The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

and they questioned him, saying, 'Teacher, we have known that thou dost say and teach rightly, and dost not accept a person, but in truth the way of God dost teach;

Is it lawful to us to give tribute to Caesar or not?'

And he, having perceived their craftiness, said unto them, 'Why me do ye tempt?

shew me a denary; of whom hath it an image and superscription?' and they answering said, 'Of Caesar:'

and he said to them, 'Give back, therefore, the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God;'

and they were not able to take hold on his saying before the people, and having wondered at his answer, they were silent.

And certain of the Sadducees, who are denying that there is a rising again, having come near, questioned him,

saying, 'Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If any one's brother may die, having a wife, and he may die childless — that his brother may take the wife, and may raise up seed to his brother.

'There were, then, seven brothers, and the first having taken a wife, died childless,

and the second took the wife, and he died childless,

and the third took her, and in like manner also the seven — they left not children, and they died;

and last of all died also the woman:

in the rising again, then, of which of them doth she become wife? — for the seven had her as wife.'

And Jesus answering said to them, 'The sons of this age do marry and are given in marriage,

but those accounted worthy to obtain that age, and the rising again that is out of the dead, neither marry, nor are they given in marriage;

for neither are they able to die any more — for they are like messengers — and they are sons of God, being sons of the rising again.

'And that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the Bush, since he doth call the Lord, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob;

and He is not a God of dead men, but of living, for all live to Him.'

And certain of the scribes answering said, 'Teacher, thou didst say well;'

and no more durst they question him anything.

And he said unto them, 'How do they say the Christ to be son of David,

and David himself saith in the Book of Psalms, The Lord said to my lord, Sit thou on my right hand,

till I shall make thine enemies thy footstool;

David, then, doth call him lord, and how is he his son?'

And, all the people hearing, he said to his disciples,

'Take heed of the scribes, who are wishing to walk in long robes, and are loving salutations in the markets, and first seats in the synagogues, and first couches in the suppers,

who devour the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, these shall receive more abundant judgment.'

And having looked up, he saw those who did cast their gifts to the treasury — rich men,

and he saw also a certain poor widow casting there two mites,

and he said, 'Truly I say to you, that this poor widow did cast in more than all;

for all these out of their superabundance did cast into the gifts to God, but this one out of her want, all the living that she had, did cast in.'

And certain saying about the temple, that with goodly stones and devoted things it hath been adorned, he said,

'These things that ye behold — days will come, in which there shall not be left a stone upon a stone, that shall not be thrown down.'

And they questioned him, saying, 'Teacher, when, then, shall these things be? and what [is] the sign when these things may be about to happen?'

And he said, 'See — ye may not be led astray, for many shall come in my name, saying — I am [he], and the time hath come nigh; go not on then after them;

and when ye may hear of wars and uprisings, be not terrified, for it behoveth these things to happen first, but the end [is] not immediately.'

Then said he to them, 'Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom,

great shakings also in every place, and famines, and pestilences, there shall be; fearful things also, and great signs from heaven there shall be;

and before all these, they shall lay on you their hands, and persecute, delivering up to synagogues and prisons, being brought before kings and governors for my name's sake;

and it shall become to you for a testimony.

'Settle, then, to your hearts, not to meditate beforehand to reply,

for I will give to you a mouth and wisdom that all your opposers shall not be able to refute or resist.

'And ye shall be delivered up also by parents, and brothers, and kindred, and friends, and they shall put of you to death;

and ye shall be hated by all because of my name —

and a hair out of your head shall not perish;

in your patience possess ye your souls.

'And when ye may see Jerusalem surrounded by encampments, then know that come nigh did her desolation;

then those in Judea, let them flee to the mountains; and those in her midst, let them depart out; and those in the countries, let them not come in to her;

because these are days of vengeance, to fulfil all things that have been written.

'And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days; for there shall be great distress on the land, and wrath on this people;

and they shall fall by the mouth of the sword, and shall be led captive to all the nations, and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by nations, till the times of nations be fulfilled.

