Genesis 46.0: 
46
Genesis 46.1: 1 Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.
Genesis 46.2: 2 God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob!”
He said, “Here I am.”
Genesis 46.3: 3 He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Don’t be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.
Genesis 46.4: 4 I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph’s hand will close your eyes.”
Genesis 46.5: 5 Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
Genesis 46.6: 6 They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt—Jacob, and all his offspring with him,
Genesis 46.7: 7 his sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and he brought all his offspring with him into Egypt.
Genesis 46.8: 8 These are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.
Genesis 46.9: 9 The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
Genesis 46.10: 10 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.
Genesis 46.11: 11 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Genesis 46.12: 12 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
Genesis 46.13: 13 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.
Genesis 46.14: 14 The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.
Genesis 46.15: 15 These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.
Genesis 46.16: 16 The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.
Genesis 46.17: 17 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
Genesis 46.18: 18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.
Genesis 46.19: 19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
Genesis 46.20: 20 To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.
Genesis 46.21: 21 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.
Genesis 46.22: 22 These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.
Genesis 46.23: 23 The son of Dan: Hushim.
Genesis 46.24: 24 The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.
Genesis 46.25: 25 These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven.
Genesis 46.26: 26 All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct offspring, in addition to Jacob’s sons’ wives, all the souls were sixty-six.
Genesis 46.27: 27 The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy.
Genesis 46.28: 28 Jacob sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.
Genesis 46.29: 29 Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
Genesis 46.30: 30 Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive.”
Genesis 46.31: 31 Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father’s house, “I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, ‘My brothers, and my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
Genesis 46.32: 32 These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.’
Genesis 46.33: 33 It will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say, ‘What is your occupation?’
Genesis 46.34: 34 that you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:’ that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.”
Deuteronomy 34.0: 
34
Deuteronomy 34.1: 1 Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is opposite Jericho. Yahweh showed him all the land of Gilead to Dan,
Deuteronomy 34.2: 2 and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, to the Western Sea,
Deuteronomy 34.3: 3 and the south, and the Plain of the valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, to Zoar.
Deuteronomy 34.4: 4 Yahweh said to him, “This is the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your offspring.’ I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.”
Deuteronomy 34.5: 5 So Moses the servant of Yahweh died there in the land of Moab, according to Yahweh’s word.
Deuteronomy 34.6: 6 He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth Peor, but no man knows where his tomb is to this day.
Deuteronomy 34.7: 7 Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his strength gone.
Deuteronomy 34.8: 8 The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended.
Deuteronomy 34.9: 9 Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. The children of Israel listened to him, and did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Deuteronomy 34.10: 10 Since then, there has not arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh knew face to face,
Deuteronomy 34.11: 11 in all the signs and the wonders which Yahweh sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,
Deuteronomy 34.12: 12 and in all the mighty hand, and in all the awesome deeds, which Moses did in the sight of all Israel.
Zephaniah 0.0: 
The Book of
Zephaniah
Zephaniah 1.0: 
1
Zephaniah 1.1: 1 Yahweh’s word which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah.
Zephaniah 1.2: 2 I will utterly sweep away everything from the surface of the earth, says Yahweh.
Zephaniah 1.3: 3 I will sweep away man and animal. I will sweep away the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and the heaps of rubble with the wicked. I will cut off man from the surface of the earth, says Yahweh.
Zephaniah 1.4: 4 I will stretch out my hand against Judah, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place: the name of the idolatrous and pagan priests,
Zephaniah 1.5: 5 those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam,
Zephaniah 1.6: 6 those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.
Zephaniah 1.7: 7 Be silent at the presence of the Lord Yahweh, for the day of Yahweh is at hand. For Yahweh has prepared a sacrifice. He has consecrated his guests.
Zephaniah 1.8: 8 It will happen in the day of Yahweh’s sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, the king’s sons, and all those who are clothed with foreign clothing.
Zephaniah 1.9: 9 In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master’s house with violence and deceit.
Zephaniah 1.10: 10 In that day, says Yahweh, there will be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.
Zephaniah 1.11: 11 Wail, you inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the people of Canaan are undone! All those who were loaded with silver are cut off.
Zephaniah 1.12: 12 It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, “Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil.”
Zephaniah 1.13: 13 Their wealth will become a plunder, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won’t inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won’t drink their wine.
Zephaniah 1.14: 14 The great day of Yahweh is near. It is near, and hurries greatly, the voice of the day of Yahweh. The mighty man cries there bitterly.
Zephaniah 1.15: 15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,
Zephaniah 1.16: 16 a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.
Zephaniah 1.17: 17 I will bring distress on men, that they will walk like blind men, because they have sinned against Yahweh, and their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.
Zephaniah 1.18: 18 Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.
Zephaniah 2.0: 
2
Zephaniah 2.1: 1 Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, you nation that has no shame,
Zephaniah 2.2: 2 before the appointed time when the day passes as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Yahweh comes on you, before the day of Yahweh’s anger comes on you.
Zephaniah 2.3: 3 Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.
Zephaniah 2.4: 4 For Gaza will be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. They will drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron will be rooted up.
Zephaniah 2.5: 5 Woe to the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! Yahweh’s word is against you, Canaan, the land of the Philistines. I will destroy you, that there will be no inhabitant.
Zephaniah 2.6: 6 The sea coast will be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.
Zephaniah 2.7: 7 The coast will be for the remnant of the house of Judah. They will find pasture. In the houses of Ashkelon, they will lie down in the evening, for Yahweh, their God, will visit them, and restore them.
Zephaniah 2.8: 8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.
Zephaniah 2.9: 9 Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.
Zephaniah 2.10: 10 This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Armies.
Zephaniah 2.11: 11 Yahweh will be awesome to them, for he will famish all the gods of the land. Men will worship him, everyone from his place, even all the shores of the nations.
Zephaniah 2.12: 12 You Cushites also, you will be killed by my sword.
Zephaniah 2.13: 13 He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as the wilderness.
Zephaniah 2.14: 14 Herds will lie down in the middle of her, all the animals of the nations. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams.
Zephaniah 2.15: 15 This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.
Zephaniah 3.0: 
3
Zephaniah 3.1: 1 Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city!
Zephaniah 3.2: 2 She didn’t obey the voice. She didn’t receive correction. She didn’t trust in Yahweh. She didn’t draw near to her God.
Zephaniah 3.3: 3 Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.
Zephaniah 3.4: 4 Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous people. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.
Zephaniah 3.5: 5 Yahweh, within her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn’t fail, but the unjust know no shame.
Zephaniah 3.6: 6 I have cut off nations. Their battlements are desolate. I have made their streets waste, so that no one passes by. Their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.
Zephaniah 3.7: 7 I said, “Just fear me. Receive correction, so that her dwelling won’t be cut off, according to all that I have appointed concerning her.” But they rose early and corrupted all their doings.
Zephaniah 3.8: 8 “Therefore wait for me”, says Yahweh, “until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
Zephaniah 3.9: 9 For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on Yahweh’s name, to serve him shoulder to shoulder.
Zephaniah 3.10: 10 From beyond the rivers of Cush, my worshipers, even the daughter of my dispersed people, will bring my offering.
Zephaniah 3.11: 11 In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out from among you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be arrogant in my holy mountain.
Zephaniah 3.12: 12 But I will leave among you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in Yahweh’s name.
Zephaniah 3.13: 13 The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid.”
Zephaniah 3.14: 14 Sing, daughter of Zion! Shout, Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem.
Zephaniah 3.15: 15 Yahweh has taken away your judgments. He has thrown out your enemy. The King of Israel, Yahweh, is among you. You will not be afraid of evil any more.
Zephaniah 3.16: 16 In that day, it will be said to Jerusalem, “Don’t be afraid, Zion. Don’t let your hands be weak.”
Zephaniah 3.17: 17 Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.
Zephaniah 3.18: 18 I will remove those who grieve about the appointed feasts from you. They are a burden and a reproach to you.
Zephaniah 3.19: 19 Behold, at that time I will deal with all those who afflict you, and I will save those who are lame, and gather those who were driven away. I will give them praise and honor, whose shame has been in all the earth.
Zephaniah 3.20: 20 At that time I will bring you in, and at that time I will gather you; for I will give you honor and praise among all the peoples of the earth, when I restore your fortunes before your eyes, says Yahweh.
John 0.0: 
The Good News According to
John
John 1.0: 
1
John 1.1: 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1.2: 2 The same was in the beginning with God.
John 1.3: 3 All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made.
John 1.4: 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
John 1.5: 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.
John 1.6: 6 There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.
John 1.7: 7 The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.
John 1.8: 8 He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light.
John 1.9: 9 The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.
John 1.10: 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him.
John 1.11: 11 He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.
John 1.12: 12 But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:
John 1.13: 13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
John 1.14: 14 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1.15: 15 John testified about him. He cried out, saying, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.’”
John 1.16: 16 From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.
John 1.17: 17 For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
John 1.18: 18 No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.
John 1.19: 19 This is John’s testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”
John 1.20: 20 He declared, and didn’t deny, but he declared, “I am not the Christ.”
John 1.21: 21 They asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?”
He said, “I am not.”
“Are you the prophet?”
He answered, “No.”
John 1.22: 22 They said therefore to him, “Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”
John 1.23: 23 He said, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet said.”
John 1.24: 24 The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.
John 1.25: 25 They asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”
John 1.26: 26 John answered them, “I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you don’t know.
John 1.27: 27 He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to loosen.”
John 1.28: 28 These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.
John 1.29: 29 The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
John 1.30: 30 This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.’
John 1.31: 31 I didn’t know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Israel.”
John 1.32: 32 John testified, saying, “I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.
John 1.33: 33 I didn’t recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water said to me, ‘On whomever you will see the Spirit descending and remaining on him is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.’
John 1.34: 34 I have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God.”
John 1.35: 35 Again, the next day, John was standing with two of his disciples,
John 1.36: 36 and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”
John 1.37: 37 The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.
John 1.38: 38 Jesus turned and saw them following, and said to them, “What are you looking for?”
They said to him, “Rabbi” (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), “where are you staying?”
John 1.39: 39 He said to them, “Come, and see.”
They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.
John 1.40: 40 One of the two who heard John and followed him was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.
John 1.41: 41 He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is, being interpreted, Christ).
John 1.42: 42 He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, “You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas” (which is by interpretation, Peter).
John 1.43: 43 On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, “Follow me.”
John 1.44: 44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter.
John 1.45: 45 Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
John 1.46: 46 Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?”
Philip said to him, “Come and see.”
John 1.47: 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”
John 1.48: 48 Nathanael said to him, “How do you know me?”
Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”
John 1.49: 49 Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!”
John 1.50: 50 Jesus answered him, “Because I told you, ‘I saw you underneath the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these!”
John 1.51: 51 He said to him, “Most certainly, I tell you all, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”
John 2.0: 
2
John 2.1: 1 The third day, there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there.
John 2.2: 2 Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the wedding.
John 2.3: 3 When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no wine.”
John 2.4: 4 Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come.”
John 2.5: 5 His mother said to the servants, “Whatever he says to you, do it.”
John 2.6: 6 Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews’ way of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece.
John 2.7: 7 Jesus said to them, “Fill the water pots with water.” So they filled them up to the brim.
John 2.8: 8 He said to them, “Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast.” So they took it.
John 2.9: 9 When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and didn’t know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom
John 2.10: 10 and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!”
John 2.11: 11 This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
John 2.12: 12 After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days.
John 2.13: 13 The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
John 2.14: 14 He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting.
John 2.15: 15 He made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers’ money and overthrew their tables.
John 2.16: 16 To those who sold the doves, he said, “Take these things out of here! Don’t make my Father’s house a marketplace!”
John 2.17: 17 His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will eat me up.”
John 2.18: 18 The Jews therefore answered him, “What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?”
John 2.19: 19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
John 2.20: 20 The Jews therefore said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple! Will you raise it up in three days?”
John 2.21: 21 But he spoke of the temple of his body.
John 2.22: 22 When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
John 2.23: 23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.
John 2.24: 24 But Jesus didn’t entrust himself to them, because he knew everyone,
John 2.25: 25 and because he didn’t need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.
John 3.0: 
3
John 3.1: 1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
John 3.2: 2 The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”
John 3.3: 3 Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”
John 3.4: 4 Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?”
John 3.5: 5 Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom.
John 3.6: 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 
John 3.7: 7 Don’t marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born anew.’ 
John 3.8: 8 The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
John 3.9: 9 Nicodemus answered him, “How can these things be?”
John 3.10: 10 Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and don’t understand these things? 
John 3.11: 11 Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don’t receive our witness. 
John 3.12: 12 If I told you earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? 
John 3.13: 13 No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven. 
John 3.14: 14 As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 
John 3.15: 15 that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 
John 3.16: 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 
John 3.17: 17 For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him. 
John 3.18: 18 He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God. 
John 3.19: 19 This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. 
John 3.20: 20 For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed. 
John 3.21: 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”
John 3.22: 22 After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them and baptized.
John 3.23: 23 John also was baptizing in Enon near Salim, because there was much water there. They came, and were baptized;
John 3.24: 24 for John was not yet thrown into prison.
John 3.25: 25 Therefore a dispute arose on the part of John’s disciples with some Jews about purification.
John 3.26: 26 They came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, he baptizes, and everyone is coming to him.”
John 3.27: 27 John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.
John 3.28: 28 You yourselves testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent before him.’
John 3.29: 29 He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.
John 3.30: 30 He must increase, but I must decrease.
John 3.31: 31 He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.
John 3.32: 32 What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness.
