order that you° may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and in order that <i>in</i> believing you° may have life in his name.


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<pb/><n>{Joh 21:1-25 Sea of Galilee; no parallel.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/>After these things, Jesus manifested himself again to the disciples upon the sea of Tiberias, and he appeared thus.


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They were united-together at Galilee: Simon Peter and Thomas called* Didymus and Nathanael from Cana of Galilee and the <i>sons</i> of Zebedee and two others out of his disciples.


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Simon Peter says to them, I am going to fish. <pb/>They say to him, We are also coming together with you. They went forth and immediately stepped into the ship, and they clutched nothing <i>in the net</i> in that night.


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<pb/>Now <i>after</i> it became morning, Jesus stood at the beach; nevertheless the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.


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<pb/>But he said to them, <J>Cast° the net toward the right part of the ship and you° will find <i>some</i>.</J> Therefore they cast <i>it</i>, and they were not strong-enough to drag it <i>into the</i> ship away from the multitude of fish.


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<pb/>Therefore, that disciple whom Jesus loved* says to Peter, It is the Lord. Therefore Simon Peter having heard, It is the Lord; he girded his <i>outer</i> clothing upon himself (for* he <n>{F}</n> was naked) and cast himself into the sea.


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But the other disciples came in the small-boat (for* they were not far from the land, but approximately two hundred cubits away from <i>it</i>), dragging the net <i>full</i> of fish.


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Therefore as they stepped away to the land, they see a coal-fire laying <i>there</i> and a little-fish laying on <i>it</i> and bread.


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<pb/>Jesus says to them, <J>Bring° <i>some</i> from the little-fish which you° <i>have</i> now clutched <i>in the net</i>.</J>


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Simon Peter went-up and dragged the net to the land, full of great fish, a hundred and fifty-three and there were so-many, <i>yet</i> the net was not split-apart.


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Jesus says to them, <J>Come-here°. Have° a meal.</J> <pb/>But none of the disciples were daring to probe him, Who are you (knowing that it was the Lord)?


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<pb/>Therefore when they had a meal, Jesus says to Simon Peter, <J>Simon, <i>son</i> of Jonah, do you</J> <n>{F}</n> <J>love* me more-than these?</J> <pb/>He says to him, Yes, Lord; you know that I <n>{F}</n> love you. <pb/>He says to him, <J>Feed my lambs.</J> <pb/>


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He says to him again a second-time, <J>Simon, <i>son</i> of Jonah, do you</J> <n>{F}</n> <J>love* me?</J> <pb/>He says to him, Yes, Lord; you know that I <n>{F}</n> love you. <pb/>He says to him, <J>Shepherd my sheep.</J> <pb/>


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He says to him the third-time, <J>Simon, <i>son</i> of Jonah, Do you</J> <n>{F}</n> <J>love me?</J> <pb/>Peter was sorrowful because he said to him the third-time, Do you <n>{F}</n> love me <i>like a friend</i>? And he said to him, Lord, you know all things; you know that I <n>{F}</n> love you <i>like a friend</i>. <pb/>Jesus says to him, <J>Feed my sheep.</J>


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<J>Assuredly, assuredly, I am saying to you, When you were younger, you were girding yourself and were walking where you were wishing to go. But whenever you are elderly, you will stretch out your hands and another will gird you and will be carrying you where you do not wish.</J>


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Now he spoke this signifying by what <i>sort of</i> death he should glorify God. And having said this, he says to him, <J>Follow me.</J> <pb/>


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But Peter, turning again, sees the disciple whom Jesus loved* following; who also leaned-back upon his chest at the supper and who <i>had</i> said, Lord, who is he who is giving you up?


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<pb/>Jesus says to him, <J>If I will <i>for</i> him to abide until I come, what <i>is that</i> to you? You, follow me!</J>


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<pb/>Therefore, this speech went forth to the brethren, that, that disciple does not die. And <i>yet</i> Jesus did not say to him that he does not die, but, <J>If I will that he remains until I come, what <i>is that</i> to you?</J>


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<pb/>This is the disciple who is testifying concerning these things and wrote these things and we know that his testimony is true.


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<pb/>Now there are also many other things <i>testifying to</i> how-much Jesus did, which if they are written one by one, I assume that not even the world itself <i>could</i> make* room for the written books. <pb/>Amen. <pb/><br/><n>{Footnotes: Joh 21:7, or: was half dressed. Compare: Joh 13:14, Isa 20:2, Mic 1:8.</n><br/><pb/><br/><n>Joh 21:15, 16, 17 ‘Love*’ means ‘all giving love.’ ‘Love’ means ‘a love of a friend.’ The Greeks defined the various kinds of love by different words.}</n><br/><pb/><br/><n>{NOTES: You should read the 'Definitions' Section and other non-bible sections.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/><n>{Events from 30-63 AD are recorded including all the examples of Christian conversions. Tiberius Caesar, Emperor, 14-37 AD. Pontius Pilate, governor of Judea. Herod Antipas, governor of Galilee.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/>O Theophilus, I indeed made* the first account concerning all that Jesus began both to do and to teach,


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till the day in which he was received up, having commanded through <i>the</i> Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. <pb/><br/><n>{Luk 24:44-49 & Acts 1:3-8 & 1Co 15:7 Jerusalem.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/><i>The apostles</i> to whom, he also presented himself <i>as</i> living in many definite-proofs after he had suffered <i>on the cross</i>, being seen by them through<i>out</i> forty days and speaking the things concerning the kingdom of God.


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And, being assembled <n>{Or: eating}</n> together with <i>them</i>, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to remain <i>until</i> the promise of the Father, <J>Which,</J> (<i>he said)</i> <J>You° <i>have</i> heard from me;</J>


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<J>because John indeed immersed* in water, but you° will be immersed* in <i>the</i> Holy Spirit after not these many days</J> <n>{i.e. a few days}</n> <J>.</J> <pb/><br/><n>{May 18, 30AD Mount of Olives.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Therefore indeed, <i>after</i> they came together, they asked him, saying, Lord, should you not be restoring the kingdom to Israel at this time?


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<pb/>Now he said to them, <J>It is not yours° to know times or seasons, which the Father placed in his own authority.</J>


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<J>But you° will be receiving power <i>after</i> the Holy Spirit has come upon you°, you° will be witnesses to me, both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the outermost <i>parts</i> of the earth</J>. <pb/><br/><n>{Mar 16:19-20 & Luk 24:50-53 & Acts 1:9-12 Olivet, between Jerusalem and Bethany.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>And having said these things, <i>and while</i> looking <i>at him</i>, he was lifted up, and a cloud received him away from their <i>staring</i> eyes.


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And as they were staring <i>while</i> he is traveling on into heaven. And behold, two men stood beside them in white apparel;


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who also said, Men, Galileans! Why are you° standing <i>here</i>, looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was received up from you° into heaven will be coming <i>back</i> thus in the manner you° saw him traveling on into heaven. <n>{Acts 1:11 & Mat 24:27, 24:29-31 & Mar 13:24-37 & Luk 21:25-28 & 1Th 4:13-17 & 2Th 1:7-9 & 1Co 15:51-15:58 & Rev 1:7 Second Coming.}</n>


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<pb/>Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called Olives, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath’s journey off.


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And having entered, they went-up into the upstairs-room; where they were remaining: both Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James <i>the son</i> of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot and Judas <i>the son</i> of James <n>{Or: brother. See Jude.}</n> .


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All these <i>men</i> together with <i>the</i> women and Mary the mother of Jesus and together with his brethren were persevering, united in prayer and supplication.


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<pb/>And Peter stood up in these days in the midst of the disciples (and a crowd of names <n>{i.e. people}</n> were in the same <i>place</i>, approximately a hundred and twenty) and said,


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Men, brethren, it was essential that this Scripture might be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit said beforehand through <i>the</i> mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who took Jesus,


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because he was numbered together with us and was allotted his inheritance in this service. <pb/><br/><n>{Mat 27:3-10 & Acts 1:18-19.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>(Therefore indeed, this one procured a parcel of ground from <i>the</i> reward of <i>his</i> unrighteousness, and he happened to fall-flat and ruptured in the middle and all his bowels were poured out.


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And it became known to all the dwellers in Jerusalem; so-that in their own language this place was called Akeldama, that is, The Place of Blood.)


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For* it has been written in the book of Psalms, ‘Let his habitation become desolate and do not let there be one dwelling in it’ <n>{Psa 69:25}</n> and, ‘Let a different <i>one</i> take his overseership.’ <n>{Psa 109:8}</n>


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Therefore, it is essential of those men who went together with us all the time in which the Lord Jesus entered <i>in</i> and went out among us,


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having begun from the immersion* of John, to the day from which he was received up from us, it is essential one of these <i>is</i> to become a witness together with us of his resurrection.


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to receive the inheritance of this service and apostleship from which Judas transgressed, <i>so as</i> to travel on to his own place.


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And they gave <i>them</i> their lots and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was enumerated together with the eleven apostles.


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<pb/><n>{NOTES: Acts 1:26-2:1- Chapter and verse divisions were added by man. In the original Acts 1:26 & Acts 2:1 are the same sentence. The ‘they’ has been disputed by many. Read both Acts 1:26 and Acts 2:1 together without punctuation and decide for yourself. See also Acts 1:5, 2:6.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/><br/><n>{Pentecost (always Sun.) May 28, 30AD Jerusalem.</n><br/><pb/><br/><n>Pentecost is a transliterated word, G4005, which literal means ‘50th’ as in the 50th day after Passover. The day the New Covenant (Testament) came into force (Heb 9:15-17.}</n><br/><pb/>And while* the day of Pentecost was being fulfilled, they were all united in the same <i>place.</i>


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And suddenly there became a noise from heaven just-like <i>the</i> bringing of a violent wind and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.


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And they were all filled with <i>the</i> Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, just-as the Spirit was giving to them to speak out.


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But <i>after</i> the <n>{F}</n> voice from this happened, the multitude came together and was confused, because each one was hearing them speaking in his own language.


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Now they were astonished and marveling, saying to one another, Behold, are these not all Galileans who are speaking?


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in Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and the parts of Libya toward Cyrene and the inhabiting Romans, both Jews and Jewish-converts,


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<pb/>But Peter, standing up together with the eleven, lifted up his voice and spoke out to them, saying, Men, Jews and all you° who are dwelling in Jerusalem, let this be known to you° and notice° my words.


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God says, ‘And it will be in the last days, I will pour out from My Spirit upon all flesh and your° sons and your° daughters will prophesy and your° young-men will see visions and your° elderly-men will dream dreams.


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For-sure, I will pour from my Spirit upon my <i>male</i> bondservants and upon my <i>female</i> bondservants in those days, and they will prophesy.


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And I will be giving <i>you</i>° wonders in the heaven above and signs upon the earth below; blood and fire and vapor of smoke.


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The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before the great and illustrious day of the Lord comes.


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And it will be, that everyone, whoever calls upon the name of the Lord, will be saved.’ <n>{Joel 2:28-32}</n>


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<pb/>Men, Israelites! Hear° these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man from God, having been shown to you° by miracles and wonders and signs which God did through him in your° midst, just-as you° yourselves also know;


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being given up by what had been determined by the plan and foreknowledge of God; you° assassinated <i>him</i>, having taken <i>him</i> and having fastened <i>him</i> to <i>a cross</i> through lawless hands;


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whom God raised* up, having loosed the travails of death, insomuch as it was not possible <i>for him</i> to be held-fast by it.


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For* David says <i>in regard</i> to him, ‘I am seeing the Lord always before my face, in <i>my</i> sight, because he is at my right <i>hand</i>, in order that I might not be shaken.


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Because of this, my heart was joyous and my tongue was glad. Now my flesh will also still reside in hope;


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You made known to me the ways of life. You will fill me with joy with your countenance.’ <n>{Psa 16:8-11}</n>


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Therefore being* a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that from the fruit of his loins, to raise* up the Christ according to the flesh to sit upon his throne. <n>{Psa 89:3-4, 132:11}</n>


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Having foreseen this, he spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was his soul left to Hades, nor did his flesh see decay. <n>{Psa 16:10}</n>


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Therefore having been exalted by the right <i>hand</i> of God, and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he poured out this, which you° are seeing and hearing now.


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Therefore, let all the house of Israel know with certainty, that God made* him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you° crucified.


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<pb/>Now <i>after</i> they heard <i>this,</i> they were pierced in their heart and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, Men, brethren, what will we do?


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<pb/>Now Peter said to them, Repent° and be immersed* each one of you° in the name of Jesus Christ into the forgiveness of your° sins, and you° will be receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit. <n>{F}</n>


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For* the promise is to you° and to your° children and to all those at afar <i>off</i>, as many as the Lord our God may call.


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Now he was thoroughly testifying and encouraging them with many other words, saying, Save° yourselves from this crooked generation.


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Therefore indeed, they, who gladly accepted his word, were immersed*, and approximately three thousand souls were added to them in that day.


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Now they were persevering in the apostles’ teaching and in fellowship and in the breaking of the bread and in the prayers. <pb/><br/><n>{Acts 2:38 has been a constant ‘revolving door’ as: ‘*for,’ ‘into,’ ‘to/toward,’ ‘leading to,’ ‘leading toward,’ ‘to obtain’ have all been used in the MLV and not everyone is ever satisfied. But they only complain about Acts 2:38 not the other four places this same Greek construction is in the Bible. People who are defending Acts 2:38 keep wanting something besides ‘for.’ Which was never the translation in the MLV; see list above. ‘For’ in English can mean ‘because’ but this word is ‘eis’ (G1519). No translation has ever used ‘because’ or ‘because of’ in Acts 2:38, including the ones made by the Baptist denomination (sadly though some had to put it in as a footnote, ironically some of their older translations used ‘leading to/toward’). Thayer used “to obtain.” This misunderstanding is also due to the fact the MLV is the only English translation that corrected all the ‘for’ words by translating them to their more accurate English word. Other than ‘for*,’ all ‘for’ words in the MLV which literally meant ‘because’ are translated as such.</n><br/><pb/><br/><n>The second part could possibly be translated ‘you° will receive the Holy Spirit’s gift.’</n><br/><pb/><br/><n>We are not sorry that the theologians need to learn the Bible!}</n><br/><pb/>


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praising God, and having favor toward the whole people. Now the Lord was adding to the congregation* <i>of believers</i> those who are saved every day.


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<pb/><n>{June 30, 30AD Temple at Jerusalem.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/>Now Peter and John were going-up at the same <i>time</i> into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth <i>hour</i> <n>{i.e. 3:00 PM}</n> .


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But Peter said, I do not possess silver and gold, but what I have, that I am giving to you. In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, lift yourself up and walk!


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And he clutched him by the right hand and lifted him up and instantly his feet and his ankles were strengthened.


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And leaping up, he stood and was walking, and he entered together with them into the temple, walking and leaping and praising God.


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And they were recognizing him, that this one was sitting to <i>obtain</i> charity at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with amazement and astonishment at what has befallen him.


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<pb/>Now the lame <i>man</i> who was healed, <i>was</i> holding-fast <i>to</i> Peter and John, <i>then</i> all the people ran together to them on the porch <i>which is</i> called Solomon’s utterly amazed.


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Now having seen <i>them,</i> Peter answered to the people, Men, Israelites! Why are you° marveling over this one? Or why are you° staring at <i>us</i>, as <i>though</i> by <i>our</i> own power or godliness* we have made* him <i>able</i> to walk?


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The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, <i>has</i> glorified his young-servant Jesus; whom you° indeed gave up and denied him in the face of Pilate, <i>after</i> he decided to release that <i>man</i>.


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<pb/>And I know now brethren that you° did it according to ignorance, just-like also <i>did</i> your° rulers.


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<pb/>Therefore, repent° and turn° again, *that* your° sins may be wiped-away, *that seasons of refreshment may come from the countenance of the Lord;


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whom it is indeed essential for the heaven to accept till the times of restoration of all things, of which God spoke through the mouth of all his holy prophets from <i>the</i> age <i>past</i>.


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For* Moses indeed said to the fathers, The Lord our God will rise* up for you° a prophet from among your° brethren, like me. You° will listen to him according to all things, as many things as he may speak to you°. <n>{Deu 18:18, 19}</n>


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And it will be, that every soul who, if it does not listen to that prophet, will be utterly destroyed from among the people.


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You° are <i>the</i> sons of the prophets and of the covenant* which God covenanted with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And all the families of the earth will be blessed in your seed.’ <n>{Gen 22:18, 26:4, 28:14}</n>


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God, having raised* up his young-servant Jesus, sent him to you° first, blessing you° in turning each of you° away from your° wickednesses.


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being pained, because they taught the people and proclaimed <i>the</i> resurrection of the dead in Jesus.


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<pb/>Now it happened upon the next-day, that their rulers and the elders and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem;


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and Annas the high-priest <i>was there</i> and Caiaphas and John and Alexander and as many as were from <i>the</i> high-priestly race.


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And having stood them in <i>the</i> middle, they were inquiring, In what power or in what name, did you° do this?


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<pb/>Then Peter, having been filled with <i>the</i> Holy Spirit, said to them, You° rulers of the people and elders of Israel,


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if we are examined today on <i>the basis of</i> a good* work <i>done to</i> a sick man and by what <i>means</i> this one has been cured.


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Let it be known to you°all <i>here</i> and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you° crucified, whom God raised <i>up</i> from <i>the</i> dead; in him, this one who is standing in your° sight <i>is</i> healthy.


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He is, ‘The stone that was scorned by you°, the builders, which became the head of the corner.’ <n>{Psa 118:22}</n>


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<pb/>Now viewing the boldness of Peter and John, they were marveling, having comprehended that they were illiterate and unskilled men. And they recognized them, that they had been together with Jesus.


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But seeing the man who had been healed, standing together with them, they had nothing to speak against it.


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saying, What will we do to these men? For* that indeed a known sign has happened through them and apparent to all who are dwelling in Jerusalem, and we are not able to deny <i>it</i>.


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But in order that it should not circulate on more-than <i>this</i> into the people, we will threaten them with <i>more</i> threatening, to no longer speak to any man in this name.


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<pb/>But Peter and John answered and said to them, Judge° <i>for yourselves</i> if it is righteous in God’s sight to listen to you° rather than to God.


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But having additionally threatened <i>them</i>, they released them, finding nothing <i>as to</i> how they will punish them, because of the people, because all were glorifying God for what has happened.


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<pb/>Now having been released, they came to their own <i>brethren</i> and reported how-much the high-priests and the elders had said to them.


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Now they, having heard <i>it</i>, lifted up their voice to God united and said, Master, you <i>are</i> the God who made* the heaven and the earth and the sea and all the things in them;


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who through the mouth of our father David your young-servant, said, ‘Why did the Gentiles rage and the peoples meditate on empty things?


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in that you stretched out your hand *for healing, and signs and wonders to happen through the name of your holy young-servant Jesus.


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And having besought <i>the Lord</i>, the place was shaken in which they were gathered together, and they were all filled with <i>the</i> Holy Spirit and they were speaking the word of God with boldness.


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<pb/>Now the multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul and not one <i>of them</i> said that anything of his own possessions was theirs, but they had all things common.


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Now the apostles were giving their testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus with great power and great favor was upon them all.


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<pb/><n>{Late 30 AD - 36 AD Temple at Jerusalem.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/>But a certain man, Ananias by name, together with his wife Sapphira, sold a property,


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and pilfered <i>part</i> for themselves from the price, his wife also having been conscious <i>of it</i>, and brought a certain part, placed it beside the apostles’ feet.


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But Peter said, Ananias, why has the Adversary filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and you to pilfer <i>part</i> for yourself from the price of the parcel of ground?


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<i>While</i> it is remaining <i>unsold</i>, was it not remaining yours? And having been sold*, was* it <i>not still</i> in your authority? Why did you purpose this matter in your heart? You did not lie to men, but to God.


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But Ananias, hearing these words, fell <i>down</i> and expired, and there became great fear upon all those who heard these things.


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<pb/>Now it happened <i>after</i> an interval of approximately three hours, his wife also entered, not knowing what has happened.


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But Peter answered her, Tell me if you° were given so-much <i>for</i> the parcel of ground? <pb/>And she said, Yes, <i>for</i> so much.


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<pb/>But Peter said to her, Why <i>is it</i> that you° agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who buried your husband are at the door and they will be carrying you out.


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Now she fell <i>down</i> instantly beside his feet and expired and the young-men entered and found her dead and they carried her out and buried her with her husband.


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<pb/>Now through the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were happening among the people, and they were all united at Solomon’s porch.


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so-that they <i>even</i> carried out the sick in the streets to lay <i>them</i> upon cots and pallets, in order that, <i>while</i> Peter comes <i>by</i>, if-only his shadow might overshadow anyone of them.


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Now the multitudes were also coming together from the cities in and around Jerusalem, carrying sick ones, and <i>those</i> being troubled by unclean spirits; <i>and</i> who were all being healed.


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<pb/>But the high-priest stood up and all those who were together with him (which is a sect of the Sadducees) and they were filled <i>up</i> from jealousy,


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But a messenger of the Lord through <i>the</i> night, opened the doors of the prison, and having led them out, said,


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Now having heard <i>this</i>, they entered the temple under the <i>light of</i> daybreak and were teaching. <pb/>But the high-priest came* and those who were together with him and called the Sanhedrin together and everyone of the Elderly-Council of the sons of Israel and sent to the prison to have them led <i>out</i>.


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saying, We indeed found the prison, having been locked with* all <i>the</i> security <i>intact</i>, and the guards standing before the doors. But having opened <i>it</i>, we found no one inside.


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Now as both the magistrate of the temple and the priest and the high-priests heard these words, they were perplexed concerning them <i>and</i> whatever had happened.


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<pb/>But someone came*, and reported to them, Behold, the men, whom you° placed in the prison yourselves, are in the temple standing and teaching the people.


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Then the magistrate together with the attendants went away and led them, <i>but</i> without violence; for* they were fearing the people (that* they might not be stoned).


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saying, Did we command you° with a <i>strict</i> command to not teach in this name? And behold, you° have filled Jerusalem with your° teaching, and are planning to bring* this man’s blood upon us.


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<pb/>But Peter and the apostles answered and said, It is essential <i>for</i> us to obey God rather than men.


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The God of our fathers raised <i>up</i> Jesus, whom you° yourselves exterminated, having hung <i>him</i> upon a tree.


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This <i>Jesus is the</i> Author and Savior who God exalted to his right <i>hand</i>, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.


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And we are witnesses of these words, and <i>so is</i> the Holy Spirit, whom God gave to those who obey him.


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But a certain one in the council stood up there, a Pharisee, Gamaliel by name, a teacher of the law, honored by all the people, and he commanded <i>them</i> to make* the apostles <i>wait</i> outside for a certain bit <i>of time</i>.


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And he said to them, Men, Israelites! Take-heed° to yourselves what you° are about to do against these men.


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For* before these days rose* up Theudas, saying <i>that he</i> himself to be someone, who was assassinated; to whom a number of men were called, approximately four hundred; and all, as many as were obeying him were disbanded and came* to nothing.


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After this one rose* up Judas, a Galilean, in the days of the census and a considerable <i>number of</i> people withdrew after him. He also perished, and all, as many as were obeying him, were scattered.


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And hereafter I say to you°, Withdraw° from these men and permit° them <i>to continue,</i> because if the plan or this work is from men, it will be torn-down;


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but if it is from God, you° will not be able to tear-down it; lest you° might be found even to be quarreling against God.


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<pb/>Now they were persuaded by him, and having called the apostles to them, they whipped them, and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus and released them.


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Therefore indeed, they were traveling away from the face of the council, rejoicing that they were deemed worthy to be dishonored on behalf of the name of Jesus.


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And they were not ceasing, teaching and proclaiming the good-news of Jesus <i>as</i> the Christ every day both in the temple and in every house.


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<pb/><n>{Autumn 36 AD. Temple at Jerusalem. Pontius Pilate deposed.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/>Now in the days, <i>while</i> the disciples are multiplying, there became a murmuring from the Grecian Jews <i>aimed</i> toward the Hebrews, because their widows were being left-unattended in the daily service.


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Now the twelve called the multitude of the disciples to them and said, It is not pleasing <i>to God for</i> us <i>to have</i> left the word of God to serve tables.


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Therefore brethren, elect° out of you° seven men well testified of, full of <i>the</i> Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we might designate over this need.


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And the speech pleased everyone of the multitude and they themselves chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of <i>the</i> Holy Spirit and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolaus a Jewish-convert from Antioch;


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<pb/>And the word of God was growing, and the number of the disciples were extremely multiplying in Jerusalem, and a large crowd of the priests were obedient* to the faith.


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But there stood up some of those who were of the synagogue called* <i>the Synagogue</i> of the Freedmen both <i>those</i> from Cyrene and from Alexandria, and those from Cilicia and Asia, debating together with Stephen.


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And they were not strong-enough to stand against the wisdom and the Spirit by which he was speaking.


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Then they instigated men, saying, We have heard him speak blasphemous declarations at Moses and God.


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And they agitated the people and the elders and the scribes. And having stood up against <i>him</i>, they seized him and led him into the council.


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<pb/>And false witnesses stood up, who said, This man is not ceasing to speak blasphemous declarations against the holy place and the law.


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For* we have heard him saying, that this Jesus the Nazarene will be tearing-down this place and will be changing the customs which Moses gave to us.


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And all who sat in the council, having stared toward him, saw his face <i>was</i> like the face of a messenger <i>of God</i>.


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<pb/>Now he said, Men, brethren and fathers, listen°: the God of glory was seen by our father Abraham, <i>while</i> being in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,


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and said to him, Come out of your land and from your relatives and come-here into the land whatever I will be showing you. <n>{Gen 12:1,2,4}</n>


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Then <i>after</i> he came out of the land of the Chaldeans, he dwelt in Haran and after his father died, <i>God</i> exiled him from there into this land in which you° are now dwelling. <n>{Gen 13:14-18}</n>


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And he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a step of <i>his</i> foot, and he promised to give it to him and to his seed after him *for <i>his</i> territory, <i>even</i> not being a child <i>yet</i> to him. <n>{Gen 15:13, 14}</n>


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Now God spoke thus: That his seed will be a foreigner in an alien land, and they will enslave and will be mistreating them four hundred years.


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And God said, I will be judging the nation to which they would be enslaved, and they will be coming forth and will be giving-divine service to me in this place after this thing. <n>{Gen 17:10-14}</n>


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And he gave him the covenant* of circumcision and so he fathered Isaac and he circumcised him <i>on</i> the eighth day, and <i>to</i> Isaac <i>was born</i> Jacob and <i>to</i> Jacob the twelve patriarchs. <n>{Gen 21:4, 25:20-26, 46:8-26}</n>


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and liberated him from all his afflictions and gave him favor and wisdom in front of Pharaoh king of Egypt, who designated him leader over Egypt and his whole house. <n>{Gen 37:23-25, 36}</n>


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Now there came a famine and great affliction upon the whole land of Egypt and Canaan and our fathers were finding no sustenance. <n>{Gen 41:54-57}</n>


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But <i>after</i> Jacob heard of grain being in Egypt, he sent forth our fathers the first <i>time</i>. <n>{Gen 42:1, 2}</n>


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And Joseph was recognized at the second-time by his brethren, and Joseph’s race became apparent to the Pharaoh. <n>{Gen 43:2, 45:16}</n>


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But Joseph himself, having sent <i>them</i>, called Jacob, his father, and all the relatives, in souls, seventy-five.


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and were transferred to Shechem and were placed in the tomb that Abraham purchased for a price in silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem. <n>{Jos 24:32}</n>


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Now just-as the time of the promise was drawing near, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,


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This one dealt craftily with our race and mistreated our fathers, making* <i>them</i> place their babies outside <i>in the elements</i>, *that* they might not live. <n>{Exo 2:2}</n>


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In which season, Moses was born and was handsome to God, and he was nourished three months in <i>his</i> father’s house. <n>{Exodus 1:7, 8, 10-22, 2:1-10}</n>


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Now <i>after</i> he was placed outside <i>in the elements</i>, Pharaoh’s daughter took <i>him</i> for herself and reared him *for her own son.


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Now as the time of forty years was being fulfilled to him, it came-up upon his heart to visit his brethren, the sons of Israel.


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And having seen a certain one <i>of them</i> being hurt, he retaliated and did <i>the</i> avenging for the one who was subjugated, and struck the Egyptian; <n>{Exo 2:11}</n>


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and he was supposing that his brethren understood that God is giving them salvation through his hand. But they did not understand.


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And he was seen the next day by those who were quarreling and drove them to <i>make</i> peace, having said, Men, you° are brethren! Why are you° wronging one another? <n>{Exo 2:13,14}</n>


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But he who hurt his neighbor shoved him away and said, Who designated you a ruler and a justice over us?


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<pb/>But at this speech, Moses fled and became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he fathered two sons. <n>{Exo 18:3}</n>


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Now <i>after</i> forty years were fulfilled, a messenger of the Lord was seen by him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire from a bush. <n>{Exo 3:6}</n>


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But <i>after</i> Moses saw it, he was marveling <i>at</i> the vision <i>of it</i>. And <i>while</i> coming near to consider <i>what it was,</i> there came* a voice of the Lord to him,


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<J>I <i>am</i> the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.</J> <n>{Exo 3:6}</n> And the trembling Moses came*, <i>and</i> was not daring to consider <i>what it was</i>.


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Now the Lord said to him, Loose the shoes from your feet; for* the place in which you are standing is holy land.


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Having seen, I saw the mistreatment of my people who <i>were</i> in Egypt and heard their groaning and I descended to liberate them. And now come-here, I will be sending you into Egypt. <n>{Exo 3:1-10}</n>


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This Moses whom they denied, having said, Who designated you a ruler and a justice? God sent this one <i>as</i> a ruler and a redeemer by the hand of <i>the</i> messenger who was seen by him in the bush. <n>{Exo 14:21, 12:41, 15:23, 16:1-36}</n>


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This one led them out, having done wonders and signs in <i>the</i> land of Egypt and in <i>the</i> Red Sea and in the wilderness <i>for</i> forty years.


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This is that Moses, who said to the sons of Israel, The Lord our God will raise* up to you° a prophet out of your° brethren, like me. <n>{Deu 18:15}</n>


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This is he who came* <i>to be</i> in the congregation* in the wilderness with the messenger who spoke to him on Mount Sinai and from our fathers. <i>This is he</i> who accepted <i>the</i> living word to give to us; <n>{Exo 19:3, 20:1-24:18}</n>


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to whom our fathers willed not to become obedient*, but shoved him away from themselves and turned <i>back</i> to Egypt in their heart,


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having said to Aaron, Make* us gods that will travel before us. For* this Moses, who led us forth out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him. <n>{Exo 32:1-6}</n>


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And they made* a calf in those days and brought* a sacrifice to the idol and were being joyous in the works of their hands. <n>{Exo 32:19}</n>


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But God turned and gave them up to give-divine service to the army of heaven; just-as it has been written in <i>the</i> book of the prophets, ‘You° did not offer slaughtered <i>beasts</i> and sacrifices to me <i>for</i> forty years in the wilderness, <i>O</i> house of Israel, did you°?


