The Gospel of Mark, Part One
From The Christogenea New Testament
? 2009 William R. Finck Jr.
I 1 The beginning of the good message of Yahshua Christ, Son of Yahweh. 2 Just as it is written in Isaiah the prophet: “Behold! I send My messenger before Your face, who shall prepare Your way! 3 A voice crying out in the wilderness: Make ready the way of Yahweh, make straight His paths!” 4 Iohannes the Baptist was in the desert proclaiming an immersion of repentance for a remission of errors. 5 And all the land of Judaea and all those in Jerusalem went out to him, and they were immersed by him in the river Jordan, acknowledging their errors. 6 And Iohannes was clothed in camel’s hair and a belt of skin around his loins, and eating locusts and wild honey.
7 And he proclaimed, saying “He who is more powerful than me comes after me, of whom I am not worthy bending over to loosen the straps of His sandals! 8 I have immersed you in water, but He shall immerse you in the Holy Spirit!”
9 And it happened in those days that Yahshua had come from Nazaret of Galilaia and was immersed in the Jordan by Iohannes. 10 And immediately upon ascending out of the water he saw the heavens dividing and the Spirit as a dove descending to Him. 11 And a voice came from out of heaven: “You are My beloved Son, in You I am satisfied!”
12 And immediately the Spirit drove Him out into the desert. 13 And He was in the desert for forty days being tried by the Adversary, and He was with the beasts, yet the messengers served Him.
14 And after the handing over of Iohannes, Yahshua had gone into Galilaia proclaiming the good message of Yahweh 15 and saying that “The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of Yahweh has neared! Repent and have faith in the good message!”
16 And passing by the sea of Galilaia He saw Simon and Andreas the brother of Simon casting around nets in the sea, for they were fishermen. 17 And Yahshua said to them “Come after Me, and I shall make you to be fishers of men!” 18 And immediately leaving the nets they followed Him. 19 And going on a little He saw Iakobos the son of Zebedaios and Iohannes his brother and those in the vessel repairing the nets, 20 and right away He called them. And leaving Zebedaios their father in the vessel with the hired hands, they departed after Him.
21 And they go into Kapharnaoum, and immediately on the Sabbaths entering into the assembly hall He taught. 22 And they were astonished by His teaching, for He was teaching them as if having authority and not as the scribes.
23 And there was right away in their assembly hall a man with an unclean spirit and he had cried out 24 saying “What is there with us and with You, Yahshua the Nazarene? Have You come to destroy us? I know whom You are, the Holy One of Yahweh!” 25 And Yahshua admonished him, saying “Be silent and come out from him!” 26 And the unclean spirit convulsing him and crying out with a great voice came out from him. 27 And they were all amazed so as for them to dispute saying: “What is this? A new doctrine with authority? And He commands the unclean spirits, and they obey Him!” 28 And the report of it went out at once everywhere in the whole surrounding region of Galilaia.
29 And immediately coming out from the assembly hall they went into the house of Simon and Andreas with Iakobos and Iohannes. 30 And the mother-in-law of Simon was laid down, being with fever, and right away they speak to Him about her. 31 And having gone forth, grasping her hand He raised her, and the fever left her, and she served them.
32 And upon its becoming late, when the sun sank, they brought to Him all those having maladies and those being possessed by demons. 33 And the whole city was gathering together by the door. 34 And He healed many being ill with various diseases, and He cast out many demons, yet He did not allow the demons to speak, because they knew Him to be the Christ.
35 And in the morning, having arisen very late at night He went out and departed into a desert place and there He prayed. 36 And Simon and those with him pursued soon after Him, 37 and they found Him and say to Him that “They all seek You!” 38 And He says to them: “We should go elsewhere into the neighboring towns, in order that I shall proclaim there. For this reason have I come.”
39 And He went proclaiming in their assembly halls and casting out demons in the whole of Galilaia. 40 And there comes to Him a leper, exhorting Him saying to Him that “If You desire, You are able to cleanse me!” 41 And being deeply moved, extending His hand He touched him and says to him “I desire, be cleansed!” 42 And immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he had been cleansed. 43 And admonishing him at once He drove him away 44 and says to him: “See that you say nothing to no one, but go show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing that which Moses has commanded, for a testimony to them.” 45 But going off he began to proclaim many things and to spread the account, so that for Him to no longer be able to enter openly into the city, but He was outside in the desert places, and they came to Him from everywhere.
II 1 And entering again into Kapharnaoum, for days it was heard that He is in a house. 2 And many had gathered together so as no longer to have space, not even there by the door, and He spoke the Word to them. 3 And they come bringing to Him a paralytic being carried by four men. 4 And not being able to bring him forth to Him because of the crowd, they had taken off the roof where He was, and digging through lowered the cot upon which the paralytic laid. 5 And Yahshua seeing their faith says to the paralytic: “Child, your errors are remitted!” 6 Now there were some scribes sitting there and debating in their hearts 7 “Who is He that He speaks thusly? He blasphemes! Who is able to forgive errors except One, God?” 8 And immediately Yahshua knowing in His Spirit that they debate among themselves thusly says to them: “Why do you debate these things in your hearts? 9 What is easier, to say to the paralytic ‘Your errors are remitted’, or to say ‘Arise and take up your cot and walk’? 10 But in order that you would know that the Son of Man has authority to forgive errors upon the earth...” (He says to the paralytic “...I say to you, Arise, taking your cot and go to your house!” 12 And he arose and immediately taking the cot he went out before them all, so as for all to be astounded and to extol Yahweh, saying that “We have not ever seen so much!”
13 And He went out again by the sea, and all the crowd came with Him, and He taught them. 14 And going by He saw Levei the son of Alphaios sitting at the tax-office, and He says to him “Follow Me!” And arising he followed Him.
15 And it comes to pass upon His reclining in his house that many tax collectors and wrongdoers were reclining together with Yahshua and His students. There were many indeed, and they followed Him. 16 And the scribes of the Pharisees seeing that He eats with the wrongdoers and tax-collectors said to His students that “He eats with tax collectors and wrongdoers?” 17 And hearing it Yahshua says to them that “The strong have no need of a physician, but the sick do have. I have not come to call the righteous, but wrongdoers!”
18 And the students of Iohannes and the Pharisees were fasting. And they come and say to Him: “For what reason do the students of Iohannes and the students of the Pharisees fast, but Your students do not fast?” 19 And Yahshua said to them: “Are the sons of the bridechamber able to fast while the bridegroom is with them? For as long a time as they have the bridegroom with them they are not able to fast. 20 But the days shall come when the bridegroom is taken from them, and then shall they fast in that day! 21 No one sews a patch of uncarded cloth upon an old garment, but if it is, the new lifts its borders away from the old and the tear becomes worse. 22 And no one puts new wine into old skins, but if it is, the wine breaks the skins and the wine and the skins are lost. Rather, new wine is for new skins.”
