# verses

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‘You wicked, lazy servant!’ said his master, ‘So you knew, did you, that I harvest where I haven’t planted? and that I gather where I didn’t sow seed?


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Then you should have deposited my money with the bankers, so that when I returned, I would at least have gotten back interest with my capital!


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For everyone who has something will be given more, so that he will have more than enough; but from anyone who has nothing, even what he does have will be taken away.


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As for this worthless servant, throw him out in the dark, where people will wail and grind their teeth!’


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“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, accompanied by all the angels, he will sit on his glorious throne.


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All the nations will be assembled before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates sheep from goats.


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“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you whom my Father has blessed, take your inheritance, the Kingdom prepared for you from the founding of the world.


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For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you made me your guest,


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I needed clothes and you provided them, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.’


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Then the people who have done what God wants will reply, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?


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The King will say to them, ‘Yes! I tell you that whenever you did these things for one of the least important of these brothers of mine, you did them for me!’


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“Then he will also speak to those on his left, saying, ‘Get away from me, you who are cursed! Go off into the fire prepared for the Adversary and his angels!


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a stranger and you did not welcome me, needing clothes and you did not give them to me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’


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Then they too will reply, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, thirsty, a stranger, needing clothes, sick or in prison, and not take care of you?’


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And he will answer them, ‘Yes! I tell you that whenever you refused to do it for the least important of these people, you refused to do it for me!’


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They will go off to eternal punishment, but those who have done what God wants will go to eternal life.”


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“As you know, Pesach is two days away, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be nailed to the execution-stake.”


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Then the head cohanim and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of Kayafa the cohen hagadol.


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A woman who had an alabaster jar filled with very expensive perfume approached Yeshua while he was eating and began pouring it on his head.


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But Yeshua, aware of what was going on, said to them, “Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful thing for me.


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Yes! I tell you that throughout the whole world, wherever this Good News is proclaimed, what she has done will be told in her memory.”


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and said, “What are you willing to give me if I turn Yeshua over to you?” They counted out thirty silver coins and gave them to Y’hudah.


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On the first day for matzah, the talmidim came to Yeshua and asked, “Where do you want us to prepare your Seder?”


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“Go into the city, to so-and-so,” he replied, “and tell him that the Rabbi says, ‘My time is near, my talmidim and I are celebrating Pesach at your house.’”


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They became terribly upset and began asking him, one after the other, “Lord, you don’t mean me, do you?”


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The Son of Man will die just as the Tanakh says he will; but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for him had he never been born!”


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Y’hudah, the one who was betraying him, then asked, “Surely, Rabbi, you don’t mean me?” He answered, “The words are yours.”


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While they were eating, Yeshua took a piece of matzah, made the b’rakhah, broke it, gave it to the talmidim and said, “Take! Eat! This is my body!”


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Also he took a cup of wine, made the b’rakhah, and gave it to them, saying, “All of you, drink from it!


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For this is my blood, which ratifies the New Covenant, my blood shed on behalf of many, so that they may have their sins forgiven.


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I tell you, I will not drink this ‘fruit of the vine’ again until the day I drink new wine with you in my Father’s Kingdom.”


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Yeshua then said to them, “Tonight you will all lose faith in me, as the Tanakh says, ‘I will strike the shepherd dead, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’


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Yeshua said to him, “Yes! I tell you that tonight before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times!”


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“Even if I must die with you,” Kefa replied, “I will never disown you!” And all the talmidim said the same thing.


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Then Yeshua went with his talmidim to a place called Gat-Sh’manim and said to them, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.”


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and he said to them, “My heart is so filled with sadness that I could die! Remain here and stay awake with me.”


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Going on a little farther, he fell on his face, praying, “My Father, if possible, let this cup pass from me! Yet — not what I want, but what you want!”


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He returned to the talmidim and found them sleeping. He said to Kefa, “Were you so weak that you couldn’t stay awake with me for even an hour?


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Stay awake, and pray that you will not be put to the test — the spirit indeed is eager, but human nature is weak.”


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A second time he went off and prayed. “My Father, if this cup cannot pass away unless I drink it, let what you want be done.”


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Then he came to the talmidim and said, “For now, go on sleeping, take your rest. . . . Look! The time has come for the Son of Man to be betrayed into the hands of sinners.


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While Yeshua was still speaking, Y’hudah (one of the Twelve!) came, and with him a large crowd carrying swords and clubs, from the head cohanim and elders of the people.


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Yeshua said to him, “Friend, do what you came to do.” Then they moved forward, laid hold of Yeshua and arrested him.


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At that, one of the men with Yeshua reached for his sword, drew it out and struck at the servant of the cohen hagadol, cutting off his ear.


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Yeshua said to him, “Put your sword back where it belongs, for everyone who uses the sword will die by the sword.


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Don’t you know that I can ask my Father, and he will instantly provide more than a dozen armies of angels to help me?


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But if I did that, how could the passages in the Tanakh be fulfilled that say it has to happen this way?”


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Then Yeshua addressed the crowd: “So you came out to take me with swords and clubs, the way you would the leader of a rebellion? Every day I sat in the Temple court, teaching; and you didn’t seize me then.


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But all this has happened so that what the prophets wrote may be fulfilled.” Then the talmidim all deserted him and ran away.


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Those who had seized Yeshua led him off to Kayafa the cohen hagadol, where the Torah-teachers and elders were assembled.


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Kefa followed him at a distance as far as the courtyard of the cohen hagadol; then he went inside and sat down with the guards to see what the outcome would be.


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The head cohanim and the whole Sanhedrin looked for some false evidence against Yeshua, so that they might put him to death.


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But they didn’t find any, even though many liars came forward to give testimony. At last, however, two people came forward and said,


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The cohen hagadol stood up and said, “Have you nothing to say to the accusation these men are making?”


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Yeshua remained silent. The cohen hagadol said to him, “I put you under oath! By the living God, tell us if you are the Mashiach, the Son of God!”


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Yeshua said to him, “The words are your own. But I tell you that one day you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of HaG’vurah and coming on the clouds of heaven.”


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At this, the cohen hagadol tore his robes. “Blasphemy!” he said. “Why do we still need witnesses? You heard him blaspheme!


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Kefa was sitting outside in the courtyard when a servant girl came up to him. “You too were with Yeshua from the Galil,” she said.


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He went out onto the porch, and another girl saw him and said to the people there, “This man was with Yeshua of Natzeret.”


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After a little while, the bystanders approached Kefa and said, “You must be one of them — your accent gives you away.”


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This time he began to invoke a curse on himself as he swore, “I do not know the man!” — and immediately a rooster crowed.


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Kefa remembered what Yeshua had said, “Before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times”; and he went outside and cried bitterly.


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Early in the morning, all the head cohanim and elders met to plan how to bring about Yeshua’s death.


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When Y’hudah, who had betrayed him, saw that Yeshua had been condemned, he was seized with remorse and returned the thirty silver coins to the head cohanim and elders,


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saying, “I sinned in betraying an innocent man to death.” “What is that to us?” they answered. “That’s your problem.”


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The head cohanim took the silver coins and said, “It is prohibited to put this into the Temple treasury, because it is blood money.”


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Then what Yirmeyahu the prophet spoke was fulfilled, “And they took the thirty silver coins, which was the price the people of Isra’el had agreed to pay for him,


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Meanwhile, Yeshua was brought before the governor, and the governor put this question to him: “Are you the King of the Jews?” Yeshua answered, “The words are yours.”


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It was the governor’s custom during a festival to set free one prisoner, whomever the crowd asked for.


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So when a crowd had gathered, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to set free for you? Bar-Abba? or Yeshua, called ‘the Messiah’?”


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While he was sitting in court, his wife sent him a message, “Leave that innocent man alone. Today in a dream I suffered terribly because of him.”


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But the head cohanim persuaded the crowd to ask for Bar-Abba’s release and to have Yeshua executed on the stake.


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“Which of the two do you want me to set free for you?” asked the governor. “Bar-Abba!” they answered.


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Pilate said to them, “Then what should I do with Yeshua, called ‘the Messiah’?” They all said, “Put him to death on the stake! Put him to death on the stake!”


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When he asked, “Why? What crime has he committed?” they shouted all the louder, “Put him to death on the stake!”


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When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but rather that a riot was starting, he took water, washed his hands in front of the crowd, and said, “My hands are clean of this man’s blood; it’s your responsibility.”


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Then he released to them Bar-Abba; but Yeshua, after having him whipped, he handed over to be executed on a stake.


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The governor’s soldiers took Yeshua into the headquarters building, and the whole battalion gathered around him.


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wove thorn-branches into a crown and put it on his head, and put a stick in his right hand. Then they kneeled down in front of him and made fun of him: “Hail to the King of the Jews!”


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When they had finished ridiculing him, they took off the robe, put his own clothes back on him and led him away to be nailed to the execution-stake.


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As they were leaving, they met a man from Cyrene named Shim‘on; and they forced him to carry Yeshua’s execution-stake.


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Above his head they placed the written notice stating the charge against him, THIS IS YESHUA THE KING OF THE JEWS


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and saying, “So you can destroy the Temple, can you, and rebuild it in three days? Save yourself, if you are the Son of God, and come down from the stake!”


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“He saved others, but he can’t save himself!” “So he’s King of Isra’el, is he? Let him come down now from the stake! Then we’ll believe him!”


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“He trusted God? So, let him rescue him if he wants him! After all, he did say, ‘I’m the Son of God’!”


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At about three, Yeshua uttered a loud cry, “Eli! Eli! L’mah sh’vaktani? (My God! My God! Why have you deserted me?)”


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Immediately one of them ran and took a sponge, soaked it in vinegar, put it on a stick and gave it to him to drink.


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At that moment the parokhet in the Temple was ripped in two from top to bottom; and there was an earthquake, with rocks splitting apart.


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and after Yeshua rose, they came out of the graves and went into the holy city, where many people saw them.


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When the Roman officer and those with him who were keeping watch over Yeshua saw the earthquake and what was happening, they were awestruck and said, “He really was a son of God.”


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There were many women there, looking on from a distance; they had followed Yeshua from the Galil, helping him.


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Among them were Miryam from Magdala, Miryam the mother of Ya‘akov and Yosef, and the mother of Zavdai’s sons.


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Towards evening, there came a wealthy man from Ramatayim named Yosef, who was himself a talmid of Yeshua.


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and laid it in his own tomb, which he had recently had cut out of the rock. After rolling a large stone in front of the entrance to the tomb, he went away.


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and said, “Sir, we remember that that deceiver said while he was still alive, ‘After three days I will be raised.’


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Therefore, order that the grave be made secure till the third day; otherwise the talmidim may come, steal him away and say to the people, ‘He was raised from the dead’; and the last deception will be worse than the first.”


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After Shabbat, as the next day was dawning, Miryam of Magdala and the other Miryam went to see the grave.


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Suddenly there was a violent earthquake, for an angel of Adonai came down from heaven, rolled away the stone and sat on it.


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But the angel said to the women, “Don’t be afraid. I know you are looking for Yeshua, who was executed on the stake.


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He is not here, because he has been raised — just as he said! Come and look at the place where he lay.


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Then go quickly and tell the talmidim, ‘He has been raised from the dead, and now he is going to the Galil ahead of you. You will see him there.’ Now I have told you.”


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So they left the tomb quickly, frightened yet filled with joy; and they ran to give the news to his talmidim.


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Suddenly Yeshua met them and said, “Shalom!” They came up and took hold of his feet as they fell down in front of him.


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Then Yeshua said to them, “Don’t be afraid! Go and tell my brothers to go to the Galil, and they will see me there.”


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As they were going, some of the guards went into the city and reported to the head cohanim everything that had happened.


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Then they met with the elders; and after discussing the matter, they gave the soldiers a sizeable sum of money


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and said to them, “Tell people, ‘His talmidim came during the night and stole his body while we were sleeping.’


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If the governor hears of it, we will put things right with him and keep you from getting in trouble.”


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The soldiers took the money and did as they were told, and this story has been spread about by Judeans till this very day.


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Yeshua came and talked with them. He said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.


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Therefore, go and make people from all nations into talmidim, immersing them into the reality of the Father, the Son and the Ruach HaKodesh,


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and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember! I will be with you always, yes, even until the end of the age.”


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It is written in the prophet Yesha‘yahu, “See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you; he will prepare the way before you.”


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“The voice of someone crying out: ‘In the desert prepare the way for Adonai! Make straight paths for him!’”


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So it was that Yochanan the Immerser appeared in the desert, proclaiming an immersion involving turning to God from sin in order to be forgiven.


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People went out to him from all over Y’hudah, as did all the inhabitants of Yerushalayim. Confessing their sins, they were immersed by him in the Yarden River.


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Yochanan wore clothes of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist; he ate locusts and wild honey.


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He proclaimed: “After me is coming someone who is more powerful than I — I’m not worthy even to bend down and untie his sandals.


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Shortly thereafter, Yeshua came from Natzeret in the Galil and was immersed in the Yarden by Yochanan.


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Immediately upon coming up out of the water, he saw heaven torn open and the Spirit descending upon him like a dove;


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and he was in the wilderness forty days being tempted by the Adversary. He was with the wild animals, and the angels took care of him.


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As he walked beside Lake Kinneret, he saw Shim‘on and Andrew, Shim‘on’s brother, casting a net into the lake; for they were fishermen.


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Going on a little farther, he saw Ya‘akov Ben-Zavdai and Yochanan, his brother, in their boat, repairing their nets.


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Immediately he called them, and they left their father Zavdai in the boat with the hired men and went after Yeshua.


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They were amazed at the way he taught, for he did not instruct them like the Torah-teachers but as one who had authority himself.


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“What do you want with us, Yeshua from Natzeret? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are — the Holy One of God!”


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They were all so astounded that they began asking each other, “What is this? A new teaching, one with authority behind it! He gives orders even to the unclean spirits, and they obey him!”


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He came, took her by the hand and lifted her onto her feet. The fever left her, and she began helping them.


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He healed many who were ill with various diseases and expelled many demons, but he did not allow the demons to speak, because they knew who he was.


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Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Yeshua got up, left, went away to a lonely spot and stayed there praying.


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He answered, “Let’s go somewhere else — to the other villages around here. I have to proclaim the message there too — in fact this is why I came out.”


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A man afflicted with tzara‘at came to Yeshua and begged him on his knees, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.”


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Moved with pity, Yeshua reached out his hand, touched him and said to him, “I am willing! Be cleansed!”


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“See to it that you tell no one; instead, as a testimony to the people, go and let the cohen examine you, and offer for your cleansing what Moshe commanded.”


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But he went out and began spreading the news, talking freely about it; so that Yeshua could no longer enter a town openly but stayed out in the country, where people continued coming to him from all around.


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and so many people gathered around the house that there was no longer any room, not even in front of the door. While he was preaching the message to them,


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They could not get near Yeshua because of the crowd, so they stripped the roof over the place where he was, made an opening, and lowered the stretcher with the paralytic lying on it.


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But immediately Yeshua, perceiving in his spirit what they were thinking, said to them, “Why are you thinking these things?


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Which is easier to say to the paralyzed man? ‘Your sins are forgiven’? or ‘Get up, pick up your stretcher and walk’?


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But look! I will prove to you that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” He then said to the paralytic,


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In front of everyone the man got up, picked up his stretcher at once and left. They were all utterly amazed and praised God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this!”


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As he passed on from there, he saw Levi Ben-Halfai sitting in his tax-collection booth and said to him, “Follow me!” And he got up and followed him.


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As Yeshua was in Levi’s house eating, many tax-collectors and sinners were sitting with Yeshua and his talmidim, for there were many of them among his followers.


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When the Torah-teachers and the P’rushim saw that he was eating with sinners and tax-collectors, they said to his talmidim, “Why does he eat with tax-collectors and sinners?”


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But, hearing the question, Yeshua answered them, “The ones who need a doctor aren’t the healthy but the sick. I didn’t come to call the ‘righteous’ but sinners!”


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Also Yochanan’s talmidim and the P’rushim were fasting; and they came and asked Yeshua, “Why is it that Yochanan’s talmidim and the talmidim of the P’rushim fast, but your talmidim don’t fast?”


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Yeshua answered them, “Can wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is still with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, fasting is out of the question.


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But the time will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them; and when that day comes, they will fast.


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No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old coat; if he does, the new patch tears away from the old cloth and leaves a worse hole.


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And no one puts new wine in old wineskins; if he does, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the skins will be ruined. Rather, new wine is for freshly prepared wineskins.”


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One Shabbat Yeshua was passing through some wheat fields; and as they went along, his talmidim began picking heads of grain.


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He said to them, “Haven’t you ever read what David did when he and those with him were hungry and needed food?


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He entered the House of God when Evyatar was cohen gadol and ate the Bread of the Presence,” — which is forbidden for anyone to eat but the cohanim — “and even gave some to his companions.”


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Looking for a reason to accuse him of something, people watched him carefully to see if he would heal him on Shabbat.


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Then to them he said, “What is permitted on Shabbat? Doing good or doing evil? Saving life or killing?” But they said nothing.


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Then, looking them over and feeling both anger with them and sympathy for them at the stoniness of their hearts, he said to the man, “Hold out your hand.” As he held it out, it became restored.


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The P’rushim went out and immediately began plotting with some members of Herod’s party how to do away with him.


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When they heard what he was doing, great numbers also followed him from Y’hudah, Yerushalayim, Idumea, the territory beyond the Yarden, and the Tzor-Tzidon area.


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He told his talmidim to have a boat ready for him, so that he could escape the crush of the crowd if necessary,


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Whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they would fall down in front of him and scream, “You are the Son of God!”


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Then he went up into the hill country and summoned to himself those he wanted, and they came to him.


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Ya‘akov Ben-Zavdai and Yochanan, Ya‘akov’s brother — to them he gave the name “B’nei-Regesh” (that is, “Thunderers”);


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When his family heard about this, they set out to take charge of him; for they said, “He’s out of his mind!”


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The Torah-teachers who came down from Yerushalayim said, “He has Ba‘al-Zibbul in him,” and “It is by the ruler of the demons that he expels the demons.”


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So if Satan has rebelled against himself and is divided, he can’t survive either; and that’s the end of him.


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Furthermore, no one can break into a strong man’s house and make off with his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man. After that, he can ransack his house.


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however, someone who blasphemes against the Ruach HaKodesh never has forgiveness but is guilty of an eternal sin.”


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A crowd was sitting around him; and they said to him, “Your mother and your brothers are outside, asking for you.”


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Again Yeshua began to teach by the lake, but the crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat on the lake and sat there, while the crowd remained on shore at the water’s edge.


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but when the sun rose, the young plants were scorched; and since their roots were not deep, they dried up.


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But other seed fell into rich soil and produced grain; it sprouted, and grew, and yielded a crop — thirty, sixty, even a hundred times what was sown.”


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He answered them, “To you the secret of the Kingdom of God has been given; but to those outside, everything is in parables,


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so that they may be always looking but never seeing; always listening but never understanding. Otherwise, they might turn and be forgiven!”


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Then Yeshua said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you be able to understand any parable?


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Those alongside the path where the message is sown are people who no sooner hear it than the Adversary comes and takes away the message sown in them.


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Likewise, those receiving seed on rocky patches are people who hear the message and joyfully accept it at once;


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but they have no root in themselves. So they hold out for a while, but as soon as some trouble or persecution arises on account of the message, they immediately fall away.


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but the worries of the world, the deceitful glamor of wealth and all the other kinds of desires push in and choke the message; so that it produces nothing.


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But those sown on rich soil hear the message, accept it and bear fruit — thirty, sixty or a hundredfold.”


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He said to them, “A lamp isn’t brought in to be put under a bowl or under the bed, is it? Wouldn’t you put it on a lampstand?


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Indeed, nothing is hidden, except to be disclosed; and nothing is covered up, except to come out into the open.


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He also said to them, “Pay attention to what you are hearing! The measure with which you measure out will be used to measure to you — and more besides!


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For anyone who has something will be given more; but from anyone who has nothing, even what he does have will be taken away.”


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By itself the soil produces a crop — first the stalk, then the head, and finally the full grain in the head.


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Yeshua also said, “With what can we compare the Kingdom of God? What illustration should we use to describe it?


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but after it has been planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all the plants, with such big branches that the birds flying about can build nests in its shade.”


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With many parables like these he spoke the message to them, to the extent that they were capable of hearing it.


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He did not say a thing to them without using a parable; when he was alone with his own talmidim he explained everything to them.


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So, leaving the crowd behind, they took him just as he was, in the boat; and there were other boats with him.


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A furious windstorm arose, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was close to being swamped.


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But he was in the stern on a cushion, asleep. They woke him and said to him, “Rabbi, doesn’t it matter to you that we’re about to be killed?”


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He awoke, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet! Be still!” The wind subsided, and there was a dead calm.


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But they were terrified and asked each other, “Who can this be, that even the wind and the waves obey him?”


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He had often been chained hand and foot, but he would snap the chains and break the irons off his feet, and no one was strong enough to control him.


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Night and day he wandered among the graves and through the hills, howling and gashing himself with stones.


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and screamed at the top of his voice, “What do you want with me, Yeshua, Son of God Ha‘Elyon? I implore you in God’s name! Don’t torture me!”


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Yeshua gave them permission. They came out and entered the pigs; and the herd, numbering around two thousand, rushed down the hillside into the lake and were drowned.


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The swineherds fled and told it in the town and in the surrounding country, and the people went to see what had happened.


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They came to Yeshua and saw the man who had had the legion of demons, sitting there, dressed and in his right mind; and they were frightened.


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As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been demonized begged him to be allowed to go with him.


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But Yeshua would not permit it. Instead, he said to him, “Go home to your people, and tell them how much Adonai in his mercy has done for you.”


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He went off and began proclaiming in the Ten Towns how much Yeshua had done for him, and everyone was amazed.


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and pleaded desperately with him, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Please! Come and lay your hands on her, so that she will get well and live!”


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and had suffered a great deal under many physicians. She had spent her life savings; yet instead of improving, she had grown worse.


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Instantly the hemorrhaging stopped, and she felt in her body that she had been healed from the disease.


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At the same time, Yeshua, aware that power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?”


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His talmidim responded, “You see the people pressing in on you; and still you ask, ‘Who touched me?’”


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The woman, frightened and trembling, because she knew what had happened to her, came and fell down in front of him and told him the whole truth.


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“Daughter,” he said to her, “your trust has healed you. Go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”


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While he was still speaking, people from the synagogue official’s house came, saying, “Your daughter has died. Why bother the rabbi any longer?”


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Ignoring what they had said, Yeshua told the synagogue official, “Don’t be afraid, just keep trusting.”


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When they came to the synagogue official’s house, he found a great commotion, with people weeping and wailing loudly.


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On entering, he said to them, “Why all this commotion and weeping? The child isn’t dead, she’s just asleep!”


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And they jeered at him. But he put them all outside, took the child’s father and mother and those with him, and went in where the child was.


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Taking her by the hand, he said to her, “Talita, kumi!” (which means, “Little girl, I say to you, get up!”).


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At once the girl got up and began walking around; she was twelve years old. Everybody was utterly amazed.


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He gave them strict orders to say nothing about this to anyone, and told them to give her something to eat.


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On Shabbat he started to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astounded. They asked, “Where did this man get all this? What is this wisdom he has been given? What are these miracles worked through him?


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Isn’t he just the carpenter? the son of Miryam? the brother of Ya‘akov and Yosi and Y’hudah and Shim‘on? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him.


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But Yeshua said to them. “The only place people don’t respect a prophet is in his home town, among his own relatives, and in his own house.”


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He was amazed at their lack of trust. Then he went through the surrounding towns and villages, teaching.


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Yeshua summoned the Twelve and started sending them out in pairs, giving them authority over the unclean spirits.


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He instructed them, “Take nothing for your trip except a walking stick — no bread, no pack, no money in your belt.


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and if the people of some place will not welcome you, and they refuse to hear you, then, as you leave, shake the dust off your feet as a warning to them.”


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Meanwhile, King Herod heard about this, for Yeshua’s reputation had spread. Some were saying, “Yochanan the Immerser has been raised from the dead; that is why these miraculous powers are at work in him.”


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For Herod had sent and had Yochanan arrested and chained in prison because of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip. Herod had married her,


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So Herodias had a grudge against him and wanted him put to death. But this she could not accomplish,


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because Herod stood in awe of Yochanan and protected him, for he knew that he was a tzaddik, a holy man. Whenever he heard him, he became deeply disturbed; yet he liked to listen to him.


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Finally, the opportunity came. Herod gave a banquet on his birthday for his nobles and officers and the leading men of the Galil.


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The daughter of Herodias came in and danced, and she pleased Herod and his guests. The king said to the girl, “Ask me for whatever you want; I will give it to you”;


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So she went out and said to her mother, “What should I ask for?” She said, “The head of Yochanan the Immerser.”


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At once the daughter hurried back to the king and announced her request: “I want you to give me right now on a platter the head of Yochanan the Immerser.”


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Herod was appalled; but out of regard for the oaths he had sworn before his dinner guests, he did not want to break his word to her.


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So the king immediately sent a soldier from his personal guard with orders to bring Yochanan’s head. The soldier went and beheaded Yochanan in the prison,


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There were so many people coming and going that they couldn’t even take time to eat, so he said to them, “Come with me by yourselves to a place where we can be alone, and you can get some rest.”


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but many people, seeing them leave and recognizing them, ran ahead on foot from all the towns and got there first.


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When Yeshua came ashore, he saw a huge crowd. Filled with compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, he began teaching them many things.


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By this time, the hour was late. The talmidim came to him and said, “This is a remote place, and it’s getting late.


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Send the people away, so that they can go and buy food for themselves in the farms and towns around here.”


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But he answered them, “Give them something to eat, yourselves!” They replied, “We are to go and spend thousands on bread, and give it to them to eat?”


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He asked them, “How many loaves do you have? Go and check.” When they had found out, they said, “Five. And two fish.”


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Then he took the five loaves and the two fish, and, looking up toward heaven, made a b’rakhah. Next he broke up the loaves and began giving them to the talmidim to distribute. He also divided up the two fish among them all.


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Immediately Yeshua had his talmidim get in the boat and go on ahead of him toward the other side of the lake, toward Beit-Tzaidah, while he sent the crowds away.


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He saw that they were having difficulty rowing, because the wind was against them; so at around four o’clock in the morning he came toward them, walking on the lake! He meant to come alongside them;


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for they had all seen him and were terrified. However, he spoke to them. “Courage,” he said, “it is I. Stop being afraid!”


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for they did not understand about the loaves; on the contrary, their hearts had been made stone-like.


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and began running around throughout that whole region and bringing sick people on their stretchers to any place where they heard he was.


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Wherever he went, in towns, cities or country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces. They begged him to let them touch even the tzitzit on his robe, and all who touched it were healed.


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The P’rushim and some of the Torah-teachers who had come from Yerushalayim gathered together with Yeshua


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and saw that some of his talmidim ate with ritually unclean hands, that is, without doing n’tilat-yadayim.


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(For the P’rushim, and indeed all the Judeans, holding fast to the Tradition of the Elders, do not eat unless they have given their hands a ceremonial washing.


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Also, when they come from the marketplace they do not eat unless they have rinsed their hands up to the wrist; and they adhere to many other traditions, such as washing cups, pots and bronze vessels.)


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The P’rushim and the Torah-teachers asked him, “Why don’t your talmidim live in accordance with the Tradition of the Elders, but instead eat with ritually unclean hands?”


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Yeshua answered them, “Yesha‘yahu was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites — as it is written, ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far away from me.


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Indeed,” he said to them, “you have made a fine art of departing from God’s command in order to keep your tradition!


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For Moshe said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’


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But you say, ‘If someone says to his father or mother, “I have promised as a korban” ’ ” (that is, as a gift to God) “ ‘ “what I might have used to help you,” ’


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Thus, with your tradition which you had handed down to you, you nullify the Word of God! And you do other things like this.”


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Then Yeshua called the people to him again and said, “Listen to me, all of you, and understand this!


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There is nothing outside a person which, by going into him, can make him unclean. Rather, it is the things that come out of a person which make a person unclean!”


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He replied to them, “So you too are without understanding? Don’t you see that nothing going into a person from outside can make him unclean?


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For it doesn’t go into his heart but into his stomach, and it passes out into the latrine.” (Thus he declared all foods ritually clean.)


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For from within, out of a person’s heart, come forth wicked thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,


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Next, Yeshua left that district and went off to the vicinity of Tzor and Tzidon. There he found a house to stay in and wanted to remain unrecognized, but keeping hidden proved impossible.


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Instead, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit in her came to him and fell down at his feet.


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The woman was a Greek, by birth a Syro-phoenician, and she begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter.


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He said, “Let the children be fed first, for it is not right to take the children’s food and toss it to their pet dogs.”


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She answered him, “That is true, sir; but even the dogs under the table eat the children’s leftovers.”


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Then he left the district of Tzor and went through Tzidon to Lake Kinneret and on to the region of the Ten Towns.


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They brought him a man who was deaf and had a speech impediment and asked Yeshua to lay his hand on him.


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Taking him off alone, away from the crowd, Yeshua put his fingers into the man’s ears, spat, and touched his tongue;


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then, looking up to heaven, he gave a deep groan and said to him, “Hippatach!” (that is, “Be opened!”).


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Yeshua ordered the people to tell no one; but the more he insisted, the more zealously they spread the news.


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People were overcome with amazement. “Everything he does, he does well!” they said. “He even makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak!”


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It was during that time that another large crowd gathered, and they had nothing to eat. Yeshua called his talmidim to him and said to them,


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“I feel sorry for these people, because they have been with me three days, and now they have nothing to eat.


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If I send them off to their homes hungry, they will collapse on the way; some of them have come a long distance.”


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His talmidim said to him, “How can anyone find enough bread to satisfy these people in a remote place like this?”


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He then told the crowd to sit down on the ground, took the seven loaves, made a b’rakhah, broke the loaves and gave them to his talmidim to serve to the people.


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After sending them away, Yeshua got into the boat with his talmidim and went off to the district of Dalmanuta.


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The P’rushim came and began arguing with him; they wanted him to give them a sign from Heaven, because they were out to trap him.


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With a sigh that came straight from his heart, he said, “Why does this generation want a sign? Yes! I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation!”


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So when Yeshua said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourselves from the hametz of the P’rushim and the hametz of Herod,”


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But, aware of this, he said, “Why are you talking with each other about having no bread? Don’t you see or understand yet? Have your hearts been made like stone?


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When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you collect?” “Twelve,” they answered him.


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“And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you collect?” “Seven,” they answered.


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Taking the blind man’s hand, he led him outside the town. He spit in his eyes, put his hands on him and asked him, “Do you see anything?”


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Then he put his hands on the blind man’s eyes again. He peered intently, and his eyesight was restored, so that he could see everything distinctly.


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Yeshua and his talmidim went on to the towns of Caesarea Philippi. On the way, he asked his talmidim, “Who are people saying I am?”


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“Some say you are Yochanan the Immerser,” they told him, “others say Eliyahu, and still others, one of the prophets.”


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He began teaching them that the Son of Man had to endure much suffering and be rejected by the elders, the head cohanim and the Torah-teachers; and that he had to be put to death; but that after three days, he had to rise again.


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But, turning around and looking at his talmidim, he rebuked Kefa. “Get behind me, Satan!” he said, “For your thinking is from a human perspective, not from God’s perspective!”


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Then Yeshua called the crowd and his talmidim to him and told them, “If anyone wants to come after me, let him say ‘No’ to himself, take up his execution-stake, and keep following me.


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For whoever wants to save his own life will destroy it, but whoever destroys his life for my sake and for the sake of the Good News will save it.


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For if someone is ashamed of me and of what I say in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.


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9 Yes!” he went on, “I tell you that there are some people standing here who will not experience death until they see the Kingdom of God come in a powerful way!”


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Six days later, Yeshua took Kefa, Ya‘akov and Yochanan and led them up a high mountain privately. As they watched, he began to change form,


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and his clothes became dazzlingly white, whiter than anyone in the world could possibly bleach them.


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Kefa said to Yeshua, “It’s good that we’re here, Rabbi! Let’s put up three shelters — one for you, one for Moshe and one for Eliyahu.”


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Then a cloud enveloped them; and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to him!”


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As they came down the mountain, he warned them not to tell anyone what they had seen until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.


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So they kept the matter to themselves; but they continued asking each other, “What is this ‘rising from the dead’?”


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“Eliyahu will indeed come first,” he answered, “and he will restore everything. Nevertheless, why is it written in the Tanakh that the Son of Man must suffer much and be rejected?


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There’s more to it: I tell you that Eliyahu has come, and they did whatever they pleased to him, just as the Tanakh says about him.”


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When they got back to the talmidim, they saw a large crowd around them and some Torah-teachers arguing with them.


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One of the crowd gave him the answer: “Rabbi, I brought my son to you because he has an evil spirit in him that makes him unable to talk.


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Whenever it seizes him, it throws him to the ground — he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth and becomes stiff all over. I asked your talmidim to drive the spirit out, but they couldn’t do it.”


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“People without any trust!” he responded. “How long will I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him to me!”


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Yeshua asked the boy’s father, “How long has this been happening to him?” “Ever since childhood,” he said;


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“and it often tries to kill him by throwing him into the fire or into the water. But if you can do anything, have pity on us and help us!”


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Yeshua said to him, “What do you mean, ‘if you can’? Everything is possible to someone who has trust!”


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When Yeshua saw that the crowd was closing in on them, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You deaf and dumb spirit! I command you: come out of him, and never go back into him again!”


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Shrieking and throwing the boy into a violent fit, it came out. The boy lay there like a corpse, so that most of the people said he was dead.


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because he was teaching his talmidim. He told them, “The Son of Man will be betrayed into the hands of men who will put him to death; but after he has been killed, three days later he will rise.”