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And you° took up the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of the god Remphan, the patterns which you° made* to worship and I will be exiling you° past Babylon.’ <n>{Amos 5:25-27}</n>


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The tabernacle of the testimony was with our fathers in the wilderness, just-as he, who spoke to Moses, commanded <i>him</i> to make* it according to the pattern which he had seen. <n>{Exo 25:9,40, 26:30}</n>


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Which also our fathers, having accepted in succession, brought* in with Joshua, in the territory of the nations, that God shoved out away from the face of our fathers, until the days of David. <n>{Jos 3:14, 18:1}</n>


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<i>David</i>, who found favor in God’s sight, asked to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob. <n>{2Sa 7:2, 2Ch 17:1-4}</n>


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‘The heaven is my throne and the earth the footstool of my feet. What <i>sort of</i> house will you° be building me? says the Lord. Or what is the place of my rest?


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<pb/>You° <i>are</i> stiff-necked and non-circumcised in heart and ears. You° are habitually defying the Holy Spirit, like your° fathers, <i>like</i> you° <i>do</i> also!


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Which of the prophets did your° fathers not persecute? And they killed those who proclaimed beforehand <i>God’s message</i> concerning the coming of the Righteous One; of whom you° have now become betrayers and murderers.


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You° who received the law at <i>the</i> commandment from <i>God’s</i> messengers and did not observe <i>it</i>. <n>{Ex 20:1-7, Exo 25:2-31:18}</n>


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<pb/>Now hearing these things, they were being infuriated in their hearts and they were gnashing their teeth at him.


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But possessing <i>the</i> full<i>ness</i> of <i>the</i> Holy Spirit, he stared into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at <i>the</i> right <i>hand</i> of God,


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and said, Behold, I am viewing the heavens that have been opened and the Son of Man standing at <i>the</i> right <i>hand</i> of God.


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And having cast him outside the city, they were stoning him. And the witnesses placed <i>their</i> garments beside the feet of a young-man called Saul.


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And they were stoning Stephen, <i>who was</i> calling upon <i>the Lord</i>, saying, Lord Jesus, accept my spirit.


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Now having placed his knees <i>down</i>, he cried out with a loud voice, Lord, do not weigh this, <i>their</i> sin, to them. And having said this, he fell-asleep. [Acts 8]


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Now Saul was consenting to the assassination of him. <pb/>Now there became a great persecution in that day upon the congregation* which was in Jerusalem, and they were all dispersed throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, the apostles.


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<pb/>Now Saul was devastating the congregation* <i>of believers</i>, traveling into every house and dragging men and women <i>away,</i> he was giving them up to prison. <pb/><br/><n>{37 AD. Samaria. Tiberius Caesar dies March 16. Caligula attempts to put his statue in the Temple.}</n><br/><pb/><br/><n>{Examples of those who are saved in the New Testament: Acts 2:14-42; 8:5-13; 8:30-39; 10:34-48; 16:13-15; 16:25-34; 18:8a; 18:8b; 19:1-7; Saul/Apostle Paul: 9:17-18, 22:6-16, 26:12-18.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Therefore indeed, those who were dispersed went through<i>out the land</i>, proclaiming the good-news of the word.


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And the crowds united <i>and</i> were taking-heed to the things which were spoken by Philip, <i>while</i> they were hearing and seeing the signs which he was doing.


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For* many of those who had unclean spirits, <i>the spirits</i> were coming out, crying with a loud voice. And many were healed who had been paralyzed and lame.


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<pb/>But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who was formerly in the city practicing-magic and astonishing the nation of Samaria, saying that he himself was someone great.


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To whom they were taking-heed, from the little to the great, saying, This one is the power of God, the Great.


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Now they were taking-heed to him because he <i>had</i> astonished them with his magic for a considerable time.


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But when they believed Philip proclaiming the good-news concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were being immersed*, both men and women.


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Now Simon himself also believed and was immersed*, <i>and</i> was persevering with Philip. And viewing signs and great miracles <i>which were</i> happening, he was being astonished.


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saying, Give° to me also this authority, in order that I may lay my hands on whomever, <i>and</i> he may receive <i>the</i> Holy Spirit.


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<pb/>But Peter said to him, May your silver together with you be <i>sent</i> into destruction, because you supposed to procure the gift of God through monies!


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You have neither part nor inheritance in this word, for* this heart of yours is not straight in God’s sight.


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Therefore repent from this, your malice, and beseech God; if, then, the deliberation of your heart will be forgiven to you.


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<pb/>But Simon answered and said, You°, beseech° on my behalf to the Lord, *that none of the things which you° have spoken may come upon me.


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<pb/>Therefore indeed, having thoroughly testified and having spoken the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem and proclaimed the good-news to many villages of the Samaritans. <pb/><br/><n>{Summer 37 AD. Road from Jerusalem to Gaza.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>But a messenger of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, Stand up and travel toward the midday <i>sun</i> to the road which is going-down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desolate <i>road</i>.


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Now the Spirit said to Philip, <J>Go near and join yourself to this chariot.</J> <pb/><br/><n>{Examples of those who are saved in the New Testament: Acts 2:14-42; 8:5-13; 8:30-39; 10:34-48; 16:13-15; 16:25-34; 18:8a; 18:8b; 19:1-7; Saul/Apostle Paul: 9:17-18, 22:6-16, 26:12-18.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Now Philip having ran up to him, heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and said, Consequently<J>*</J>, do you know then what you are reading?


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<pb/>But he said, For* how am I able, if someone does not guide me? And he pleaded with Philip, <i>after Philip</i> had come-up to sit together with him.


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Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this: ‘He was led like a sheep to <i>the</i> slaughter, and like a lamb in front of the one who is shearing him is voiceless, thus he does not open his mouth.


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His judgment was taken away in his humbleness. But who will be describing his generation? Because his life is taken from the earth.’ <n>{Isa 53:7, 8}</n>


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But having answered, the eunuch said to Philip, I am beseeching you, concerning whom is the prophet speaking <i>about in</i> this? <i>Is he speaking</i> concerning himself or concerning some other <i>person</i>?


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Now as they were traveling down the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch says, Behold, <i>here is</i> water; what is preventing me <i>from</i> being immersed*? <n>{T}</n>


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Now Philip said, If you believe from all your heart, it is permitted. <pb/>But he answered and said I believe Jesus Christ to be the Son of God.


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<pb/>Now he commanded the chariot to stand <i>still</i> and they both went-down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he immersed* him.


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<J>and he saw in a vision a man, Ananias by name, who entered and laid a hand on him, *that he might recover his sight</J>.


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<pb/>But Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many concerning this man <i>and</i> how-much evil he did to your holy-ones in Jerusalem,


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<pb/>Now Ananias went away and entered into the house, and having laid <i>his</i> hands upon him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, whom was seen by you on the road <i>on</i> which you were coming, has sent me, *that you may recover your sight and may be filled with <i>the</i> Holy Spirit.


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Now all who heard him were being astonished and were saying, Is this not the one who made havoc in Jerusalem of those who are calling upon this name? And he had come here *for this <i>purpose</i>, in order that he might lead them who have been bound in front of the high-priests.


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But Saul was being empowered more and was confusing the Jews who are dwelling in Damascus, lecturing that this <i>Jesus</i> is the Christ.


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<pb/>Now as a considerable <i>number of</i> days were being fulfilled, the Jews planned together to assassinate him;


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but their pact became known to Saul. And they were guarding the gates both day and night *that they might assassinate him.


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But the disciples took him by night and dropped him down through the wall, having lowered him in a basket. <pb/><br/><n>{37-39 AD. Arabia. Saul’s retirement. Gal 1:17-18. AD dates vary due to many not putting this in the chronology.}</n><br/><pb/><br/><n>{Sept., 39 AD. Jerusalem. Paul’s first visit there.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Now <i>after</i> Saul came* in<i>to</i> Jerusalem, he was attempting to be joined to the disciples, and all were fearing him, not believing that he is a disciple.


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But Barnabas grabbed him and led <i>him</i> to the apostles, and described to them how he saw the Lord on the road and that he spoke to him and how in Damascus he spoke boldly in the name of Jesus.


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And <i>as</i> he was traveling into Jerusalem with them, <i>he was</i> speaking boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus.


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And he both was speaking and was debating together with the Grecian Jews, but they were undertaking the task to assassinate him. <pb/><br/><n>{40-43 AD Paul in Tarsus & Cilicia.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Now <i>after</i> the brethren fully knew it, they brought* him down to Caesarea and sent him forth to Tarsus.


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<pb/>Therefore indeed, <i>all</i> the congregations* throughout the whole of Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace. They were being multiplied, being built up, and having conducted-themselves in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit. <pb/><br/><n>{40 AD. Lydda & Joppa. Herod Antipas banished.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Now it happened, Peter, going through all <i>the regions</i>, also came down to the holy-ones, those who dwell <i>at</i> Lydda.


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Now he found a certain man there, Aeneas by name, who was paralyzed <i>and had been</i> laying in his pallet <i>for</i> eight years.


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And Peter said to him, Aeneas, Jesus the Christ heals you. Stand up and spread <i>your bed for</i> yourself. And immediately he stood up.


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<pb/>Now there was a certain disciple in Joppa, Tabitha by name, which by translation, is called Dorcas. This one was full of good works and of charity, which she was doing.


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Now it happened in those days, she died, having been sick. Now having fully-washed her, they placed her in an upstairs-room.


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Now Lydda was near to Joppa, the disciple heard that Peter is in it, sent for him, encouraging <i>him</i> not to hesitate to come to them.


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Now having stood <i>up</i>, Peter went together with them, those who came* <i>to him, and</i> they led him into the upstairs-room. And all the widows stood by him weeping and showing the tunics and garments; as many as Dorcas was making*, <i>while</i> being with them.


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But <i>after</i> Peter had cast them all outside; having placed <i>his</i> knees <i>down</i>, he prayed. And having turned again toward the body, he said, Tabitha, rise* up. And she opened her eyes, and <i>after</i> she saw Peter, she sat up.


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Now he gave her his hand and stood her up. And having summoned the holy-ones and widows, he presented her <i>as</i> living.


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Now it happened, that he remained a considerable <i>number of</i> days in Joppa with a certain Simon, a tanner.


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<pb/><n>{40 AD. Caesarea.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/>Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what is called the Italian cohort <n>{600 soldiers}</n> ,


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a devout man, who feared God together with all his house and doing much charity for the people and always beseeching God.


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He saw openly in a vision, <i>at</i> approximately the ninth hour <n>{i.e. 3:00 PM}</n> of the day, a messenger of God who entered to him and said to him, Cornelius.


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<pb/>But having stared at him and having become fearful, said, What is it, Lord? <pb/>But he said to him, Your prayers and your charity went-up *for a memorial in God’s sight.


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He is lodging with a certain Simon, a tanner, whose house is beside <i>the</i> sea. <n>{T}</n> <i>He will tell you something that is essential for you to do.</i>


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Now as the messenger, the one <i>who had been</i> speaking to Cornelius, went away, he summoned two of his domestic <i>servants</i> and a devout soldier of those who are persevering with him;


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and having described all <i>these</i> things to them, he sent them to Joppa. <pb/><br/><n>{40 AD. Joppa.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Now on the next-day, <i>while</i> those <i>men</i> are traveling and drawing near to the city, Peter went-up upon the housetop to pray, around the sixth hour <n>{i.e. Noon}</n> .


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Now he became very hungry and wished to eat, but <i>while</i> those <i>men</i> are preparing <i>the food</i>, a trance fell upon him.


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And he views the heaven having opened and a certain vessel descending, like a great sheet having been bound and being dropped down by four edges upon the earth;


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in which were* all <i>kinds of</i> four footed mammals and beasts and reptiles of the earth and birds of the heaven.


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And there came* a voice to him, <J>Sacrifice and eat <i>after</i> you <i>have</i> stood up Peter.</J>


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<pb/>And a voice <i>came</i> to him again the second-time, <J>What God cleansed, you, do not make common.</J>


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<pb/>Now as Peter was perplexed in himself whatever the vision which he saw might be <i>meaning</i>. And behold, the men who had been sent from Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon’s house, stood at the gate,


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and having summoned <i>them</i>, they were inquiring if Simon, who is surnamed Peter, is lodged here.


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<pb/>But <i>while</i> Peter is contemplating concerning the vision, the Spirit said to him, <J>Behold, men are seeking you.</J>


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<J>But <i>after</i> you <i>have</i> stood up, go-down and travel together with them, judging nothing, because I have sent them.</J>


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<pb/>Now Peter went-down to the men <n>{T}</n> <i>who were sent from Cornelius to him</i> and said, Behold, I am he whom you° are seeking. What <i>is</i> the cause through which you° are here?


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<pb/>Now they said, Cornelius a centurion, a righteous man and fearing God, being <i>well</i> testified of by the whole nation of the Jews, was divinely-warned by a holy messenger to send for you to <i>come to</i> his house and to hear words from you.


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Therefore he invited them in and lodged them. <pb/><br/><n>{40 AD. Caesarea.}</n><br/><pb/>Now on the next-day Peter came out and went together with them and some of the brethren from Joppa went together with him.


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And on the next-day they entered into Caesarea. Now Cornelius was expecting them, having called together his relatives and his intimate friends.


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Now it happened, as Peter was entering in, Cornelius, having met with him, and having fallen down upon <i>his</i> feet, worshiped <i>him</i>.


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And he said to them, You° yourselves know how it is an illegal thing for a man <i>who is</i> a Jew to be joined or to come to <i>the</i> heathen, and <i>yet</i> God showed to me to speak of no man <i>as</i> common or unclean.


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Hence also, undeniably I came, having been sent for. Therefore I am inquiring, for what reason did you° send for me?


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<pb/>And Cornelius said, From four days <i>ago</i> till this hour, I was fasting and praying <i>in</i> the ninth hour <n>{i.e. 3:00 PM}</n> in my house, and behold, a man stood in my sight in bright apparel,


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Therefore send to Joppa, and call Simon, who is surnamed Peter; he is lodged in the house of Simon, a tanner, beside <i>the</i> sea. <i>After</i> he has come*; he will be speaking to you.


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Therefore, promptly I sent for you, and <i>when</i> you came*, you did well. Therefore, now we are all here in God’s sight, to hear all things which have been commanded to you by God. <pb/><br/><n>{Examples of those who are saved in the New Testament: Acts 2:14-42; 8:5-13; 8:30-39; 10:34-48; 16:13-15; 16:25-34; 18:8a; 18:8b; 19:1-7; Saul/Apostle Paul: 9:17-18, 22:6-16, 26:12-18.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Now Peter opened his mouth and said, In truth, I comprehend that God is not one who shows-favoritism


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The word which he sent to the sons of Israel, proclaiming the good-news of peace through Jesus Christ (this one is Lord of all).


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You° know, the word <i>concerning Jesus</i> which happened throughout the whole of Judea, beginning from Galilee, after the immersion* that John preached.


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Jesus who <i>was</i> from Nazareth; how God anointed him with <i>the</i> Holy Spirit and with power, who went through<i>out the land</i> working good* and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with him.


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And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the region of the Jews and in Jerusalem– whom they also assassinated, having hung <i>him</i> upon a tree.


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not to all the people, but to witnesses that have been assigned before by God, <i>even</i> to us, who ate and drank together with him after he rose* up from the dead.


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And he commanded us to preach to the people and to thoroughly testify that he is the one who has been determined by God <i>to be</i> judge of the living and the dead.


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To this one, all the prophets are testifying, that through his name everyone who believes in him will be receiving forgiveness of sins.


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<pb/><i>While</i> Peter is still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word.


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And the believing <i>ones</i> from the circumcision, were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit has also been poured out upon the Gentiles.


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For* they were hearing them speak in <i>foreign</i> languages and extolling God. <pb/>Then Peter answered,


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Is anyone able to forbid the water, that these <i>people</i> should not be immersed*, who received the Holy Spirit as well as we?


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And he commanded them to be immersed* in the name of the Lord. Then they asked him to remain some days.


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<pb/>Now the apostles and the brethren who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles <i>had</i> also accepted the word of God.


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I was in the city of Joppa praying and I saw a vision <i>while</i> in a trance, a certain vessel descending, like a great sheet being dropped down from heaven by <i>the</i> four edges, and it came to me.


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Having stared into that <i>sheet</i>, I was considering, and I saw the four footed mammals of the earth and <i>other</i> beasts and reptiles and birds of the heaven.


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<pb/>Now I heard a voice saying to me, <J><i>After</i> you <i>have</i> stood up Peter; sacrifice and eat</J>.


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<pb/>But I said, Not-so, Lord, because anything common or unclean <i>has</i> never entered into my mouth.


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<pb/>But a voice answered me the second-time from heaven, <J>What God cleansed, you, do not make common.</J>


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And behold, promptly three men stood at the house in which I was, having been sent from Caesarea to me.


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But the Spirit said for me to go together with them, making no distinction. Now these six brethren also came together with me, and we entered into the man’s house.


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And he reported to us how he had seen the messenger who stood in his house and said to him, Send men to Joppa and send for Simon, whose surname is Peter;


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Now while* I was beginning to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, just-like upon us also in <i>the</i> beginning.


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Now I was reminded of the declaration of the Lord, how he said, <J>John indeed immersed* in water, but you° will be immersed* in <i>the</i> Holy Spirit.</J>


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Therefore, if God gave to them the equal gift like <i>he</i> also <i>did</i> to us <i>after</i> we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, now who was I, that I am able to forbid God?


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But having heard these things, they were quiet and glorifying God, saying, Consequently*, God gave also repentance to the Gentiles into life. <pb/><br/><n>{40-41 AD. Antioch, Phoenicia, Cyprus, etc. The Good-news extended to all the Gentiles. Jan., 41 AD Claudius becomes Emperor.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Therefore indeed, those who were dispersed from the affliction which happened upon Stephen, went to Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except only to <i>the</i> Jews.


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Now there were some of them, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, who, entered into Antioch, and were also speaking to the Grecian Jews, proclaiming the good-news of the Lord Jesus.


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And the hand of the Lord was with them and a large number who believed turned to the Lord. <pb/><br/><n>{42 AD. Jerusalem to Antioch. Herod Agrippa receives kingdom of Judea & Samaria.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Now the word concerning them was heard in the ears of the congregation* which <i>was</i> in Jerusalem. And they sent Barnabas to go through <i>the area</i> to Antioch;


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who came* and having seen the favor of God, rejoiced and was encouraging all with purpose of heart to remain in the Lord,


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because he was a good man and full of <i>the</i> Holy Spirit and of faith, and a considerable crowd was added to the Lord. <pb/><br/><n>{43-44 AD. Claudius goes to Britain.}</n><br/><pb/>


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and having found him, he led him to Antioch. Now it happened, they were gathered together with <i>him</i> in the congregation* a whole year and he taught a considerable crowd, and the disciples were first divinely-called Christians, in Antioch.


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Now there stood up one of them, Agabus by name, and he signified through the Spirit <i>that</i> a great famine is about to be upon the whole inhabited-earth; which also happened in the days of Claudius Caesar. <n>{47 A.D.}</n>


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Now the disciples, just-as was anyone’s prosperity, each of them determined to send a service <i>of relief</i> to the brethren dwelling in Judea;


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<pb/><n>{March 44 AD. Jerusalem.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/>Now throughout that time, Herod the king put his hands upon some from the congregation* to mistreat <i>them</i>.


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And having seen that it is pleasing to the Jews, he also adds Peter to take. (And these were the days of unleavened bread <n>{i.e. Passover}</n> .)


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He also arrested him, <i>and</i> placed him in prison and gave him up to four Quarternions of soldiers <n>{i.e. sixteen soldiers}</n> to guard him; planning to lead him <i>out</i> to the people after the Passover.


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Therefore indeed, Peter was being kept in the prison, but intense prayer was happening by the congregation* to God on his behalf.


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But when Herod was about to lead him <i>out</i>, in that same night Peter, falling-asleep between two soldiers, had been bound with two chains, and guards before the door were guarding the prison.


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And behold, a messenger of the Lord stood by <i>him</i> and a light shined in the cell and having struck Peter on the ribs, he lifted him up, saying, Stand up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.


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And the messenger said to him, Gird yourself and tie on your sandals. Now he did so. And he says to him, Put your garment around you and follow me.


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And having gone out, he was following him, and he did not know <i>if</i> true what is happening through the messenger, but he was thinking that he is seeing a vision.


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Now having gone through <i>the</i> first and second prison, they came upon the iron gate that brings <i>them</i> into the city; which opened by itself for them, and they went out and went forward one lane, and immediately the messenger withdrew from him.


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<pb/>And Peter, became <i>awake</i> in himself, and said, Now I truly know, that the Lord sent forth his messenger and liberated me out of the hand of Herod and all the expectation of the people of the Jews.


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And <i>after</i> he was conscious <i>of it</i>, he came upon the house of Mary the mother of John whose surname was Mark, where a considerable <i>number</i> was accumulating together and <i>were</i> praying.


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Now <i>after</i> Peter knocked <i>at</i> the door of the gate, a maidservant, Rhoda by name, came near to listen <i>to who was there</i>.


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And having recognized the voice of Peter, <i>full</i> from the joy, she did not open the gate. But having ran in, she reported Peter to be standing before the gate.


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<pb/>But they said to her, You are insane. <pb/>But she was stoutly affirming to have <i>this</i> so. <pb/>And they were saying, It is his messenger.


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<pb/>But Peter was remaining <i>and kept</i> knocking. Now having opened <i>the door</i>, they saw him and were astonished.


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But he, having beckoned to them with the hand to be silent, described to them how the Lord had led him out of the prison. Now he said, Report° these things to James and to the brethren. And having gone out, he traveled to a different place.


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Now <i>when</i> it became day, there was not <i>just</i> a small disturbance among the soldiers, <i>as to</i> what then had become of Peter.


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Now Herod sought him and did not find him, having examined the guards, he commanded <i>them</i> to be led away <i>for execution</i>. And he went down from Judea to Caesarea and was staying there. <pb/><br/><n>{Around May 44 AD. Caesarea. Herod Agrippa dies. Palestine reunited to Rome.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Now Herod was quarreling furiously with those from Tyre and Sidon. But they were united here with him, and having persuaded Blastus, the one over the king’s bedroom, they were asking for peace, because their region is nourished from the king’s <i>region</i>.


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Now on an appointed day, Herod clothed himself in royal apparel, and having sat upon the judicial-seat, he was <i>publicly</i> addressing them.


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But instantly a messenger of the Lord struck him, because he did not give God <i>the</i> glory and he expired, and became maggot-eaten.


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<pb/>But the word of God was growing and being multiplied. <pb/><br/><n>{Spring 44 AD. Antioch to Jerusalem back to Antioch (Acts 11:30), sending relief.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Now Barnabas and Saul returned to Jerusalem, having fulfilled the service <i>and</i> having taken together with them also John, who was surnamed Mark.


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<pb/><n>{45-48 AD. Asia Minor. Paul’s first missionary journey from Antioch to Perga, Cyprus, Antioch in Pisidia, Iconium, Lystra, Derbe and back to Antioch in Syria.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/>Now there were some prophets and teachers in the congregation* which was in Antioch: both Barnabas, and Symeon who was called Niger, and Lucius from Cyrene, and Manaen, a foster-brother of Herod the Tetrarch, and Saul.


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Now <i>while</i> ministering* to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, <J>Separate*° Barnabas and Saul for me, *for the work to which I have called them.</J>


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<pb/>Therefore indeed, these <i>men</i>, having been sent out by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, and sailed from there to Cyprus.


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And <i>after</i> they came* in Salamis, they were proclaiming the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews, and they also had John, an attendant.


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<pb/>Now having gone through the island to Paphos, they found a certain magician, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name <i>was</i> Son-of-Joshua;


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who was together with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This one sought to hear the word of God, having called to him Barnabas and Saul.


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But Elymas the magician (for* so is his name by translation) was standing against them, seeking to pervert the proconsul away from the faith.


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But Saul, also <i>called</i> Paul, having been filled with <i>the</i> Holy Spirit, stared toward him,


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<i>and</i> said, O full of all treachery and all villainy, you son of the devil, enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord?


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And now, behold, the hand of <i>the</i> Lord is upon you, and you will be blind and <i>will</i> not see the sun till <i>the next</i> season. Now instantly dimness and darkness fell upon <i>him</i>, and proceeding around, he was seeking <i>someone</i> to lead <i>him</i> by the hand.


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Then the proconsul believed, having seen what had happened, being astounded upon the teaching of the Lord.


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<pb/>Now Paul, <i>with</i> those around him, having set-sail from Paphos, came to Perga in Pamphylia. And John having departed from them, returned to Jerusalem.


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<pb/>But having gone through from Perga, they came* to Antioch of Pisidia <n>{Asia Minor}</n> , and having entered into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, they sat down.


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Now after the public-reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent for them, saying, Men, brethren, if there is a word of encouragement to the people in you°, speak° <i>it</i>.


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<pb/>Now <i>after</i> Paul stood up and beckoned with the hand, he said, <pb/>Men, Israelites, and those who fear God, listen°:


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The God of this people chose our fathers and exalted the people in their foreign residency, in the land of Egypt, and he led them forth out of it with a high arm. <n>{Exo 12:37, Deu 5:15}</n>


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And he tolerated their mannerisms in the wilderness <i>for</i> approximately the time of forty years. <n>{Deu 1:31, 7:1-6, Num 14:33, Psa 95:10}</n>


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And having demolished seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave to them their land for an inheritance. <n>{Deu 7:1, Jos 14:2}</n>


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After these things <i>for</i> approximately four hundred and fifty years, he gave <i>them</i> judges until Samuel the prophet. <n>{Jdg 2:16, 1Sa 3:20}</n>


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And from thereon, they asked for a king. And God gave to them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, <i>for</i> forty years. <n>{1Sa 8:5, 10:21}</n>


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And having removed him, he lifted <i>up</i> David to <i>be</i> king to them; to whom he also testified and said, I found David the son of Jesse, a man according to my own heart, who will be practicing all my will. <n>{1Sa 13:14, 1Ch 10:14, 2Sa 6:21}</n>


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<i>when</i> John preached beforehand <i>the</i> immersion* of repentance to Israel, before his face <i>and before</i> his entrance.


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Now as John was fulfilling his course, he was saying, Who do you° perceive that I am? I am not <i>he</i>. But behold, there is one coming after me, of whom I am not worthy to loosen the shoes of <i>his</i> feet.


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Men, brethren, sons from the race of Abraham and those who fear God among you°, the word of this salvation was sent forth to you°.


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For* those dwelling in Jerusalem and their rulers who were ignorant of this one, and they fulfilled the voices of the prophets, which are read on every Sabbath, <i>by</i> having judged <i>him to death.</i>


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And <i>though</i> no one found a crime <i>worthy</i> of death <i>in him</i>, they <i>still</i> asked Pilate to assassinate him.


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Now as they completed all things which have been written concerning him, they took him down from the tree and placed <i>him</i> in a tomb.


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and he was seen on many days by those who came-up together with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people.


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And we are proclaiming to you° the good-news of the promise which came* to the fathers, that God has fulfilled this for us, their children, in that he raised* up Jesus;


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as it has also been written in the second Psalm, ‘You are my Son; I have fathered you today.’ <n>{Psa 2:7}</n>


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Now that he raised* him up from the dead, no longer being about to return to decay, he has spoken thus, I will be giving you° the holy faithful things of David. <n>{Isa 55:3}</n>


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Hence, he also says in a different psalm, ‘You will not be giving your Holy One to see decay.’ <n>{Psa 16:10}</n>


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For* indeed David, having attended to the plan of God in his own generation, fell-asleep and was added to his fathers and saw decay; <n>{1Ki 2:10}</n>


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Therefore men, brethren, let it be known to you° that forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you° through this one;


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and everyone who believes is made righteous in this one; you° were not able to be made righteous from all the things of which <i>were</i> in the Law of Moses.


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‘You° despisers, behold° and marvel° and disappear°, because I am working a work in your° days, <i>a work</i> which you° should never believe, <i>even</i> if someone describes it to you°.’ <n>{Hab. 1:5}</n>


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<pb/>But <i>after</i> the Jews went-out of the synagogue, the Gentiles were pleading with <i>him</i> that the declarations might be spoken to them at the ensuing Sabbath.


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Now <i>after</i> the synagogue was dissolved, many of the Jews and the pious Jewish-converts followed Paul and Barnabas; who, <i>while</i> speaking, were persuading them to remain in the favor of God.


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But the Jews, having seen the crowds, were filled <i>up</i> from jealousy, and were contradicting the things being spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming <i>him</i>.


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<pb/>But Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you°. But since you° are shoving it away from <i>yourselves</i> and are judging yourselves not worthy of everlasting life. Behold, we turn to the Gentiles.


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For* so the Lord has commanded to us, <i>saying</i>, ‘I have placed you *for a light of the Gentiles, that you should be *for salvation to the outermost <i>parts</i> of the earth.’ <n>{Isa 42:6}</n>


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<pb/>And <i>while</i> the Gentiles are hearing this, they were rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and they believed as many as were appointing <i>themselves</i> toward everlasting life.


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<pb/>But the Jews spurred on the pious and prominent women and the foremost ones of the city, and awakened a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them away from their borders.


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<pb/>Now it happened in Iconium according to the same thing, they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews and spoke thus, so-that a large multitude believed, both from the Jews and Greeks.


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Therefore, they indeed stayed a considerable time <i>there,</i> speaking boldly in the Lord, who <i>was</i> testifying to the word of his favor, giving signs and wonders to happen through their hands.


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But the multitude of the city was split-apart, and some were together with the Jews and those <i>others</i> together with the apostles.


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Now as it became an impulse <i>of</i> both of the Gentiles and of the Jews, together with their rulers, to abuse them and to stone them,


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<i>after</i> they were conscious <i>of it</i>, they fled for refuge to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the region around <i>them</i>.


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<pb/>And <i>there was</i> a certain man, who was sitting in Lystra, being* powerless in his feet, lame from his mother’s womb, who had never walked.


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This one heard Paul speaking, who, having stared at him and having seen that he had faith to be cured,


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<pb/>Now <i>after</i> the crowd saw what Paul did, they lifted up their voice, saying in Lycaonian, The gods, who were made similar to men, descended to us.


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And indeed, they were calling Barnabas, Zeus; but Paul, Hermes, since he was the leader of the speech.


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Now the priest of Zeus, whose <i>temple</i> was before their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates and were wishing to sacrifice <i>them</i> together with the crowds.


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<pb/>But <i>after</i> the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard <i>it</i>, they ripped their garments and dashed into the crowd, crying out


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and saying, Men! Why are you° doing these things? We are also human, of like-feelings with you° <i>and are</i> proclaiming the good-news to you°: to turn away from these futile things to the living God, who made* the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all things in them;


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who permitted all the nations in the generations which have gone-by, to conduct-themselves in their own ways.


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Although he did not leave himself unwitnessed, <i>by</i> doing good, giving rainfalls and fruitful seasons to you° from heaven, filling our hearts with nourishment and joy.


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<pb/>But Jews came upon <i>us there</i> from Antioch and Iconium and having persuaded the crowds, they stoned Paul, and were dragging him outside the city, having supposed him to have died.


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But the disciples surrounded him. Having rose* up, he entered into the city, and went forth on the next-day together with Barnabas to Derbe.


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And having proclaimed the good-news to that city, and having made a considerable <i>number of</i> disciples, they returned to Lystra and Iconium and Antioch,


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further strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to remain in the faith, and that it is essential for us through many afflictions to enter into the kingdom of God.