John 3.33: 33 He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.
John 3.34: 34 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.
John 3.35: 35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.
John 3.36: 36 One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”
John 4.0: 
4
John 4.1: 1 Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
John 4.2: 2 (although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples),
John 4.3: 3 he left Judea and departed into Galilee.
John 4.4: 4 He needed to pass through Samaria.
John 4.5: 5 So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph.
John 4.6: 6 Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
John 4.7: 7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”
John 4.8: 8 For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
John 4.9: 9 The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
John 4.10: 10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
John 4.11: 11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water?
John 4.12: 12 Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his children and his livestock?”
John 4.13: 13 Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, 
John 4.14: 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
John 4.15: 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw.”
John 4.16: 16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” 
John 4.17: 17 The woman answered, “I have no husband.”
Jesus said to her, “You said well, ‘I have no husband,’ 
John 4.18: 18 for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly.”
John 4.19: 19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
John 4.20: 20 Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”
John 4.21: 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father. 
John 4.22: 22 You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews. 
John 4.23: 23 But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers. 
John 4.24: 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
John 4.25: 25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah comes, he who is called Christ. When he has come, he will declare to us all things.”
John 4.26: 26 Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who speaks to you.”
John 4.27: 27 At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, “What are you looking for?” or, “Why do you speak with her?”
John 4.28: 28 So the woman left her water pot, went away into the city, and said to the people,
John 4.29: 29 “Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?”
John 4.30: 30 They went out of the city, and were coming to him.
John 4.31: 31 In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”
John 4.32: 32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”
John 4.33: 33 The disciples therefore said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?”
John 4.34: 34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. 
John 4.35: 35 Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest?’ Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already. 
John 4.36: 36 He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. 
John 4.37: 37 For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’ 
John 4.38: 38 I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
John 4.39: 39 From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me everything that I did.”
John 4.40: 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.
John 4.41: 41 Many more believed because of his word.
John 4.42: 42 They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”
John 4.43: 43 After the two days he went out from there and went into Galilee.
John 4.44: 44 For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
John 4.45: 45 So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast.
John 4.46: 46 Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.
John 4.47: 47 When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.
John 4.48: 48 Jesus therefore said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe.”
John 4.49: 49 The nobleman said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”
John 4.50: 50 Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.
John 4.51: 51 As he was now going down, his servants met him and reported, saying “Your child lives!”
John 4.52: 52 So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him.”
John 4.53: 53 So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” He believed, as did his whole house.
John 4.54: 54 This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.
John 5.0: 
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John 5.1: 1 After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
John 5.2: 2 Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, “Bethesda”, having five porches.
John 5.3: 3 In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water;
John 5.4: 4 for an angel went down at certain times into the pool and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had.
John 5.5: 5 A certain man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.
John 5.6: 6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to be made well?”
John 5.7: 7 The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, another steps down before me.”
John 5.8: 8 Jesus said to him, “Arise, take up your mat, and walk.”
John 5.9: 9 Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked.
Now it was the Sabbath on that day.
John 5.10: 10 So the Jews said to him who was cured, “It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat.”
John 5.11: 11 He answered them, “He who made me well said to me, ‘Take up your mat and walk.’”
John 5.12: 12 Then they asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your mat and walk’?”
John 5.13: 13 But he who was healed didn’t know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place.
John 5.14: 14 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you.” 
John 5.15: 15 The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
John 5.16: 16 For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.
John 5.17: 17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.”
John 5.18: 18 For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
John 5.19: 19 Jesus therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise. 
John 5.20: 20 For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel. 
John 5.21: 21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires. 
John 5.22: 22 For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son, 
John 5.23: 23 that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him.
John 5.24: 24 “Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. 
John 5.25: 25 Most certainly I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live. 
John 5.26: 26 For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself. 
John 5.27: 27 He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man. 
John 5.28: 28 Don’t marvel at this, for the hour comes in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice, 
John 5.29: 29 and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment. 
John 5.30: 30 I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.
John 5.31: 31 “If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid. 
John 5.32: 32 It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true. 
John 5.33: 33 You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth. 
John 5.34: 34 But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved. 
John 5.35: 35 He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. 
John 5.36: 36 But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me. 
John 5.37: 37 The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form. 
John 5.38: 38 You don’t have his word living in you, because you don’t believe him whom he sent.
John 5.39: 39 “You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me. 
John 5.40: 40 Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life. 
John 5.41: 41 I don’t receive glory from men. 
John 5.42: 42 But I know you, that you don’t have God’s love in yourselves. 
John 5.43: 43 I have come in my Father’s name, and you don’t receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him. 
John 5.44: 44 How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?
John 5.45: 45 “Don’t think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope. 
John 5.46: 46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me. 
John 5.47: 47 But if you don’t believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”
John 6.0: 
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John 6.1: 1 After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias.
John 6.2: 2 A great multitude followed him, because they saw his signs which he did on those who were sick.
John 6.3: 3 Jesus went up into the mountain, and he sat there with his disciples.
John 6.4: 4 Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.
John 6.5: 5 Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude was coming to him, said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, that these may eat?”
John 6.6: 6 He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.
John 6.7: 7 Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may receive a little.”
John 6.8: 8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him,
John 6.9: 9 “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so many?”
John 6.10: 10 Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in that place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
John 6.11: 11 Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were sitting down; likewise also of the fish as much as they desired.
John 6.12: 12 When they were filled, he said to his disciples, “Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost.”
John 6.13: 13 So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves, which were left over by those who had eaten.
John 6.14: 14 When therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said, “This is truly the prophet who comes into the world.”
John 6.15: 15 Jesus therefore, perceiving that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain by himself.
John 6.16: 16 When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea.
John 6.17: 17 They entered into the boat, and were going over the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them.
John 6.18: 18 The sea was tossed by a great wind blowing.
John 6.19: 19 When therefore they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing near to the boat; and they were afraid.
John 6.20: 20 But he said to them, “It is I. Don’t be afraid.”
John 6.21: 21 They were willing therefore to receive him into the boat. Immediately the boat was at the land where they were going.
John 6.22: 22 On the next day, the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, except the one in which his disciples had embarked, and that Jesus hadn’t entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had gone away alone.
John 6.23: 23 However boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks.
John 6.24: 24 When the multitude therefore saw that Jesus wasn’t there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats, and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.
John 6.25: 25 When they found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?”
John 6.26: 26 Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled. 
John 6.27: 27 Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
John 6.28: 28 They said therefore to him, “What must we do, that we may work the works of God?”
John 6.29: 29 Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
John 6.30: 30 They said therefore to him, “What then do you do for a sign, that we may see and believe you? What work do you do?
John 6.31: 31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, ‘He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.’”
John 6.32: 32 Jesus therefore said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, it wasn’t Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven. 
John 6.33: 33 For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.”
John 6.34: 34 They said therefore to him, “Lord, always give us this bread.”
John 6.35: 35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. 
John 6.36: 36 But I told you that you have seen me, and yet you don’t believe. 
John 6.37: 37 All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out. 
John 6.38: 38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. 
John 6.39: 39 This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day. 
John 6.40: 40 This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
John 6.41: 41 The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, “I am the bread which came down out of heaven.”
John 6.42: 42 They said, “Isn’t this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, ‘I have come down out of heaven?’” 
John 6.43: 43 Therefore Jesus answered them, “Don’t murmur among yourselves. 
John 6.44: 44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day. 
John 6.45: 45 It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father and has learned, comes to me. 
John 6.46: 46 Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father. 
John 6.47: 47 Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life. 
John 6.48: 48 I am the bread of life. 
John 6.49: 49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died. 
John 6.50: 50 This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die. 
John 6.51: 51 I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
John 6.52: 52 The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
John 6.53: 53 Jesus therefore said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don’t have life in yourselves. 
John 6.54: 54 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. 
John 6.55: 55 For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 
John 6.56: 56 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him. 
John 6.57: 57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me. 
John 6.58: 58 This is the bread which came down out of heaven—not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever.”
John 6.59: 59 He said these things in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.
John 6.60: 60 Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?”
John 6.61: 61 But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, “Does this cause you to stumble? 
John 6.62: 62 Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? 
John 6.63: 63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life. 
John 6.64: 64 But there are some of you who don’t believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn’t believe, and who it was who would betray him.
John 6.65: 65 He said, “For this cause I have said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father.”
John 6.66: 66 At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
John 6.67: 67 Jesus said therefore to the twelve, “You don’t also want to go away, do you?”
John 6.68: 68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
John 6.69: 69 We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
John 6.70: 70 Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”
John 6.71: 71 Now he spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for it was he who would betray him, being one of the twelve.
John 7.0: 
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John 7.1: 1 After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
John 7.2: 2 Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.
John 7.3: 3 His brothers therefore said to him, “Depart from here and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.
John 7.4: 4 For no one does anything in secret while he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.”
John 7.5: 5 For even his brothers didn’t believe in him.
John 7.6: 6 Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. 
John 7.7: 7 The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil. 
John 7.8: 8 You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.”
John 7.9: 9 Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.
John 7.10: 10 But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.
John 7.11: 11 The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, “Where is he?”
John 7.12: 12 There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, “He is a good man.” Others said, “Not so, but he leads the multitude astray.”
John 7.13: 13 Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.
John 7.14: 14 But when it was now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.
John 7.15: 15 The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How does this man know letters, having never been educated?”
John 7.16: 16 Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me. 
John 7.17: 17 If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself. 
John 7.18: 18 He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. 
John 7.19: 19 Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”
John 7.20: 20 The multitude answered, “You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?”
John 7.21: 21 Jesus answered them, “I did one work and you all marvel because of it. 
John 7.22: 22 Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy. 
John 7.23: 23 If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man completely healthy on the Sabbath? 
John 7.24: 24 Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.” 
John 7.25: 25 Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, “Isn’t this he whom they seek to kill?
John 7.26: 26 Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?
John 7.27: 27 However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.”
John 7.28: 28 Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know. 
John 7.29: 29 I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”
John 7.30: 30 They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
John 7.31: 31 But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, “When the Christ comes, he won’t do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?”
John 7.32: 32 The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
John 7.33: 33 Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me. 
John 7.34: 34 You will seek me, and won’t find me. You can’t come where I am.”
John 7.35: 35 The Jews therefore said among themselves, “Where will this man go that we won’t find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
John 7.36: 36 What is this word that he said, ‘You will seek me, and won’t find me;’ and ‘Where I am, you can’t come’?”
John 7.37: 37 Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! 
John 7.38: 38 He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”
John 7.39: 39 But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn’t yet glorified.
John 7.40: 40 Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, “This is truly the prophet.”
John 7.41: 41 Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?
John 7.42: 42 Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”
John 7.43: 43 So a division arose in the multitude because of him.
John 7.44: 44 Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.
John 7.45: 45 The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him?”
John 7.46: 46 The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this man!”
John 7.47: 47 The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You aren’t also led astray, are you?
John 7.48: 48 Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?
John 7.49: 49 But this multitude that doesn’t know the law is cursed.”
John 7.50: 50 Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,
John 7.51: 51 “Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?”
John 7.52: 52 They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.”
John 7.53: 53 Everyone went to his own house,
John 8.0: 
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John 8.1: 1 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
John 8.2: 2 Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down and taught them.
John 8.3: 3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the middle,
John 8.4: 4 they told him, “Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act.
John 8.5: 5 Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. What then do you say about her?”
John 8.6: 6 They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of.
But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.
John 8.7: 7 But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her.” 
John 8.8: 8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.
John 8.9: 9 They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.
John 8.10: 10 Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, “Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?”
John 8.11: 11 She said, “No one, Lord.”
Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more.”
John 8.12: 12 Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
John 8.13: 13 The Pharisees therefore said to him, “You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid.”
John 8.14: 14 Jesus answered them, “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don’t know where I came from, or where I am going. 
John 8.15: 15 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one. 
John 8.16: 16 Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me. 
John 8.17: 17 It’s also written in your law that the testimony of two people is valid.
John 8.18: 18 I am one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me testifies about me.”
John 8.19: 19 They said therefore to him, “Where is your Father?”
Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”
John 8.20: 20 Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.
John 8.21: 21 Jesus said therefore again to them, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can’t come.” 
John 8.22: 22 The Jews therefore said, “Will he kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come’?”
John 8.23: 23 He said to them, “You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world. 
John 8.24: 24 I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.” 
John 8.25: 25 They said therefore to him, “Who are you?”
Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning. 
John 8.26: 26 I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world.”
John 8.27: 27 They didn’t understand that he spoke to them about the Father.
John 8.28: 28 Jesus therefore said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things. 
John 8.29: 29 He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”
John 8.30: 30 As he spoke these things, many believed in him.
John 8.31: 31 Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. 
John 8.32: 32 You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” 
John 8.33: 33 They answered him, “We are Abraham’s offspring, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, ‘You will be made free’?”
John 8.34: 34 Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin. 
John 8.35: 35 A bondservant doesn’t live in the house forever. A son remains forever. 
John 8.36: 36 If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. 
John 8.37: 37 I know that you are Abraham’s offspring, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you. 
John 8.38: 38 I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father.”
John 8.39: 39 They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.”
Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham. 
John 8.40: 40 But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this. 
John 8.41: 41 You do the works of your father.”
They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”
John 8.42: 42 Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me. 
John 8.43: 43 Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word. 
John 8.44: 44 You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies. 
John 8.45: 45 But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me. 
John 8.46: 46 Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? 
John 8.47: 47 He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”
John 8.48: 48 Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”
John 8.49: 49 Jesus answered, “I don’t have a demon, but I honor my Father and you dishonor me. 
John 8.50: 50 But I don’t seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges. 