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They arrived at K’far-Nachum. When Yeshua was inside the house, he asked them, “What were you discussing as we were traveling?”


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But they kept quiet; because on the way, they had been arguing with each other about who was the greatest.


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He sat down, summoned the Twelve and said to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he must make himself last of all and servant of all.”


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“Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the One who sent me.”


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Yochanan said to him, “Rabbi, we saw a man expelling demons in your name; and because he wasn’t one of us, we told him to stop.”


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But Yeshua said, “Don’t stop him, because no one who works a miracle in my name will soon after be able to say something bad about me.


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Indeed, whoever gives you even a cup of water to drink because you come in the name of the Messiah — yes! I tell you that he will certainly not lose his reward.


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“Whoever ensnares one of these little ones who trust me — it would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck and be thrown in the sea.


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If your hand makes you sin, cut it off! Better that you should be maimed but obtain eternal life, rather than keep both hands and go to Gei-Hinnom, to unquenchable fire!


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And if your foot makes you sin, cut it off! Better that you should be lame but obtain eternal life, rather than keep both feet and be thrown into Gei-Hinnom!


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And if your eye makes you sin, pluck it out! Better that you should be one-eyed but enter the Kingdom of God, rather than keep both eyes and be thrown into Gei-Hinnom,


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Salt is excellent, but if it loses its saltiness, how will you season it? So have salt in yourselves — that is, be at peace with each other.”


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Then Yeshua left that place and went into the regions of Y’hudah and the territory beyond the Yarden. Again crowds gathered around him; and again, as usual, he taught them.


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Some P’rushim came up and tried to trap him by asking him, “Does the Torah permit a man to divorce his wife?”


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He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against his wife;


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People were bringing children to him so that he might touch them, but the talmidim rebuked those people.


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However, when Yeshua saw it, he became indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me, don’t stop them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.


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As he was starting on his way, a man ran up, kneeled down in front of him and asked, “Good rabbi, what should I do to obtain eternal life?”


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You know the mitzvot — ‘Don’t murder, don’t commit adultery, don’t steal, don’t give false testimony, don’t defraud, honor your father and mother, . . .’”


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Yeshua, looking at him, felt love for him and said to him, “You’re missing one thing. Go, sell whatever you own, give to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven. Then come, follow me!”


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Yeshua looked around and said to his talmidim, “How hard it is going to be for people with wealth to enter the Kingdom of God!”


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The talmidim were astounded at these words; but Yeshua said to them again, “My friends, how hard it is to enter the Kingdom of God!


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It’s easier for a camel to pass through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.”


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Yeshua looked at them and said, “Humanly, it is impossible, but not with God; with God, everything is possible.”


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Yeshua said, “Yes! I tell you that there is no one who has left house, brothers, sisters, mother, father, children or fields, for my sake and for the sake of the Good News,


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who will not receive a hundred times over, now, in the ‘olam hazeh, homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and lands — with persecutions! — and in the ‘olam haba, eternal life.


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They were on the road going up to Yerushalayim. Yeshua was walking ahead of them, and they were amazed — and those following were afraid. So again taking the Twelve along with him, he began telling them what was about to happen to him.


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“We are now going up to Yerushalayim, where the Son of Man will be handed over to the head cohanim and the Torah-teachers. They will sentence him to death and turn him over to the Goyim,


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Ya‘akov and Yochanan, the sons of Zavdai, came up to him and said, “Rabbi, we would like you to do us a favor.”


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They replied, “When you are in your glory, let us sit with you, one on your right and the other on your left.”


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But Yeshua answered, “You don’t know what you’re asking! Can you drink the cup that I am drinking? or be immersed with the immersion that I must undergo?”


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They said to him, “We can.” Yeshua replied, “The cup that I am drinking, you will drink; and the immersion I am being immersed with, you will undergo.


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But to sit on my right and on my left is not mine to give. Rather, it is for those for whom it has been prepared.”


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But Yeshua called them to him and said to them, “You know that among the Goyim, those who are supposed to rule them become tyrants, and their superiors become dictators.


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But among you, it must not be like that! On the contrary, whoever among you wants to be a leader must be your servant;


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They came to Yericho; and as Yeshua was leaving Yericho with his talmidim and a great crowd, a blind beggar, Bar-Timai (son of Timai), was sitting by the side of the road.


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When he heard that it was Yeshua from Natzeret, he started shouting, “Yeshua! Son of David! Have pity on me!”


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Many people scolded him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the louder, “Son of David! Have pity on me!”


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Yeshua stopped and said, “Call him over!” They called to the blind man, “Courage! Get up! He’s calling for you!”


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“What do you want me to do for you?” asked Yeshua. The blind man said to him, “Rabbi, let me be able to see again.”


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Yeshua said to him, “Go! Your trust has healed you.” Instantly he received his sight and followed him on the road.


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As they were approaching Yerushalayim, near Beit-Pagei and Beit-Anyah, by the Mount of Olives, Yeshua sent two of his talmidim


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with these instructions: “Go into the village ahead of you; and as soon as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there that has never been ridden. Untie it, and bring it here.


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If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ tell him, ‘The Lord needs it,’ and he will send it here right away.”


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Many people carpeted the road with their clothing, while others spread out green branches which they had cut in the fields.


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Those who were ahead and those behind shouted, “Please! Deliver us!” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of Adonai!”


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“Blessed is the coming Kingdom of our father David!” and, “You in the highest heaven! Please! Deliver us!”


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Yeshua entered Yerushalayim, went into the Temple courts and took a good look at everything; but since it was now late, he went out with the Twelve to Beit-Anyah.


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Spotting in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came up to it, he found nothing but leaves; for it wasn’t fig season.


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On reaching Yerushalayim, he entered the Temple courts and began driving out those who were carrying on business there, both the merchants and their customers. He also knocked over the desks of the money-changers, upset the benches of the pigeon-dealers,


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Then, as he taught them, he said, “Isn’t it written in the Tanakh, My house will be called a house of prayer for all the Goyim But you have made it into a den of robbers!”


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The head cohanim and the Torah-teachers heard what he said and tried to find a way to do away with him; they were afraid of him, because the crowds were utterly taken by his teaching.


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Yes! I tell you that whoever does not doubt in his heart but trusts that what he says will happen can say to this mountain, ‘Go and throw yourself into the sea!’ and it will be done for him.


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Therefore, I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, trust that you are receiving it, and it will be yours.


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And when you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him; so that your Father in heaven may also forgive your offenses.”


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They went back into Yerushalayim; and as he was walking in the Temple courts, there came to him the head cohanim, the Torah-teachers and the elders;


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and they said to him, “What s’mikhah do you have that authorizes you to do these things? Who gave you this s’mikhah authorizing you to do them?”


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Yeshua said to them, “I will ask you just one question: answer me, and I will tell you by what s’mikhah I do these things.


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They discussed it among themselves: “If we say, ‘From Heaven,’ he will say, ‘Then why didn’t you believe him?’


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But if we say, ‘From a human source, . . . ’” — they were afraid of the people, for they all regarded Yochanan as a genuine prophet.


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So they answered Yeshua, “We don’t know.” “Then,” he replied, “I won’t tell you by what s’mikhah I do these things.”


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Yeshua began speaking to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the wine press and built a tower; then he rented it to tenant-farmers and left.


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When harvest-time came, he sent a servant to the tenants to collect his share of the crop from the vineyard.


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He sent another one, and him they killed; and so with many others — some they beat up, others they killed.


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He had still one person left, a son whom he loved; in the end, he sent him to them, saying, ‘My son they will respect.’


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But the tenants said to each other, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!’


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What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come, destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others!


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Haven’t you read the passage in the Tanakh that says, ‘The very rock which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone!


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They set about to arrest him, for they recognized that he had told the parable with reference to themselves. But they were afraid of the crowd, so they left him and went away.


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Next they sent some P’rushim and some members of Herod’s party to him in order to trap him with a sh’eilah.


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They came and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you tell the truth and are not concerned with what people think about you, since you pay no attention to a person’s status but really teach what God’s way is. Does Torah say that taxes are to be paid to the Roman Emperor, or not?”


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But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, “Why are you trying to trap me? Bring me a denarius so I can look at it.”


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They brought one; and he asked them, “Whose name and picture are these?” “The Emperor’s,” they replied.


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Yeshua said, “Give the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor. And give to God what belongs to God!” And they were amazed at him.


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Then some Tz’dukim came to him. They are the ones who say there is no such thing as resurrection, so they put to him a sh’eilah:


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“Rabbi, Moshe wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and have children to preserve the man’s family line.


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Yeshua said to them, “Isn’t this the reason that you go astray? because you are ignorant both of the Tanakh and of the power of God?


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And as for the dead being raised, haven’t you read in the book of Moshe, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, ‘I am the God of Avraham, the God of Yitz’chak and the God of Ya‘akov’?


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One of the Torah-teachers came up and heard them engaged in this discussion. Seeing that Yeshua answered them well, he asked him, “Which is the most important mitzvah of them all?”


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Yeshua answered, “The most important is, ‘Sh’ma Yisra’el, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai echad [Hear, O Isra’el, the Lord our God, the Lord is one],


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and you are to love Adonai your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your understanding and with all your strength.’


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The second is this: ‘You are to love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other mitzvah greater than these.”


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The Torah-teacher said to him, “Well said, Rabbi; you speak the truth when you say that he is one, and that there is no other besides him;


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and that loving him with all one’s heart, understanding and strength, and loving one’s neighbor as oneself, mean more than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices.”


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When Yeshua saw that he responded sensibly, he said to him, “You are not far from the Kingdom of God.” And after that, no one dared put to him another sh’eilah.


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As Yeshua was teaching in the Temple, he asked, “How is it that the Torah-teachers say the Messiah is the Son of David?


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David himself, inspired by the Ruach HaKodesh, said, ‘Adonai said to my Lord, “Sit here at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet.” ’


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As he taught them, he said, “Watch out for the kind of Torah-teachers who like to walk around in robes and be greeted deferentially in the marketplaces,


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who like to swallow up widows’ houses while making a show of davvening at great length. Their punishment will be all the worse!”


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Then Yeshua sat down opposite the Temple treasury and watched the crowd as they put money into the offering-boxes. Many rich people put in large sums,


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He called his talmidim to him and said to them, “Yes! I tell you, this poor widow has put more in the offering-box than all the others making donations.


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For all of them, out of their wealth, have contributed money they can easily spare; but she, out of her poverty, has given everything she had to live on.”


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As Yeshua came out of the Temple, one of the talmidim said to him, “Look, Rabbi! What huge stones! What magnificent buildings!”


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“You see all these great buildings?” Yeshua said to him, “They will be totally destroyed — not a single stone will be left standing!”


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As he was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the Temple, Kefa, Ya‘akov, Yochanan and Andrew asked him privately,


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“Tell us, when will these things happen? And what sign will show when all these things are about to be accomplished?”


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When you hear the noise of wars nearby and the news of wars far off, don’t become frightened. Such things must happen, but the end is yet to come.


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For peoples will fight each other, and nations will fight each other, there will be earthquakes in various places, there will be famines; this is but the beginning of the ‘birth pains.’


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“But you, watch yourselves! They will hand you over to the local Sanhedrins, you will be beaten up in synagogues, and on my account you will stand before governors and kings as witnesses to them.


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Now when they arrest you and bring you to trial, don’t worry beforehand about what to say. Rather, say whatever is given you when the time comes; for it will not be just you speaking, but the Ruach HaKodesh.


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Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will turn against their parents and have them put to death;


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“Now when you see the abomination that causes devastation standing where it ought not to be” (let the reader understand the allusion), “that will be the time for those in Y’hudah to escape to the hills.


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For there will be worse trouble at that time than there has ever been from the very beginning, when God created the universe, until now; and there will be nothing like it again.


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Indeed, if God had not limited the duration of the trouble, no one would survive; but for the sake of the elect, those whom he has chosen, he has limited it.


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“At that time, if anyone says to you, ‘Look! Here’s the Messiah!’ or, ‘See, there he is!’ — don’t believe him!


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There will appear false Messiahs and false prophets performing signs and wonders for the purpose, if possible, of misleading the chosen.


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He will send out his angels and gather together his chosen people from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.


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In the same way, when you see all these things happening, you are to know that the time is near, right at the door.


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However, when that day and hour will come, no one knows — not the angels in heaven, not the Son, just the Father.


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“It’s like a man who travels away from home, puts his servants in charge, each with his own task, and tells the doorkeeper to stay alert.


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whether it will be evening, midnight, cockcrow or morning — you don’t want him to come suddenly and find you sleeping!


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It was now two days before Pesach (that is, the festival of Matzah), and the head cohanim and the Torah-teachers were trying to find some way to arrest Yeshua surreptitiously and have him put to death;


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While he was in Beit-Anyah in the home of Shim‘on (a man who had had tzara‘at), and as he was eating, a woman came with an alabaster jar of perfume, pure oil of nard, very costly. She broke the jar and poured the perfume over Yeshua’s head.


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For you will always have the poor with you; and whenever you want to, you can help them. But you will not always have me.


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Yes! I tell you that wherever in the whole world this Good News is proclaimed, what she has done will be told in her memory.”


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Then Y’hudah from K’riot, who was one of the Twelve, went to the head cohanim in order to betray Yeshua to them.


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They were pleased to hear this and promised to give him money. And he began looking for a good opportunity to betray Yeshua.


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On the first day for matzah, when they slaughtered the lamb for Pesach, Yeshua’s talmidim asked him, “Where do you want us to go and prepare your Seder?”


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He sent two of his talmidim with these instructions: “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him;


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and whichever house he enters, tell him that the Rabbi says, ‘Where is the guest room for me, where I am to eat the Pesach meal with my talmidim?’


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The talmidim went off, came to the city and found things just as he had told them they would be; and they prepared the Seder.


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As they were reclining and eating, Yeshua said, “Yes! I tell you that one of you is going to betray me.”


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For the Son of Man will die, just as the Tanakh says he will; but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for him had he never been born!”


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While they were eating, Yeshua took a piece of matzah, made the b’rakhah, broke it, gave it to them and said, “Take it! This is my body.”


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He said to them, “This is my blood, which ratifies the New Covenant, my blood shed on behalf of many people.


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Yes! I tell you, I will not drink this ‘fruit of the vine’ again until the day I drink new wine in the Kingdom of God.”


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Yeshua said to them, “You will all lose faith in me, for the Tanakh says, ‘I will strike the shepherd dead, and the sheep will be scattered.’


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Yeshua replied, “Yes! I tell you that this very night, before the rooster crows twice, you will disown me three times!”


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But Kefa kept insisting, “Even if I must die with you, I will never disown you!” And they all said the same thing.


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and he said to them, “My heart is so filled with sadness that I could die! Remain here and stay awake.”


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Going on a little farther, he fell on the ground and prayed that if possible, the hour might pass from him:


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“Abba!” (that is, “Dear Father!”) “All things are possible for you. Take this cup away from me! Still, not what I want, but what you want.”


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He came and found them sleeping; and he said to Kefa, “Shim‘on, are you asleep? Couldn’t you stay awake one hour?


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and again he came and found them sleeping, their eyes were so very heavy; and they didn’t know what to answer him.


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The third time, he came and said to them, “For now, go on sleeping, take your rest. . . .There, that’s enough! The time has come! Look! The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners!


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While Yeshua was still speaking, Y’hudah (one of the Twelve!) came, and with him a crowd carrying swords and clubs, from the head cohanim, the Torah-teachers and the elders.


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The betrayer had arranged to give them a signal: “The man I kiss is the one you want. Grab him, and take him away under guard.”


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but one of the people standing nearby drew his sword and struck at the servant of the cohen hagadol, cutting off his ear.


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Yeshua addressed them: “So you came out to take me with swords and clubs, the way you would the leader of a rebellion?


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Every day I was with you in the Temple court, teaching, and you didn’t seize me then! But let the Tanakh be fulfilled.”


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There was one young man who did try to follow him; but he was wearing only a nightshirt; and when they tried to seize him,


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They led Yeshua to the cohen hagadol, with whom all the head cohanim, elders and Torah-teachers were assembling.


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Kefa followed him at a distance right into the courtyard of the cohen hagadol, where he sat down with the guards and warmed himself by the fire.


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The head cohanim and the whole Sanhedrin tried to find evidence against Yeshua, so that they might have him put to death, but they couldn’t find any.


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“We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this Temple made with hands; and in three days I will build another one, not made with hands.’”


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The cohen hagadol stood up in the front and asked Yeshua, “Have you nothing to say to the accusations these men are making?”


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But he remained silent and made no reply. Again the cohen hagadol questioned him: “Are you the Mashiach, Ben-HaM’vorakh?”


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“I AM,” answered Yeshua. “Moreover, you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of HaG’vurah and coming on the clouds of heaven.”


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You heard him blaspheme! What is your decision?” And they all declared him guilty and subject to the death penalty.


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Then some began spitting at him; and after blindfolding him, they started pounding him with their fists and saying to him, “Let’s see you prophesy!” And as the guards took him, they beat him too.


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saw Kefa warming himself, took a look at him, and said, “You were with the man from Natzeret, Yeshua!”


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But he denied it, saying, “I haven’t the faintest idea what you’re talking about!” He went outside into the entryway, and a rooster crowed.


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Again he denied it. A little later, the bystanders themselves said to Kefa, “You must be one of them, because you’re from the Galil.”


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At this he began to invoke a curse on himself as he swore, “I do not know this man you are telling me about!” —


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and immediately the rooster crowed a second time. Then Kefa remembered what Yeshua had said to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will disown me three times.” And throwing himself down, he burst into tears.


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As soon as it was morning, the head cohanim held a council meeting with the elders, the Torah-teachers and the whole Sanhedrin. Then they put Yeshua in chains, led him away and handed him over to Pilate.


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Pilate put this question to him: “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered him, “The words are yours.”


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and Pilate again inquired of him, “Aren’t you going to answer? Look how many charges they are making against you!”


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There was in prison among the rebels who had committed murder during the insurrection a man called Bar-Abba.


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He asked, “Why? What crime has he committed?” But they only shouted louder, “Put him to death on the stake!”


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So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the mob, set Bar-Abba free for them; but he had Yeshua whipped and then handed him over to be executed on the stake.


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The soldiers led him away inside the palace (that is, the headquarters building) and called together the whole battalion.


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When they had finished ridiculing him, they took off the purple robe, put his own clothes back on him and led him away to be nailed to the execution-stake.


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A certain man from Cyrene, Shim‘on, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing by on his way in from the country; and they forced him to carry the stake.


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Then they nailed him to the execution-stake; and they divided his clothes among themselves, throwing dice to determine what each man should get.


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People passing by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, “Aha! So you can destroy the Temple, can you, and rebuild it in three days?


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Likewise, the head cohanim and the Torah-teachers made fun of him, saying to each other, “He saved others, but he can’t save himself!”


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and, “So he’s the Messiah, is he? The King of Isra’el? Let him come down now from the stake! If we see that, then we’ll believe him!” Even the men nailed up with him insulted him.


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At three, he uttered a loud cry, “Elohi! Elohi! L’mah sh’vaktani?” (which means, “My God! My God! Why have you deserted me?”)


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One ran and soaked a sponge in vinegar, put it on a stick and gave it to him to drink. “Wait!” he said, “Let’s see if Eliyahu will come and take him down.”


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When the Roman officer who stood facing him saw the way he gave up his spirit, he said, “This man really was a son of God!”


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There were women looking on from a distance; among them were Miryam from Magdala, Miryam the mother of the younger Ya‘akov and of Yosi, and Shlomit.


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These women had followed him and helped him when he was in the Galil. And many other women were there who had come up with him to Yerushalayim.


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Yosef of Ramatayim, a prominent member of the Sanhedrin who himself was also looking forward to the Kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for Yeshua’s body.


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Pilate was surprised to hear that he was already dead, so he summoned the officer and asked him if he had been dead awhile.


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After he had gotten confirmation from the officer that Yeshua was dead, he granted Yosef the corpse.


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Yosef purchased a linen sheet; and after taking Yeshua down, he wrapped him in the linen sheet, laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of the rock, and rolled a stone against the entrance to the tomb.


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When Shabbat was over, Miryam of Magdala, Miryam the mother of Ya‘akov, and Shlomit bought spices in order to go and anoint Yeshua.


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On entering the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right; and they were dumbfounded.


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But he said, “Don’t be so surprised! You’re looking for Yeshua from Natzeret, who was executed on the stake. He has risen, he’s not here! Look at the place where they laid him.


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But go and tell his talmidim, especially Kefa, that he is going to the Galil ahead of you. You will see him there, just as he told you.”


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Trembling but ecstatic they went out and fled from the tomb, and they said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid.


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When Yeshua rose early Sunday, he appeared first to Miryam of Magdala, from whom he had expelled seven demons.


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Later, Yeshua appeared to the Eleven as they were eating, and he reproached them for their lack of trust and their spiritual insensitivity in not having believed those who had seen him after he had risen.


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And these signs will accompany those who do trust: in my name they will drive out demons, speak with new tongues,


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So then, after he had spoken to them, the Lord Yeshua was taken up into heaven and sat at the right hand of God.


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And they went out and proclaimed everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the message by the accompanying signs.


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Dear Theophilos: Concerning the matters that have taken place among us, many people have undertaken to draw up accounts


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based on what was handed down to us by those who from the start were eyewitnesses and proclaimers of the message.


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Therefore, Your Excellency, since I have carefully investigated all these things from the beginning, it seemed good to me that I too should write you an accurate and ordered narrative,


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In the days of Herod, King of Y’hudah, there was a cohen named Z’kharyah who belonged to the Aviyah division. His wife was a descendant of Aharon, and her name was Elisheva.


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Both of them were righteous before God, observing all the mitzvot and ordinances of Adonai blamelessly.


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One time, when Z’kharyah was fulfilling his duties as cohen during his division’s period of service before God,


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he was chosen by lot (according to the custom among the cohanim) to enter the Temple and burn incense.


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But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Z’kharyah; because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elisheva will bear you a son, and you are to name him Yochanan.


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for he will be great in the sight of Adonai. He is never to drink wine or other liquor, and he will be filled with the Ruach HaKodesh even from his mother’s womb.


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He will go out ahead of Adonai in the spirit and power of Eliyahu to turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to make ready for Adonai a people prepared.”


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Z’kharyah said to the angel, “How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man; my wife too is well on in years.”


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“I am Gavri’el,” the angel answered him, “and I stand in the presence of God. I was sent to speak to you, to give you this good news.


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Now, because you didn’t believe what I said, which will be fulfilled when the time comes, you will be silent, unable to speak until the day these things take place.”


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Meanwhile, the people were waiting for Z’kharyah; they were surprised at his taking so long in the Temple.


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But when he came out unable to talk to them, they realized that he had seen a vision in the Temple; speechless, he communicated to them with signs.


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“Adonai has done this for me; he has shown me favor at this time, so as to remove my public disgrace.”


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He will be great, he will be called Son of Ha‘Elyon. Adonai, God, will give him the throne of his forefather David;


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The angel answered her, “The Ruach HaKodesh will come over you, the power of Ha‘Elyon will cover you. Therefore the holy child born to you will be called the Son of God.


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“You have a relative, Elisheva, who is an old woman; and everyone says she is barren. But she has conceived a son and is six months pregnant!


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Miryam said, “I am the servant of Adonai; may it happen to me as you have said.” Then the angel left her.


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When Elisheva heard Miryam’s greeting, the baby in her womb stirred. Elisheva was filled with the Ruach HaKodesh


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and spoke up in a loud voice, “How blessed are you among women! And how blessed is the child in your womb!


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Indeed you are blessed, because you have trusted that the promise Adonai has made to you will be fulfilled.”


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who has taken notice of his servant-girl in her humble position. For — imagine it! — from now on, all generations will call me blessed!


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On the eighth day, they came to do the child’s b’rit-milah. They were about to name him Z’kharyah, after his father,


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All their neighbors were awestruck; and throughout the hill country of Y’hudah, people talked about all these things.


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Everyone who heard of them said to himself, “What is this child going to be?” For clearly the hand of Adonai was with him.


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“Praised be Adonai, the God of Isra’el, because he has visited and made a ransom to liberate his people


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“This has happened so that he might show the mercy promised to our fathers — that he would remember his holy covenant,


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to shine on those in darkness, living in the shadow of death, and to guide our feet into the paths of peace.”


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The child grew and became strong in spirit, and he lived in the wilderness until the time came for him to appear in public to Isra’el.


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So Yosef, because he was a descendant of David, went up from the town of Natzeret in the Galil to the town of David, called Beit-Lechem, in Y’hudah,


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and she gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him in cloth and laid him down in a feeding trough, because there was no space for them in the living-quarters.


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In the countryside nearby were some shepherds spending the night in the fields, guarding their flocks,


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when an angel of Adonai appeared to them, and the Sh’khinah of Adonai shone around them. They were terrified;


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but the angel said to them, “Don’t be afraid, because I am here announcing to you Good News that will bring great joy to all the people.


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This very day, in the town of David, there was born for you a Deliverer who is the Messiah, the Lord.


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No sooner had the angels left them and gone back into heaven than the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go over to Beit-Lechem and see this thing that has happened, that Adonai has told us about.”


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Meanwhile, the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for everything they had heard and seen; it had been just as they had been told.


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On the eighth day, when it was time for his b’rit-milah, he was given the name Yeshua, which is what the angel had called him before his conception.


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When the time came for their purification according to the Torah of Moshe, they took him up to Yerushalayim to present him to Adonai


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and also to offer a sacrifice of a pair of doves or two young pigeons, as required by the Torah of Adonai.


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There was in Yerushalayim a man named Shim‘on. This man was a tzaddik, he was devout, he waited eagerly for God to comfort Isra’el, and the Ruach HaKodesh was upon him.


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It had been revealed to him by the Ruach HaKodesh that he would not die before he had seen the Messiah of Adonai.


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Prompted by the Spirit, he went into the Temple courts; and when the parents brought in the child Yeshua to do for him what the Torah required,


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Shim‘on blessed them and said to the child’s mother, Miryam, “This child will cause many in Isra’el to fall and to rise, he will become a sign whom people will speak against;


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moreover, a sword will pierce your own heart too. All this will happen in order to reveal many people’s inmost thoughts.”


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There was also a prophet named Hannah Bat-P’nu’el, of the tribe of Asher. She was a very old woman — she had lived with her husband seven years after her marriage


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and had remained a widow ever since; now she was eighty-four. She never left the Temple grounds but worshipped there night and day, fasting and praying.


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She came by at that moment and began thanking God and speaking about the child to everyone who was waiting for Yerushalayim to be liberated.


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When Yosef and Miryam had finished doing everything required by the Torah of Adonai, they returned to the Galil, to their town Natzeret.


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But after the festival was over, when his parents returned, Yeshua remained in Yerushalayim. They didn’t realize this;


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supposing that he was somewhere in the caravan, they spent a whole day on the road before they began searching for him among their relatives and friends.


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On the third day they found him — he was sitting in the Temple court among the rabbis, not only listening to them but questioning what they said;


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When his parents saw him, they were shocked; and his mother said to him, “Son! Why have you done this to us? Your father and I have been terribly worried looking for you!”


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He said to them, “Why did you have to look for me? Didn’t you know that I had to be concerning myself with my Father’s affairs?”


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So he went with them to Natzeret and was obedient to them. But his mother stored up all these things in her heart.


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In the fifteenth year of Emperor Tiberius’ rule; when Pontius Pilate was governor of Y’hudah, Herod ruler of the Galil, his brother Philip ruler of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene,


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with ‘Anan and Kayafa being the cohanim g’dolim; the word of God came to Yochanan Ben-Z’kharyah in the desert.


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He went all through the Yarden region proclaiming an immersion involving turning to God from sin in order to be forgiven.


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It was just as had been written in the book of the sayings of the prophet Yesha‘yahu, “The voice of someone crying out: ‘In the desert prepare the way for Adonai! Make straight paths for him!


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Every valley must be filled in, every mountain and hill leveled off; the winding roads must be straightened and the rough ways made smooth.


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Therefore, Yochanan said to the crowds who came out to be immersed by him, “You snakes! Who warned you to escape the coming punishment?


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If you have really turned from your sins, produce fruit that will prove it! And don’t start saying to yourselves, ‘Avraham is our father’! For I tell you that God can raise up for Avraham sons from these stones!


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Already the axe is at the root of the trees, ready to strike; every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit will be chopped down and thrown in the fire!”


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He answered, “Whoever has two coats should share with somebody who has none, and whoever has food should do the same.”


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Some soldiers asked him, “What about us? What should we do?” To them he said, “Don’t intimidate anyone, don’t accuse people falsely, and be satisfied with your pay.”


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The people were in a state of great expectancy, and everyone was wondering whether perhaps Yochanan himself might be the Messiah;


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so Yochanan answered them all, “I am immersing you in water, but he who is coming is more powerful than I — I’m not worthy to untie his sandals! He will immerse you in the Ruach HaKodesh and in fire.


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He has with him his winnowing fork to clear out his threshing floor and gather his wheat into his barn, but he will burn up the straw with unquenchable fire!”


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But Yochanan also denounced Herod the regional governor for taking as his own wife Herodias, the wife of his brother, and for all the other wicked things Herod had done;


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While all the people were being immersed, Yeshua too was immersed. As he was praying, heaven was opened;


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the Ruach HaKodesh came down on him in physical form like a dove; and a voice came from heaven, “You are my Son, whom I love; I am well pleased with you.”


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Yeshua was about thirty years old when he began his public ministry. It was supposed that he was a son of Yosef who was of Eli,


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Then Yeshua, filled with the Ruach HaKodesh, returned from the Yarden and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness


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for forty days of testing by the Adversary. During that time he ate nothing, and afterwards he was hungry.


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and said to him, “I will give you all this power and glory. It has been handed over to me, and I can give it to whomever I choose.


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Then he took him to Yerushalayim, set him on the highest point of the Temple and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, jump from here!


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Yeshua returned to the Galil in the power of the Spirit, and reports about him spread throughout the countryside.


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Now when he went to Natzeret, where he had been brought up, on Shabbat he went to the synagogue as usual. He stood up to read,


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and he was given the scroll of the prophet Yesha‘yahu. Unrolling the scroll, he found the place where it was written,


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“The Spirit of Adonai is upon me; therefore he has anointed me to announce Good News to the poor; he has sent me to proclaim freedom for the imprisoned and renewed sight for the blind, to release those who have been crushed,


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After closing the scroll and returning it to the shammash, he sat down; and the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him.


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He started to speak to them: “Today, as you heard it read, this passage of the Tanakh was fulfilled!”


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Everyone was speaking well of him and marvelling that such appealing words were coming from his mouth. They were even asking, “Can this be Yosef’s son?”


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Then Yeshua said to them, “No doubt you will quote to me this proverb — ‘“Doctor, cure yourself!” We’ve heard about all the things that have been going on over in K’far-Nachum; now do them here in your home town!’


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It’s true, I’m telling you — when Eliyahu was in Isra’el, and the sky was sealed off for three-and-a-half years, so that all the Land suffered a severe famine, there were many widows;


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Also there were many people with tzara‘at in Isra’el during the time of the prophet Elisha; but not one of them was healed, only Na‘aman the Syrian.”


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They rose up, drove him out of town and dragged him to the edge of the cliff on which their town was built, intending to throw him off.


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“Yaah! What do you want with us, Yeshua from Natzeret? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are — the Holy One of God!”


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But Yeshua rebuked it: “Be quiet, and come out of him!” The demonic spirit threw the man down in the middle of the crowd and came out of him, having done him no harm.


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They were all astounded and said to one another, “What kind of teaching is this? Why, he gives orders with power and authority to the unclean spirits, and they come out!”


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Leaving the synagogue, he went to Shim‘on’s house. Shim‘on’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked him to do something for her.


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So, standing over her, he rebuked the fever; and it left her. She immediately got up and began helping them.


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After sunset, all those who had people sick with various diseases brought them to Yeshua, and he put his hands on each one of them and healed them;


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also demons came out of many, crying, “You are the Son of God!” But, rebuking them, he did not permit them to say that they knew he was the Messiah.


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When day had come, he left and went away to a lonely spot. The people looked for him, came to him and would have kept him from leaving them.


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But he said to them, “I must announce the Good News of the Kingdom of God to the other towns too — this is why I was sent.”


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One day, as Yeshua was standing on the shore of Lake Kinneret, with the people pressing in around him in order to hear the word of God,


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he noticed two boats pulled up on the beach, left there by the fishermen, who were cleaning their nets.


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He got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Shim‘on, and asked him to put out a little way from shore. Then he sat down and taught the people from the boat.


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When he had finished speaking, he said to Shim‘on, “Put out into deep water, and let down your nets for a catch.”


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Shim‘on answered, “We’ve worked hard all night long, Rabbi, and haven’t caught a thing! But if you say so, I’ll let down the nets.”


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So they motioned to their partners in the other boat to come and help them; and they came and filled both boats to the point of sinking.


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When he saw this, Shim‘on Kefa fell at Yeshua’s knees and said, “Get away from me, sir, because I’m a sinner!”


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and likewise both Ya‘akov and Yochanan, Shim‘on’s partners. “Don’t be frightened,” Yeshua said to Shim‘on, “from now on you will be catching men — alive!”


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Once, when Yeshua was in one of the towns, there came a man completely covered with tzara‘at. On seeing Yeshua, he fell on his face and begged him, “Sir, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”


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Yeshua reached out his hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing! Be cleansed!” Immediately the tzara‘at left him.


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Then Yeshua warned him not to tell anyone. “Instead, as a testimony to the people, go straight to the cohen and make an offering for your cleansing, as Moshe commanded.”


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But the news about Yeshua kept spreading all the more, so that huge crowds would gather to listen and be healed of their sicknesses.