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Now having assigned elders to them in every congregation*, they prayed with fasts, and they consigned them to the Lord, in whom they had believed.


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and they sailed from there to Antioch, from where they were given to the favor of God, *for the work which they had fulfilled. <pb/><br/><n>{48-50 AD. Antioch. April 5, 49 AD A skirmish between Roman troops & the Jews at the Passover.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Now <i>after</i> they came* and gathered the congregation* together, they reported how-much God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.


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<pb/><n>{50 AD. Jerusalem. Caractacus of Britain conquered and sent to Rome.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/>And some, came down from Judea, <i>and</i> were teaching the brethren, <i>saying,</i> If you° are not circumcised after the custom of Moses, you° are unable to be saved.


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Therefore, <i>after</i> it happened, (not <i>just</i> a small dissension and debate by Paul and Barnabas with them), <i>the brethren</i> appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others out of them, to go-up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders concerning this debate.


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<pb/>Therefore indeed, having been sent onward by the congregation*, they were going through <i>both</i> Phoenicia and Samaria, describing the turning <i>to God</i> of the Gentiles, and they were producing great joy in all the brethren.


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Now <i>after</i> they came* to Jerusalem, they were accepted by the congregation*, and the apostles and the elders, and they reported how-much God did with them.


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But there rose* up some from the sect of the Pharisees who have believed, saying, It is essential to circumcise them and to command them to keep the Law of Moses. <n>{Gal. 2:1}</n>


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<pb/>Now the apostles and the elders were gathered together to see concerning this word <n>{I.e. matter. Or speech.}</n> .


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Now after much debate had happened, Peter stood up, <i>and</i> said to them, Men, brethren, you° know that from <i>the</i> days of old among us, God chose through my mouth, that the Gentiles <i>were</i> to hear the word of the good-news and to believe <i>it</i>.


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And God, the knower of hearts, testified of them, having given them the Holy Spirit, just-as <i>he did</i> also to us;


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<pb/>Therefore now, why are you° testing God, <i>that is</i> to place a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers, nor we were strong-enough to bear?


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But we believe that we will be saved through the favor of <i>the</i> Lord Jesus, according to what <i>is</i> in the <i>same</i> manner <i>as</i> they <i>are</i> also.


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<pb/>Now all the multitude was silent, and they were hearing Barnabas and Paul describing how-much God did, <i>in</i> signs and wonders, among the Gentiles through them.


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Symeon described, just-as <i>how</i> God visited the nations first, to take out of them a people for his name.


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‘I will turn back after these things, and I will build the tabernacle of David again, which has fallen. And I will build its ruins again. And I will straighten it,


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*that the rest of men may seek out the Lord, and all the nations, upon whom my name has been called, says the Lord, the one who is doing all these things,’ <n>{Amos 9:11, 12}</n>


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but to inform them by letter: to abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.


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For* Moses has those who preach him in every city, from ancient generations, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.


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<pb/>Then it seemed <i>good</i> to the apostles and the elders, together with the whole congregation*, to send chosen men from them<i>selves</i> together with Paul and Barnabas to Antioch, leading men among the brethren: Judas surnamed Barsabbas and Silas. <n>{Gal. 2:13-15}</n>


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<pb/>They wrote these things through their hand: <pb/>The apostles and the elders and brethren, to the brethren, those from the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia. Hail <i>to</i> you°!


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<pb/>Since we heard that some who went out from us <i>have</i> disturbed you° with words, upsetting your° souls; saying you° <i>must</i> be circumcised and to keep the law, to whom we ordered no <i>such thing</i>;


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it seemed <i>good</i> to us, <i>after</i> we became united, to choose out men together with our beloved Barnabas and Paul and send them to you°,


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Therefore we have sent Judas and Silas, who themselves will also be reporting to you° the same things through <i>their</i> speech.


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For* it seemed <i>good</i> to the Holy Spirit and to us, to place no more burden upon you° these necessary things:


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that you° abstain from idol-sacrifices, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication. Keeping yourselves away from these things; you° will be practicing well. <pb/>Good-bye. <pb/><br/><n>{James’ letter is written. The beginning of the New Testament letters. There is a very strong possibility the Book of Mark may have been written around this time too or even before and maybe the Book of Matthew, one Good-news account for a Roman audience, one for a Jewish audience.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Therefore indeed, <i>after</i> they were dismissed, they came down to Antioch, and having gathered the multitude together, they gave <i>them</i> the letter.


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And Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brethren through much speech also further strengthened <i>them</i>.


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Now having spent <i>some</i> time <i>there</i>, they were dismissed with peace from the brethren to the apostles.


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But Paul and Barnabas were staying in Antioch with many others also, teaching and proclaiming the good-news of the word of the Lord. <pb/><br/><n>{Early in 51 to 53 AD. Antioch into Asia Minor & Europe. Paul’s second missionary journey. Felix was made governor of Judea. Famine at Rome. Jews expelled from Rome.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Now after some days Paul said to Barnabas, <i>After</i> we <i>have</i> returned, we should visit the brethren in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord <i>to see</i> how they are holding <i>up.</i>


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But Paul was not deeming it worthy to take <i>Mark</i> together with them, the one who withdrew away from them from Pamphylia and did not go together with <i>them</i> to the work.


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Therefore it happened: a sharp-disagreement, so-that they departed from one another, and Barnabas took Mark with him to sail away to Cyprus;


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<pb/><n>{52 AD. Paul going toward Europe.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/>Now he arrived in Derbe and Lystra, and behold, a certain disciple was there, Timothy by name, the son of a certain believing Jewess woman and a Greek father.


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This one, Paul wished to go forth together with <i>him</i>, and he took <i>Timothy</i> and circumcised him because of the Jews who are* in those places; for* they all knew that his father was Greek.


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Now as they were traveling through the cities, they were giving them the decrees, to observe what had been decided by the apostles and the elders who were in Jerusalem.


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Therefore indeed, the congregations* were being strengthened in the faith, and were abounding in number every day.


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<pb/>Now having gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.


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And <i>after</i> they came down to Mysia, they were attempting to travel to Bithyna, and the Spirit did not permit them.


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And a vision was seen by Paul through the night. There was a certain man, a Macedonian, standing, pleading with him and saying, <i>After</i> you <i>have</i> crossed over into Macedonia, help us!


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Now as he saw the vision, we immediately sought to go forth into Macedonia, concluding that the Lord has called us to proclaim the good-news to them. <pb/><br/><n>{Examples of those who are saved in the New Testament: Acts 2:14-42; 8:5-13; 8:30-39; 10:34-48; 16:13-15; 16:25-34; 18:8a; 18:8b; 19:1-7; Saul/Apostle Paul: 9:17-18, 22:6-16, 26:12-18.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Therefore having set-sail from Troas, we made a straight route to Samothrace, and the next <i>day</i> to Neapolis;


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and from there to Philippi, which is <i>the</i> first city of <i>that</i> part of Macedonia, a <i>Roman</i> colony. Now we were staying in the same city <i>for</i> some days.


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And on the Sabbath day, we went forth outside the city beside a river, where we supposed <i>it</i> to be a <i>place of</i> prayer. And having sat down and we were speaking to the women who came together.


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And a certain woman, Lydia by name, a seller of purple of the city of Thyatira was hearing us <i>and</i> worshiping God, whose heart the Lord opened to take-heed to the things being spoken from Paul.


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Now as she and her household were immersed*, she pleaded with us, saying, If you° have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, abide° <i>here</i>, having entered into my house. And she constrained us. <pb/><br/><n>{52 AD. Philippi.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Now it happened, <i>while</i> traveling to <i>the place of</i> prayer, that a certain maidservant encountered us, having a spirit of divination, who was providing her lords much business <i>by</i> fortune-telling.


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This <i>maidservant</i> was crying out, having followed after Paul and us, saying, These men are bondservants of the Highest God, who are proclaiming to us the way of salvation.


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Now she was doing this for many days. But Paul, also being pained, turned and said to the spirit, I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come forth away from her. And it came out in the same hour.


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<pb/>But <i>after</i> her lords saw that the hope of their business was gone, <i>after</i> they grabbed Paul and Silas, they dragged them into the marketplace in front of the rulers.


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And the crowd stood up together against them, and the magistrates, having ripped off their garments, were commanding <i>the sergeants</i> to lash <i>them</i> with rods.


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And having laid many wounds on them, they cast them into prison, <i>and</i> commanded the jailor to securely guard them.


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Having received such a command, he cast them into the inner prison and secured their feet in the wood stocks. <pb/><br/><n>{Examples of those who are saved in the New Testament: Acts 2:14-42; 8:5-13; 8:30-39; 10:34-48; 16:13-15; 16:25-34; 18:8a; 18:8b; 19:1-7; Saul/Apostle Paul: 9:17-18, 22:6-16, 26:12-18.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>But toward midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God and the prisoners were their audience;


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and suddenly there became a great earthquake, so-that the foundations of the prison were shaken, and instantly all the doors were opened and everyone’s bonds were lax.


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But the jailor, became awake and saw the doors of the prison had been open, pulled his sword and was about to assassinate himself, supposing the prisoners to have fled.


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<pb/>Now <i>after</i> he asked for lights, he dashed in and came* <i>in</i> trembling, and fell <i>down</i> before Paul and Silas.


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And having led them outside, he said, Lords, what is essential for me to do in order that I might be saved?


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And having taken them in that <i>same</i> hour of the night, he fully-washed <i>dirt</i> from the<i>ir</i> wounds, and he and all his <i>household</i> were instantly immersed*<i>.</i>


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And he led them up into his house and placed a table before <i>them</i>, and was glad with all his household, <i>all</i> having believed in God.


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<pb/>Now the jailor reported these words to Paul, <i>saying</i>, The magistrates have sent <i>me</i> in order that you° should be released. Therefore now <i>after</i> you <i>have</i> gone out, travel° in peace.


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<pb/>But Paul said to them, They whipped us in public, uncondemned men who are* Romans, and cast us into prison, and are they now casting us out secretly? For* no <n>{i.e. No way,}</n> , let them lead but <i>after</i> having come themselves.


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<pb/>Now the sergeants reported these words to the magistrates and they feared, having heard that they were Romans.


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And <i>after</i> they came, they pleaded with them, and having led them <i>outside</i>, they asked them to go out <i>away</i> from the city.


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<pb/>Now <i>after</i> they came out of the prison and they entered <i>in</i>to <i>the house</i> of Lydia, and having seen the brethren, they encouraged them and went out.


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<pb/><n>{52 AD. Thessalonica, Berea. Preaching in Macedonia.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/>Now having traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was the synagogue of the Jews.


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Now according to <i>his</i> custom, Paul entered to them and upon three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures,


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opening and placing before <i>them</i> that it was essential <i>for</i> the Christ to suffer and to rise* up from the dead, and that this Jesus, whom I am proclaiming to you°, is the Christ.


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And some of them obeyed and adhered to Paul and Silas and a large multitude of the pious Greeks, and not <i>just</i> a few of the foremost women.


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<pb/>But the disobedient Jews took for themselves some evil men from <i>among</i> the market-loafers, and having amassed a crowd, the city was in an uproar. And having stood up against the house of Jason, they were seeking to lead them into the public <i>court</i>.


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Now after they did not find them, they were dragging Jason and some brethren in front of the city rulers, crying, These <i>men</i> who <i>have</i> unsettled the inhabited-earth are also present<i>ly</i> here;


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whom Jason has accepted and all these practice <i>things</i> adverse to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is a different king, a Jesus.


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<pb/>Now the brethren immediately sent out both Paul and Silas through the night to Berea, who, <i>after</i> they came* <i>there</i>, went-forth into the synagogue of the Jews.


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Now these <i>Jews</i> were more noble <i>than</i> those in Thessalonica, <i>those</i> who accepted the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily, <i>to see</i> if these things were so.


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Therefore indeed, many out of them believed; also not <i>just</i> a few of the prominent Greek women and men.


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Now as the Jews of Thessalonica knew that the word of God was also proclaimed by Paul in Berea, they also went there, shaking up the crowds.


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Now the brethren then immediately sent Paul forth to travel <i>as far</i> as to the sea, but both Silas and Timothy were remaining back there. <pb/><br/><n>{52-53 AD. Paul at Athens, Greece.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>But those standing over Paul led him to Athens. And having taken a commandment to Silas and Timothy in order that they might come to him as quickly <i>as possible</i>, they went-out <i>there</i>.


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<pb/>Now <i>while</i> Paul <i>is</i> waiting for them in Athens, the spirit was being irritated in him, <i>while</i> viewing the idol ridden city.


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Therefore indeed, he was reasoning in <i>the</i> synagogue with the Jews and the pious ones, and every day in the marketplace with those who chanced upon <i>him</i>.


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Now also some of the Epicureans and Stoic philosophers were confronting him and some were saying, Whatever does this babbler wish to say? <pb/><i>Some said</i>, He seems to be a proclaimer of strange demons <n>{i.e. gods to the Greeks}</n> , because he is proclaiming the good-news of Jesus and the resurrection.


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<pb/>And they grabbed him and led him to the Areopagus, saying, Are we able to know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by you?


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For* you are bringing some surprising things to our ears. Therefore, we plan to know whatever these things might wish to be <n>{i.e. mean}</n> .


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(Now all from Athens and the inhabiting strangers had leisure time *for nothing other than to tell and to hear something new.)


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<pb/>Now Paul <i>while</i> standing in the middle of the Areopagus and was saying, Men of Athens, I view that you° are like religious according to all things.


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For* <i>while</i> going through <i>the city</i> and reviewing your° worshiped objects, I also found an altar in which had been written, To An Unknown God. Therefore I am proclaiming to you°, who are ignorant, this one to whom you° are devout.


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The God, who made* the world and all things in it, this one being* Lord of heaven and earth, is not dwelling in temples made* with hands;


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nor is he assisted by men’s hands, <i>as if</i> needy of anything, he is giving to all, life and breath in all things.


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And he made* of one blood every nation of men to dwell upon all the face of the earth, having determined <i>their</i> appointed seasons and the borders of their residence;


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<i>that they are</i> to seek the Lord, if then, they might yet grope after him and might find him, for-sure, he is* <n>{Or: exists}</n> not far from each one of us.


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For* we live and move and are in him; as some also have said according to your° own poets, For* we are also his offspring. <n>{Possible reference to a Stoic poet, Aratus of Soli in Cilicia 270BC or Epimendes 600BC.}</n>


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Therefore being* the offspring of God, we ought not to suppose that the divine* is similar to gold or silver or stone, <i>or</i> a carved thing from a craft and the contemplation of man.


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because he <i>has</i> established a future day in which to judge the inhabited-earth in righteousness in the man whom he <i>has</i> determined <i>beforehand</i>; having provided <i>the</i> faith to all, <i>by</i> having raised* him from the dead. <n>{Psa 96:13b, 98:9b}</n>


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<pb/>Now having heard of the resurrection of the dead, some were sneering, but <i>some</i> said, We will be hearing you concerning this again.


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<pb/><n>{52-53 AD. Paul at Corinth in Greece.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/>Now after these things, Paul, having departed from Athens, came to Corinth.


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<pb/>Now as Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was being troubled in the spirit, thoroughly testifying to the Jews: the Christ Jesus.


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Now <i>while</i> they <i>were</i> resisting <i>us</i> and blaspheming <i>God</i>, he shook-off his garment and said to them, Your° blood <i>is</i> upon your° own heads. I am clean. I will be traveling to the Gentiles from hereafter.


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<pb/>Now Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord together with his whole house <n>{1Co 1:14}</n> . <pb/>And many of the Corinthians hearing, were believing and were being immersed*.


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<pb/>Now the Lord said to Paul through a vision in the night, <J>Do not be afraid, but speak <i>out</i> and do not be silent,</J>


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<J>because I am with you and no one will be laying <i>a hand</i> on you to mistreat you, because there are many people in this city <i>believing</i> in me.</J>


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<pb/>Now Gallio being proconsul of Achaia, the Jews stood up united against Paul and led him in front of the judicial-seat,


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But Paul, being about to open <i>his</i> mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, Therefore if it was indeed some wrongdoing or evil villainy, O you° Jews, I might tolerate you° according to reason.


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But if there are debates concerning words and names and law which <i>is</i> according to you°, you° will see <i>to it</i> yourselves; for* I am not willing to be a judge of these things.


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But Paul, still having remained a considerable <i>number of</i> days, bid farewell to the brethren. <pb/><br/><n>{Sept., 54 AD. Paul leaves Europe toward Antioch. Claudius dies; Nero becomes Emperor at Rome in Oct.}</n><br/><pb/><i>Now</i> he sailed away to Syria, and together with him <i>was</i> Priscilla and Aquila; having sheared his head in Cenchreae; for* he had a vow.


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Now they <i>were</i> requesting him to remain on <i>for</i> more time with them, he did not signal-agreement;


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<pb/>And <i>after</i> he came down into Caesarea, he went-up and greeted the congregation* and went-down into Antioch. <pb/><br/><n>{Late 54 AD. Paul’s Third Missionary Journey. Josephus, age 16, starts his literary career.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>And having spent some time <i>there</i>, he came out and went through the region of Galatia and afterwards Phrygia, further strengthening all the disciples.


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<pb/>Now a certain Jew, Apollos by name, from Alexandria by birth, an eloquent man, arrived in Ephesus, being mighty in the Scriptures.


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And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But <i>after</i> Aquila and Priscilla heard him, they took him <i>over</i> to themselves and expounded to him the way of God more accurately.


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Now <i>while</i> planning to go into Achaia, the brethren exhorted him and wrote to the disciples to accept him <i>after</i> he came*. He supported many who had believed through the favor <i>of God</i>;


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He said to them, Did you° receive <i>the</i> Holy Spirit <i>when</i> you° believed? <pb/>But they said to him, But, we did not hear if there is a Holy Spirit.


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<pb/>And he said to them, Therefore into what were you° immersed*? <pb/>But they said, Into the immersion* of John.


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<pb/>But Paul said, John indeed immersed* in <i>the</i> immersion* of repentance, saying to the people in order that they should believe in the one who is coming after him, that is, in the Christ Jesus.


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<pb/>Now having entered into the synagogue, he was speaking boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading <i>as to</i> the things concerning the kingdom of God.


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But as some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way in the sight of the multitude, he withdrew away from them and separated* the disciples, reasoning every day in the school of a certain Tyrannus.


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Now this happened in two years; so-that all those dwelling <i>in</i> Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, <i>both</i> Jews and Greeks.


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so-that even handkerchiefs or aprons from <i>the touch of</i> his skin were brought to those who were sick and the diseases were set-free from them and the evil spirits went out from them.


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<pb/>But also, some exorcists from the strolling Jews undertook the task to name the name of the Lord Jesus upon those who had the evil spirits, saying, We implore you° <i>on</i> the Jesus whom Paul is preaching.


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Now there were some (seven sons of Sceva) <i>and</i> a Jew, a high-priest, who <i>were</i> doing this.


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<pb/>But the evil spirit having answered, said to them, I know Jesus, and I know Paul, but who are you°?


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And the man in whom the evil spirit was, leaping upon them and having mastered, prevailed against them, so-that they fled out of that house, naked and traumatized.


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<pb/>Now this became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, dwelling in Ephesus, and fear fell upon them all and the name of the Lord Jesus was being extolled.


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Now a considerable <i>number</i> of those who practiced magical arts brought their books together and were burning them in the sight of all, and they calculated the prices of them and found <i>it to be</i> fifty thousand pieces of silver.


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<pb/>Now as these things were fulfilled, Paul purposed in the spirit to travel to Jerusalem, <i>after</i> having gone through Macedonia and Achaia, and said, After I have come* there, it is essential for me to also see Rome.


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Now having sent Timothy and Erastus, two of those serving him, into Macedonia, he held back in Asia for a <i>short</i> time. <pb/><br/><n>{56-58 AD. Ephesus. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians is written.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Now it happened by this time, <i>there was</i> not <i>just</i> a small disturbance concerning the Way.


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For* a certain <i>man,</i> Demetrius by name, (a silversmith making* <i>miniature</i> silver temples of Artemis), was providing not <i>just</i> a small business to the craftsmen;


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whom he accumulated together the <i>other</i> workers of such things and said, Men, you° know our prosperity is from this business.


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And you° view and hear, that not only from Ephesus, but almost all of Asia, this Paul <i>has</i> persuaded and seduced a considerable crowd, saying that they are not gods, those born through <i>man’s</i> hands.


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But not only is this part for us in peril <i>and it is</i> to go into disrepute but also the temple of the great goddess Artemis <i>is</i> to be counted <i>as</i> nothing and her majesty is about to be demolished, what the whole <i>of</i> Asia and inhabited-earth is worshiping.


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<pb/>Now <i>after</i> having heard <i>this</i>, they became full of fury, and were crying out, saying, Great is Artemis of the Ephesians.


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And the whole city was filled with confusion and they rushed united into the theater, having seized Paul’s fellow traveling-associates, Gaius and Aristarchus, <i>who were</i> Macedonians.


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Now Paul <i>was</i> planning to enter into the public <i>area</i>, <i>but</i> the disciples were not permitting him.


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But some also <i>of those</i> from Asia, being friends to him, <i>and</i> having sent for him, they were pleading <i>with him</i> not to give himself to the theater <i>crowd</i>.


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Therefore some were crying something and others another <i>thing</i>; for* the assembly was confused, and most did not know because of what, they had come together.


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But they pushed Alexander forward out of the crowd, <i>after</i> the Jews cast him forward. Now Alexander beckoned <i>with</i> the hand, and was wishing to make a defense to the public.


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But <i>after</i> they recognized that he was a Jew, one voice became out of <i>them</i> all for approximately two hours, crying, Great is Artemis of the Ephesians.


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But having the composure of the crowd, the <i>town</i> scribe says, Men of Ephesus, for* what man is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians <i>is</i> temple-keeper of the great goddess Artemis and of the fallen <i>image</i> from Zeus?


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Therefore these things being undeniable, it is essential for you° to possess composure and to do nothing rash.


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For* you° led these men <i>here</i>, <i>who are</i> neither temple looters nor <i>are</i> blaspheming your goddess.


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Therefore indeed, if Demetrius and the craftsmen <i>who are</i> together with him have an account toward anyone, lower-courts are <i>to be</i> led and proconsuls are <i>here</i>. Let them accuse one another <i>in them</i>.


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But if you° seek anything concerning different <i>things</i>, it will be interpreted in the lawful assembly.


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For* we also are in peril to be accused concerning today’s riot, no cause exists <i>for it</i> and concerning it, will we be able to give account of this conspiracy?


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<pb/><n>{May 58 to March 59 AD. Games in honor of Artemis at Ephesus. 10 months in Europe (Macedonia & Greece). Paul’s Second Letter to the Corinthians is written.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/>Now after the uproar ceased, having called the disciples, Paul hugged <i>them</i>. <i>Then</i> he came out to travel into Macedonia.


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<pb/>Now having gone through those parts and having encouraged them with much speech, he came into Greece.


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And he spent three months <i>there</i>. <n>{AD 58, Paul’s Letter to the Romans is written. Luke joins Paul.}</n> <pb/><i>After</i> it became <i>known</i> to him of a pact by the Jews, <i>while</i> being about to set-sail *for Syria, it became <i>his</i> intention to return through Macedonia.


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Now Sopater from Berea, and <i>the</i> Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus, and Gaius from Derbe, and Timothy and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia, were accompanying him to Asia.


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Now we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened <i>bread</i> <n>{i.e. Passover}</n> , and came to them in Troas until <n>{i.e. within}</n> five days, where we stayed seven days.


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<pb/>Now on the first <i>day</i> of the week, <i>the</i> disciples having been gathered together with <i>us</i> to break bread, Paul was reasoning <i>many things</i> with them, being about to go-forth on the next-day, and he was prolonging the speech <n>{Or: sermon}</n> till midnight.


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Now a considerable <i>number of</i> lamps were in the upstairs-room where we were gathering together with <i>them</i>.


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But a certain young-man, Eutychus by name, <i>while</i> sitting in <i>the</i> window, having been carried away by deep sleep, <i>while</i> Paul <i>is</i> reasoning on <i>even</i> more, fell downward, having <i>finally</i> been carried away by his sleep, from the third story and was lifted <i>up being</i> dead.


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Now Paul went-down and fell upon him, and having embraced him, said, Do° not be in an uproar, for* his life is in him.


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<pb/>Now having gone-up and broken the bread and eaten, and <i>Paul</i> conversed on <i>for</i> a considerable <i>time</i> till dawn, so he went away.


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<pb/>But having gone on the ship, we set-sail to Assos, being about to take up Paul from there; for* so he had commanded, he himself being about to go on foot.


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And having sailed from there, we arrived the next <i>day</i> opposite Chios, and we put <i>the ship</i> in at Samos in another <i>day</i>. And having remained in Trogyllium, we came to Miletus on the next <i>day</i>.


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For* Paul <i>had</i> decided to sail by Ephesus; for* he was hurrying, *that it might not happen to him to loiter in Asia; if it was possible for him to come* into Jerusalem <i>on</i> the day of Pentecost. <pb/><br/><n>{Early 59 AD. Miletus.}</n><br/><pb/>


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Now as they came* to him, he said to them, You° know, from the first day of which I stepped into Asia, how I happened <i>to be</i> with you° all the time,


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serving* the Lord with all humility and from many tears, and from tests which befell me among the pacts of the Jews;


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how I did not retreat back <i>in</i> anything of what is advantageous for you°, proclaiming and teaching you° in public and in every house,


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thoroughly testifying both to Jews and to Greeks the repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus.


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And now, behold, I travel to Jerusalem, having been bound in the spirit, not knowing the things which will be meeting with me <i>there</i>,


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other-than, that the Holy Spirit is thoroughly testifying to me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions are remaining <i>for</i> me.


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But I make* account of nothing, nor am I holding my life as precious to myself, as <i>I desire</i> to complete my course with joy, and the service which I received from the Lord Jesus, to thoroughly testify the good-news of the favor of God.


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And now, behold, I know that you° all, among whom I went through preaching the kingdom of God, will be seeing my face no more,


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Therefore, take-heed° to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit placed you° <i>as</i> overseers, to shepherd the congregation* of the Lord and God, which <i>the Lord</i> acquired through his own blood.


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and men will be standing up from among yourselves, speaking perverse things, to pull away the disciples after themselves.


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Hence watch°, remembering <i>that for</i> three years I ceased not <i>from</i> admonishing each one <i>of you</i>° night and day with tears.


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And hereafter I consign you° brethren to God, and to the word of his favor, which is able to build you° up and to give you° an inheritance among all those who have been made holy.


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I showed to you° <i>an example</i> in all things, that so laboring, it is essential to help the weak and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, <J>It is more fortunate to give than to receive.</J>


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<pb/>And having said these things, he placed <i>himself on his</i> knees and prayed together with them all.


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But there became considerable weeping from all, and having fallen upon Paul’s neck, they were kissing him,


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sorrowing especially upon the word which he had spoken, because they are about to view his face no more. Now they were sending him onward to the ship.


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<pb/><n>{Early 59 AD. Journey to Jerusalem.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/>Now it happened to set-sail, as they pulled away from them, we made a straight route, and came to Cos, and the next <i>day</i> to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.


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Now <i>after</i> Cyprus appeared, having left it on the left, we were sailing to Syria and brought* <i>the ship</i> into Tyre; for* the ship was unloading her cargo there.


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And we remained there* seven days, having found disciples who were saying to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go-up to Jerusalem.


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Now when it happened for us to finish the days <i>there</i>, we came out and were traveling on, and they all, together with <i>their</i> wives and children, sent us onward until we were outside the city, and having placed the knees <i>down</i> upon the beach, we prayed,


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and having hugged one another, we stepped onto the ship, but those <i>others</i> returned to their own.


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<pb/>Now having terminated the voyage from Tyre, we arrived in Ptolemais, and we greeted the brethren and remained with them <i>for</i> one day.


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Now on the next-day, Paul and those around <i>him</i> having gone forth, they came to Caesarea. And having entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, being one of the seven, we remained with him.


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Now <i>while</i> we are remaining <i>there</i> even more days, a certain prophet from Judea, Agabus by name, came down.


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And he came to us and took Paul’s belt, and having bound his own feet and hands, said, The Holy Spirit says these things, <J>The Jews in Jerusalem will be binding the man thus whose belt this is, and will be giving <i>him</i> up into the hands of the Gentiles.</J>


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Now as we heard these things, both we and those locally were pleading with him not to go-up into Jerusalem.


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<pb/>And Paul answered, What are you° doing, weeping and crushing my heart? For* I am not only ready to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem on behalf of the name of the Lord Jesus.


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<pb/>But not being persuaded, we were quiet, having said, Let the will of the Lord happen. <pb/><br/><n>{End of Paul’s Third Missionary Journey.}</n><br/><pb/>


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But there also went together with us <i>some</i> of the disciples from Caesarea, leading <i>us</i> before someone <i>named</i> Mnason from Cyprus, an old disciple <i>in the faith</i>, with whom <i>they said</i> we should lodge.


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<pb/>Now <i>after</i> we came* to Jerusalem, the brethren gladly accepted us. <pb/><br/><n>{May 23, 59 AD. Paul’s fifth visit to Jerusalem.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Now the next <i>day</i>, Paul was going-into <i>it</i>, together with us, to James, and all the elders came*.


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And having greeted them, he was describing one by one each of the things God did among the Gentiles through his service.


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Now having heard <i>it</i>, they were glorifying the Lord, and said to him, You are <i>now</i> viewing brother, how-many tens of thousands there are of the Jews who have believed, and they are* all zealous ones of the law;


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and they were instructed concerning you, that you are teaching apostasy from Moses to all the Jews among the nations, telling them not to circumcise their children nor to walk according to the customs.


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<pb/>Therefore what is <i>this</i>? <pb/>It is essential for the multitude to certainly come together; for* they will be hearing that you have come.


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Therefore you do this <i>thing</i>, what we say to you. We have four men who have a vow upon themselves.


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<i>Paul</i>, <i>after</i> you <i>have</i> taken these, purify yourself together with them, and be spent for them, in order that they may shave <i>their</i> heads and may know all the things of which they have been instructed concerning you are nothing, but you yourself also march <i>accordingly</i>, observing the law.


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<pb/>But concerning the Gentiles who have believed, we decided and informed <i>them</i> by letter to observe no such thing, except to keep themselves from idol-sacrifices, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication.


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<pb/>Then Paul took the men and they were going-into the temple in the next day, having been purified together with them, <i>thus</i> thoroughly proclaiming the fulfillment of the days of purification, until the offering was offered on behalf of each one of them.


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<pb/>Now as the seven days were about to be completed, the Jews from Asia, <i>after</i> they saw him in the temple, were inciting all the crowd and put hands upon him,


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crying out, Men, Israelites, help°! This one is the man <i>who is</i> teaching all <i>people</i> everywhere, against the <i>Jewish</i> people and the law and this place, and even more, he led Greeks into the temple and desecrated this holy place.


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For* they were seeing Trophimus the Ephesian together with him among the city, whom they were supposing that Paul <i>had</i> led into the temple.


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<pb/>Now the whole city was moved and there happened <i>to be</i> a running of the people together, and <i>after</i> they grabbed Paul, they were dragging him outside the temple and immediately the doors were locked.