John 8.51: 51 Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death.”
John 8.52: 52 Then the Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, as did the prophets; and you say, ‘If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.’
John 8.53: 53 Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?”
John 8.54: 54 Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God. 
John 8.55: 55 You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be like you, a liar. But I know him and keep his word. 
John 8.56: 56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad.”
John 8.57: 57 The Jews therefore said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old! Have you seen Abraham?”
John 8.58: 58 Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.”
John 8.59: 59 Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.
John 9.0: 
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John 9.1: 1 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.
John 9.2: 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
John 9.3: 3 Jesus answered, “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him. 
John 9.4: 4 I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work. 
John 9.5: 5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
John 9.6: 6 When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man’s eyes with the mud,
John 9.7: 7 and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.
John 9.8: 8 The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, “Isn’t this he who sat and begged?”
John 9.9: 9 Others were saying, “It is he.” Still others were saying, “He looks like him.”
He said, “I am he.”
John 9.10: 10 They therefore were asking him, “How were your eyes opened?”
John 9.11: 11 He answered, “A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.’ So I went away and washed, and I received sight.”
John 9.12: 12 Then they asked him, “Where is he?”
He said, “I don’t know.”
John 9.13: 13 They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees.
John 9.14: 14 It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.
John 9.15: 15 Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see.”
John 9.16: 16 Some therefore of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” There was division among them.
John 9.17: 17 Therefore they asked the blind man again, “What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?”
He said, “He is a prophet.”
John 9.18: 18 The Jews therefore didn’t believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight,
John 9.19: 19 and asked them, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”
John 9.20: 20 His parents answered them, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;
John 9.21: 21 but how he now sees, we don’t know; or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself.”
John 9.22: 22 His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.
John 9.23: 23 Therefore his parents said, “He is of age. Ask him.”
John 9.24: 24 So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”
John 9.25: 25 He therefore answered, “I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see.”
John 9.26: 26 They said to him again, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
John 9.27: 27 He answered them, “I told you already, and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t also want to become his disciples, do you?”
John 9.28: 28 They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.
John 9.29: 29 We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don’t know where he comes from.”
John 9.30: 30 The man answered them, “How amazing! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.
John 9.31: 31 We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.
John 9.32: 32 Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind.
John 9.33: 33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”
John 9.34: 34 They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.
John 9.35: 35 Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”
John 9.36: 36 He answered, “Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?”
John 9.37: 37 Jesus said to him, “You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you.”
John 9.38: 38 He said, “Lord, I believe!” and he worshiped him.
John 9.39: 39 Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”
John 9.40: 40 Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”
John 9.41: 41 Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.
John 10.0: 
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John 10.1: 1 “Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber. 
John 10.2: 2 But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 
John 10.3: 3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out. 
John 10.4: 4 Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. 
John 10.5: 5 They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don’t know the voice of strangers.”
John 10.6: 6 Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them.
John 10.7: 7 Jesus therefore said to them again, “Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door. 
John 10.8: 8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them. 
John 10.9: 9 I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture. 
John 10.10: 10 The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly. 
John 10.11: 11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 
John 10.12: 12 He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them. 
John 10.13: 13 The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn’t care for the sheep. 
John 10.14: 14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own; 
John 10.15: 15 even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep. 
John 10.16: 16 I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd. 
John 10.17: 17 Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. 
John 10.18: 18 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.”
John 10.19: 19 Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words.
John 10.20: 20 Many of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?”
John 10.21: 21 Others said, “These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn’t possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?”
John 10.22: 22 It was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem.
John 10.23: 23 It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s porch.
John 10.24: 24 The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, “How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”
John 10.25: 25 Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me. 
John 10.26: 26 But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you. 
John 10.27: 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 
John 10.28: 28 I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. 
John 10.29: 29 My Father who has given them to me is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand. 
John 10.30: 30 I and the Father are one.”
John 10.31: 31 Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.
John 10.32: 32 Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”
John 10.33: 33 The Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God.”
John 10.34: 34 Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’
John 10.35: 35 If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken), 
John 10.36: 36 do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’ 
John 10.37: 37 If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me. 
John 10.38: 38 But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.” 
John 10.39: 39 They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.
John 10.40: 40 He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and he stayed there.
John 10.41: 41 Many came to him. They said, “John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true.”
John 10.42: 42 Many believed in him there.
John 11.0: 
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John 11.1: 1 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.
John 11.2: 2 It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.
John 11.3: 3 The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.”
John 11.4: 4 But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”
John 11.5: 5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
John 11.6: 6 When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was.
John 11.7: 7 Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let’s go into Judea again.”
John 11.8: 8 The disciples asked him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you. Are you going there again?”
John 11.9: 9 Jesus answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world. 
John 11.10: 10 But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.”
John 11.11: 11 He said these things, and after that, he said to them, “Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.”
John 11.12: 12 The disciples therefore said, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”
John 11.13: 13 Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep.
John 11.14: 14 So Jesus said to them plainly then, “Lazarus is dead. 
John 11.15: 15 I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let’s go to him.”
John 11.16: 16 Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s go also, that we may die with him.”
John 11.17: 17 So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already.
John 11.18: 18 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away.
John 11.19: 19 Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.
John 11.20: 20 Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house.
John 11.21: 21 Therefore Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.
John 11.22: 22 Even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.”
John 11.23: 23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”
John 11.24: 24 Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
John 11.25: 25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. 
John 11.26: 26 Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
John 11.27: 27 She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God’s Son, he who comes into the world.”
John 11.28: 28 When she had said this, she went away and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, “The Teacher is here and is calling you.”
John 11.29: 29 When she heard this, she arose quickly and went to him.
John 11.30: 30 Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the place where Martha met him.
John 11.31: 31 Then the Jews who were with her in the house and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.”
John 11.32: 32 Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.”
John 11.33: 33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,
John 11.34: 34 and said, “Where have you laid him?”
They told him, “Lord, come and see.”
John 11.35: 35 Jesus wept.
John 11.36: 36 The Jews therefore said, “See how much affection he had for him!”
John 11.37: 37 Some of them said, “Couldn’t this man, who opened the eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?”
John 11.38: 38 Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.
John 11.39: 39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone.”
Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.”
John 11.40: 40 Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?”
John 11.41: 41 So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, “Father, I thank you that you listened to me. 
John 11.42: 42 I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude standing around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me.” 
John 11.43: 43 When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”
John 11.44: 44 He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth.
Jesus said to them, “Free him, and let him go.”
John 11.45: 45 Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did believed in him.
John 11.46: 46 But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done.
John 11.47: 47 The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.
John 11.48: 48 If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
John 11.49: 49 But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,
John 11.50: 50 nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”
John 11.51: 51 Now he didn’t say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
John 11.52: 52 and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
John 11.53: 53 So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.
John 11.54: 54 Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.
John 11.55: 55 Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.
John 11.56: 56 Then they sought for Jesus and spoke with one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think—that he isn’t coming to the feast at all?”
John 11.57: 57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.
John 12.0: 
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John 12.1: 1 Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
John 12.2: 2 So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him.
John 12.3: 3 Therefore Mary took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed Jesus’s feet and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.
John 12.4: 4 Then Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, one of his disciples, who would betray him, said,
John 12.5: 5 “Why wasn’t this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?”
John 12.6: 6 Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.
John 12.7: 7 But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial. 
John 12.8: 8 For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.”
John 12.9: 9 A large crowd therefore of the Jews learned that he was there, and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
John 12.10: 10 But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,
John 12.11: 11 because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.
John 12.12: 12 On the next day a great multitude had come to the feast. When they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
John 12.13: 13 they took the branches of the palm trees and went out to meet him, and cried out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!”
John 12.14: 14 Jesus, having found a young donkey, sat on it. As it is written,
John 12.15: 15 “Don’t be afraid, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King comes, sitting on a donkey’s colt.”
John 12.16: 16 His disciples didn’t understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.
John 12.17: 17 The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead was testifying about it.
John 12.18: 18 For this cause also the multitude went and met him, because they heard that he had done this sign.
John 12.19: 19 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, “See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him.”
John 12.20: 20 Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast.
John 12.21: 21 These, therefore, came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”
John 12.22: 22 Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn, Andrew came with Philip, and they told Jesus.
John 12.23: 23 Jesus answered them, “The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 
John 12.24: 24 Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit. 
John 12.25: 25 He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life. 
John 12.26: 26 If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
John 12.27: 27 “Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this time?’ But I came to this time for this cause. 
John 12.28: 28 Father, glorify your name!”
Then a voice came out of the sky, saying, “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”
John 12.29: 29 Therefore the multitude who stood by and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said, “An angel has spoken to him.”
John 12.30: 30 Jesus answered, “This voice hasn’t come for my sake, but for your sakes. 
John 12.31: 31 Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out. 
John 12.32: 32 And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”
John 12.33: 33 But he said this, signifying by what kind of death he should die.
John 12.34: 34 The multitude answered him, “We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever. How do you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up?’ Who is this Son of Man?”
John 12.35: 35 Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going. 
John 12.36: 36 While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light.” Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.
John 12.37: 37 But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn’t believe in him,
John 12.38: 38 that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke,
“Lord, who has believed our report?
To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
John 12.39: 39 For this cause they couldn’t believe, for Isaiah said again,
John 12.40: 40 “He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart,
lest they should see with their eyes,
and perceive with their heart,
and would turn,
and I would heal them.”
John 12.41: 41 Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of him. 
John 12.42: 42 Nevertheless even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,
John 12.43: 43 for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.
John 12.44: 44 Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me. 
John 12.45: 45 He who sees me sees him who sent me. 
John 12.46: 46 I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness. 
John 12.47: 47 If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. 
John 12.48: 48 He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke will judge him in the last day. 
John 12.49: 49 For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. 
John 12.50: 50 I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak.”
John 13.0: 
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John 13.1: 1 Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
John 13.2: 2 During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,
John 13.3: 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God, and was going to God,
John 13.4: 4 arose from supper, and laid aside his outer garments. He took a towel and wrapped a towel around his waist.
John 13.5: 5 Then he poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him.
John 13.6: 6 Then he came to Simon Peter. He said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?”
John 13.7: 7 Jesus answered him, “You don’t know what I am doing now, but you will understand later.”
John 13.8: 8 Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet!”
Jesus answered him, “If I don’t wash you, you have no part with me.” 
John 13.9: 9 Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!”
John 13.10: 10 Jesus said to him, “Someone who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed, but is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you.” 
John 13.11: 11 For he knew him who would betray him, therefore he said, “You are not all clean.”
John 13.12: 12 So when he had washed their feet, put his outer garment back on, and sat down again, he said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? 
John 13.13: 13 You call me, ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord.’ You say so correctly, for so I am. 
John 13.14: 14 If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 
John 13.15: 15 For I have given you an example, that you should also do as I have done to you. 
John 13.16: 16 Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither is one who is sent greater than he who sent him. 
John 13.17: 17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. 
John 13.18: 18 I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’
John 13.19: 19 From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when it happens, you may believe that I am he. 
John 13.20: 20 Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me.”
John 13.21: 21 When Jesus had said this, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, “Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me.”
John 13.22: 22 The disciples looked at one another, perplexed about whom he spoke.
John 13.23: 23 One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table, leaning against Jesus’ breast.
John 13.24: 24 Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, and said to him, “Tell us who it is of whom he speaks.”
John 13.25: 25 He, leaning back, as he was, on Jesus’ breast, asked him, “Lord, who is it?”
John 13.26: 26 Jesus therefore answered, “It is he to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it.” So when he had dipped the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.
John 13.27: 27 After the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him.
Then Jesus said to him, “What you do, do quickly.”
John 13.28: 28 Now nobody at the table knew why he said this to him.
John 13.29: 29 For some thought, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus said to him, “Buy what things we need for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor.
John 13.30: 30 Therefore having received that morsel, he went out immediately. It was night.
John 13.31: 31 When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. 
John 13.32: 32 If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him immediately. 
John 13.33: 33 Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come,’ so now I tell you. 
John 13.34: 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another. 
John 13.35: 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
John 13.36: 36 Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?”
Jesus answered, “Where I am going, you can’t follow now, but you will follow afterwards.”
John 13.37: 37 Peter said to him, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”
John 13.38: 38 Jesus answered him, “Will you lay down your life for me? Most certainly I tell you, the rooster won’t crow until you have denied me three times.
John 14.0: 
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John 14.1: 1 “Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. 
John 14.2: 2 In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. 
John 14.3: 3 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also. 
John 14.4: 4 You know where I go, and you know the way.”
John 14.5: 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?”
John 14.6: 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. 
John 14.7: 7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him.”
John 14.8: 8 Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.”
John 14.9: 9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’ 
John 14.10: 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works. 
John 14.11: 11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake. 
John 14.12: 12 Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father. 
John 14.13: 13 Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 
John 14.14: 14 If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it. 
John 14.15: 15 If you love me, keep my commandments. 
John 14.16: 16 I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever:
John 14.17: 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you. 
John 14.18: 18 I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you. 
John 14.19: 19 Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also. 
John 14.20: 20 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. 
John 14.21: 21 One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
John 14.22: 22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?”
John 14.23: 23 Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him. 
John 14.24: 24 He who doesn’t love me doesn’t keep my words. The word which you hear isn’t mine, but the Father’s who sent me. 
John 14.25: 25 I have said these things to you while still living with you. 
John 14.26: 26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you. 
John 14.27: 27 Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful. 
John 14.28: 28 You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I. 
John 14.29: 29 Now I have told you before it happens so that when it happens, you may believe. 
John 14.30: 30 I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me. 
John 14.31: 31 But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let’s go from here.