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One day when Yeshua was teaching, there were P’rushim and Torah-teachers present who had come from various villages in the Galil and Y’hudah, also from Yerushalayim; and the power of Adonai was with him to heal the sick.


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Some men came carrying a paralyzed man lying on a bed. They wanted to bring him inside and lay him in front of Yeshua,


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but they couldn’t find a way to get him in because of the crowd. So they went up onto the roof and lowered him on his mattress through the tiles into the middle of the gathering, right in front of Yeshua.


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The Torah-teachers and the P’rushim began thinking, “Who is this fellow that speaks such blasphemies? Who can forgive sin except God?”


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But Yeshua, knowing what they were thinking, answered, “Why are you turning over such thoughts in your hearts?


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But look! I will prove to you that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” He then said to the paralytic, “I say to you: get up, pick up your mattress and go home!”


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Immediately, in front of everyone, he stood up, picked up what he had been lying on, and went home praising God.


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Amazement seized them all, and they made a b’rakhah to God; they were awestruck, saying, “We have seen extraordinary things today.”


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Later Yeshua went out and saw a tax-collector named Levi sitting in his tax-collection booth; and he said to him, “Follow me!”


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Levi gave a banquet at his house in Yeshua’s honor, and there was a large group of tax-collectors and others at the table with them.


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The P’rushim and their Torah-teachers protested indignantly against his talmidim, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax-collectors and sinners?”


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I have not come to call the ‘righteous,’ but rather to call sinners to turn to God from their sins.”


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Next they said to him, “Yochanan’s talmidim are always fasting and davvening, and likewise the talmidim of the P’rushim; but yours go on eating and drinking.”


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The time will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them; and when that time comes, they will fast.”


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Then he gave them an illustration: “No one tears a piece from a new coat and puts it on an old one; if he does, not only will the new one continue to rip, but the piece from the new will not match the old.


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Also, no one puts new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the new wine will burst the skins and be spilled, and the skins too will be ruined.


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Besides that, after drinking old wine, people don’t want new; because they say, ‘The old is good enough.’”


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One Shabbat, while Yeshua was passing through some wheat fields, his talmidim began plucking the heads of grain, rubbing them between their hands and eating the seeds.


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He entered the House of God and took and ate the Bread of the Presence” — which no one is permitted to eat but the cohanim.


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On another Shabbat, when Yeshua had gone into the synagogue and was teaching, a man was there who had a shriveled hand.


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The Torah-teachers and P’rushim watched Yeshua carefully to see if he would heal on Shabbat, so that they could accuse him of something.


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But he knew what they were thinking and said to the man with the shriveled hand, “Come up and stand where we can see you!” He got up and stood there.


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Then Yeshua said to them, “I ask you now: what is permitted on Shabbat? Doing good or doing evil? Saving life or destroying it?”


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Then, after looking around at all of them, he said to the man, “Hold out your hand.” As he held it out, his hand was restored.


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But the others were filled with fury and began discussing with each other what they could do to Yeshua.


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It was around that time that Yeshua went out to the hill country to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God.


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Shim‘on, the one called the Zealot; Y’hudah Ben-Ya‘akov; and Y’hudah from K’riot, who turned traitor.


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Then he came down with them and stood on a level place. A large crowd of his talmidim was there with great numbers of people from all Y’hudah, Yerushalayim and the coast around Tzor and Tzidon; they had come to hear him and be healed of their diseases.


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and the whole crowd was trying to touch him, because power kept going out from him, healing everyone.


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“How blessed are you who are hungry! for you will be filled. “How blessed are you who are crying now! for you will laugh.


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“How blessed you are whenever people hate you and ostracize you and insult you and denounce you as a criminal on account of the Son of Man.


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Be glad when that happens; yes, dance for joy! because in heaven your reward is great. For that is just how their fathers treated the prophets.


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“Woe to you who are full now, for you will go hungry! “Woe to you who are laughing now, for you will mourn and cry!


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“Woe to you when people speak well of you, for that is just how their fathers treated the false prophets!


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Nevertheless, to you who are listening, what I say is this: “Love your enemies! Do good to those who hate you,


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“If someone hits you on one cheek, offer the other too; if someone takes your coat, let him have your shirt as well.


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“If someone asks you for something, give it to him; if someone takes what belongs to you, don’t demand it back.


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What credit is it to you if you love only those who love you? Why, even sinners love those who love them.


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What credit is it to you if you lend only to those who you expect will pay you back? Even sinners lend to each other, expecting to be repaid in full.


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But love your enemies, do good, and lend expecting nothing back! Your reward will be great, and you will be children of Ha‘Elyon; for he is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked.


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“Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. “Forgive, and you will be forgiven.


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Give, and you will receive gifts — the full measure, compacted, shaken together and overflowing, will be put right in your lap. For the measure with which you measure out will be used to measure back to you!”


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He also told them a parable: “Can one blind man lead another blind man? Won’t they both fall into a pit?


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How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the splinter from your eye,’ when you yourself don’t see the log in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the log out of your own eye; then you will see clearly, so that you can remove the splinter from your brother’s eye!


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Each tree is recognized by its own fruit — figs aren’t picked from thorn bushes, nor grapes from a briar patch.


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The good person produces good things from the store of good in his heart, while the evil person produces evil things from the store of evil in his heart. For his mouth speaks what overflows from his heart.


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he is like someone building a house who dug deep and laid the foundation on bedrock. When a flood came, the torrent beat against that house but couldn’t shake it, because it was constructed well.


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And whoever hears my words but doesn’t act on them is like someone who built his house on the ground without any foundation. As soon as the river struck it, it collapsed and that house became a horrendous wreck!”


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Hearing about Yeshua, the officer sent some Jewish elders to him with the request that he come and heal his servant.


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So Yeshua went with them. He had not gone far from the house, when the officer sent friends who said to him, “Sir, don’t trouble yourself. I’m not worthy to have you come under my roof —


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this is why I didn’t presume to approach you myself. Instead, just give a command and let my servant recover.


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For I too am a man set under authority. I have soldiers under me; and I say to this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes; and to my slave, ‘Do this!’ and he does it.”


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Yeshua was astonished at him when he heard this; and he turned and said to the crowd following him, “I tell you, not even in Isra’el have I found such trust!”


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As he approached the town gate, a dead man was being carried out for burial. His mother was a widow, this had been her only son, and a sizeable crowd from the town was with her.


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Then he came close and touched the coffin, and the pallbearers halted. He said, “Young man, I say to you: get up!”


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They were all filled with awe and gave glory to God, saying, “A great prophet has appeared among us,” and, “God has come to help his people.”


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and sent them to the Lord to ask, “Are you the one who is to come? Or should we look for someone else?”


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When the men came to him, they said, “Yochanan the Immerser has sent us to you to ask, ‘Are you the one who is to come? Or should we keep looking — for someone else?’”


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Right then he was healing many people of diseases, pains and evil spirits, and giving sight to many who were blind.


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So he answered them by saying, “Go, tell Yochanan what you have been seeing and hearing: the blind are seeing again, the lame are walking, people with tzara‘at are being cleansed, the deaf are hearing, the dead are being raised, the Good News is being told to the poor —


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When the messengers from Yochanan had gone, Yeshua began speaking to the crowds about Yochanan: “What did you go out into the desert to see? Reeds swaying in the breeze?


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No? then what did you go out to see? Someone who was well dressed? But people who dress beautifully and live in luxury are found in kings’ palaces.


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I tell you that among those born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than Yochanan the Immerser! Yet the one who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he!”


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All the people who heard him, even the tax-collectors, by undergoing Yochanan’s immersion acknowledged that God was right;


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but the P’rushim and the Torah-teachers, by not letting themselves be immersed by him, nullified for themselves God’s plan.


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They are like children sitting in the marketplaces, calling to one another, ‘We made happy music, but you wouldn’t dance! We made sad music, but you wouldn’t cry!’


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The Son of Man has come eating and drinking; and you say, ‘Aha! A glutton and a drunkard! A friend of tax-collectors and sinners!’


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One of the P’rushim invited Yeshua to eat with him, and he went into the home of the Parush and took his place at the table.


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A woman who lived in that town, a sinner, who was aware that he was eating in the home of the Parush, brought an alabaster box of very expensive perfume,


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stood behind Yeshua at his feet and wept until her tears began to wet his feet. Then she wiped his feet with her own hair, kissed his feet and poured the perfume on them.


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When the Parush who had invited him saw what was going on, he said to himself, “If this man were really a prophet, he would have known who is touching him and what sort of woman she is, that she is a sinner.”


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When they were unable to pay him back, he canceled both their debts. Now which of them will love him more?”


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Shim‘on answered, “I suppose the one for whom he canceled the larger debt.” “Your judgment is right,” Yeshua said to him.


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Then, turning to the woman, he said to Shim‘on, “Do you see this woman? I came into your house — you didn’t give me water for my feet, but this woman has washed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair!


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Because of this, I tell you that her sins — which are many! — have been forgiven, because she loved much. But someone who has been forgiven only a little loves only a little.”


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At this, those eating with him began saying among themselves, “Who is this fellow that presumes to forgive sins?”


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After this, Yeshua traveled about from town to town and village to village, proclaiming the Good News of the Kingdom of God. With him were the Twelve,


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and a number of women who had been healed from evil spirits and illnesses — Miryam (called Magdalit), from whom seven demons had gone out;


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Yochanah the wife of Herod’s finance minister Kuza; Shoshanah; and many other women who drew on their own wealth to help him.


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After a large crowd had gathered from the people who kept coming to him from town after town, Yeshua told this parable:


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“A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the path and was stepped on, and the birds flying around ate it up.


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But some fell into rich soil, and grew, and produced a hundred times as much as had been sown.” After saying this, he called out, “Whoever has ears to hear with, let him hear!”


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and he said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the Kingdom of God; but the rest are taught in parables, so that they may look but not see, and listen but not understand.


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The ones along the path are those who hear, but then the Adversary comes and takes the message out of their hearts, in order to keep them from being saved by trusting it.


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The ones on rock are those who, when they hear the word, accept it with joy; but these have no root — they go on trusting for awhile; but when a time of testing comes, they apostatize.


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As for what fell in the midst of thorns these are the ones who hear; but as they go along, worries and wealth and life’s gratifications crowd in and choke them, so that their fruit never matures.


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But what fell in rich soil — these are the ones who, when they hear the message, hold onto it with a good, receptive heart; and by persevering, they bring forth a harvest.


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“No one who has lit a lamp covers it with a bowl or puts it under a bed; no, he puts it on a stand; so that those coming in may see the light.


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For nothing is hidden that will not be disclosed, nothing is covered up that will not be known and come out into the open.


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Pay attention, then, to how you hear! For anyone who has something will be given more; but from anyone who has nothing, even what he seems to have will be taken away.”


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Then Yeshua’s mother and brothers came to see him, but they couldn’t get near him because of the crowd.


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But he gave them this answer: “My mother and brothers are those who hear God’s message and act on it!”


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One day Yeshua got into a boat with his talmidim and said to them, “Let’s cross to the other side of the lake.”


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So they set out; and as they were sailing, he fell asleep. A windstorm came down on the lake, so that the boat began to fill up with water, putting them in great danger.


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They went and woke him, saying, “Rabbi! Rabbi! We’re about to die!” He woke up, rebuked the wind and the rough water; and they calmed down, so that it was still.


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Then he said to the talmidim, “Where is your trust?” Awestruck, they marveled, asking one another, “Who can this be, that he commands even the wind and the water, and they obey him?”


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As Yeshua stepped ashore, a man from the town who had demons came to meet him. For a long time he had not worn clothes; and he lived, not in a house, but in the burial caves.


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Catching sight of Yeshua, he screamed, fell down in front of him and yelled, “Yeshua! Son of God Ha‘Elyon! What do you want with me? I beg you, don’t torture me!”


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For Yeshua had ordered the unclean spirit to come out of the man. It had often taken hold of him — he had been kept under guard, chained hand and foot, but had broken the bonds and been driven by the demon into the desert.


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Now there was a herd of many pigs, feeding on the hill; and the demons begged him to let them go into these. So he gave them permission.


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The demons came out of the man and entered the pigs, whereupon the herd rushed down the hillside into the lake and were drowned.


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and the people came out to see for themselves. They came to Yeshua and found the man out of whom the demons had gone, sitting — dressed and in his right mind — at the feet of Yeshua; and they were frightened.


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Then all the people of the Gerasene district asked him to leave them, for they had been seized with great fear. So he boarded the boat and returned.


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The man from whom the demons had gone out begged that he might go with him; but Yeshua sent him away, saying,


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“Go back to your home and tell how much God has done for you.” He went away proclaiming throughout the whole town how much Yeshua had done for him.


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Then there came a man named Ya’ir who was president of the synagogue. Falling at Yeshua’s feet, he pleaded with him to come to his house;


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for he had an only daughter, about twelve years old; and she was dying. As he went, with the crowds on every side virtually choking him,


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Yeshua asked, “Who touched me?” When they all denied doing it, Kefa said, “Rabbi! The crowds are hemming you in and jostling you!”


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Seeing she could not escape notice, the woman, quaking with fear, threw herself down before him and confessed in front of everyone why she had touched him and how she had been instantly healed.


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While Yeshua was still speaking, a man came from the synagogue president’s house. “Your daughter has died,” he said. “Don’t bother the rabbi any more.”


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But on hearing this, Yeshua answered him, “Don’t be afraid! Just go on trusting, and she will be made well.”


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When he arrived at the house, he didn’t allow anyone to go in with him except Kefa, Yochanan, Ya‘akov and the child’s father and mother


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All the people were wailing and mourning for her; but he said, “Don’t weep; she hasn’t died, she’s sleeping.”


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Calling together the Twelve, Yeshua gave them power and authority to expel all the demons and to cure diseases;


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He said to them, “Take nothing for your trip — neither a walking stick nor a pack, neither bread nor money; and don’t have two shirts.


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Wherever they don’t welcome you, shake the dust from your feet when you leave that town as a warning to them.”


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They set out and went through village after village, healing and announcing the Good News everywhere.


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Herod the governor heard about all that was going on and was perplexed, because it was said by some that Yochanan had been raised from the dead,


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by others that Eliyahu had appeared, and by others that one of the prophets of long ago had come back to life.


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Herod said, “I had Yochanan beheaded, so who is this about whom I keep hearing such things?” And he began trying to see him.


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On their return, the emissaries detailed to Yeshua what they had done. Then, taking them with him, he withdrew by himself to a town called Beit-Tzaidah.


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But the crowds found out and followed him. Welcoming them, he went on to speak to them about the Kingdom of God and to heal those who needed to be healed.


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The day began to draw to a close. The Twelve came to him and said, “Send the crowd away, so that they can go and get lodging and food in the towns and farms around here, because where we are is a remote place.”


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But he said to them, “Give them something to eat, yourselves!” They said, “We have no more than five loaves of bread and two fish — unless we ourselves are supposed to go and buy food for all these people!”


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(For there were about five thousand men.) He said to his talmidim, “Make them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”


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Then he took the five loaves and the two fish and, looking up toward heaven, made a b’rakhah, broke the loaves and began giving them to the talmidim to distribute to the crowd.


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Everyone ate as much as he wanted; and they took up what was left over, twelve baskets full of broken pieces.


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Once when Yeshua was praying in private, his talmidim were with him; and he asked them, “Who are the crowds saying I am?”


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They answered, “Yochanan the Immerser; but others say Eliyahu, and others that some prophet of long ago has risen.”


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adding, “The Son of Man has to endure much suffering and be rejected by the elders, the head cohanim and the Torah-teachers; and he has to be put to death; but on the third day, he has to be raised to life.”


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Then to everyone he said, “If anyone wants to come after me, let him say ‘No’ to himself, take up his execution-stake daily and keep following me.


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For whoever tries to save his own life will destroy it, but whoever destroys his life on my account will save it.


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For if someone is ashamed of me and of what I say, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his glory and that of the Father and of the holy angels.


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I tell you the truth, there are some people standing here who will not experience death until they see the Kingdom of God.”


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About a week after Yeshua said these things, he took Kefa, Yochanan and Ya‘akov with him and went up to the hill country to pray.


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They appeared in glorious splendor and spoke of his exodus, which he was soon to accomplish in Yerushalayim.


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Kefa and those with him had been sound asleep; but on becoming fully awake, they saw his glory and the two men standing with him.


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As the men were leaving Yeshua, Kefa said to him, not knowing what he was saying, “It’s good that we’re here, Rabbi! Let’s put up three shelters — one for you, one for Moshe and one for Eliyahu.”


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When the voice spoke, Yeshua was alone once more. They kept quiet — at that time they told no one anything of what they had seen.


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What happens is this: a spirit seizes him, and suddenly it lets out a shriek and throws him into convulsions with foaming at the mouth; and only with difficulty will it leave him. It’s destroying him!


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“Perverted people, without any trust!” Yeshua answered, “How long do I have to be with you and put up with you? Bring your son here.”


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Even as the boy was coming, the demon dashed him to the ground and threw him into a fit. But Yeshua rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy and gave him back to his father.


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All were struck with amazement at the greatness of God. While they were all marvelling at everything Yeshua was doing, he said to his talmidim,


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“Listen very carefully to what I’m going to say. The Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men.”


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But they didn’t understand what he meant by this. It had been concealed from them so that they would not grasp its meaning, and they were afraid to ask him about it.


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and said to them, “Whoever welcomes this child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the One who sent me. In other words, the one who is least among you all — this is the one who is great.”


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Yochanan responded, “Rabbi, we saw someone expelling demons in your name; and we stopped him because he doesn’t follow you along with us.”


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As the time approached for him to be taken up into heaven, he made his decision to set out for Yerushalayim.


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He sent messengers ahead of him, who went and entered a village in Shomron to make preparations for him.


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When the talmidim Ya‘akov and Yochanan saw this, they said, “Sir, do you want us to call down fire from heaven to destroy them?”


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Yeshua answered him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds flying about have nests, but the Son of Man has no home of his own.”


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To another he said, “Follow me!” but the man replied, “Sir, first let me go away and bury my father.”


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To him Yeshua said, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and keeps looking back is fit to serve in the Kingdom of God.”


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After this, the Lord appointed seventy other talmidim and sent them on ahead in pairs to every town and place where he himself was about to go.


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He said to them, “To be sure, there is a large harvest. But there are few workers. Therefore, plead with the Lord of the Harvest that he speed workers out to gather in his harvest.


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If a seeker of shalom is there, your ‘Shalom!’ will find its rest with him; and if there isn’t, it will return to you.


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Stay in that same house, eating and drinking what they offer, for a worker deserves his wages — don’t move about from house to house.


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‘Even the dust of your town that sticks to our feet we wipe off as a sign against you! But understand this: the Kingdom of God is near!’


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“Woe to you, Korazin! Woe to you, Beit-Tzaidah! For if the miracles done in you had been done in Tzor and Tzidon, they would long ago have put on sackcloth and ashes as evidence that they had changed their ways.


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“Whoever listens to you listens to me, also whoever rejects you rejects me, and whoever rejects me rejects the One who sent me.”


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Remember, I have given you authority; so you can trample down snakes and scorpions, indeed, all the Enemy’s forces; and you will remain completely unharmed.


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Nevertheless, don’t be glad that the spirits submit to you; be glad that your names have been recorded in heaven.”


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At that moment he was filled with joy by the Ruach HaKodesh and said, “Father, Lord of heaven and earth, I thank you because you concealed these things from the sophisticated and educated, yet revealed them to ordinary people. Yes, Father, I thank you that it pleased you to do this.


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“My Father has handed over everything to me. Indeed, no one fully knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.”


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Then, turning to the talmidim, he said, privately, “How blessed are the eyes that see what you are seeing!


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Indeed, I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see the things you are seeing but did not see them, and to hear the things you are hearing but did not hear them.”


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An expert in Torah stood up to try and trap him by asking, “Rabbi, what should I do to obtain eternal life?”


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He answered, “You are to love Adonai your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength and with all your understanding; and your neighbor as yourself.”


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Taking up the question, Yeshua said: “A man was going down from Yerushalayim to Yericho when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him naked and beat him up, then went off, leaving him half dead.


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By coincidence, a cohen was going down on that road; but when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.


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“But a man from Shomron who was traveling came upon him; and when he saw him, he was moved with compassion.


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So he went up to him, put oil and wine on his wounds and bandaged them. Then he set him on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him.


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The next day, he took out two days’ wages, gave them to the innkeeper and said, ‘Look after him; and if you spend more than this, I’ll pay you back when I return.’


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Of these three, which one seems to you to have become the ‘neighbor’ of the man who fell among robbers?”


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On their way Yeshua and his talmidim came to a village where a woman named Marta welcomed him into her home.


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But Marta was busy with all the work to be done; so, going up to him, she said, “Sir, don’t you care that my sister has been leaving me to do all the work by myself?”


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But there is only one thing that is essential. Miryam has chosen the right thing, and it won’t be taken away from her.”


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One time Yeshua was in a certain place praying. As he finished, one of the talmidim said to him, “Sir, teach us to pray, just as Yochanan taught his talmidim.”


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Forgive us our sins, for we too forgive everyone who has wronged us. And do not lead us to hard testing.’”


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He also said to them, “Suppose one of you has a friend; and you go to him in the middle of the night and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,


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because a friend of mine who has been travelling has just arrived at my house, and I have nothing for him to eat.’


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Now the one inside may answer, ‘Don’t bother me! The door is already shut, my children are with me in bed — I can’t get up to give you anything!’


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But I tell you, even if he won’t get up because the man is his friend, yet because of the man’s hutzpah he will get up and give him as much as he needs.


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“Moreover, I myself say to you: keep asking, and it will be given to you; keep seeking, and you will find; keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you.


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For everyone who goes on asking receives; and he who goes on seeking finds; and to him who continues knocking, the door will be opened.


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“Is there any father here who, if his son asked him for a fish, would instead of a fish give him a snake?


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So if you, even though you are bad, know how to give your children gifts that are good, how much more will the Father keep giving the Ruach HaKodesh from heaven to those who keep asking him!”


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He was expelling a demon that was mute. When the demon had gone out, the man who had been mute spoke; and the people were astounded.


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But some of them said, “It is by Ba‘al-Zibbul” — the ruler of the demons — “that he expels the demons.”


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But he, knowing what they were thinking, said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, with one house collapsing on another.


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So if the Adversary too is divided against himself, how can his kingdom survive? I’m asking because you claim it is by Ba‘al-Zibbul that I drive out the demons.


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If I drive out demons by Ba‘al-Zibbul, by whom do your people drive them out? So, they will be your judges!


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“When a strong man who is fully equipped for battle guards his own house, his possessions are secure.


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But when someone stronger attacks and defeats him, he carries off all the armor and weaponry on which the man was depending, and divides up the spoils.


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“When an unclean spirit comes out of a person, it travels through dry country seeking rest. On finding none, it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’


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Then it goes and takes seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they come and live there — so that in the end the person is worse off than he was before.”


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As Yeshua was saying these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice to call out, “How blessed is the mother that gave birth to you and nursed you from her breast!”


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As the people crowded around him, Yeshua went on to say, “This generation is a wicked generation! It asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it — except the sign of Yonah.


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For just as Yonah became a sign to the people of Ninveh, so will the Son of Man be for this generation.


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The Queen of the South will appear at the Judgment with the people of this generation and condemn them; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Shlomo, and what is here now is greater than Shlomo.


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The people of Ninveh will stand up at the Judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they turned to God from their sins when Yonah preached, and what is here now is greater than Yonah.


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“No one who has kindled a lamp hides it or places it under a bowl; rather, he puts it on a stand, so that those coming in may see its light.


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The lamp of your body is the eye. When you have a ‘good eye,’ [that is, when you are generous,] your whole body is full of light; but when you have an ‘evil eye,’ [when you are stingy,] your body is full of darkness.


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If, then, your whole body is filled with light, with no part dark, it will be wholly lighted, as when a brightly lit lamp shines on you.”


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As Yeshua spoke, a Parush asked him to eat dinner with him; so he went in and took his place at the table;


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However, the Lord said to him, “Now then, you P’rushim, you clean the outside of the cup and plate; but inside, you are full of robbery and wickedness.


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“But woe to you P’rushim! You pay your tithes of mint and rue and every garden herb, but you ignore justice and the love of God. You have an obligation to do these things — but without disregarding the others!


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“Woe to you P’rushim, because you love the best seat in the synagogues and being greeted deferentially in the marketplaces!


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One of the experts in Torah answered him, “Rabbi, by saying these things you are insulting us also.”


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Yeshua said, “Woe to you Torah experts too! You load people down with burdens they can hardly bear, and you won’t lift a finger to help them!


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Thus you testify that you completely approve of what your fathers did — they did the killing, you do the building!


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Therefore the Wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and emissaries; they will kill some and persecute others’;


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so that on this generation will fall the responsibility for all the prophets’ blood that has been shed since the world was established,


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from the blood of Hevel to the blood of Z’kharyah, who was killed between the altar and the Holy Place. Yes, I tell you, the responsibility for it will fall on this generation!


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“Woe to you Torah experts! For you have taken away the key of knowledge! Not only did you yourselves not go in, you also have stopped those who were trying to enter!”


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As Yeshua left that place, the Torah-teachers and the P’rushim began to oppose him bitterly and to provoke him to express his views on all sorts of subjects,


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Meanwhile, as a crowd in the tens of thousands gathered so closely as to trample each other down, Yeshua began to say to his talmidim first, “Guard yourselves from the hametz of the P’rushim, by which I mean their hypocrisy.


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What you have spoken in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered behind closed doors will be proclaimed on the housetops.


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I will show you whom to fear: fear him who after killing you has authority to throw you into Gei-Hinnom! Yes, I tell you, this is the one to fear!


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Aren’t sparrows sold for next to nothing, five for two assarions? And not one of them has been forgotten by God.


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Why, every hair on your head has been counted! Don’t be afraid, you are worth more than many sparrows.


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“Moreover, I tell you, whoever acknowledges me in the presence of others, the Son of Man will also acknowledge in the presence of God’s angels.


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Also, everyone who says something against the Son of Man will have it forgiven him; but whoever has blasphemed the Ruach HaKodesh will not be forgiven.


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“When they bring you before the synagogues and the ruling powers and the authorities, don’t worry about how you will defend yourself or what you will say;


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Someone in the crowd said to him, “Rabbi, tell my brother to share with me the property we inherited.”


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Then to the people he said, “Be careful to guard against all forms of greed, because even if someone is rich, his life does not consist in what he owns.”


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Then he said, ‘This is what I will do: I’ll tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and I’ll store all my wheat and other goods there.


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Then I’ll say to myself, “You’re a lucky man! You have a big supply of goods laid up that will last many years. Start taking it easy! Eat! Drink! Enjoy yourself!”’


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But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night you will die! And the things you prepared — whose will they be?’


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To his talmidim Yeshua said, “Because of this I tell you, don’t worry about your life — what you will eat or drink; or about your body — what you will wear.


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Think about the ravens! They neither plant nor harvest, they have neither storerooms nor barns, yet God feeds them. You are worth much more than the birds!


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Think about the wild irises, and how they grow. They neither work nor spin thread; yet, I tell you, not even Shlomo in all his glory was clothed as beautifully as one of these.


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If this is how God clothes grass, which is alive in the field today and thrown in the oven tomorrow, how much more will he clothe you! What little trust you have!


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For all the pagan nations in the world set their hearts on these things. Your Father knows that you need them too.


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Sell what you own and do tzedakah — make for yourselves purses that don’t wear out, riches in heaven that never fail, where no burglar comes near, where no moth destroys.


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like people waiting for their master’s return after a wedding feast; so that when he comes and knocks, they will open the door for him without delay.


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Happy the slaves whom the master finds alert when he comes! Yes! I tell you he will put on his work clothes, seat them at the table, and come serve them himself!


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Whether it is late at night or early in the morning, if this is how he finds them, those slaves are happy.


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“But notice this: no house-owner would let his house be broken into if he knew when the thief was coming.


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The Lord replied, “Nu, who is the faithful and sensible manager whose master puts him in charge of the household staff to give them their share of food at the proper time?


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But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is taking his time coming,’ and starts bullying the men- and women-servants, and eating and drinking, getting drunk,


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then his master will come on a day when the servant isn’t expecting him, at a time he doesn’t know in advance; his master will cut him in two and put him with the disloyal.


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Now the servant who knew what his master wanted but didn’t prepare or act according to his will, will be whipped with many lashes;


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however, the one who did what deserves a beating, but didn’t know, will receive few lashes. From him who has been given much, much will be demanded — from someone to whom people entrust much, they ask still more.


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Father will be divided against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”


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Then to the crowds Yeshua said, “When you see a cloud-bank rising in the west, at once you say that a rainstorm is coming;


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Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky — how is it that you don’t know how to interpret this present time?


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If someone brings a lawsuit against you, take pains to settle with him first; otherwise he will take the matter to court, and the judge will turn you over to the bailiff, and the bailiff will throw you in jail.


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Just then, some people came to tell Yeshua about the men from the Galil whom Pilate had slaughtered even while they were slaughtering animals for sacrifice.


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His answer to them was, “Do you think that just because they died so horribly, these folks from the Galil were worse sinners than all the others from the Galil?


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“Or what about those eighteen people who died when the tower at Shiloach fell on them? Do you think they were worse offenders than all the other people living in Yerushalayim?


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Then Yeshua gave this illustration: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit but didn’t find any.


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So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, ‘Here, I’ve come looking for fruit on this fig tree for three years now without finding any. Cut it down — why let it go on using up the soil?’


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A woman came up who had a spirit which had crippled her for eighteen years; she was bent double and unable to stand erect at all.


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On seeing her, Yeshua called her and said to her, “Lady, you have been set free from your weakness!”


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But the president of the synagogue, indignant that Yeshua had healed on Shabbat, spoke up and said to the congregation, “There are six days in the week for working; so come during those days to be healed, not on Shabbat!”


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However, the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Each one of you on Shabbat — don’t you unloose your ox or your donkey from the stall and lead him off to drink?


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This woman is a daughter of Avraham, and the Adversary kept her tied up for eighteen years! Shouldn’t she be freed from this bondage on Shabbat?”


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By these words, Yeshua put to shame the people who opposed him; but the rest of the crowd were happy about all the wonderful things that were taking place through him.


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It is like a mustard seed that a man took and planted in his own garden, and it grew and became a tree, and the birds flying about nested in its branches.”


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It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with a bushel of flour, then waited until the whole batch of dough rose.”


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Yeshua continued traveling through town after town and village after village, teaching and making his way toward Yerushalayim.


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He answered, “Struggle to get in through the narrow door, because — I’m telling you! — many will be demanding to get in and won’t be able to,


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once the owner of the house has gotten up and shut the door. You will stand outside, knocking at the door and saying, ‘Lord! Open up for us!’ But he will answer, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from!’


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and he will tell you, ‘I don’t know where you’re from. Get away from me, all you workers of wickedness!’


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You will cry and grind your teeth when you see Avraham, Yitz’chak, Ya‘akov and all the prophets inside the Kingdom of God, but yourselves thrown outside.


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Moreover, people will come from the east, the west, the north and the south to sit at table in the Kingdom of God.


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Just at that moment, some P’rushim came up and said to Yeshua, “Get out and go away from here, because Herod wants to kill you!”


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He said to them, “Go, tell that fox, ‘Pay attention: today and tomorrow I am driving out demons and healing people, and on the third day I reach my goal.’


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Nevertheless, I must keep travelling today, tomorrow and the next day; because it is unthinkable that a prophet should die anywhere but in Yerushalayim.


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Look! God is abandoning your house to you! I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of Adonai!’”


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One Shabbat Yeshua went to eat in the home of one of the leading P’rushim, and they were watching him closely.


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Yeshua spoke up and asked the Torah experts and P’rushim, “Does the Torah allow healing on Shabbat or not?”


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To them he said, “Which of you, if a son or an ox falls into a well, will hesitate to haul him out on Shabbat?”


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When Yeshua noticed how the guests were choosing for themselves the best seats at the table, he told them this parable:


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“When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, don’t sit down in the best seat; because if there is someone more important than you who has been invited,


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the person who invited both of you might come and say to you, ‘Give this man your place.’ Then you will be humiliated as you go to take the least important place.


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Instead, when you are invited, go and sit in the least important place; so that when the one who invited you comes, he will say to you, ‘Go on up to a better seat.’ Then you will be honored in front of everyone sitting with you.


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Because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.”


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Yeshua also said to the one who had invited him, “When you give a lunch or a dinner, don’t invite your friends, brothers, relatives or rich neighbors; for they may well invite you in return, and that will be your repayment.


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How blessed you will be that they have nothing with which to repay you! For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”


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On hearing this, one of the people at the table with Yeshua said to him, “How blessed are those who eat bread in the Kingdom of God!”


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When the time came for the banquet, he sent his slave to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come! Everything is ready!’


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But they responded with a chorus of excuses. The first said to him, ‘I’ve just bought a field, and I have to go out and see it. Please accept my apologies.’


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Another said, ‘I’ve just bought five yoke of oxen, and I’m on my way to test them out. Please accept my apologies.’


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The slave came and reported these things to his master. “Then the owner of the house, in a rage, told his slave, ‘Quick, go out into the streets and alleys of the city; and bring in the poor, the disfigured, the blind and the crippled!’


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The master said to the slave, ‘Go out to the country roads and boundary walls, and insistently persuade people to come in, so that my house will be full.


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“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father, his mother, his wife, his children, his brothers and his sisters, yes, and his own life besides, he cannot be my talmid.


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“Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Don’t you sit down and estimate the cost, to see if you have enough capital to complete it?


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If you don’t, then when you have laid the foundation but can’t finish, all the onlookers start making fun of you


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“Or again, suppose one king is going out to wage war with another king. Doesn’t he first sit down and consider whether he, with his ten thousand troops, has enough strength to meet the other one, who is coming against him with twenty thousand?


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If he hasn’t, then while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation to inquire about terms for peace.