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<pb/>But <i>while</i> seeking to kill him, information came-up to the commander of the cohort <n>{600 soldiers}</n> , that <i>the</i> whole Jerusalem has been incited <i>to riot</i>.


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Who promptly, having taken soldiers and centurions, ran down upon them. And those who saw the commander and the soldiers, ceased beating Paul.


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Now having drawn near, the commander grabbed him, and commanded <i>him</i> to be bound with two chains, and inquired <i>as to</i> whoever he might be, and what<i>ever</i> he is doing.


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But some in the crowd were crying one thing, some another <i>thing</i>, and not being able to know the certainty <i>of who he was</i> because of <i>the</i> uproar, he commanded him to be led into the encampment.


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But when he came* upon the steps, it befell <i>him</i> to be bore by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd;


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<pb/>But <i>while</i> Paul is about to be led into the encampment, he says to the commander, Is it not legal for me to speak to you? <pb/>And he said, Do you know Greek?


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Are you not then the Egyptian who unsettled <i>the city</i> before these days, and led the four thousand men of the assassins out into the wilderness?


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<pb/>But Paul said, I am a Jew, indeed a man from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city, and I beseech of you, permit me to speak to the people.


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Now having permitted him, Paul, standing upon the steps, beckoned with the hand to the people, and <i>after</i> there became much silence, he was shouting to them in the Hebrew language, saying, [Acts 22]


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I Indeed am a man, a Jew, <i>and</i> having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but having been reared in this city beside the feet of Gamaliel, having been educated according to the exactness of the Law of our forefathers, being* a zealous <i>one</i> of God, just-as you° all are today;


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As also the high-priest and all the eldership <i>can</i> testify of me; from whom I also accepted letters to the brethren, and I was traveling to Damascus and would be leading also the ones there who were bound to Jerusalem in order that they might be punished. <pb/><br/><n>{Examples of those who are saved in the New Testament: Acts 2:14-42; 8:5-13; 8:30-39; 10:34-48; 16:13-15; 16:25-34; 18:8a; 18:8b; 19:1-7; Saul/Apostle Paul: 9:17-18, 22:6-16, 26:12-18.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Now it happened to me, <i>while</i> traveling and drawing near to Damascus, around midday, a considerable light from heaven suddenly flashed around me.


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And I fell to the solid-ground and heard a voice saying to me, <J>Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?</J>


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<pb/>But I answered, Who are you, Lord? <pb/>And he said to me, <J>I am Jesus the Nazarene, whom you are persecuting.</J>


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<pb/>But those who were together with me indeed saw the light and became fearful, but they did not hear <i>with understanding</i> the voice of the one who spoke to me.


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But I said, What should I do, Lord? <pb/>But the Lord said to me, <J><i>When</i> you have stood up, travel into Damascus, and it will be spoken to you there concerning all things which have been appointed for you to do.</J>


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<pb/>Now as I was not seeing <i>anything apart</i> from the glory of that light, I came into Damascus, being led by the hand by those who were together with me.


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came to me, and having stood by me said to me, Brother Saul, recover your sight! And I looked up at him in the same hour.


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Now he said, The God of our fathers assigned you to know his will, and to see the Righteous <i>One</i>, and to hear a voice from his mouth.


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And now, why are you hesitating? <i>When</i> you have stood up, be immersed* and fully-wash away your sins, calling upon the name of the Lord.


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<pb/>Now it happened to me, having returned to Jerusalem, and <i>in</i> my praying in the temple, I came* <i>to be</i> in a trance,


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and saw him saying to me, <J>Hurry, and go forth quickly out of Jerusalem, because they will not be accepting the testimony from you concerning me.</J>


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<pb/>And I said, Lord, they themselves know that I was imprisoning and whipping <i>them</i> in every synagogue, those who believe on you;


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and when the blood of Stephen, your witness, was being shed, I was also standing by and <i>was</i> consenting to the assassination, guarding the garments of those assassinating him.


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<pb/>And he said to me, <J>Travel on, because I will be sending you forth to <i>the</i> Gentiles <i>who are</i> afar</J>.


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<pb/>Now they were hearing him till this speech, and they lifted up their voice, saying, Take such a one away from the earth; for* it was not proper <i>for</i> him to live.


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the commander commanded him <i>to</i> be led into the encampment, <i>and</i> said, <i>He is</i> to be interrogated by scourges, in order that he might fully know because of what crime they were shouting out <i>against</i> him so.


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<pb/>But as he stretched him out with the straps, Paul said to the centurion who is standing <i>there</i>, If it is legal for you° to scourge a Roman man and uncondemned?


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<pb/>But having heard <i>it</i>, the centurion went to the commander and reported to him, saying, Behold, what are you about to do? For* this man is a Roman.


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<pb/>And the commander answered, I procured this citizenship of a large sum. <pb/>But Paul said, But I have even been born <i>Roman</i>.


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<pb/>Therefore those who are about to interrogate him immediately withdrew from him. The commander was also afraid, having fully know that he is a Roman, and because he was binding <i>him</i>.


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<pb/>But on the next-day, planning to know the certainty <i>of</i> why he is accused <i>of something</i> from the Jews, he loosed him from the bonds, and commanded the high-priests and their whole council to come and having led Paul <i>there</i> he stood <i>him</i> toward them.


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<pb/>Now Paul, having stared to<i>ward</i> the council, said, Men, brethren, I have behaved-as a <i>Jewish</i> citizen to<i>ward</i> God in all good conscience till this day.


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<pb/>Then Paul said to him, God is about to beat you, the whitewashed wall. And you sit judging me according to the law, and <i>yet</i> violating the law, you are commanding me to be beaten.


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<pb/>And Paul said, Brethren, I did not know that he was <i>the</i> high-priest; for* it has been written, ‘You will not speak evilly of a ruler of your people.’ <n>{Exo 22:28}</n>


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But <i>after</i> Paul knew that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men, brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of a Pharisee. I am being judged concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead.


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<pb/>Now there became a great outcry, and part of the scribes of the Pharisees stood up and were quarreling, saying, We are finding no evil in this man, but if a spirit or a messenger spoke to him, we should not quarrel against God.


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Now <i>after</i> much dissension happened, the commander, was scared, lest Paul might be torn to shreds by them, <i>and</i> commanded the army to go-down and seize him from the midst of them, and lead him <i>back</i> into the encampment.


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<pb/>Now <i>when</i> the Lord stood by him the next night, he said, <J>Paul, have courage; for* as you <i>have</i> thoroughly testified concerning me in Jerusalem, so it is essential <i>for</i> you to also testify in Rome.</J>


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<pb/>Now <i>after</i> it became day, some of the Jews made* a conspiracy and they vowed <i>for</i> themselves, saying, <i>they were</i> neither to eat nor to drink until they should kill Paul.


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who came near to the high-priests and the elders and said, We vowed <i>that</i> ourselves <i>are</i> to be accursed, to taste nothing until we should kill Paul.


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Therefore now, you°, together with the council, disclose° <i>it</i> to the commander *that he should be led to you° the next-day, as <i>if</i> being about to investigate more accurately the things concerning him. Now we are ready to assassinate him before he draws near.


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<pb/>But Paul’s sister’s son, having heard of their <i>murderous</i> plot, came* and entered into the encampment and reported to Paul.


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Now Paul, having called one of the centurions, said, Lead this young-man away to the commander; for* he has something to report to him.


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<pb/>Therefore indeed, he took him and led him to the commander and says, Paul the prisoner, having called me, asked me to lead this young-man to you, who has something to say to you.


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<pb/>Now the commander grabbed his hand and departed privately, and was inquiring, What is it that you have to report to me?


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<pb/>Now he said, The Jews themselves covenanted together to ask you *that you should lead Paul into the <i>Jewish</i> council the next-day, as <i>if</i> being about to inquire more accurately something concerning him.


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Therefore you, do not be persuaded by them; for* more-than forty men out of them are plotting against him, who vowed <i>for</i> themselves neither to eat nor to drink until they should assassinate him, and they are ready now, waiting for the promise from you.


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<pb/>And having called to him a certain two of the centurions, he said, Prepare° at the third hour of the night <n>{i.e. 9:00 PM}</n> two hundred soldiers and seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen, *that they should travel to Caesarea,


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and animals to be present, in order that <i>after</i> they mounted Paul upon <i>one of them</i>, they might save him for Felix the governor.


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<i>When</i> this man was taken by the Jews and being about to be assassinated by them, I stood up together with the soldiers and liberated him, having learned that he was a Roman.


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whom I found to be accused concerning debates of their law, having nothing <i>in way of</i> an accusation worthy of death or of bonds.


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But <i>after</i> it was divulged to me of a future pact by the Jews *for the man, I promptly sent him to you, having also commanded his accusers to speak the things to him in front of you. Good-bye.


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<pb/>Therefore indeed, the soldiers, according to what had been commanded to them, took Paul and led him through the night to Antipatris.


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who, having entered into Caesarea, and having given over the letter to the governor, also presented Paul to him.


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Now the governor read <i>the letter</i> and having asked: What province is he from? And having inquired: <i>he is</i> from Cilicia.


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He was saying, I will hear you fully whenever your accusers also come*. And he commanded him to be guarded in Herod’s palace.


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<pb/><n>{May 30, 59 AD. Paul before Felix, a prisoner two years at Caesarea. In 59 AD Festus becomes governor of Judea.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/>Now after five days, the high-priest Ananias with the elders and an orator came-down, someone <i>named</i> Tertullus, who disclosed to the governor <i>the charges</i> against Paul.


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Now having been called, Tertullus began to accuse <i>Paul</i>, saying, <i>We are</i> obtaining much peace through you and public-reforms <i>are</i> happening to this nation through your forethought.


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But in order that I may not hinder you on more-than <i>this</i>, I plead with you by your gentleness to hear us briefly.


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For* we <i>have</i> found this man a plague, and <i>he is</i> moving <i>this</i> dissension to all the Jews throughout the inhabited-earth. And <i>he is</i> a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes;


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who also attempted to profane the temple; whom we also took-hold of. <n>{T}</n> <i>And wished to be judged according to our law.</i>


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<i>having commanded his accusers to come to you.</i> From whom, you will be able, having examined <i>him</i>, to fully know concerning all these things of which we are accusing him.


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But the Jews themselves banded together in the attack, thus claiming these things to hold <i>truth</i>.


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<pb/>Now <i>after</i> the governor signaled to him to speak, Paul answered, Having known you are a judge to this nation out of many years <i>experience</i>. I am cheerfully making my defense of these things concerning myself.


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You <i>surely</i> are able to know that it is not more-than twelve days to me from which <i>time</i> I went-up to worship in Jerusalem;


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and they did not find me reasoning <i>angrily</i> with anyone, or making* a hostile gathering of <i>the</i> crowd in the temple, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city,


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But I confess this thing to you, that thus I am giving-divine service to the God of our forefathers according to The Way, which they call* a sect, believing all things <i>which are</i> according to the law and which have been written in the prophets.


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I have hope toward God, which these themselves also wait for, that there is about to be a resurrection of <i>the</i> dead, both of <i>the</i> righteous and unrighteous.


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in which they found me, having been purified in the temple, not with a crowd, nor with an uproar <i>with</i> some Jews from Asia.


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It is essential <i>for</i> those to be here and to accuse <i>me</i> in front of you, if they have anything to <i>accuse</i> me.


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Or let these <i>men</i> themselves say what wrongdoing they found in me <i>when</i> I stood in front of the council,


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or concerning this one voice of which I cried out, standing among them. I am being judged by you° today concerning the resurrection of the dead.


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<pb/>But Felix, having heard these things and knowing more accurately concerning The Way, postponed <i>judging</i> them, <i>and</i> said, Whenever Lysias the commander comes-down, I will be investigating the things against you°.


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And he himself commanded the centurion to guard Paul and <i>for him</i> to have relief and to forbid none of his own to attend or come near to him.


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<pb/>Now after some days, Felix came* together with Drusilla, <i>his</i> wife, being a Jewess, and sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.


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But <i>while</i> reasoning concerning righteousness and self-control and the future judgment which will be, Felix became fearful, and answered, Travel on now, and <i>when</i> I <i>have</i> taken the next opportunity, I myself will call you.


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(<i>While</i> hoping at the same time <i>that</i> monies will be given to him by Paul, *that he might loose him.) Hence, he sent for him frequently, and was conversing with him.


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But <i>after</i> two years were fulfilled, Felix received a successor, Porcius Festus, and wishing to lay up favors for himself with the Jews, Felix left Paul bound.


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<pb/><n>{July, 61 AD. Paul’s appearance before Festus.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/>Therefore after three days, having stepped into the province, Festus went-up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.


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Now the high-priest and the foremost ones of the Jews disclosed to him <i>things</i> against Paul, and they were pleading with him,


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asking for a favor against him, <J>*</J>that he might send for him to <i>come to</i> Jerusalem; making* a plot to assassinate him on the road.


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<pb/>Therefore indeed, Festus answered that Paul <i>is</i> to be kept in Caesarea, but he himself is about to travel out <i>there</i> shortly.


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Therefore he says, The mighty ones among you° <i>have</i> gone-down together with <i>me</i> if there is anything <i>evil</i> in this man, let them accuse him.


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<pb/>Now having stayed among them more than ten days, he went-down to Caesarea. On the next-day having sat upon the judicial-seat, he commanded Paul to be led <i>before him</i>.


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Now <i>after</i> he came*, the Jews who had come-down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many and cruel accusations against Paul, which they were not strong-enough to show.


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<pb/><i>Then Paul,</i> making his defense, <i>said</i>, Neither at the law of the Jews nor at the temple nor at Caesar, did I sin in anything.


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<pb/>But Festus, wishing to lay up a favor for himself with the Jews, answered and said to Paul, Are you willing, <i>after</i> having gone-up to Jerusalem, to be judged there concerning these things in front of me?


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<pb/>But Paul said, I am standing in front of Caesar’s judicial-seat, where it is essential for me to be judged. I did not wrong the Jews, as you also fully well know.


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For* if I indeed am wronging <i>anyone</i>, and have practiced anything worthy of death, I do not renounce to die, but if there is nothing of what these are accusing me; no one is able to grant me to them. I myself am appealing to Caesar.


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Then Festus, having spoken together with the council, answered, You yourself have appealed <i>to be</i> in front of Caesar, <i>then</i> you will be traveling to Caesar.


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<pb/>Now <i>after</i> some days elapsed, Agrippa the King and Bernice arrived in Caesarea and greeted Festus.


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Now as he was staying there many days, Festus submitted to the King, the things according to Paul<i>’s case</i>, saying, There is a certain man, a prisoner, who is left <i>behind</i> by Felix;


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concerning whom, I myself came* to Jerusalem, the high-priests and the elders of the Jews disclosed <i>things to me</i>, asking for a sentence against him.


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To whom I answered, It is not a custom with Romans to grant <i>as a favor</i> any man to destruction, preferably before he who is accused, might have the accusers face to face, and might receive a chance for defense concerning the accusation.


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<pb/>Therefore, <i>after</i> they came together here, I did not postpone <i>their meeting</i>, but on the next <i>day</i>, having sat upon the judicial-seat, I commanded the man to be led <i>there</i>.


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Concerning whom, <i>after</i> the accusers stood up, they were bringing no accusation of things <i>as</i> I was perceiving;


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but they were having some debates with him concerning their own religion and concerning someone <i>named</i> Jesus, who had died, whom Paul was claiming to be living.


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But I, being perplexed <i>as to</i> the debate concerning this, was saying <i>to him</i>, if he plans to travel to Jerusalem and to be judged there concerning these things.


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But <i>after</i> Paul himself appealed to be kept *for the decision of the Emperor, I commanded him to be kept until I should send him to Caesar.


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But Agrippa said to Festus, I was also planning to hear from the man myself. <pb/>Now he says, You will hear him on the next-day.


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<pb/>Therefore on the next-day, Agrippa and Bernice came with much pomp, and entered into the auditorium together with both, the commanders and men according to prominence, who are from the city, and <i>after</i> Festus commanded, Paul was led <i>before him</i>.


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And Festus says, King Agrippa, and all who are here together with us, you° view this man, concerning whom all the multitude of the Jews petitioned me, both in Jerusalem and here, crying that it is essential for him to live no longer.


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But I am comprehending that he has done nothing worthy of death, and I decided to send him, <i>since</i> he himself <i>had</i> also appealed to the Emperor;


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concerning whom, I do not have any certainty <i>as what</i> to write to <i>my</i> lord. Hence, I led him in front of you° and especially in front of you, King Agrippa, *that, <i>after his</i> examination <i>has</i> happened, I may have something to write.


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<pb/><n>{Aug., AD 61. Paul before Agrippa.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/>Now Agrippa said to Paul, It is permitted for you to speak on behalf of yourself. Then Paul stretched out his hand and was making his defense.


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Concerning all of which I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa, I have deemed myself fortunate today, being about to make <i>my</i> defense in front of you;


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especially <i>because</i> you are an expert of all things according to the <i>things of the</i> Jews, both customs and debates. Hence, I beseech of you to hear me patiently.


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<pb/>Therefore my lifestyle indeed which happened from my youth up, from the beginning in my own nation <i>and</i> in Jerusalem, all the Jews know <i>this</i>.


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If they are willing to testify, (knowing me beforehand, from the start), that I lived <i>as</i> a Pharisee according to the strictest sect of our religion.


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And now I am standing <i>here</i>, being judged against the hope of the promise which came* by God to the fathers;


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to which our twelve tribes, intensely giving-divine service to <i>God</i> night and day, are hoping to achieve of which hope I am accused by <i>the</i> Jews, <i>O</i> king Agrippa!


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<pb/>Therefore I indeed thought in myself, it is essential to practice many things adverse to the name of Jesus the Nazarene.


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I also did this in Jerusalem, and I locked up many of the holy-ones in prisons, having received authority from the high-priests, and <i>while</i> being assassinated, I brought my voting-pebble <n>{i.e. vote}</n> against them.


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And punishing them often throughout all the synagogues, I was urging <i>them</i> to blaspheme, and being exceptionally enraged with them, I was persecuting <i>them</i>, insofar as <i>possible,</i> even to the cities outside <i>our nation</i>. <pb/><br/><n>{Examples of those who are saved in the New Testament: Acts 2:14-42; 8:5-13; 8:30-39; 10:34-48; 16:13-15; 16:25-34; 18:8a; 18:8b; 19:1-7; Saul/Apostle Paul: 9:17-18, 22:6-16, 26:12-18.}</n><br/><pb/>


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On the road in <i>the</i> middle of <i>the</i> day, <i>O</i> king, I saw a light from heaven beyond the brilliance of the sun, which shone around me and those who traveled together with me.


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Now <i>after</i> all fell down to the earth, I heard a voice speaking to me and saying in the Hebrew language, <J>Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is harsh for you to kick toward cattle-prods.</J>


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<pb/>But I said, Who are you, Lord? <pb/>But the Lord said, <J>I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.</J>


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<J>But <i>after</i> you <i>have</i> rose* up and <i>have</i> stood upon your feet; for* to this <i>end</i>, I was seen by you, to assign you <i>to be</i> an attendant and a witness both of the things which you saw, and of the things which will be seen by you.</J>


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<J><i>I will be</i> liberating you from the <i>Jewish</i> people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you,</J>


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<J>to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness, into light, and from the authority of the Adversary to God, <i>in order for</i> them to receive forgiveness of sins, and an inheritance among those who have been made holy in faith, the <i>faith</i> in me.</J>


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But <i>I was</i> proclaiming first to them in Damascus, and in Jerusalem, and <i>then</i> to all the region of Judea and to the Gentiles, to repent and to turn to God, practicing works worthy of repentance.


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Because of these things, the Jews took me in the temple and were attempting to exterminate <i>me</i>.


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Therefore, having obtained the assistance which <i>is</i> from God, I am standing to this day, testifying both to <i>the</i> little and to <i>the</i> great, saying nothing outside of what both the prophets and Moses spoke that was about to happen.


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<pb/>Now he made his defense <i>with</i> these things. <pb/>Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, you are insane; your much scholarship is turning you into <i>the</i> insane.


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<pb/>But <i>Paul</i> says, I am not insane, most-excellent Festus, but I am speaking out <i>the</i> words of truth and self-discipline.


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For* the king knows concerning these things, with whom <i>I am</i> also speaking boldly; for* I am telling: I am persuaded <i>that</i> not any of these things were eluding him; for* this thing has not been done in a corner.


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<pb/>But Paul said, I would pray to God, that both in a few <i>words</i> or in many <i>words</i>, not only you, but also all who hear me today, <i>are</i> to become such: what sort of <i>person</i> I am, except-for these bonds.


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<pb/>And <i>after Paul</i> said these things, the king and the governor and Bernice and those who were sitting together with them stood up;


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and having departed, they were speaking to one another, saying, This man is practicing nothing worthy of death or bonds.


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<pb/>But Agrippa said to Festus, This man was able to be released, if he had not appealed to Caesar.


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<pb/><n>{Aug. 21 - Nov. 1, 61 AD. Mediterranean Sea. The voyage to Rome.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/>Now as it was decided <i>for</i> us to sail toward Italy, and they were giving to a centurion, Julius by name, from <i>the</i> Emperor’s cohort, Paul and some other prisoners.


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Now having stepped <i>on board</i>, in an Adramyttium ship, which is about to sail throughout the places <i>along</i> Asia, we set-sail, <i>also</i> being together with us <i>was</i> Aristarchus, a Macedonian, a Thessalonian.


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And we brought* <i>the ship</i> into Sidon in another <i>day</i> and Julius treated Paul humanely and permitted <i>him</i> to obtain care <i>after</i> he traveled to <i>his</i> friends.


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And having set-sail to sea from there, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were adverse.


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And having sailed through the sea against Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came down to Myra, <i>a city</i> of Lycia.


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Now at a considerable number of days, <i>we were</i> voyaging slowly and happened <i>to be</i> against Cnidus with difficulty; the wind <i>was</i> not permitting us <i>to land</i>. We sailed under the lee of Crete against Salmone;


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and coasting-along it with difficulty, we came to a certain place being called Good Harbors; which was near the city <i>of</i> Lasea.


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<pb/>Now <i>after</i> a considerable <i>amount</i> of time <i>had</i> elapsed and the voyage was already dangerous, because the Fast had already passed, Paul was advising <i>them</i>,


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saying to them, Men, I view that the voyage is about to be with disaster and much damage, not only of the load and of the ship, but also of our lives.


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But the centurion was being persuaded by the helmsman and by the ship-owner, rather than by the things being spoken by Paul.


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But the harbor, being* unfit for a wintering, most <i>of the</i> council purposed to set-sail to sea from there, if somehow they might be able to winter, <i>after</i> they arrived in Phoenix, a harbor of Crete, <i>while</i> looking down <i>the</i> northwest and down <i>the</i> southwest.


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Now <i>after wind</i> from <i>the</i> south blew softly, having thought to have taken-hold of the<i>ir</i> purpose, they lifted <i>the anchor</i> up and were coasting-along, closer to Crete.


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and having lifted it up, they were using cables, undergirding the ship, and fearing lest they might fall into the <i>sandbars of</i> Syrtis, they lowered the tackling and so we were being carried along.


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But being extremely storm-tossed, the next <i>day</i> they were making* a jettison <i>of the cargo</i>;


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But <i>while</i> neither sun nor stars are appearing upon most days and not <i>just</i> a small storm <i>was</i> laying <i>down</i> upon <i>us,</i> all our hope to be saved was furthermore being taken away.


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<pb/>Now they are* without much food <n>{i.e. almost starving}</n> , then Paul, standing in the midst of them, said, O men, it was indeed essential <i>to have</i> obeyed me <i>and</i> to not set-sail away from Crete and <i>then</i> to gain this disaster and damage.


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And hereafter, I am advising you° to be cheerful; for* <i>there</i> will be no termination of life from <i>among</i> you°, however of the ship, <i>yes</i>.


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Hence, be° cheerful, men; for* I believe God, that it will be so according to the manner it has been spoken to me.


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<pb/>Now as it became the fourteenth night, being carried <i>to and fro</i> in the Adriatic <i>Sea</i>, in the middle of the night, the sailors were perceiving some region to be preceding them.


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And having sounded, they found twenty fathoms, and <i>after</i> a little bit <i>of</i> an interval <i>of time</i>, having sounded again, they found fifteen fathoms.


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And fearing lest we might fall into rough places, they tossed <i>the</i> four anchors from the stern and was praying <i>for</i> it to become day.


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But the sailors <i>were</i> seeking to flee out of the ship and having lowered the boat into the sea in pretext, as <i>though</i> they are about to heave out anchors from the prow,


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Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, If these <i>sailors</i> do not remain in the ship, you° are not able to be saved.


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Now till it was about to become day, Paul was encouraging <i>them</i> all to take some nourishment, saying, Today is the fourteenth day that you° were expecting <i>to arrive</i>; you° are continuing without food, having taken nothing <i>to eat</i> for yourselves.


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Hence I am encouraging you° to take some nourishment; for* this is* for your° salvation; for* not a hair will be falling from the head of <i>any</i> one of you.


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<pb/>Now when it became day, they were not recognizing the land, but were considering a certain bay, having a beach and they planned if possible to drive the ship into it.


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And having taken off the <i>couplings to the</i> anchors, they were permitting them <i>to fall</i> in the sea, having laxed the rudders’ couplings at the same time. And having lifted up the foresail to the blowing <i>wind</i>, they were heading toward the beach.


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But having fallen into a place at the intersection of two seas, they beached the cargo-ship, and indeed the prow stuck and remained unshakable, but the stern was being dissolved by the violence of the waves.


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<pb/>Now the soldiers’ plan happened <i>to be</i> that* they should kill the prisoners, lest some, having swam out, should flee.


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Now the barbarians were providing for us <i>and</i> we obtained not <i>just</i> kindliness; for* they lit a fire, and took us all <i>in</i>, because of the standing rainfall and because of the cold.


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Now as the barbarians saw the snake hanging from his hand, they were saying to one another, This man is certainly a murderer, whom, having been saved out of the sea, justice did not permit <i>him</i> to live.


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<pb/>Now in the <i>regions</i> around that place, were* farms possessed by the foremost one of the island, Publius by name, who accepted us and lodged us courteously three days.


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Now it happened, that the father of Publius lay <i>sick</i>, being troubled with fevers and dysentery; to whom Paul having entered and prayed <i>and</i> laid his hands on him, healed him.


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who also honored us with many honors, and <i>while</i> setting-sail, they placed on <i>the ship</i> the things *for <i>our</i> need.


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<pb/>Now after three months, we were led to a ship from Alexandria with an insignia of The Twin Brothers which <i>had</i> wintered in the island. <pb/><br/><n>{March, 62 - March 64. Rome.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Now when we came to Rome, the centurion gave the prisoners to the camp-commander, but Paul was permitted to abide by himself together with the soldier guarding him.


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<pb/>Now after three days, Paul happened to call together those who are the foremost of the Jews and <i>after</i> they came together, he said to them, Men, brethren, I practiced nothing adverse to the <i>Jewish</i> people or the customs of our forefathers. I, a prisoner from Jerusalem, was given up into the hands of the Romans.


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But the Jews <i>were</i> speaking against <i>it</i>, <i>then</i> I was urged to appeal to Caesar; not like I held anything of which to accuse my nation.


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Therefore, because of this accusation, I pleaded to see and to speak with <i>you</i>°; for* I am encompassed <i>with</i> this chain because of the hope of Israel<i>.</i>


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<pb/>But they said to him, We neither accepted writings from Judea concerning you, nor did anyone of the brethren come* <i>here</i> and report or speak anything evil concerning you.


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<pb/>Now having appointed him a day, they were coming to him, more into the lodging; to whom he was expounding <i>the word,</i> thoroughly testifying of the kingdom of God also persuading them <i>with</i> the things concerning Jesus, both from the Law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until dusk.


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<pb/>Therefore let it be known to you°, that this salvation from God is sent to the Gentiles and they will be hearing <i>it</i>.


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<pb/><n>{If you are reading the Letters written to Christians first, this is a better and more chronological order: James, 1&2 Thessalonians, Galatians, 1&2 Corinthians, then here in Romans, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1&2 Peter, Jude, Philemon, 1 Timothy, Titus, Hebrews, 2 Timothy, 1-3 John, Revelation. See the Reading Chart about page 13. But even if you don’t follow this order always read Galatians before Romans.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/>Paul, bondservant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated* to the good-news of God,


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who was determined <i>as being</i> the Son of God in power, according to <i>the</i> spirit of holiness, out of the resurrection of the dead), Jesus Christ our Lord.


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among whom you° are also called <n>{Or: invited; and in all other instances in the MLV}</n> of Jesus Christ.


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To all those who are in Rome, beloved of God, called holy-ones: grace to you° and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.


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<pb/>First indeed, I am giving-thanks to my God through Jesus Christ on behalf of all of you°, that your° faith is proclaimed in the whole world.


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For* God is my witness, to whom I am giving-divine service in my spirit in the good-news of his Son, as I constantly make* a remembrance of you°.


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I beseech <i>God</i> always in my prayers, if somehow now, I will be prospered in the will of God to come to you° someday,


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for* I am longing to see you°, in order that I may give to you° some spiritual gift*, *that* you° may be established;


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and this is <i>my prayer</i> to be encouraged together among you°, through the faith in one another, both yours° and mine.


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Now brethren, I do not wish you° to be ignorant that I often purposed to come to you° (and I was prevented till presently), in order that I might also have some fruit among you°, just-as among the rest of the Gentiles.


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So, <i>as</i> in me, <i>I am</i> eager to proclaim the good-news to you° also <i>who are</i> in Rome.


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<pb/>For* I am not ashamed of the good-news of the Christ; for* it is the power of God *for salvation to everyone who believes; both to the Jew first and to the Greek.


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For* <i>the</i> righteousness of God is revealed from faith to <n>{Or: into}</n> faith in it; just-as it has been written, ‘But the righteous will be living from faith.’ <n>{Hab. 2:4}</n>


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<pb/>For* the wrath of God is revealed from heaven upon all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men <i>and upon</i> those holding back the truth in unrighteousness;


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For* the invisible things of him are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being perceived by the things-made, <i>both</i> his eternal power and divinity; *that* they may be without defense;


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because having known God, they did not glorify <i>him</i> as God, or gave-thanks, but became-futile in their reasonings and their heart was darkened without understanding.


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and changed the glory of the incorruptible God in<i>to</i> the likeness of an image of corruptible man and of birds and of four footed mammals and of reptiles.


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<pb/>Hence also, God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts into uncleanness, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.


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They exchanged the truth of God in<i>to</i> the lie and worshiped and gave-divine service to the created thing contrary to the one who created <i>it</i>, who is gracious* forever. Amen.


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<pb/>Because of this, God gave them up to passions of dishonor; for* both their females exchanged the natural use into what is contrary to <i>anything</i> natural;


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and the males also likewise, having left the natural use of the female, burned in their lust toward one another, males with* males working forth indecency and receiving in themselves the recompense which was essential from their error.


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<pb/>And just-as they did not approve to have God in <i>their</i> full knowledge, God gave them up to an unapproved mind, to do things which are not proper.


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They have been filled with all: unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, malice; full of: envy, murder, strife, treachery, maliciousness. <i>They are:</i> malicious whisperers,


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slandering, spiteful to God, insolent, haughty, braggarts, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,


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Who, having fully known the ordinance of God, (that those practicing such things are worthy of death), are not only doing the same things, but also are consenting with those who are practicing <i>the same things</i>.


