\p Deuteronomy 34.0: \c 34
\p
\p Deuteronomy 34.1: \v 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,
\p Deuteronomy 34.2: \v 2 and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, to the Western Sea,
\p Deuteronomy 34.3: \v 3 and the south,\f + \fr 34:3 \ft or, Negev\f* and the Plain of the valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, to Zoar.
\p Deuteronomy 34.4: \v 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.”
\p
\p Deuteronomy 34.5: \v 5 So Moses the servant of Yahweh died there in the land of Moab, according to Yahweh’s word.
\p Deuteronomy 34.6: \v 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.
\p Deuteronomy 34.7: \v 7 Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his strength gone.
\p Deuteronomy 34.8: \v 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.
\p Deuteronomy 34.9: \v 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.
\p Deuteronomy 34.10: \v 10 Since then, there has not arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh knew face to face,
\p Deuteronomy 34.11: \v 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,
\p Deuteronomy 34.12: \v 12 and in all the mighty hand, and in all the awesome deeds, which Moses did in the sight of all Israel.
\p Job 22.0: \c 22
\p
\p Job 22.1: \v 1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
\q1
\p Job 22.2: \v 2 “Can a man be profitable to God?
\q2 Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
\q1
\p Job 22.3: \v 3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous?
\q2 Or does it benefit him that you make your ways perfect?
\q1
\p Job 22.4: \v 4 Is it for your piety that he reproves you,
\q2 that he enters with you into judgment?
\q1
\p Job 22.5: \v 5 Isn’t your wickedness great?
\q2 Neither is there any end to your iniquities.
\q1
\p Job 22.6: \v 6 For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing,
\q2 and stripped the naked of their clothing.
\q1
\p Job 22.7: \v 7 You haven’t given water to the weary to drink,
\q2 and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
\q1
\p Job 22.8: \v 8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth.
\q2 The honorable man, he lived in it.
\q1
\p Job 22.9: \v 9 You have sent widows away empty,
\q2 and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
\q1
\p Job 22.10: \v 10 Therefore snares are around you.
\q2 Sudden fear troubles you,
\q1
\p Job 22.11: \v 11 or darkness, so that you can not see,
\q2 and floods of waters cover you.
\b
\q1
\p Job 22.12: \v 12 “Isn’t God in the heights of heaven?
\q2 See the height of the stars, how high they are!
\q1
\p Job 22.13: \v 13 You say, ‘What does God know?
\q2 Can he judge through the thick darkness?
\q1
\p Job 22.14: \v 14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see.
\q2 He walks on the vault of the sky.’
\q1
\p Job 22.15: \v 15 Will you keep the old way,
\q2 which wicked men have trodden,
\q1
\p Job 22.16: \v 16 who were snatched away before their time,
\q2 whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
\q1
\p Job 22.17: \v 17 who said to God, ‘Depart from us;’
\q2 and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’
\q1
\p Job 22.18: \v 18 Yet he filled their houses with good things,
\q2 but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
\q1
\p Job 22.19: \v 19 The righteous see it, and are glad.
\q2 The innocent ridicule them,
\q1
\p Job 22.20: \v 20 saying, ‘Surely those who rose up against us are cut off.
\q2 The fire has consumed their remnant.’
\b
\q1
\p Job 22.21: \v 21 “Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace.
\q2 By it, good will come to you.
\q1
\p Job 22.22: \v 22 Please receive instruction from his mouth,
\q2 and lay up his words in your heart.
\q1
\p Job 22.23: \v 23 If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up,
\q2 if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.
\q1
\p Job 22.24: \v 24 Lay your treasure in the dust,
\q2 the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.
\q1
\p Job 22.25: \v 25 The Almighty will be your treasure,
\q2 and precious silver to you.
\q1
\p Job 22.26: \v 26 For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty,
\q2 and will lift up your face to God.
\q1
\p Job 22.27: \v 27 You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you.
\q2 You will pay your vows.
\q1
\p Job 22.28: \v 28 You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you.
\q2 Light will shine on your ways.
\q1
\p Job 22.29: \v 29 When they cast down, you will say, ‘be lifted up.’
\q2 He will save the humble person.
\q1
\p Job 22.30: \v 30 He will even deliver him who is not innocent.
\q2 Yes, he will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”
\p Isaiah 37.0: \c 37
\p
\p Isaiah 37.1: \v 1 When king Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh’s house.
\p Isaiah 37.2: \v 2 He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.
\p Isaiah 37.3: \v 3 They said to him, “Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to give birth.