23 And it came to pass for Him on the Sabbaths to be passing through the planted fields, and His students began to make a path, plucking the grain. 24 And the Pharisees said to Him: “Look, why do they do on the Sabbaths that which is not lawful?” 25 And He says to them: “Have you not ever read what David did when he had need and he himself had hungered, and those with him, 26 how he entered into the house of Yahweh at the time of Abiathar the high priest and he ate the bread of presentation, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and he gave it also to those being with him?” 27 And He said to them: “The Sabbath was for the sake of man and not man for the sake of the Sabbath! 28 Therefore the Son of Man is Prince of the Sabbath!”
III 1 And again He had entered into the assembly hall. And there was a man there having a withered hand. And they were watching Him closely, whether He will heal him on the Sabbaths, in order that they may accuse Him. 3 And He says to the man having the withered hand: “Arise, into the middle!” 4 And He says to them: “Is it lawful on the Sabbaths to do good, or to do bad? To save a life or to kill?” But they were silent. 5 And looking around at them with anger, being grieved by the hardness of their hearts, He says to the man: “Extend the hand!” And he extended it and his hand had been restored. 6 And the Pharisees departing immediately with the Herodians gave counsel against Him, how they may destroy Him.
7 And Yahshua withdrew to the sea with His students, and a great multitude from Galilaia followed, and from Judaea 8 and from Jerusalem and from Idumaia and across the Jordan and around Turos and Sidon a great multitude hearing what things He does came to Him. 9 And He spoke to His students in order that a boat should be waiting ready for Him, for reason that the crowd would crush Him. 10 For He had healed many, so as to fall upon Him as many as had afflictions in order that they may touch Him. 11 And the unclean spirits, when they saw Him, fell before Him and cried out, saying that “You are the Son of Yahweh!” 12 And He admonished them often that they should not make Him known.
13 And He ascends into the mountain and summons those whom He Himself had desired, and they came out to Him. 14 And He made the twelve (those whom He also named ambassadors), that they should be with Him, and that He would send them to proclaim 15 and to have authority to cast out demons. 16 And He made these the twelve: Simon whom He also labeled with the name “Petros”, 17 and Iakobos the son of Zebedaios and Iohannes the brother of Iakobos and He labeled them with the name “Boanerges”, which is “Sons of Thunder”, 18 and Andreas and Philippos and Bartholomaios and Maththaios and Thomas and Iakobos the son of Alphaios and Thaddaios and Simon the Kananean 19 and Ioudas Iskarioth, he who also betrayed Him.
20 And He comes into a house, and the crowd comes along again, consequently for them not to be able even to eat bread. 21 And hearing it those of His relations came out to seize Him, for they said that He is insane. 22 And the scribes coming down from Jerusalem said that “He has Beelzebub!” and that “By the ruler of demons He casts out demons!”
23 And summoning them He spoke to them in parables: “How is Satan able to cast out Satan? 24 And if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom is not able to stand! 25 And if a house is divided against itself, that house shall not be able to stand! 26 And if Satan stood up against himself and is divided he is not able to stand, but has an end. 27 Rather, no one is able to enter into the house of the strong man to plunder his equipment, unless one could first bind the strong man, and then he shall plunder his house!
“28 Truly I say to you that all errors shall be remitted for the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they may blaspheme. 29 But he who blasphemes to the Holy Spirit, he does not have remission forever, but is liable for eternal guilt!” 30 (Because they said “He has an unclean spirit!”)
31 And His mother comes, and His brethren, and standing outside they sent to Him summoning Him. 32 And a crowd sat around Him, and they said to Him: “Behold, Your mother and Your brothers seek You outside!” 33 And replying to them He says “Who is My mother and My brethren?” 34 And looking about at those sitting around Him, He says: “Behold, My mother and My brethren! 35 For he who should do the will of Yahweh, he is My brother and sister and mother!”
IV 1 And again He began to teach by the sea, and a very large crowd gathers to Him, so as for Him boarding into a vessel to sit in the sea, and all the crowd was by the sea upon the land. 2 And He taught them with many parables and said to them in His teaching:
“3 Listen! Behold, the sower has come out to sow. 4 And it happened during the sowing that some fell by the road, and having come the birds then devoured them. 5 And others fell upon the rocks where they did not have much earth, and immediately sprang up on account of not having deep earth, 6 and when the sun arose they burned and on account of not having root they withered. 7 And others fell into the thorns, and the thorns rose up and strangled them and they did not give fruit. 8 And others fell into the good earth and rising up and growing gave fruit, and one had borne thirty fold and one sixty and one a hundred.” 9 And He said: “He who has an ear to hear must hear!”
10 And when He was alone, those of His relations with the twelve asked Him about the parables. 11 And He said to them: “To you the mystery of the Kingdom of Yahweh is given, but to those outside all things come in parables, 12 that ‘Looking they should look and should not see, and hearing they should hear and should not understand, that at no time should they repent and it would be forgiven them!’”
13 And He says to them: “You do not perceive this parable? Then how shall you know any parables? 14 The sower sows the Word. 15 Now these are those by the road, where he sows the Word and when they hear it, immediately the Adversary comes and takes the Word sown in them. 16 And these are those being sown upon the rocks, which when they should hear the Word, receive it immediately with joy, 17 and they do not have root in themselves but are temporary, since upon the coming of tribulation or persecution on account of the Word immediately they are entrapped. 18 And the others are those being sown in the thorns. These are those hearing the Word, 19 and the cares of this age and the deceit of riches and desires for the future entering in strangle the Word and it becomes fruitless. 20 And these are they having been sown upon the good earth, who hear and take up the Word and bear fruit, one thirty fold and one sixty and one a hundred.”
21 And He said to them: “Does any lamp go that is set under a basket or under a cot? Not that is set upon a lampstand? 22 For it is not hidden except that it should be revealed, nor has it been concealed but in order that it would come to be evident. 23 If one has an ear to hear, he must hear!” 24 And He said to them: “Watch how you listen. With the measure by which you measure it shall be measured for you and it shall be added to you. 25 For he who has, it shall be given to him, and he who has not even that which he has shall be taken from him!”
26 And He said: “Thusly is the Kingdom of Yahweh like a man who would cast seed upon the earth 27 and sleeps and arises night and day, and the seed sprouts and lengthens, how he does not know. 28 By itself the earth bears fruit: first grass, then the stalk, then the fullness of the grain on the stalk. 29 And when the fruit would be delivered, immediately he sends out the scythe, because the harvest is at hand.”
30 And He said: “How should we liken the Kingdom of Yahweh, or in what parable may we place it? 31 It is as a grain of mustard, which when it is sown upon the earth it is the smallest of all the seeds of those upon the earth, 32 and when it is sown, it comes up and becomes greater than all of the vegetables and produces great branches, so for the birds of heaven to be able to nest in its shadow!”