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<pb/>Hence O man, you are without defense, everyone who judges; for* in what you are judging the other, you are condemning yourself; for* you who judge are practicing the same things.


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Now O man, who is judging those who practice such things and you are doing the same things<i>.</i> Are you reasoning that you will be fleeing from the judgment of God?


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Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, being ignorant that the kindness of God is leading you to repentance?


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But you store up wrath for yourself according to your hardness and unrepentant heart in the day of wrath and of revelation and of the righteous judgment of God;


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Everlasting life to those who indeed by endurance in good work are seeking glory and honor and incorruption.


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But to those <i>seeking things</i> out of selfish ambition and who are indeed disobedient to the truth, but obey unrighteousness, <i>he will repay with</i> fury and wrath,


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affliction and distress upon every soul of man who is working evil, both of the Jew first and of the Greek.


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But glory and honor and peace to every man who is working good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek;


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<pb/>For* as many as sinned without <i>the</i> law will also perish without <i>the</i> law. And as many as sinned in the law will be judged through the law.


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For* the hearers of the law are not righteous with God, but the doers of the law will be made righteous.


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For* whenever <i>the</i> Gentiles, not having the law, practice the things of the law by nature, these, not having the law, are the law to themselves;


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who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying together with <i>their hearts,</i> and between one another, their reasonings <i>are</i> accusing or either defending <i>them</i>;


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in <i>the</i> day when God will be judging the secrets of men through Jesus Christ, according to my <i>teaching of the</i> good-news.


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and know <i>God’s</i> will and approve the things which carry more-value, being instructed out of the law,


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and have confidence that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light of those <i>who are</i> in darkness,


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a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.


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<pb/>Therefore you who are teaching a different <i>one</i>, are you not teaching yourself? You who are preaching not to steal, are you stealing?


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You who are saying to not commit adultery, are you committing adultery? You who detest idols, are you a temple looter?


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You who are boasting in the law, through <i>your</i> transgression of the law, are you dishonoring God?


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‘For* the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you°,’ just-as it has been written.


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For* circumcision indeed profits, if you practice <i>the</i> law, but if you are a transgressor of <i>the</i> law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. <n>{Isa 52:5}</n>


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<pb/>Therefore, if the uncircumcision are observing the ordinances of the law, will his uncircumcision not be counted toward circumcision?


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And the uncircumcision by nature <i>who is</i> completing the law, will be judging you, who are a transgressor of the law through the writing <n>{Or: ‘scripture’ meaning ‘scriptures’ also in 2:29, 7:6.}</n> and circumcision.


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but he is a Jew in the hidden thing, and <i>the</i> circumcision <i>is</i> of the heart, in spirit, not in <i>the</i> writing; whose praise is not from men, but from God.


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<pb/>Therefore what <i>is</i> the supremacy of the Jew? Or what <i>is</i> the profit of circumcision?


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Much, according to every manner! For* indeed, first, that they were entrusted <i>with</i> the oracles of God.


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For* what if some disbelieved? Their unbelief will be not doing-away-with the faith<i>fulness</i> of God, will it?


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Let it not happen! Now, let God become true, but every man a liar; just-as it has been written, ‘*That you should be made righteous in your words and may overcome <i>when</i> you are judged.’ <n>{Psa 51:4}</n>


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For* if our unrighteousness is establishing the righteousness of God, what will we say? The God who brings upon <i>us</i> wrath is not unrighteous, is he? (I speak according to <i>the manner of</i> man.)


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<pb/>For* if the truth of God in my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still being judged like a sinner?


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And <i>why</i> not <i>say</i>: Let us do evil things, in order that good things should come (just-as we are blasphemed and just-as some say <i>that</i> we speak)? Whose condemnation is just!


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<pb/>Therefore what? Are we, <i>Jews</i> special? Certainly not; for* we accused beforehand, both Jews and Greeks, <i>that</i> they are all under sin;


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They all shunned <i>God</i>. They were becoming-useless at the same time. No one is practicing kindness; no one is insofar as <i>even</i> one.’ <n>{Psa 14:1-3 & 53:1-3}</n>


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‘Their throat has been an opened burial chamber; they were treacherous with their tongues.’ <n>{Psa 5:9}</n> ‘The poison of asps <i>is</i> under their lips.’ <n>{Psa 140:3}</n>


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<pb/>Now we know how-much, as many things as the law says, it is speaking to those in the law; in order that every mouth may be sealed and all the world may become under the sentence of God;


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because every flesh will not be made righteous in his sight from the works of <i>the</i> law; for* through <i>the</i> law <i>comes</i> the full knowledge of sin.


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<pb/>But now <i>the</i> righteousness of God has been manifested separate from <i>the</i> law, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;


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even <i>the</i> righteousness of God through faith of Jesus Christ toward all and upon all those who believe; for* there is no distinction;


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<i>All those who believe,</i> being freely made righteous in his grace, through the redemption which <i>is</i> in Christ Jesus,


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whom God purposed <i>as</i> an atonement through the faith in his blood in an example of his righteousness, because of the passing-over of the sins, having been done beforehand,


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(in the forbearance of God), <i>even</i> toward the example of his righteousness in this current time, *that* he may himself be righteous and <i>who is</i> making righteous the one from <i>the</i> faith of Jesus.


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<pb/>Therefore where is the boasting? It was locked out. Through what law? Of works? No, but through <i>the</i> law of faith.


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Therefore, we are reasoning that a man is made righteous in faith separate from the works of <i>the</i> law.


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Or is God <i>the God</i> of Jews only and not <i>the God</i> of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also.


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Since God is one, <i>it is he</i> who will be making righteous the circumcision out of faith and the uncircumcision through the faith.


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Therefore, do we do-away-with <i>the</i> law through the faith? Let it not happen! But <i>through the faith,</i> we are establishing <i>the</i> law.


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<pb/>Therefore what will we say, that Abraham, our father, according to <i>the</i> flesh, to have found?


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For* if Abraham was made righteous out of works, he has <i>grounds for</i> boasting, but not toward God.


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For* what does the Scripture say? ‘And Abraham believed God and it was counted to him *for righteousness.’ <n>{Gen 15:6}</n>


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But to the one who is not working, but believes on the one who makes righteous the ungodly, his faith is counted *for righteousness.


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Just-as David also says <i>concerning</i> the good-fortune of the man to whom God counts righteousness separate from works,


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Therefore <i>is</i> this good-fortune upon the circumcision or also upon the uncircumcision? For* we say that <i>his</i> faith was counted to Abraham *for righteousness.


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Therefore how was it counted? <i>While</i> being in circumcision or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.


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And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith of which <i>he had</i> in the uncircumcision, *that* he might be the father of all those who believe, <i>even</i> through uncircumcision, *that* righteousness might also be counted to them; <n>{Gen 17:10}</n>


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and <i>the</i> father of circumcision, to those not only from the circumcision, but to those who also are marching in the footprints of the faith of our father Abraham <i>which he had</i> in uncircumcision.


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<pb/>For* the promise <i>was</i> to Abraham, or to his seed, for him to be heir of the world, <i>but</i> not through <i>the</i> law, but through the righteousness of faith.


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For* if those from <i>the</i> law <i>are</i> heirs, the faith has been made void and the promise has been done-away-with.


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Because of this, <i>it is</i> from faith, in order that <i>it may be</i> according to grace; *that* the promise may be steadfast to all the seed; not to what <i>is</i> only from the law, but also to what <i>is</i> from <i>the</i> faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,


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(as it has been written, ‘I have placed you <i>as</i> a father of many nations’ <n>{Gen 17:5}</n> ), in front of God, the one whom he believed, who is giving-life to the dead and is calling the things which are not, as <i>though</i> they are.


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<i>Abraham</i> who contrary to hope believed upon hope, *that* he might become a father of many nations, according to what had been spoken, So your seed will be. <n>{Gen 15:5}</n>


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<pb/>And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead, (being* nearly a hundred years), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.


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But he did not doubt through unbelief at the promise of God, but became empowered through faith, having given glory to God,


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but also, because of us to whom it is about to be counted, who believe on the one who raised <i>up</i> Jesus our Lord from the dead,


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who was given up because of our trespasses and was raised <i>up</i> because of our justification <n>{Or: being made righteous.}</n> .


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<pb/>Therefore having been made righteous from faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ;


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through whom we also have had our access to this grace in the faith in which we are standing, and we are boasting in hope of the glory of God.


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But not only <i>in this</i>, but we are also boasting in our afflictions, knowing that affliction is working endurance;


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and hope does not shame <i>one</i>, because the love* of God has been poured out in our hearts through <i>the</i> Holy Spirit who was given to us.


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<pb/>For* <i>in</i> our still being weak <i>state</i>, according to <i>the proper</i> time, Christ died on behalf of the ungodly.


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For* scarcely will one die on behalf of a righteous <i>person</i>; for* perhaps someone might even dare to die on behalf of the good <i>person</i>.


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But God is establishing his own love* toward us, that <i>in</i> our still being sinful <i>state</i>, Christ died on our behalf.


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Therefore much more, having now been made righteous in his blood, we will be saved from the wrath <i>of God</i> through him.


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For* if <i>while</i> being enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, having been reconciled, we will be saved in his life;


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and not only <i>so</i>, but <i>we are</i> also boasting in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we <i>have</i> now received the reconciliation.


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<pb/>Because of this, just-as sin entered into the world through one man and death through sin, and thus death went forth to all men, in which all <i>have</i> sinned.


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For* Sin was in the world till <i>the</i> law, but sin is not charged to one’s account <i>when</i> there is no law.


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But death reigned from Adam till Moses, even on those who did not sin on the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a pattern of the future <i>one.</i>


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But not like the trespass, so also <i>is</i> the gift*. For* if the many died by the trespass of the one, the favor of God and the gift by the favor of the one man, Jesus Christ, abounded much more to the many.


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Now the gift is not as through one who sinned; for* indeed the judgment <i>came</i> from one into condemnation, but the gift* <i>came</i> from many trespasses into an <i>act of</i> righteousness.


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For* if, by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; much more they, who are receiving the abundance of the favor and of the gift of righteousness, will be reigning in life through the one, <i>who is</i> Jesus Christ.


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Therefore consequently*, as through one trespass <i>the judgment came</i> to all men to condemnation; so through the righteousness of one <i>man the gift</i> also <i>came</i> to all men into justification of life.


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For* as through the one man’s disobedience* the many were designated <i>as</i> sinners, so also through the obedience of the one the many will be designated <i>as</i> righteous.


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But <i>the</i> law entered in beside <i>us</i>, in order that the trespass might increase, but where sin increased, the favor <n>{Or: grace}</n> over-abounded;


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in order that, just-as sin reigned in death, so also the favor <n>{Or: grace}</n> might also reign through righteousness to everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord.


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<pb/>Therefore what will we say? Are we remaining in sin, in order that grace <n>{Or: favor; and so elsewhere in the letters to the congregations}</n> may increase?


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Or are you° ignorant that as many as were immersed* into Christ Jesus were immersed* into his death?


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Therefore we were buried together with him through the immersion* into <i>his</i> death; in order that just-like Christ was raised <i>up</i> from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we might also walk in newness of life.


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For* if we have become unified together with <i>him</i> in the likeness of his death, we will also be <i>unified with him in the likeness</i> of his resurrection.


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Knowing this, that our old man was crucified together with <i>him</i>, in order that the body of sin might be done-away, that <i>we are</i> to be enslaved to sin no longer;


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knowing that Christ having been raised <i>up</i> from the dead dies no more; death has no more lordship over him.


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For* that <i>death that</i> he died to sin, he died <i>to sin</i> once for all, but that <i>life that</i> he lives, he is living to God.


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So you° also, count° yourselves to be indeed dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.


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nor present° your° members <i>as</i> weapons of unrighteousness to sin, but present° yourselves to God, as living from <i>the</i> dead and your° members <i>as</i> weapons of righteousness to God.


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Therefore what? Will we sin, because we are not under <i>the</i> law, but under grace? Let it not happen!


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Do you° not know, that to whom you° present yourselves <i>as</i> bondservants to obedience, you° are <i>the</i> bondservants to whom you° obey*; either of sin to death or of obedience to righteousness?


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But gratitude to God, that, <i>though</i> you° were bondservants of sin, you° obeyed* from the heart <i>the</i> pattern <n>{Or: example; 6:3-6}</n> of teaching to which you° were given;


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<pb/>I speak <i>in</i> human <i>terms</i> because of the weakness of your° flesh; for* just-as you° presented your° members <i>as</i> bondservants to uncleanness and to lawlessness <i>leading</i> to <i>more</i> lawlessness, so now present° your° members <i>as</i> bondservants to righteousness <i>leading</i> to holiness.


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Therefore, what fruit were you° having then in the things of which you° are now ashamed? For* the end of those things is death.


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But now, having been made free from sin and having been enslaved to God, you° have your° fruit <i>leading</i> to holiness and the end everlasting life.


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For* the compensations of sin is death, but the gift* of God is everlasting life in Christ Jesus our Lord.


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<pb/>Or are you° ignorant, brethren (for* I am speaking to men who know <i>the</i> law), that the law has lordship over a man inasmuch time as he is living?


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For* the woman in wedlock has been bound by <i>the</i> law to the living husband, but if the husband dies, she has been done-away-with <n>{i.e.: discharged}</n> from the law of the husband.


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Therefore consequently*, <i>if</i> the husband <i>is</i> living, if she becomes <i>joined</i> to a different man, she will be divinely-called, an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, she is not an adulteress, <i>even</i> if she had become <i>joined</i> to a different man.


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<pb/>So-then my brethren, you° were also slain to the law through the body of Christ; *that* you° should become <i>joined</i> to a different <i>one</i>, <i>that is</i> to the one who was raised <i>up</i> from the dead, in order that we might bear-fruit to God.


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For* when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, was working in our members, *that* they might bear-fruit to death.


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But now we have been done-away-with <n>{i.e.: discharged}</n> from the law, having died in what we were being held; so-that <i>we are</i> to serve* in newness of <i>the</i> spirit and not in oldness of <i>the</i> writing.


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<pb/>Therefore what will we say? <i>Is</i> the law sin? Let it not happen! But, I did not know sin, except through <i>the</i> law; for* I also did not know lusting <n>{O.T. desire (but with an object); and elsewhere.}</n> , except <i>that</i> the law was saying, Do not lust. <n>{Exo 20:17}</n>


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But sin, having taken a starting-point, worked in me through the commandment all <i>manner of</i> lust; for* separate from <i>the</i> law sin <i>is</i> dead.


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But I was previously living separate from <i>the</i> law, but <i>when</i> the commandment came, sin lived again <i>through me</i> and I died;


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for* sin, having taken a starting-point through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.


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Therefore <i>what is</i> the good thing for me, has it become death? Let it not happen! But sin, in order that it might appear <i>as</i> sin, through <i>what is</i> the good thing for me, was working death; in order that sin might become a surpassingly-better sinner through the commandment.


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<pb/>For* I do not know what I am working. For* I am practicing this thing which I do not will but <i>instead</i> I am doing this thing which I am hating.


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But if I am doing this thing which I do not will, I acknowledge together with the law; that <i>it is</i> good.


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For* I know <i>what is</i> a good thing is not dwelling in me, (that is, in my flesh); for* it is laying beside me to will <i>it</i>, but I am not finding <i>what is</i> a good thing to work <i>it</i>.


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For* I am not doing <i>the</i> good thing which I will, but <i>instead</i> I am practicing this evil thing which I do not will.


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But if I am doing this thing which I do not will, I am no longer working it, but <i>the</i> sin which is dwelling in me.


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Consequently*, I find the law to me who is willing to do the good thing– evil is laying beside <i>me</i>.


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But I am seeing a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind and capturing me in the law of sin which is in my members.


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I am giving-thanks to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore consequently*, I myself, indeed, serve* the law of God with the mind, but <i>I serve* the</i> law of sin with <i>the</i> flesh.


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<pb/>Consequently* now nothing <i>is</i> condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who are not walking according to <i>the</i> flesh, but according to <i>the</i> Spirit.


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For* the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free away from the law of sin and of death.


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For* the law <i>being</i> powerless, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, having sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh;


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in order that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, those who are not walking according to <i>the</i> flesh, but <i>walking</i> according to <i>the</i> Spirit.


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because the mindset of the flesh is hostility toward God; for* it is not subject to the law of God, for* neither is it able <i>to be</i>;


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But you° are not in <i>the</i> flesh but in <i>the</i> Spirit, if indeed* <i>the</i> Spirit of God is dwelling in you°. But if anyone does not have <i>the</i> Spirit of Christ, he is not his.


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But if Christ is in you°, the body is indeed dead because of sin, but <i>the</i> spirit is life because of righteousness.


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<pb/>Therefore consequently*, brethren, we are debtors <i>but</i> not to the flesh, <i>not</i> to live according to <i>the</i> flesh;


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for* if you° are living according to <i>the</i> flesh, you° are about to die, but if you° slay the practices of the body in spirit, you° will be living.


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For* you° did not receive <i>the</i> spirit of bondage again to fear, but you° received <i>the</i> spirit of sonship, in which we cry, Abba, Father.


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and if children, then heirs; indeed, heirs of God and joint heirs of Christ; if indeed* we are suffering together with <i>him</i>, in order that we might also be glorified together with <i>him</i>.


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<pb/>For* I reason that the sufferings of this current time are not worthy <i>of complaint</i> to the glory which is about to be revealed to us.


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that even the creation itself will be made free away from the bondage of corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.


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<pb/>Now likewise*, the Spirit is also jointly helping our weaknesses; for* we do not know what we are praying for, <i>that is</i> according to what is essential <i>for us</i>; but the Spirit himself is petitioning on our behalf with unspeakable groans;


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and he who is searching the hearts knows what the mindset of the Spirit is, because he is petitioning on behalf of the holy-ones according to <i>the will of</i> God.


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Now we know <n>{F}</n> that all things work together toward good, to those who love* God, to those who are an invited one according to <i>his</i> purpose.


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Because, whom he knew beforehand, he also determined beforehand, one transformed to the image of his Son, *that* he himself might be the firstborn among many brethren;


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and whom he determined beforehand, he also invited these and whom he invited, he also made these righteous and whom he made righteous, he also glorified these.


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<pb/>Therefore what will we say to these things? If God <i>is working</i> on our behalf, who <i>is</i> against us?


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Yet, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up on behalf of us all, how will he not also be granting to us all things together with him?


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Who <i>is</i> the one who condemns? Christ <i>is</i> the one who died, but rather, who was also raised up <i>from the dead</i>, who is at the right <i>hand</i> of God, who also is petitioning on our behalf.


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<pb/>Who will be separating us away from the love* of Christ? <i>Will</i> affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword?


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Just-as it has been written, ‘Because of you we are slain the whole day. We were counted as sheep of <i>the</i> slaughter.’ <n>{Psa 44:22}</n>


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For* I have confidence, that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor present things, nor future things,


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nor height, nor depth, nor some other created thing, will be able to separate us away from the love* of God, <i>which is</i> in Christ Jesus our Lord. <pb/><br/><n>{Footnotes: Rm 8:28: that to those who love* God, he is working all things toward good for those who are called according to his purpose.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>I say the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience <i>is</i> testifying together with me in <i>the</i> Holy Spirit,


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For* I was praying for myself to be accursed from the Christ on behalf of my brethren, my relatives according to <i>the</i> flesh,


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who are Israelites, whose <i>is</i> the sonship and the glory and the covenants* and the institution of the law and the divine service and the promises;


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whose are the fathers and from whom is the Christ according to <i>the</i> flesh, who is over all; God <i>is</i> gracious* forever. Amen.


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<pb/>But <i>it is</i> not such-as that the word of God has fallen short. For* they <i>are</i> not all Israel, (those who <i>are</i> from Israel);


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neither <i>are they</i> all children, because they are Abraham’s seed, but <i>instead</i>, ‘Your seed will be called in Isaac.’ <n>{Gen 21:12}</n>


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This thing <i>is</i>, the children of the flesh, these <i>are</i> not children of God, but the children of the promise are counted *for a seed.


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For* this <i>is the</i> word of promise, ‘I will come according to this season and Sarah will be <i>with</i> a son.’ <n>{Gen 18:10}</n>


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Now not only <i>so</i>, but also Rebecca having an impregnation from one <i>man</i>, our father Isaac;


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for* <i>the children</i> not yet having been born, nor having practiced anything good or evil, in order that the purpose of God according to <i>his</i> choice might abide, not from works, but from the one who is calling.


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<pb/>Therefore what will we say? There is not unrighteousness with God, is there? Let it not happen!


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For* he says to Moses, ‘I will show-mercy to whomever I show-mercy and I will have pity on whomever I have pity.’ <n>{Exo 33:19}</n>


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Therefore consequently*, <i>it is</i> not from the one who wills, nor from the one who runs, but from God, the one who shows-mercy.


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For* the Scripture says to Pharaoh, ‘I lifted you up *for this same thing, *that I myself might show in you my power and *that my name might be thoroughly proclaimed in all the earth.’ <n>{Exo 9:16}</n>


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<pb/>Therefore you will say to me, Why is he still finding-fault? For* who is standing against his will?


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But-rather, O man, who are you who answers back against God? The molded thing will not say to the one who molded <i>it</i>, why did you make* me so, will it? <n>{Isa 45:9?}</n>


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Or does the potter not have authority over the clay, to make* out of the same batch one vessel *for honor and another *for dishonor?


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But <i>what</i> if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, carried <i>us,</i> vessels of wrath having been framed *for destruction, in much patience;


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and in order that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand *for glory,


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<pb/>As he also says in Hosea, ‘I will be calling those who <i>are</i> not my people, my people, and those not beloved, beloved.’ <n>{Ho. 2:23}</n>


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And it will be, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You° <i>are</i> not my people; they will be called sons of the living God there.’ <n>{Ho. 1:10}</n>


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Now Isaiah cries on behalf of Israel, ‘If the number of the sons of Israel is like the sand of the sea, <i>only</i> the remnant will be saved;


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for* <i>he is</i> completing and cutting-short the word in righteousness because having been cut-short, the Lord will make* the word upon the earth.’ <n>{Isa 10:22, 23}</n>


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And, just-as Isaiah has said before, ‘If the Lord of Hosts did not leave us a seed, we would have become like Sodom and would have been similar to Gomorrah.’ <n>{Isa 1:9}</n>


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<pb/>Therefore what will we say? That the Gentiles, who were not pursuing righteousness, grabbed righteousness, even the righteousness from faith.


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But Israel, pursuing <i>the</i> law of righteousness, did not attain to <i>that</i> law of righteousness.


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Why? Because <i>it was</i> not from <i>the</i> faith, but as <i>it was</i> from works of <i>the</i> law, for* they stumbled <i>on</i> the stone of stumbling;


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just-as it has been written, ‘Behold, I place a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense in Zion and everyone who believes on him will not be ashamed.’ <n>{Isa 8:14 & 28:16}</n>


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<pb/>Brethren, indeed the delight of my heart and <i>my</i> supplication to God on behalf of Israel, is *for <i>their</i> salvation.


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For* being ignorant of God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.


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For* Moses writes <i>about</i> the righteousness from the law, ‘The man who <i>have</i> practiced those things will be living in them.’ <n>{Lev 18:5 Ezek. 20:11}</n>


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But the righteousness from faith says thus, ‘You should not say in your heart, Who will be ascending into heaven?’ (This is: to lead Christ down.)


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Or, ‘Who will be descending into the abyss?’ (This is: to lead Christ up from <i>among the</i> dead.)


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But what does it say? ‘The declaration is near you, in your mouth and in your heart.’ <n>{Deu 30:12-14?}</n> This is the declaration of the faith which we are preaching:


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that if you confess <i>the</i> Lord Jesus in your mouth and <i>if you</i> believe in your heart that God raised him <i>up</i> from the dead, you will be saved;


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for* it is believed in the heart toward righteousness and it is confessed with the mouth toward salvation.


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For* there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for* the same <i>Lord is</i> Lord of all, being rich toward all who are calling upon him;


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for* everyone, ‘Whomever calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved.’ <n>{Joel 2:32, Acts 2:21}</n>


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Therefore how will they call upon <i>him</i> in whom they did not believe? But how will they believe of whom they did not hear? But how will they hear without <i>someone</i> preaching?


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But how will they preach, if they are not sent? Just-as it has been written, ‘How Beautiful are the feet of those who are proclaiming the good-news of peace <i>and</i> of those who are proclaiming the good-news of good things!’ <n>{Isa 52:7}</n>


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<pb/>But not all obeyed* the good-news; for* Isaiah says, ‘Lord, who believed our report?’ <n>{Isa 53:1}</n>


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Consequently*, the faith <i>comes</i> from <i>our</i> report but <i>our</i> report <i>comes</i> through <i>the</i> declaration of God.


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But I am saying, ‘Did they not hear?’ But-rather, ‘Their sounds went out into all the earth and their declarations to the limits of the inhabited-earth.’ <n>{Psa 19:4}</n>


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But I am saying, Did Israel not know? First Moses says, ‘I will provoke you° to jealousy upon <i>what is</i> no nation. I will rouse you° to anger upon a nation which has no understanding.’ <n>{Deu 32:21}</n>


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Now Isaiah is very daring and says, ‘I was found by those who are not seeking me. I became manifest to those who are not asking for me.’ <n>{Isa 65:1}</n>


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But he says to Israel, ‘The whole day, I outstretched my hands to a disobedient and contradicting people.’ <n>{Isa 65:2}</n>


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<pb/>Therefore I say, God did not shove away his people, did he? Let it not happen! For* I am also an Israelite, from the seed of Abraham, from <i>the</i> tribe of Benjamin. <n>{Psa 94:14}</n>


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God did not shove away his people which he knew beforehand. Or do you° not know what the Scripture says in <i>regard to</i> Elijah? How he petitions God against Israel, saying,


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‘Lord, they killed your prophets and made ruins of your altars, and I am left alone and they are seeking my life.’ <n>{1Ki. 19:10,14}</n>


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But what does the divine-answer say to him? ‘I left to myself seven thousand men, who did not bow the knee to Baal.’ <n>{1Ki. 19:18}</n>


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But if <i>it is</i> by grace, <i>it is</i> no more from works, otherwise grace becomes grace no more. But if <i>it is</i> from works, no more is it grace; otherwise work is work no more.


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Therefore what? What Israel is seeking after, it did not obtain this, but the chosen obtained <i>it</i> and the rest were hardened;


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just-as it has been written, ‘God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes in order that they should not see and ears in order that they should not hear, until this very day.’ <n>{Isa 29:10, 6:9}</n>


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And David says, ‘Let their table become *for a snare and *for a trap and *for an offense and *for a repayment to them.


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Let their eyes be darkened not to see and may you always bow down their backs.’ <n>{Psa 69:22-23}</n>


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<pb/>Therefore I say, They did not trip in order that they might fall, did they? Let it not happen! But salvation <i>has come</i> to the Gentiles in their trespass, *that* they might provoke them to jealousy.


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Now if their trespass <i>is the</i> riches of <i>the</i> world and their loss <i>is the</i> riches of the Gentiles; how-much more <i>is</i> their fullness?


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For* I speak to you° who are Gentiles, inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle of Gentiles, I glorify my service;


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For* if the casting away of them <i>is</i> the reconciliation of the world, what <i>is</i> the receiving <i>of them</i>, except life from <i>the</i> dead?


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<pb/>Now if the first-fruit <i>is</i> holy, also <i>is</i> the batch and if the root <i>is</i> holy, also <i>are</i> the branches.


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But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became a fellow partner of the root and of the plumpness of the olive tree <i>among them</i>.


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Do not boast against the branches, but if you are boasting against <i>them</i>, you are not bearing the root, but the root <i>bears</i> you.


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Well; they were broken off in their unbelief but you are standing in the faith. Do not be cavalier, but fear;


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for* if God did not spare what is according to nature: branches; lest he will neither be sparing you.


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Therefore, behold the kindness and severity of God, indeed severity upon those who fell short, but kindness upon you, if you remain in the kindness <i>of God</i>: otherwise you also will be cut off.


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And also those will be grafted in, if they do not remain in their unbelief; for* God is able to graft them in again.


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For* if you were cut off from what is according to nature a wild olive tree and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree; how-much more these, the ones according to nature, will be grafted into their own olive tree?


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<pb/>For* brethren, I do not wish you° to be ignorant of this mystery (that* you° may not be <i>too</i> prudent with yourselves), that a hardening has happened partially to Israel, till the fullness of the Gentiles should enter;


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and thus all <i>spiritual</i> Israel will be saved, just-as it has been written, ‘There will come out of Zion, he who rescues and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.


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And this <i>is</i> my covenant* with them, whenever I take away their sins.’ <n>{Isa 59:20-21, 27:9}</n>


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According to the good-news <i>they are</i> indeed enemies because of you°, but according to the choice, <i>they are</i> beloved because of the fathers.


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For* the gifts* and the calling <n>{Or: invitation; and in all other instances in the MLV}</n> of God <i>are</i> unregretted.


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For* just-as you° were also previously disobedient to God, but now you° were shown-mercy by their disobedience,


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<pb/>O the depth of the riches, and of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable <i>are</i> his judgments and untraceable his ways!


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<i>It is</i> because all things <i>are</i> from him and through him and to him. The glory is for him, forever. Amen.


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<pb/>Therefore brethren, I am encouraging you° through the mercies of God, to present your° bodies <i>as</i> a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, <i>which is</i> your° logical divine service.


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And not to fashion yourselves to this age, but to be transfigured <i>by</i> the renewal of your° mind, *that* you° may be proving <i>in</i> you what <i>is</i> the will of God: the good and well pleasing and mature.


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<pb/>For* I say, through the grace which was given to me, to everyone who is among you°, not to have high-notions <i>more</i> than what it is essential to be mindful of. But to be mindful of <i>this grace</i>, *that* he should be sensible, as God divided to each one a measure of faith.


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Now having assorted gifts* according to the grace which was given to us; if prophecy, <i>then prophesy</i> according to the analogy of the faith;


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if he who is encouraging, in the encouragement; he who is giving, in liberality; he who is governing, <i>do</i> in diligence; he who is showing-mercy to <i>others</i>, <i>do</i> with* joyfulness.


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<pb/><i>Let</i> the love* <i>be</i> non-pretended, abhorring evil things, joining yourselves to <i>what is</i> the good thing.


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<i>Be</i> tenderly loving to one another in the love of the brethren; being the leader for one another in honor;


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Being mindful of the same things toward one another <i>and</i> not being mindful of the exalted things, but involve yourself with the humble. Do° not become <i>too</i> prudent with yourselves.


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<pb/>Beloved, <i>do</i> not <i>be</i> avenging yourselves, but give° a chance for the wrath <i>of God</i>; for* it has been written, ‘Vengeance <i>is</i> for me. I will be repaying, says the Lord.’ <n>{Deu 32:35}</n>


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Therefore, if your enemy hungers, morsel to him <n>{i.e. feed him bites}</n> ; if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for* <i>while</i> doing this, you will be piling up hot-coals of fire upon his head.


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<pb/>Let every soul be subject to the authorities <i>which are</i> superior to <i>him</i>; for* there is no authority if not by God, and the authorities which are, have been appointed by God.


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So-then, the one who is resisting the authority is standing against the commandment of God, and those who are standing against <i>it</i> will be receiving judgment for themselves.