\p Isaiah 37.4: \v 4 It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’”
\p
\p Isaiah 37.5: \v 5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
\p
\p Isaiah 37.6: \v 6 Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master, ‘Yahweh says, “Don’t be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
\p Isaiah 37.7: \v 7 Behold, I will put a spirit in him and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”’”
\p
\p Isaiah 37.8: \v 8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
\p Isaiah 37.9: \v 9 He heard news concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, “He has come out to fight against you.” When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
\p Isaiah 37.10: \v 10 “Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”
\p Isaiah 37.11: \v 11 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Shall you be delivered?
\p Isaiah 37.12: \v 12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?
\p Isaiah 37.13: \v 13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?’”
\p
\p Isaiah 37.14: \v 14 Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to Yahweh’s house, and spread it before Yahweh.
\p Isaiah 37.15: \v 15 Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying,
\p Isaiah 37.16: \v 16 “Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, who is enthroned among the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
\p Isaiah 37.17: \v 17 Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God.
\p Isaiah 37.18: \v 18 Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the countries and their land,
\p Isaiah 37.19: \v 19 and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.
\p Isaiah 37.20: \v 20 Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, even you only.”
\p
\p Isaiah 37.21: \v 21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Yahweh, the God of Israel says, ‘Because you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,
\p Isaiah 37.22: \v 22 this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him. The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
\p Isaiah 37.23: \v 23 Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.
\p Isaiah 37.24: \v 24 By your servants, you have defied the Lord, and have said, “With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees. I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field.
\p Isaiah 37.25: \v 25 I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.”
\p
\p Isaiah 37.26: \v 26 “‘Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.
\p Isaiah 37.27: \v 27 Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown.
\p Isaiah 37.28: \v 28 But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.
\p Isaiah 37.29: \v 29 Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
\p
\p Isaiah 37.30: \v 30 “‘This shall be the sign to you. You will eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from it; and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
\p Isaiah 37.31: \v 31 The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
\p Isaiah 37.32: \v 32 For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go out, and survivors will escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.’
\p
\p Isaiah 37.33: \v 33 “Therefore Yahweh says concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither will he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.
\p Isaiah 37.34: \v 34 He will return the way that he came, and he won’t come to this city,’ says Yahweh.
\p Isaiah 37.35: \v 35 ‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’”
\p
\p Isaiah 37.36: \v 36 Then Yahweh’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
\p Isaiah 37.37: \v 37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, returned to Nineveh, and stayed there.
\p Isaiah 37.38: \v 38 As he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.
\p Ezekiel 44.0: \c 44
\p
\p Ezekiel 44.1: \v 1 Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which looks toward the east; and it was shut.
\p Ezekiel 44.2: \v 2 Yahweh said to me, “This gate shall be shut. It shall not be opened, no man shall enter in by it; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has entered in by it. Therefore it shall be shut.
\p Ezekiel 44.3: \v 3 As for the prince, he shall sit in it as prince to eat bread before Yahweh. He shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out the same way.”
\p
\p Ezekiel 44.4: \v 4 Then he brought me by the way of the north gate before the house; and I looked, and behold, Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house; so I fell on my face.
\p
\p Ezekiel 44.5: \v 5 Yahweh said to me, “Son of man, mark well, and see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I tell you concerning all the ordinances of Yahweh’s house, and all its laws; and mark well the entrance of the house, with every exit of the sanctuary.
\p Ezekiel 44.6: \v 6 You shall tell the rebellious, even the house of Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “You house of Israel, let that be enough of all your abominations,
\p Ezekiel 44.7: \v 7 in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, to add to all your abominations.
\p Ezekiel 44.8: \v 8 You have not performed the duty of my holy things; but you have set performers of my duty in my sanctuary for yourselves.”
\p Ezekiel 44.9: \v 9 The Lord Yahweh says, “No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners who are among the children of Israel.
\p
\p Ezekiel 44.10: \v 10 “‘“But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they will bear their iniquity.
\p Ezekiel 44.11: \v 11 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house, and ministering in the house. They shall kill the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them.
\p Ezekiel 44.12: \v 12 Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel. Therefore I have lifted up my hand against them,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and they will bear their iniquity.
\p Ezekiel 44.13: \v 13 They shall not come near to me, to execute the office of priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, to the things that are most holy; but they will bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.
\p Ezekiel 44.14: \v 14 Yet I will make them performers of the duty of the house, for all its service, and for all that will be done therein.
\p
\p Ezekiel 44.15: \v 15 “‘“But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who performed the duty of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, shall come near to me to minister to me. They shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood,” says the Lord Yahweh.
\p Ezekiel 44.16: \v 16 “They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my instruction.