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It is fit for neither soil nor manure — people throw it out. Those who have ears that can hear, let them hear!”


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and the P’rushim and Torah-teachers kept grumbling. “This fellow,” they said, “welcomes sinners — he even eats with them!”


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“If one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, doesn’t he leave the other ninety-nine in the desert and go after the lost one until he finds it?


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and when he gets home, he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Come, celebrate with me, because I have found my lost sheep!’


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I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who turns to God from his sins than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need to repent.


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“Another example: what woman, if she has ten drachmas and loses one of these valuable coins, won’t light a lamp, sweep the house and search all over until she finds it?


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And when she does find it, she calls her friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Come, celebrate with me, because I have found the drachma I lost.’


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The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate that will be mine.’ So the father divided the property between them.


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As soon as he could convert his share into cash, the younger son left home and went off to a distant country, where he squandered his money in reckless living.


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But after he had spent it all, a severe famine arose throughout that country, and he began to feel the pinch.


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“So he went and attached himself to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.


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“At last he came to his senses and said, ‘Any number of my father’s hired workers have food to spare; and here I am, starving to death!


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I’m going to get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against Heaven and against you;


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So he got up and started back to his father. “But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was moved with pity. He ran and threw his arms around him and kissed him warmly.


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His son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against Heaven and against you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son — ’


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but his father said to his slaves, ‘Quick, bring out a robe, the best one, and put it on him; and put a ring on his finger and shoes on his feet;


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For this son of mine was dead, but now he’s alive again! He was lost, but now he has been found!’ And they began celebrating.


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The servant told him, ‘Your brother has come back, and your father has slaughtered the calf that was fattened up, because he has gotten him back safe and sound.’


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But the older son became angry and refused to go inside. “So his father came out and pleaded with him.


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‘Look,’ the son answered, ‘I have worked for you all these years, and I have never disobeyed your orders. But you have never even given me a young goat, so that I could celebrate with my friends.


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Yet this son of yours comes, who squandered your property with prostitutes, and for him you slaughter the fattened calf!’


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We had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead but has come back to life — he was lost but has been found.’”


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


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So he summoned him and asked him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Turn in your accounts, for you can no longer be manager.’


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“‘What am I to do?’ said the manager to himself. ‘My boss is firing me, I’m not strong enough to dig ditches, and I’m ashamed to go begging.


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Aha! I know what I’ll do — something that will make people welcome me into their homes after I’ve lost my job here!’


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


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


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To the next he said, ‘And you, how much do you owe?’ ‘A thousand bushels of wheat,’ he replied. ‘Take your note back and write one for eight hundred.’


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“And the employer of this dishonest manager applauded him for acting so shrewdly! For the worldly have more sekhel than those who have received the light — in dealing with their own kind of people!


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


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


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


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And if you haven’t been trustworthy with what belongs to someone else, who will give you what ought to belong to you?


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


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


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Up to the time of Yochanan there were the Torah and the Prophets. Since then the Good News of the Kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone is pushing to get in.


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But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter in the Torah to become void.


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


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“Once there was a rich man who used to dress in the most expensive clothing and spent his days in magnificent luxury.


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He would have been glad to eat the scraps that fell from the rich man’s table; but instead, even the dogs would come and lick his sores.


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


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“In Sh’ol, where he was in torment, the rich man looked up and saw Avraham far away with El‘azar at his side.


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He called out, ‘Father Avraham, take pity on me, and send El‘azar just to dip the tip of his finger in water to cool my tongue, because I’m in agony in this fire!’


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


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


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where I have five brothers, to warn them; so that they may be spared having to come to this place of torment too.’


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


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But he replied, ‘If they won’t listen to Moshe and the Prophets, they won’t be convinced even if someone rises from the dead!’”


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Yeshua said to his talmidim, “It is impossible that snares will not be set. But woe to the person who sets them!


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


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Also, if seven times in one day he sins against you, and seven times he comes to you and says, ‘I repent,’ you are to forgive him.”


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


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


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


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


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As he entered one of the villages, ten men afflicted with tzara‘at met him. They stood at a distance


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


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The P’rushim asked Yeshua when the Kingdom of God would come. “The Kingdom of God,” he answered, “does not come with visible signs;


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


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Then he said to his talmidim, “The time is coming when you will long to see even one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.


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People will say to you, ‘Look! Right here!’ or, ‘See! Over there!’ Don’t run off, don’t follow them,


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because the Son of Man in his day will be like lightning that flashes and lights up the sky from one horizon to the other.


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


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On that day, if someone is on the roof with his belongings in his house, he must not go down to take them away. Similarly, if someone is in the field, he must not turn back —


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I tell you, on that night there will be two people in one bed — one will be taken and the other left behind.


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


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Then Yeshua told his talmidim a parable, in order to impress on them that they must always keep praying and not lose heart.


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There was also in that town a widow who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me a judgment against the man who is trying to ruin me.’


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For a long time he refused; but after awhile, he said to himself, ‘I don’t fear God, and I don’t respect other people;


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but because this widow is such a nudnik, I will see to it that she gets justice — otherwise, she’ll keep coming and pestering me till she wears me out!’”


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Now won’t God grant justice to his chosen people who cry out to him day and night? Is he delaying long over them?


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I tell you that he will judge in their favor, and quickly! But when the Son of Man comes, will he find this trust on the earth at all?”


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Also, to some who were relying on their own righteousness and looking down on everyone else, he told this parable:


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The Parush stood and prayed to himself, ‘O God! I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity — greedy, dishonest, immoral, or like this tax-collector!


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But the tax-collector, standing far off, would not even raise his eyes toward heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God! Have mercy on me, sinner that I am!’


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I tell you, this man went down to his home right with God rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.”


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People brought him babies to touch; but when the talmidim saw the people doing this, they rebuked them.


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However, Yeshua called the children to him and said, “Let the children come to me, and stop hindering them, because the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.


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Yes! I tell you that whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child will not enter it at all!”


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You know the mitzvot — ‘Don’t commit adultery, don’t murder, don’t steal, don’t give false testimony, honor your father and mother, . . .’”


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On hearing this Yeshua said to him, “There is one thing you still lack. Sell whatever you have, distribute the proceeds to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven. Then come, follow me!”


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It’s easier for a camel to pass through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God!”


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Yeshua answered them, “Yes! I tell you that everyone who has left house, wife, brothers, parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,


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Then, taking the Twelve, Yeshua said to them, “We are now going up to Yerushalayim, where everything written through the prophets about the Son of Man will come true.


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However, they understood none of this; its meaning had been hidden from them, and they had no idea what he was talking about.


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Those in front scolded him in order to get him to shut up, but he shouted all the louder, “Son of David! Have pity on me!”


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Instantly he received his sight and began following him, glorifying God; and when all the people saw it, they too praised God.


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So he ran on ahead and climbed a fig tree in order to see him, for Yeshua was about to pass that way.


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When he came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zakkai! Hurry! Come down, because I have to stay at your house today!”


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But Zakkai stood there and said to the Lord, “Here, Lord, I am giving half of all I own to the poor; and if I have cheated anyone, I will pay him back four times as much.”


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Yeshua said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, inasmuch as this man too is a son of Avraham.


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While they were listening to this, Yeshua went on to tell a parable, because he was near Yerushalayim, and the people supposed that the Kingdom of God was about to appear at any moment.


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Therefore he said, “A nobleman went to a country far away to have himself crowned king and then return.


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Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten manim [a maneh is about three months’ wages] and said to them, ‘Do business with this while I’m away.’


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But his countrymen hated him, and they sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We don’t want this man to rule over us.’


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“However, he returned, having been made king, and sent for the servants to whom he had given the money, to find out what each one had earned in his business dealings.


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‘Excellent!’ he said to him. ‘You are a good servant. Because you have been trustworthy in a small matter, I am putting you in charge of ten towns.’


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because I was afraid of you — you take out what you didn’t put in, and you harvest what you didn’t plant.’


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To him the master said, ‘You wicked servant! I will judge you by your own words! So you knew, did you, that I was a severe man, taking out what I didn’t put in and harvesting what I didn’t plant?


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Then why didn’t you put my money in the bank? Then, when I returned, I would have gotten it back with interest!’


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But the master answered, ‘I tell you, everyone who has something will be given more; but from anyone who has nothing, even what he does have will be taken away.


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However, as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be their king, bring them here and execute them in my presence!’”


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instructing them, “Go into the village ahead; on entering it, you will find a colt tied up that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it here.


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and as he came near Yerushalayim, where the road descends from the Mount of Olives, the entire band of talmidim began to sing and praise God at the top of their voices for all the powerful works they had seen:


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“Blessed is the King who is coming in the name of Adonai!” “Shalom in heaven!” and “Glory in the highest places!”


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saying, “If you only knew today what is needed for shalom! But for now it is hidden from your sight.


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For the days are coming upon you when your enemies will set up a barricade around you, encircle you, hem you in on every side,


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and dash you to the ground, you and your children within your walls, leaving not one stone standing on another — and all because you did not recognize your opportunity when God offered it!”


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saying to them, “The Tanakh says, ‘My House is to be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it into a den of robbers!”


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Every day he taught at the Temple. The head cohanim, the Torah-teachers and the leaders of the people tried to find a way of putting an end to him;


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but they couldn’t find any way of doing it, because all the people were hanging onto his every word.


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One day, as Yeshua was teaching the people at the Temple, making known the Good News, the head cohanim and the Torah-teachers, along with the elders, came up to him


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and said, “Tell us, what s’mikhah do you have that authorizes you to do these things? Who gave you this s’mikhah?”


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They discussed it among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From Heaven,’ he will say, ‘Then why didn’t you believe him?’


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But if we say, ‘From a human source,’ all the people will stone us, because they’re convinced that Yochanan was a prophet.”


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Next Yeshua told the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, rented it to tenant-farmers and went away for a long time.


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When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants to receive his share of the crop from the vineyard; but the tenants beat him up and sent him away empty-handed.


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“Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What am I to do? I will send my son, whom I love; maybe they will respect him.’


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But when the tenants saw him, they discussed it among themselves and said, ‘This is the heir; let’s kill him, so that the inheritance will be ours!’


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And they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. “Now what will the owner of the vineyard do to them?


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He will come and put an end to those tenants and give the vineyard to others!” When the people heard this, they said, “Heaven forbid!”


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But Yeshua looked searchingly at them and said, “Then what is this which is written in the Tanakh, ‘The very rock which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’?


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Whoever falls on that stone will be broken in pieces; but if it falls on him, he will be crushed to powder!”


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The Torah-teachers and the head cohanim would have seized him at that very moment, because they knew that he had aimed this parable at them, but they were afraid of the people.


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So they kept a close watch on the situation. They sent spies who hypocritically represented themselves as righteous, so that they might seize hold of something Yeshua said, as an excuse to hand him over to the jurisdiction and authority of the governor.


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They put to him this sh’eilah: “Rabbi, we know that you speak and teach straightforwardly, showing no partiality but really teaching what God’s way is.


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“Then,” he said to them, “give the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor. And give God what belongs to God!”


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They were unable to trap him by anything he said publicly; indeed, amazed at his answer, they fell silent.


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and put to him a sh’eilah: “Rabbi, Moshe wrote for us that if a man dies leaving a wife but no children, his brother must take the wife and have children to preserve the man’s family line.


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because they can no longer die. Being children of the Resurrection, they are like angels; indeed, they are children of God.


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“But even Moshe showed that the dead are raised; for in the passage about the bush, he calls Adonai ‘the God of Avraham, the God of Yitz’chak and the God of Ya‘akov.’


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“Watch out for the kind of Torah-teachers that like to walk around in robes and be greeted deferentially in the marketplaces, the kind that like to have the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets,


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the kind that swallow up widows’ houses while making a show of davvening at great length. Their punishment will be all the worse!”


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Then Yeshua looked up, and as he watched the rich placing their gifts into the Temple offering-boxes,


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For they, out of their wealth, have contributed money they could easily spare; but she, out of her poverty, has given all she had to live on.”


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As some people were remarking about the Temple, how beautiful its stonework and memorial decorations were, he said,


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“The time is coming when what you see here will be totally destroyed — not a single stone will be left standing!”


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They asked him, “Rabbi, if this is so, when will these events take place? And what sign will show that they are about to happen?”


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He answered, “Watch out! Don’t be fooled! For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he!’ and, ‘The time has come!’ Don’t go after them.


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And when you hear of wars and revolutions, don’t panic. For these things must happen first, but the end will not follow immediately.”


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there will be great earthquakes, there will be epidemics and famines in various places, and there will be fearful sights and great signs from Heaven.


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But before all this, they will arrest you and persecute you, handing you over to the synagogues and prisons; and you will be brought before kings and governors. This will all be on account of me,


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for I myself will give you an eloquence and a wisdom that no adversary will be able to resist or refute.


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You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives and friends; some of you they will have put to death;


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“However, when you see Yerushalayim surrounded by armies, then you are to understand that she is about to be destroyed.


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Those in Y’hudah must escape to the hills, those inside the city must get out, and those in the country must not enter it.


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For these are the days of vengeance, when everything that has been written in the Tanakh will come true.


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What a terrible time it will be for pregnant women and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress in the Land and judgment on the people.


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Some will fall by the edge of the sword, others will be carried into all the countries of the Goyim, and Yerushalayim will be trampled down by the Goyim until the age of the Goyim has run its course.


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“There will appear signs in the sun, moon and stars; and on earth, nations will be in anxiety and bewilderment at the sound and surge of the sea,


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as people faint with fear at the prospect of what is overtaking the world; for the powers in heaven will be shaken.


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When these things start to happen, stand up and hold your heads high; because you are about to be liberated!”


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In the same way, when you see these things taking place, you are to know that the Kingdom of God is near!


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“But keep watch on yourselves, or your hearts will become dulled by carousing, drunkenness and the worries of everyday living, and that Day will be sprung upon you suddenly like a trap!


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Stay alert, always praying that you will have the strength to escape all the things that will happen and to stand in the presence of the Son of Man.”


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Yeshua spent his days at the Temple, teaching; while at night he went out and stayed on the hill called the Mount of Olives.


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and the head cohanim and the Torah-teachers began trying to find some way to get rid of Yeshua, because they were afraid of the people.


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contenido:
He approached the head cohanim and the Temple guard and discussed with them how he might turn Yeshua over to them.


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He told them, “As you’re going into the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him into the house he enters,


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and say to its owner, ‘The Rabbi says to you, “Where is the guest room, where I am to eat the Pesach meal with my talmidim?” ’


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They went and found things just as Yeshua had told them they would be, and they prepared for the Seder.


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For I tell you, it is certain that I will not celebrate it again until it is given its full meaning in the Kingdom of God.”


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Then, taking a cup of wine, he made the b’rakhah and said, “Take this and share it among yourselves.


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For I tell you that from now on, I will not drink the ‘fruit of the vine’ until the Kingdom of God comes.”


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Also, taking a piece of matzah, he made the b’rakhah, broke it, gave it to them and said, “This is my body, which is being given for you; do this in memory of me.”


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He did the same with the cup after the meal, saying, “This cup is the New Covenant, ratified by my blood, which is being poured out for you.


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The Son of Man is going to his death according to God’s plan, but woe to that man by whom he is being betrayed!”


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But Yeshua said to them, “The kings of the Goyim lord it over them; and those in authority over them are given the title, ‘Benefactor.’


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But not so with you! On the contrary, let the greater among you become like the younger, and one who rules like one who serves.


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For who is greater? The one reclining at the table? or the one who serves? It’s the one reclining at the table, isn’t it? But I myself am among you like one who serves.


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namely, to eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom and to sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Isra’el.


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“Shim‘on, Shim‘on, listen! The Adversary demanded to have you people for himself, to sift you like wheat!


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But I prayed for you, Shim‘on, that your trust might not fail. And you, once you have turned back in repentance, strengthen your brothers!”


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Yeshua replied, “I tell you, Kefa, the rooster will not crow today until you have denied three times that you know me.”


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He said to them, “When I sent you out without wallet, pack or shoes, were you ever short of anything?” “Not a thing,” they answered.


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“But now,” he said, if you have a wallet or a pack, take it; and if you don’t have a sword, sell your robe to buy one.


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For I tell you this: the passage from the Tanakh that says, ‘He was counted with transgressors,’ has to be fulfilled in me; since what is happening to me has a purpose.”


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and in great anguish he prayed more intensely, so that his sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.


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While he was still speaking, a crowd of people arrived, with the man called Y’hudah (one of the Twelve!) leading them. He came up to Yeshua to kiss him,


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Then Yeshua said to the head cohanim, the officers of the Temple guard and the elders who had come to seize him, “So you came out just as you would to the leader of a rebellion, with swords and clubs?


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Every day I was there with you in the Temple court, yet you didn’t arrest me. But this is your hour — the hour when darkness rules.”


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Having seized him, they led him away and brought him into the house of the cohen hagadol. Kefa followed at a distance;


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but when they had lit a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Kefa joined them.


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One of the servant girls saw him sitting in the light of the fire, stared at him and said, “This man also was with him.”


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A little later, someone else saw him and said, “You’re one of them too”; but Kefa said, “Man, I am not!”


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About an hour later, another man asserted emphatically, “There can be no doubt that this fellow was with him, because he too is from the Galil!”


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But Kefa said, “Man, I don’t know what you’re talking about!” And instantly, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.


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The Lord turned and looked straight at Kefa; and Kefa remembered what the Lord had said, “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.”


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contenido:
At daybreak, the people’s council of elders, including both head cohanim and Torah-teachers, met and led him off to their Sanhedrin,


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where they said, “If you are the Mashiach, tell us.” He answered, “If I tell you, you won’t believe me;


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They all said, “Does this mean, then, that you are the Son of God?” And he answered them, “You say I am.”


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where they started accusing him. “We found this man subverting our nation, forbidding us to pay taxes to the Emperor and claiming that he himself is the Messiah — a king!”


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But they persisted. “He is inciting the people with his teaching throughout all Y’hudah — he started in the Galil, and now he’s here!”


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and when he learned that he was under Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him over to Herod, who at that time happened to be in Yerushalayim too.


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Herod was delighted to see Yeshua, because he had heard about him and for a long time had been wanting to meet him; indeed, he hoped to see him perform some miracle.


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However, the head cohanim and the Torah-teachers stood there, vehemently pressing their case against him.


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Herod and his soldiers treated Yeshua with contempt and made fun of him. Then, dressing him in an elegant robe, they sent him back to Pilate.


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and said to them, “You brought this man before me on a charge of subverting the people. I examined him in your presence and did not find the man guilty of the crime you are accusing him of.


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And neither did Herod, because he sent him back to us. Clearly, he has not done anything that merits the death penalty.


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A third time he asked them, “But what has this man done wrong? I haven’t found any reason to put him to death. So I’m going to have him flogged and set free.”


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But they went on yelling insistently, demanding that he be executed on the stake; and their shouting prevailed.


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he released the man who had been thrown in prison for insurrection and murder, the one they had asked for; and Yeshua he surrendered to their will.


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As the Roman soldiers led Yeshua away, they grabbed hold of a man from Cyrene named Shim‘on, who was on his way in from the country. They put the execution-stake on his back and made him carry it behind Yeshua.


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Yeshua turned to them and said, “Daughters of Yerushalayim, don’t cry for me; cry for yourselves and your children!


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For the time is coming when people will say, ‘The childless women are the lucky ones — those whose wombs have never borne a child, whose breasts have never nursed a baby!


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When they came to the place called The Skull, they nailed him to a stake; and they nailed the criminals to stakes, one on the right and one on the left.


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Yeshua said, “Father, forgive them; they don’t understand what they are doing.” They divided up his clothes by throwing dice.


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The people stood watching, and the rulers sneered at him. “He saved others,” they said, “so if he really is the Messiah, the one chosen by God, let him save himself!”


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One of the criminals hanging there hurled insults at him. “Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!”


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But the other one spoke up and rebuked the first, saying, “Have you no fear of God? You’re getting the same punishment as he is.


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Crying out with a loud voice, Yeshua said, “Father! Into your hands I commit my spirit.” With these words he gave up his spirit.


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When the Roman officer saw what had happened, he began to praise God and said, “Surely this man was innocent!”


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And when all the crowds that had gathered to watch the spectacle saw the things that had occurred, they returned home beating their breasts.


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All his friends, including the women who had accompanied him from the Galil, had been standing at a distance; they saw it all.


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and he had not been in agreement with either the Sanhedrin’s motivation or their action. He came from the town of Ramatayim, a town of the Judeans; and he looked forward to the Kingdom of God.


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He took it down, wrapped it in a linen sheet, and placed it in a tomb cut into the rock, that had never been used.


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The women who had come with Yeshua from the Galil followed; they saw the tomb and how his body was placed in it.


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Then they went back home to prepare spices and ointments. On Shabbat the women rested, in obedience to the commandment;


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but the next day, while it was still very early, they took the spices they had prepared, went to the tomb,


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contenido:
They were standing there, not knowing what to think about it, when suddenly two men in dazzlingly bright clothing stood next to them.


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contenido:
Terror-stricken, they bowed down with their faces to the ground. The two men said to them, “Why are you looking for the living among the dead?


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contenido:
‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be executed on a stake as a criminal, but on the third day be raised again’?”


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contenido:
The women who told the emissaries these things were Miryam of Magdala, Yochanah, Miryam the mother of Ya‘akov, and the others in their circle.


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But the emissaries didn’t believe them; in fact, they thought that what they said was utter nonsense!


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However, Kefa got up and ran to the tomb. Stooping down, he saw only the burial cloths and went home wondering what had happened.


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contenido:
That same day, two of them were going toward a village about seven miles from Yerushalayim called Amma’us,


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contenido:
He asked them, “What are you talking about with each other as you walk along?” They stopped short, their faces downcast;


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and one of them, named Cleopas, answered him, “Are you the only person staying in Yerushalayim that doesn’t know the things that have been going on there the last few days?”


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“What things?” he asked them. They said to him, “The things about Yeshua from Natzeret. He was a prophet and proved it by the things he did and said before God and all the people.


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contenido:
Our head cohanim and our leaders handed him over, so that he could be sentenced to death and executed on a stake as a criminal.


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And we had hoped that he would be the one to liberate Isra’el! Besides all that, today is the third day since these things happened;


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and couldn’t find his body, so they came back; but they also reported that they had seen a vision of angels who say he’s alive!


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contenido:
Some of our friends went to the tomb and found it exactly as the women had said, but they didn’t see him.”


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contenido:
Then, starting with Moshe and all the prophets, he explained to them the things that can be found throughout the Tanakh concerning himself.


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but they held him back, saying, “Stay with us, for it’s almost evening, and it’s getting dark.” So he went in to stay with them.


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As he was reclining with them at the table, he took the matzah, made the b’rakhah, broke it and handed it to them.


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contenido:
They said to each other, “Didn’t our hearts burn inside us as he spoke to us on the road, opening up the Tanakh to us?”


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contenido:
They got up at once, returned to Yerushalayim and found the Eleven gathered together with their friends,


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contenido:
Then the two told what had happened on the road and how he had become known to them in the breaking of the matzah.


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contenido:
Look at my hands and my feet — it is I, myself! Touch me and see — a ghost doesn’t have flesh and bones, as you can see I do.”


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While they were still unable to believe it for joy and stood there dumbfounded, he said to them, “Have you something here to eat?”


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contenido:
Yeshua said to them, “This is what I meant when I was still with you and told you that everything written about me in the Torah of Moshe, the Prophets and the Psalms had to be fulfilled.”


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telling them, “Here is what it says: the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day;


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and in his name repentance leading to forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed to people from all nations, starting with Yerushalayim.


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Now I am sending forth upon you what my Father promised, so stay here in the city until you have been equipped with power from above.”


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He came to be a testimony, to bear witness concerning the light; so that through him, everyone might put his trust in God and be faithful to him.


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But to as many as did receive him, to those who put their trust in his person and power, he gave the right to become children of God,


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The Word became a human being and lived with us, and we saw his Sh’khinah, the Sh’khinah of the Father’s only Son, full of grace and truth.


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Yochanan witnessed concerning him when he cried out, “This is the man I was talking about when I said, ‘The one coming after me has come to rank ahead of me, because he existed before me.’”


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No one has ever seen God; but the only and unique Son, who is identical with God and is at the Father’s side — he has made him known.


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contenido:
Here is Yochanan’s testimony: when the Judeans sent cohanim and L’vi’im from Yerushalayim to ask him, “Who are you?”


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“Then who are you?” they asked him. “Are you Eliyahu?” “No, I am not,” he said. “Are you ‘the prophet,’ the one we’re expecting?” “No,” he replied.


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So they said to him, “Who are you? — so that we can give an answer to the people who sent us. What do you have to say about yourself?”


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He answered in the words of Yesha‘yahu the prophet, “I am The voice of someone crying out: ‘In the desert make the way of Adonai straight!’”


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They asked him, “If you are neither the Messiah nor Eliyahu nor ‘the prophet,’ then why are you immersing people?”


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To them Yochanan replied, “I am immersing people in water, but among you is standing someone whom you don’t know.


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The next day, Yochanan saw Yeshua coming toward him and said, “Look! God’s lamb! The one who is taking away the sin of the world!


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This is the man I was talking about when I said, ‘After me is coming someone who has come to rank above me, because he existed before me.’


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contenido:
I myself did not know who he was, but the reason I came immersing with water was so that he might be made known to Isra’el.”


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Then Yochanan gave this testimony: “I saw the Spirit coming down from heaven like a dove, and remaining on him.


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I myself did not know who he was, but the one who sent me to immerse in water said to me, ‘The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining, this is the one who immerses in the Ruach HaKodesh.’


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contenido:
Yeshua turned and saw them following him, and he asked them, “What are you looking for?” They said to him, “Rabbi!” (which means “Teacher!”) “Where are you staying?”


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contenido:
He said to them, “Come and see.” So they went and saw where he was staying, and remained with him the rest of the day — it was about four o’clock in the afternoon.


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contenido:
One of the two who had heard Yochanan and had followed Yeshua was Andrew the brother of Shim‘on Kefa.


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The first thing he did was to find his brother Shim‘on and tell him, “We’ve found the Mashiach!” (The word means “one who has been anointed.”)


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He took him to Yeshua. Looking at him, Yeshua said, “You are Shim‘on Bar-Yochanan; you will be known as Kefa.” (The name means “rock.”)


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contenido:
Philip found Natan’el and told him, “We’ve found the one that Moshe wrote about in the Torah, also the Prophets — it’s Yeshua Ben-Yosef from Natzeret!”


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Natan’el answered him, “Natzeret? Can anything good come from there?” “Come and see,” Philip said to him.


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contenido:
Yeshua saw Natan’el coming toward him and remarked about him, “Here’s a true son of Isra’el — nothing false in him!”


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contenido:
Natan’el said to him, “How do you know me?” Yeshua answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”


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contenido:
Yeshua answered him, “you believe all this just because I told you I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than that!”


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contenido:
Then he said to him, “Yes indeed! I tell you that you will see heaven opened and the angels of God going up and coming down on the Son of Man!”


book: John
contenido:
Now six stone water-jars were standing there for the Jewish ceremonial washings, each with a capacity of twenty or thirty gallons.


book: John
contenido:
The man in charge tasted the water; it had now turned into wine! He did not know where it had come from, but the servants who had drawn the water knew. So he called the bridegroom


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contenido:
and said to him, “Everyone else serves the good wine first and the poorer wine after people have drunk freely. But you have kept the good wine until now!”


book: John
contenido:
This, the first of Yeshua’s miraculous signs, he did at Kanah in the Galil; he manifested his glory, and his talmidim came to trust in him.


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contenido:
Afterwards, he, his mother and brothers, and his talmidim went down to K’far-Nachum and stayed there a few days.


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contenido:
In the Temple grounds he found those who were selling cattle, sheep and pigeons, and others who were sitting at tables exchanging money.


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contenido:
He made a whip from cords and drove them all out of the Temple grounds, the sheep and cattle as well. He knocked over the money-changers’ tables, scattering their coins;


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contenido:
and to the pigeon-sellers he said, “Get these things out of here! How dare you turn my Father’s house into a market?”


book: John
contenido:
So the Judeans confronted him by asking him, “What miraculous sign can you show us to prove you have the right to do all this?”


book: John
contenido:
The Judeans said, “It took 46 years to build this Temple, and you’re going to raise it in three days?”


book: John
contenido:
Therefore, when he was raised from the dead, his talmidim remembered that he had said this, and they trusted in the Tanakh and in what Yeshua had said.


book: John
contenido:
Now while Yeshua was in Yerushalayim at the Pesach festival, there were many people who “believed in his name” when they saw the miracles he performed.


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that is, he didn’t need anyone to inform him about a person, because he knew what was in the person’s heart.


book: John
contenido:
This man came to Yeshua by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know it is from God that you have come as a teacher; for no one can do these miracles you perform unless God is with him.”


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contenido:
“Yes, indeed,” Yeshua answered him, “I tell you that unless a person is born again from above, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.”


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contenido:
Nakdimon said to him, “How can a grown man be ‘born’? Can he go back into his mother’s womb and be born a second time?”


book: John
contenido:
Yeshua answered, “Yes, indeed, I tell you that unless a person is born from water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.


book: John
contenido:
The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it’s going. That’s how it is with everyone who has been born from the Spirit.”


book: John
contenido:
Yes, indeed! I tell you that what we speak about, we know; and what we give evidence of, we have seen; but you people don’t accept our evidence!


book: John
contenido:
If you people don’t believe me when I tell you about the things of the world, how will you believe me when I tell you about the things of heaven?


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No one has gone up into heaven; there is only the one who has come down from heaven, the Son of Man.


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“For God so loved the world that he gave his only and unique Son, so that everyone who trusts in him may have eternal life, instead of being utterly destroyed.


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For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but rather so that through him, the world might be saved.


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Those who trust in him are not judged; those who do not trust have been judged already, in that they have not trusted in the one who is God’s only and unique Son.


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“Now this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, but people loved the darkness rather than the light. Why? Because their actions were wicked.


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For everyone who does evil things hates the light and avoids it, so that his actions won’t be exposed.


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But everyone who does what is true comes to the light, so that all may see that his actions are accomplished through God.”


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After this, Yeshua and his talmidim went out into the countryside of Y’hudah, where he stayed awhile with them and immersed people.


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Yochanan too was immersing at Einayim, near Shalem, because there was plenty of water there; and people kept coming to be immersed.


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and they came to Yochanan and said to him, “Rabbi, you know the man who was with you on the other side of the Yarden, the one you spoke about? Well, here he is, immersing; and everyone is going to him!”


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You yourselves can confirm that I did not say I was the Messiah, but that I have been sent ahead of him.


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The bridegroom is the one who has the bride; but the bridegroom’s friend, who stands and listens to him, is overjoyed at the sound of the bridegroom’s voice. So this joy of mine is now complete.


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“He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the earth is from the earth and talks from an earthly point of view; he who comes from heaven is above all.


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because the one whom God sent speaks God’s words. For God does not give him the Spirit in limited degree —


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Whoever trusts in the Son has eternal life. But whoever disobeys the Son will not see that life but remains subject to God’s wrath.”


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When Yeshua learned that the P’rushim had heard he was making and immersing more talmidim than Yochanan


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Ya‘akov’s Well was there; so Yeshua, exhausted from his travel, sat down by the well; it was about noon.


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The woman from Shomron said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for water from me, a woman of Shomron?” (For Jews don’t associate with people from Shomron.)


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Yeshua answered her, “If you knew God’s gift, that is, who it is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink of water,’ then you would have asked him; and he would have given you living water.”


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She said to him, “Sir, you don’t have a bucket, and the well is deep; so where do you get this ‘living water’?


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You aren’t greater than our father Ya‘akov, are you? He gave us this well and drank from it, and so did his sons and his cattle.”


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but whoever drinks the water I will give him will never be thirsty again! On the contrary, the water I give him will become a spring of water inside him, welling up into eternal life!”


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“Sir, give me this water,” the woman said to him, “so that I won’t have to be thirsty and keep coming here to draw water.”


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She answered, “I don’t have a husband.” Yeshua said to her, “You’re right, you don’t have a husband!


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You’ve had five husbands in the past, and you’re not married to the man you’re living with now! You’ve spoken the truth!”


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“Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, but you people say that the place where one has to worship is in Yerushalayim.”


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Yeshua said, “Lady, believe me, the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Yerushalayim.


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You people don’t know what you are worshipping; we worship what we do know, because salvation comes from the Jews.


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But the time is coming — indeed, it’s here now — when the true worshippers will worship the Father spiritually and truly, for these are the kind of people the Father wants worshipping him.


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The woman replied, “I know that Mashiach is coming” (that is, “the one who has been anointed”). “When he comes, he will tell us everything.”


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Just then, his talmidim arrived. They were amazed that he was talking with a woman; but none of them said, “What do you want?” or, “Why are you talking with her?”


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Yeshua said to them, “My food is to do what the one who sent me wants and to bring his work to completion.


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Don’t you have a saying, ‘Four more months and then the harvest’? Well, what I say to you is: open your eyes and look at the fields! They’re already ripe for harvest!


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The one who reaps receives his wages and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the reaper and the sower may be glad together —


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I sent you to reap what you haven’t worked for. Others have done the hard labor, and you have benefited from their work.”


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Many people from that town in Shomron put their trust in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all the things I did.”


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So when these people from Shomron came to him, they asked him to stay with them. He stayed two days,


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They said to the woman, “We no longer trust because of what you said, because we have heard for ourselves. We know indeed that this man really is the Savior of the world.”


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But when he arrived in the Galil, the people there welcomed him, because they had seen all he had done at the festival in Yerushalayim; since they had been there too.


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He went again to Kanah in the Galil, where he had turned the water into wine. An officer in the royal service was there; his son was ill in K’far-Nachum.