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For* rulers are not a fear <i>to those</i> of the good works, but <i>to those</i> of the evil <i>works</i>. And you do not wish to be afraid of the authority, do you? Do <i>what is</i> the good thing and you will have praise from it;


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for* he is a servant of God to you *for <i>what is</i> the good thing. But if you are doing <i>what is</i> the evil thing, be afraid; for* he is not wearing the sword vainly; for* he is a servant of God, an avenger *for wrath to the one who is practicing the evil thing.


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Hence, <i>it is</i> a necessity to be subject yourself <i>to him</i>, not only because of the wrath, but also because of the conscience.


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For* you° are also paying taxes because of this; for* they are ministers* of God, persevering toward this same thing.


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Therefore give° to all, the<i>ir</i> dues: tribute to whom tribute; tax to whom tax; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.


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<pb/>Owe° nothing to anyone, except to love* one another; for* he who loves* the other has fulfilled <i>the</i> law.


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For* the <i>commandments:</i> ‘Do not commit adultery; Do not murder; Do not steal; Do not lust, and if there is some other commandment in this word, it is summed up in the <i>commandment</i>: ‘You will love* your neighbor like yourself.’ <n>{O.T. ‘desire’ (but with objects); Exo 20:13-15, 17; Lev 19:18}</n>


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Love* works no evil to<i>ward</i> his neighbor. Therefore, love* <i>is the</i> fulfillment of <i>the</i> law.


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<pb/>Also this, knowing the time, that <i>it is</i> already <i>the</i> hour to be awakened from sleep; for* our salvation is now nearer than when we <i>first</i> believed.


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The night <i>has</i> progressed, and the day has drawn near. Therefore, we should place away from ourselves the works of darkness, and should clothe ourselves with the weapons of light.


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We should walk decently, like in the day; not in revelings and drunkenness, not in sleeping-around and in unbridled-lusts, not in strife and in jealousy.


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But clothe° yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do° not practice forethought *for the lusts of the flesh.


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<pb/>But receive° the one who is weak in the faith, <i>yet</i> not *for the discernings of <i>his</i> reasonings.


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Do not let the one who eats, scorn the one who does not eat; and do not let the one who does not eat, judge the one who eats; for* God himself <i>has</i> received him.


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Who are you who is judging another’s domestic <i>servant</i>? He stands or falls to his own lord. Now, he will be made to stand up; for* it is possible <i>for</i> God to stand him <i>up</i>.


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One indeed is judging a day beside <i>another</i> day; but one is judging every day <i>the same</i>; let each one be fully assured in his own mind.


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He who is mindful of the day, is mindful of it to the Lord; and he who is not mindful of the day, is not mindful of it to the Lord; and he who eats, eats to the Lord, for* he gives-thanks to God. And he who does not eat, he does not eat to the Lord, and gives-thanks to God.


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For* <i>in</i> both, if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord; therefore, <i>in</i> both, if we live or die, we are the Lord’s.


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For* Christ both died and rose* up and lived *for this, in order that he might have lordship over both the dead and the living.


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But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you also, why do you scorn your brother? For* we will all be standing-before the judicial-seat of Christ.


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For* it has been written, ‘<i>As</i> I live, says the Lord, that every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will confess to God.’ <n>{Isa 45:23}</n>


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<pb/>Therefore we should no longer judge° one another, but rather judge this: <i>you are</i> not to place a stumbling block, or offense, in <i>the way of</i> the brother.


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I know, and have confidence in the Lord Jesus, that nothing <i>is</i> desecrated through itself, except to the one who counts something to be desecrated, to that <i>one it is</i> desecrated.


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But if your brother is made sorrowful because of food, you are no longer walking according to love*. Do not destroy that <i>man</i>, on behalf of whom Christ died, with your food.


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Therefore consequently*, we may pursue the things of peace, and the things from the building up of those *for one another.


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Do not tear-down the work of God because of food. All things indeed <i>are</i> clean, but <i>it is</i> evil to the man who eats through a stumbling block.


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<i>It is</i> good not to eat meats, nor to drink wine, nor <i>anything</i> in which your brother stumbles or is offended or is weak.


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Do you have faith? Have it to yourself in God’s sight! The fortunate one is not judging himself in what he is approving.


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But he who is doubting has been condemned if he eats, because <i>he does</i> not <i>eat</i> out of faith, and everything which is not from faith is sin.


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<pb/>Now to the one who is able to establish you° according to my good-news, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, having been kept-silent in times everlasting,


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but now, having been manifested, and through the prophetic Scriptures, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, was made known to all the nations, into <i>the</i> obedience of <i>the</i> faith;


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Let each of us please <i>his</i> neighbor *for <i>what is</i> the good thing toward building <i>him</i> up.


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For* also Christ did not please himself, but, as it has been written, ‘The reproaches of those who are reproaching you fell upon me.’ <n>{Psa 69:9}</n>


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For* as many things as were written beforehand were written beforehand *for our instruction, in order that through the endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.


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Now the God of the endurance and the encouragement gives to you° to be mindful of the same thing among one another according to Christ Jesus,


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But I am saying that Christ Jesus has become a servant of the circumcision on behalf of the truth of God, *that* he might confirm the promises <i>given</i> to the fathers,


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and that the Gentiles <i>are</i> to glorify God on behalf of his mercy; as it has been written, ‘Because of this, I will profess you among the Gentiles and sing-praise to your name.’ <n>{Psa 18:49}</n>


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And again, ‘Praise° the Lord, all the Gentiles, and let all the peoples praise° him.’ <n>{Psa 117:1}</n>


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And again, Isaiah says, ‘There will be the root of Jesse and he who <i>was</i> raised* up to rule over the Gentiles; upon him the Gentiles will hope.’ <n>{Isa 11:1, 10}</n>


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Now the God of hope may fill you° with all joy and peace while* you have believed, *that* you° may abound in hope in the power of <i>the</i> Holy Spirit.


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<pb/>And my brethren, I also have confidence in myself concerning you°, that you° yourselves are full of goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, being able also to admonish others.


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But I wrote more-daringly to you° brethren individually, as reminding you° again, because of the grace which was given to me by God,


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*that* I might be a minister* of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, performing the sacred work of the good-news of God, in order that the offering up of the Gentiles might become acceptable, having been made holy in <i>the</i> Holy Spirit.


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For* I will not dare to speak of anything of <i>the things</i> which Christ did not work through me, <i>except</i> *for the obedience of the Gentiles, in word and works,


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in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of <i>the</i> Spirit of God, so-then, <i>as for</i> me to have fulfilled the good-news of the Christ from Jerusalem and in a circle, as far as Illyricum.


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And so, <i>I am</i> making it my aim to proclaim the good-news, not where Christ was <i>already</i> named, in order that I might not build upon another’s foundation;


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but, as it has been written, ‘They will see, to whom it was not reported concerning him and those who have not heard will understand.’ <n>{Isa 52:15}</n>


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but now, having no longer a place in these districts and having a longing to come to you° from many years <i>ago</i>.


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As I should travel through toward Spain, I will be coming to you°, (for* I am hoping to see you° <i>while</i> I am traveling through and to be sent onward <i>from</i> there by you°, if first I may be partially filled from you°).


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For* Macedonia and Achaia were delighted to make* a certain generosity to the poor of the holy-ones in Jerusalem.


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Therefore, having completed this thing and having sealed this fruit for them, I will be going away into Spain through you°.


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Now I know <i>while</i> coming to you°, I will be coming in the fullness of the blessing of the good-news of the Christ.


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<pb/>Now brethren, I am encouraging you° through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love* of the Spirit, to struggle together with me, <i>and</i> on my behalf in your° prayers to God;


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in order that I may be rescued away from those who are disobedient in Judea and in order that my service which <i>I have</i> *for Jerusalem might become acceptable to the holy-ones;


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<pb/>I commend to you° Phoebe our sister, who is a servant <i>of my needs</i> from the congregation* in Cenchreae:


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who risked their own neck on behalf of my life; whom I not only give-thanks, but also all the congregations* of the Gentiles;


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and the congregation* <i>who is</i> in their house. Greet° Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the first-fruit of Achaia to Christ.


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Greet° Andronicus and Junias, my relatives and my fellow captives, who are notable <i>even</i> among the apostles, who has also happened <i>to be</i> in Christ before me.


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Greet° Apelles, the approved, in Christ. Greet° those <i>who are</i> from the <i>household</i> of Aristobulus.


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Greet° Herodion my relative. Greet° those from the <i>household</i> of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.


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Greet° Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who are laboring in the Lord. Greet° the beloved Persis, who labored much in the Lord.


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Greet° Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Hermas, Patrobas and the brethren <i>who are</i> together with them.


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Greet° Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the holy-ones who are together with them.


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<pb/>Now brethren, I am encouraging you°, to note those making <n>{Or: practicing}</n> the dissensions and the offenses contrary to the teaching which you° learned <i>and are</i> practicing, and shun° away from them.


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For* such are not serving* our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and they are deceiving the hearts of the guiltless through their smooth-talk and blessings.


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<pb/>For* your° obedience <i>has</i> reached out to all men. Therefore I rejoice over you°, but I wish for you° to be indeed wise <i>as</i> to <i>what is</i> good, and harmless to <i>what is</i> evil.


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Now the God of peace will crush the Adversary under your° feet shortly. <pb/>The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ <i>is</i> among you°.


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Gaius greets you°, my host and of the whole congregation*. Erastus the steward of the city greets you° and Quartus the brother.


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The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ <i>is</i> with all of you°. Amen. <pb/><br/><n>{Verses 16:25-27 in the KJV are in the Majority Text as Romans 14:24 - 14:26.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/><n>{14:24}</n><br/></pb> <i>Now to the one who is able to establish you</i>° <i>according to my good-news and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which having been kept-silent in times everlasting,</i>


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<n>{14:25}</n> <i>but now having been manifested and by the prophetic Scriptures, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, was made known to all the nations, into the obedience of the faith;</i>


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<n>{14:26}</n> <i>to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, in whom is the glory is forever. Amen.</i> <pb/><br/><n>{NOTES: You should read the 'Definitions' Section and other non-bible sections.}</n><br/><pb/>


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to the congregation* of God which is in Corinth– those who have been made holy in Christ Jesus, called ones, holy-ones, together with all who are calling upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:


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<pb/>I am always giving-thanks to my God concerning you°, on <i>the basis of</i> the grace of God which was given to you° in Christ Jesus;


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who will also confirm you° until the end, <i>so that</i> you° <i>are</i> irreproachable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.


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God is faithful, through whom you° were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.


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<pb/>Now brethren, I am pleading with you° through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, in order that you° all should speak the same thing and there should be no splits among you°, but you° should be framed <i>together</i> in the same mind and in the same viewpoint.


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For* it has been indicated to me concerning you°, my brethren, by the <i>household</i> of Chloe, that strifes are among you°.


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Now I am saying this, that each of you° says, I am indeed of Paul! I <i>am indeed</i> of Apollos! I <i>am indeed</i> of Cephas! I <i>am indeed</i> of Christ!


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<pb/>Has Christ been divided? Paul was not crucified on your° behalf, was he? Or were you° immersed* into the name of Paul?


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And I also immersed* the household of Stephanas; furthermore, I do not know if I immersed* any other.


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For* Christ sent me not to immerse*, but to proclaim the good-news; not in wisdom of words, (that* the cross of Christ might not be made void).


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<pb/>For* the account of the cross is indeed foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are saved– it is the power of God.


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For* it has been written, ‘I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and I will reject the understanding of the intelligent <i>ones</i>.’ <n>{Isa 29:14, Psa 33:10}</n>


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Where <i>is the</i> wise? Where <i>is the</i> scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Did God not make the wisdom of the world foolish?


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For* since, in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know God, God is delighted through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.


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but we preach Christ <i>as</i> having been crucified, indeed an offense to <i>the</i> Jews, but foolishness to <i>the</i> Greeks;


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but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ <i>is the</i> power of God and <i>the</i> wisdom of God.


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<pb/>For* you° see your calling brethren, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble.


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But God chose the foolish things of the world, in order that he might shame the wise, and God chose the weak things of the world, in order that he might shame the strong;


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and God chose the ignoble things of the world and the things which have been scorned and the things which are not, in order that he might do-away-with the things which are;


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But you° are from him, in Christ Jesus, who has become to us wisdom and righteousness and holiness and redemption from God;


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<pb/>And brethren, <i>after</i> I came to you° proclaiming the testimony of God to you°, I did not come according to superiority of speech or of wisdom.


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For* I decided not to know anything among you°, except Jesus Christ and this one having been crucified.


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And my speech and my preaching was not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in <i>the</i> demonstration of <i>the</i> Spirit and of power,


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<pb/>Now we are speaking wisdom among the mature <i>ones</i>; yet a wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are being done-away-with;


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but we are speaking God’s wisdom in a mystery, the <i>wisdom</i> which has been hidden, which God determined beforehand, before the ages, *for our glory.


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<i>It is this mystery</i> which none of the rulers of this age knew; for* if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;


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but as it has been written, ‘Things which <i>the</i> eye did not see and <i>the</i> ear did not hear and <i>things which</i> did not come-up in the heart of man, which God prepared for those who love* him.’ <n>{Isa 64:4}</n>


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<pb/>But God revealed <i>them</i> to us through his Spirit; for* the Spirit is searching all things, even the depths of God.


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For* who from men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? So also, no one knows the things of God, except the Spirit of God.


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But we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the <n>{F}</n> Spirit <i>who is</i> from God; in order that we might know the things which were granted to us by God.


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We also speak these things, not in <i>the</i> taught words from human wisdom, but in <i>the</i> taught words from <i>the</i> Holy Spirit; combining together with spiritual <i>words,</i> spiritual things<i>.</i> <pb/><br/><n>{Footnotes: 1Co 2:12, Spirit who, or: spirit that; (meaning just a simple contrast like ‘things of the world, things from God.’ All punctuation and verse numbering is man-made.)}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Now <i>the</i> physical man is not accepting the things from the Spirit of God; for* they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to know <i>them</i>, because they are spiritually examined.


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For* who knew the mind of the Lord, who will be lecturing him? But we have the mind of Christ. <n>{Isa 40:13}</n>


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<pb/>And brethren, I was not able to speak to you° as to spiritual <i>people</i>, but as to fleshly <i>ones</i>, as to infants in Christ.


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I gave you° milk to drink and not food, for* you° were not yet able <i>to eat it.</i> But still you° are not able <i>even</i> now,


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for* you° are still fleshly. For* where <i>there is</i> jealousy and strife and dissensions among you°, are you° not fleshly, and are you° not walking according to <i>the manner of</i> man?


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<pb/>For* whenever someone says, I am indeed of Paul, but a different <i>one</i>, I <i>am</i> of Apollos, are you° not fleshly?


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Therefore, who is Paul? And who is Apollos? But preferably <i>they are</i> servants through whom you° believed, even as the Lord gave to each.


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So-then neither is the one who is planting anything, nor the one who is watering, but God who is causing the growth.


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Now the one who is planting and the one who is watering are one, but each one will be receiving his own reward according to his own labor.


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<pb/>According to the grace of God which was given to me, I have laid a foundation like a wise expert-builder, and another is building upon <i>it</i>. But let each <i>one</i> beware how he is building upon <i>it</i>.


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But if anyone is building on this foundation <i>with</i> gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, straw,


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the work of each <i>one</i> will become apparent. For* the day will indicate it, because it is revealed in fire, and the fire will test the work of each <i>one</i>, of what sort it is.


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If the work of anyone will be burned, he will be forfeiting <i>that work</i>, but he himself will be saved, but so as through fire.


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If anyone corrupts the temple of God, God will have corruption <i>for</i> this one; for* the temple of God is holy, which you° are.


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<pb/>Let no one deceive himself. If anyone seems to be wise in this age among you°, let him become foolish, in order that he may become wise.


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For* the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For* it has been written, ‘<i>It is</i> he who grabs the wise in their craftiness'; <n>{Job 5:13}</n>


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whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or things which are present, or future things. All things are yours°,


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But <i>it is</i> at <i>the</i> least <i>concern</i> to me, in order that I might be judged by you° or by a human <i>judgment</i> day. But I am not <i>even</i> judging myself.


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For* I have been conscious <i>of</i> nothing in myself, but I have not been made righteous in this thing. But he who is judging me is the Lord.


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So-then, do° not judge anything before the time, until the Lord should come, who will both be illuminating the hidden things of darkness and will be manifesting the plans of the hearts, and then the praise from God will happen for each.


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<pb/>Now brethren, I fashioned these things to myself and Apollos because of you°; in order that you° may learn in us not to have a mindset <i>to go</i> beyond what has been written; in order that no one should be arrogant on behalf of one against the other.


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For* who is making <i>you</i> the judge? But what do you have which you did not receive? But if you also received <i>it</i>, why are you boasting as having not received <i>it</i>?


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Already you° are satisfied, already you° were enriched, you° reigned <i>as kings</i> without us, and for-sure, I wish-that you° <i>had</i> reigned, in order that we also might reign together with you°.


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For* I am thinking that God showed us, the apostles, last of all, as men doomed to death, because we became a spectacle to the world, both to messengers and men.


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We <i>are</i> foolish because of Christ, but you° <i>are</i> prudent in Christ. We <i>are</i> weak, but you° <i>are</i> strong. You° <i>are</i> glorious, but we <i>are</i> dishonored.


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We are both hungry and thirsty, till the current hour, and are naked and are battered and are homeless;


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and we are laboring, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we are speaking well of <i>them</i>; being persecuted, we are tolerating <i>it</i>;


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being blasphemed, we are encouraging. We became like the scums of the world, the garbage of all things, <i>even</i> until now.


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<pb/>I am not writing these things <i>to be</i> embarrassing you°, but I am admonishing <i>you</i>° as my beloved children.


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For* <i>even</i> if you° have ten-thousand guardians* in Christ, but you° <i>do</i> not <i>have</i> many fathers, for* I fathered you° in Christ Jesus through the good-news.


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Because of this, I sent Timothy to you°, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will be reminding you° of my ways, the <i>ones</i> in Christ, just-as I am teaching everywhere in every congregation*.


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But I will be coming to you° shortly, if the Lord wills, and I will know, not the speech of those who have been arrogant, but the power.


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<pb/>Fornication is heard literally <i>to be</i> among you° (and such fornication which is not even named among the Gentiles), that someone has his father’s wife.


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And you° have been arrogant, and did not rather mourn in order that he who did this work might be taken away out of your° midst.


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For* indeed, as being absent in the body, but being present* in the spirit, I have already judged him thus, who worked out this thing, (as <i>though</i> I am present*),


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in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. <i>When</i> you° and my spirit were gathered together, together with the power of our Lord Jesus,


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to give such a one to the Adversary *for the utter-destruction of the flesh, in order that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.


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Cleanse° out the old leaven, in order that you° may be a new batch, just-as you° are unleavened. For* Christ our Passover was also sacrificed on our behalf.


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So-then we should celebrate a festival, not in old leaven, nor in the leaven of malice and wickedness, but in the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.


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and certainly not <i>meaning</i> with the fornicators of this world or with the greedy ones or ravening ones or idolaters; otherwise, you° are consequently* obligated to go forth out of the world.


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But now, I wrote to you° not to socialize together with anyone if he is named a brother, <i>who is</i> either a fornicator or greedy one, or an idolater or a reviler, or a drunkard or a ravening one, not to even eat together with such <i>a person.</i>


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For* what <i>is it</i> to me to judge those who are outside? Are you° not judging those <i>who are</i> inside?


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Now God will be judging those who are outside, and you will be taking away the evil man from <i>among</i> yourselves.


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<pb/>Does anyone of you°, having a matter <i>of strife</i> toward the other, dare to have a lawsuit in front of the unrighteous and not in front of the holy-ones?


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Do you° not know that the holy-ones will be judging the world? And if the world is judged among you°, are you° unworthy of the least of courts?


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Do you° not know that we will be judging <i>the</i> messengers? Consequently<J>*</J>, why not <i>judge the things of</i> everyday life?


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Therefore, if you° indeed have courts <i>concerning things of</i> everyday life, <i>why</i> are you° seating those who have been scorned in the congregation* <i>as judges</i>?


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I am saying <i>this</i> to shame you°. So is there not one wise <i>person</i> among you°? Not even one who will be able to judge between his brethren?


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Therefore, <i>it is</i> indeed already a literal loss to you°, that you° have lawsuits with yourselves. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?


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But <i>instead</i> you° yourselves do wrong and defraud, and <i>you</i>° <i>do</i> these things <i>to</i> brethren.


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<pb/>Or do you° not know that the unrighteous will not be inheriting the kingdom of God? Do° not be misled. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor pedophiles, nor homosexuals,


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nor the greedy ones, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor ravening ones, will be inheriting the kingdom of God.


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And some of you° were these, but you° were fully-washed, but you° were made holy, but you° were made righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus and in the Spirit of our God.


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<pb/>All things are legal for me, but not all things are advantageous. All things are legal for me, but I will not be brought-under the authority by anything.


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Foods <i>are</i> for the belly and the belly <i>is</i> for foods, but God will be doing-away-with both this and these things. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.


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Do you° not know that your° bodies are members of Christ? Therefore, <i>after</i> I took the members of the Christ, should I make* them members of a prostitute? Let it not happen!


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Therefore, do you° not know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For* he says, The two will become one flesh. <n>{Gen 2:24}</n>


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Flee° fornication. Every sin, whatever a man practices, <i>is</i> outside the body, but he who <i>is</i> fornicating, sins at his own body.


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Or do you° not know that your° body is a temple of <i>the</i> Holy Spirit <i>who is</i> in you°, whom you° have from God? And you° are not your° own;


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<pb/>Now concerning the things of which you° wrote to me: <i>it is</i> good for a man not to touch a woman <i>sexually.</i>


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But, because of fornications, let each <i>man</i> have his own wife and let each woman have her own husband.


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Let the husband give to the wife her owed benevolence and likewise also the wife give to the husband.


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The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband, and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife.


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Do° not deprive one another, except from agreement for some time, in order that you° may occupy yourselves to fasting and to prayer, and you° may come to the same again, in order that the Adversary may not tempt you° because of your° shortage of self-control.


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For* I wish that all men were even as I myself <i>am</i>. But each one has his own gift* from God, indeed the one <i>is</i> so and the one <i>is</i> thus.


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<pb/>But I am saying to the unmarried and to the widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I <i>am</i>.


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But if they do not exercise self-control, let them marry; for* it is better to marry than to be on fire.


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But I command to those who have married, (not I, but the Lord): the wife is not to be separated from her husband,


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(but even if she is separated, let her remain unmarried, or let her be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband <i>is</i> not to leave his wife.


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<pb/>But to the rest I say, (not the Lord); if some brother has an unbelieving wife and she consents to dwell with him, let him not leave her.


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And <i>if</i> a wife who has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to dwell with her, let her not leave him.


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For* the unbelieving husband has been made holy by the wife and the unbelieving wife has been made holy by the husband. Consequently* otherwise, your° children were unclean, but now they are holy.


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But if the unbelieving <i>spouse</i> separates, let the one separate; the brother or the sister has not been enslaved in such things. Now God has called us in peace.


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For* what do you know O wife, if you will be saving your husband? Or what do you know O husband, if you will be saving your wife?


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<pb/>Except, as God divided to each <i>one</i>, as the Lord has called each, so let him walk. And so I myself am commanding in all the congregations*.


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Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not be uncircumcised. Was anyone called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.


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Were you called being a bondservant? Let it not be a care to you, but if you are also able to become free; use <i>it</i> rather.


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For* he who was called in the Lord, having been a bondservant, is the Lord’s freedman; likewise, the free one who was called, is Christ’s bondservant.


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<pb/>Now concerning virgins I have no commandment from the Lord, but I am giving my viewpoint, as one who has been shown-mercy by the Lord to be faithful.


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Therefore I suppose this to be* good, because of the present calamity; that <i>it is</i> good for a man to be thus.


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Have you been bound to a wife? Do not seek divorce. Have you been loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife.


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But even if you marry, you did not sin, and if the virgin marries, she did not sin. But such will have affliction in the flesh, and I <i>would</i> spare you°.


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<pb/>But I am saying this, brethren, the time is limited, furthermore it is that* both those who have wives may be as <i>though</i> they did not have <i>one</i>;


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and those who weep, as <i>though</i> not weeping, and those who rejoice, as <i>though</i> not rejoicing, and those who buy, as <i>though</i> not having;


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and those who use this world, as <i>though</i> not making full use of <i>it</i>; for* the fashion of this world is passing away.


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<pb/>But I wish <i>for</i> you° to be carefree. He who is unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he will be pleasing the Lord;


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He has been divided. And the unmarried woman, (also the virgin), is anxious for the things of the Lord, in order that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, but she who is married is anxious for the things of the world, how she will be pleasing the husband.


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Now, I say this thing is advantageous for yourselves, not in order that I may cast a noose upon you°, but a non-distraction for the decent, and devoted in the Lord.


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<pb/>But if anyone supposes he is behaving improperly over his virgin, if she is beyond her prime and thus it ought to happen, let her do what she wills; she is not sinning; let them marry.


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<pb/>But he who stands, grounded in his heart, not having necessity, but has the authority concerning his own will, and he has decided this in his own heart to keep his own virgin <n>{Or: keep of himself virgin}</n> , he does well.


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<pb/>A wife has been bound by law inasmuch time as the husband is living, but if the husband falls-asleep <n>{i.e. dead}</n> , she is free to be married to whom she wills<i>, but</i> only in the Lord.


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But she is fortunate if she remains so, according to my viewpoint, and I think that I also have <i>the</i> Spirit of God.


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<pb/>Now concerning idol-sacrifices: we know that all have knowledge. Knowledge is arrogant, but love* builds up.


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Therefore concerning the food of idol-sacrifices, we know that an idol in the world is nothing and that there is no other God except one.


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For* if indeed* there are <i>so</i> called* gods, whether in heaven or upon <i>the</i> earth; just-like there are many <i>such</i> gods and many <i>such</i> lords,


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but to us, <i>there is</i> one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we <i>are</i> *for him, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we <i>are</i> through him.


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But the knowledge <i>is</i> not in all <i>people</i>, but until now some, with the conscience of the idol, eat <i>it</i> like an idol-sacrifice, and their conscience is defiled, being weak.


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But food does not present us to God; for* neither if we eat, do we abound? Nor, if we do not eat, are we lacking?


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For* if anyone sees you, (the one who has knowledge), reclining <i>at a table</i> in an idol’s sanctuary, will not his conscience, being weak, be built up to be eating what <i>is</i> the idol-sacrifices?


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And the weak brother will be perishing on <i>the basis of</i> your knowledge, <i>but</i> Christ died because of him.


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Now thus, <i>by</i> sinning <i>directly</i> at the brethren and beating their weak conscience, you° are sinning <i>directly</i> at Christ.


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Hence, if food is offending my brother, I should never eat <i>idol’s</i> meat forever, in order that I may not offend my brother.


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<pb/>Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are you° not my work in the Lord?


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If I am not an apostle to others, but yet I am to you°; for* you° are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.


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Have we no authority to lead around a wife, (a sister <i>in the Lord)</i>, even as the rest of the apostles and the brethren of the Lord and Cephas?


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Does anyone ever make war <i>while supplying</i> his own rations? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat from its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not drink from the milk of the flock?


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For* it has been written in the Law of Moses, ‘You will not muzzle a threshing bull.’ <n>{Deu 25:4}</n> God does not care <i>only</i> for the bulls, does he?


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Or does he certainly say it because of us? For* it was written because of us, that the one who is plowing ought to plow in hope, and the one who is threshing <i>ought to thresh</i> in hope to partake of his hope.


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<pb/>If we sowed spiritual things to you°, is it a great thing if we will be reaping your° fleshly things?


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If others are partaking of <i>this</i> authority over you°, <i>do</i> we not more? But we did not use this authority, but we are forbearing all things, in order that we should not give any hindrance to the good-news of the Christ.


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Do you° not know that those who work <i>at</i> the sacred things, eat <i>the things</i> from the temple, and those who wait-upon the altar have their part together with the altar?


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So, the Lord also commanded that those who are proclaiming the good-news, to live out of the good-news.


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But I used none of these things, and I do not write these things in order that it may become so with* me; for* <i>it would be</i> good for me rather to die, than in order that anyone should make my boasting void.


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For* if I proclaim the good-news, it is not boasting to me; for* necessity is laid upon me, but woe is to me, if I, myself, do not proclaim the good-news.


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For* if I am doing this voluntarily, I have a reward, but if <i>I do so</i> involuntarily, I have been entrusted <i>with</i> a stewardship.


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Therefore what is my reward? In order that, <i>in</i> proclaiming the good-news of the Christ without cost, I might place the good-news <i>before</i> you°, <i>and</i> *that* I should not make full use of my authority in the good-news.


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<pb/>For* <i>although</i> <n>{F}</n> being free from all<i>,</i> I enslaved myself to all, in order that I might gain <i>all</i> the more.


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And I became like a Jew to the Jews, in order that I might gain Jews. <i>I became</i> like <i>those</i> under <i>the</i> law to those <i>who are</i> under <i>the</i> law, in order that I might gain those <i>who are</i> under <i>the</i> law.


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<i>I became</i> like <i>the</i> lawless to those <i>who are</i> lawless, (not being lawless to God, but lawful to Christ), in order that I might gain <i>the</i> lawless.


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I became like <i>the</i> weak to the weak, in order that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all <i>people</i>, in order that I may certainly save some.


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But I am doing this because of the good-news, in order that I might become a fellow partner of it. <pb/><br/><n>{Footnotes: 1Co 9:19, or: being a free man from all, I was a bondservant to all.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Do you° not know that those who run in <i>the</i> stadium, all indeed run, but <i>only</i> one receives the prize? So run° in order that you° may grab <i>it</i>.


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But everyone who struggles <i>in the race</i> exercises self-control in all things. Therefore indeed, those <i>men do it</i> in order that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we <i>receive</i> an incorruptible <i>crown.</i>


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Now-then, I run so, as not with uncertainty. I am combating so, as not <i>just</i> whipping <i>the</i> air;


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but I am buffeting my body and enslaving <i>it</i>; lest <i>somehow after</i> having preached to others, I myself might become unapproved.


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<pb/>Now brethren, I do not wish you° to be ignorant that our fathers were all under the cloud and all went through the sea;


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and all were drinking the same spiritual drink; for* they were drinking from a spiritual rock following <i>them</i>, and the rock was the Christ. <n>{Exo 13:21, 14:22, 16:15, 17:6, Num 20:11}</n>


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Now these things became our examples, *that* we should not be desirers of evil things, just-as they also lusted.


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Do° not become idolaters, just-as some of them <i>were</i>; as it has been written, ‘The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to play.’ <n>{Exo 32:6}</n>


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Neither should we fornicate, like some of them fornicated, and twenty three thousand fell in one day.


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Nor should we test the Christ, just-as some of them also tested <i>him</i>, and perished by the serpents.


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Now all these things <i>are</i> examples which were befalling to those <i>Jews</i>, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages <i>have</i> arrived.


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No temptation has taken you° except <i>common</i> human <i>temptations</i>, but God is faithful, who will not be permitting you° to be tempted beyond what you° are able to undergo, but together with the temptation, he will also make* an outlet.