33 And with many such parables He spoke to them the Word just as they were able to hear, 34 and without a parable He did not speak to them, but by Himself expounded all things to His own students.
35 And He says to them on that day, it being late: “We should go across to the other side.” 36 And having left the crowd they took Him, as He was in the vessel, and other vessels were with His. 37 And there came a great tempest of wind and the waves cast upon the vessel, so for the vessel to be already filled. 38 And He was in the stern sleeping upon a cushion. And they arouse Him and say to Him: “Teacher, is it not a concern to You that we are destroyed?” 39 And waking up He admonished the wind and said to the sea: “Silence! Be muzzled!” And the wind abated and there came a great calm. 40 And He said to them: “Why are you cowards? Not yet do you have faith?” 41 And they feared a great fear and said to one another: “So who is this that even the wind and the sea obey Him?”
V 1 And they came to the other side of the sea to the region of the Gadarenes, 2 and upon His coming out from the vessel immediately a man with an unclean spirit from among the tombs met Him, 3 who had a dwelling among the tombs, and not even in chains was anyone any longer able to bind him, 4 on account that often he having been bound in fetters and chains and the chains being torn apart by him and the fetters being shattered, and no one prevails to overpower him. 5 And throughout each night and day among the tombs and in the hills he was crying out and cutting himself with stones. 6 And seeing Yahshua from afar he had run and made obeisance to Him 7 and crying out with a great voice says: “What is there with me and with You, Yahshua Son of Yahweh the Highest? I adjure You Yahweh, do not torment me!” (8 For He had said to him: “Unclean spirit, come out from the man!”) 9 And He asked him: “What is your name?” And he says to Him: “Legion is my name, because we are many!” 10 And he exhorted Him very much that He would not send them outside of the region. 11 But there was there by the mountain a great herd of swine feeding, 12 and they exhorted Him saying “Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them!” 13 And He allowed them. And the unclean spirits having gone out entered into the swine, and the herd rushed headlong down the bank into the sea, about two thousand, and drowned in the sea.
14 And those feeding them fled and reported it in the city and in the fields, and they came to see what it is which happened 15 and they come to Yahshua and observe him having been possessed by demons, he who had the legion, clothed and sober-minded, and they feared. 16 And those seeing it described for them how it happened to him possessed by demons and concerning the swine. 17 And they began to exhort Him to depart from their borders.
18 And upon His boarding into the vessel he having been possessed by demons exhorts Him that he could be with Him. 19 And He did not let him, but says to him: “Go to your house to those of your own and report to them as much as Yahweh has done for you and had pity for you.” 20 And he went off and began to proclaim in the Dekapolis as much as Yahshua had done for him, and they all marveled.
21 And upon Yahshua’s going across in the vessel back to the other side, a great crowd gathered to Him, and He was by the sea. 22 And one of the leaders of the assembly hall comes, named Iahiros, and seeing Him he falls to His feet 23 and exhorts Him very much saying that “My daughter hangs on at the end, at which coming You may place the hands upon her, that she would be preserved and live!” 24 And He went off with him. And a great crowd followed Him and pressed together upon Him.
25 And a woman being with a flow of blood for twelve years 26 and being treated often by many physicians and having spent all of her means and having benefited nothing but having come to be still more worse, 27 hearing things about Yahshua, having come in from behind the crowd grabbed His garment, 28 for she had said that “If I could grasp even His garment I shall be saved!” 29 And immediately the source of her blood had dried up and she perceived in the body that it had been healed from the scourge. 30 And immediately Yahshua knowing within Himself that there had gone out from of His power, turning upon the crowd said “Who grabbed My garments?” 31 And His students said to Him: “You see the crowd pressing together upon You and You say ‘Who grabbed Me’?” 32 And they looked about to see she who had done this. 33 Then the woman being afraid and trembling knowing that which happened to her, came and fell before Him and told Him the whole truth. 34 And He said to her: “Daughter, your faith has saved you! Go in peace and you must be healthy from your scourge!”
35 Upon His still speaking they come from the house of the assembly hall leader saying that “Your daughter has died, why trouble the Teacher further?” 36 But Yahshua overhearing the word being spoken says to the assembly hall leader: “Do not fear, only have faith!” 37 And He did not allow anyone to follow along with Him except Petros and Iakobos and Iohannes the brother of Iakobos. 38 And they go into the house of the assembly hall leader, and He observes a clamor of many weeping and crying, 39 and entering He says to them: “Why do you make a clamor and weep? The child has not died, but sleeps!” 40 And they mocked Him. But He casting them all out takes the father and the mother of the child and those with Him and goes into where the child was. 41 And holding the hand of the child He says to her: “Talitha Koum!” which is interpreted: “Little girl, I say to you, arise!” 42 And at once the little girl arose and walked, for she was twelve years of age. And they were immediately confounded with great astonishment. 43 And He ordered them severely that no one should know this, and said to give to her to eat.
VI 1 And He went out from there and comes into His fatherland, and His students follow Him. 2 And upon the coming of a Sabbath He began to teach in the assembly hall, and many listening were astonished, saying “From where in this Man are these things?” and “What wisdom has been given to this Man, and such powers as these coming by His hand! 3 Is this not the craftsman, the son of Maria and brother of Iakobos and Ioses and Iouda and Simon? And are His brethren not here with us?” And they were offended by Him. 4 And Yahshua said to them that “A prophet is not without honor except in his own fatherland and among his kinsmen and in his house!” 5 And He was not able to do there even one feat of power, except that He placed the hands upon and healed a few of the sick. 6 And He marveled on account of their disbelief. And He went about the surrounding villages teaching. 7 And He summons the twelve and began to send them off in pairs and gave to them authority over unclean spirits, 8 and commanded them that they “should take nothing on the road except a staff only: not bread, not a bag, not copper coin for the belt, 9 but having bound sandals, and you should not wear two cloaks.” 10 And He said to them: “Wherever you should enter into a house, you stay there until you should depart from there. 11 And whatever place should not receive you nor hear you, going out from there you shake off the dust from under your feet for a testimony to them.” 12 And going out they proclaimed in order that they should repent, 13 and they cast out many demons, and anointed with olive oil and healed many sick.
14 And Herodas the king heard, for His name became known, and he said that “Iohannes the Baptist has arisen from the dead and for this reason powers operate in him!” 15 But others said that “It is Elijah!” And others said that “He is a prophet like one of the prophets!” 16 Then hearing it Herodas said “Iohannes whom I beheaded, he has arisen!”
17 For Herodas himself having sent seized Iohannes and bound him in prison on account of Herodias the wife of Philippos his brother, because he had married her. 18 For Iohannes had said to Herodas that “It is not lawful for you to have the wife of your brother!” 19 And Herodias held it against him and desired to kill him, and she was not able. (20 For Herodas feared Iohannes, knowing that he is a just and holy man. And he watched out for him, and hearing him he was often in doubt, yet gladly he heard him.)