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This man, on hearing that Yeshua had come from Y’hudah to the Galil, went and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.


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So he asked them at what time he had gotten better; and they said, “The fever left him yesterday at one o’clock in the afternoon.”


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The father knew that that was the very hour when Yeshua had told him, “Your son is alive”; and he and all his household trusted.


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Yeshua, seeing this man and knowing that he had been there a long time, said to him, “Do you want to be healed?”


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The sick man answered, “I have no one to put me in the pool when the water is disturbed; and while I’m trying to get there, someone goes in ahead of me.”


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so the Judeans said to the man who had been healed, “It’s Shabbat! It’s against Torah for you to carry your mat!”


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But he answered them, “The man who healed me — he’s the one who told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”


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But the man who had been healed didn’t know who it was, because Yeshua had slipped away into the crowd.


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Afterwards Yeshua found him in the Temple court and said to him, “See, you are well! Now stop sinning, or something worse may happen to you!”


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This answer made the Judeans all the more intent on killing him — not only was he breaking Shabbat; but also, by saying that God was his own Father, he was claiming equality with God.


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Therefore, Yeshua said this to them: “Yes, indeed! I tell you that the Son cannot do anything on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing; whatever the Father does, the Son does too.


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For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does; and he will show him even greater things than these, so that you will be amazed.


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Just as the Father raises the dead and makes them alive, so too the Son makes alive anyone he wants.


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so that all may honor the Son as they honor the Father. Whoever fails to honor the Son is not honoring the Father who sent him.


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Yes, indeed! I tell you that whoever hears what I am saying and trusts the One who sent me has eternal life — that is, he will not come up for judgment but has already crossed over from death to life!


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Yes, indeed! I tell you that there is coming a time — in fact, it’s already here — when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen will come to life.


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Don’t be surprised at this; because the time is coming when all who are in the grave will hear his voice


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and come out — those who have done good to a resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to a resurrection of judgment.


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I can’t do a thing on my own. As I hear, I judge; and my judgment is right; because I don’t seek my own desire, but the desire of the one who sent me.


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But there is someone else testifying on my behalf, and I know that the testimony he is making is valid —


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“But I have a testimony that is greater than Yochanan’s. For the things the Father has given me to do, the very things I am doing now, testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me.


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“In addition, the Father who sent me has himself testified on my behalf. But you have never heard his voice or seen his shape;


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You keep examining the Tanakh because you think that in it you have eternal life. Those very Scriptures bear witness to me,


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I have come in my Father’s name, and you don’t accept me; if someone else comes in his own name, him you will accept.


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How can you trust? You’re busy collecting praise from each other, instead of seeking praise from God only.


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“But don’t think that it is I who will be your accuser before the Father. Do you know who will accuse you? Moshe, the very one you have counted on!


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so when Yeshua looked up and saw that a large crowd was approaching, he said to Philip, “Where will we be able to buy bread, so that these people can eat?”


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Philip answered, “Half a year’s wages wouldn’t buy enough bread for them — each one would get only a bite!”


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“There’s a young fellow here who has five loaves of barley bread and two fish. But how far will they go among so many?”


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Yeshua said, “Have the people sit down.” There was a lot of grass there, so they sat down. The number of men was about five thousand.


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Then Yeshua took the loaves of bread, and, after making a b’rakhah, gave to all who were sitting there, and likewise with the fish, as much as they wanted.


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After they had eaten their fill, he told his talmidim, “Gather the leftover pieces, so that nothing gets wasted.”


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They gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces from the five barley loaves left by those who had eaten.


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When the people saw the miracle he had performed, they said, “This has to be ‘the prophet’ who is supposed to come into the world.”


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Yeshua knew that they were on the point of coming and seizing him, in order to make him king; so he went back to the hills again. This time he went by himself.


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got into a boat and set out across the lake toward K’far-Nachum. By now it was dark, Yeshua had not yet joined them,


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They had rowed three or four miles when they saw Yeshua approaching the boat, walking on the lake! They were terrified;


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Then they were willing to take him into the boat, and instantly the boat reached the land they were heading for.


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The next day, the crowd which had stayed on the other side of the lake noticed that there had been only one boat there, and that Yeshua had not entered the boat with his talmidim, but that the talmidim had been alone when they sailed off.


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Then other boats, from Tiberias, came ashore near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had made the b’rakhah.


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Accordingly, when the crowd saw that neither Yeshua nor his talmidim were there, they themselves boarded the boats and made for K’far-Nachum in search of Yeshua.


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Yeshua answered, “Yes, indeed! I tell you, you’re not looking for me because you saw miraculous signs, but because you ate the bread and had all you wanted!


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Don’t work for the food which passes away but for the food that stays on into eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For this is the one on whom God the Father has put his seal.”


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They said to him, “Nu, what miracle will you do for us, so that we may see it and trust you? What work can you perform?


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Our fathers ate man in the desert — as it says in the Tanakh, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’


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Yeshua said to them, “Yes, indeed! I tell you it wasn’t Moshe who gave you the bread from heaven. But my Father is giving you the genuine bread from heaven;


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Yeshua answered, “I am the bread which is life! Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever trusts in me will never be thirsty.


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Everyone the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will certainly not turn away.


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And this is the will of the One who sent me: that I should not lose any of all those he has given me but should raise them up on the Last Day.


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Yes, this is the will of my Father: that all who see the Son and trust in him should have eternal life, and that I should raise them up on the Last Day.”


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At this the Judeans began grumbling about him because he said, “I am the bread which has come down from heaven.”


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They said, “Isn’t this Yeshua Ben-Yosef? We know his father and mother! How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”


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No one can come to me unless the Father — the One who sent me — draws him. And I will raise him up on the Last Day.


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It is written in the Prophets, ‘They will all be taught by Adonai.’ Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me.


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I am the living bread that has come down from heaven; if anyone eats this bread, he will live forever. Furthermore, the bread that I will give is my own flesh; and I will give it for the life of the world.”


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At this, the Judeans disputed with one another, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”


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Then Yeshua said to them, “Yes, indeed! I tell you that unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves.


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Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life — that is, I will raise him up on the Last Day.


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Just as the living Father sent me, and I live through the Father, so also whoever eats me will live through me.


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So this is the bread that has come down from heaven — it is not like the bread the fathers ate; they’re dead, but whoever eats this bread will live forever!”


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But Yeshua, aware that his talmidim were grumbling about this, said to them, “This is a trap for you?


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It is the Spirit who gives life, the flesh is no help. The words I have spoken to you are Spirit and life,


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yet some among you do not trust.” (For Yeshua knew from the outset which ones would not trust him, also which one would betray him.)


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“This,” he said, “is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has made it possible for him.”


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(He was speaking of Y’hudah Ben-Shim‘on, from K’riot; for this man — one of the Twelve! — was soon to betray him.)


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After this, Yeshua traveled around in the Galil, intentionally avoiding Y’hudah because the Judeans were out to kill him.


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so his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go into Y’hudah, so that your talmidim can see the miracles you do;


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for no one who wants to become known acts in secret. If you’re doing these things, show yourself to the world!”


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You, go on up to the festival; as for me, I am not going up to this festival now, because the right time for me has not yet come.”


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And among the crowds there was much whispering about him. Some said, “He’s a good man”; but others said, “No, he is deceiving the masses.”


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A person who speaks on his own is trying to win praise for himself; but a person who tries to win praise for the one who sent him is honest, there is nothing false about him.


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Moshe gave you b’rit-milah — not that it came from Moshe but from the Patriarchs — and you do a boy’s b’rit-milah on Shabbat.


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If a boy is circumcised on Shabbat so that the Torah of Moshe will not be broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man’s whole body well on Shabbat?


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Yet here he is, speaking openly; and they don’t say anything to him. It couldn’t be, could it, that the authorities have actually concluded he’s the Messiah?


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Surely not — we know where this man comes from; but when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he comes from.”


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Whereupon Yeshua, continuing to teach in the Temple courts, cried out, “Indeed you do know me! And you know where I’m from! And I have not come on my own! The One who sent me is real. But him you don’t know!


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At this, they tried to arrest him; but no one laid a hand on him; because his time had not yet come.


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However, many in the crowd put their trust in him and said, “When the Messiah comes, will he do more miracles than this man has done?”


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The P’rushim heard the crowd whispering these things about Yeshua; so the head cohanim and the P’rushim sent some of the Temple guards to arrest him.


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Yeshua said, “I will be with you only a little while longer; then I will go away to the One who sent me.


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The Judeans said to themselves, “Where is this man about to go, that we won’t find him? Does he intend to go to the Greek Diaspora and teach the Greek-speaking Jews?


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And when he says, ‘You will look for me and not find me; indeed, where I am, you cannot come’ — what does he mean?”


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Now on the last day of the festival, Hoshana Rabbah, Yeshua stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him keep coming to me and drinking!


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Whoever puts his trust in me, as the Scripture says, rivers of living water will flow from his inmost being!”


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(Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who trusted in him were to receive later — the Spirit had not yet been given, because Yeshua had not yet been glorified.)


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Doesn’t the Tanakh say that the Messiah is from the seed of David and comes from Beit-Lechem, the village where David lived?”


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The guards came back to the head cohanim and the P’rushim, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring him in?”


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“Our Torah doesn’t condemn a man — does it? — until after hearing from him and finding out what he’s doing.”


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They replied, “You aren’t from the Galil too, are you? Study the Tanakh, and see for yourself that no prophet comes from the Galil!”


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At daybreak, he appeared again in the Temple Court, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them.


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The Torah-teachers and the P’rushim brought in a woman who had been caught committing adultery and made her stand in the center of the group.


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They said this to trap him, so that they might have ground for bringing charges against him; but Yeshua bent down and began writing in the dust with his finger.


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When they kept questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “The one of you who is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.”


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On hearing this, they began to leave, one by one, the older ones first, until he was left alone, with the woman still there.


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Yeshua spoke to them again: “I am the light of the world; whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light which gives life.”


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So the P’rushim said to him, “Now you’re testifying on your own behalf; your testimony is not valid.”


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Yeshua answered them, “Even if I do testify on my own behalf, my testimony is indeed valid; because I know where I came from and where I’m going; but you do not know where I came from or where I’m going.


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but if I were indeed to pass judgment, my judgment would be valid; because it is not I alone who judge, but I and the One who sent me.


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They said to him, “Where is this ‘father’ of yours?” Yeshua answered, “You know neither me nor my Father; if you knew me, you would know my Father too.”


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He said these things when he was teaching in the Temple treasury room; yet no one arrested him, because his time had not yet come.


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Again he told them, “I am going away, and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin — where I am going, you cannot come.”


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The Judeans said, “Is he going to commit suicide? Is that what he means when he says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?”


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Yeshua said to them, “You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world.


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This is why I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not trust that I AM [who I say I am], you will die in your sins.”


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At this, they said to him, “You? Who are you?” Yeshua answered, “Just what I’ve been telling you from the start.


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There are many things I could say about you, and many judgments I could make. However, the One who sent me is true; so I say in the world only what I have heard from him.”


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So Yeshua said, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I AM [who I say I am], and that of myself I do nothing, but say only what the Father has taught me.


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Also, the One who sent me is still with me; he did not leave me to myself, because I always do what pleases him.”


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So Yeshua said to the Judeans who had trusted him, “If you obey what I say, then you are really my talmidim,


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They answered, “We are the seed of Avraham and have never been slaves to anyone; so what do you mean by saying, ‘You will be set free’?”


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I know you are the seed of Avraham. Yet you are out to kill me, because what I am saying makes no headway in you.


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They answered him, “Our father is Avraham.” Yeshua replied, “If you are children of Avraham, then do the things Avraham did!


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As it is, you are out to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Avraham did nothing like that!


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You are doing the things your father does.” “We’re not illegitimate children!” they said to him. “We have only one Father — God!”


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Yeshua replied to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me; because I came out from God; and now I have arrived here. I did not come on my own; he sent me.


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You belong to your father, Satan, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. From the start he was a murderer, and he has never stood by the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he is speaking in character; because he is a liar — indeed, the inventor of the lie!


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Whoever belongs to God listens to what God says; the reason you don’t listen is that you don’t belong to God.”


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The Judeans said to him, “Now we know for sure that you have a demon! Avraham died, and so did the prophets; yet you say, ‘Whoever obeys my teaching will never taste death.’


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Avraham avinu died; you aren’t greater than he, are you? And the prophets also died. Who do you think you are?”


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Yeshua answered, “If I praise myself, my praise counts for nothing. The One who is praising me is my Father, the very one about whom you keep saying, ‘He is our God.’


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Now you have not known him, but I do know him; indeed, if I were to say that I don’t know him, I would be a liar like you! But I do know him, and I obey his word.


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His talmidim asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned — this man or his parents — to cause him to be born blind?”


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Yeshua answered, “His blindness is due neither to his sin nor to that of his parents; it happened so that God’s power might be seen at work in him.


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As long as it is day, we must keep doing the work of the One who sent me; the night is coming, when no one can work.


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Having said this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, put the mud on the man’s eyes,


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and said to him, “Go, wash off in the Pool of Shiloach!” (The name means “sent.”) So he went and washed and came away seeing.


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His neighbors and those who previously had seen him begging said, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?”


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Some said, “Yes, he’s the one”; while others said, “No, but he looks like him.” However, he himself said, “I’m the one.”


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He answered, “The man called Yeshua made mud, put it on my eyes, and told me, ‘Go to Shiloach and wash!’ So I went; and as soon as I had washed, I could see.”


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So the P’rushim asked him again how he had become able to see; and he told them, “He put mud on my eyes, then I washed, and now I can see.”


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At this, some of the P’rushim said, “This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep Shabbat.” But others said, “How could a man who is a sinner do miracles like these?” And there was a split among them.


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So once more they spoke to the blind man: “Since you’re the one whose eyes he opened, what do you say about him?” He replied: “He is a prophet.”


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The Judeans, however, were unwilling to believe that he had formerly been blind, but now could see, until they had summoned the man’s parents.


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but how it is that he can see now, we don’t know; nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him — he’s old enough, he can speak for himself!”


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The parents said this because they were afraid of the Judeans, for the Judeans had already agreed that anyone who acknowledged Yeshua as the Messiah would be banned from the synagogue.


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So a second time they called the man who had been blind; and they said to him, “Swear to God that you will tell the truth! We know that this man is a sinner.”


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He answered, “Whether he’s a sinner or not I don’t know. One thing I do know: I was blind, now I see.”


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“I already told you,” he answered, “and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Maybe you too want to become his talmidim?”


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“What a strange thing,” the man answered, “that you don’t know where he’s from — considering that he opened my eyes!


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We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners; but if anyone fears God and does his will, God does listen to him.


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Yeshua heard that they had thrown the man out. He found him and said, “Do you trust in the Son of Man?”


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Yeshua said, “It is to judge that I came into this world, so that those who do not see might see, and those who do see might become blind.”


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Yeshua answered them, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin. But since you still say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains.


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“Yes, indeed! I tell you, the person who doesn’t enter the sheep-pen through the door, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.


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This is the one the gate-keeper admits, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep, each one by name, and leads them out.


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After taking out all that are his own, he goes on ahead of them; and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.


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They never follow a stranger but will run away from him, because strangers’ voices are unfamiliar to them.”


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Yeshua used this indirect manner of speaking with them, but they didn’t understand what he was talking to them about.


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All those who have come before me have been thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.


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I am the gate; if someone enters through me, he will be safe and will go in and out and find pasture.


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The thief comes only in order to steal, kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, life in its fullest measure.


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The hired hand, since he isn’t a shepherd and the sheep aren’t his own, sees the wolf coming, abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf drags them off and scatters them.


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The hired worker behaves like this because that’s all he is, a hired worker; so it doesn’t matter to him what happens to the sheep.


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Also I have other sheep which are not from this pen; I need to bring them, and they will hear my voice; and there will be one flock, one shepherd.


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No one takes it away from me; on the contrary, I lay it down of my own free will. I have the power to lay it down, and I have the power to take it up again. This is what my Father commanded me to do.”


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Others said, “These are not the deeds of a man who is demonized — how can a demon open blind people’s eyes?”


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So the Judeans surrounded him and said to him, “How much longer are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us publicly!”


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Yeshua answered them, “I have already told you, and you don’t trust me. The works I do in my Father’s name testify on my behalf,


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and I give them eternal life. They will absolutely never be destroyed, and no one will snatch them from my hands.


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My Father, who gave them to me, is greater than all; and no one can snatch them from the Father’s hands.


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Yeshua answered them, “You have seen me do many good deeds that reflect the Father’s power; for which one of these deeds are you stoning me?”


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The Judeans replied, “We are not stoning you for any good deed, but for blasphemy — because you, who are only a man, are making yourself out to be God .”


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If he called ‘elohim’ the people to whom the word of Elohim was addressed (and the Tanakh cannot be broken),


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then are you telling the one whom the Father set apart as holy and sent into the world, ‘You are committing blasphemy,’ just because I said, ‘I am a son of Elohim’?


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But if I am, then, even if you don’t trust me, trust the deeds; so that you may understand once and for all that the Father is united with me, and I am united with the Father.”


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Many people came to him and said, “Yochanan performed no miracles, but everything Yochanan said about this man was true.”


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There was a man who had fallen sick. His name was El‘azar, and he came from Beit-Anyah, the village where Miryam and her sister Marta lived.


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(This Miryam, whose brother El‘azar had become sick, is the one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.)


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On hearing it, he said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory, so that the Son of God may receive glory through it.”


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The talmidim replied, “Rabbi! Just a short while ago the Judeans were out to stone you — and you want to go back there?”


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Yeshua answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a person walks during daylight, he doesn’t stumble; because he sees the light of this world.


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Yeshua said these things, and afterwards he said to the talmidim, “Our friend El‘azar has gone to sleep; but I am going in order to wake him up.”


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Now Yeshua had used the phrase to speak about El‘azar’s death, but they thought he had been talking literally about sleep.


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And for your sakes, I am glad that I wasn’t there, so that you may come to trust. But let’s go to him.”


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Then T’oma (the name means “twin”) said to his fellow talmidim, “Yes, we should go, so that we can die with him!”


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and many of the Judeans had come to Marta and Miryam in order to comfort them at the loss of their brother.


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So when Marta heard that Yeshua was coming, she went out to meet him; but Miryam continued sitting shiv‘ah in the house.


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Yeshua said to her, “I AM the Resurrection and the Life! Whoever puts his trust in me will live, even if he dies;


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She said to him, “Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one coming into the world.”


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After saying this, she went off and secretly called Miryam, her sister: “The Rabbi is here and is calling for you.”


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so when the Judeans who had been with Miryam in the house comforting her saw her get up quickly and go out, they followed her, thinking she was going to the tomb to mourn there.


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When Miryam came to where Yeshua was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”


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When Yeshua saw her crying, and also the Judeans who came with her crying, he was deeply moved and also troubled.


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Yeshua, again deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying in front of the entrance.


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Yeshua said, “Take the stone away!” Marta, the sister of the dead man, said to Yeshua, “By now his body must smell, for it has been four days since he died!”


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So they removed the stone. Yeshua looked upward and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me.


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I myself know that you always hear me, but I say this because of the crowd standing around, so that they may believe that you have sent me.”


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The man who had been dead came out, his hands and feet wrapped in strips of linen and his face covered with a cloth. Yeshua said to them, “Unwrap him, and let him go!”


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At this, many of the Judeans who had come to visit Miryam, and had seen what Yeshua had done, trusted in him.


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So the head cohanim and the P’rushim called a meeting of the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we going to do? — for this man is performing many miracles.


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If we let him keep going on this way, everyone will trust in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both the Temple and the nation.”


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But one of them, Kayafa, who was cohen gadol that year, said to them, “You people don’t know anything!


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You don’t see that it’s better for you if one man dies on behalf of the people, so that the whole nation won’t be destroyed.”


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Now he didn’t speak this way on his own initiative; rather, since he was cohen gadol that year, he was prophesying that Yeshua was about to die on behalf of the nation,


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Therefore Yeshua no longer walked around openly among the Judeans but went away from there into the region near the desert, to a town called Efrayim, and stayed there with his talmidim.


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The Judean festival of Pesach was near, and many people went up from the country to Yerushalayim to perform the purification ceremony prior to Pesach.


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They were looking for Yeshua, and as they stood in the Temple courts they said to each other, “What do you think? that he simply won’t come to the festival?”


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Moreover, the head cohanim and the P’rushim had given orders that anyone knowing Yeshua’s whereabouts should inform them, so that they could have him arrested.


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Six days before Pesach, Yeshua came to Beit-Anyah, where El‘azar lived, the man Yeshua had raised from the dead;


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so they gave a dinner there in his honor. Marta served the meal, and El‘azar was among those at the table with him.


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Miryam took a whole pint of pure oil of spikenard, which is very expensive, poured it on Yeshua’s feet and wiped his feet with her hair, so that the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.


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Now he said this not out of concern for the poor, but because he was a thief — he was in charge of the common purse and used to steal from it.


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A large crowd of Judeans learned that he was there; and they came not only because of Yeshua, but also so that they could see El‘azar, whom he had raised from the dead.


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since it was because of him that large numbers of the Judeans were leaving their leaders and putting their trust in Yeshua.


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The next day, the large crowd that had come for the festival heard that Yeshua was on his way into Yerushalayim.


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They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, “Deliver us!” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of Adonai, the King of Isra’el!”


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His talmidim did not understand this at first; but after Yeshua had been glorified, then they remembered that the Tanakh said this about him, and that they had done this for him.


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The group that had been with him when he called El‘azar out of the tomb and raised him from the dead had been telling about it.


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It was because of this too that the crowd came out to meet him — they had heard that he had performed this miracle.


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The P’rushim said to each other, “Look, you’re getting nowhere! Why, the whole world has gone after him!”


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They approached Philip, the one from Beit-Tzaidah in the Galil, with a request. “Sir,” they said, “we would like to see Yeshua.”


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Yes, indeed! I tell you that unless a grain of wheat that falls to the ground dies, it stays just a grain; but if it dies, it produces a big harvest.


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He who loves his life loses it, but he who hates his life in this world will keep it safe right on into eternal life!


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If someone is serving me, let him follow me; wherever I am, my servant will be there too. My Father will honor anyone who serves me.


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“Now I am in turmoil. What can I say — ‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, it was for this very reason that I have come to this hour. I will say this:


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‘Father, glorify your name!’” At this a bat-kol came out of heaven, “I have glorified it before, and I will glorify it again!”


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The crowd standing there and hearing it said that it had thundered; others said, “An angel spoke to him.”


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The crowd answered, “We have learned from the Torah that the Messiah remains forever. How is it that you say the Son of Man has to be ‘lifted up’? Who is this ‘Son of Man’?”


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Yeshua said to them, “The light will be with you only a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, or the dark will overtake you; he who walks in the dark doesn’t know where he’s going.


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While you have the light, put your trust in the light, so that you may become people of light.” Yeshua said these things, then went off and kept himself hidden from them.


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Even though he had performed so many miracles in their presence, they still did not put their trust in him,


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in order that what Yesha‘yahu the prophet had said might be fulfilled, “Adonai, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of Adonai been revealed?”


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“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they do not see with their eyes, understand with their hearts, and do t’shuvah, so that I could heal them.”


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Nevertheless, many of the leaders did trust in him; but because of the P’rushim they did not say so openly, out of fear of being banned from the synagogue;


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Yeshua declared publicly, “Those who put their trust in me are trusting not merely in me, but in the One who sent me.


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I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who trusts in me might not remain in the dark.


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If anyone hears what I am saying and does not observe it, I don’t judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.


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Those who reject me and don’t accept what I say have a judge — the word which I have spoken will judge them on the Last Day.


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For I have not spoken on my own initiative, but the Father who sent me has given me a command, namely, what to say and how to say it.


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And I know that his command is eternal life. So what I say is simply what the Father has told me to say.”


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It was just before the festival of Pesach, and Yeshua knew that the time had come for him to pass from this world to the Father. Having loved his own people in the world, he loved them to the end.


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They were at supper, and the Adversary had already put the desire to betray him into the heart of Y’hudah Ben-Shim‘on from K’riot.


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Yeshua was aware that the Father had put everything in his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God.


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Then he poured some water into a basin and began to wash the feet of the talmidim and wipe them off with the towel wrapped around him.


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“No!” said Kefa, “You will never wash my feet!” Yeshua answered him, “If I don’t wash you, you have no share with me.”


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Yeshua said to him, “A man who has had a bath doesn’t need to wash, except his feet — his body is already clean. And you people are clean, but not all of you.”


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After he had washed their feet, taken back his clothes and returned to the table, he said to them, “Do you understand what I have done to you?


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Yes, indeed! I tell you, a slave is not greater than his master, nor is an emissary greater than the one who sent him.


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“I’m not talking to all of you — I know which ones I have chosen. But the words of the Tanakh must be fulfilled that say, ‘The one eating my bread has turned against me.’


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I’m telling you now, before it happens; so that when it does happen, you may believe that I AM [who I say I am].


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Yes, indeed! I tell you that a person who receives someone I send receives me, and that anyone who receives me receives the One who sent me.”


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After saying this, Yeshua, in deep anguish of spirit, declared, “Yes, indeed! I tell you that one of you will betray me.”


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Yeshua answered, “It’s the one to whom I give this piece of matzah after I dip it in the dish.” So he dipped the piece of matzah and gave it to Y’hudah Ben-Shim‘on from K’riot.


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As soon as Y’hudah took the piece of matzah, the Adversary went into him. “What you are doing, do quickly!” Yeshua said to him.


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Some thought that since Y’hudah was in charge of the common purse, Yeshua was telling him, “Buy what we need for the festival,” or telling him to give something to the poor.


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After Y’hudah had left, Yeshua said, “Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.


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Little children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me; and, as I said to the Judeans, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come,’ now I say it to you as well.


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“I am giving you a new command: that you keep on loving each other. In the same way that I have loved you, you are also to keep on loving each other.


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Shim‘on Kefa said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Yeshua answered, “Where I am going, you cannot follow me now; but you will follow later.”


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Yeshua answered, “You will lay down your life for me? Yes, indeed! I tell you, before the rooster crows you will disown me three times.


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In my Father’s house are many places to live. If there weren’t, I would have told you; because I am going there to prepare a place for you.


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Since I am going and preparing a place for you, I will return to take you with me; so that where I am, you may be also.


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Yeshua said, “I AM the Way — and the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father except through me.


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Because you have known me, you will also know my Father; from now on, you do know him — in fact, you have seen him.”


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Yeshua replied to him, “Have I been with you so long without your knowing me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?


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Don’t you believe that I am united with the Father, and the Father united with me? What I am telling you, I am not saying on my own initiative; the Father living in me is doing his own works.


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Trust me, that I am united with the Father, and the Father united with me. But if you can’t, then trust because of the works themselves.


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Yes, indeed! I tell you that whoever trusts in me will also do the works I do! Indeed, he will do greater ones, because I am going to the Father.


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In fact, whatever you ask for in my name, I will do; so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.


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and I will ask the Father, and he will give you another comforting Counselor like me, the Spirit of Truth, to be with you forever.


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The world cannot receive him, because it neither sees nor knows him. You know him, because he is staying with you and will be united with you.


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In just a little while, the world will no longer see me; but you will see me. Because I live, you too will live.


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When that day comes, you will know that I am united with my Father, and you with me, and I with you.


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Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me, and the one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him.”


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Y’hudah (not the one from K’riot) said to him, “What has happened, Lord, that you are about to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”


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Yeshua answered him, “If someone loves me, he will keep my word; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.


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Someone who doesn’t love me doesn’t keep my words — and the word you are hearing is not my own but that of the Father who sent me.


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But the Counselor, the Ruach HaKodesh, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything; that is, he will remind you of everything I have said to you.


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“What I am leaving with you is shalom — I am giving you my shalom. I don’t give the way the world gives. Don’t let yourselves be upset or frightened.


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You heard me tell you, ‘I am leaving, and I will come back to you.’ If you loved me, you would have been glad that I am going to the Father; because the Father is greater than I.


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“I won’t be talking with you much longer, because the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me;


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rather, this is happening so that the world may know that I love the Father, and that I do as the Father has commanded me. “Get up! Let’s get going!


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Every branch which is part of me but fails to bear fruit, he cuts off; and every branch that does bear fruit, he prunes, so that it may bear more fruit.


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Stay united with me, as I will with you — for just as the branch can’t put forth fruit by itself apart from the vine, so you can’t bear fruit apart from me.


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“I am the vine and you are the branches. Those who stay united with me, and I with them, are the ones who bear much fruit; because apart from me you can’t do a thing.


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Unless a person remains united with me, he is thrown away like a branch and dries up. Such branches are gathered and thrown into the fire, where they are burned up.


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“If you remain united with me, and my words with you, then ask whatever you want, and it will happen for you.


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This is how my Father is glorified — in your bearing much fruit; this is how you will prove to be my talmidim.


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If you keep my commands, you will stay in my love — just as I have kept my Father’s commands and stay in his love.


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I no longer call you slaves, because a slave doesn’t know what his master is about; but I have called you friends, because everything I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.


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You did not choose me, I chose you; and I have commissioned you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last; so that whatever you ask from the Father in my name he may give you.


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If you belonged to the world, the world would have loved its own. But because you do not belong to the world — on the contrary, I have picked you out of the world — therefore the world hates you.


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Remember what I told you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you too; if they kept my word, they will keep yours too.


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“If I had not come and spoken to them, they wouldn’t be guilty of sin; but now, they have no excuse for their sin.


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If I had not done in their presence works which no one else ever did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now, they have seen them and have hated both me and my Father.


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But this has happened in order to fulfill the words in their Torah which read, ‘They hated me for no reason at all.’


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“When the Counselor comes, whom I will send you from the Father — the Spirit of Truth, who keeps going out from the Father — he will testify on my behalf.


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They will ban you from the synagogue; in fact, the time will come when anyone who kills you will think he is serving God!


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But I have told you this, so that when the time comes for it to happen, you will remember that I told you. I didn’t tell you this at first, because I was with you.


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But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I don’t go away, the comforting Counselor will not come to you. However, if I do go, I will send him to you.


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“When he comes, he will show that the world is wrong about sin, about righteousness and about judgment —


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However, when the Spirit of Truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own initiative but will say only what he hears. He will also announce to you the events of the future.


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Everything the Father has is mine; this is why I said that he receives from what is mine and will announce it to you.


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At this, some of the talmidim said to one another, “What is this that he’s telling us, ‘In a little while, you won’t see me; then, a little while later, you will see me’? and, ‘I am going to the Father’?”


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Yeshua knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, “Are you asking each other what I meant by saying, ‘In a little while, you won’t see me; and then, a little while later, you will see me’?


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Yes, it’s true. I tell you that you will sob and mourn, and the world will rejoice; you will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.


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When a woman is giving birth, she is in pain; because her time has come. But when the baby is born, she forgets her suffering out of joy that a child has come into the world.


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So you do indeed feel grief now, but I am going to see you again. Then your hearts will be full of joy, and no one will take your joy away from you.


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“When that day comes, you won’t ask anything of me! Yes, indeed! I tell you that whatever you ask from the Father, he will give you in my name.


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Till now you haven’t asked for anything in my name. Keep asking, and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.


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“I have said these things to you with the help of illustrations; however, a time is coming when I will no longer speak indirectly but will talk about the Father in plain language.


book: John
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When that day comes, you will ask in my name. I am not telling you that I will pray to the Father on your behalf,


book: John
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“I came from the Father and have come into the world; again, I am leaving the world and returning to the Father.”


book: John
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The talmidim said to him, “Look, you’re talking plainly right now, you’re not speaking indirectly at all.


book: John
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Now we know that you know everything, and that you don’t need to have people put their questions into words. This makes us believe that you came from God.”


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But a time is coming — indeed it has come already — when you will be scattered, each one looking out for himself; and you will leave me all alone. Yet I am not alone; because the Father is with me.


book: John
contenido:
“I have said these things to you so that, united with me, you may have shalom. In the world, you have tsuris. But be brave! I have conquered the world!”


book: John
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After Yeshua had said these things, he looked up toward heaven and said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, so that the Son may glorify you —


book: John
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just as you gave him authority over all mankind, so that he might give eternal life to all those whom you have given him.


book: John
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Now, Father, glorify me alongside yourself. Give me the same glory I had with you before the world existed.


book: John
contenido:
“I made your name known to the people you gave me out of the world. They were yours, you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.


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because the words you gave me I have given to them, and they have received them. They have really come to know that I came from you, and they have come to trust that you sent me.


book: John
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“I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given to me, because they are yours.


book: John
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Now I am no longer in the world. They are in the world, but I am coming to you. Holy Father, guard them by the power of your name, which you have given to me, so that they may be one, just as we are.


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When I was with them, I guarded them by the power of your name, which you have given to me; yes, I kept watch over them; and not one of them was destroyed (except the one meant for destruction, so that the Tanakh might be fulfilled).


book: John
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But now, I am coming to you; and I say these things while I am still in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves.


book: John
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“I have given them your word, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world — just as I myself do not belong to the world.


book: John
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On their behalf I am setting myself apart for holiness, so that they too may be set apart for holiness by means of the truth.


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that they may all be one. Just as you, Father, are united with me and I with you, I pray that they may be united with us, so that the world may believe that you sent me.


book: John
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The glory which you have given to me, I have given to them; so that they may be one, just as we are one —


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I united with them and you with me, so that they may be completely one, and the world thus realize that you sent me, and that you have loved them just as you have loved me.


book: John
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“Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am; so that they may see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.


book: John
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Righteous Father, the world has not known you, but I have known you, and these people have known that you sent me.


book: John
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I made your name known to them, and I will continue to make it known; so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I myself may be united with them.”


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After Yeshua had said all this, he went out with his talmidim across the stream that flows in winter through the Vadi Kidron, to a spot where there was a grove of trees; and he and his talmidim went into it.