\p
\p Ezekiel 44.17: \v 17 “‘“It will be that, when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments. No wool shall come on them while they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.
\p Ezekiel 44.18: \v 18 They shall have linen turbans on their heads, and shall have linen trousers on their waists. They shall not clothe themselves with anything that makes them sweat.
\p Ezekiel 44.19: \v 19 When they go out into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they minister, and lay them in the holy rooms. They shall put on other garments, that they not sanctify the people with their garments.
\p
\p Ezekiel 44.20: \v 20 “‘“They shall not shave their heads, or allow their locks to grow long. They shall only cut off the hair of their heads.
\p Ezekiel 44.21: \v 21 None of the priests shall drink wine when they enter into the inner court.
\p Ezekiel 44.22: \v 22 They shall not take for their wives a widow, or her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.
\p Ezekiel 44.23: \v 23 They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
\p
\p Ezekiel 44.24: \v 24 “‘“In a controversy they shall stand to judge. They shall judge it according to my ordinances. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts. They shall make my Sabbaths holy.
\p
\p Ezekiel 44.25: \v 25 “‘“They shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister who has had no husband, they may defile themselves.
\p Ezekiel 44.26: \v 26 After he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days.
\p Ezekiel 44.27: \v 27 In the day that he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering,” says the Lord Yahweh.
\p
\p Ezekiel 44.28: \v 28 “‘They shall have an inheritance. I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no possession in Israel. I am their possession.
\p Ezekiel 44.29: \v 29 They shall eat the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.
\p Ezekiel 44.30: \v 30 The first of all the first fruits of every thing, and every offering of everything, of all your offerings, shall be for the priest. You shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on your house.
\p Ezekiel 44.31: \v 31 The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself, or is torn, whether it is bird or animal.
\p Mark 1.0: \c 1
\p
\p Mark 1.1: \v 1 The beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
\p Mark 1.2: \v 2 As it is written in the prophets,
\q1 “Behold,\f + \fr 1:2 \ft “Behold”, from “ἰδοὺ”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.\f* I send my messenger before your face,
\q2 who will prepare your way before you:\x + \xo 1:2 \xt Malachi 3:1\x*
\q1
\p Mark 1.3: \v 3 the voice of one crying in the wilderness,
\q2 ‘Make ready the way of the Lord!
\q2 Make his paths straight!’”\x + \xo 1:3 \xt Isaiah 40:3\x*
\p
\p Mark 1.4: \v 4 John came baptizing\f + \fr 1:4 \ft or, immersing\f* in the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins.
\p Mark 1.5: \v 5 All the country of Judea and all those of Jerusalem went out to him. They were baptized by him in the Jordan river, confessing their sins.
\p Mark 1.6: \v 6 John was clothed with camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey.
\p Mark 1.7: \v 7 He preached, saying, “After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loosen.
\p Mark 1.8: \v 8 I baptized you in\f + \fr 1:8 \ft The Greek word (en) translated here as “in” could also be translated as “with” in some contexts.\f* water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.”
\p
\p Mark 1.9: \v 9 In those days, Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan.
\p Mark 1.10: \v 10 Immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens parting, and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.
\p Mark 1.11: \v 11 A voice came out of the sky, “You are my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
\p
\p Mark 1.12: \v 12 Immediately the Spirit drove him out into the wilderness.
\p Mark 1.13: \v 13 He was there in the wilderness forty days tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals; and the angels were serving him.
\p
\p Mark 1.14: \v 14 Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Good News of God’s Kingdom,
\p Mark 1.15: \v 15 and saying, \wj “The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”\wj*
\p
\p Mark 1.16: \v 16 Passing along by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew, the brother of Simon, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.
\p Mark 1.17: \v 17 Jesus said to them, \wj “Come after me, and I will make you into fishers for men.”\wj*
\p
\p Mark 1.18: \v 18 Immediately they left their nets, and followed him.
\p Mark 1.19: \v 19 Going on a little further from there, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother, who were also in the boat mending the nets.
\p Mark 1.20: \v 20 Immediately he called them, and they left their father, Zebedee, in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him.
\p Mark 1.21: \v 21 They went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath day he entered into the synagogue and taught.
\p Mark 1.22: \v 22 They were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as having authority, and not as the scribes.
\p Mark 1.23: \v 23 Immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, and he cried out,
\p Mark 1.24: \v 24 saying, “Ha! What do we have to do with you, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!”
\p
\p Mark 1.25: \v 25 Jesus rebuked him, saying, \wj “Be quiet, and come out of him!” \wj*
\p
\p Mark 1.26: \v 26 The unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying with a loud voice, came out of him.