21 And an opportune day coming, when Herodas held a dinner for his birthday with his noblemen and the commanders and the first men of Galilaia, 22 and his daughter by Herodias having entered in and dancing pleased Herodas and those reclining together, the king said to the girl: “Ask me whatever you may desire, and I shall give it to you!” 23 And he swore to her: “Whatever you may ask me, I shall give to you, so much as half of my kingdom!” 24 And having gone out she said to her mother: “What should I ask?” And she said: “For the head of Iohannes the Baptist.” 25 And immediately entering in to the king with zeal she asked, saying “I desire that at once you should give to me the head of Iohannes the Baptist upon a plate!” 26 And the king becoming quite grieved on account of the oaths and those reclining together did not want to refuse her. 27 And immediately the king having sent a body-guard commanded his head to be brought. And having departed he beheaded him in the prison. 28 And he brought his head upon a plate and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother. 29 And his students having heard came and took his body and buried it in a tomb.
30 And the ambassadors gather to Yahshua and they reported to Him all things whatever they had done and as much as they taught. 31 And He says to them “You yourselves come alone into a desert place and rest a little.” For there were many coming and going, and they did not even have an opportunity to eat.
32 And they went off in a vessel to a desert place by themselves. 33 And many saw them going and recognized them and running together on foot from every city to that place then they came ahead of them. 34 And having come out He saw a great crowd and was deeply moved by them, because they were “as sheep not having a shepherd”, and He began to teach them many things.
35 And it already having been a late hour, His students coming forth to Him said that “It is a desert place and already the hour is late. 36 Release them, in order that departing to the surrounding farms and villages they may buy for themselves something to eat!” 37 And replying He said to them: “You give them to eat!” And they say to Him: “Departing could we buy two hundred denarii of wheat loaves and give to them to eat?” 38 And He says to them “How many loaves do you have? Go look!” And learning they say “Five, and two fish.” 39 And He commanded them all to be reclined in parties upon the grass. 40 And they reclined in groups, some a hundred and some fifty. 41 And taking the five loaves and the two fish, looking up to the heaven He blessed and broke the loaves and gave them to His students in order that they would serve them, and He divided the two fish for all. 42 And they all ate and were satiated, 43 and there were twelve baskets full of fragments, and from the fish. 44 And those eating the loaves were five thousand men.
45 And immediately He compelled His students to board into the vessel and to go ahead to the other side to Bethsa?da, until He releases the crowd. 46 And having disposed with them He went off into the mountain to pray. 47 And it becoming late the vessel was in the midst of the sea, and He alone upon the land. 48 And seeing them being tried while sailing – for there was a wind opposing them – around the fourth watch of the night He comes to them walking upon the sea, and He wished to pass them by. 49 But they seeing Him walking upon the sea supposed that it is an apparition, and they cried out. 50 For they all saw Him and were troubled. And immediately He spoke with them, and says to them: “Have courage, it is I! Do not fear!” 51 And He went up to them into the vessel and the wind abated, and they were exceedingly astonished within themselves, 52 for they did not understand after the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.
53 And crossing over towards the land they came to Gennesaret, and they anchored nearby. 54 And upon their coming out from the vessel, immediately recognizing Him, 55 they ran about that entire region and began to bring around upon cots those having maladies wherever they heard that He is. 56 And wherever He entered into a village or into a city or into the farms, in the marketplaces they set down those who are sick and they exhorted Him in order that if they could even touch the border of His garment, and as many as touched Him were saved.
VII 1 And the Pharisees and some of the scribes having come from Jerusalem gather together to Him. 2 And seeing some of His students, that with profane hands – that is, unwashed – they eat bread (3 for the Pharisees and all the Judaeans if they do not wash the hands to the elbow they do not eat, holding to the tradition of the elders, 4 and from the marketplace if they do not rinse they do not eat, and there are many other things which they undertook to hold to, washings of cups and pitchers and pots) 5 and the Pharisees and the scribes questioned Him: “For what reason do Your students not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but with profane hands they eat bread?” 6 But He said to them: “Well did Isaiah prophecy concerning your hypocrisy, as it is written that ‘This people honors Me with their lips, but their hearts keep far from Me! 7 And vainly do they worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men!’ 8 Leaving the commandment of Yahweh you hold to the tradition of men!” 9 And He said to them: “Well do you reject the commandment of Yahweh, that you may keep your tradition! 10 For Moses said: ‘Honor your father and your mother’, and ‘He speaking evil of father or mother must die in sentence of death’! 11 But you say: ‘If a man should say to father or mother; whatever you have benefited from me is korban (which is a gift)’, you no longer allow him to do anything for the father or mother, rendering void the Word of Yahweh by your tradition which you have transmitted, and many such similar things which you do!”
14 And summoning the crowd again He said to them: “All must hear Me and understand! 15 There is nothing outside of the man entering into him which is able to defile him, but the things coming out from a man are the things defiling him!”
17 And when He had entered into a house away from the crowd, His students asked Him the parable. 18 And He says to them: “Thusly also are you without understanding? Do you not perceive that everything from outside entering into the man is not able to defile him 19 because it does not enter into his heart but into the belly, and it goes out into the latrine, cleansing all foods?” 20 Then He said that “That which is coming out from the man, that would defile the man. 21 For from inside of the hearts of men are evil reasonings coming out, acts of fornication, thefts, murders, 22 acts of adultery, greediness, wickedness, treachery, licentiousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, arrogance, foolishness; 23 all these wicked thing come out from inside and defile the man!”
24 And arising from there He departed for the borders of Turos and Sidon. And entering into a house He desired to know no one, yet was not able to escape notice, 25 but immediately a woman hearing about Him, of whom her daughter had an unclean spirit, having come fell to His feet, 26 and the woman was a Greek, a Syro-Phoenician by race, and she asked Him that He would cast out the demon from her daughter. 27 And He said to her: “Let the children be fed first, for it is not good to take the bread of the children and cast it to the little dogs!” 28 But she responded and says to Him “Yes, Master, yet the little dogs under the table eat from the crumbs of the children!” 29 And He said to her “On account of this word, go! The demon has departed from your daughter!” 30 And having gone off to her house she found the child cast upon a couch and the demon departed.
31 And again coming out from the borders of Turos He came through Sidon to the Sea of Galilaia midway between the borders of Dekapolis. 32 And they bring to Him a deaf and dumb man and exhorted Him that He would lay the hand upon him. 33 And taking him away from the crowd by himself, He put His finger into his ears and spitting touched his tongue, 34 and looking up to the heaven He groaned and says to him: “Ephphatha!” (which is “Be opened!”), 35 and his ear opened, and the binding of his tongue loosed and he spoke correctly. 36 And He ordered them that they should tell it to no one, but as much as He commanded them, still more abundantly they proclaimed it. 37 And they were over-abundantly astonished, saying “He has done all good things! And He makes the deaf to hear and the mute to speak!”