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Now Y’hudah, who was betraying him, also knew the place; because Yeshua had often met there with his talmidim.


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So Y’hudah went there, taking with him a detachment of Roman soldiers and some Temple guards provided by the head cohanim and the P’rushim; they carried weapons, lanterns and torches.


book: John
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Yeshua, who knew everything that was going to happen to him, went out and asked them, “Whom do you want?”


book: John
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“Yeshua from Natzeret,” they answered. He said to them, “I AM.” Also standing with them was Y’hudah, the one who was betraying him.


book: John
contenido:
This happened so that what he had said might be fulfilled, “I have not lost one of those you gave me.”


book: John
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Then Shim‘on Kefa, who had a sword, drew it and struck the slave of the cohen hagadol, cutting off his right ear; the slave’s name was Melekh.


book: John
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Yeshua said to Kefa, “Put your sword back in its scabbard! This is the cup the Father has given me; am I not to drink it?”


book: John
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So the detachment of Roman soldiers and their captain, together with the Temple Guard of the Judeans, arrested Yeshua, tied him up,


book: John
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(It was Kayafa who had advised the Judeans that it would be good for one man to die on behalf of the people.)


book: John
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Shim‘on Kefa and another talmid followed Yeshua. The second talmid was known to the cohen hagadol, and he went with Yeshua into the courtyard of the cohen hagadol;


book: John
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but Kefa stood outside by the gate. So the other talmid, the one known to the cohen hagadol, went back out and spoke to the woman on duty at the gate, then brought Kefa inside.


book: John
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The woman at the gate said to Kefa, “Aren’t you another of that man’s talmidim?” He said, “No, I’m not.”


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Now the slaves and guards had lit a fire because it was cold, and they were standing around it warming themselves; Kefa joined them and stood warming himself too.


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Yeshua answered, “I have spoken quite openly to everyone; I have always taught in a synagogue or in the Temple where all Jews meet together, and I have said nothing in secret;


book: John
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so why are you questioning me? Question the ones who heard what I said to them; look, they know what I said.”


book: John
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At these words, one of the guards standing by slapped Yeshua in the face and said, “This is how you talk to the cohen hagadol?”


book: John
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Yeshua answered him, “If I said something wrong, state publicly what was wrong; but if I was right, why are you hitting me?”


book: John
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Meanwhile, Shim‘on Kefa was standing and warming himself. They said to him, “Aren’t you also one of his talmidim?” He denied it, saying, “No, I am not.”


book: John
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One of the slaves of the cohen hagadol, a relative of the man whose ear Kefa had cut off, said, “Didn’t I see you with him in the grove of trees?”


book: John
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They led Yeshua from Kayafa to the governor’s headquarters. By now it was early morning. They did not enter the headquarters building because they didn’t want to become ritually defiled and thus unable to eat the Pesach meal.


book: John
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Pilate said to them, “You take him and judge him according to your own law.” The Judeans replied, “We don’t have the legal power to put anyone to death.”


book: John
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So Pilate went back into the headquarters, called Yeshua and said to him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”


book: John
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Pilate replied, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and head cohanim have handed you over to me; what have you done?”


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Yeshua answered, “My kingship does not derive its authority from this world’s order of things. If it did, my men would have fought to keep me from being arrested by the Judeans. But my kingship does not come from here.”


book: John
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“So then,” Pilate said to him, “You are a king, after all.” Yeshua answered, “You say I am a king. The reason I have been born, the reason I have come into the world, is to bear witness to the truth. Every one who belongs to the truth listens to me.”


book: John
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Pilate asked him, “What is truth?” Having said this, Pilate went outside again to the Judeans and told them, “I don’t find any case against him.


book: John
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However, you have a custom that at Passover I set one prisoner free. Do you want me to set free for you the ‘king of the Jews’?”


book: John
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The soldiers twisted thorn-branches into a crown and placed it on his head, put a purple robe on him,


book: John
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Pilate went outside once more and said to the crowd, “Look, I’m bringing him out to you to get you to understand that I find no case against him.”


book: John
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So Yeshua came out, wearing the thorn-branch crown and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Look at the man!”


book: John
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When the head cohanim and the Temple guards saw him they shouted, “Put him to death on the stake! Put him to death on the stake!” Pilate said to them, “You take him out yourselves and put him to death on the stake, because I don’t find any case against him.”


book: John
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The Judeans answered him, “We have a law; according to that law, he ought to be put to death, because he made himself out to be the Son of God.”


book: John
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He went back into the headquarters and asked Yeshua, “Where are you from?” But Yeshua didn’t answer.


book: John
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So Pilate said to him, “You refuse to speak to me? Don’t you understand that it is in my power either to set you free or to have you executed on the stake?”


book: John
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Yeshua answered, “You would have no power over me if it hadn’t been given to you from above; this is why the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.”


book: John
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On hearing this, Pilate tried to find a way to set him free; but the Judeans shouted, “If you set this man free, it means you’re not a ‘Friend of the Emperor’! Everyone who claims to be a king is opposing the Emperor!”


book: John
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When Pilate heard what they were saying, he brought Yeshua outside and sat down on the judge’s seat in the place called The Pavement (in Aramaic, Gabta);


book: John
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They shouted, “Take him away! Take him away! Put him to death on the stake!” Pilate said to them, “You want me to execute your king on a stake?” The head cohanim answered, “We have no king but the Emperor.”


book: John
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Then Pilate handed Yeshua over to them to have him put to death on the stake. So they took charge of Yeshua.


book: John
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There they nailed him to the stake along with two others, one on either side, with Yeshua in the middle.


book: John
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Pilate also had a notice written and posted on the stake; it read, YESHUA FROM NATZERET THE KING OF THE JEWS


book: John
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Many of the Judeans read this notice, because the place where Yeshua was put on the stake was close to the city; and it had been written in Hebrew, in Latin and in Greek.


book: John
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The Judeans’ head cohanim therefore said to Pilate, “Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but ‘He said, “I am King of the Jews.”’”


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When the soldiers had nailed Yeshua to the stake, they took his clothes and divided them into four shares, a share for each soldier, with the under-robe left over. Now the under-robe was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom;


book: John
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so they said to one another, “We shouldn’t tear it in pieces; let’s draw for it.” This happened in order to fulfill the words from the Tanakh, “They divided my clothes among themselves and gambled for my robe.” This is why the soldiers did these things.


book: John
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Nearby Yeshua’s execution stake stood his mother, his mother’s sister Miryam the wife of K’lofah, and Miryam from Magdala.


book: John
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When Yeshua saw his mother and the talmid whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Mother, this is your son.”


book: John
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Then he said to the talmid, “This is your mother.” And from that time on, the talmid took her into his own home.


book: John
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After this, knowing that all things had accomplished their purpose, Yeshua, in order to fulfill the words of the Tanakh, said, “I’m thirsty.”


book: John
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A jar full of cheap sour wine was there; so they soaked a sponge in the wine, coated it with oregano leaves and held it up to his mouth.


book: John
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After Yeshua had taken the wine, he said, “It is accomplished!” And, letting his head droop, he delivered up his spirit.


book: John
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It was Preparation Day, and the Judeans did not want the bodies to remain on the stake on Shabbat, since it was an especially important Shabbat. So they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies removed.


book: John
contenido:
The soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man who had been put on a stake beside Yeshua, then the legs of the other one;


book: John
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The man who saw it has testified about it, and his testimony is true. And he knows that he tells the truth, so you too can trust.


book: John
contenido:
For these things happened in order to fulfill this passage of the Tanakh: “Not one of his bones will be broken.”


book: John
contenido:
After this, Yosef of Ramatayim, who was a talmid of Yeshua, but a secret one out of fear of the Judeans, asked Pilate if he could have Yeshua’s body. Pilate gave his consent, so Yosef came and took the body away.


book: John
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Also Nakdimon, who at first had gone to see Yeshua by night, came with some seventy pounds of spices — a mixture of myrrh and aloes.


book: John
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They took Yeshua’s body and wrapped it up in linen sheets with the spices, in keeping with Judean burial practice.


book: John
contenido:
In the vicinity of where he had been executed was a garden, and in the garden was a new tomb in which no one had ever been buried.


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So, because it was Preparation Day for the Judeans, and because the tomb was close by, that is where they buried Yeshua.


book: John
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Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Miryam from Magdala went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb.


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So she came running to Shim‘on Kefa and the other talmid, the one Yeshua loved, and said to them, “They’ve taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they’ve put him!”


book: John
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also the cloth that had been around his head, lying not with the sheets but in a separate place and still folded up.


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(They had not yet come to understand that the Tanakh teaches that the Messiah has to rise from the dead.)


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and saw two angels in white sitting where the body of Yeshua had been, one at the head and one at the feet.


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“Why are you crying?” they asked her. “They took my Lord,” she said to them, “and I don’t know where they have put him.”


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Yeshua said to her, “Lady, why are you crying? Whom are you looking for?” Thinking he was the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you’re the one who carried him away, just tell me where you put him; and I’ll go and get him myself.”


book: John
contenido:
Yeshua said to her, “Miryam!” Turning, she cried out to him in Hebrew, “Rabbani!” (that is, “Teacher!”)


book: John
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“Stop holding onto me,” Yeshua said to her, “because I haven’t yet gone back to the Father. But go to my brothers, and tell them that I am going back to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.”


book: John
contenido:
Miryam of Magdala went to the talmidim with the news that she had seen the Lord and that he had told her this.


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In the evening that same day, the first day of the week, when the talmidim were gathered together behind locked doors out of fear of the Judeans, Yeshua came, stood in the middle and said, “Shalom aleikhem!”


book: John
contenido:
Having greeted them, he showed them his hands and his side. The talmidim were overjoyed to see the Lord.


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When the other talmidim told him, “We have seen the Lord,” he replied, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands, put my finger into the place where the nails were and put my hand into his side, I refuse to believe it.”


book: John
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A week later his talmidim were once more in the room, and this time T’oma was with them. Although the doors were locked, Yeshua came, stood among them and said, “Shalom aleikhem!”


book: John
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Then he said to T’oma, “Put your finger here, look at my hands, take your hand and put it into my side. Don’t be lacking in trust, but have trust!”


book: John
contenido:
Yeshua said to him, “Have you trusted because you have seen me? How blessed are those who do not see, but trust anyway!”


book: John
contenido:
In the presence of the talmidim Yeshua performed many other miracles which have not been recorded in this book.


book: John
contenido:
But these which have been recorded are here so that you may trust that Yeshua is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by this trust you may have life because of who he is.


book: John
contenido:
Shim‘on Kefa and T’oma (his name means “twin”) were together with Natan’el from Kanah in the Galil, the sons of Zavdai, and two other talmidim.


book: John
contenido:
Shim‘on Kefa said, “I’m going fishing.” They said to him, “We’re coming with you.” They went and got into the boat, but that night they didn’t catch anything.


book: John
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He said to them, “Throw in your net to starboard and you will catch some.” So they threw in their net, and there were so many fish in it that they couldn’t haul it aboard.


book: John
contenido:
The talmid Yeshua loved said to Kefa, “It’s the Lord!” On hearing it was the Lord, Shim‘on Kefa threw on his coat, because he was stripped for work, and plunged into the lake;


book: John
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but the other talmidim followed in the boat, dragging the net full of fish; for they weren’t far from shore, only about a hundred yards.


book: John
contenido:
Shim‘on Kefa went up and dragged the net ashore. It was full of fish, 153 of them; but even with so many, the net wasn’t torn.


book: John
contenido:
Yeshua said to them, “Come and have breakfast.” None of the talmidim dared to ask him, “Who are you?” They knew it was the Lord.


book: John
contenido:
After breakfast, Yeshua said to Shim‘on Kefa, “Shim‘on Bar-Yochanan, do you love me more than these?” He replied, “Yes, Lord, you know I’m your friend.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”


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A second time he said to him, “Shim‘on Bar-Yochanan, do you love me?” He replied, “Yes, Lord, you know I’m your friend.” He said to him, “Shepherd my sheep.”


book: John
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The third time he said to him, “Shim‘on Bar-Yochanan, are you my friend?” Shim‘on was hurt that he questioned him a third time: “Are you my friend?” So he replied, “Lord, you know everything! You know I’m your friend!” Yeshua said to him, “Feed my sheep!


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Yes, indeed! I tell you, when you were younger, you put on your clothes and went where you wanted. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and carry you where you do not want to go.”


book: John
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He said this to indicate the kind of death by which Kefa would bring glory to God. Then Yeshua said to him, “Follow me!”


book: John
contenido:
Kefa turned and saw the talmid Yeshua especially loved following behind, the one who had leaned against him at the supper and had asked, “Who is the one who is betraying you?”


book: John
contenido:
Therefore the word spread among the brothers that that talmid would not die. However, Yeshua didn’t say he wouldn’t die, but simply, “If I want him to stay on until I come, what is it to you?”


book: John
contenido:
This one is the talmid who is testifying about these things and who has recorded them. And we know that his testimony is true.


book: John
contenido:
But there are also many other things Yeshua did; and if they were all to be recorded, I don’t think the whole world could contain the books that would have to be written!


book: Acts
contenido:
until the day when, after giving instructions through the Ruach HaKodesh to the emissaries whom he had chosen, he was taken up into heaven.


book: Acts
contenido:
After his death he showed himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. During a period of forty days they saw him, and he spoke with them about the Kingdom of God.


book: Acts
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At one of these gatherings, he instructed them not to leave Yerushalayim but to wait for “what the Father promised, which you heard about from me.


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For Yochanan used to immerse people in water; but in a few days, you will be immersed in the Ruach HaKodesh!”


book: Acts
contenido:
When they were together, they asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore self-rule to Isra’el?”


book: Acts
contenido:
He answered, “You don’t need to know the dates or the times; the Father has kept these under his own authority.


book: Acts
contenido:
But you will receive power when the Ruach HaKodesh comes upon you; you will be my witnesses both in Yerushalayim and in all Y’hudah and Shomron, indeed to the ends of the earth!”


book: Acts
contenido:
As they were staring into the sky after him, suddenly they saw two men dressed in white standing next to them.


book: Acts
contenido:
The men said, “You Galileans! Why are you standing, staring into space? This Yeshua, who has been taken away from you into heaven, will come back to you in just the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”


book: Acts
contenido:
After entering the city, they went to the upstairs room where they were staying. The names of the emissaries were Kefa, Ya‘akov, Yochanan, Andrew, Philip, T’oma, Bar-Talmai, Mattityahu, Ya‘akov Ben-Halfai, Shim‘on “the Zealot,” and Y’hudah Ben-Ya‘akov.


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These all devoted themselves single-mindedly to prayer, along with some women, including Miryam (Yeshua’s mother), and his brothers.


book: Acts
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During this period, when the group of believers numbered about 120, Kefa stood up and addressed his fellow-believers:


book: Acts
contenido:
“Brothers, the Ruach HaKodesh spoke in advance through David about Y’hudah, and these words of the Tanakh had to be fulfilled. He was guide for those who arrested Yeshua —


book: Acts
contenido:
(With the money Y’hudah received for his evil deed, he bought a field; and there he fell to his death. His body swelled up and burst open, and all his insides spilled out.


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This became known to everyone in Yerushalayim, so they called that field Hakal-D’ma — which in their language means “Field of Blood”).


book: Acts
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“Now,” said Kefa, “it is written in the book of Psalms, ‘Let his estate become desolate, let there be no one to live in it’; and ‘Let someone else take his place as a supervisor.’


book: Acts
contenido:
Therefore, one of the men who have been with us continuously throughout the time the Lord Yeshua traveled around among us,


book: Acts
contenido:
from the time Yochanan was immersing people until the day Yeshua was taken up from us — one of these must become a witness with us to his resurrection.”


book: Acts
contenido:
Then they drew lots to decide between the two, and the lot fell to Mattityahu. So he was added to the eleven emissaries.


book: Acts
contenido:
Suddenly there came a sound from the sky like the roar of a violent wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.


book: Acts
contenido:
Then they saw what looked like tongues of fire, which separated and came to rest on each one of them.


book: Acts
contenido:
They were all filled with the Ruach HaKodesh and began to talk in different languages, as the Spirit enabled them to speak.


book: Acts
contenido:
When they heard this sound, a crowd gathered; they were confused, because each one heard the believers speaking in his own language.


book: Acts
contenido:
Totally amazed, they asked, “How is this possible? Aren’t all these people who are speaking from the Galil?


book: Acts
contenido:
Jews by birth and proselytes; Jews from Crete and from Arabia. . . ! How is it that we hear them speaking in our own languages about the great things God has done?”


book: Acts
contenido:
Then Kefa stood up with the Eleven and raised his voice to address them: “You Judeans, and all of you staying here in Yerushalayim! Let me tell you what this means! Listen carefully to me!


book: Acts
contenido:
‘Adonai says: “In the Last Days, I will pour out from my Spirit upon everyone. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.


book: Acts
contenido:
Even on my slaves, both men and women, will I pour out from my Spirit in those days; and they will prophesy.


book: Acts
contenido:
I will perform miracles in the sky above and signs on the earth below — blood, fire and thick smoke.


book: Acts
contenido:
“Men of Isra’el! Listen to this! Yeshua from Natzeret was a man demonstrated to you to have been from God by the powerful works, miracles and signs that God performed through him in your presence. You yourselves know this.


book: Acts
contenido:
This man was arrested in accordance with God’s predetermined plan and foreknowledge; and, through the agency of persons not bound by the Torah, you nailed him up on a stake and killed him!


book: Acts
contenido:
“But God has raised him up and freed him from the suffering of death; it was impossible that death could keep its hold on him.


book: Acts
contenido:
For David says this about him: ‘I saw Adonai always before me, for he is at my right hand, so that I will not be shaken.


book: Acts
contenido:
For this reason, my heart was glad; and my tongue rejoiced; and now my body too will live on in the certain hope


book: Acts
contenido:
“Brothers, I know I can say to you frankly that the patriarch David died and was buried — his tomb is with us to this day.


book: Acts
contenido:
Therefore, since he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn an oath to him that one of his descendants would sit on his throne,


book: Acts
contenido:
he was speaking in advance about the resurrection of the Messiah, that it was he who was not abandoned in Sh’ol and whose flesh did not see decay.


book: Acts
contenido:
“Moreover, he has been exalted to the right hand of God; has received from the Father what he promised, namely, the Ruach HaKodesh; and has poured out this gift, which you are both seeing and hearing.


book: Acts
contenido:
‘Adonai said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”’


book: Acts
contenido:
Therefore, let the whole house of Isra’el know beyond doubt that God has made him both Lord and Messiah — this Yeshua, whom you executed on a stake!”


book: Acts
contenido:
On hearing this, they were stung in their hearts; and they said to Kefa and the other emissaries, “Brothers, what should we do?”


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Kefa answered them, “Turn from sin, return to God, and each of you be immersed on the authority of Yeshua the Messiah into forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Ruach HaKodesh!


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For the promise is for you, for your children, and for those far away — as many as Adonai our God may call!”


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He pressed his case with many other arguments and kept pleading with them, “Save yourselves from this perverse generation!”


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So those who accepted what he said were immersed, and there were added to the group that day about three thousand people.


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They continued faithfully in the teaching of the emissaries, in fellowship, in breaking bread and in the prayers.


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in fact, they sold their property and possessions and distributed the proceeds to all who were in need.


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Continuing faithfully and with singleness of purpose to meet in the Temple courts daily, and breaking bread in their several homes, they shared their food in joy and simplicity of heart,


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praising God and having the respect of all the people. And day after day the Lord kept adding to them those who were being saved.


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One afternoon at three o’clock, the hour of minchah prayers, as Kefa and Yochanan were going up to the Temple,


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a man crippled since birth was being carried in. Every day people used to put him at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, so that he could beg from those going into the Temple court.


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Kefa said, “I don’t have silver, and I don’t have gold, but what I do have I give to you: in the name of the Messiah, Yeshua of Natzeret, walk!”


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And taking hold of him by his right hand, Kefa pulled him up. Instantly his feet and ankles became strong;


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so that he sprang up, stood a moment, and began walking. Then he entered the Temple court with them, walking and leaping and praising God!


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They recognized him as the same man who had formerly sat begging at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, and they were utterly amazed and confounded at what had happened to him.


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While he clung to Kefa and Yochanan, all the people came running in astonishment toward them in Shlomo’s Colonnade.


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Seeing this, Kefa addressed the people: “Men of Isra’el! Why are you amazed at this? Or why do you stare at us as if we had made this man walk through some power or godliness of our own?


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The God of Avraham, Yitz’chak and Ya‘akov, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Yeshua — the same Yeshua you handed over and disowned before Pilate, even after he had decided to release him.


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And it is through putting trust in his name that his name has given strength to this man whom you see and know. Yes, it is the trust that comes through Yeshua which has given him this perfect healing in the presence of you all.


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“Now, brothers, I know that you did not understand the significance of what you were doing; neither did your leaders.


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But this is how God fulfilled what he had announced in advance, when he spoke through all the prophets, namely, that his Messiah was to die.


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so that times of refreshing may come from the Lord’s presence; and he may send the Messiah appointed in advance for you, that is, Yeshua.


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He has to remain in heaven until the time comes for restoring everything, as God said long ago, when he spoke through the holy prophets.


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For Moshe himself said, ‘Adonai will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You are to listen to everything he tells you.


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Indeed, all the prophets announced these days, starting with Sh’mu’el and continuing through all who followed.


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“You are the sons of the prophets; and you are included in the covenant which God made with our fathers when he said to Avraham, ‘By your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.’


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So it is to you first that God has sent his servant whom he has raised up, so that he might bless you by turning each one of you from your evil ways.”


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Kefa and Yochanan were still speaking to the people when the cohanim, the captain in charge of the Temple police, and the Tz’dukim came upon them,


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very annoyed that they were teaching the people the doctrine of resurrection from the dead and offering Yeshua as proof.


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The Temple police arrested them; and since it was already evening, they put them in custody overnight.


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However, many of those who heard the message trusted; the number of men alone was about five thousand.


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along with ‘Anan the cohen hagadol, Kayafa, Yochanan, Alexander and the other men from the family of the cohen hagadol.


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They had the emissaries stand before them and asked, “By what power or in what name did you do this?”


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If we are being examined today about a good deed done for a disabled person, if you want to know how he was restored to health,


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then let it be known to you and to all the people of Isra’el that it is in the name of the Messiah, Yeshua from Natzeret, whom you had executed on a stake as a criminal but whom God has raised from the dead, that this man stands before you perfectly healed.


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There is salvation in no one else! For there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by whom we must be saved!”


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When they saw how bold Kefa and Yochanan were, even though they were untrained ‘am-ha’aretz, they were amazed; also they recognized them as having been with Yeshua.


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Moreover, since they could see the man who had been healed standing right there beside them, there was nothing they could say to discredit the healing.


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“What can we do with these men?” they asked each other. “Why, anyone in Yerushalayim can see that a remarkable miracle has come about through them — we can’t possibly deny that.


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But to prevent it from spreading any further among the people, let’s warn them not to speak any more to anyone in this name.”


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So they called them in again and ordered them under no circumstances to speak or teach in the name of Yeshua.


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But Kefa and Yochanan answered, “You must judge whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than God.


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They threatened them some more but finally let them go — they couldn’t punish them because of the people, for everyone was praising God over what had happened,


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Upon being released, they went back to their friends and reported what the head cohanim and elders had said to them.


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When they heard it, they raised their voices to God with singleness of heart. “Master,” they prayed, “You made heaven, earth, the sea and everything in them.


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By the Ruach HaKodesh, through the mouth of our father David, your servant, you said, ‘Why did the nations rage and the peoples devise useless plans?


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The kings of the earth took their stand; and the rulers assembled together against Adonai and against his Messiah.’


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“This has come true in this city, since Herod and Pontius Pilate, with Goyim and the peoples of Isra’el, all assembled against your holy servant Yeshua, whom you made Messiah,


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“So now, Lord, take note of their threats; and enable your slaves to speak your message with boldness!


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Stretch out your hand to heal and to do signs and miracles through the name of your holy servant Yeshua!”


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While they were still praying, the place where they were gathered was shaken. They were all filled with the Ruach HaKodesh, and they spoke God’s message with boldness.


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All the many believers were one in heart and soul, and no one claimed any of his possessions for himself, but everyone shared everything he had.


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With great power the emissaries continued testifying to the resurrection of the Lord Yeshua, and they were all held in high regard.


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No one among them was poor, since those who owned lands or houses sold them and turned over the proceeds


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Thus Yosef, whom the emissaries called Bar-Nabba (which means “the Exhorter”), a Levi and a native of Cyprus,


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and, with his wife’s knowledge, withheld some of the proceeds for himself; although he did bring the rest to the emissaries.


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Then Kefa said, “Why has the Adversary so filled your heart that you lie to the Ruach HaKodesh and keep back some of the money you received for the land?


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Before you sold it, the property was yours; and after you sold it, the money was yours to use as you pleased. So what made you decide to do such a thing? You have lied not to human beings but to God!”


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Kefa challenged her: “Tell me, is it true that you sold the land for such-and-such a price?” “Yes,” she answered, “that is what we were paid for it.”


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But Kefa came back at her, “Then why did you people plot to test the Spirit of the Lord? Listen! The men who buried your husband are at the door. They will carry you out too!”


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Instantly she collapsed at his feet and died. The young men entered, found her there dead, carried her out and buried her beside her husband.


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As a result of this, great fear came over the whole Messianic community, and indeed over everyone who heard about it.


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Meanwhile, through the emissaries many signs and miracles continued to be done among the people. United in mind and purpose, the believers met in Shlomo’s Colonnade;


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They went so far as to bring the sick into the streets and lay them on mattresses and stretchers, so that at least Kefa’s shadow might fall on them as he passed by.


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Crowds also gathered from the towns around Yerushalayim, bringing the sick and those afflicted with unclean spirits; and every one of them was healed.


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But the cohen hagadol and his associates, who were members of the party of the Tz’dukim, were filled with jealousy.


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After hearing that, they entered the Temple area about dawn and began to teach. Now the cohen hagadol and his associates came and called a meeting of the Sanhedrin (that is, of Isra’el’s whole assembly of elders) and sent to the jail to have them brought.


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“We found the jail securely locked and the guards standing at the doors; but when we opened it, we found no one inside!”


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When the captain of the Temple police and the head cohanim heard these things, they were puzzled and wondered what would happen next.


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Then someone came and reported to them, “Listen! The men you ordered put in prison are standing in the Temple court, teaching the people!”


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The captain and his officers went and brought them, but not with force; because they were afraid of being stoned by the people.


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“We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name! Look here! you have filled Yerushalayim with your teaching; moreover, you are determined to make us responsible for this man’s death!”


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The God of our fathers raised up Yeshua, whereas you men killed him by having him hanged on a stake.


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God has exalted this man at his right hand as Ruler and Savior, in order to enable Isra’el to do t’shuvah and have her sins forgiven.


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We are witnesses to these things; so is the Ruach HaKodesh, whom God has given to those who obey him.”


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On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were infuriated and wanted to put the emissaries to death.


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But one of the members of the Sanhedrin rose to his feet, a Parush named Gamli’el, a teacher of the Torah highly respected by all the people. He ordered the men put outside for a little while


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Some time ago, there was a rebellion under Todah, who claimed to be somebody special; and a number of men, maybe four hundred, rallied behind him. But upon his being put to death, his whole following was broken up and came to nothing.


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After this, Y’hudah HaG’lili led another uprising, back at the time of the enrollment for the Roman tax; and he got some people to defect to him. But he was killed, and all his followers were scattered.


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So in the present case, my advice to you is not to interfere with these people, but to leave them alone. For if this idea or this movement has a human origin, it will collapse.


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But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop them; you might even find yourselves fighting God!” They heeded his advice.


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After summoning the emissaries and flogging them, they commanded them not to speak in the name of Yeshua, and let them go.


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The emissaries left the Sanhedrin overjoyed at having been considered worthy of suffering disgrace on account of him.


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And not for a single day, either in the Temple court or in private homes, did they stop teaching and proclaiming the Good News that Yeshua is the Messiah.


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Around this time, when the number of talmidim was growing, the Greek-speaking Jews began complaining against those who spoke Hebrew that their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution.


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So the Twelve called a general meeting of the talmidim and said, “It isn’t appropriate that we should neglect the Word of God in order to serve tables.


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Brothers, choose seven men from among yourselves who are known to be full of the Spirit and wisdom. We will appoint them to be in charge of this important matter,


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What they said was agreeable to the whole gathering. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Ruach HaKodesh, Philip, Prochoros, Nikanor, Timon, Parmenas and Nicholas, who was a proselyte from Antioch.


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So the word of God continued to spread. The number of talmidim in Yerushalayim increased rapidly, and a large crowd of cohanim were becoming obedient to the faith.


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But opposition arose from members of the Synagogue of the Freed Slaves (as it was called), composed of Cyrenians, Alexandrians and people from Cilicia and the province of Asia. They argued with Stephen,


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So they secretly persuaded some men to allege, “We heard him speak blasphemously against Moshe and against God.”


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They stirred up the people, as well as the elders and the Torah-teachers; so they came and arrested him and led him before the Sanhedrin.


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There they set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking against this holy place and against the Torah;


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for we have heard him say that Yeshua from Natzeret will destroy this place and will change the customs Moshe handed down to us.”


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Everyone sitting in the Sanhedrin stared at Stephen and saw that his face looked like the face of an angel.


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and Stephen said: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to Avraham avinu in Mesopotamia before he lived in Haran


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So he left the land of the Kasdim and lived in Haran. After his father died, God made him move to this land where you are living now.


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He gave him no inheritance in it, not even space for one foot; yet he promised to give it to him as a possession and to his descendants after him, even though at the time he was childless.


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What God said to him was, ‘Your descendants will be aliens in a foreign land, where they will be in slavery and oppressed for four hundred years.


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But I will judge the nation that enslaves them,’ God said, ‘and afterwards they will leave and worship me in this place.’


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And he gave him b’rit-milah. So he became the father of Yitz’chak and did his b’rit-milah on the eighth day, and Yitz’chak became the father of Ya‘akov, and Ya‘akov became the father of the Twelve Patriarchs.


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“Now the Patriarchs grew jealous of Yosef and sold him into slavery in Egypt. But Adonai was with him;


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he rescued him from all his troubles and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who appointed him chief administrator over Egypt and over all his household.


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The second time, Yosef revealed his identity to his brothers, and Yosef’s family became known to Pharaoh.


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Their bodies were removed to Sh’khem and buried in the tomb Avraham had bought from the family of Hamor in Sh’khem for a certain sum of money.


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“As the time drew near for the fulfillment of the promise God had made to Avraham, the number of our people in Egypt increased greatly,


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With cruel cunning this man forced our fathers to put their newborn babies outside their homes, so that they would not survive.


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“It was then that Moshe was born, and he was beautiful in God’s sight. For three months he was reared in his father’s house;


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So Moshe was trained in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and became both a powerful speaker and a man of action.


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“But when he was forty years old, the thought came to him to visit his brothers, the people of Isra’el.


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On seeing one of them being mistreated, he went to his defense and took revenge by striking down the Egyptian.


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He supposed his brothers would understand that God was using him to rescue them, but they didn’t understand.


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When he appeared the next day, as they were fighting, and tried to make peace between them by saying, ‘Men, you are brothers! Why do you want to hurt each other?’


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the one who was mistreating his fellow pushed Moshe away and said, ‘Who made you a ruler and judge over us?


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On hearing this, Moshe fled the country and became an exile in the land of Midyan, where he had two sons.


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“After forty more years, an angel appeared to him in the desert near Mount Sinai in the flames of a burning thorn bush.


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When Moshe saw this, he was amazed at the sight; and as he approached to get a better look, there came the voice of Adonai,


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‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Avraham, Yitz’chak and Ya‘akov.’ But Moshe trembled with fear and didn’t dare to look.


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Adonai said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, because the place where you are standing is holy ground.


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I have clearly seen how My people are being oppressed in Egypt, I have heard their cry, and I have come down to rescue them, and now I will send you to Egypt.’


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“This Moshe, whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and judge?’ is the very one whom God sent as both ruler and ransomer by means of the angel that appeared to him in the thorn bush.


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This man led them out, performing miracles and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.


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This is the Moshe who said to the people of Isra’el, ‘God will raise up a prophet like me from among your brothers’


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This is the man who was in the assembly in the wilderness, accompanied by the angel that had spoken to him at Mount Sinai and by our fathers, the man who was given living words to pass on to us.


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“But our fathers did not want to obey him. On the contrary, they rejected him and in their hearts turned to Egypt,


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saying to Aharon, ‘Make us some gods to lead us; because this Moshe, who led us out of Egypt — we don’t know what has become of him.’


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That was when they made an idol in the shape of a calf and offered a sacrifice to it and held a celebration in honor of what they had made with their own hands.


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So God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the stars — as has been written in the book of the prophets, ‘People of Isra’el, it was not to me that you offered slaughtered animals and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness!


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No, you carried the tent of Molekh and the star of your god Reifan, the idols you made so that you could worship them. Therefore, I will send you into exile beyond Bavel.’


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“Our fathers had the Tent of Witness in the wilderness. It had been made just as God, who spoke to Moshe, had ordered it made, according to the pattern Moshe had seen.


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Later on, our fathers who had received it brought it in with Y’hoshua when they took the Land away from the nations that God drove out before them. “So it was until the days of David.


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‘Heaven is my throne,’ says Adonai, ‘and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house could you build for me? What kind of place could you devise for my rest?


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“Stiffnecked people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You continually oppose the Ruach HaKodesh! You do the same things your fathers did!


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Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed those who told in advance about the coming of the Tzaddik, and now you have become his betrayers and murderers! —


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But he, full of the Ruach HaKodesh, looked up to heaven and saw God’s Sh’khinah, with Yeshua standing at the right hand of God.