John 15.0: 
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John 15.1: 1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. 
John 15.2: 2 Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 
John 15.3: 3 You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 
John 15.4: 4 Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. 
John 15.5: 5 I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 
John 15.6: 6 If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned. 
John 15.7: 7 If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
John 15.8: 8 “In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples. 
John 15.9: 9 Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love. 
John 15.10: 10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love. 
John 15.11: 11 I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.
John 15.12: 12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. 
John 15.13: 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 
John 15.14: 14 You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you. 
John 15.15: 15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you. 
John 15.16: 16 You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
John 15.17: 17 “I command these things to you, that you may love one another. 
John 15.18: 18 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. 
John 15.19: 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 
John 15.20: 20 Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. 
John 15.21: 21 But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me. 
John 15.22: 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. 
John 15.23: 23 He who hates me, hates my Father also. 
John 15.24: 24 If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father. 
John 15.25: 25 But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’
John 15.26: 26 “When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me. 
John 15.27: 27 You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.
John 16.0: 
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John 16.1: 1 “I have said these things to you so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble. 
John 16.2: 2 They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God. 
John 16.3: 3 They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me. 
John 16.4: 4 But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you. 
John 16.5: 5 But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ 
John 16.6: 6 But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart. 
John 16.7: 7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. 
John 16.8: 8 When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment; 
John 16.9: 9 about sin, because they don’t believe in me; 
John 16.10: 10 about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won’t see me any more; 
John 16.11: 11 about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged. 
John 16.12: 12 “I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now. 
John 16.13: 13 However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming. 
John 16.14: 14 He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine, and will declare it to you. 
John 16.15: 15 All things that the Father has are mine; therefore I said that he takes of mine and will declare it to you. 
John 16.16: 16 A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”
John 16.17: 17 Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;’ and, ‘Because I go to the Father’?”
John 16.18: 18 They said therefore, “What is this that he says, ‘A little while’? We don’t know what he is saying.”
John 16.19: 19 Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, “Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?’ 
John 16.20: 20 Most certainly I tell you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. 
John 16.21: 21 A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world. 
John 16.22: 22 Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
John 16.23: 23 “In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. 
John 16.24: 24 Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full. 
John 16.25: 25 I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father. 
John 16.26: 26 In that day you will ask in my name; and I don’t say to you that I will pray to the Father for you, 
John 16.27: 27 for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God. 
John 16.28: 28 I came from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.”
John 16.29: 29 His disciples said to him, “Behold, now you are speaking plainly, and using no figures of speech.
John 16.30: 30 Now we know that you know all things, and don’t need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came from God.”
John 16.31: 31 Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe? 
John 16.32: 32 Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. 
John 16.33: 33 I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.” 
John 17.0: 
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John 17.1: 1 Jesus said these things, then lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you; 
John 17.2: 2 even as you gave him authority over all flesh, so he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him. 
John 17.3: 3 This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ. 
John 17.4: 4 I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do. 
John 17.5: 5 Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed. 
John 17.6: 6 I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word. 
John 17.7: 7 Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from you, 
John 17.8: 8 for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me. 
John 17.9: 9 I pray for them. I don’t pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. 
John 17.10: 10 All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. 
John 17.11: 11 I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are. 
John 17.12: 12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. 
John 17.13: 13 But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves. 
John 17.14: 14 I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 
John 17.15: 15 I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one. 
John 17.16: 16 They are not of the world even as I am not of the world. 
John 17.17: 17 Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.
John 17.18: 18 As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world. 
John 17.19: 19 For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. 
John 17.20: 20 Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who will believe in me through their word, 
John 17.21: 21 that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me. 
John 17.22: 22 The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one; 
John 17.23: 23 I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me. 
John 17.24: 24 Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world. 
John 17.25: 25 Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me. 
John 17.26: 26 I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
John 18.0: 
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John 18.1: 1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered.
John 18.2: 2 Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples.
John 18.3: 3 Judas then, having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.
John 18.4: 4 Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were happening to him, went out, and said to them, “Who are you looking for?”
John 18.5: 5 They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.”
Jesus said to them, “I am he.”
Judas also, who betrayed him, was standing with them.
John 18.6: 6 When therefore he said to them, “I am he,” they went backward, and fell to the ground.
John 18.7: 7 Again therefore he asked them, “Who are you looking for?”
They said, “Jesus of Nazareth.”
John 18.8: 8 Jesus answered, “I told you that I am he. If therefore you seek me, let these go their way,”
John 18.9: 9 that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, “Of those whom you have given me, I have lost none.”
John 18.10: 10 Simon Peter therefore, having a sword, drew it, struck the high priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus.
John 18.11: 11 Jesus therefore said to Peter, “Put the sword into its sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?”
John 18.12: 12 So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him,
John 18.13: 13 and led him to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.
John 18.14: 14 Now it was Caiaphas who advised the Jews that it was expedient that one man should perish for the people.
John 18.15: 15 Simon Peter followed Jesus, as did another disciple. Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and entered in with Jesus into the court of the high priest;
John 18.16: 16 but Peter was standing at the door outside. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to her who kept the door, and brought in Peter.
John 18.17: 17 Then the maid who kept the door said to Peter, “Are you also one of this man’s disciples?”
He said, “I am not.”
John 18.18: 18 Now the servants and the officers were standing there, having made a fire of coals, for it was cold. They were warming themselves. Peter was with them, standing and warming himself.
John 18.19: 19 The high priest therefore asked Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.
John 18.20: 20 Jesus answered him, “I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret. 
John 18.21: 21 Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, they know the things which I said.”
John 18.22: 22 When he had said this, one of the officers standing by slapped Jesus with his hand, saying, “Do you answer the high priest like that?”
John 18.23: 23 Jesus answered him, “If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil; but if well, why do you beat me?”
John 18.24: 24 Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, the high priest.
John 18.25: 25 Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him, “You aren’t also one of his disciples, are you?”
He denied it and said, “I am not.”
John 18.26: 26 One of the servants of the high priest, being a relative of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said, “Didn’t I see you in the garden with him?”
John 18.27: 27 Peter therefore denied it again, and immediately the rooster crowed.
John 18.28: 28 They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.
John 18.29: 29 Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?”
John 18.30: 30 They answered him, “If this man weren’t an evildoer, we wouldn’t have delivered him up to you.”
John 18.31: 31 Pilate therefore said to them, “Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law.”
Therefore the Jews said to him, “It is illegal for us to put anyone to death,”
John 18.32: 32 that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he should die.
John 18.33: 33 Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”
John 18.34: 34 Jesus answered him, “Do you say this by yourself, or did others tell you about me?”
John 18.35: 35 Pilate answered, “I’m not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me. What have you done?”
John 18.36: 36 Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here.”
John 18.37: 37 Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?”
Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
John 18.38: 38 Pilate said to him, “What is truth?”
When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, “I find no basis for a charge against him.
John 18.39: 39 But you have a custom, that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Therefore, do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”
John 18.40: 40 Then they all shouted again, saying, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.
John 19.0: 
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John 19.1: 1 So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged him.
John 19.2: 2 The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown, and put it on his head, and dressed him in a purple garment.
John 19.3: 3 They kept saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and they kept slapping him.
John 19.4: 4 Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, “Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”
John 19.5: 5 Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, “Behold, the man!”
John 19.6: 6 When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify!”
Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him.”
John 19.7: 7 The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.”
John 19.8: 8 When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.
John 19.9: 9 He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.
John 19.10: 10 Pilate therefore said to him, “Aren’t you speaking to me? Don’t you know that I have power to release you and have power to crucify you?”
John 19.11: 11 Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”
John 19.12: 12 At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, “If you release this man, you aren’t Caesar’s friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!”
John 19.13: 13 When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called “The Pavement”, but in Hebrew, “Gabbatha.”
John 19.14: 14 Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold, your King!”
John 19.15: 15 They cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!”
Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?”
The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”
John 19.16: 16 So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away.
John 19.17: 17 He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called “The Place of a Skull”, which is called in Hebrew, “Golgotha”,
John 19.18: 18 where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Jesus in the middle.
John 19.19: 19 Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, “JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
John 19.20: 20 Therefore many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.
John 19.21: 21 The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, “Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but, ‘he said, “I am King of the Jews.”’”
John 19.22: 22 Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”
John 19.23: 23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
John 19.24: 24 Then they said to one another, “Let’s not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be,” that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says,
“They parted my garments among them.
For my cloak they cast lots.”
Therefore the soldiers did these things.
John 19.25: 25 But standing by Jesus’ cross were his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
John 19.26: 26 Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” 
John 19.27: 27 Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.
John 19.28: 28 After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty.”
John 19.29: 29 Now a vessel full of vinegar was set there; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth.
John 19.30: 30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished.” He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.
John 19.31: 31 Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn’t remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
John 19.32: 32 Therefore the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with him;
John 19.33: 33 but when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead, they didn’t break his legs.
John 19.34: 34 However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.
John 19.35: 35 He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe.
John 19.36: 36 For these things happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled, “A bone of him will not be broken.”
John 19.37: 37 Again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they pierced.”
John 19.38: 38 After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus’ body. Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore and took away his body.
John 19.39: 39 Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds.
John 19.40: 40 So they took Jesus’ body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.
John 19.41: 41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden. In the garden was a new tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid.
John 19.42: 42 Then because of the Jews’ Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand) they laid Jesus there.
John 20.0: 
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John 20.1: 1 Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.
John 20.2: 2 Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have laid him!”
John 20.3: 3 Therefore Peter and the other disciple went out, and they went toward the tomb.
John 20.4: 4 They both ran together. The other disciple outran Peter, and came to the tomb first.
John 20.5: 5 Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying, yet he didn’t enter in.
John 20.6: 6 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and entered into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying,
John 20.7: 7 and the cloth that had been on his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself.
John 20.8: 8 So then the other disciple who came first to the tomb also entered in, and he saw and believed.
John 20.9: 9 For as yet they didn’t know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
John 20.10: 10 So the disciples went away again to their own homes.
John 20.11: 11 But Mary was standing outside at the tomb weeping. So as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb,
John 20.12: 12 and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
John 20.13: 13 They asked her, “Woman, why are you weeping?”
She said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I don’t know where they have laid him.”
John 20.14: 14 When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, and didn’t know that it was Jesus.
John 20.15: 15 Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?”
She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.”
John 20.16: 16 Jesus said to her, “Mary.”
She turned and said to him, “Rabboni!” which is to say, “Teacher!”
John 20.17: 17 Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
John 20.18: 18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her.
John 20.19: 19 When therefore it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”
John 20.20: 20 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad when they saw the Lord.
John 20.21: 21 Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”
John 20.22: 22 When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit! 
John 20.23: 23 If you forgive anyone’s sins, they have been forgiven them. If you retain anyone’s sins, they have been retained.”
John 20.24: 24 But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, wasn’t with them when Jesus came.
John 20.25: 25 The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord!”
But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”
John 20.26: 26 After eight days again his disciples were inside and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the middle, and said, “Peace be to you.”
John 20.27: 27 Then he said to Thomas, “Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don’t be unbelieving, but believing.”
John 20.28: 28 Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”
John 20.29: 29 Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed.”
John 20.30: 30 Therefore Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book;
John 20.31: 31 but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
John 21.0: 
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John 21.1: 1 After these things, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. He revealed himself this way.
John 21.2: 2 Simon Peter, Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together.
John 21.3: 3 Simon Peter said to them, “I’m going fishing.”
They told him, “We are also coming with you.” They immediately went out, and entered into the boat. That night, they caught nothing.
John 21.4: 4 But when day had already come, Jesus stood on the beach, yet the disciples didn’t know that it was Jesus.
John 21.5: 5 Jesus therefore said to them, “Children, have you anything to eat?” 
They answered him, “No.”
John 21.6: 6 He said to them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.”
They cast it therefore, and now they weren’t able to draw it in for the multitude of fish.
John 21.7: 7 That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It’s the Lord!”
So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he wrapped his coat around himself (for he was naked), and threw himself into the sea.
John 21.8: 8 But the other disciples came in the little boat (for they were not far from the land, but about two hundred cubits away), dragging the net full of fish.
John 21.9: 9 So when they got out on the land, they saw a fire of coals there, with fish and bread laid on it.
John 21.10: 10 Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish which you have just caught.”
John 21.11: 11 Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land, full of one hundred fifty-three great fish. Even though there were so many, the net wasn’t torn.
John 21.12: 12 Jesus said to them, “Come and eat breakfast!”
None of the disciples dared inquire of him, “Who are you?” knowing that it was the Lord.
John 21.13: 13 Then Jesus came and took the bread, gave it to them, and the fish likewise.
John 21.14: 14 This is now the third time that Jesus was revealed to his disciples after he had risen from the dead.
John 21.15: 15 So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?”
He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.”
He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”
John 21.16: 16 He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?”
He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.”
He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”
John 21.17: 17 He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?”
Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.”
Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep. 
John 21.18: 18 Most certainly I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself and walked where you wanted to. But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you don’t want to go.”
John 21.19: 19 Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.”
John 21.20: 20 Then Peter, turning around, saw a disciple following. This was the disciple whom Jesus loved, the one who had also leaned on Jesus’ breast at the supper and asked, “Lord, who is going to betray you?”
John 21.21: 21 Peter seeing him, said to Jesus, “Lord, what about this man?”
John 21.22: 22 Jesus said to him, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you? You follow me.”
John 21.23: 23 This saying therefore went out among the brothers, that this disciple wouldn’t die. Yet Jesus didn’t say to him that he wouldn’t die, but, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?”
John 21.24: 24 This is the disciple who testifies about these things, and wrote these things. We know that his witness is true.