VIII 1 In those days again upon a great crowd being present and not having anything which they could eat, summoning His students He says to them: 2 “I am deeply moved for the crowd, because already they have remained with Me for three days and they do not have anything which they may eat. 3 And if I let them go away to their house fasting, they shall faint on the road, and some of them have come from afar!” 4 And His students replied to Him that “From where is one able to feed so many bread here in a desert place?” 5 And He asked them: “How many loaves do you have?” And they said “Seven.” 6 And He commands the crowd to recline upon the ground, and taking the seven loaves, giving thanks He broke and gave them to His students that they would serve, and they served to the crowd. 7 And they had a few fish, and blessing them He said to serve those also. 8 And they ate and were filled, and there were seven creels of excess fragments. 9 And they were about four thousand, and He released them.
10 And immediately boarding into a vessel with His students He came into the parts of Dalmanoutha. 11 And the Pharisees came out and began to dispute with Him, seeking by Him a sign from heaven, trying Him. 12 And bemoaning in His Spirit He says: “Why does this race seek a sign? Truly I say to you whether a sign shall be given to this race!” 13 And leaving them, boarding again He departed for the other side.
14 And they forgot to take bread, and except for one loaf they did not have it with them in the vessel. 15 And He commanded them, saying: “Look! Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herodas!” 16 And they debated with one another because they do not have bread. 17 And knowing it He says to them “Why do you debate because you do not have bread? Not yet do you perceive nor understand? Do you have hardening of your hearts? 18 Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear? And do you not remember, 19 when the five loaves had been broken for the five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments you took?” They say to Him: “Twelve!” 20 “When the seven for the four thousand, how many creels full of fragments you took?” And they say to Him: “Seven!” 21 And He said to them: “How do you not understand?”
22 And they come into Bethsa?da. And they bring to Him a blind man and exhort Him in order that He would touch him. 23 And taking the hand of the blind man He brought him outside of the town and having spat in his eyes, putting the hands upon him asked him if “Do you see anything?” 24 And looking up he said “I see men, that as trees I see walking!” 25 Then again He put the hands upon his eyes, and he stared and was restored and looked at all things clearly. 26 And He sent him to his house, saying: “Now you should not enter into the town!”
27 And Yahshua went out and His students into the town of Caesareia Philippos, and on the road He questioned His students, saying to them: “What do men say for Me to be?” 28 And they spoke to Him saying that “Iohannes the Baptist, and others Elijah, but others that one of the prophets.” 29 And He asked them: “But what do you say for Me to be?” Responding Petros says to Him: “You are the Christ!” 30 And He admonished them that they should speak to no one concerning Him.
31 And He began to instruct them that it is necessary for the Son of Man to suffer many things and to be rejected by the elders and the high priests and the scribes and to be put to death and after three days to be resurrected. 32 And He spoke the Word openly. And taking Him aside, Petros began to admonish Him. 33 But He turning and seeing His students admonished Petros and says: “Go behind Me, adversary, because you do not mind the things of Yahweh, but the things of men!”
34 And summoning the crowd with His students He said to them: “If one wishes to come behind Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me! 35 For he who should desire to save his life shall lose it, and he who would lose his life because of Me and the good message shall save it! 36 For what shall it benefit a man to gain the whole Society and for his life to be lost? 37 For what could a man give in exchange for his life? 38 For whoever should be ashamed of Me and My words among this adulterous and sinful race, also the Son of Man shall be ashamed of him, when he should come in the honor of His Father with the holy messengers!”
From The Christogenea New Testament
? 2009 William R. Finck Jr.
I 1 The beginning of the good message of Yahshua Christ, Son of Yahweh. 2 Just as it is written in Isaiah the prophet: “Behold! I send My messenger before Your face, who shall prepare Your way! 3 A voice crying out in the wilderness: Make ready the way of Yahweh, make straight His paths!” 4 Iohannes the Baptist was in the desert proclaiming an immersion of repentance for a remission of errors. 5 And all the land of Judaea and all those in Jerusalem went out to him, and they were immersed by him in the river Jordan, acknowledging their errors. 6 And Iohannes was clothed in camel’s hair and a belt of skin around his loins, and eating locusts and wild honey.
7 And he proclaimed, saying “He who is more powerful than me comes after me, of whom I am not worthy bending over to loosen the straps of His sandals! 8 I have immersed you in water, but He shall immerse you in the Holy Spirit!”
9 And it happened in those days that Yahshua had come from Nazaret of Galilaia and was immersed in the Jordan by Iohannes. 10 And immediately upon ascending out of the water he saw the heavens dividing and the Spirit as a dove descending to Him. 11 And a voice came from out of heaven: “You are My beloved Son, in You I am satisfied!”
12 And immediately the Spirit drove Him out into the desert. 13 And He was in the desert for forty days being tried by the Adversary, and He was with the beasts, yet the messengers served Him.
14 And after the handing over of Iohannes, Yahshua had gone into Galilaia proclaiming the good message of Yahweh 15 and saying that “The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of Yahweh has neared! Repent and have faith in the good message!”
16 And passing by the sea of Galilaia He saw Simon and Andreas the brother of Simon casting around nets in the sea, for they were fishermen. 17 And Yahshua said to them “Come after Me, and I shall make you to be fishers of men!” 18 And immediately leaving the nets they followed Him. 19 And going on a little He saw Iakobos the son of Zebedaios and Iohannes his brother and those in the vessel repairing the nets, 20 and right away He called them. And leaving Zebedaios their father in the vessel with the hired hands, they departed after Him.
21 And they go into Kapharnaoum, and immediately on the Sabbaths entering into the assembly hall He taught. 22 And they were astonished by His teaching, for He was teaching them as if having authority and not as the scribes.
23 And there was right away in their assembly hall a man with an unclean spirit and he had cried out 24 saying “What is there with us and with You, Yahshua the Nazarene? Have You come to destroy us? I know whom You are, the Holy One of Yahweh!” 25 And Yahshua admonished him, saying “Be silent and come out from him!” 26 And the unclean spirit convulsing him and crying out with a great voice came out from him. 27 And they were all amazed so as for them to dispute saying: “What is this? A new doctrine with authority? And He commands the unclean spirits, and they obey Him!” 28 And the report of it went out at once everywhere in the whole surrounding region of Galilaia.
29 And immediately coming out from the assembly hall they went into the house of Simon and Andreas with Iakobos and Iohannes. 30 And the mother-in-law of Simon was laid down, being with fever, and right away they speak to Him about her. 31 And having gone forth, grasping her hand He raised her, and the fever left her, and she served them.
32 And upon its becoming late, when the sun sank, they brought to Him all those having maladies and those being possessed by demons. 33 And the whole city was gathering together by the door. 34 And He healed many being ill with various diseases, and He cast out many demons, yet He did not allow the demons to speak, because they knew Him to be the Christ.