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At this, they began yelling at the top of their voices, so that they wouldn’t have to hear him; and with one accord, they rushed at him,


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threw him outside the city and began stoning him. And the witnesses laid down their coats at the feet of a young man named Sha’ul.


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and Sha’ul gave his approval to his murder. Starting with that day, there arose intense persecution against the Messianic Community in Yerushalayim; all but the emissaries were scattered throughout the regions of Y’hudah and Shomron.


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But Sha’ul set out to destroy the Messianic Community — entering house after house, he dragged off both men and women and handed them over to be put in prison.


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and the crowds were paying close attention to what Philip said, as they heard and saw the miraculous signs he was doing.


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For many people were having unclean spirits driven out of them, shrieking; also many paralytics and crippled persons were being healed;


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But there was a man named Shim‘on in the city who for some time had been practicing magic and astonishing the nation of Shomron, claiming to be somebody great.


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Everyone gave heed to him, from the lowest to the highest, saying, “This man is the power of God called ‘The Great Power’.”


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But when they came to believe Philip, as he announced the Good News concerning the Kingdom of God and the name of Yeshua the Messiah, they were immersed, both men and women.


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Moreover, Shim‘on himself came to believe; and after being immersed, he attached himself closely to Philip; and he was amazed as he saw the miraculous signs and great works of power that kept taking place.


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When the emissaries in Yerushalayim heard that Shomron had received the Word of God, they sent them Kefa and Yochanan,


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For until then he had not come upon any of them; they had only been immersed into the name of the Lord Yeshua.


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Shim‘on saw that the Spirit was given when the emissaries placed their hands on them, and he offered them money.


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“Give this power to me, too,” he said, “so that whoever I place my hands on will receive the Ruach HaKodesh.”


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But Kefa said to him, “Your silver go to ruin — and you with it, for thinking the free gift of God can be bought!


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So repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord. Perhaps you will yet be forgiven for holding such a thought in your heart.


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Shim‘on answered, “Pray to the Lord for me, so that none of the things you have spoken about will happen to me.”


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Then, after giving a thorough witness and speaking the Word of the Lord, Kefa and Yochanan started back to Yerushalayim, announcing the Good News to many villages in Shomron.


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An angel of Adonai said to Philip, “Get up, and go southward on the road that goes down from Yerushalayim to ‘Azah, the desert road.”


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So he got up and went. On his way, he caught sight of an Ethiopian, a eunuch who was minister in charge of all the treasure of the Kandake, or queen, of Ethiopia. He had been to Yerushalayim to worship;


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As Philip ran up, he heard the Ethiopian reading from Yesha‘yahu the prophet. “Do you understand what you’re reading?” he asked.


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“How can I,” he said, “unless someone explains it to me?” And he invited Philip to climb up and sit with him.


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Now the portion of the Tanakh that he was reading was this: “He was like a sheep led to be slaughtered; like a lamb silent before the shearer, he does not open his mouth.


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He was humiliated and denied justice. Who will tell about his descendants, since his life has been taken from the earth?”


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The eunuch said to Philip, “Here’s my question to you — is the prophet talking about himself or someone else?”


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Then Philip started to speak — beginning with that passage, he went on to tell him the Good News about Yeshua.


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As they were going down the road, they came to some water; and the eunuch said, “Look! Here’s some water! Is there any reason why I shouldn’t be immersed?”


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He ordered the chariot to stop; then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and Philip immersed him.


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When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away. The eunuch saw no more of him, because he continued on his way — full of joy.


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But Philip showed up at Ashdod and continued proclaiming the Good News as he went through all the towns until he came to Caesarea.


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Meanwhile, Sha’ul, still breathing murderous threats against the Lord’s talmidim, went to the cohen hagadol


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and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Dammesek, authorizing him to arrest any people he might find, whether men or women, who belonged to “the Way,” and bring them back to Yerushalayim.


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Falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, “Sha’ul! Sha’ul! Why do you keep persecuting me?”


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They helped Sha’ul get up off the ground; but when he opened his eyes, he could see nothing. So, leading him by the hand, they brought him into Dammesek.


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There was a talmid in Dammesek, Hananyah by name; and in a vision the Lord said to him, “Hananyah!” He said, “Here I am, Lord.”


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The Lord said to him, “Get up and go to Straight Street, to Y’hudah’s house; and ask for a man from Tarsus named Sha’ul; for he is praying,


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and in a vision he has seen a man named Hananyah coming in and placing his hands on him to restore his sight.”


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But Hananyah answered, “Lord, many have told me about this man, how much harm he has done to your people in Yerushalayim;


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But the Lord said to him, “Go, because this man is my chosen instrument to carry my name to the Goyim, even to their kings, and to the sons of Isra’el as well.


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So Hananyah left and went into the house. Placing his hands on him, he said, “Brother Sha’ul, the Lord — Yeshua, the one who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here — has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Ruach HaKodesh.”


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In that moment, something like scales fell away from Sha’ul’s eyes; and he could see again. He got up and was immersed;


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then he ate some food and regained his strength. Sha’ul spent some days with the talmidim in Dammesek,


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All who heard him were amazed. They asked, “Isn’t he the man who in Yerushalayim was trying to destroy the people who call on this name? In fact, isn’t that why he came here, to arrest them and bring them back to the head cohanim?”


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But Sha’ul was being filled with more and more power and was creating an uproar among the Jews living in Dammesek with his proofs that Yeshua is the Messiah.


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but their plot became known to Sha’ul. They were watching the gates day and night in order to do away with him;


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but under cover of night, his talmidim took him and let him down over the city wall, lowering him in a large basket.


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On reaching Yerushalayim, he tried to join the talmidim; but they were all afraid of him — they didn’t believe he was a talmid.


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However, Bar-Nabba got hold of him and took him to the emissaries. He told them how Sha’ul had seen the Lord while traveling, that the Lord had spoken to him, and how in Dammesek Sha’ul had spoken out boldly in the name of Yeshua.


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So he remained with them and went all over Yerushalayim continuing to speak out boldly in the name of the Lord.


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Then the Messianic community throughout Y’hudah, the Galil and Shomron enjoyed peace and was built up. They lived in the fear of the Lord, with the counsel of the Ruach HaKodesh; and their numbers kept multiplying.


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Everyone living in Lud and the Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord. Now in Yafo there was a talmidah named Tavita


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It happened that just at that time, she took sick and died. After washing her, they laid her in a room upstairs.


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Lud is near Yafo, and the talmidim had heard that Kefa was there, so they sent two men to him and urged him, “Please come to us without delay.”


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Kefa got up and went with them. When he arrived, they led him into the upstairs room. All the widows stood by him, sobbing and showing all the dresses and coats Tavita had made them while she was still with them.


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But Kefa put them all outside, kneeled down and prayed. Then, turning to the body, he said, “Tavita! Get up!” She opened her eyes; and on seeing Kefa, she sat up.


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He offered her his hand and helped her to her feet; then, calling the believers and the widows, he presented her to them alive.


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There was a man in Caesarea named Cornelius, a Roman army officer in what was called the Italian Regiment.


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He was a devout man, a “God-fearer,” as was his whole household; he gave generously to help the Jewish poor and prayed regularly to God.


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One afternoon around three o’clock he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God coming in and saying to him, “Cornelius!”


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Cornelius stared at the angel, terrified. “What is it, sir?” he asked. “Your prayers,” replied the angel, “and your acts of charity have gone up into God’s presence, so that he has you on his mind.


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As the angel that had spoken to him went away, Cornelius called two of his household slaves and one of his military aides, who was a godly man;


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The next day about noon, while they were still on their way and approaching the city, Kefa went up onto the roof of the house to pray.


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He began to feel hungry and wanted something to eat; but while they were preparing the meal, he fell into a trance


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in which he saw heaven opened, and something that looked like a large sheet being lowered to the ground by its four corners.


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Kefa was still puzzling over the meaning of the vision he had seen, when the men Cornelius had sent, having inquired for Shim‘on’s house, stood at the gate


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Get up, go downstairs, and have no misgivings about going with them, because I myself have sent them.”


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They answered, “Cornelius. He’s a Roman army officer, an upright man and a God-fearer, a man highly regarded by the whole Jewish nation; and he was told by a holy angel to have you come to his house and listen to what you have to say.”


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So Kefa invited them to be his guests. The next day, he got up and went with them, accompanied by some of the brothers from Yafo;


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and he arrived at Caesarea the day after that. Cornelius was expecting them — he had already called together his relatives and close friends.


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He said to them, “You are well aware that for a man who is a Jew to have close association with someone who belongs to another people, or to come and visit him, is something that just isn’t done. But God has shown me not to call any person common or unclean;


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so when I was summoned, I came without raising any questions. Tell me, then, why did you send for me?”


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Cornelius answered, “Three days ago around this time, I was at minchah prayers in my house, when suddenly a man in shining clothes stood in front of me


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Now send to Yafo and ask for Shim‘on, known as Kefa; he is staying in the house of Shim‘on, a leather-tanner, by the sea.’


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So I sent for you immediately, and you have been kind enough to come. Now all of us are here in the presence of God to hear everything the Lord has ordered you to say.”


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but that whoever fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him, no matter what people he belongs to.


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“Here is the message that he sent to the sons of Isra’el announcing shalom through Yeshua the Messiah, who is Lord of everything.


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You know what has been going on throughout Y’hudah, starting from the Galil after the immersion that Yochanan proclaimed;


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how God anointed Yeshua from Natzeret with the Ruach HaKodesh and with power; how Yeshua went about doing good and healing all the people oppressed by the Adversary, because God was with him.


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“As for us, we are witnesses of everything he did, both in the Judean countryside and in Yerushalayim. They did away with him by hanging him on a stake;


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not by all the people, but by witnesses God had previously chosen, that is, by us, who ate and drank with him after he had risen again from the dead.


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“Then he commanded us to proclaim and attest to the Jewish people that this man has been appointed by God to judge the living and the dead.


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All the prophets bear witness to him, that everyone who puts his trust in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”


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Kefa was still saying these things when the Ruach HaKodesh fell on all who were hearing the message.


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All the believers from the Circumcision faction who had accompanied Kefa were amazed that the gift of the Ruach HaKodesh was also being poured out


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“Is anyone prepared to prohibit these people from being immersed in water? After all, they have received the Ruach HaKodesh, just as we did.”


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And he ordered that they be immersed in the name of Yeshua the Messiah. Then they asked Kefa to stay on with them for a few days.


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The emissaries and the brothers throughout Y’hudah heard that the Goyim had received the word of God;


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“I was in the city of Yafo, praying; and in a trance I had a vision. I saw something like a large sheet being lowered by its four corners from heaven, and it came down to me.


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“At that very moment, three men who had been sent to me from Caesarea arrived at the house where I was staying;


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and the Spirit told me to have no misgivings about going back with them. These six brothers also came with me, and we went into the man’s house.


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He told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Yafo and bring back Shim‘on, known as Kefa.


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“But I had hardly begun speaking when the Ruach HaKodesh fell on them, just as on us at the beginning!


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And I remembered that the Lord had said, ‘Yochanan used to immerse people in water, but you will be immersed in the Ruach HaKodesh.’


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Therefore, if God gave them the same gift as he gave us after we had come to put our trust in the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, who was I to stand in God’s way?”


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On hearing these things, they stopped objecting and began to praise God, saying, “This means that God has enabled the Goyim as well to do t’shuvah and have life!”


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Now those who had been scattered because of the persecution which had arisen over Stephen went as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch; they spoke God’s word, but only to Jews.


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However, some of these, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, when they arrived at Antioch, began speaking to the Greeks too, proclaiming the Good News of the Lord Yeshua.


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News of this reached the ears of the Messianic community in Yerushalayim, and they sent Bar-Nabba to Antioch.


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On arriving and seeing for himself the grace of God at work, he was glad; and he encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with their whole hearts;


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and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. They met with the congregation there for a whole year and taught a sizeable crowd. Also it was in Antioch that the talmidim for the first time were called “Messianic.”


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and one of them named Agav stood up and through the Spirit predicted that there was going to be a severe famine throughout the Roman Empire. (It took place while Claudius was Emperor.)


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So the talmidim decided to provide relief to the brothers living in Y’hudah, each according to his means;


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It was around this time that King Herod began arresting and persecuting certain members of the Messianic community;


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When Herod saw how much this pleased the Judeans, he went on to arrest Kefa as well. It was during the Days of Matzah,


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so when Herod seized him, he threw him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each, with the intention of bringing him to public trial after Pesach.


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So Kefa was being held under watch in prison, but intense prayer was being made to God on his behalf by the Messianic community.


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The night before Herod was going to bring him to trial, Kefa was sleeping between two soldiers. He was bound with two chains; and guards were at the door, keeping watch over the prison.


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Suddenly an angel of Adonai stood there, and a light shone in the cell. He tapped Kefa’s side and woke him. “Hurry! Get up!” he said; and the chains fell off his hands.


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The angel said to him, “Put on your clothes and sandals,” and he did. “Throw on your robe,” he said, “and follow me!”


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Going out, Kefa followed him but did not realize that what was happening through the angel was real — he thought he was seeing a vision.


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Having passed a first guard and a second, they arrived at the iron gate leading to the city. This opened to them by itself, and they made their exit. They went down the length of one street, and suddenly the angel left him.


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Then Kefa came to himself and said, “Now I know for sure that the Lord sent his angel to rescue me from Herod’s power and from everything the Judean people were hoping for.”


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Realizing what had happened, he went to the house of Miryam the mother of Yochanan (surnamed Mark), where many people had gathered to pray.


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She recognized Kefa’s voice and was so happy that she ran back in without opening the door, and announced that Kefa was standing outside.


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“You’re out of your mind!” they said to her. But she insisted it was true. So they said, “It is his angel.”


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Motioning to them with his hand to be quiet, he told them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison and said, “Tell all this to Ya‘akov and the brothers.” Then he left and went elsewhere.


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Herod had a thorough search made for him, but they failed to find him, so he cross-examined the guards and ordered them put to death. Then Herod went down from Y’hudah to Caesarea and spent some time there.


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Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tzor and Tzidon, so they joined together and sought an audience with him. After securing the support of Blastus, the king’s chief personal servant, they asked for peace; because they depended on the king’s lands for their food supply.


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At once, because Herod did not give the glory to God, an angel of Adonai struck him down. He was eaten away by worms and died.


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Bar-Nabba and Sha’ul, having completed their errand, returned from Yerushalayim, bringing with them Yochanan, surnamed Mark.


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In the Antioch congregation were prophets and teachers — Bar-Nabba, Shim‘on (known as “the Black”), Lucius (from Cyrene), Menachem (who had been brought up with Herod the governor) and Sha’ul.


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One time when they were worshipping the Lord and fasting, the Ruach HaKodesh said to them, “Set aside for me Bar-Nabba and Sha’ul for the work to which I have called them.”


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So these two, after they had been sent out by the Ruach HaKodesh, went down to Seleucia and from there sailed to Cyprus.


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After landing in Salamis, they began proclaiming the word of God in the synagogues, with Yochanan (Mark) as an assistant;


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and thus they made their way throughout the whole island. They ended up in Paphos, where they found a Jewish sorcerer and pseudo-prophet named Bar-Yeshua.


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He had attached himself to the governor, Sergius Paulus, who was an intelligent man. Now the governor had called for Bar-Nabba and Sha’ul and was anxious to hear the message about God;


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but the sorcerer Elymas (for that is how his name is translated) opposed them, doing his best to turn the governor away from the faith.


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“You son of Satan, full of fraud and evil! You enemy of everything good! Won’t you ever stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?


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So now, look! The hand of the Lord is upon you; and for a while you will be blind, unable to see the sun.” Immediately mist and darkness came over Elymas; and he groped about, trying to find someone to lead him by the hand.


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Having set sail from Paphos, Sha’ul and his companions arrived at Perga in Pamphylia. There Yochanan left them and returned to Yerushalayim,


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but the others went on from Perga to Pisidian Antioch, and on Shabbat they went into the synagogue and sat down.


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After the reading from the Torah and from the Prophets, the synagogue leaders sent them a message, “Brothers, if any of you has a word of exhortation for the people, speak!”


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The God of this people Isra’el chose our fathers. He made the people great during the time when they were living as aliens in Egypt and with a stretched-out arm he led them out of that land.


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and after he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Kena‘an he gave their land to his people as an inheritance.


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Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Sha’ul Ben-Kish, a man from the tribe of Binyamin. After forty years,


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God removed him and raised up David as king for them, making his approval known with these words, ‘I found David Ben-Yishai to be a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want.’


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“In keeping with his promise, God has brought to Isra’el from this man’s descendants a deliverer, Yeshua.


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Now before the coming of Yeshua, Yochanan proclaimed to all the people of Isra’el an immersion in connection with turning to God from sin.


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But as Yochanan was ending his work, he said, ‘Who do you suppose I am? Well — I’m not! But after me is coming someone, the sandals of whose feet I am unworthy to untie.’


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“Brothers! — sons of Avraham and those among you who are ‘God-fearers’! It is to us that the message of this deliverance has been sent!


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For the people living in Yerushalayim and their leaders did not recognize who Yeshua was or understand the message of the Prophets read every Shabbat, so they fulfilled that message by condemning him.


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They could not find any legitimate ground for a death sentence; nevertheless they asked Pilate to have him executed;


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and when they had carried out all the things written about him, he was taken down from the stake and placed in a tomb.


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He appeared for many days to those who had come up with him from the Galil to Yerushalayim; and they are now his witnesses to the people.


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he has fulfilled for us the children in raising up Yeshua, as indeed it is written in the second Psalm, ‘You are my Son; today I have become your Father.’


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And as for his raising him up from the dead, to return to decay no more, he said, ‘I will give the holy and trustworthy things of David to you.’


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For David did indeed serve God’s purposes in his own generation; but after that, he died, was buried with his fathers and did see decay.


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“Therefore, brothers, let it be known to you that through this man is proclaimed forgiveness of sins!


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That is, God clears everyone who puts his trust in this man, even in regard to all the things concerning which you could not be cleared by the Torah of Moshe.


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‘You mockers! Look, and marvel, and die! For in your own time, I am doing a work that you simply will not believe, even if someone explains it to you!’ ”


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As they left, the people invited Sha’ul and Bar-Nabba to tell them more about these matters the following Shabbat.


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When the synagogue meeting broke up, many of the born Jews and devout proselytes followed Sha’ul and Bar-Nabba, who spoke with them and urged them to keep holding fast to the love and kindness of God.


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but when the Jews who had not believed saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and spoke up against what Sha’ul was saying and insulted him.


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However, Sha’ul and Bar-Nabba answered boldly: “It was necessary that God’s word be spoken first to you. But since you are rejecting it and are judging yourselves unworthy of eternal life — why, we’re turning to the Goyim!


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For that is what Adonai has ordered us to do: ‘I have set you as a light for the Goyim, to be for deliverance to the ends of the earth.’ ”


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The Gentiles were very happy to hear this. They honored the message about the Lord, and as many as had been appointed to eternal life came to trust.


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But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the women ‘God-fearers’ of high social standing and the leading men of the city, and they organized persecution against Sha’ul and Bar-Nabba and expelled them from their district.


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In Iconium the same thing happened — they went into the synagogue and spoke in such a way that a large number of both Jews and Greeks came to trust.


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But the Jews who would not be persuaded stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.


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Therefore, Sha’ul and Bar-Nabba remained for a long time, speaking boldly about the Lord, who bore witness to the message about his love and kindness by enabling them to perform signs and miracles.


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However, the people of the city were divided — some sided with the unbelieving Jews, others with the emissaries.


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Eventually the unbelievers, both Jews and Gentiles, together with their leaders, made a move to mistreat the emissaries, even to stone them;


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but they learned of it and escaped to Lystra and Derbe, towns in Lycaonia, and to the surrounding country,


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There was a man living in Lystra who could not use his feet — crippled from birth, he had never walked.


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This man listened to Sha’ul speaking. Sha’ul, looking at him intently and seeing that he had faith to be healed,


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When the crowds saw what Sha’ul had done, they began to shout in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in the form of men!”


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and the priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the city, brought bulls and wreaths to the city gates, intending to offer a sacrifice to them with the people.


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When the emissaries Bar-Nabba and Sha’ul heard of it, they tore their clothes and ran into the crowd, shouting,


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“Men! Why are you doing this? We’re just men, human like you! We are announcing Good News to you — turn from these worthless things to the living God who made heaven and earth and the sea and everything in them!


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yet he did not leave himself without evidence of his nature; because he does good things, giving you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons, filling you with food and your hearts with happiness!”


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Then some unbelieving Jews came from Antioch and Iconium. They won over the crowds, stoned Sha’ul and dragged him outside the city, thinking he was dead.


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But as the talmidim gathered around him, he got up and went back into the town. The next day, he left with Bar-Nabba for Derbe.


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After proclaiming the Good News in that city and making many people into talmidim, they returned to Lystra, Iconium and Antioch,


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strengthening the talmidim, encouraging them to remain true to the faith, and reminding them that it is through many hardships that we must enter the Kingdom of God.


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After appointing elders for them in every congregation, Sha’ul and Bar-Nabba, with prayer and fasting, committed them to the Lord in whom they had put their trust.


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After speaking the message in Perga, they came down to Attalia; and from there, they sailed back to Antioch,


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the place where they had been handed over to the care of God for the work which they had now completed.


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When they arrived, they gathered the Messianic community together and reported what God had done through them, that he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.


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But some men came down from Y’hudah to Antioch and began teaching the brothers, “You can’t be saved unless you undergo b’rit-milah in the manner prescribed by Moshe.”


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This brought them into no small measure of discord and dispute with Sha’ul and Bar-Nabba. So the congregation assigned Sha’ul, Bar-Nabba and some of themselves to go and put this sh’eilah before the emissaries and the elders up in Yerushalayim.


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After being sent off by the congregation, they made their way through Phoenicia and Shomron, recounting in detail how the Gentiles had turned to God; and this news brought great joy to all the brothers.


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On arrival in Yerushalayim, they were welcomed by the Messianic community, including the emissaries and the elders; and they reported what God had done through them.


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But some of those who had come to trust were from the party of the P’rushim; and they stood up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them and direct them to observe the Torah of Moshe.”


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After lengthy debate, Kefa got up and said to them, “Brothers, you yourselves know that a good while back, God chose me from among you to be the one by whose mouth the Goyim should hear the message of the Good News and come to trust.


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And God, who knows the heart, bore them witness by giving the Ruach HaKodesh to them, just as he did to us;


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So why are you putting God to the test now by placing a yoke on the neck of the talmidim which neither our fathers nor we have had the strength to bear?


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No, it is through the love and kindness of the Lord Yeshua that we trust and are delivered — and it’s the same with them.”


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Then the whole assembly kept still as they listened to Bar-Nabba and Sha’ul tell what signs and miracles God had done through them among the Gentiles.


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Shim‘on has told in detail what God did when he first began to show his concern for taking from among the Goyim a people to bear his name.


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‘“After this, I will return; and I will rebuild the fallen tent of David. I will rebuild its ruins, I will restore it,


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so that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, that is, all the Goyim who have been called by my name,”


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“Therefore, my opinion is that we should not put obstacles in the way of the Goyim who are turning to God.


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Instead, we should write them a letter telling them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from fornication, from what is strangled and from blood.


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For from the earliest times, Moshe has had in every city those who proclaim him, with his words being read in the synagogues every Shabbat.”


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Then the emissaries and the elders, together with the whole Messianic community, decided to select men from among themselves to send to Antioch with Sha’ul and Bar-Nabba. They sent Y’hudah, called Bar-Sabba, and Sila, both leading men among the brothers,


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with the following letter: From: The emissaries and the elders, your brothers To: The brothers from among the Gentiles throughout Antioch, Syria and Cilicia Greetings!


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We have heard that some people went out from among us without our authorization, and that they have upset you with their talk, unsettling your minds.


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So we have decided unanimously to select men and send them to you with our dear friends Bar-Nabba and Sha’ul,


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For it seemed good to the Ruach HaKodesh and to us not to lay any heavier burden on you than the following requirements:


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to abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from fornication. If you keep yourselves from these, you will be doing the right thing. Shalom!


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The messengers were sent off and went to Antioch, where they gathered the group together and delivered the letter.


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After they had spent some time there, they were sent off with a greeting of “Shalom!” from the brothers to those who had sent them.


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But Sha’ul and Bar-Nabba stayed in Antioch, where they and many others taught and proclaimed the Good News of the message about the Lord.


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After some time, Sha’ul said to Bar-Nabba, “Let’s go back and visit the brothers in all the towns where we proclaimed the message about the Lord, and see how they’re doing.”


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But Sha’ul thought it would be unwise to take this man with them, since he had gone off and left them in Pamphylia to do the work by themselves.


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There was such sharp disagreement over this that they separated from each other, with Bar-Nabba taking Mark and sailing off to Cyprus.


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However, Sha’ul chose Sila and left, after the brothers had committed him to the love and kindness of the Lord.


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Sha’ul came down to Derbe and went on to Lystra, where there lived a talmid named Timothy. He was the son of a Jewish woman who had come to trust, and a Greek father.


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Sha’ul wanted Timothy to accompany him; so he took him and did a b’rit-milah, because of the Jews living in those areas; for they all knew that his father had been a Greek.


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As they went on through the towns, they delivered to the people the decisions reached by the emissaries and the elders in Yerushalayim for them to observe.


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They traveled through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, because they had been prevented by the Ruach HaKodesh from speaking the message in the province of Asia.


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When they came to the frontier of Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia; but the Spirit of Yeshua would not let them.


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There a vision appeared to Sha’ul at night. A man from Macedonia was standing and begging him, “Come over to Macedonia and help us!”


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As soon as he had seen the vision, we lost no time getting ready to leave for Macedonia; for we concluded that God had called us to proclaim the Good News to them.


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and from there, we went on to Philippi, a Roman colony and the leading city of that part of Macedonia. We spent a few days in this city;


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then on Shabbat, we went outside the gate to the riverside, where we understood a minyan met. We sat down and began speaking to the women who had gathered there.


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One of those listening was a woman from the city of Thyatira named Lydia, a dealer in fine purple cloth. She was already a “God-fearer,” and the Lord opened up her heart to respond to what Sha’ul was saying.


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After she and the members of her household had been immersed, she gave us this invitation: “If you consider me to be faithful to the Lord, come and stay in my house.” And she insisted till we went.


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Once, when we were going to the place where the minyan gathered, we were met by a slave girl who had in her a snake-spirit that enabled her to predict the future. She earned a lot of money for her owners by telling fortunes.


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This girl followed behind Sha’ul and the rest of us and kept screaming, “These men are servants of God Ha‘Elyon! They’re telling you how to be saved!”


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She kept this up day after day, until Sha’ul, greatly disturbed, turned and said to the spirit, “In the name of Yeshua the Messiah, I order you to come out of her!” And the spirit did come out, at that very moment.


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But when her owners saw that what had come out was any further prospect of profit for them, they seized Sha’ul and Sila and dragged them to the market square to face the authorities.


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Bringing them to the judges, they said, “These men are causing a lot of trouble in our city, since they are Jews.


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What they are doing is advocating customs that are against the law for us to accept or practice, since we are Romans.”


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The mob joined in the attack against them, and the judges tore their clothes off them and ordered that they be flogged.


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After giving them a severe beating, they threw them in prison, charging the jailer to guard them securely.


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Upon receiving such an order, he threw them into the inner cell and clamped their feet securely between heavy blocks of wood.


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Around midnight, Sha’ul and Sila were praying and singing hymns to God, while the other prisoners listened attentively.


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Suddenly there was a violent earthquake which shook the prison to its foundations. All the doors flew open and everyone’s chains came loose.


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The jailer awoke, and when he saw the doors open he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, for he assumed that the prisoners had escaped.


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Then, even at that late hour of the night, the jailer took them and washed off their wounds; and without delay, he and all his people were immersed.


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After that, he brought them up to his house and set food in front of them; and he and his entire household celebrated their having come to trust in God.


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The jailer told Sha’ul, “The judges have sent word to release both of you. So come out, and go on your way in peace.”


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But Sha’ul said to the officers, “After flogging us in public when we hadn’t been convicted of any crime and are Roman citizens, they threw us in prison. Now they want to get rid of us secretly? Oh, no! Let them come and escort us out themselves!”


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The officers reported these words to the judges, who became frightened when they heard that Sha’ul and Sila were Roman citizens.


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From the prison they went to Lydia’s house, and after seeing and encouraging the brothers they departed.


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After passing through Amphipolis and Apollonia, Sha’ul and Sila came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue.


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According to his usual practice, Sha’ul went in; and on three Shabbats he gave them drashes from the Tanakh,


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explaining and proving that the Messiah had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and that “this Yeshua whom I am proclaiming to you is the Messiah.”


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Some of the Jews were persuaded and threw in their lot with Sha’ul and Sila, as did a great many of the Greek men who were “God-fearers,” and not a few of the leading women.


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But the unbelieving Jews grew jealous; so they got together some vicious men from the riffraff hanging around in the market square, collected a crowd and started a riot in the city. They attacked Jason’s house, hoping to bring Sha’ul and Sila out to the mob.


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But when they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and some other brothers before the city authorities and shouted, “These men who have turned the whole world upside down have come here too!


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And Jason has let them stay in his home! All of them are defying the decrees of the Emperor; because they assert that there is another king, Yeshua!”


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But as soon as night fell, the brothers sent Sha’ul and Sila off to Berea. As soon as they arrived, they went to the synagogue.


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Now the people here were of nobler character than the ones in Thessalonica; they eagerly welcomed the message, checking the Tanakh every day to see if the things Sha’ul was saying were true.


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But when the unbelieving Jews of Thessalonica learned that the word of God had been proclaimed by Sha’ul in Berea as well, they went there too to make trouble and agitate the crowds.


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The brothers sent Sha’ul away at once to go down to the seacoast, while Sila and Timothy stayed behind.


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Sha’ul’s escort went with him as far as Athens, then left with instructions for Sila and Timothy to come as quickly as they could.


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While Sha’ul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit within him was disturbed at the sight of the city full of idols.


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So he began holding discussions in the synagogue with the Jews and the “God-fearers,” and in the market square every day with the people who happened to be there.


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Also a group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers started meeting with him. Some asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others, because he proclaimed the Good News about Yeshua and the resurrection, said, “He sounds like a propagandist for foreign gods.”


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They took and brought him before the High Council, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?


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Some of the things we are hearing from you strike us as strange, and we would like to know what they mean.”


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(All the Athenians and the foreigners living there used to spend their spare time talking or hearing about the latest intellectual fads.)


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Sha’ul stood up in the Council meeting and said, “Men of Athens: I see how very religious you are in every way!


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For as I was walking around, looking at your shrines, I even found an altar which had been inscribed, ‘To An Unknown God.’ So, the one whom you are already worshipping in ignorance — this is the one I proclaim to you.


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“The God who made the universe and everything in it, and who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in man-made temples;


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nor is he served by human hands, as if he lacked something; since it is he himself who gives life and breath and everything to everyone.


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“From one man he made every nation living on the entire surface of the earth, and he fixed the limits of their territories and the periods when they would flourish.


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God did this so that people would look for him and perhaps reach out and find him although in fact, he is not far from each one of us,


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‘for in him we live and move and exist.’ Indeed, as some of the poets among you have said, ‘We are actually his children.’


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So, since we are children of God, we shouldn’t suppose that God’s essence resembles gold, silver or stone shaped by human technique and imagination.


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“In the past, God overlooked such ignorance; but now he is commanding all people everywhere to turn to him from their sins.


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For he has set a Day when he will judge the inhabited world, and do it justly, by means of a man whom he has designated. And he has given public proof of it by resurrecting this man from the dead.”


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At the mention of a resurrection of dead people, some began to scoff; while others said, “We want to hear you again on this subject.”


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But some men stayed with him and came to trust, including the High Council member Dionysius; there was also a woman named Damaris; and others came to trust along with them.


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where he met a Jewish man named Aquila, originally from Pontus but having recently come with his wife Priscilla from Italy, because Claudius had issued a decree expelling all the Jews from Rome. Sha’ul went to see them;


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and because he had the same trade as they, making tents, he stayed on with them; and they worked together.


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Sha’ul also began carrying on discussions every Shabbat in the synagogue, where he tried to convince both Jews and Greeks.


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But after Sila and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Sha’ul felt pressed by the urgency of the message and testified in depth to the Jews that Yeshua is the Messiah.


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However when they set themselves against him and began hurling insults, he shook out his clothes and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! For my part, I am clean; from now on, I will go to the Goyim!”


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So he left them and went into the home of a “God-fearer” named Titius Justus, whose house was right next door to the synagogue.


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Crispus, the president of the synagogue, came to trust in the Lord, along with his whole household; also many of the Corinthians who heard trusted and were immersed.


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One night, in a vision, the Lord said to Sha’ul, “Don’t be afraid, but speak right up, and don’t stop,


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But when Gallio became the Roman governor of Achaia, the unbelieving Jews made a concerted attack on Sha’ul and took him to court,


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Sha’ul was just about to open his mouth, when Gallio said to the Jews, “Listen, you Jews, if this were a case of inflicted injury or a serious crime, I could reasonably be expected to hear you out patiently.


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But since it involves questions about words and names and your own law, then you must deal with it yourselves. I flatly refuse to judge such matters.”


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They all grabbed Sosthenes, the president of the synagogue, and gave him a beating in full view of the bench; but Gallio showed no concern whatever.


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Sha’ul remained for some time, then said good-bye to the brothers and sailed off to Syria, after having his hair cut short in Cenchrea, because he had taken a vow; with him were Priscilla and Aquila.


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They came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself went into the synagogue and held dialogue with the Jews.


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however, in his farewell he said, “God willing, I will come back to you.” Then he set sail from Ephesus.


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After landing at Caesarea, he went up to Yerushalayim and greeted the Messianic community. Then he came down to Antioch,


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spent some time there, and afterwards set out and passed systematically through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the talmidim.