'And there shall be signs in sun, and moon, and stars, and on the land [is] distress of nations with perplexity, sea and billow roaring;

men fainting at heart from fear, and expectation of the things coming on the world, for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.

'And then they shall see the Son of Man, coming in a cloud, with power and much glory;

and these things beginning to happen bend yourselves back, and lift up your heads, because your redemption doth draw nigh.'

And he spake a simile to them: 'See the fig-tree, and all the trees,

when they may now cast forth, having seen, of yourselves ye know that now is the summer nigh;

so also ye, when ye may see these things happening, ye know that near is the reign of God;

verily I say to you — This generation may not pass away till all may have come to pass;

the heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words may not pass away.

'And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,

for as a snare it shall come on all those dwelling on the face of all the land,

watch ye, then, in every season, praying that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.'

And he was during the days in the temple teaching, and during the nights, going forth, he was lodging at the mount called of Olives;

and all the people were coming early unto him in the temple to hear him.

And the feast of the unleavened food was coming nigh, that is called Passover,

and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they may take him up, for they were afraid of the people.

And the Adversary entered into Judas, who is surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve,

and he, having gone away, spake with the chief priests and the magistrates, how he might deliver him up to them,

and they rejoiced, and covenanted to give him money,

and he agreed, and was seeking a favourable season to deliver him up to them without tumult.

And the day of the unleavened food came, in which it was behoving the passover to be sacrificed,

and he sent Peter and John, saying, 'Having gone on, prepare to us the passover, that we may eat;'

and they said to him, 'Where wilt thou that we might prepare?'

And he said to them, 'Lo, in your entering into the city, there shall meet you a man, bearing a pitcher of water, follow him to the house where he doth go in,

and ye shall say to the master of the house, The Teacher saith to thee, Where is the guest-chamber where the passover with my disciples I may eat?

and he shall show you a large upper room furnished, there make ready;'

and they, having gone away, found as he hath said to them, and they made ready the passover.

And when the hour come, he reclined (at meat), and the twelve apostles with him,

and he said unto them, 'With desire I did desire to eat this passover with you before my suffering,

for I say to you, that no more may I eat of it till it may be fulfilled in the reign of God.'

And having taken a cup, having given thanks, he said, 'Take this and divide to yourselves,

for I say to you that I may not drink of the produce of the vine till the reign of God may come.'

And having taken bread, having given thanks, he brake and gave to them, saying, 'This is my body, that for you is being given, this do ye — to remembrance of me.'

In like manner, also, the cup after the supping, saying, 'This cup [is] the new covenant in my blood, that for you is being poured forth.

'But, lo, the hand of him delivering me up [is] with me on the table,

and indeed the Son of Man doth go according to what hath been determined; but woe to that man through whom he is being delivered up.'

And they began to reason among themselves, who then of them it may be, who is about to do this thing.

And there happened also a strife among them — who of them is accounted to be greater.

And he said to them, 'The kings of the nations do exercise lordship over them, and those exercising authority upon them are called benefactors;

but ye [are] not so, but he who is greater among you — let him be as the younger; and he who is leading, as he who is ministering;

for who is greater? he who is reclining (at meat), or he who is ministering? is it not he who is reclining (at meat)? and I — I am in your midst as he who is ministering.

'And ye — ye are those who have remained with me in my temptations,

and I appoint to you, as my Father did appoint to me, a kingdom,

that ye may eat and may drink at my table, in my kingdom, and may sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.'

And the Lord said, 'Simon, Simon, lo, the Adversary did ask you for himself to sift as the wheat,

and I besought for thee, that thy faith may not fail; and thou, when thou didst turn, strengthen thy brethren.'

And he said to him, 'Sir, with thee I am ready both to prison and to death to go;'

and he said, 'I say to thee, Peter, a cock shall not crow to-day, before thrice thou mayest disown knowing me.'

And he said to them, 'When I sent you without bag, and scrip, and sandals, did ye lack anything?' and they said, 'Nothing.'