35 And in the morning, having arisen very late at night He went out and departed into a desert place and there He prayed. 36 And Simon and those with him pursued soon after Him, 37 and they found Him and say to Him that “They all seek You!” 38 And He says to them: “We should go elsewhere into the neighboring towns, in order that I shall proclaim there. For this reason have I come.”
39 And He went proclaiming in their assembly halls and casting out demons in the whole of Galilaia. 40 And there comes to Him a leper, exhorting Him saying to Him that “If You desire, You are able to cleanse me!” 41 And being deeply moved, extending His hand He touched him and says to him “I desire, be cleansed!” 42 And immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he had been cleansed. 43 And admonishing him at once He drove him away 44 and says to him: “See that you say nothing to no one, but go show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing that which Moses has commanded, for a testimony to them.” 45 But going off he began to proclaim many things and to spread the account, so that for Him to no longer be able to enter openly into the city, but He was outside in the desert places, and they came to Him from everywhere.
II 1 And entering again into Kapharnaoum, for days it was heard that He is in a house. 2 And many had gathered together so as no longer to have space, not even there by the door, and He spoke the Word to them. 3 And they come bringing to Him a paralytic being carried by four men. 4 And not being able to bring him forth to Him because of the crowd, they had taken off the roof where He was, and digging through lowered the cot upon which the paralytic laid. 5 And Yahshua seeing their faith says to the paralytic: “Child, your errors are remitted!” 6 Now there were some scribes sitting there and debating in their hearts 7 “Who is He that He speaks thusly? He blasphemes! Who is able to forgive errors except One, God?” 8 And immediately Yahshua knowing in His Spirit that they debate among themselves thusly says to them: “Why do you debate these things in your hearts? 9 What is easier, to say to the paralytic ‘Your errors are remitted’, or to say ‘Arise and take up your cot and walk’? 10 But in order that you would know that the Son of Man has authority to forgive errors upon the earth...” (He says to the paralytic “...I say to you, Arise, taking your cot and go to your house!” 12 And he arose and immediately taking the cot he went out before them all, so as for all to be astounded and to extol Yahweh, saying that “We have not ever seen so much!”
13 And He went out again by the sea, and all the crowd came with Him, and He taught them. 14 And going by He saw Levei the son of Alphaios sitting at the tax-office, and He says to him “Follow Me!” And arising he followed Him.
15 And it comes to pass upon His reclining in his house that many tax collectors and wrongdoers were reclining together with Yahshua and His students. There were many indeed, and they followed Him. 16 And the scribes of the Pharisees seeing that He eats with the wrongdoers and tax-collectors said to His students that “He eats with tax collectors and wrongdoers?” 17 And hearing it Yahshua says to them that “The strong have no need of a physician, but the sick do have. I have not come to call the righteous, but wrongdoers!”
18 And the students of Iohannes and the Pharisees were fasting. And they come and say to Him: “For what reason do the students of Iohannes and the students of the Pharisees fast, but Your students do not fast?” 19 And Yahshua said to them: “Are the sons of the bridechamber able to fast while the bridegroom is with them? For as long a time as they have the bridegroom with them they are not able to fast. 20 But the days shall come when the bridegroom is taken from them, and then shall they fast in that day! 21 No one sews a patch of uncarded cloth upon an old garment, but if it is, the new lifts its borders away from the old and the tear becomes worse. 22 And no one puts new wine into old skins, but if it is, the wine breaks the skins and the wine and the skins are lost. Rather, new wine is for new skins.”
23 And it came to pass for Him on the Sabbaths to be passing through the planted fields, and His students began to make a path, plucking the grain. 24 And the Pharisees said to Him: “Look, why do they do on the Sabbaths that which is not lawful?” 25 And He says to them: “Have you not ever read what David did when he had need and he himself had hungered, and those with him, 26 how he entered into the house of Yahweh at the time of Abiathar the high priest and he ate the bread of presentation, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and he gave it also to those being with him?” 27 And He said to them: “The Sabbath was for the sake of man and not man for the sake of the Sabbath! 28 Therefore the Son of Man is Prince of the Sabbath!”
III 1 And again He had entered into the assembly hall. And there was a man there having a withered hand. And they were watching Him closely, whether He will heal him on the Sabbaths, in order that they may accuse Him. 3 And He says to the man having the withered hand: “Arise, into the middle!” 4 And He says to them: “Is it lawful on the Sabbaths to do good, or to do bad? To save a life or to kill?” But they were silent. 5 And looking around at them with anger, being grieved by the hardness of their hearts, He says to the man: “Extend the hand!” And he extended it and his hand had been restored. 6 And the Pharisees departing immediately with the Herodians gave counsel against Him, how they may destroy Him.
7 And Yahshua withdrew to the sea with His students, and a great multitude from Galilaia followed, and from Judaea 8 and from Jerusalem and from Idumaia and across the Jordan and around Turos and Sidon a great multitude hearing what things He does came to Him. 9 And He spoke to His students in order that a boat should be waiting ready for Him, for reason that the crowd would crush Him. 10 For He had healed many, so as to fall upon Him as many as had afflictions in order that they may touch Him. 11 And the unclean spirits, when they saw Him, fell before Him and cried out, saying that “You are the Son of Yahweh!” 12 And He admonished them often that they should not make Him known.
13 And He ascends into the mountain and summons those whom He Himself had desired, and they came out to Him. 14 And He made the twelve (those whom He also named ambassadors), that they should be with Him, and that He would send them to proclaim 15 and to have authority to cast out demons. 16 And He made these the twelve: Simon whom He also labeled with the name “Petros”, 17 and Iakobos the son of Zebedaios and Iohannes the brother of Iakobos and He labeled them with the name “Boanerges”, which is “Sons of Thunder”, 18 and Andreas and Philippos and Bartholomaios and Maththaios and Thomas and Iakobos the son of Alphaios and Thaddaios and Simon the Kananean 19 and Ioudas Iskarioth, he who also betrayed Him.
20 And He comes into a house, and the crowd comes along again, consequently for them not to be able even to eat bread. 21 And hearing it those of His relations came out to seize Him, for they said that He is insane. 22 And the scribes coming down from Jerusalem said that “He has Beelzebub!” and that “By the ruler of demons He casts out demons!”
23 And summoning them He spoke to them in parables: “How is Satan able to cast out Satan? 24 And if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom is not able to stand! 25 And if a house is divided against itself, that house shall not be able to stand! 26 And if Satan stood up against himself and is divided he is not able to stand, but has an end. 27 Rather, no one is able to enter into the house of the strong man to plunder his equipment, unless one could first bind the strong man, and then he shall plunder his house!
“28 Truly I say to you that all errors shall be remitted for the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they may blaspheme. 29 But he who blasphemes to the Holy Spirit, he does not have remission forever, but is liable for eternal guilt!” 30 (Because they said “He has an unclean spirit!”)