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Meanwhile, a Jewish man named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent speaker with a thorough knowledge of the Tanakh.


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This man had been informed about the Way of the Lord, and with great spiritual fervor he spoke and taught accurately the facts about Yeshua, but he knew only the immersion of Yochanan.


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He began to speak out boldly in the synagogue; but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the Way of God in fuller detail.


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When he made plans to cross over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote the talmidim there to welcome him. On arrival, he greatly helped those who through grace had come to trust;


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for he powerfully and conclusively refuted the unbelieving Jews in public, demonstrating by the Tanakh that Yeshua is the Messiah.


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While Apollos was in Corinth, Sha’ul completed his travels through the inland country and arrived at Ephesus, where he found a few talmidim.


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He asked them, “Did you receive the Ruach HaKodesh when you came to trust?” “No,” they said to him, “we have never even heard that there is such a thing as the Ruach HaKodesh.”


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Sha’ul said, “Yochanan practiced an immersion in connection with turning from sin to God; but he told the people to put their trust in the one who would come after him, that is, in Yeshua.”


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and when Sha’ul placed his hands on them, the Ruach HaKodesh came upon them; so that they began speaking in tongues and prophesying.


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Sha’ul went into the synagogue; and for three months he spoke out boldly, engaging in dialogue and trying to persuade people about the Kingdom of God.


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But some began hardening themselves and refusing to listen; and when these started defaming the Way before the whole synagogue, Sha’ul withdrew, took the talmidim with him, and commenced holding daily dialogues in Tyrannus’s yeshivah.


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This went on for two years; so that everyone, both Jews and Greeks, living in the province of Asia heard the message about the Lord.


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For instance, handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were brought to sick people; they would recover from their ailments; and the evil spirits would leave them.


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Then some of the Jewish exorcists who traveled from place to place tried to make use of the name of the Lord Yeshua in connection with people who had evil spirits. They would say, “I exorcise you by the Yeshua that Sha’ul is proclaiming!”


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and the evil spirit answered them. It said, “Yeshua I know. And Sha’ul I recognize. But you? Who are you?”


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Then the man with the evil spirit fell upon them, overpowered them and gave them such a beating that they ran from the house, naked and bleeding.


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When all this became known to the residents of Ephesus, fear fell on all of them, Jews and Greeks alike; and the name of the Lord Yeshua came to be held in high regard.


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Many of those who had earlier made professions of faith now came and admitted publicly their evil deeds;


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and a considerable number of those who had engaged in occult practices threw their scrolls in a pile and burned them in public. When they calculated the value of the scrolls, it came to fifty thousand drachmas.


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Some time later, Sha’ul decided by the Spirit to pass through Macedonia and Achaia and then go to Yerushalayim. “After I have been there,” he said, “I must visit Rome.”


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So he dispatched two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia; but he himself remained in the province of Asia for awhile.


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There was a silversmith named Demetrius who manufactured from silver, objects connected with the worship of the goddess Artemis; and he provided no small amount of work for the craftsmen.


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He called a meeting of them and of those engaged in similar trades, and said, “Men, you understand that this line of business provides us our living.


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And you can see and hear for yourselves that not only here in Ephesus, but in practically the whole province of Asia, this Sha’ul has convinced and turned away a considerable crowd by saying that man-made gods aren’t gods at all.


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Now the danger is not only that the reputation of our trade will suffer, but that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will come to be taken lightly. It could end up with the goddess herself, who is worshipped throughout the province of Asia and indeed throughout the whole world, being ignominiously brought down from her divine majesty!”


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Soon the whole city was in an uproar. As one man, the mob rushed into the theater, dragging along Gaius and Aristarchus, Sha’ul’s traveling companions from Macedonia.


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Even some of the officials of the province, friends of his, sent a message begging him not to risk entering the theater.


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Meanwhile, some were shouting one thing and others something else, because the assembly was in complete confusion, and the great majority didn’t even know why they were there.


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Some of the crowd explained the situation to Alexander, whom the Jews had pushed to the front. So Alexander motioned for silence, hoping to make a defense speech to the people.


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But as soon as they recognized that he was a Jew, they began bellowing in unison, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!” and they kept it up for about two hours.


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At last, the city clerk was able to quiet the crowd. “Men of Ephesus!” he said, “Is there anyone who doesn’t know that the city of Ephesus is the guardian of the temple of the great Artemis, and of the sacred stone which fell from the sky?


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So if Demetrius and his fellow craftsmen have a complaint against anyone, the courts are open and the judges are there — let them bring charges and counter-charges.


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For we are in danger of being accused of rioting on account of what has happened today. There is no justification for it; and if we are asked, we will be unable to give any reasonable explanation for this disorderly gathering.”


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After the furor died down, Sha’ul sent for the talmidim and encouraged them, then took his leave and set out on his way to Macedonia.


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where he spent three months. As he was preparing to set sail for Syria, he discovered a plot against him by the unbelieving Jews; so he changed his mind and decided to return by way of Macedonia.


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Sopater from Berea, the son of Pyrrhus, accompanied him; as did Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius from Derbe, Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus from the province of Asia.


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while we sailed from Philippi after the Days of Matzah. Five days later, we met them in Troas, where we spent a week.


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On Motza’ei-Shabbat, when we were gathered to break bread, Sha’ul addressed them. Since he was going to leave the next day, he kept talking until midnight.


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and there was a young fellow named Eutychus sitting on the window-sill. As Sha’ul’s drash went on and on, Eutychus grew sleepier and sleepier; until finally he went sound asleep and fell from the third story to the ground. When they picked him up, he was dead.


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But Sha’ul went down, threw himself onto him, put his arms around him and said, “Don’t be upset, he’s alive!”


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Then he went back upstairs, broke the bread and ate. He continued talking with them till daylight, then left.


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We went on ahead to the ship and set sail for Assos, where we were planning to take Sha’ul aboard — he had arranged this because he wanted to go there by land.


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The next day, we sailed from there and arrived off Chios; the following day, we crossed over to Samos; and the day after that, we reached Miletus.


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For Sha’ul had decided to bypass Ephesus on his voyage, in order to avoid losing time in the province of Asia, because he was hurrying to get to Yerushalayim, if possible in time to celebrate Shavu‘ot.


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When they arrived, he said to them, “You yourselves know how, from the first day I set foot in the province of Asia, I was with you the whole time,


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serving the Lord with much humility and with tears, in spite of the tests I had to undergo because of the plots of the unbelieving Jews.


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You know that I held back nothing that could be helpful to you, and that I taught you both in public and from house to house,


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declaring with utmost seriousness the same message to Jews and Greeks alike: turn from sin to God; and put your trust in our Lord, Yeshua the Messiah.


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“And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Yerushalayim. I don’t know what will happen to me there,


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other than that in every city the Ruach HaKodesh keeps warning me that imprisonment and persecution await me.


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But I consider my own life of no importance to me whatsoever, as long as I can finish the course ahead of me, the task I received from the Lord Yeshua — to declare in depth the Good News of God’s love and kindness.


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“Now, listen! I know that none of you people among whom I have gone about proclaiming the Kingdom will ever see me again.


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“Watch out for yourselves, and for all the flock in which the Ruach HaKodesh has placed you as leaders, to shepherd God’s Messianic community, which he won for himself at the cost of his own Son’s blood.


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Even from among your own number, men will arise and teach perversions of the truth, in order to drag away the talmidim after themselves.


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So stay alert! Remember that for three years, night and day, with tears in my eyes, I never stopped warning you!


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“And now I entrust you to the care of the Lord and to the message of his love and kindness, for it can build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who have been set apart for God.


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You yourselves know that these hands of mine have provided not only for my own needs, but for the needs of my co-workers as well.


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In everything I have given you an example of how, by working hard like this, you must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Yeshua himself, ‘There is more happiness in giving than in receiving.’”


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What saddened them the most was his remark that they would never see him again. Then they accompanied him to the ship.


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After we had torn ourselves away from the Ephesian elders, we set sail and made a straight run to Cos. The next day we went to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.


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After sighting Cyprus, we passed it on the left, sailed to Syria and landed at Tzor, because that was where the ship was unloading its cargo.


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Having searched out the talmidim there, we remained for a week. Guided by the Spirit, they told Sha’ul not to go up to Yerushalayim;


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but when the week was over, we left to continue our journey. All of them, with their wives and children, accompanied us until we were outside the town. Kneeling on the beach and praying,


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When the voyage from Tzor was over, we arrived at Ptolemais. There we greeted the brothers and stayed with them overnight.


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The following day, we left and came to Caesarea, where we went to the home of Philip the proclaimer of the Good News, one of the Seven, and stayed with him.


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to visit us. He took Sha’ul’s belt, tied up his own hands and feet and said, “Here is what the Ruach HaKodesh says: the man who owns this belt — the Judeans in Yerushalayim will tie him up just like this and hand him over to the Goyim.”


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but Sha’ul answered, “What are you doing, crying and trying to weaken my resolve? I am prepared not only to be tied up, but even to die in Yerushalayim for the name of the Lord Yeshua.”


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and with us went some of the talmidim from Caesarea. They brought us to the home of the man with whom we were to stay, Mnason from Cyprus, who had been a talmid since the early days.


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After greeting them, Sha’ul described in detail each of the things God had done among the Gentiles through his efforts.


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On hearing it, they praised God; but they also said to him, “You see, brother, how many tens of thousands of believers there are among the Judeans, and they are all zealots for the Torah.


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Now what they have been told about you is that you are teaching all the Jews living among the Goyim to apostatize from Moshe, telling them not to have a b’rit-milah for their sons and not to follow the traditions.


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Take them with you, be purified with them, and pay the expenses connected with having their heads shaved. Then everyone will know that there is nothing to these rumors which they have heard about you; but that, on the contrary, you yourself stay in line and keep the Torah.


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“However, in regard to the Goyim who have come to trust in Yeshua, we all joined in writing them a letter with our decision that they should abstain from what had been sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled and from fornication.”


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The next day Sha’ul took the men, purified himself along with them and entered the Temple to give notice of when the period of purification would be finished and the offering would have to be made for each of them.


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The seven days were almost up when some unbelieving Jews from the province of Asia saw him in the Temple, stirred up all the crowd and grabbed him.


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“Men of Isra’el, help!” they shouted. “This is the man who goes everywhere teaching everyone things against the people, against the Torah and against this place! And now he has even brought some Goyim into the Temple and defiled this holy place!”


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(They had previously seen Trophimus from Ephesus in the city with him and assumed that Sha’ul had brought him into the Temple.)


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The whole city was aroused, and people came running from all over. They seized Sha’ul and dragged him out of the Temple, and at once the gates were shut.


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But while they were attempting to kill him, word reached the commander of the Roman battalion that all Yerushalayim was in turmoil.


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Immediately he took officers and soldiers and charged down upon them. As soon as they saw the commander, they quit beating Sha’ul.


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Then the commander came up, arrested him and ordered him to be tied up with two chains. He asked who he was and what he had done.


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Everyone in the crowd shouted something different; so, since he couldn’t find out what had happened because of the uproar, he ordered him brought to the barracks.


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When Sha’ul got to the steps, he actually had to be carried by the soldiers, because the mob was so wild —


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As Sha’ul was about to be brought into the barracks, he said to the commander, “Is it all right if I say something to you?” The commander said, “You know Greek!


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Say, aren’t you that Egyptian who tried to start a revolution a while back, and led four thousand armed terrorists out into the desert?”


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Sha’ul said, “I am a Jew from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of an important city; and I ask your permission to let me speak to the people.”


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Having received permission, Sha’ul stood on the steps and motioned with his hand to the people. When they finally became still, he addressed them in Hebrew:


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“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city and trained at the feet of Gamli’el in every detail of the Torah of our forefathers. I was a zealot for God, as all of you are today.


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I persecuted to death the followers of this Way, arresting both men and women and throwing them in prison.


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The cohen hagadol and the whole Sanhedrin can also testify to this. Indeed, after receiving letters from them to their colleagues in Dammesek, I was on my way there in order to arrest the ones in that city too and bring them back to Yerushalayim for punishment.


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“As I was traveling and approaching Dammesek, around noon, suddenly a brilliant light from heaven flashed all around me!


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I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Sha’ul! Sha’ul! Why do you keep persecuting me?’


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I answered, ‘Sir, who are you?’ ‘I am Yeshua from Natzeret,’ he said to me, ‘and you are persecuting me!’


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Those who were with me did see the light, but they didn’t hear the voice of the one who was speaking to me.


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I said ‘What should I do, Lord?’ And the Lord said to me, ‘Get up, and go into Dammesek, and there you will be told about everything that has been laid out for you to do.’


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I had been blinded by the brightness of the light, so my companions led me by the hand into Dammesek.


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“A man named Hananyah, an observant follower of the Torah who was highly regarded by the entire Jewish community there,


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came to me, stood by me and said, ‘Brother Sha’ul, see again!’ And at that very moment, I recovered my sight and saw him.


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He said, ‘The God of our fathers determined in advance that you should know his will, see the Tzaddik and hear his voice;


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So now, what are you waiting for? Get up, immerse yourself and have your sins washed away as you call on his name.’


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“After I had returned to Yerushalayim, it happened that as I was praying in the Temple, I went into a trance,


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and I saw Yeshua. ‘Hurry!’ he said to me, ‘Get out of Yerushalayim immediately, because they will not accept what you have to say about me.’


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I said, ‘Lord, they know themselves that in every synagogue I used to imprison and flog those who trusted in you;


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also that when the blood of your witness Stephen was being shed, I was standing there too, in full agreement; I was even looking after the clothes of the ones who were killing him!’


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They had been listening to him up to this point; but now they shouted at the top of their lungs, “Rid the earth of such a man! He’s not fit to live!”


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so the commander ordered him brought into the barracks and directed that he be interrogated and whipped, in order to find out why they were yelling at him like this.


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But as they were stretching him out with thongs to be flogged, Sha’ul said to the captain standing by, “Is it legal for you to whip a man who is a Roman citizen and hasn’t even had a trial?”


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When the captain heard that, he went and reported it to the commander, “Do you realize what you’re doing? This man is a Roman citizen!”


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The commander replied, “I bought this citizenship for a sizeable sum of money.” “But I was born to it,” Sha’ul said.


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At once the men who had been about to interrogate him drew back from him; and the commander was afraid too, because he realized that he had put this man who was a Roman citizen in chains.


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However, the next day, since he wanted to know the specific charge the Judeans were bringing against him, he released him and ordered the head cohanim and the whole Sanhedrin to meet. Then he brought Sha’ul down and put him in front of them.


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Sha’ul looked straight at them and said, “Brothers, I have been discharging my obligations to God with a perfectly clear conscience, right up until today.”


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Then Sha’ul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Will you sit there judging me according to the Torah, yet in violation of the Torah order me to be struck?”


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Sha’ul said, “I didn’t know, brothers, that he was the cohen hagadol; for it says in the Torah, ‘You are not to speak disparagingly of a ruler of your people.’”


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But knowing that one part of the Sanhedrin consisted of Tz’dukim and the other of P’rushim, Sha’ul shouted, “Brothers, I myself am a Parush and the son of P’rushim; and it is concerning the hope of the resurrection of the dead that I am being tried!”


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When he said this, an argument arose between the P’rushim and the Tz’dukim, and the crowd was divided.


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For the Tz’dukim deny the resurrection and the existence of angels and spirits; whereas the P’rushim acknowledge both.


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So there was a great uproar, with some of the Torah-teachers who were on the side of the P’rushim standing up and joining in — “We don’t find anything wrong with this man; and if a spirit or an angel spoke to him, what of it?”


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The dispute became so violent that the commander, fearing that Sha’ul would be torn apart by them, ordered the soldiers to go down, take him by force and bring him back into the barracks.


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The following night, the Lord stood by him and said, “Take courage! For just as you have borne a faithful witness to me in Yerushalayim, so now you must bear witness in Rome.”


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The next day, some of the Judeans formed a conspiracy. They took an oath, saying they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Sha’ul;


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They went to the head cohanim and the elders and said, “We have bound ourselves by an oath to taste no food until we have killed Sha’ul.


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What you are to do is make it appear to the commander that you and the Sanhedrin want to get more accurate information about Sha’ul’s case, so that he will bring him down to you; while we, for our part, are prepared to kill him before he ever gets here.”


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But the son of Sha’ul’s sister got wind of the planned ambush, and he went into the barracks and told Sha’ul.


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Sha’ul called one of the officers and said, “Take this man up to the commander; he has something to tell him.”


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So he took him and brought him to the commander and said, “The prisoner Sha’ul called me and asked me to bring this young man to you, because he has something to tell you.”


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The commander took him by the hand, led him aside privately and asked, “What is it you have to tell me?”


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He said, “The Judeans have agreed to ask you tomorrow to bring Sha’ul down to the Sanhedrin on the pretext that they want to investigate his case more thoroughly.


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But don’t let yourself be talked into it, because more than forty men are lying in wait for him. They have taken an oath neither to eat nor to drink until they kill him; and they are ready now, only waiting for you to give your consent to their request.”


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The commander let the young man go, cautioning him, “Don’t tell anyone that you have reported this to me.”


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Then he summoned two of the captains and said, “Get two hundred infantry soldiers ready to leave for Caesarea at nine o’clock tonight, and seventy mounted cavalry and two hundred spearmen;


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also provide replacements for Sha’ul’s horse when it gets tired; and bring him through safely to Felix the governor.”


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This man was seized by the Judeans and was about to be killed by them, when I came on the scene with my troops and rescued him. After learning that he was a Roman citizen,


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I wanted to understand exactly what they were charging him with; so I brought him down to their “Sanhedrin.”


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I found that he was charged in connection with questions of their “Torah” but that there was no charge deserving death or prison.


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But when I was informed of a plot against the man, I immediately sent him to you and also ordered his accusers to state their case against him before you.


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So the soldiers, following their orders, took Sha’ul during the night and brought him to Antipatris,


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The cavalry took him to Caesarea, delivered the letter to the governor, and handed Sha’ul over to him.


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he said, “I will give you a full hearing after your accusers have also arrived,” and ordered him to be kept under guard in Herod’s headquarters.


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After five days, the cohen hagadol Hananyah came down with some elders and a lawyer named Tertullus, and they presented their case against Sha’ul to the governor.


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Sha’ul was called, and Tertullus began to make the charges: “Felix, your Excellency, it is because of you that we enjoy unbroken peace, and it is your foresight that has brought to this nation


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But, in order not to take up too much of your time, I beg your indulgence to give us a brief hearing.


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“We have found this man a pest. He is an agitator among all the Jews throughout the world and a ringleader of the sect of the Natzratim.


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By questioning this man yourself, you will be able to learn all about the things of which we are accusing him.”


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When the governor motioned for Sha’ul to speak, he replied, “I know that you have been judge over this nation for a number of years, so I am glad to make my defense.


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As you can verify for yourself, it has not been more than twelve days since I went up to worship in Yerushalayim;


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and neither in the Temple nor in the synagogues nor anywhere else in the city did they find me either arguing with anyone or collecting a crowd.


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“But this I do admit to you: I worship the God of our fathers in accordance with the Way (which they call a sect). I continue to believe everything that accords with the Torah and everything written in the Prophets.


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And I continue to have a hope in God — which they too accept — that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.


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Indeed, it is because of this that I make a point of always having a clear conscience in the sight of both God and man.


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“After an absence of several years, I came to Yerushalayim to bring a charitable gift to my nation and to offer sacrifices.


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It was in connection with the latter that they found me in the Temple. I had been ceremonially purified, I was not with a crowd, and I was not causing a disturbance.


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But some Jews from the province of Asia — they ought to be here before you to make a charge if they have anything against me!


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Or else, let these men themselves say what crime they found me guilty of when I stood in front of the Sanhedrin,


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other than this one thing which I shouted out when I was standing among them: ‘I am on trial before you today because I believe in the resurrection of the dead!’”


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But Felix, who had rather detailed knowledge of things connected with the Way, put them off, saying, “When Lysias the commander comes down, I will decide your case.”


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He ordered the captain to keep Sha’ul in custody, but to let him have considerable liberty and not prevent any of his friends from taking care of his needs.


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After some days, Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish. He sent for Sha’ul and listened to him as he spoke about trusting in the Messiah Yeshua.


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But when Sha’ul began to discuss righteousness, self-control and the coming Judgment, Felix became frightened and said, “For the time being, go away! I will send for you when I get a chance.”


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At the same time, he hoped that Sha’ul would offer him a bribe; so he sent for him rather often and kept talking with him.


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After two years, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus; but because Felix wanted to grant the Judeans a favor, he left Sha’ul still a prisoner.


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There the head cohanim and the Judean leaders informed him of the case against Sha’ul, and they asked him


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to do them the favor of having the man sent to Yerushalayim. (They had plotted to have him ambushed and killed en route.)


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Festus replied that Sha’ul was being kept under guard in Caesarea, and that he was about to go there shortly himself.


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“So,” he said, “let competent men among you come down with me and press charges against the man, if he has done something wrong.”


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After staying with them at most eight or ten days, Festus went down to Caesarea; and on the following day, he took his seat in court and ordered Sha’ul to be brought in.


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When he arrived, the Judeans who had come down from Yerushalayim stood around him, bringing many serious charges against him which they could not prove.


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In reply, Sha’ul said, “I have committed no offense — not against the Torah to which the Jews hold, not against the Temple, and not against the Emperor.”


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But Festus, wanting to do the Judeans a favor, asked Sha’ul, “Would you be willing to go up to Yerushalayim and be tried before me there on these charges?”


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Sha’ul replied, “I am standing right now in the court of the Emperor, and this is where I should be tried. I have done no wrong to the Judeans, as you very well know.


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If I am a wrongdoer, if I have done something for which I deserve to die, then I am ready to die. But if there is nothing to these charges which they are bringing against me, no one can give me to them just to grant a favor! I appeal to the Emperor!”


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Then Festus, after talking with his advisers, answered, “You have appealed to the Emperor; you will go to the Emperor!”


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Since they were staying on there for some time, Festus had the opportunity to acquaint the king with Sha’ul’s situation. “There is a man here,” he said, “who was left behind in custody by Felix.


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When I was in Yerushalayim, the head cohanim and the elders of the Judeans informed me about him and asked me to pronounce judgment against him.


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My answer to them was that it is not the custom with Romans to give up an accused man just to grant a favor, before he has met his accusers face to face and had the opportunity to defend himself against the charge.


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So when they arrived here with me, I did not delay, but took my seat in court the next day and ordered the man brought in.


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they disputed with him about certain points of their own religion, and particularly about somebody called Yeshua, who had died, but who Sha’ul claimed was alive.


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Being at a loss as to how to investigate such questions, I asked him if he would be willing to go to Yerushalayim and be tried on these matters there.


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But since Sha’ul appealed to be kept in custody and have his case decided by His Imperial Majesty, I ordered him held until I could send him to the Emperor.”


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Agrippa said to Festus, “I myself have been wanting to hear the man.” “Tomorrow,” he replied, “You will hear him.”


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So the next day, Agrippa and Bernice came with much pageantry; they entered the audience room accompanied by military commanders and the prominent men of the city. Then, at the command of Festus, Sha’ul was brought in.


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Festus said, “King Agrippa and all of you here with us, do you see this man? The whole Judean community has complained to me about him both in Yerushalayim and here, crying that he shouldn’t be allowed to remain alive.


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But I discovered that he had done nothing that deserves a death sentence. Now when he himself appealed to the Emperor, I decided to send him.


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However, I have nothing specific to write to His Majesty about him. This is why I have brought him before all of you, and especially before you, King Agrippa — so that after we have examined him, I might have something to write.


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It seems irrational to me to send a prisoner without also indicating what the charges against him are.”


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Agrippa said to Sha’ul, “You have permission to speak on your own behalf.” Then Sha’ul motioned with his hand and began his defense:


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“King Agrippa, I consider myself fortunate that it is before you today that I am defending myself against all the charges made against me by Jews,


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because you are so well informed about all the Jewish customs and controversies. Therefore, I beg you to listen to me patiently.


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“So then! All Jews know how I lived my life from my youth on, both in my own country and in Yerushalayim.


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They have known me for a long time; and if they are willing, they can testify that I have followed the strictest party in our religion — that is, I have lived as a Parush.


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It is the fulfillment of this very promise that our twelve tribes hope to attain, as they resolutely carry on their acts of worship night and day; yet it is in connection with this hope, your Majesty, that I am being accused by Jews!


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and in Yerushalayim I did so. After receiving authority from the head cohanim, I myself threw many of God’s people in prison; when they were put to death, I cast my vote against them.


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Often I went from one synagogue to another, punishing them and trying to make them blaspheme; and in my wild fury against them, I even went so far as to persecute them in cities outside the country.


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“On one such occasion, I was traveling to Dammesek with the full authority and power of the head cohanim.


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I was on the road, and it was noon, your Majesty, when I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and my traveling companions.


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We all fell to the ground; and then I heard a voice saying to me, in Hebrew, ‘Sha’ul! Sha’ul! Why do you keep persecuting me? It’s hard on you to be kicking against the ox-goads!’


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But get up, and stand on your feet! I have appeared to you to appoint you to serve and bear witness to what you have already seen of me, and to what you will see when I appear to you in the future.


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to open their eyes; so that they will turn from darkness to light, from the power of the Adversary to God, and thus receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who have been separated for holiness by putting their trust in me.’


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On the contrary, I announced first in Dammesek, then in Yerushalayim and throughout Y’hudah, and also to the Goyim, that they should turn from their sins to God and then do deeds consistent with that repentance.


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However, I have had God’s help; so to this day, I stand testifying to both small and great, saying nothing but what both the prophets and Moshe said would happen —


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that the Messiah would die, and that he, as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to both the People and the Goyim.”


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But just as he reached this point in his defense, Festus shouted at the top of his voice, “Sha’ul, you’re out of your mind! So much learning is driving you crazy!”


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But Sha’ul said, “No, I am not ‘crazy,’ Festus, your Excellency; on the contrary, I am speaking words of truth and sanity.


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For the king understands these matters, so to him I express myself freely, because I am sure that none of these things have been hidden from him. After all, they didn’t happen in some back alley.


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Sha’ul replied, “Whether it takes a short time or a long time, I wish to God that not only you, but also everyone hearing me today, might become just like me except for these chains!”


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After they had left, they said to one another, “This man is doing nothing that deserves either death or prison.”


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Once it had been decided that we should set sail for Italy, they handed Sha’ul and some other prisoners over to an officer of the Emperor’s Regiment named Julius.


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We embarked in a ship from Adramyttium which was about to sail to the ports along the coast of the province of Asia, and put out to sea, accompanied by Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica.


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The next day, we landed at Tzidon; and Julius considerately allowed Sha’ul to go visit his friends and receive what he needed.


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Putting to sea from there, we sailed close to the sheltered side of Cyprus because the winds were against us,


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then across the open sea along the coasts of Cilicia and Pamphylia; and so we reached Myra in Lycia.


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For a number of days we made little headway, and we arrived off Cnidus only with difficulty. The wind would not let us continue any farther along the direct route; so we ran down along the sheltered side of Crete from Cape Salmone;


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and, continuing to struggle on, hugging the coast, we reached a place called Pleasant Harbor, near the town of Lasea.


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Since much time had been lost, and continuing the voyage was risky, because it was already past Yom-Kippur, Sha’ul advised them,


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“Men, I can see that our voyage is going to be a catastrophe, not only with huge losses to the cargo and the ship but with loss of our lives as well.”


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However, the officer paid more attention to the pilot and the ship’s owner than to what Sha’ul said.


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Moreover, since the harbor was not well suited to sitting out the winter, the majority reached the decision to sail on from there in the hope of reaching Phoenix, another harbor in Crete, and wintering there, where it is protected from the southwest and northwest winds.


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When a gentle southerly breeze began to blow, they thought that they had their goal within grasp; so they raised the anchor and started coasting by Crete close to shore.


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But before long there struck us from land a full gale from the northeast, the kind they call an Evrakilon.


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As we passed into the lee of a small island called Cauda, we managed with strenuous effort to get control of the lifeboat.


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They hoisted it aboard, then fastened cables tightly around the ship itself to reinforce it. Fearing they might run aground on the Syrtis sandbars, they lowered the topsails and thus continued drifting.


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But because we were fighting such heavy weather, the next day they began to jettison non-essentials;


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For many days neither the sun nor the stars appeared, while the storm continued to rage, until gradually all hope of survival vanished.


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It was then, when they had gone a long time without eating, that Sha’ul stood up in front of them and said, “You should have listened to me and not set out from Crete; if you had, you would have escaped this disastrous loss.


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But now, my advice to you is to take heart; because not one of you will lose his life — only the ship will be lost.


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He said, ‘Don’t be afraid, Sha’ul! you have to stand before the Emperor. Look! God has granted you all those who are sailing with you.’


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It was the fourteenth night, and we were still being driven about in the Adriatic Sea, when around midnight the sailors sensed that we were nearing land.


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So they dropped a plumbline and found the water one hundred and twenty feet deep. A little farther on, they took another sounding and found it ninety feet.


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Fearing we might run on the rocks, they let out four anchors from the stern and prayed for daylight to come.


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At this point, the crew made an attempt to abandon ship — they lowered the lifeboat into the sea, pretending that they were about to let out some anchors from the bow.


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Sha’ul said to the officer and the soldiers, “Unless these men remain aboard the ship, you yourselves cannot be saved.”


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Just before daybreak, Sha’ul urged them all to eat, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day you have been in suspense, going hungry, eating nothing.


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Therefore I advise you to take some food; you need it for your own survival. For not one of you will lose so much as a hair from his head.”


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When he had said this, he took bread, said the b’rakhah to God in front of everyone, broke it and began to eat.


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When day broke, they didn’t recognize the land; but they noticed a bay with a sand beach, where they decided to run the ship aground if they could.


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So they cut away the anchors and left them in the sea; at the same time, they loosened the ropes that held the rudders out of the water. Then they hoisted the foresail to the wind and headed for the beach.


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But they encountered a place where two currents meet, and ran the vessel aground on the sandbar there. The bow stuck and would not move, while the pounding of the surf began to break up the stern.


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At this point the soldiers’ thought was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim off and escape.


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But the officer, wanting to save Sha’ul, kept them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to throw themselves overboard first and head for shore,


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and the rest to use planks or whatever they could find from the ship. Thus it was that everyone reached land safely.


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Its people showed extraordinary kindness — it was cold and it had started to rain, so they lit a bonfire and welcomed us all.


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Sha’ul had gathered a bundle of sticks and was adding them to the fire, when a poisonous snake, driven out by the heat, fastened itself to his hand.


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The islanders saw the creature hanging from Sha’ul’s hand and said to one another, “This man must be a murderer. Even though he escaped the sea, justice has not allowed him to live.”


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They waited, expecting him to swell up or suddenly fall down dead; but after waiting a long time and seeing that nothing amiss was happening to him, they reversed their opinion and said he was a god.


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Nearby were lands belonging to the governor of the island, whose name was Publius. He received us in a friendly manner and put us up for three days.


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Now it so happened that Publius’ father was lying in bed, sick with fever attacks and dysentery. Sha’ul went in to him, prayed, placed his hands on him and healed him.


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They heaped honors on us; and when the time came for us to sail, they provided the supplies we needed.


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After three months, we sailed away on a ship from Alexandria called “Twin Gods,” which had passed the winter at the island.


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From there, we arrived at Rhegium by tacking; but after one day, a south wind sprang up; so we made it to Puteoli the second day.


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The brothers there had heard about us and came as far as Appian Market and Three Inns to meet us. When Sha’ul saw them, he thanked God and took courage.


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And when we arrived at Rome, the officer allowed Sha’ul to stay by himself, though guarded by a soldier.


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After three days Sha’ul called a meeting of the local Jewish leaders. When they had gathered, he said to them: “Brothers, although I have done nothing against either our people or the traditions of our fathers, I was made a prisoner in Yerushalayim and handed over to the Romans.


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They examined me and were ready to release me, because I had done nothing to justify a death sentence.


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But when the Judeans objected, I was forced to appeal to the Emperor — not that I had any charge to make against my own people.


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This is why I have asked to see you and speak with you, for it is because of the hope of Isra’el that I have this chain around me.”


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They said to him, “We have not received any letters about you from Y’hudah, and none of the brothers who have come from there has reported or said anything bad about you.


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But we do think it would be appropriate to hear your views from you, yourself; for all we know about this sect is that people everywhere speak against it.”


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So they arranged a day with him and came to his quarters in large numbers. From morning until evening he explained the matter to them, giving a thorough witness about the Kingdom of God and making use of both the Torah of Moshe and the Prophets to persuade them about Yeshua.


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while others refused to believe. So they left, disagreeing among themselves, after Sha’ul had made one final statement: “The Ruach HaKodesh spoke well in saying to your fathers through Yesha‘yahu the prophet,


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‘Go to this people and say, “You will keep on hearing but never understand, and you will keep on seeing but never perceive,


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because the heart of this people has grown thick — with their ears they barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, for fear that they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and do t’shuvah, so that I could heal them.”’


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Therefore, let it be known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the Goyim, and they will listen!”


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Sha’ul remained two whole years in a place he rented for himself; and he continued receiving all who came to see him,


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openly and without hindrance proclaiming the Kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Yeshua the Messiah.


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From: Sha’ul, a slave of the Messiah Yeshua, an emissary because I was called and set apart for the Good News of God.


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he was powerfully demonstrated to be Son of God spiritually, set apart by his having been resurrected from the dead; he is Yeshua the Messiah, our Lord.


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Through him we received grace and were given the work of being an emissary on his behalf promoting trust-grounded obedience among all the Gentiles,


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To: All those in Rome whom God loves, who have been called, who have been set apart for him: Grace to you and shalom from God our Father and the Lord Yeshua the Messiah.