John 21.25: 25 There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself wouldn’t have room for the books that would be written.
Acts 5.0: 
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Acts 5.1: 1 But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession,
Acts 5.2: 2 and kept back part of the price, his wife also being aware of it, then brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
Acts 5.3: 3 But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the price of the land?
Acts 5.4: 4 While you kept it, didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn’t it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven’t lied to men, but to God.”
Acts 5.5: 5 Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and died. Great fear came on all who heard these things.
Acts 5.6: 6 The young men arose and wrapped him up, and they carried him out and buried him.
Acts 5.7: 7 About three hours later, his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in.
Acts 5.8: 8 Peter answered her, “Tell me whether you sold the land for so much.”
She said, “Yes, for so much.”
Acts 5.9: 9 But Peter asked her, “How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”
Acts 5.10: 10 She fell down immediately at his feet and died. The young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her by her husband.
Acts 5.11: 11 Great fear came on the whole assembly, and on all who heard these things.
Acts 5.12: 12 By the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. They were all with one accord in Solomon’s porch.
Acts 5.13: 13 None of the rest dared to join them, however the people honored them.
Acts 5.14: 14 More believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women.
Acts 5.15: 15 They even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on cots and mattresses, so that as Peter came by, at the least his shadow might overshadow some of them.
Acts 5.16: 16 The multitude also came together from the cities around Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits: and they were all healed.
Acts 5.17: 17 But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy
Acts 5.18: 18 and laid hands on the apostles, then put them in public custody.
Acts 5.19: 19 But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, and brought them out and said,
Acts 5.20: 20 “Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.”
Acts 5.21: 21 When they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak and taught. But the high priest came, and those who were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.
Acts 5.22: 22 But the officers who came didn’t find them in the prison. They returned and reported,
Acts 5.23: 23 “We found the prison shut and locked, and the guards standing before the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside!”
Acts 5.24: 24 Now when the high priest, the captain of the temple, and the chief priests heard these words, they were very perplexed about them and what might become of this.
Acts 5.25: 25 One came and told them, “Behold, the men whom you put in prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people.”
Acts 5.26: 26 Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them.
Acts 5.27: 27 When they had brought them, they set them before the council. The high priest questioned them,
Acts 5.28: 28 saying, “Didn’t we strictly command you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man’s blood on us.”
Acts 5.29: 29 But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
Acts 5.30: 30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.
Acts 5.31: 31 God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.
Acts 5.32: 32 We are his witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”
Acts 5.33: 33 But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were determined to kill them.
Acts 5.34: 34 But one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honored by all the people, and commanded to put the apostles out for a little while.
Acts 5.35: 35 He said to them, “You men of Israel, be careful concerning these men, what you are about to do.
Acts 5.36: 36 For before these days Theudas rose up, making himself out to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves. He was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed, and came to nothing.
Acts 5.37: 37 After this man, Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of the enrollment, and drew away some people after him. He also perished, and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered abroad.
Acts 5.38: 38 Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown.
Acts 5.39: 39 But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!”
Acts 5.40: 40 They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
Acts 5.41: 41 They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name.
Acts 5.42: 42 Every day, in the temple and at home, they never stopped teaching and preaching Jesus, the Christ.
Acts 12.0: 
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Acts 12.1: 1 Now about that time, King Herod stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly.
Acts 12.2: 2 He killed James, the brother of John, with the sword.
Acts 12.3: 3 When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This was during the days of unleavened bread.
Acts 12.4: 4 When he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.
Acts 12.5: 5 Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.
Acts 12.6: 6 The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.
Acts 12.7: 7 And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side, and woke him up, saying, “Stand up quickly!” His chains fell off his hands.
Acts 12.8: 8 The angel said to him, “Get dressed and put on your sandals.” He did so. He said to him, “Put on your cloak and follow me.”
Acts 12.9: 9 And he went out and followed him. He didn’t know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he saw a vision.
Acts 12.10: 10 When they were past the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by itself. They went out, and went down one street, and immediately the angel departed from him.
Acts 12.11: 11 When Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting.”
Acts 12.12: 12 Thinking about that, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was called Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying.
Acts 12.13: 13 When Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer.
Acts 12.14: 14 When she recognized Peter’s voice, she didn’t open the gate for joy, but ran in, and reported that Peter was standing in front of the gate.
Acts 12.15: 15 They said to her, “You are crazy!” But she insisted that it was so. They said, “It is his angel.”
Acts 12.16: 16 But Peter continued knocking. When they had opened, they saw him, and were amazed.
Acts 12.17: 17 But he, beckoning to them with his hand to be silent, declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He said, “Tell these things to James and to the brothers.” Then he departed and went to another place.
Acts 12.18: 18 Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers about what had become of Peter.
Acts 12.19: 19 When Herod had sought for him, and didn’t find him, he examined the guards, then commanded that they should be put to death. He went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there.
Acts 12.20: 20 Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. They came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus, the king’s personal aide, their friend, they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king’s country for food.
Acts 12.21: 21 On an appointed day, Herod dressed himself in royal clothing, sat on the throne, and gave a speech to them.
Acts 12.22: 22 The people shouted, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!”
Acts 12.23: 23 Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory. Then he was eaten by worms and died.
Acts 12.24: 24 But the word of God grew and multiplied.
Acts 12.25: 25 Barnabas and Saul returned to Jerusalem when they had fulfilled their service, also taking with them John who was called Mark.
Acts 17.0: 
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Acts 17.1: 1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
Acts 17.2: 2 Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
Acts 17.3: 3 explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”
Acts 17.4: 4 Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.
Acts 17.5: 5 But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.
Acts 17.6: 6 When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,
Acts 17.7: 7 whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!”
Acts 17.8: 8 The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.
Acts 17.9: 9 When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.
Acts 17.10: 10 The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
Acts 17.11: 11 Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
Acts 17.12: 12 Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.
Acts 17.13: 13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes.
Acts 17.14: 14 Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.
Acts 17.15: 15 But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.
Acts 17.16: 16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.
Acts 17.17: 17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.
Acts 17.18: 18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?”
Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
Acts 17.19: 19 They took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is, which you are speaking about?
Acts 17.20: 20 For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”
Acts 17.21: 21 Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
Acts 17.22: 22 Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.
Acts 17.23: 23 For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, I announce to you.
Acts 17.24: 24 The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands.
Acts 17.25: 25 He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.
Acts 17.26: 26 He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,
Acts 17.27: 27 that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
Acts 17.28: 28 ‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’
Acts 17.29: 29 Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.
Acts 17.30: 30 The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
Acts 17.31: 31 because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”
Acts 17.32: 32 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”
Acts 17.33: 33 Thus Paul went out from among them.
Acts 17.34: 34 But certain men joined with him and believed, among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
Acts 21.0: 
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Acts 21.1: 1 When we had departed from them and had set sail, we came with a straight course to Cos, and the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.
Acts 21.2: 2 Having found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we went aboard, and set sail.
Acts 21.3: 3 When we had come in sight of Cyprus, leaving it on the left hand, we sailed to Syria and landed at Tyre, for the ship was there to unload her cargo.
Acts 21.4: 4 Having found disciples, we stayed there seven days. These said to Paul through the Spirit that he should not go up to Jerusalem.
Acts 21.5: 5 When those days were over, we departed and went on our journey. They all, with wives and children, brought us on our way until we were out of the city. Kneeling down on the beach, we prayed.
Acts 21.6: 6 After saying goodbye to each other, we went on board the ship, and they returned home again.
Acts 21.7: 7 When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais. We greeted the brothers and stayed with them one day.
Acts 21.8: 8 On the next day, we who were Paul’s companions departed, and came to Caesarea.
We entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.
Acts 21.9: 9 Now this man had four virgin daughters who prophesied.
Acts 21.10: 10 As we stayed there some days, a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.
Acts 21.11: 11 Coming to us and taking Paul’s belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, “The Holy Spirit says: ‘So the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’”
Acts 21.12: 12 When we heard these things, both we and the people of that place begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.
Acts 21.13: 13 Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”
Acts 21.14: 14 When he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, “The Lord’s will be done.”
Acts 21.15: 15 After these days we took up our baggage and went up to Jerusalem.
Acts 21.16: 16 Some of the disciples from Caesarea also went with us, bringing one Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we would stay.
Acts 21.17: 17 When we had come to Jerusalem, the brothers received us gladly.
Acts 21.18: 18 The day following, Paul went in with us to James; and all the elders were present.
Acts 21.19: 19 When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.
Acts 21.20: 20 They, when they heard it, glorified God. They said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.
Acts 21.21: 21 They have been informed about you, that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children and not to walk after the customs.
Acts 21.22: 22 What then? The assembly must certainly meet, for they will hear that you have come.
Acts 21.23: 23 Therefore do what we tell you. We have four men who have taken a vow.
Acts 21.24: 24 Take them and purify yourself with them, and pay their expenses for them, that they may shave their heads. Then all will know that there is no truth in the things that they have been informed about you, but that you yourself also walk keeping the law.
Acts 21.25: 25 But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality.”
Acts 21.26: 26 Then Paul took the men, and the next day purified himself and went with them into the temple, declaring the fulfillment of the days of purification, until the offering was offered for every one of them.
Acts 21.27: 27 When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude and laid hands on him,
Acts 21.28: 28 crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!”
Acts 21.29: 29 For they had seen Trophimus, the Ephesian, with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.
Acts 21.30: 30 All the city was moved and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut.
Acts 21.31: 31 As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.
Acts 21.32: 32 Immediately he took soldiers and centurions and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul.
Acts 21.33: 33 Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had done.
Acts 21.34: 34 Some shouted one thing, and some another, among the crowd. When he couldn’t find out the truth because of the noise, he commanded him to be brought into the barracks.
Acts 21.35: 35 When he came to the stairs, he was carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd;
Acts 21.36: 36 for the multitude of the people followed after, crying out, “Away with him!”
Acts 21.37: 37 As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he asked the commanding officer, “May I speak to you?”
He said, “Do you know Greek?
Acts 21.38: 38 Aren’t you then the Egyptian, who before these days stirred up to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the Assassins?”
Acts 21.39: 39 But Paul said, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you, allow me to speak to the people.”
Acts 21.40: 40 When he had given him permission, Paul, standing on the stairs, beckoned with his hand to the people. When there was a great silence, he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, saying,
Hebrews 10.0: 
10
Hebrews 10.1: 1 For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.
Hebrews 10.2: 2 Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?
Hebrews 10.3: 3 But in those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of sins.
Hebrews 10.4: 4 For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
Hebrews 10.5: 5 Therefore when he comes into the world, he says,
“You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering,
but you prepared a body for me.
Hebrews 10.6: 6 You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.
Hebrews 10.7: 7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me)
to do your will, O God.’”
Hebrews 10.8: 8 Previously saying, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn’t desire, neither had pleasure in them” (those which are offered according to the law),
Hebrews 10.9: 9 then he has said, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,
Hebrews 10.10: 10 by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Hebrews 10.11: 11 Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and often offering the same sacrifices which can never take away sins,
Hebrews 10.12: 12 but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God,
Hebrews 10.13: 13 from that time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet.
Hebrews 10.14: 14 For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
Hebrews 10.15: 15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,
Hebrews 10.16: 16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them:
‘After those days,’ says the Lord,
‘I will put my laws on their heart,
I will also write them on their mind;’”
then he says,
Hebrews 10.17: 17 “I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more.”
Hebrews 10.18: 18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
Hebrews 10.19: 19 Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,
Hebrews 10.20: 20 by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh,
Hebrews 10.21: 21 and having a great priest over God’s house,
Hebrews 10.22: 22 let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,
Hebrews 10.23: 23 let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.
Hebrews 10.24: 24 Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,
Hebrews 10.25: 25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
Hebrews 10.26: 26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,
Hebrews 10.27: 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.
Hebrews 10.28: 28 A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.
Hebrews 10.29: 29 How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
Hebrews 10.30: 30 For we know him who said, “Vengeance belongs to me;” says the Lord, “I will repay.” Again, “The Lord will judge his people.”
Hebrews 10.31: 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Hebrews 10.32: 32 But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;
Hebrews 10.33: 33 partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.
Hebrews 10.34: 34 For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.
Hebrews 10.35: 35 Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.
Hebrews 10.36: 36 For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
Hebrews 10.37: 37 “In a very little while,
he who comes will come, and will not wait.
Hebrews 10.38: 38 But the righteous will live by faith.
If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
Hebrews 10.39: 39 But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
Hebrews 13.0: 
13
Hebrews 13.1: 1 Let brotherly love continue.
Hebrews 13.2: 2 Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.
Hebrews 13.3: 3 Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.
Hebrews 13.4: 4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Hebrews 13.5: 5 Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”
Hebrews 13.6: 6 So that with good courage we say,
“The Lord is my helper. I will not fear.
What can man do to me?”
Hebrews 13.7: 7 Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.
Hebrews 13.8: 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Hebrews 13.9: 9 Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.
Hebrews 13.10: 10 We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat.
Hebrews 13.11: 11 For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned outside of the camp.
Hebrews 13.12: 12 Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.
Hebrews 13.13: 13 Let’s therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.
Hebrews 13.14: 14 For we don’t have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.
Hebrews 13.15: 15 Through him, then, let’s offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.
Hebrews 13.16: 16 But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Hebrews 13.17: 17 Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.
Hebrews 13.18: 18 Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.
Hebrews 13.19: 19 I strongly urge you to do this, that I may be restored to you sooner.
Hebrews 13.20: 20 Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,
Hebrews 13.21: 21 make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
Hebrews 13.22: 22 But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation; for I have written to you in few words.