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I speak as to prudent men. You°, judge° what I say. <pb/><br/><n>{Tradition, and some translations, used ‘communion’ for the word ‘fellowship’ in the verses below. The latter is the common translation of the underlying Greek word throughout the rest of the New Covenant.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>The cup of blessing <n>{Or: thanks}</n> <i>for</i> which we are giving-thanks, is it not a fellowship of the blood of the Christ? The bread which we are breaking, is it not a fellowship of the body of the Christ?


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<pb/>Beware° <i>of</i> Israel, according to the flesh: are not those who eat the sacrifices partners of the altar?


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But <i>I am saying</i>, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they are sacrificing to demons, and not to God, and I do not wish you° to become partners of demons. <n>{Deu 32:17}</n>


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<pb/>You° are not able to drink <i>the</i> cup of the Lord and <i>the</i> cup of demons. You° are not able to partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons.


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<pb/>All things are legal for me, but not all things are advantageous. All things are legal for me, but not all things build up.


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But if anyone of the unbelieving invites you° <i>to a feast</i> and you° wish to travel; eat° everything being placed beside you°, judging nothing because of conscience.


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But if anyone says to you°, This is an idol-sacrifice, do° not eat, because of him who divulged <i>it</i> and <i>because of</i> the<i>ir</i> conscience; for* ‘The earth is the Lord’s and its fullness.’ <n>{Psa 24:1}</n>


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I say, not your own conscience, but <i>the conscience</i> of the other. For* why is my freedom judged by another conscience?


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just-as I am also pleasing all <i>people</i> in all things, not seeking what is advantageous for myself, but what <i>is advantageous</i> for many, in order that they may be saved.


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<pb/>Now I praise you° brethren that you° have been reminded of me in all things and are holding-onto the traditions, just-as I gave them to you°.


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But I wish you° to know, that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of the Christ is God.


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But every woman praying or prophesying with the head unveiled shames her head; for* it is one and the same thing, <i>as if</i> she had been shaved.


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For* if a woman is not veiling herself, let her <i>hair</i> also be sheared, but if it is shameful to a woman to be sheared or shaved, let her be veiled.


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For* a man indeed ought not to have his head veiled, being* <i>that he is the</i> image and glory of God, but woman is <i>the</i> glory of the man.


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The woman ought to have <i>a sign of</i> authority upon her head because of this <i>and</i> because of the messengers.


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However, neither is the man separate from the woman, nor the woman separate from the man, in the Lord.


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For* just-like the woman is from the man, so the man <i>is</i> also through the woman, but all things are from God.


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Or is not even nature itself teaching you°, that, if a man indeed has long-hair, it is a dishonor to him?


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But if a woman has long-hair, it is a glory to her, because <i>her</i> hair has been given <i>to her</i> instead of a <i>head</i> dressing.


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<pb/>But <i>in</i> commanding this, I am not praising you°, because you° are not coming together *for the best but *for the worst.


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For* indeed, first <i>of all</i>, <i>when</i> you° are coming together in <i>the</i> congregation*, I am hearing that splits exist in you°, and I believe some part <i>of it.</i>


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For* it is essential <i>for</i> sects to be also among you°, in order that those who are the approved <i>ones</i> may become apparent among you°.


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Therefore, <i>while</i> coming together in the same <i>place</i>, it is not possible to eat the Lord’s supper;


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for* while* you° ate, each <i>one</i> is taking his own supper before <i>others can</i>, and one is hungry and another is drunken.


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For* do you° not have houses *that* you° should eat and drink <i>in</i>? Or do you° despise the congregation* of God and are shaming those who have nothing? What should I say to you°? Should I praise you°? I should not praise you° in this. <pb/><br/><n>{Mar 14:22-25 & Mat 26:26-29 & Luk 22:19-20, 1Co 11:23-26.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>For* I received from the Lord what I also gave to you°, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was being given up, took bread;


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and having given-thanks, he broke it and said, <J>Take°, eat°. This is my body, which is being broken on your° behalf. Practice° this in my remembrance.</J>


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Likewise* also the cup, after the supper, saying, <J>This cup is the new covenant* in my blood. Practice° this in my remembrance whenever you° drink <i>it</i>.</J>


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For* whenever you° eat this bread and drink this cup, you° are proclaiming the Lord’s death till the <i>time</i> he should come.


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<pb/>So-then whoever eats this bread or drinks the cup of the Lord, unworthily of the Lord, will be liable to the body and of the blood of the Lord.


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For* he who unworthily eats and drinks, is eating and drinking condemnation to himself, if he is not discerning the body of the Lord.


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<pb/>Because of this, many among you° are weak and sick and a considerable <i>number</i> are falling-asleep <n>{i.e. are dead}</n> .


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But being judged, we are disciplined by the Lord, in order that we should not be condemned together with the world.


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But if anyone is hungry, let him eat in <i>his own</i> house; in order that you° may not come together *for condemnation. Now I will be commanding <i>accordingly</i> the rest as I may come.


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You° know that when you° were Gentiles, you° were being led away to those voiceless idols, as you° would be led <i>now</i>.


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Hence I make known to you°, that no one speaking in <i>the</i> Spirit of God says, Jesus is accursed, and no one is able to say, Jesus is Lord, except in <i>the</i> Holy Spirit.


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for* the word of wisdom is given to one through the Spirit, and the word of knowledge to another according to the same Spirit;


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and <i>miraculous</i> faith to different <i>one</i> in the same Spirit; and gifts* of healing to another in the same Spirit;


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and workings of miracles to another; and prophecy to another; and <i>the</i> discernings of spirits to another; varieties of languages to a different <i>one</i>; and the translation of <i>foreign</i> languages to another;


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but the one and the same Spirit is working all these things, sectioning off to each <i>one in</i> his own <i>way</i> just-as he wills.


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<pb/>For* just-as the body is one and has many members and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body; so also is the Christ.


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For* also, we were all immersed* into one body, in one Spirit, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bondservants or free <i>men</i>, and all were made to drink into one Spirit.


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If the foot says, Because I am not the hand, I am not from the body; contrary to this, is it not from the body?


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And if the ear says, Because I am not the eye, I am not from the body; contrary to this, is it not from the body?


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If the whole body <i>were</i> an eye, where <i>is</i> the hearing? If <i>the</i> whole <i>body were</i> hearing, where <i>is</i> the sense of smell?


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Now the eye is not able to say to the hand, I have no need of you; or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you°.


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and those things of the body which we think to be <i>more</i> dishonored, we place even-more honor upon these, and our indecent <i>parts</i> have even-more decency;


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but our decent <i>parts</i> have no need. But God mingled the body together, having given even-more honor to the ones which are lacking;


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in order that no splits should be in the body, but <i>in order that</i> the members should have the same anxiety on behalf of one another.


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And if one member is suffering, all the members are suffering together with <i>it</i>. If one member is glorified, all the members are rejoicing together with <i>it</i>.


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And indeed God placed some in the congregation* <i>of believers</i>, first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, thereafter miracles, thereafter gifts* of healing, helps, those who pilot <i>others</i>, <i>those with</i> varieties of languages.


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All <i>are</i> not apostles, are they? All are not prophets, are they? All are not teachers, are they? All are not <i>workers of</i> miracles, are they?


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All do not have gifts* of healing, do they? All do not speak with <i>foreign</i> languages, do they? All do not translate, do they?


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But be° zealous for the better gifts*. And I <i>will</i> show to you° still a surpassingly-better way.


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<pb/>If I speak with the languages of men, and <i>even</i> of messengers, but do not have love*, I have become <i>like</i> noisy brass or a clanging cymbal.


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And if I have <i>the gift of</i> prophecy and <i>if</i> I know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so-then to remove mountains, but <i>if</i> I do not have love*, I am nothing.


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And if I morsel <i>out</i> <n>{i.e. give away little by little}</n> all my possessed things and if I give my body in order that I would be burned, but <i>if</i> I do not have love*, it profits me nothing.


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It does not behave improperly. It does not seek its own. It does not irritate. It does not reason evil.


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It is forbearing all things, is believing all things, is hoping for all things, is enduring all things.


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Love* never falls short. <pb/>But if <i>there are</i> prophecies, they will be done-away; if <i>there are foreign</i> languages, they will cease; if <i>there is</i> knowledge, it will be done-away.


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When I was an infant, I was speaking like an infant, I had the mindset like <i>that of</i> an infant, I was reasoning like an infant. But when I became a man, I have done-away-with the things of the infant.


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For* now we see through a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. I know now partially, but then I will fully know just-as I was also fully known.


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<pb/>Pursue° love*; but <i>yet</i> be° zealous for spiritual <i>gifts</i>, but rather in order that you° may prophesy.


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For* he who speaks in a <i>foreign</i> language does not speak to men, but to God; for* no one hears <i>with understanding</i>, but he speaks mysteries in <i>the</i> spirit.


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He who speaks in a <i>foreign</i> language builds himself up, but he who prophesies builds up the congregation*.


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Now I wish <i>for</i> all <i>of</i> you° to speak with <i>foreign</i> languages, but more in order that you° may prophesy, for* greater is he who prophesies than he who speaks with <i>foreign</i> languages, unless one translates, in order that the congregation* may receive building up.


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<pb/>But brethren, now if I come to you° speaking in <i>foreign</i> languages, what will I profit you°, if I do not speak to you° either in revelation or in knowledge or in prophecy or in teaching?


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Even the lifeless things give <i>forth</i> a voice, whether flute or harp, if they do not give a distinction in the sounds, how will it be known what is piped or harped?


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So you° also, if you° do not give distinct speech through the <i>foreign</i> language, how will it be known what is spoken? For* you° will be speaking to air.


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If the varieties of <i>foreign</i> voices in the world are so-many, <i>as</i> it may be, and <i>yet</i> none are unintelligible.


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Therefore if I do not know the power of the voice, I will be a barbarian to the one who speaks <i>with it,</i> and he who speaks will be a barbarian to me.


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So you° also, since you° are zealous ones of <i>the</i> spirits, seek° in order that you° may abound to the building up of the congregation*.


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Therefore what is it? I will pray with the spirit and I will also pray with the mind. I will sing-praise with the spirit and I will also sing-praise with the mind.


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Otherwise if you give-thanks with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unskilled say the amen upon your thanksgiving, since he does not know what you are saying?


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But in the congregation*, I wish to speak five words through my mind in order that I might also instruct others, than ten-thousand words in a <i>foreign</i> language.


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<pb/>Brethren, do° not become children in <i>your</i> mindsets, (but be° infants in malice), but become° mature in <i>your</i> mindsets.


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It has been written in the law, ‘I will be speaking to this people in different languages and by other lips, and thus they will not even hear me, says the Lord.’ <n>{Isa 28:11-12}</n>


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So-then <i>foreign</i> languages are *for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving. But prophecy <i>is for a sign</i>, not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe.


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Therefore, if the whole congregation* comes together in the same <i>place</i>, and <i>if</i> all speak with <i>foreign</i> languages, and <i>if</i> unskilled or unbelieving <i>people</i> should enter, will they not be saying that you° are insane?


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But if all prophesy and some unbelieving or unskilled <i>person</i> should enter, he is reproved <n>{Or: convicted}</n> by all. He is judged by all.


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And thus, the secret things of his heart become apparent, and so, having fallen down upon his face, he will be worshiping God, reporting that God really is among you°.


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<pb/>Therefore brethren, what is it? Whenever you° come together, each of you° has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a <i>foreign</i> language, has a translation. Let all things happen toward <i>your</i> building up.


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If anyone speaks in a <i>foreign</i> language, <i>let it be</i> according to two or three <i>at</i> the most and individually, and let one translate.


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But if there is no translator, let him be silent in the congregation*, and let him speak to himself and to God.


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For* all of you° are able to prophesy, one by one, in order that all may learn and all might be encouraged.


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for* God is not <i>a God</i> of unrest, but of peace. <pb/>As in all the congregations* of the holy-ones:


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let your° women <n>{Or: wives}</n> be silent in the congregations*; for* it has not been permitted for them to speak, but to be subject, just-as the law also says. <n>{Gen 3:16}</n>


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And if they wish to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands in <i>their own</i> house; for* it is shameful for women <n>{Or: wives}</n> to speak in a congregation*.


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<pb/>If anyone thinks <i>himself</i> to be a prophet or spiritual, let him fully know what I write to you°, that they are the commandments from <i>the</i> Lord.


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<pb/>So-then brethren, be° zealous to prophesy and do° not forbid <i>people</i> to speak with <i>foreign</i> languages.


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<pb/>Now I make known to you° brethren, the good-news which I proclaimed to you°, which you° also received, in which you° are also standing,


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through which you° are also saved, if you° are holding-onto the good-news of the word which I proclaimed to you°– unless you° vainly believed.


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For* I gave to you° first, what I also received: that Christ died on behalf of our sins according to the Scriptures; <n>{Isa 53:8-9}</n>


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and that he was buried, and that he has been raised <i>up on</i> the third day according to the Scriptures. <n>{Psa 16:10}</n> <pb/><br/><n>{1Co 15:5-7, Mat 28:16-17, Mar 16:12-13, Luk 24:13-35, 24:44-49, Joh 20:26-31, Acts 1:3-8.}</n><br/><pb/>


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thereafter he was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, out of whom most remain until now, but some did also fall-asleep <n>{i.e. died}</n> ;


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For* I am the least of the apostles, who is not sufficient to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the congregation* <i>of believers</i> of God.


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But I am what I am by <i>the</i> grace of God <n>{Or: favor from God}</n> and his grace toward me has not become empty, but I labored even-more than they all <i>did;</i> but not I, but the grace of God which <i>was</i> together with me.


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Therefore whether <i>it is</i> I, or <i>it is</i> those <i>men</i>, so we preach and so you° believed.


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<pb/>Now if Christ is preached that he has been raised <i>up</i> from the dead, how are some among you° saying that there is no resurrection of the dead?


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and if Christ has not been raised <i>up</i>, consequently*, our preaching <i>is</i> empty and your° faith <i>is</i> also empty.


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Now, we are also found <i>to be</i> false witnesses of God, because we testified against God <i>in saying</i> that he raised the Christ <i>up</i>; whom consequently*, he did not raise <i>up</i>, if indeed* the dead are not raised <i>up</i>.


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and if Christ has not been raised <i>up</i>, your° faith <i>is</i> futile. You° are still in your° sins.


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<pb/>But now Christ has been raised <i>up</i> from the dead, he became the first-fruit of those who have fallen-asleep.


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For* since death <i>came</i> through a man, the resurrection of the dead also <i>came</i> through a man.


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But each in his own order: Christ the first-fruit; thereafter those <i>who are</i> the Christ’s in his presence.


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Thereafter <i>is</i> the end, whenever he gives up the kingdom to the God and Father; whenever he does-away-with all rule and all authority and power.


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For* it is essential for him to reign, till the <i>time</i> he would have placed all his enemies under his feet. <n>{Psa 110:1}</n>


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For* he subjected all things under his feet. <n>{Psa 8:6}</n> But whenever he says, All things are subjected, (<i>it is</i> evident that <i>is</i> outside <n>{i.e. except}</n> the one who <i>has</i> subjected all things to him).


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But whenever all things are subject to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to the one who subjected all things to him, in order that God may be all in all.


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<pb/>Otherwise what will they do who are immersed* on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not literally raised <i>up</i>, why then are they immersed* on behalf of the dead?


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If I quarreled with beasts in Ephesus according to <i>the manner of</i> man, what is the profit to me? If the dead are not raised up, ‘We should eat and drink, for* <i>the</i> next-day we die.’ <n>{Isa 22:13}</n>


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Do° not be misled: evil associations corrupt virtuous <n>{F}</n> morals. <n>{Or: customs or habits; (inward & outward).}</n>


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Be° righteously sober and do° not sin; for* some have ignorance of God. I say <i>this</i> to shame you°.


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<pb/>But someone will say, How are the dead raised up and with what <i>manner of</i> body do they come?


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and what you sow, you do not sow the body that will become, but a naked kernel, it may be of wheat or anyone of the rest <i>of the grains</i>;


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<pb/>All flesh is not the same flesh, but <i>there is</i> one <i>flesh</i> of men and another flesh of animals and another of birds and another of fish


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and heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, (but the glory of the heavenly is indeed different, and the <i>glory</i> of the earthly is different).


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One glory <i>is</i> of the sun and another glory <i>is</i> of the moon and another glory <i>is</i> of the stars; for* <i>one</i> star carries more-value in glory than <i>that</i> of <i>another</i> star.


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<pb/>So also is the resurrection of the dead. <i>If</i> it is sown in corruption; it is raised <i>up</i> in incorruption.


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It is sown in dishonor; it is raised <i>up</i> in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised up in power.


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It is sown a physical body; it is raised up a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body.


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So also it has been written, ‘The first man Adam became a living soul.’ <n>{Gen 2:7}</n> The last Adam is giving-life *for <i>our</i> spirit.


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The first man <i>is</i> out of the earth, <i>the</i> terrestrial; the second man, the Lord, <i>is</i> out of heaven.


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Such-as <i>is</i> the terrestrial, such also <i>are</i> the terrestrial and such-as <i>is</i> the heavenly, such also <i>are</i> the heavenly.


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And just-as we have worn the image of the terrestrial, we should also wear the image of the heavenly.


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Now brethren, I say this, that flesh and blood is not able to inherit the kingdom of God; neither is corruption inheriting incorruption. <pb/><n>{1Co 15:51-15:58 & Mat 24:27, 24:29-31 & Mar 13:24-37 & Luk 21:25-28 & Acts 1:11 & 1Th 4:13-17 & 2Th 1:7-9 & Rev 1:7 Second Coming.}</n>


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<pb/>Behold, I tell you° a mystery, We indeed will not all be falling-asleep, but we will all be changed,


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in <i>the</i> briefest moment, in the blink of an eye, at the last trumpet; for* <i>the last trumpet</i> will sound and the dead will be raised <i>up</i> incorruptible and we will be changed.


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For* it is essential this corruptible <i>body</i> to be clothed with incorruption and this mortal <i>body</i> to be clothed with immortality.


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But whenever this corruptible <i>body</i> is clothed with incorruption and <i>whenever</i> this mortal is clothed with immortality, then the word that has been written will become <i>so</i>, Death is swallowed up in victory. <n>{Isa 25:8}</n>


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So-then my beloved brethren, become° grounded, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your° labor is not empty in the Lord.


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<pb/><n>{1Co 16:1-3, Acts 24:17, Romans 15:27, 2 Corinthians 8, 9, Gal 2:10.}</n><br/></pb> <pb/>Now concerning the collection which <i>is</i> *for the holy-ones, just-as I commanded to the congregations* of Galatia, so you° also, practice° <i>such</i>!


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Every first <i>day</i> of <i>the</i> week, let each of you° place beside himself, storing up, if he prospers in anything, in order that whenever I come, no collections may happen then.


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Now whenever I come*, I will be sending whomever you° approve through letters, to carry your° favor to Jerusalem;


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Now <i>after</i> I have been <i>there</i>; I will be remaining or even will be wintering with you°, in order that you° may send me onward <i>to</i> wherever I am traveling.


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For* I do not wish to see you° now on <i>the</i> way, but I am hoping to remain with you° some time, if the Lord permits.


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for* a great and effective door has opened to me and many <i>are</i> laying in opposition to <i>me</i>.


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<pb/>Now if Timothy comes, see° <i>to it</i>, in order that he may become fearless toward you°; for* he is working the work of the Lord, as I also <i>am</i>.


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Therefore let no one scorn him. But send° him onward in peace, in order that he may come to me; for* I am waiting for him with the brethren.


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Now concerning Apollos the brother, I encouraged him many <i>times</i> in order that he should come to you° with the brethren and it was certainly not <i>his</i> will in order that he should come now, but he will be coming whenever he has an opportunity.


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<pb/>Now you° know the house of Stephanas, that it is <i>the</i> first-fruit of Achaia and that they <i>have</i> appointed themselves into the service *for the holy-ones. I encourage you° brethren,


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in order that you° may also be subject to those <i>who are</i> such and to everyone working together with <i>us</i> and laboring <i>with them</i>.


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Now I am rejoicing on the presence of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus, because they fulfilled this lack of yours°,


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<pb/>The congregations* of Asia greet you°. Aquila and Priscilla greet you° much in the Lord, together with the congregation* in their house.


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<pb/>Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God and Timothy <i>our</i> brother, to the congregation* of God who are in Corinth, together with all the holy-ones who are in the whole <i>of</i> Achaia:


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<pb/>The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the mercies and God of all encouragement <i>is</i> gracious*;


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who is encouraging us on our every affliction, *that* we may be able to encourage those who are in any affliction, through the encouragement of which we ourselves are encouraged by God.


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Because just-as the sufferings of the Christ abound to us, so our encouragement also abounds through the Christ.


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But whether we are afflicted, <i>it is</i> on behalf of your° encouragement and salvation; which is working in <i>the</i> endurance of the same sufferings which we also are suffering; and our hope is steadfast on your° behalf. If whether we are encouraged, <i>it is</i> on behalf of your° encouragement and salvation,


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knowing that, just-as you° are partners of the sufferings, so <i>you</i>° <i>are</i> also of the comfort.


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For* brethren, we do not wish you° to be ignorant in regard to our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were burdened down surpassingly, beyond our power, so-that we despaired even to be living.


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But, we ourselves have had the verdict of death in ourselves, in order that we should not have confidence upon ourselves, but upon God, who is raising <i>up</i> the dead;


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who rescued us out of so-great a death and is rescuing <i>us</i>; in whom we have hoped that he will also still be rescuing <i>us</i>.


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<i>You</i>° <i>are</i> also working together on our behalf <i>by</i> your° supplication; in order that the gift* to us from many faces <n>{i.e. mouths}</n> might be a giving-thanks through many <i>people</i> on our behalf.


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<pb/>For* this is our boasting, the testimony of our conscience, that in clarity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in <i>the</i> grace of God, we conducted ourselves in the world and even-more toward you°.


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For* we are writing no other things to you°, but what you° are reading or even <i>what</i> you° know. Now I hope you° will fully know <i>these things we write</i> until the end;


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as you° also recognized us partially, that we are your° boasting, just-as you° are also ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.


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<pb/>And in this confidence, I was planning to come to you° beforehand, in order that you° might have a second favor <i>from me</i>;


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and through you° to go through into Macedonia, and away from Macedonia to come to you° again and to be sent onward to Judea by you°.


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Therefore <i>while</i> planning this certain thing, I did not then use fickleness, did I? Or what I plan, do I plan <i>those things</i> according to the flesh, in order that there should be from me the yes, yes and the no, no?


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For* the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you° through us, <i>that is,</i> through me and Silvanus and Timothy, did not become yes and no, but in him it has become yes.


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For* as many things as <i>are the</i> promises of God, in him <i>is</i> the yes and the amen is in him, for glory to God through us.


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<pb/>Now I myself call upon God <i>as</i> a witness upon my soul, that, I came to Corinth no more <i>so</i> sparing you°.


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Not that we have lordship over your° faith, but are fellow workers of your° joy; for* you° are standing in the faith.


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For* if I make you° sorrowful, who is it who also makes me joyous except he who is made sorrowful from me?


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And I wrote this same thing to you°, in order that, <i>if</i> I came, I might not have sorrow from them of whom it was essential to rejoice <i>for</i>; having confidence in all of you°, that my joy is <i>the joy</i> of all of you°.


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For* I wrote to you° out of much affliction and dismay of heart through many tears; not in order that you° should be made sorrowful, but that you° may know the love* that I have even-more toward you°.


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<pb/>But if anyone has caused-sorrow, he has not caused-sorrow to me, (that* I may not burden <i>him</i>), but partially to you° all.


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so-that you°, rather instead, <i>are</i> to forgive* him and to encourage him, lest such a one might be swallowed up with his sorrow even-more.


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For* I even wrote *for this <i>reason;</i> in order that I might know the trial of you°, if you° are obedient* in all things.


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But to whom you° forgive* anything, I <i>forgive</i>. For* if I have also forgiven*, (in whom I have forgiven* is because of you°), <i>I have forgiven*</i> in <i>the</i> face of Christ;


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in order that we should not be taken-advantage of by the Adversary. For* we are not ignorant of his devices.


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<pb/>Now <i>after</i> I came to Troas *for the good-news of the Christ and <i>after</i> a door had been opened to me in the Lord,


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I had not had relief in my spirit <i>because</i> I did not find Titus my brother, but having bid farewell to them, I went forth into Macedonia.


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<pb/>Now gratitude to God, who always makes us to triumph in the Christ and the aroma of his knowledge in every place is manifest through us.


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Because we are a sweet-fragrance of Christ to God, in those who are saved and in those who are perishing;


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to the one an aroma from death to death, but to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is sufficient <i>in</i> these things?


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For* we are not as the rest <i>who are</i> peddling the word of God, but as from sincerity, but as from God, in God’s sight, we speak in Christ.


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<pb/>Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? <i>As</i> if we have no need, as some <i>people</i>, letters of commendation to you° or <i>ones</i> of commendation from you°?


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being manifested that you° are a letter of Christ, having been served by us, not having been inscribed with ink, but with <i>the</i> Spirit of the living God; not in tablets <i>of</i> stone, but in tablets, in fleshly hearts.


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not that we are sufficient from ourselves, to reason anything as out of ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God;


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who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant*; not from <i>the</i> writing, but from <i>the</i> Spirit; for* the writing kills, but the Spirit gives-life.


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But if the service of death, on scriptures having been engraved in stones, happened in glory, so-that the sons of Israel were not able to stare at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which was being done-away-with.


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For* if the service of condemnation has glory, <i>how</i> much rather is the service of righteousness abounding in glory.


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For* even what has also been glorified, has not been glorified in this respect, because of the glory which surpasses <i>it</i>.


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For* if what was being done-away <i>was</i> through glory, what remains <i>is</i> much more in glory.


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and <i>are</i> not just-as Moses, <i>who</i> was placing a veil upon his face, *that* the sons of Israel might not stare at the end of what was being done-away-with. <n>{Exo 34:33}</n>


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But their minds were hardened; for* till today, the same veil remains upon the public-reading of the old covenant*, not being unveiled, something which is being done-away in Christ.


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But we all, with <i>our</i> face having been unveiled, seeing the reflection of the glory of the Lord for ourselves, are being transfigured <i>into</i> the same image from glory into glory, just-as from <i>the</i> Lord, <i>the</i> Spirit.


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But we ourselves scoffed at the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in God’s sight.


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in whom the god of this age <i>has</i> blinded the minds of the unbelieving, *that* the illumination of the good-news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn for them.


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For* we are not preaching ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord and ourselves as your° bondservants because of Jesus.


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Because <i>it is</i> God, who said, ‘Illumination shine’ <n>{Gen 1:3}</n> out of darkness, who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.


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<pb/>But we have this treasure in clay vessels, in order that the excellence of the power may be from God and not from us.


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always carrying around in the body the death of the Lord Jesus, in order that the life of Jesus should also be manifested in our body.


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For* we who live are habitually given up to death because of Jesus, in order that the life of Jesus should also be manifested in our mortal flesh.


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But having the same spirit of the faith, according to what has been written, ‘I believed and hence I spoke.’ <n>{Psa 116:10}</n> We also believe and hence we also speak;


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knowing that he who raised <i>up</i> the Lord Jesus will also be raising us up through Jesus and will be presenting us together with you°.


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For* all things <i>are</i> because of you°, in order that the grace which increased through the many, the thanksgiving may abound to the glory of God.


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<pb/>Hence we are not depressed, but even if the outward man is decaying, but <i>yet</i> our <i>man</i> inside is renewed day <i>in</i> and day <i>out</i>.


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For* the momentary light <i>weight</i> of our affliction, is working for us according to excellence into <i>greater</i> excellence an everlasting weight of glory;


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<i>because</i> we are not noting the things which are seen, but <i>note</i> the things which are not seen; for* the things which are seen <i>are</i> temporary, but the things which are not seen <i>are</i> everlasting. [2 Corinthians 5]


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For* we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle should be torn-down, we have a building from God, a house not made* with hands, everlasting in the heavens.


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For* even we are groaning in this <i>house</i>, longing to be clothed with our house which is from heaven;


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For* even we who are in this tabernacle are groaning, being burdened; not in which we wish to be stripped, but <i>we wish</i> for ourselves to be clothed, in order that the mortal one may be swallowed up by life.


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Now God is the one who worked out <i>this in</i> us *for this same thing, who also gave the down-payment of the Spirit to us.


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Therefore we are always courageous, and knowing that <i>while</i> we are at home in the body; we are away from home, <i>that is</i> away from the Lord


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But we are courageous and are delighted rather to be away from home, away from the body and to be at home with the Lord.


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For* it is essential <i>for</i> all of us to appear before the judicial-seat of the Christ; in order that each <i>one</i> may get back the things <i>done</i> in the body, for what he practiced, whether good or evil.


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<pb/>Therefore knowing the fear of the Lord, we are persuading men, but we have been manifested to God, and I hope to have also been manifested in your° consciences.


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For* we are not again commending ourselves to you°, but <i>we are</i> giving you° a starting-point of boasting on our behalf, in order that you° may have <i>an answer</i> toward those who boast in countenance <n>{i.e. outward appearance}</n> and not in heart.


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For* whether we were crazy, <i>it was</i> to God; or whether we are sensible, <i>it is</i> for you°.


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For* the love* of Christ is holding us together with <i>him</i>, having judged this thing: if one died on behalf of all, consequently*, all died;


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and he died on behalf of all, in order that those who are living should no longer live to themselves, but to the one who died and was raised on their behalf.


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So-then from hereafter we know no one according to the flesh, but even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, but now we know <i>him as such</i> no more.


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So-then if anyone <i>is</i> in Christ, <i>he is</i> a new creation; the old things <i>have</i> passed away; behold, all things have become new.


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But all things <i>are</i> from God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ and gave the service of reconciliation to us;


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as that, God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ not counting to them their trespasses and having placed the word of reconciliation in us.


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Therefore, we are emissaries on behalf of Christ; as <i>though</i> God <i>is</i> encouraging you° through us. We are beseeching you° on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.


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For* the one who knew no sin, he <i>was</i> made* <i>the</i> sin <i>offering</i> on our behalf; in order that we might become the righteousness of God in him. [2 Corinthians 6]


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And working together with <i>him,</i> we are also encouraging you° to not accept the grace of God in vain;


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(for* he says, ‘I heard you at an acceptable time and I helped you in a day of salvation;' <n>{Isa 49:8}</n> behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now <i>is</i> the day of salvation),


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giving no one a stumbling block in anything, in order that the service <i>from us</i> might not be blamed.


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But <i>we are</i> commending ourselves in everything, as servants of God: in much endurance, in afflictions, in calamities, in distresses,


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in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in <i>the</i> Holy Spirit, in non-pretended love*,


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in the word of truth, in the power of God; through the weapons of righteousness from the right <i>hand</i> and from the left <i>hand</i>,


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as being unrecognized and <i>yet</i> being fully known; as dying and behold, we live; as being disciplined and <i>yet</i> not being slain;


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as sorrowful, yet <i>even</i> habitually rejoicing; as poor, yet enriching many; as having nothing and <i>yet</i> having all things.


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but the same <i>as</i> recompense, (I speak <i>to you</i> as to <i>my</i> children). You° also, be widened <i>in</i> your° <i>heart</i>s.