31 And His mother comes, and His brethren, and standing outside they sent to Him summoning Him. 32 And a crowd sat around Him, and they said to Him: “Behold, Your mother and Your brothers seek You outside!” 33 And replying to them He says “Who is My mother and My brethren?” 34 And looking about at those sitting around Him, He says: “Behold, My mother and My brethren! 35 For he who should do the will of Yahweh, he is My brother and sister and mother!”
IV 1 And again He began to teach by the sea, and a very large crowd gathers to Him, so as for Him boarding into a vessel to sit in the sea, and all the crowd was by the sea upon the land. 2 And He taught them with many parables and said to them in His teaching:
“3 Listen! Behold, the sower has come out to sow. 4 And it happened during the sowing that some fell by the road, and having come the birds then devoured them. 5 And others fell upon the rocks where they did not have much earth, and immediately sprang up on account of not having deep earth, 6 and when the sun arose they burned and on account of not having root they withered. 7 And others fell into the thorns, and the thorns rose up and strangled them and they did not give fruit. 8 And others fell into the good earth and rising up and growing gave fruit, and one had borne thirty fold and one sixty and one a hundred.” 9 And He said: “He who has an ear to hear must hear!”
10 And when He was alone, those of His relations with the twelve asked Him about the parables. 11 And He said to them: “To you the mystery of the Kingdom of Yahweh is given, but to those outside all things come in parables, 12 that ‘Looking they should look and should not see, and hearing they should hear and should not understand, that at no time should they repent and it would be forgiven them!’”
13 And He says to them: “You do not perceive this parable? Then how shall you know any parables? 14 The sower sows the Word. 15 Now these are those by the road, where he sows the Word and when they hear it, immediately the Adversary comes and takes the Word sown in them. 16 And these are those being sown upon the rocks, which when they should hear the Word, receive it immediately with joy, 17 and they do not have root in themselves but are temporary, since upon the coming of tribulation or persecution on account of the Word immediately they are entrapped. 18 And the others are those being sown in the thorns. These are those hearing the Word, 19 and the cares of this age and the deceit of riches and desires for the future entering in strangle the Word and it becomes fruitless. 20 And these are they having been sown upon the good earth, who hear and take up the Word and bear fruit, one thirty fold and one sixty and one a hundred.”
21 And He said to them: “Does any lamp go that is set under a basket or under a cot? Not that is set upon a lampstand? 22 For it is not hidden except that it should be revealed, nor has it been concealed but in order that it would come to be evident. 23 If one has an ear to hear, he must hear!” 24 And He said to them: “Watch how you listen. With the measure by which you measure it shall be measured for you and it shall be added to you. 25 For he who has, it shall be given to him, and he who has not even that which he has shall be taken from him!”
26 And He said: “Thusly is the Kingdom of Yahweh like a man who would cast seed upon the earth 27 and sleeps and arises night and day, and the seed sprouts and lengthens, how he does not know. 28 By itself the earth bears fruit: first grass, then the stalk, then the fullness of the grain on the stalk. 29 And when the fruit would be delivered, immediately he sends out the scythe, because the harvest is at hand.”
30 And He said: “How should we liken the Kingdom of Yahweh, or in what parable may we place it? 31 It is as a grain of mustard, which when it is sown upon the earth it is the smallest of all the seeds of those upon the earth, 32 and when it is sown, it comes up and becomes greater than all of the vegetables and produces great branches, so for the birds of heaven to be able to nest in its shadow!”
33 And with many such parables He spoke to them the Word just as they were able to hear, 34 and without a parable He did not speak to them, but by Himself expounded all things to His own students.
35 And He says to them on that day, it being late: “We should go across to the other side.” 36 And having left the crowd they took Him, as He was in the vessel, and other vessels were with His. 37 And there came a great tempest of wind and the waves cast upon the vessel, so for the vessel to be already filled. 38 And He was in the stern sleeping upon a cushion. And they arouse Him and say to Him: “Teacher, is it not a concern to You that we are destroyed?” 39 And waking up He admonished the wind and said to the sea: “Silence! Be muzzled!” And the wind abated and there came a great calm. 40 And He said to them: “Why are you cowards? Not yet do you have faith?” 41 And they feared a great fear and said to one another: “So who is this that even the wind and the sea obey Him?”
V 1 And they came to the other side of the sea to the region of the Gadarenes, 2 and upon His coming out from the vessel immediately a man with an unclean spirit from among the tombs met Him, 3 who had a dwelling among the tombs, and not even in chains was anyone any longer able to bind him, 4 on account that often he having been bound in fetters and chains and the chains being torn apart by him and the fetters being shattered, and no one prevails to overpower him. 5 And throughout each night and day among the tombs and in the hills he was crying out and cutting himself with stones. 6 And seeing Yahshua from afar he had run and made obeisance to Him 7 and crying out with a great voice says: “What is there with me and with You, Yahshua Son of Yahweh the Highest? I adjure You Yahweh, do not torment me!” (8 For He had said to him: “Unclean spirit, come out from the man!”) 9 And He asked him: “What is your name?” And he says to Him: “Legion is my name, because we are many!” 10 And he exhorted Him very much that He would not send them outside of the region. 11 But there was there by the mountain a great herd of swine feeding, 12 and they exhorted Him saying “Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them!” 13 And He allowed them. And the unclean spirits having gone out entered into the swine, and the herd rushed headlong down the bank into the sea, about two thousand, and drowned in the sea.
14 And those feeding them fled and reported it in the city and in the fields, and they came to see what it is which happened 15 and they come to Yahshua and observe him having been possessed by demons, he who had the legion, clothed and sober-minded, and they feared. 16 And those seeing it described for them how it happened to him possessed by demons and concerning the swine. 17 And they began to exhort Him to depart from their borders.
18 And upon His boarding into the vessel he having been possessed by demons exhorts Him that he could be with Him. 19 And He did not let him, but says to him: “Go to your house to those of your own and report to them as much as Yahweh has done for you and had pity for you.” 20 And he went off and began to proclaim in the Dekapolis as much as Yahshua had done for him, and they all marveled.
21 And upon Yahshua’s going across in the vessel back to the other side, a great crowd gathered to Him, and He was by the sea. 22 And one of the leaders of the assembly hall comes, named Iahiros, and seeing Him he falls to His feet 23 and exhorts Him very much saying that “My daughter hangs on at the end, at which coming You may place the hands upon her, that she would be preserved and live!” 24 And He went off with him. And a great crowd followed Him and pressed together upon Him.
25 And a woman being with a flow of blood for twelve years 26 and being treated often by many physicians and having spent all of her means and having benefited nothing but having come to be still more worse, 27 hearing things about Yahshua, having come in from behind the crowd grabbed His garment, 28 for she had said that “If I could grasp even His garment I shall be saved!” 29 And immediately the source of her blood had dried up and she perceived in the body that it had been healed from the scourge. 30 And immediately Yahshua knowing within Himself that there had gone out from of His power, turning upon the crowd said “Who grabbed My garments?” 31 And His students said to Him: “You see the crowd pressing together upon You and You say ‘Who grabbed Me’?” 32 And they looked about to see she who had done this. 33 Then the woman being afraid and trembling knowing that which happened to her, came and fell before Him and told Him the whole truth. 34 And He said to her: “Daughter, your faith has saved you! Go in peace and you must be healthy from your scourge!”