Hebrews 13.23: 23 Know that our brother Timothy has been freed, with whom, if he comes shortly, I will see you.
Hebrews 13.24: 24 Greet all of your leaders and all the saints. The Italians greet you.
Hebrews 13.25: 25 Grace be with you all. Amen.
Esther (Greek) 0.0: 
ESTHER
translated from the Greek Septuagint
Introduction
The book of Esther in the Greek Septuagint contains 5 additions that the traditional Hebrew text doesn’t have. These additions are recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Russian Orthodox Churches. Those additions are enclosed in [square brackets]. Because the additions by themselves make little sense without the broader context of the book, we present here a translation of the whole book of Esther from the Greek.
We have chosen not to distract the reader with confusing out-of-order chapter numbers that would result from using the KJV versification, but rather merge these 5 additions as extensions at the beginning of 1:1 and after 3:13, 4:17, 8:12, and 10:3. This makes some verses (1:1, 5:1, and 8:12) really long, but it also makes the verses line up with the same verse numbers in Esther as translated from the traditional Hebrew text. Some of the proper names in this book have been changed to the more familiar Hebrew form instead of the direct transliteration from the Greek.
Esther (Greek) 1.0: 
1
Esther (Greek) 1.1: 1 [In the second year of the reign of Ahasuerus the great king, on the first day of Nisan, Mordecai the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Jew dwelling in the city Susa, a great man, serving in the king’s palace, saw a vision. Now he was of the captivity which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried captive from Jerusalem, with Jeconiah the king of Judea. This was his dream: Behold, voices and a noise, thunders and earthquake, tumult upon the earth. And, behold, two great serpents came out, both ready for conflict. A great voice came from them. Every nation was prepared for battle by their voice, even to fight against the nation of the just. Behold, a day of darkness and blackness, suffering and anguish, affection and tumult upon the earth. And all the righteous nation was troubled, fearing their own afflictions. They prepared to die, and cried to God. Something like a great river from a little spring with much water, came from their cry. Light and the sun arose, and the lowly were exalted, and devoured the honorable.
Mordecai, who had seen this vision and what God desired to do, having arisen, kept it in his heart, and desired by all means to interpret it, even until night.
Mordecai rested quietly in the palace with Gabatha and Tharrha the king’s two chamberlains, eunuchs who guarded the palace. He heard their conversation and searched out their plans. He learned that they were preparing to lay hands on king Ahasuerus; and he informed the king concerning them. The king examined the two chamberlains. They confessed, and were led away and executed. The king wrote these things for a record. Mordecai also wrote concerning these matters. The king commanded Mordecai to serve in the palace, and gave gifts for this service. But Haman the son of Hammedatha the Bougean was honored in the sight of the king, and he endeavored to harm Mordecai and his people, because of the king’s two chamberlains.] And it came to pass after these things in the days of Ahasuerus, —(this Ahasuerus ruled over one hundred twenty-seven provinces from India)—
Esther (Greek) 1.2: 2 in those days, when king Ahasuerus was on the throne in the city of Susa.
Esther (Greek) 1.3: 3 In the third year of his reign, he made a feast for his friends, and the other nations, and for the nobles of the Persians and Medes, and the chief of the local governors.
Esther (Greek) 1.4: 4 After this, after he had shown them the wealth of his kingdom and the abundant glory of his wealth during one hundred eighty days,
Esther (Greek) 1.5: 5 when the days of the wedding feast were completed, the king made a banquet for the people of the nations who were present in the city for six days, in the court of the king’s house,
Esther (Greek) 1.6: 6 which was adorned with fine linen and flax on cords of fine linen and purple, fastened to golden and silver studs, on pillars of white marble and stone. There were golden and silver couches on a pavement of emerald stone, and of pearl, and of white marble, with transparent coverings variously flowered, having roses worked around it.
Esther (Greek) 1.7: 7 There were gold and silver cups, and a small cup of carbuncle set out of the value of thirty thousand talents, with abundant and sweet wine, which the king himself drank.
Esther (Greek) 1.8: 8 This banquet was not according to the appointed law; but as the king desired to have it. He charged the stewards to perform his will and that of the company.
Esther (Greek) 1.9: 9 Also Vashti the queen made a banquet for the women in the palace where king Ahasuerus lived.
Esther (Greek) 1.10: 10 Now on the seventh day, the king, being merry, told Haman, Bazan, Tharrha, Baraze, Zatholtha, Abataza, and Tharaba, the seven chamberlains, servants of king Ahasuerus,
Esther (Greek) 1.11: 11 to bring in the queen to him, to enthrone her, and crown her with the diadem, and to show her to the princes, and her beauty to the nations: for she was beautiful.
Esther (Greek) 1.12: 12 But queen Vashti didn’t listen to him to come with the chamberlains; so the king was grieved and angered.
Esther (Greek) 1.13: 13 And he said to his friends, “This is what Vashti said. Therefore pronounce your legal judgement on this case.”
Esther (Greek) 1.14: 14 So Arkesaeus, Sarsathaeus, and Malisear, the princes of the Persians and Medes, who were near the king, who sat chief in rank by the king, drew near to him,
Esther (Greek) 1.15: 15 and reported to him according to the laws what it was proper to do to queen Vashti, because she had not done the things commanded by the king through the chamberlains.
Esther (Greek) 1.16: 16 And Memucan said to the king and to the princes, “Queen Vashti has not wronged the king only, but also all the king’s rulers and princes:
Esther (Greek) 1.17: 17 for he has told them the words of the queen, and how she disobeyed the king. As she then refused to obey king Ahasuerus,
Esther (Greek) 1.18: 18 so this day the other wives of the chiefs of the Persians and Medes, having heard what she said to the king, will dare in the same way to dishonor their husbands.
Esther (Greek) 1.19: 19 If then it seems good to the king, let him make a royal decree, and let it be written according to the laws of the Medes and Persians, and let him not alter it: ‘Don’t allow the queen to come in to him any more. Let the king give her royalty to a woman better than she.’
Esther (Greek) 1.20: 20 Let the law of the king which he will have made be widely proclaimed in his kingdom. Then all the women will give honor to their husbands, from the poor even to the rich.”
Esther (Greek) 1.21: 21 This advice pleased the king and the princes; and the king did as Memucan had said,
Esther (Greek) 1.22: 22 and sent into all his kingdom through the several provinces, according to their language, so that men might be feared in their own houses.
Esther (Greek) 2.0: 
2
Esther (Greek) 2.1: 1 After this, the king’s anger was pacified, and he no more mentioned Vashti, bearing in mind what she had said, and how he had condemned her.
Esther (Greek) 2.2: 2 Then the servants of the king said, “Let chaste, beautiful young virgins be sought for the king.
Esther (Greek) 2.3: 3 Let the king appoint local governors in all the provinces of his kingdom, and let them select fair, chaste young ladies and bring them to the city Susa, into the women’s apartment. Let them be consigned to the king’s chamberlain, the keeper of the women. Then let things for purification and other needs be given to them.
Esther (Greek) 2.4: 4 Let the woman who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.”
This thing pleased the king; and he did so.
Esther (Greek) 2.5: 5 Now there was a Jew in the city Susa, and his name was Mordecai, the son of Jairus, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin.
Esther (Greek) 2.6: 6 He had been brought as a prisoner from Jerusalem, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried into captivity.
Esther (Greek) 2.7: 7 He had a foster child, daughter of Aminadab his father’s brother. Her name was Esther. When her parents died, he brought her up to womanhood as his own. This lady was beautiful.
Esther (Greek) 2.8: 8 And because the king’s ordinance was published, many ladies were gathered to the city of Susa under the hand of Hegai; and Esther was brought to Hegai, the keeper of the women.
Esther (Greek) 2.9: 9 The lady pleased him, and she found favor in his sight. He hurried to give her the things for purification, her portion, and the seven maidens appointed her out of the palace. He treated her and her maidens well in the women’s apartment.
Esther (Greek) 2.10: 10 But Esther didn’t reveal her family or her kindred; for Mordecai had charged her not to tell.
Esther (Greek) 2.11: 11 But Mordecai used to walk every day by the women’s court, to see what would become of Esther.
Esther (Greek) 2.12: 12 Now this was the time for a virgin to go into the king, when she should have fulfilled twelve months; for so are the days of purification fulfilled, six months while they are anointing themselves with oil of myrrh, and six months with spices and women’s purifications.
Esther (Greek) 2.13: 13 And then the lady goes in to the king. The officer that he commands to do so will bring her to come in with him from the women’s apartment to the king’s chamber.
Esther (Greek) 2.14: 14 She enters in the evening, and in the morning she departs to the second women’s apartment, where Hegai the king’s chamberlain is keeper of the women. She doesn’t go in to the king again, unless she is called by name.
Esther (Greek) 2.15: 15 And when the time was fulfilled for Esther the daughter of Aminadab the brother of Mordecai’s father to go in to the king, she neglected nothing which the chamberlain, the women’s keeper, commanded; for Esther found grace in the sight of all who looked at her.
Esther (Greek) 2.16: 16 So Esther went in to king Ahasuerus in the twelfth month, which is Adar, in the seventh year of his reign.
Esther (Greek) 2.17: 17 The king loved Esther, and she found favor beyond all the other virgins. He put the queen’s crown on her.
Esther (Greek) 2.18: 18 The king made a banquet for all his friends and great men for seven days, and he highly celebrated the marriage of Esther; and he granted a remission of taxes to those who were under his dominion.
Esther (Greek) 2.19: 19 Meanwhile, Mordecai served in the palace.
Esther (Greek) 2.20: 20 Now Esther had not revealed her kindred; for so Mordecai commanded her, to fear God, and perform his commandments, as when she was with him. Esther didn’t change her manner of life.
Esther (Greek) 2.21: 21 Two chamberlains of the king, the chiefs of the body-guard, were grieved, because Mordecai was promoted; and they sought to kill king Ahasuerus.
Esther (Greek) 2.22: 22 And the matter was discovered by Mordecai, and he made it known to Esther, and she declared to the king the matter of the conspiracy.
Esther (Greek) 2.23: 23 And the king examined the two chamberlains, and hanged them. Then the king gave orders to make a note for a memorial in the royal records of the good offices of Mordecai, as a commendation.
Esther (Greek) 3.0: 
3
Esther (Greek) 3.1: 1 After this, king Ahasuerus highly honored Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Bugaean. He exalted him and set his seat above all his friends.
Esther (Greek) 3.2: 2 All in the palace bowed down to him, for so the king had given orders to do; but Mordecai didn’t bow down to him.
Esther (Greek) 3.3: 3 And they in the king’s palace said to Mordecai, “Mordecai, why do you transgress the commands of the king?”
Esther (Greek) 3.4: 4 They questioned him daily, but he didn’t listen to them; so they reported to Haman that Mordecai resisted the commands of the king; and Mordecai had shown to them that he was a Jew.
Esther (Greek) 3.5: 5 When Haman understood that Mordecai didn’t bow down to him, he was greatly enraged,
Esther (Greek) 3.6: 6 and took counsel to utterly destroy all the Jews who were under the rule of Ahasuerus.
Esther (Greek) 3.7: 7 In the twelfth year of the reign of Ahasuerusin the twelfth year of the reign of Ahasuerus, he made a decision by casting lots by day and month, to kill the race of Mordecai in one day. The lot fell on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar.
Esther (Greek) 3.8: 8 So he spoke to king Ahasuerus, saying, “There is a nation scattered among the nations in all your kingdom, and their laws differ from all the other nations. They disobey the king’s laws. It is not expedient for the king to tolerate them.
Esther (Greek) 3.9: 9 If it seem good to the king, let him make a decree to destroy them, and I will remit into the king’s treasury ten thousand talents of silver.”
Esther (Greek) 3.10: 10 So the king took off his ring, and gave it into the hands of Haman, to seal the decrees against the Jews.
Esther (Greek) 3.11: 11 The king said to Haman, “Keep the silver, and treat the nation as you will.”
Esther (Greek) 3.12: 12 So the king’s recorders were called in the first month, on the thirteenth day, and they wrote as Haman commanded to the captains and governors in every province, from India even to Ethiopia, to one hundred twenty-seven provinces; and to the rulers of the nations according to their languages, in the name of king Ahasuerus.
Esther (Greek) 3.13: 13 The message was sent by couriers throughout the kingdom of Ahasuerus, to utterly destroy the race of the Jews on the first day of the twelfth month, which is Adar, and to plunder their goods. [The following is the copy of the letter. “From the great king Ahasuerus to the rulers and the governors under them of one hundred twenty-seven provinces, from India even to Ethiopia, who hold authority under him:
“Ruling over many nations and having obtained dominion over the whole world, I was determined (not elated by the confidence of power, but ever conducting myself with great moderation and gentleness) to make the lives of my subjects continually tranquil, desiring both to maintain the kingdom quiet and orderly to its utmost limits, and to restore the peace desired by all men. When I had asked my counselors how this should be brought to pass, Haman, who excels in soundness of judgment among us, and has been manifestly well inclined without wavering and with unshaken fidelity, and had obtained the second post in the kingdom, informed us that a certain ill-disposed people is mixed up with all the tribes throughout the world, opposed in their law to every other nation, and continually neglecting the commands of the king, so that the united government blamelessly administered by us is not quietly established. Having then conceived that this nation is continually set in opposition to every man, introducing as a change a foreign code of laws, and injuriously plotting to accomplish the worst of evils against our interests, and against the happy establishment of the monarchy; we instruct you in the letter written by Haman, who is set over the public affairs and is our second governor, to destroy them all utterly with their wives and children by the swords of the enemies, without pitying or sparing any, on the fourteenth day of the twelfth month Adar, of the present year; that the people aforetime and now ill-disposed to us having been violently consigned to death in one day, may hereafter secure to us continually a well constituted and quiet state of affairs.”]