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<pb/>Do° not become unequally yoked with unbelieving <i>ones</i>; for* what partnership has righteousness and lawlessness? And what fellowship has light with darkness?


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And what agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believing <i>one</i> with an unbelieving <i>one</i>?


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And what alliance has a temple of God with idols? For* you° are a temple of the living God; just-as God said, ‘I will be dwelling among them and will be walking among them, and I will be their God and they will be a people to me.’


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Hence ‘Come out from the midst of them and be separate*,’ says the Lord, ‘And touch no unclean thing, and I will accept you°


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and will be a Father to you° and you° will be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.’ <n>{Lev 26:11-12; 2Sam 7:7, 14; Isa 52:11; Jer 32:38, 51:45; Ezek 20:34, 41, 37:27; Amos 4:13}</n> [2 Corinthians 7]


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Therefore beloved, having these promises, we should cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, completing <n>{Or: maturing}</n> holiness in <i>the</i> fear of God.


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<pb/>Make room for us <i>in your° hearts:</i> we wronged no one, we corrupted no one, we took-advantage of no one.


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I am not saying <i>this</i> toward your° condemnation; for* I have said before, that you° are in our hearts, *that* we may die together with <i>you</i>° and we may live together with <i>you</i>°.


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My boldness <i>of speech</i> toward you° <i>is</i> much; my boasting on your° behalf <i>is</i> much. I have been filled with <i>your</i> encouragement. I over-abound with joy in all our affliction.


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<pb/>For* even <i>after</i> we went into Macedonia, our flesh <i>still</i> had not had <i>any</i> relief, but <i>we were</i> being afflicted in everything; outside <i>were</i> quarrels, inside <i>were</i> fears.


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and not only at his presence, but also at the encouragement to which he was encouraged in you°, <i>while</i> reporting to us your° longing, your° anguish, your° zeal on my behalf; so-that I rejoiced <i>even</i> more.


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Because even if I made you° sorrowful in the <i>previous</i> letter, I do not regret <i>it</i>; even if I was regretting <i>it.</i> For* I see that, that letter made you° sorrowful, even if but for a short-time.


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I now rejoice, not that you° were made sorrowful, but that you° were made sorrowful to repentance; for* you° were made sorrowful according to <i>the will of</i> God, in order that you° might suffer-damage in nothing from us.


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For* the sorrow <i>which is</i> according <i>to the will</i> of God is working unregretted repentance *for salvation, but the sorrow of the world is working death.


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For* behold how-much diligence this same thing, (to be made sorrowful according to <i>the will of</i> God), worked in you°: but <i>what</i> a defense, but <i>what</i> indignation, but <i>what</i> fear, but <i>what</i> longing, but <i>what</i> zeal, but <i>what</i> vengeance! You° commended yourselves in everything to be pure in the matter.


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Consequently*, if I also wrote to you°, <i>it was</i> not because of the one who did wrong, nor because of the one who was wronged, but because of your° diligent-aid on our behalf to be made manifest to you° in God’s sight.


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Because of this, now, we have been encouraged in your° encouragement, we rejoiced even-more rather upon the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been given-rest from all of you°.


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Because if I have boasted in anything on your° behalf to him, I was not ashamed, but as we spoke all things to you° in truth, so also, our boasting in Titus became truth.


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And his affections are even-more toward you°, <i>while</i> he is remembering the obedience of all of you°, how with fear and trembling you° accepted him.


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<pb/>Now brethren, we are making known to you° the grace of God which has been given in the congregations* of Macedonia;


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because the abundance of their joy in much trial of affliction and according to the depth of their poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.


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I testify, because according to their power, and <i>yet</i> beyond their power, <i>they gave</i> of their own accord.


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<i>They were</i> beseeching from us, with much pleading, <i>to help in</i> the favor and the fellowship of the service <i>of relief</i> to the holy-ones;


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and, not <i>only</i> as we <i>had</i> hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and to us through the will of God.


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*That* we might encourage Titus, in order that just-as he made a beginning, so he might also complete this favor in you°.


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But just-as you° are abounding in everything, in faith and in word and in knowledge and in all diligence and in the love* from you° to us, <i>see</i> that* you° also may abound in this favor.


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I do not speak according to commandment, but <i>I am</i> testing the genuineness of your° love* through the diligence of others.


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For* you° know the favor of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, <i>though</i> he was rich, yet he became-poor because of you°, in order that you° might be enriched through that poverty.


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And I give <i>my</i> viewpoint in this; for* this is advantageous for you°, who made a beginning from <i>the</i> past-year, not only to do <i>this</i>, but also to will <i>this.</i>


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But now also, complete the doing <i>of it</i>; *that just-as <i>there was</i> the eagerness to wish <i>it</i>, so also to complete <i>it</i> out of what you° have.


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For* if the eagerness lays before you°, according to whatever someone has, it is acceptable, not according to <i>what</i> he does not have.


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For* <i>I do</i> not <i>say</i> that* <i>there should be</i> relief to others but affliction to you°, but from equality, your° abundance in this current time <i>is</i> *for their lack,


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as it has been written, ‘He who <i>gathered</i> much did not increase, and he who <i>gathered</i> few did not have less.’ <n>{Exo 16:18}</n>


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<pb/>But gratitude <i>is</i> to God, who is giving the same diligent-aid into the heart of Titus on your° behalf.


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Because he indeed accepted our encouragement, but being* more diligent, he went forth to you° of his own accord.


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Now we sent the brother together with the one whose praise in the good-news <i>is known</i> through all the congregations*;


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and not only <i>this</i>, but also, having been assigned by the congregations* <i>as</i> our fellow traveling-associate together with this favor, which is served by us to the glory of the same Lord and <i>to show</i> our eagerness.


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<i>We are</i> avoiding this thing, lest anyone might blame us in <i>the matter of</i> this lavish donation which is served by us;


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Now we sent our brother together with them, whom we proved often, many times <i>as</i> being diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, <i>by</i> the large confidence which <i>he has</i> in you°.


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If <i>anyone inquires</i> in regard to Titus, whether our brethren, the ambassadors* of the congregations* (the glory of Christ)– <i>he is</i> my partner and <i>my</i> fellow worker *for you°.


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Therefore show to them in the face of the congregations*, the example of your° love* and of our boasting on your° behalf.


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<pb/>For* indeed, concerning the <i>relief</i> service *for the holy-ones, it is superfluous for me to write to you°:


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for* I know your° eagerness, of which I am boasting on your° behalf to the Macedonians, that Achaia has been prepared from <i>the</i> past-year, and the zeal from you° stimulated most <i>of them.</i>


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But I sent the brethren, in order that our boasting on your° behalf may not be made void in this respect; in order that, just-as I was saying, you° may be prepared;


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lest, if <i>some</i> Macedonians come together with me and might find you° unprepared, we (that* we should not say, you°) should be ashamed in this firmness of boasting.


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Therefore I deemed it necessary to encourage the brethren, in order that they should go beforehand to you°, and should thus prearrange <i>the</i> bounty <n>{Or: blessing; and following verses}</n> you° have proclaimed beforehand. This is to be ready, as a bounty and not as <i>something from</i> greed.


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But <i>I say</i> this<i>,</i> He who is sowing sparingly will also be reaping sparingly, and he who is sowing upon <i>his</i> bounties will also be reaping upon <i>his</i> bounties.


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<i>Let</i> each man <i>give</i> just-as he proposes in his heart; not out of sorrow or out of necessity <n>{Or maybe: compulsion}</n> ; for* God loves* a joyful giver.


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Now God is able to <i>make</i> abound all grace toward you°; in order that having all self-sufficiency in everything, you° should always abound to every good work;


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as it has been written, ‘He scattered <i>them</i>, he gave to the poor; his righteousness remains forever.’ <n>{Psa 112:9}</n>


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Now he who is supplying seed to the sower and bread *for food, may supply and may multiply your° seed and may cause the growth of the fruits* of your° righteousness.


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Because the service of this ministry* not only is replenishing the things lacking of the holy-ones, but is also abounding through many thanksgivings to God;


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<i>because</i> through the trial <i>of</i> you° from this service they are glorifying God upon <i>the</i> subjection of your° confession toward the good-news of the Christ and <i>at</i> the liberality of your° generosity toward them and toward all;


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and in their supplication on your° behalf, a longing-for you° because of the surpassing grace of God upon you°.


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<pb/>Now I, Paul, myself, encourage you° through the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who <i>when</i> face to face <i>am</i> indeed humble among you°, but being absent am courageous toward you°.


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But I am beseeching <i>you</i>° (not <i>while</i> I am present*) to be courageous with the confidence in which I am reasoning to dare against some who reason us as walking according to the flesh.


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For* the weapons of our warfare <i>are</i> not fleshly, but <i>are</i> mighty in God, toward <i>the</i> demolition of strongholds,


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demolishing <i>evil</i> reasonings and every exalted thing which is lifting itself up against the knowledge of God and capturing every device <i>of the Adversary</i> to the obedience of the Christ;


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<pb/>Are you° looking at things according to <i>their</i> countenance? If anyone has confidence in himself to be Christ’s, let him count this again from <i>within</i> himself, that, just-as he <i>is</i> Christ’s, so <i>are</i> we also Christ’s.


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For* even if I am boasting even-more <i>of</i> something concerning our authority (which the Lord gave to us *for <i>your°</i> building up and not *for your° demolition), I will not be shamed;


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Because indeed he says, The letters are weighty and mighty, but the body’s presence is weak and the speech has been nothing <i>special</i>.


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Let such a one count this, that, such-as we are in word through letters, being absent, such <i>will we</i> also <i>be</i> in work, <i>while</i> we are present*.


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For* we are not daring to class or compare ourselves together with some of those who are commending themselves, but they themselves, measuring themselves in themselves and comparing themselves to themselves, do not understand.


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Now we will not be boasting in the immeasurable things, but according to the measure of the standard* of which the God of measure divided to us <i>which is able</i> to reach even to you°.


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For* we do not overstretch ourselves, as <i>though we are</i> not reaching toward you°; for* till we <i>have</i> attained even up to you° in the good-news of the Christ.


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<i>reaching out</i> to proclaim the good-news into <i>areas</i> past you° and not to boast in the things prepared in another’s standard*.


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For* he who commends himself, that <i>man</i> is not approved <i>after being tested</i>, but whom the Lord is commending.


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<pb/>I wish-that you° were tolerating me in a little foolishness, but even <i>as</i> you° are tolerating <i>other things</i> from me.


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For* I am jealous <i>over</i> you° with <i>the</i> jealousy of God; for* I espoused you° to one husband, to present you° <i>as</i> a pure virgin to the Christ.


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But I fear, lest <i>somehow</i>, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your° minds might be corrupted away from the clarity and the purity which <i>is leading</i> to the Christ.


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For* if he who indeed comes, is preaching another Jesus, whom we did not preach or <i>if</i> you° receive a different spirit, which you° did not receive or a different good-news, which you° did not accept, you° were tolerating <i>him</i> well<i>.</i>


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But even if <i>I am</i> unskilled in <i>my</i> speech, but <i>I am</i> not in knowledge! But in everything, we made <i>this knowledge</i> manifest to you° in all things.


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Or did I practice <i>some</i> sin <i>in</i> humbling myself in order that you° might be exalted, because I proclaimed freely the good-news of God to you°?


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And being present* with you° and having been lacking, I did not encumber anyone; for* the brethren who came from Macedonia, replenished my lack <i>of things</i> and I kept and will be keeping myself not burdensome to you° in everything.


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As the truth of Christ is in me, that this boasting will not be sealed up in me in the districts of Achaia.


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But what I am doing, I will also <i>continue to</i> be doing <i>it</i> in order that I may cut off the starting-point from those who wish for a starting-point in order that they may be found just-as we in what they are boasting.


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For* such <i>men are</i> false apostles, workers of treachery, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ.


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And <i>it is</i> not a marvelous thing; for* <i>even</i> the Adversary fashions himself into a messenger of light.


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Therefore, <i>it is</i> no great thing if his servants are also fashioned like servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.


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<pb/>I say again, not anyone should think me to be foolish; otherwise, (even if as foolish), accept me in order that I may also boast <i>in</i> a little something.


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What I speak in this firmness of boasting, I do not speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness.


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For* you° tolerate <i>it</i>, if anyone is enslaving <i>you</i>°, if anyone is devouring <i>you</i>°, if anyone is taking <i>from you</i>°, if anyone is lifting himself up, if anyone is whipping you° in the face.


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I speak according to <i>our</i> dishonor, as <i>though</i> we were weak. But in whatever anyone may be daring (I speak in foolishness), I am also daring.


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Are they servants of Christ? (I speak, <i>as if</i> having insanity) I <i>am</i> beyond <i>them</i>: in labors even-more, in lashes surpassingly, in prisons even-more, in deaths often.


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I was lashed with rods three-times. I was stoned once. I was shipwrecked three-times. I have spent a night and a day in the depth <i>of the sea</i>;


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often in journeys, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from <i>my own</i> race, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils by false brethren;


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in labor and hardship, often in sleeplessness, in famine and thirst, often in fasts, in cold and nakedness.


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Plus the things <i>which are</i> outside, my every day pressure <i>which is</i> the anxiety for all the congregations*.


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If it is essential <i>for me</i> to be boasting, I will be boasting <i>in</i> the things <i>which are</i> from my weakness.


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The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is gracious* forever, knows that I am not lying.


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In Damascus the Ethnarch of Aretas, the king, was guarding the Damascenes’ city, wishing to arrest me;


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and I was lowered through a window in a hamper <i>and</i> through the wall and fled away from his hands.


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<pb/>It is not advantageous for me to boast! For* I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.


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I know a man in Christ, <i>who</i> fourteen years before, (whether in <i>the</i> body, I do not know or outside of the body, I do not know; God knows), such a one was seized <i>up</i> to <i>the</i> third heaven.


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that he was seized <i>up</i> into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which it is not legal for man to speak.


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I will be boasting on behalf of such a one, but I will not be boasting on behalf of myself, except in my weaknesses.


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For* if I wish to boast, I will not be foolish; for* I will be speaking the truth, but I am refraining <i>because</i> no one should reason <i>of</i> me beyond what he sees <i>from</i> me or hears something out of me.


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And, in order that I should not promote myself by the excellence of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of <i>the</i> Adversary, in order that it might batter me, in order that I should not promote myself.


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I pleaded with the Lord three-times in regard to this thing, in order that it might withdraw from me.


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And he has said to me, <J>My grace is enough for you; for* my power is completed in weakness.</J> Therefore I will rather gladly be boasting in my weaknesses, in order that the power of the Christ might reside upon me.


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Hence I am delighting in weaknesses, in insults, in calamities, in persecutions, in distresses, on behalf of Christ; for* whenever I am weak, then I am mighty.


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<pb/>I have become a boasting fool. You° urged me <i>to it</i>. For* I ought to be commended by you°; for* I lacked in nothing <i>over</i> those preeminent apostles, even if I am nothing.


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Indeed the signs of an apostle were worked among you° in all endurance, in signs and wonders and miracles.


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For* in what is it that you° were lesser, beyond the rest <i>of the</i> congregations*, except <i>in</i> that I myself did not encumber you°? Forgive* me this unrighteousness!


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<pb/>Behold, I hold ready to come to you° the third-time, and I will not be encumbering you°; for* I am not seeking the things of you°, but you°; for* the children ought not to store up for the parents, but the parents for the children.


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Now I will gladly spend and be utterly spent on behalf of your° souls; even if, <i>when</i> loving* you° even-more, <i>means</i> I am loved* even-less.


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But let it be <i>so, nevertheless,</i> I did not burden you°. But, being* crafty, I took you° with treachery.


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I encouraged Titus and I sent the brother together with <i>him</i>. Did Titus take-advantage of any of you°? Did we not walk in the same spirit? <i>Did we</i> not <i>walk</i> in the same footprints?


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<pb/>Again, do you° think that we are defending ourselves to you°? We speak in Christ in God’s sight. But beloved, all things <i>are</i> on behalf of your° building up.


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For* I am fearing, lest, <i>if</i> I came, I should find you° such-as I do not will and <i>I</i> myself might be found by you° such-as you° do not will; lest <i>there should be</i> strifes, jealousies, furies, selfish ambitions, slanderers, malicious whisperers, arrogant-people, unrests;


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lest having come again, my God will humble me before you° and I should mourn for many of those who have sinned before and did not repent upon the uncleanness and fornication and unbridled-lusts in which they practiced.


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<pb/>This <i>will be the</i> third-time I am coming to you°. (Upon <i>the</i> mouth of two or three witnesses every declaration will be established.) <n>{Deu 19:15}</n>


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I have spoken <i>to</i> you° beforehand and I do say <i>again</i> like beforehand, being present* the second-time and <i>so</i> being absent now, I am writing <i>to warn</i> those who have sinned before and to all the rest, that, if I come to it again, I will not be sparing <i>them</i>,


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since you° are seeking proof of the Christ speaking in me; who is not weak toward you°, but is mighty in you°.


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For* even if he was crucified out of weakness, but <i>yet</i> he is living out of <i>the</i> power of God. For* we are also weak in him, but <i>yet</i> we will be living together with him out of <i>the</i> power of God toward you°.


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Test yourselves, if you° are in the faith! Test yourselves. Or do you° not fully know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you°, (lest you° are unapproved)?


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Now I pray to God <i>that</i> you° do nothing evil; not in order that we may appear approved, but in order that you° may do the good thing<i>s</i>, but <i>even if</i> we may be as unapproved.


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For* we are not able <i>to do</i> anything against the truth, but <i>are able</i> on behalf of the truth.


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For* we rejoice, whenever we are weak, but you° may be mighty. But we are also praying for this: your° completion <n>{Or: mending}</n> .


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I am writing these things because of this, <i>while</i> being absent, in order that I may not <i>need to</i> treat you° sharply <i>when</i> being present*, according to the authority which the Lord gave me *for building up and not *for demolition.


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<pb/>Furthermore brethren: rejoice; be° completed; be° comforted; be° mindful of the same thing; be° at peace; and the God of love* and peace will be with you°.


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The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love* of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, <i>is</i> with all of you°. <pb/>Amen. <pb/><br/><n>{NOTES: You should read the 'Definitions' Section and other non-bible sections.}</n><br/><pb/>


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<pb/>Paul, an apostle, (not from men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him up from <i>the</i> dead),


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who gave himself concerning our sins, *that he might liberate us out of the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father:


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<pb/>I marvel that you° are so quickly transferring yourselves from the one who called you° by the favor of Christ to a different good-news;


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which is not another <i>good-news</i>, except <i>now</i> there are some who are disturbing you° and wish to pervert the good-news of the Christ.


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But even if we or a messenger from heaven, should proclaim to you° any good-news contrary to what we ourselves proclaimed to you°, let him be accursed.


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As we have said before, so now I am saying again, if anyone proclaims to you° any good-news contrary to what you° received, let him be accursed.


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For* am I now persuading men or God? Or am I seeking to please men? For* if I was still pleasing men, I myself would not be a bondservant of Christ.


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<pb/>But I am making known to you°, brethren, the good-news which was proclaimed by me, that it is not according to man.


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For* I neither received it from man, nor was I taught <i>it</i>, but <i>I received it</i> through a revelation of Jesus Christ.


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For* you° <i>have</i> heard previously of my conduct in Judaism, how that I was surpassingly persecuting the congregation* <i>of believers</i> of God and was making havoc of her;


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and <i>how</i> I was progressing in Judaism beyond many <i>of my</i> contemporaries in my own race, possessing even-more zealousness for the ancestral traditions.


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But when God was delighted– he separated* me from my mother’s womb, having called me through his grace,


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to reveal his Son in me, in order that I may proclaim the good-news <i>of</i> him among the nations. Immediately, I did not consult with flesh and blood;


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nor did I go up into Jerusalem to those <i>who were</i> apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia, and I returned again into Damascus.


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<pb/>Thereafter, after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to make the acquaintance of Peter and remained with him fifteen days. <n>{Fall 39 AD.}</n>


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but they were only hearing that, He who previously persecuted us is now proclaiming the good-news of the faith of which he was previously making havoc.


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<pb/>Thereafter, I went-up again to Jerusalem after fourteen years with Barnabas, also having taken Titus together with me. <n>{Acts 15}</n>


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But I went-up according to revelation, and I myself submitted to them the good-news which I am preaching among the Gentiles, (but privately before those of repute), lest I might be running or had run in vain.


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But <i>it was</i> because of false brethren who were smuggled in, who entered in beside <i>us</i> to spy out our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, in order that they might enslave us;


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to whom, even for an hour, we did not yield to <i>their</i> subjection; in order that the truth of the good-news might remain with you°.


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<pb/>Now they did not contribute anything to me, <i>that is from</i> those of repute <i>and</i> from those reputed to be something (for* what sort of <i>person</i> they were previously, carries nothing of any-value to me; God does not receive the countenance of man).


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But instead, <i>after</i> they saw that I had been entrusted <i>with</i> the good-news of the uncircumcision, just-as Peter <i>that</i> of the circumcision


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(for* he who worked in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision also worked in me to the Gentiles).


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And having known the grace which was given to me, James and Cephas and John, (those reputed to be pillars), gave the right <i>hand</i> of fellowship to me and Barnabas, that* indeed we <i>should go</i> to the Gentiles but they <i>should go</i> to the circumcision,


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<i>adding</i> only that* we should remember the poor; which I was diligent also to do this same thing.


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<pb/>But when Peter came to Antioch, I stood against him to <i>his</i> face, because he was being condemned.


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For* he was eating together with the Gentiles before some came from James. But when they came, he was retreating back and separating* himself, fearing those who were from the circumcision.


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And the rest of the Jews were also hypocrites together with him; so-that even Barnabas was led away with their hypocrisy.


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But when I saw that they are not <i>being</i> straightforward according to the truth of the good-news, I said to Peter before <i>them</i> all, If you, being* a Jew, are living like-a-Gentile and not like-a-Jew, why are you urging the Gentiles to <i>live</i> like-a-Jew?


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knowing that a man is not made righteous from <i>the</i> works of <i>the</i> law, if <i>it is</i> not through <i>the</i> faith of Jesus Christ. Also we believed in Christ Jesus, in order that we might be made righteous from <i>the</i> faith of Christ and not from <i>the</i> works of <i>the</i> law, because not any flesh will be made righteous from the works of the law.


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<pb/>But if seeking to be made righteous in Christ; if we ourselves were also found <i>to be</i> sinners, <i>is</i> then Christ a servant of sin? Let it not happen!


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For* if I build up again those things which I tore-down, I establish myself <i>as</i> a transgressor.


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<pb/>I have been crucified together with Christ. I am now no longer living, but Christ is living in me and that <i>life</i> which I am now living in the flesh, I am living in faith, in the <i>faith</i> of the Son of God, who loved* me and gave himself up on my behalf.


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I am not nullifying the grace of God; for* if righteousness <i>is</i> through <i>the</i> law, consequently*, Christ died undeservedly.


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<pb/>O foolish Galatians, who bewitched you° <i>that</i> the truth <i>is</i> not to be obeyed, (in whose eyes, Jesus Christ was portrayed among you° <i>as</i> having been crucified)?


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I only wish to learn this thing from you°. Did you° receive the Spirit from <i>the</i> works of <i>the</i> law or from the report of faith?


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Therefore, is the one supplying the Spirit to you°, and working miracles among you°, <i>are they</i> from <i>the</i> works of the law or from the report of faith?


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Now the Scripture foreseeing that God <i>would</i> make righteous the Gentiles from faith, proclaimed the good-news beforehand to Abraham, <i>saying,</i> ‘All the nations will be blessed in you.’ <n>{Gen 12:3, 18:18, 22:18, 26:4, 28:14}</n>


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For* as many as are from <i>the</i> works of <i>the</i> law are under a curse; for* it has been written, ‘Cursed <i>is</i> everyone who is not remaining in all things which have been written in the book of the law, <i>and</i> to practice them.’ <n>{Deu 27:26}</n>


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Now it is evident that no one is made righteous in <i>the</i> law before God, because, ‘The righteous will be living from faith.’ <n>{Hab. 2:4}</n>


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Now the law is not from faith, but, ‘The man who <i>has</i> practiced them will be living in them.’ <n>{Lev 18:5}</n>


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Christ bought us up out of the curse of the law, <i>after</i> he became a curse on our behalf; for* it has been written, ‘Cursed <i>is</i> everyone who hangs upon a tree,’ <n>{Deu 21:23}</n>


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in order that the blessing of Abraham might happen to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus; in order that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through the faith.


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<pb/>Brethren, I am speaking according to <i>the manner of</i> man, even a man’s covenant* <i>after</i> it has been validated, no one nullifies or alters it with provisions.


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Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He did not say and to seeds, as upon many, but as upon one and ‘to your seed,’ which is <i>the</i> Christ. <n>{Gen 22:18, 26:4}</n>


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Now I am saying this: <i>the</i> law, having happened four hundred and thirty years after<i>ward</i>, is not invalidating <i>the</i> covenant* that has been validated beforehand by God <i>in reference</i> to Christ, *that* it should do-away-with the promise. <n>{Exo 12:40}</n>


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For* if the inheritance is from <i>the</i> law, it is no more from <i>the</i> promise, but God has granted it to Abraham through <i>the</i> promise.


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Therefore why <i>was</i> the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed would come to whom it has been promised; having been appointed through messengers by the hand of an intermediary.


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Therefore <i>is the</i> law against the promises of God? Let it not happen! For* if a law was given which is able to give-life, righteousness really would have been from <i>the</i> law.


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But the Scriptures locked up all things together under sin, in order that the promise <i>which comes</i> from <i>the</i> faith of Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.


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<pb/>But before the faith came, we were being guarded under <i>the</i> law, having been locked up together to the faith which was about to be revealed.


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So-that the law has become our guardian* <i>to bring us</i> to Christ, in order that we might be made righteous from <i>the</i> faith.


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There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bondservant nor free <i>man</i>, there is no male and female; for* you° all are one in Christ Jesus.


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But if you° <i>are</i> consequently* Christ’s, you° are also Abraham’s seed and heirs according to <i>the</i> promise.


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<pb/>But I am saying inasmuch time as the heir is an infant, he carries nothing <i>of</i> more-value-than <i>that</i> of a bondservant, <i>though</i> being lord of all;


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But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born out of a woman, born under <i>the</i> law,


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in order that he might buy those up who were under <i>the</i> law, in order that we might receive the sonship<i>.</i>


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And because you° are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.


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So-that you are no longer a bondservant, but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.


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<pb/>But indeed <i>back</i> then, not knowing God, you° were enslaved to those who by nature are not gods.


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But now having known God, but rather having been known by God, how are you° turning back again to the weak and poor fundamental principles? Do you° again wish to be enslaved to these anew?


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<pb/>Brethren, I beseech of you°, become like I <i>am</i>, because I <i>have</i> also <i>become</i> like you° <i>are</i>. You° wronged me <i>in</i> nothing;


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but you° know that I myself proclaimed the good-news to you° beforehand because of a weakness of the flesh.


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And you° did not scorn, nor did you° spurn my test, which <i>was</i> in my flesh; but you° accepted me as a messenger of God, <i>even</i> as Christ Jesus.


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Therefore what was your good-fortune? For* I testify of you°, that, if possible, you° would have given your° eyes to me, having popped them out.


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They are zealous <i>for</i> you° <i>in</i> no good <i>way</i>. But they wish to lock you° out <i>from us</i>, in order that you° may be zealous for them.


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My little-children, of whom I am in travail again till when Christ should be formed in you° <i>again</i>.


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For* it has been written, that Abraham had two sons, one from the maidservant and one from the free <i>woman.</i> <n>{Gen 21:2-9}</n>


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But indeed the one from the maidservant has been born according to the flesh, but the one from the free <i>woman has been born</i> through the promise.


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Which things are allegorized; for* these <i>women</i> are two covenants*; indeed one from Mount Sinai, who is Hagar, giving-birth to <i>children</i> into bondage.


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For* this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the Jerusalem <i>which is</i> now and she is enslaved with her children.


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For* it has been written, ‘Barren one who is not bearing <i>children,</i> be joyous; burst <i>forth</i> and cry, the one who is not travailing, because many more are the children of the desolate rather than from her who has the husband.’ <n>{Isa 54:1}</n>


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But just-like then, he who was born according to the flesh was persecuting the one <i>who was born</i> according to <i>the</i> Spirit, so it is also now.


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But what does the Scripture say? Cast out the maidservant and her son; for* the son of the maidservant should never inherit with the son of the free <i>woman.</i> <n>{Gen 21:10}</n>


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<pb/>Therefore stand-firm° in the freedom in which Christ made us free, and do° not be held again in a yoke of bondage.


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<pb/>Behold, I Paul say to you°, that, if you° are circumcised, Christ will be profiting you° nothing.


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Now, I am testifying again to every man being circumcised, that he is a debtor to practice the whole law.


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You° were done-away-with, <i>cut off</i> from the Christ, you° who are made righteous by <i>the</i> law; you° fell from the grace <i>of God.</i>


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For* neither circumcision nor uncircumcision prevails <i>over</i> anything in Christ Jesus, but faith working through love*.


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I have confidence in you° in the Lord, that you° will not be mindful of another <i>person</i> and he who is disturbing you° will be bearing his judgment, whoever he is.


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But I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Consequently*, has the offense of the cross been done-away?


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<pb/>For* brethren, you° were called to freedom; only do not <i>use</i> your° freedom *for a starting-point for the flesh, but serve*° one another through love*.


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For* all <i>the</i> law is fulfilled in one word, in this: ‘You will love* your neighbor like yourself.’ <n>{Lev 19:18}</n>


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But if you° are biting and devouring one another, beware°, <i>that</i> you° may not be consumed by one another.


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<pb/>But I am saying, walk° by <i>the</i> Spirit and you° should never complete the lust of the flesh.


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For* the flesh lusts against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh, and these lay in opposition to one another; in order that you° may not do these things which you° would wish.


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<pb/>Now the works of the flesh are apparent, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, unbridled-lusts,


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envies, murders, drunkenness, revelings and things similar to these things; which I am telling to you° beforehand, also just-as I foretold to you°, that those who are practicing such things– they will not be inheriting the kingdom of God!


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But those who <i>are</i> of the Christ crucified the flesh together with <i>its</i> passions and lusts.


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<pb/>Brethren, even if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you°, the spiritual, mend° such a one in a spirit of meekness; noting <i>any trespass in</i> yourself, lest you might also be tempted.


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But let each <i>one</i> test his own work and then he will have his boasting toward himself alone and not toward the other.


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<pb/>But let him, who is instructed in the word, share in all good things with the one who instructs.


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Do° not be misled. God is not ridiculed; for* whatever a man sows, he will also be reaping this thing.


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Because he who is sowing to his own flesh will be reaping corruption from <i>his</i> flesh, but he who is sowing to the Spirit will be reaping everlasting life from the Spirit.


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Now we should not be depressed <i>in</i> practicing good; for* we will be reaping in our own time, <i>if</i> we do not faint.


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Therefore consequently*, as we have opportunity, we should work <i>what is</i> the good thing toward all men but especially in the household of the faith.


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<pb/>As many as wish to have a good* countenance in the flesh, these are urging you° to be circumcised; only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of the Christ.


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For* not even those who are <i>being</i> circumcised, they themselves observe <i>the</i> law, but they wish you° to be circumcised, in order that they may boast in your° flesh.


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But let it not happen for me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me and I to the world.