\p Mark 1.27: \v 27 They were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What is this? A new teaching? For with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him!”
\p Mark 1.28: \v 28 The report of him went out immediately everywhere into all the region of Galilee and its surrounding area.
\p
\p Mark 1.29: \v 29 Immediately, when they had come out of the synagogue, they came into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.
\p Mark 1.30: \v 30 Now Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick with a fever, and immediately they told him about her.
\p Mark 1.31: \v 31 He came and took her by the hand, and raised her up. The fever left her immediately,\f + \fr 1:31 \ft NU omits “immediately”.\f* and she served them.
\p Mark 1.32: \v 32 At evening, when the sun had set, they brought to him all who were sick, and those who were possessed by demons.
\p Mark 1.33: \v 33 All the city was gathered together at the door.
\p Mark 1.34: \v 34 He healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons. He didn’t allow the demons to speak, because they knew him.
\p
\p Mark 1.35: \v 35 Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.
\p Mark 1.36: \v 36 Simon and those who were with him searched for him.
\p Mark 1.37: \v 37 They found him and told him, “Everyone is looking for you.”
\p
\p Mark 1.38: \v 38 He said to them, \wj “Let’s go elsewhere into the next towns, that I may preach there also, because I came out for this reason.”\wj*
\p Mark 1.39: \v 39 He went into their synagogues throughout all Galilee, preaching and casting out demons.
\p
\p Mark 1.40: \v 40 A leper came to him, begging him, kneeling down to him, and saying to him, “If you want to, you can make me clean.”
\p
\p Mark 1.41: \v 41 Being moved with compassion, he stretched out his hand, and touched him, and said to him, \wj “I want to. Be made clean.”\wj*
\p Mark 1.42: \v 42 When he had said this, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was made clean.
\p Mark 1.43: \v 43 He strictly warned him, and immediately sent him out,
\p Mark 1.44: \v 44 and said to him, \wj “See you say nothing to anybody, but go show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing the things which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.”\wj*
\p
\p Mark 1.45: \v 45 But he went out, and began to proclaim it much, and to spread about the matter, so that Jesus could no more openly enter into a city, but was outside in desert places. People came to him from everywhere.
\p Acts 14.0: \c 14
\p
\p Acts 14.1: \v 1 In Iconium, they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed.
\p Acts 14.2: \v 2 But the disbelieving\f + \fr 14:2 \ft or, disobedient\f* Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers.
\p Acts 14.3: \v 3 Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
\p Acts 14.4: \v 4 But the multitude of the city was divided. Part sided with the Jews, and part with the apostles.
\p Acts 14.5: \v 5 When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,
\p Acts 14.6: \v 6 they became aware of it and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and the surrounding region.
\p Acts 14.7: \v 7 There they preached the Good News.
\p
\p Acts 14.8: \v 8 At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked.
\p Acts 14.9: \v 9 He was listening to Paul speaking, who, fastening eyes on him, and seeing that he had faith to be made whole,
\p Acts 14.10: \v 10 said with a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet!” He leaped up and walked.
\p Acts 14.11: \v 11 When the multitude saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voice, saying in the language of Lycaonia, “The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!”
\p Acts 14.12: \v 12 They called Barnabas “Jupiter”, and Paul “Mercury”, because he was the chief speaker.
\p Acts 14.13: \v 13 The priest of Jupiter, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and would have made a sacrifice along with the multitudes.
\p Acts 14.14: \v 14 But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they tore their clothes, and sprang into the multitude, crying out,
\p Acts 14.15: \v 15 “Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;
\p Acts 14.16: \v 16 who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.
\p Acts 14.17: \v 17 Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you\f + \fr 14:17 \ft TR reads “us” instead of “you”\f* rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”
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\p Acts 14.18: \v 18 Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them.
\p Acts 14.19: \v 19 But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.
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\p Acts 14.20: \v 20 But as the disciples stood around him, he rose up, and entered into the city. On the next day he went out with Barnabas to Derbe.
\p Acts 14.21: \v 21 When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,
\p Acts 14.22: \v 22 strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.
\p Acts 14.23: \v 23 When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.
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\p Acts 14.24: \v 24 They passed through Pisidia, and came to Pamphylia.
\p Acts 14.25: \v 25 When they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia.
\p Acts 14.26: \v 26 From there they sailed to Antioch, from where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled.
\p Acts 14.27: \v 27 When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.
\p Acts 14.28: \v 28 They stayed there with the disciples for a long time.