Esther (Greek) 3.14: 14 Copies of the letters were published in every province; and an order was given to all the nations to be ready for that day.
Esther (Greek) 3.15: 15 This business was hastened also in Susa. The king and Haman began to drink, but the city was troubled.
Esther (Greek) 4.0: 
4
Esther (Greek) 4.1: 1 But Mordecai, having perceived what was done, tore his garments, put on sackcloth, and sprinkled dust upon himself. Having rushed forth through the open street of the city, he cried with a loud voice, “A nation that has done no wrong is going to be destroyed!”
Esther (Greek) 4.2: 2 He came to the king’s gate, and stood; for it was not lawful for him to enter into the palace wearing sackcloth and ashes.
Esther (Greek) 4.3: 3 And in every province where the letters were published, there was crying, lamentation, and great mourning on the part of the Jews. They wore sackcloth and ashes.
Esther (Greek) 4.4: 4 The queen’s maids and chamberlains went in and told her; and when she had heard what was done, she was disturbed. She sent to clothe Mordecai, and take away his sackcloth; but he refused.
Esther (Greek) 4.5: 5 So Esther called for her chamberlain Hathach, who waited upon her; and she sent to learn the truth from Mordecai.
Esther (Greek) 4.7: 7 Mordecai showed him what was done, and the promise which Haman had made the king of ten thousand talents to be paid into the treasury, that he might destroy the Jews.
Esther (Greek) 4.8: 8 And he gave him the copy of what was published in Susa concerning their destruction to show to Esther; and told him to charge her to go in and entreat the king, and to beg him for the people. “Remember, he said, the days of your humble condition, how you were nursed by my hand; because Haman who holds the next place to the king has spoken against us for death. Call upon the Lord, and speak to the king concerning us, to deliver us from death.”
Esther (Greek) 4.9: 9 So Hathach went in and told her all these words.
Esther (Greek) 4.10: 10 Esther said to Hathach, “Go to Mordecai, and say,
Esther (Greek) 4.11: 11 ‘All the nations of the empire know than any man or woman who goes in to the king into the inner court without being called, that person can’t live; except to whomever the king stretches out his golden sceptre, he shall live. I haven’t been called to go into the king for thirty days.’”
Esther (Greek) 4.12: 12 So Hathach reported to Mordecai all the words of Esther.
Esther (Greek) 4.13: 13 Then Mordecai said to Hathach, “Go, and say to her, ‘Esther, don’t say to yourself that you alone will escape in the kingdom, more than all the other Jews.
Esther (Greek) 4.14: 14 For if you refuse to listen on this occasion, help and protection will come to the Jews from another place; but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you have been made queen for this occasion?’”
Esther (Greek) 4.15: 15 And Esther sent the man that came to her to Mordecai, saying,
Esther (Greek) 4.16: 16 “Go and assemble the Jews that are in Susa, and all of you fast for me, and don’t eat or drink for three days, night and day. My maidens and I will also fast. Then I will go in to the king contrary to the law, even if I must die.”
Esther (Greek) 4.17: 17 So Mordecai went and did all that Esther commanded him. 
Esther (Greek) 4.18: 18 [He prayed to the Lord, making mention of all the works of the Lord.
Esther (Greek) 4.19: 19 He said, “Lord God, you are king ruling over all, for all things are in your power, and there is no one who can oppose you in your purpose to save Israel;
Esther (Greek) 4.20: 20 for you have made the heaven and the earth and every wonderful thing under heaven.
Esther (Greek) 4.21: 21 You are Lord of all, and there is no one who can resist you, Lord.
Esther (Greek) 4.22: 22 You know all things. You know, Lord, that it is not in insolence, nor arrogance, nor love of glory, that I have done this, to refuse to bow down to the arrogant Haman.
Esther (Greek) 4.23: 23 For I would gladly have kissed the soles of his feet for the safety of Israel.
Esther (Greek) 4.24: 24 But I have done this that I might not set the glory of man above the glory of God. I will not worship anyone except you, my Lord, and I will not do these things in arrogance.
Esther (Greek) 4.25: 25 And now, O Lord God, the King, the God of Abraham, spare your people, for our enemies are planning our destruction, and they have desired to destroy your ancient inheritance.
Esther (Greek) 4.26: 26 Do not overlook your people, whom you have redeemed for yourself out of the land of Egypt.
Esther (Greek) 4.27: 27 Listen to my prayer. Have mercy on your inheritance and turn our mourning into gladness, that we may live and sing praise to your name, O Lord. Don’t utterly destroy the mouth of those who praise you, O Lord.”
Esther (Greek) 4.28: 28 All Israel cried with all their might, for death was before their eyes.
Esther (Greek) 4.29: 29 And queen Esther took refuge in the Lord, being taken as it were in the agony of death.
Esther (Greek) 4.30: 30 Having taken off her glorious apparel, she put on garments of distress and mourning. Instead of grand perfumes she filled her head with ashes and dung. She greatly brought down her body, and she filled every place of her glad adorning with the her tangled hair.
Esther (Greek) 4.31: 31 She implored the Lord God of Israel, and said, “O my Lord, you alone are our king. Help me. I am destitute, and have no helper but you,
Esther (Greek) 4.32: 32 for my danger is near at hand.
Esther (Greek) 4.33: 33 I have heard from my birth, in the tribe of my kindred that you, Lord, took Israel out of all the nations, and our fathers out of all their kindred for a perpetual inheritance, and have done for them all that you have said.
Esther (Greek) 4.34: 34 And now we have sinned before you, and you have delivered us into the hands of our enemies,
Esther (Greek) 4.35: 35 because we honored their gods. You are righteous, O Lord.
Esther (Greek) 4.36: 36 But now they have not been content with the bitterness of our slavery, but have laid their hands on the hands of their idols
Esther (Greek) 4.37: 37 to abolish the decree of your mouth, and utterly to destroy your inheritance, and to stop the mouth of those who praise you, and to extinguish the glory of your house and your alter,
Esther (Greek) 4.38: 38 and to open the mouth of the Gentiles to speak the praises of vanities, and that a mortal king should be admired forever.
Esther (Greek) 4.39: 39 O Lord, don’t resign your sceptre to them that are not, and don’t let them laugh at our fall, but turn their counsel against themselves, and make an example of him who has begun to injure us.
Esther (Greek) 4.40: 40 Remember us, O Lord, manifest yourself in the time of our affliction. Encourage me, O King of gods, and ruler of all dominion!
Esther (Greek) 4.41: 41 Put harmonious speech into my mouth before the lion, and turn his heart to hate him who fights against us, to the utter destruction of him who agrees with him.
Esther (Greek) 4.42: 42 But deliver us by your hand, and help me who am destitute, and have none but you, O Lord.
Esther (Greek) 4.43: 43 You know all things, and know that I hate the glory of transgressors, and that I abhor the couch of the uncircumcised, and of every stranger.
Esther (Greek) 4.44: 44 You know my necessity, for I abhor the symbol of my proud station, which is upon my head in the days of my splendor. I abhor it as a menstruous cloth, and I don’t wear it in the days of my tranquility.
Esther (Greek) 4.45: 45 Your handmaid has not eaten at Haman’s table Haman, and I have not honored the banquet of the king, neither have I drunk wine of libations.
Esther (Greek) 4.46: 46 Neither has your handmaid rejoiced since the day of my promotion until now, except in you, O Lord God of Abraham.
Esther (Greek) 4.47: 47 O god, who has power over all, listen to the voice of the desperate, and deliver us from the hand of those who devise mischief. Deliver me from my fear.]
Esther (Greek) 5.0: 
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Esther (Greek) 5.1: 1 It came to pass on the third day, when she had ceased praying, that she took off her servant’s dress, and put on her glorious apparel. Being splendidly dressed and having called upon God the Overseer and Preserver of all things, she took her two maids, and she leaned upon one, as a delicate female, and the other followed bearing her train. She was blooming in the perfection of her beauty. Her face was cheerful and looked lovely, but her heart was filled with fear. Having passed through all the doors, she stood before the king. He was sitting on his royal throne. He had put on all his glorious apparel, covered all over with gold and precious stones, and was very terrifying. And having raised his face resplendent with glory, he looked with intense anger. The queen fell, and changed her color as she fainted. She bowed herself upon the head of the maid who went before her. But God changed the spirit of the king to gentleness, and in intense feeling, he sprang from off his throne, and took her into his arms, until she recovered. He comforted her with peaceful words, and said to her, “What is the matter, Esther? I am your relative. Cheer up! You shall not die, for our command is openly declared to you: ‘Draw near.’”
Esther (Greek) 5.2: 2 And having raised the golden sceptre, he laid it upon her neck, and embraced her. He said, “Speak to me.”
So she said to him, “I saw you, my lord, as an angel of God, and my heart was troubled for fear of your glory; for you, my lord, are to be wondered at, and your face is full of grace.” While she was speaking, she fainted and fell.
Then the king was troubled, and all his servants comforted her.
Esther (Greek) 5.3: 3 The king said, “What do you desire, Esther? What is your request? Ask even to the half of my kingdom, and it shall be yours.”
Esther (Greek) 5.4: 4 Esther said, “Today is a special day. So if it seems good to the king, let both him and Haman come to the feast which I will prepare this day.”
Esther (Greek) 5.5: 5 The king said, “Hurry and bring Haman here, that we may do as Esther said.” So they both come to the feast about which Esther had spoken.
Esther (Greek) 5.6: 6 At the banquet, the king said to Esther, “What is your request, queen Esther? You shall have all that you require.”
Esther (Greek) 5.7: 7 She said, “My request and my petition are:
Esther (Greek) 5.8: 8 if I have found favor in the king’s sight, let the king and Haman come again tomorrow to the feast which I shall prepare for them, and tomorrow I will do the same.”
Esther (Greek) 5.9: 9 So Haman went out from the king very glad and merry; but when Haman saw Mordecai the Jew in the court, he was greatly enraged.
Esther (Greek) 5.10: 10 Having gone into his own house, he called his friends, and his wife Zeresh.
Esther (Greek) 5.11: 11 He showed them his wealth and the glory with which the king had invested him, and how he had promoted him to be chief ruler in the kingdom.
Esther (Greek) 5.12: 12 Haman said, “The queen has called no one to the feast with the king but me, and I am invited tomorrow.
Esther (Greek) 5.13: 13 But these things don’t please me while I see Mordecai the Jew in the court.
Esther (Greek) 5.14: 14 Then Zeresh his wife and his friends said to him, “Let a fifty cubit tall gallows be made for you. In the morning you speak to the king, and let Mordecai be hanged on the gallows; but you go in to the feast with the king, and be merry.”
The saying pleased Haman, and the gallows was prepared.
Esther (Greek) 6.0: 
6
Esther (Greek) 6.1: 1 The Lord removed sleep from the king that night; so he told his servant to bring in the books, the registers of daily events, to read to him.
Esther (Greek) 6.2: 2 And he found the records written concerning Mordecai, how he had told the king about the king’s two chamberlains, when they were keeping guard, and sought to lay hands on Ahasuerus.
Esther (Greek) 6.3: 3 The king said, “What honor or favor have we done for Mordecai?”
The king’s servants said, “You haven’t done anything for him.”
Esther (Greek) 6.4: 4 And while the king was enquiring about the kindness of Mordecai, behold, Haman was in the court. The king said, “Who is in the court? Now Haman had come in to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows which he had prepared.
Esther (Greek) 6.5: 5 The king’s servants said, “Behold, Haman stands in the court.”
And the king said, “Call him!”
Esther (Greek) 6.6: 6 The king said to Haman, “What should I do for the man whom I wish to honor?”
Haman said within himself, “Whom would the king honor but myself?”
Esther (Greek) 6.7: 7 He said to the king, “As for the man whom the king wishes to honor,
Esther (Greek) 6.8: 8 let the king’s servants bring the robe of fine linen which the king puts on, and the horse on which the king rides,
Esther (Greek) 6.9: 9 and let him give it to one of the king’s noble friends, and let him dress the man whom the king loves. Let him mount him on the horse, and proclaim through the streets of the city, saying, “This is what will be done for every man whom the king honors!”
Esther (Greek) 6.10: 10 Then the king said to Haman, “You have spoken well. Do so for Mordecai the Jew, who waits in the palace, and let not a word of what you have spoken be neglected!”
Esther (Greek) 6.11: 11 So Haman took the robe and the horse, dressed Mordecai, mounted him on the horse, and went through the streets of the city, and proclaimed, saying, “This is what will be done for every man whom the king wishes to honor.”
Esther (Greek) 6.12: 12 Then Mordecai returned to the palace; but Haman went home mourning, and having his head covered.
Esther (Greek) 6.13: 13 Haman related the events that had happened him to Zeresh his wife, and to his friends. His friends and his wife said to him, “If Mordecai is of the race of the Jews, and you have begun to be humbled before him, you will assuredly fall, and you will not be able to withstand him, for the living God is with him.”
Esther (Greek) 6.14: 14 While they were still speaking, the chamberlains arrived, to rush Haman to the banquet which Esther had prepared.
Esther (Greek) 7.0: 
7
Esther (Greek) 7.1: 1 So the king and Haman went in to drink with the queen.
Esther (Greek) 7.2: 2 The king said to Esther at the banquet on the second day, “What is it, queen Esther? What is your request? What is your petition? It shall be done for you, up to half of my kingdom.”
Esther (Greek) 7.3: 3 She answered and said, “If I have found favor in the sight of the king, let my life be granted as my petition, and my people as my request.
Esther (Greek) 7.4: 4 For both I and my people are sold for destruction, pillage, and genocide. If both we and our children were sold for male and female slaves, I would not have bothered you, for this isn’t worthy of the king’s palace.”
Esther (Greek) 7.5: 5 The king said, “Who has dared to do this thing?”
Esther (Greek) 7.6: 6 Esther said, “The enemy is Haman, this wicked man!”
Then Haman was troubled before the king and the queen.
Esther (Greek) 7.7: 7 The king rose up from the banquet to go into the garden. Haman began to beg the queen for mercy; for he saw that he was in trouble.
Esther (Greek) 7.8: 8 The king returned from the garden; and Haman had fallen upon the bed, begging the queen for mercy. The king said, “Will you even assault my wife in my house?”
And when Haman heard it, he changed countenance.
Esther (Greek) 7.9: 9 And Bugathan, one of the chamberlains, said to the king, “Behold, Haman has also prepared a gallows for Mordecai, who spoke concerning the king, and a fifty cubit high gallows has been set up on Haman’s property.”
The king said, “Let him be hanged on it!”
Esther (Greek) 7.10: 10 So Haman was hanged on the gallows that had been prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was appeased.
Esther (Greek) 8.0: 
8
Esther (Greek) 8.1: 1 On that day, king Ahasuerus gave to Esther all that belonged to Haman the slanderer. The king called Mordecai; for Esther had shown that he was related to her.
Esther (Greek) 8.2: 2 The king took the ring which he had taken away from Haman and gave it to Mordecai. Esther appointed Mordecai over all that had been Haman’s.
Esther (Greek) 8.3: 3 She spoke yet again to the king, and fell at his feet, and implored him to undo Haman’s mischief and all that he had done against the Jews.
Esther (Greek) 8.4: 4 Then the king extended the golden sceptre to Esther; and Esther arose to stand near the king.
Esther (Greek) 8.5: 5 Esther said, “If it seems good to you, and I have found favor in your sight, let an order be sent that the letters sent by Haman may be reversed, that were written for the destruction of the Jews who are in your kingdom.
Esther (Greek) 8.6: 6 For how could I see the affliction of my people, and how could I survive the destruction of my kindred?”
Esther (Greek) 8.7: 7 Then the king said to Esther, “If I have given and freely granted you all that was Haman’s, and hanged him on a gallows, because he laid his hands upon the Jews, what more do you seek?
Esther (Greek) 8.8: 8 Write in my name whatever seems good to you, and seal it with my ring; for whatever is written at the command of the king, and sealed with my ring, cannot be countermanded.
Esther (Greek) 8.9: 9 So the scribes were called in the first month, which is Nisan, on the twenty-third day of the same year; and orders were written to the Jews, whatever the king had commanded to the local governors and chiefs of the local governors, from India even to Ethiopia, one hundred twenty-seven local governors, according to the several provinces, in their own languages.
Esther (Greek) 8.10: 10 They were written by order of the king, sealed with his ring, and the letters were sent by the couriers.
Esther (Greek) 8.11: 11 In them, he charged them to use their own laws in every city, to help each other, and to treat their adversaries and those who attacked them as they pleased,
Esther (Greek) 8.12: 12 on one day in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is Adar.
Esther (Greek) 8.13: 13 Let the copies be posted in conspicuous places throughout the kingdom. Let all the Jews be ready against this day, to fight against their enemies. The following is a copy of the letter containing orders.
 [The great king Ahasuerus sends greetings to the rulers of provinces in one hundred twenty-seven local governance regions, from India to Ethiopia, even to those who are faithful to our interests. Many who have been frequently honored by the most abundant kindness of their benefactors have conceived ambitious designs, and not only endeavor to hurt our subjects, but moreover, not being able to bear prosperity, they also endeavor to plot against their own benefactors. They not only would utterly abolish gratitude from among men, but also, elated by the boastings of men who are strangers to all that is good, they supposed that they would escape the sin-hating vengeance of the ever-seeing God. And oftentimes evil exhortation has made partakers of the guilt of shedding innocent blood, and has involved in irremediable calamities, many of those who had been appointed to offices of authority, who had been entrusted with the management of their friends’ affairs; while men, by the false sophistry of an evil disposition, have deceived the simple candour of the ruling powers. And it is possible to see this, not so much from more ancient traditionary accounts, as it is immediately in your power to see it by examining what things have been wickedly perpetrated by the baseness of men unworthily holding power. It is right to take heed with regard to the future, that we may maintain the government in undisturbed peace for all men, adopting needful changes, and ever judging those cases which come under our notice with truly equitable decisions. For whereas Haman, a Macedonian, the son of Hammedatha, in reality an alien from the blood of the Persians, and differing widely from our mild course of government, having been hospitable entertained by us, obtained so large a share of our universal kindness as to be called our father, and to continue the person next to the royal throne, reverenced of all; he however, overcome by pride, endeavored to deprive us of our dominion, and our life; having by various and subtle artifices demanded for destruction both Mordecai our deliverer and perpetual benefactor, and Esther the blameless consort of our kingdom, along with their whole nation. For by these methods he thought, having surprised us in a defenseless state, to transfer the dominion of the Persians to the Macedonians. But we find that the Jews, who have been consigned to destruction by the most abominable of men, are not malefactors, but living according to the justest laws, and being the sons of the living God, the most high and mighty, who maintains the kingdom, to us as well as to our forefathers, in the most excellent order. You will therefore do well in refusing to obey the letter sent by Haman the son of Hammedatha, because he who has done these things has been hanged with his whole family at the gates of Susa, Almighty God having swiftly returned to him a worthy punishment. We enjoin you then, having openly published a copy of this letter in every place, to give the Jews permission to use their own lawful customs, and to strengthen them, that on the thirteenth of the twelfth month Adar, on the self-same day, they may defend themselves against those who attack them in a time of affliction. For in the place of the destruction of the chosen race, Almighty God has granted them this time of gladness. Therefore you also, among your notable feasts, must keep a distinct day with all festivity, that both now and hereafter it may be a day of deliverance to us and who are well disposed toward the Persians, but to those that plotted against us a memorial of destruction. And every city and province collectively, which shall not do accordingly, shall be consumed with vengeance by spear and fire. It shall be made not only inaccessible to men, but most hateful to wild beasts and birds forever.] Let the copies be posted in conspicuous places throughout the kingdom and let all the Jews be ready against this day, to fight against their enemies.
Esther (Greek) 8.14: 14 So the horsemen went forth with haste to perform the king’s commands. The ordinance was also published in Susa.
Esther (Greek) 8.15: 15 Mordecai went out robed in royal apparel, wearing a golden crown and a diadem of fine purple linen. The people in Susa saw it and rejoiced.
Esther (Greek) 8.16: 16 The Jews had light and gladness
Esther (Greek) 8.17: 17 in every city and province where the ordinance was published. Wherever the proclamation took place, the Jews had joy and gladness, feasting and mirth. Many of the Gentiles were circumcised and became Jews, for fear of the Jews.
Esther (Greek) 9.0: 
9
Esther (Greek) 9.1: 1 Now in the twelfth month, on the thirteenth day of the month which is Adar, the letters written by the king arrived.
Esther (Greek) 9.2: 2 In that day, the adversaries of the Jews perished; for no one resisted, through fear of them.
Esther (Greek) 9.3: 3 For the chiefs of the local governors, and the princes and the royal scribes, honored the Jews; for the fear of Mordecai was upon them.
Esther (Greek) 9.4: 4 For the order of the king was in force, that he should be celebrated in all the kingdom.
Esther (Greek) 9.6: 6 In the city Susa the Jews killed five hundred men,
Esther (Greek) 9.7: 7 including Pharsannes, Delphon, Phasga,
Esther (Greek) 9.8: 8 Pharadatha, Barea, Sarbaca,
Esther (Greek) 9.9: 9 Marmasima, Ruphaeus, Arsaeus, and Zabuthaeus,
Esther (Greek) 9.10: 10 the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha the Bugaean, the enemy of the Jews, and they plundered their property on the same day.
Esther (Greek) 9.11: 11 The number of those who perished in Susa was reported to the king.
Esther (Greek) 9.12: 12 Then the king said to Esther, “The Jews have slain five hundred men in the city Susa. What do you think they have done in the rest of the country? What more do you ask, that it may be done for you?”
Esther (Greek) 9.13: 13 Esther said to the king, “Let it be granted to the Jews to do the same to them tomorrow. Also hang the bodies of the ten sons of Haman.”
Esther (Greek) 9.14: 14 He permitted it to be done; and he gave up to the Jews of the city the bodies of the sons of Haman to hang.
Esther (Greek) 9.15: 15 The Jews assembled in Susa on the fourteenth day of Adar and killed three hundred men, but plundered no property.
Esther (Greek) 9.16: 16 The rest of the Jews who were in the kingdom assembled, and helped one another, and obtained rest from their enemies; for they destroyed fifteen thousand of them on the thirteenth day of Adar, but took no spoil.
Esther (Greek) 9.17: 17 They rested on the fourteenth of the same month, and kept it as a day of rest with joy and gladness.
Esther (Greek) 9.18: 18 The Jews in the city Susa assembled also on the fourteenth day and rested; and they also observed the fifteenth with joy and gladness.
Esther (Greek) 9.19: 19 On this account then it is that the Jews dispersed in every foreign land keep the fourteenth of Adar as a holy day with joy, each sending gifts of food to his neighbor.
Esther (Greek) 9.20: 20 Mordecai wrote these things in a book, and sent them to the Jews, as many as were in the kingdom of Ahasuerus, both those who were near and those who were far away,
Esther (Greek) 9.21: 21 to establish these as joyful days, and to keep the fourteenth and fifteenth of Adar;
Esther (Greek) 9.22: 22 for on these days the Jews obtained rest from their enemies; and in that month, which was Adar, in which a change was made for them, from mourning to joy, and from sorrow to a good day, to spend the whole of it in good days of feasting and gladness, sending portions to their friends and to the poor.
Esther (Greek) 9.23: 23 And the Jews consented to this as Mordecai wrote to them,
Esther (Greek) 9.24: 24 showing how Haman the son of Hammedatha the Macedonian fought against them, how he made a decree and cast lots to destroy them utterly;
Esther (Greek) 9.25: 25 also how he went in to the king, telling him to hang Mordecai; but all the calamities he tried to bring upon the Jews came upon himself, and he was hanged, along with his children.
Esther (Greek) 9.26: 26 Therefore these days were called Purim, because of the lots (for in their language they are called Purim) because of the words of this letter, and because of all they suffered on this account, and all that happened to them.
Esther (Greek) 9.27: 27 Mordecai established it, and the Jews took upon themselves, and upon their seed, and upon those that were joined to them to observe it, neither would they on any account behave differently; but these days were to be a memorial kept in every generation, city, family, and province.
Esther (Greek) 9.28: 28 These days of the Purim shall be kept forever, and their memorial shall not fail in any generation.
Esther (Greek) 9.29: 29 Queen Esther the daughter of Aminadab, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote all that they had done, and the confirmation of the letter of Purim.
Esther (Greek) 9.31: 31 Mordecai and Esther the queen established this decision on their own, pledging their own health to their plan.
Esther (Greek) 9.32: 32 And Esther established it by a command forever, and it was written for a memorial.
Esther (Greek) 10.0: 
10
Esther (Greek) 10.1: 1 The king levied a tax upon his kingdom both by land and sea.
Esther (Greek) 10.2: 2 As for his strength and valour, and the wealth and glory of his kingdom, behold, they are written in the book of the Persians and Medes for a memorial.
Esther (Greek) 10.3: 3 Mordecai was viceroy to king Ahasuerus, and was a great man in the kingdom, honored by the Jews, and lived his life loved by all his nation. 
Esther (Greek) 10.4: 4 [Mordecai said, “These things have come from God.
Esther (Greek) 10.5: 5 For I remember the dream which I had concerning these matters; for not one detail of them has failed.
Esther (Greek) 10.6: 6 There was the little spring which became a river, and there was light, and the sun and much water. The river is Esther, whom the king married, and made queen.
Esther (Greek) 10.7: 7 The two serpents are Haman and me.
Esther (Greek) 10.8: 8 The nations are those nations who combined to destroy the name of the Jews.
Esther (Greek) 10.9: 9 But as for my nation, this is Israel, even those who cried to God and were delivered; for the Lord delivered his people. The Lord rescued us out of all these calamities; and God worked such signs and great wonders as have not been done among the nations.
Esther (Greek) 10.10: 10 Therefore he ordained two lots. One for the people of God, and one for all the other nations.
Esther (Greek) 10.11: 11 And these two lots came for an appointed season, and for a day of judgment, before God, and for all the nations.
Esther (Greek) 10.12: 12 God remembered his people and vindicated his inheritance.
Esther (Greek) 10.13: 13 They shall observe these days in the month Adar, on the fourteenth and on the fifteenth day of the month, with an assembly, joy, and gladness before God, throughout the generations forever among his people Israel.
Esther (Greek) 10.14: 14 In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemeus and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who said he was a priest and Levite, and Ptolemeus his son, brought this letter of Purim, which they said was the same, and that Lysimachus the son of Ptolemeus, who was in Jerusalem, had interpreted.]