35 Upon His still speaking they come from the house of the assembly hall leader saying that “Your daughter has died, why trouble the Teacher further?” 36 But Yahshua overhearing the word being spoken says to the assembly hall leader: “Do not fear, only have faith!” 37 And He did not allow anyone to follow along with Him except Petros and Iakobos and Iohannes the brother of Iakobos. 38 And they go into the house of the assembly hall leader, and He observes a clamor of many weeping and crying, 39 and entering He says to them: “Why do you make a clamor and weep? The child has not died, but sleeps!” 40 And they mocked Him. But He casting them all out takes the father and the mother of the child and those with Him and goes into where the child was. 41 And holding the hand of the child He says to her: “Talitha Koum!” which is interpreted: “Little girl, I say to you, arise!” 42 And at once the little girl arose and walked, for she was twelve years of age. And they were immediately confounded with great astonishment. 43 And He ordered them severely that no one should know this, and said to give to her to eat.
VI 1 And He went out from there and comes into His fatherland, and His students follow Him. 2 And upon the coming of a Sabbath He began to teach in the assembly hall, and many listening were astonished, saying “From where in this Man are these things?” and “What wisdom has been given to this Man, and such powers as these coming by His hand! 3 Is this not the craftsman, the son of Maria and brother of Iakobos and Ioses and Iouda and Simon? And are His brethren not here with us?” And they were offended by Him. 4 And Yahshua said to them that “A prophet is not without honor except in his own fatherland and among his kinsmen and in his house!” 5 And He was not able to do there even one feat of power, except that He placed the hands upon and healed a few of the sick. 6 And He marveled on account of their disbelief. And He went about the surrounding villages teaching. 7 And He summons the twelve and began to send them off in pairs and gave to them authority over unclean spirits, 8 and commanded them that they “should take nothing on the road except a staff only: not bread, not a bag, not copper coin for the belt, 9 but having bound sandals, and you should not wear two cloaks.” 10 And He said to them: “Wherever you should enter into a house, you stay there until you should depart from there. 11 And whatever place should not receive you nor hear you, going out from there you shake off the dust from under your feet for a testimony to them.” 12 And going out they proclaimed in order that they should repent, 13 and they cast out many demons, and anointed with olive oil and healed many sick.
14 And Herodas the king heard, for His name became known, and he said that “Iohannes the Baptist has arisen from the dead and for this reason powers operate in him!” 15 But others said that “It is Elijah!” And others said that “He is a prophet like one of the prophets!” 16 Then hearing it Herodas said “Iohannes whom I beheaded, he has arisen!”
17 For Herodas himself having sent seized Iohannes and bound him in prison on account of Herodias the wife of Philippos his brother, because he had married her. 18 For Iohannes had said to Herodas that “It is not lawful for you to have the wife of your brother!” 19 And Herodias held it against him and desired to kill him, and she was not able. (20 For Herodas feared Iohannes, knowing that he is a just and holy man. And he watched out for him, and hearing him he was often in doubt, yet gladly he heard him.)
21 And an opportune day coming, when Herodas held a dinner for his birthday with his noblemen and the commanders and the first men of Galilaia, 22 and his daughter by Herodias having entered in and dancing pleased Herodas and those reclining together, the king said to the girl: “Ask me whatever you may desire, and I shall give it to you!” 23 And he swore to her: “Whatever you may ask me, I shall give to you, so much as half of my kingdom!” 24 And having gone out she said to her mother: “What should I ask?” And she said: “For the head of Iohannes the Baptist.” 25 And immediately entering in to the king with zeal she asked, saying “I desire that at once you should give to me the head of Iohannes the Baptist upon a plate!” 26 And the king becoming quite grieved on account of the oaths and those reclining together did not want to refuse her. 27 And immediately the king having sent a body-guard commanded his head to be brought. And having departed he beheaded him in the prison. 28 And he brought his head upon a plate and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother. 29 And his students having heard came and took his body and buried it in a tomb.
30 And the ambassadors gather to Yahshua and they reported to Him all things whatever they had done and as much as they taught. 31 And He says to them “You yourselves come alone into a desert place and rest a little.” For there were many coming and going, and they did not even have an opportunity to eat.
32 And they went off in a vessel to a desert place by themselves. 33 And many saw them going and recognized them and running together on foot from every city to that place then they came ahead of them. 34 And having come out He saw a great crowd and was deeply moved by them, because they were “as sheep not having a shepherd”, and He began to teach them many things.
35 And it already having been a late hour, His students coming forth to Him said that “It is a desert place and already the hour is late. 36 Release them, in order that departing to the surrounding farms and villages they may buy for themselves something to eat!” 37 And replying He said to them: “You give them to eat!” And they say to Him: “Departing could we buy two hundred denarii of wheat loaves and give to them to eat?” 38 And He says to them “How many loaves do you have? Go look!” And learning they say “Five, and two fish.” 39 And He commanded them all to be reclined in parties upon the grass. 40 And they reclined in groups, some a hundred and some fifty. 41 And taking the five loaves and the two fish, looking up to the heaven He blessed and broke the loaves and gave them to His students in order that they would serve them, and He divided the two fish for all. 42 And they all ate and were satiated, 43 and there were twelve baskets full of fragments, and from the fish. 44 And those eating the loaves were five thousand men.
45 And immediately He compelled His students to board into the vessel and to go ahead to the other side to Bethsa?da, until He releases the crowd. 46 And having disposed with them He went off into the mountain to pray. 47 And it becoming late the vessel was in the midst of the sea, and He alone upon the land. 48 And seeing them being tried while sailing – for there was a wind opposing them – around the fourth watch of the night He comes to them walking upon the sea, and He wished to pass them by. 49 But they seeing Him walking upon the sea supposed that it is an apparition, and they cried out. 50 For they all saw Him and were troubled. And immediately He spoke with them, and says to them: “Have courage, it is I! Do not fear!” 51 And He went up to them into the vessel and the wind abated, and they were exceedingly astonished within themselves, 52 for they did not understand after the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.
53 And crossing over towards the land they came to Gennesaret, and they anchored nearby. 54 And upon their coming out from the vessel, immediately recognizing Him, 55 they ran about that entire region and began to bring around upon cots those having maladies wherever they heard that He is. 56 And wherever He entered into a village or into a city or into the farms, in the marketplaces they set down those who are sick and they exhorted Him in order that if they could even touch the border of His garment, and as many as touched Him were saved.
VII 1 And the Pharisees and some of the scribes having come from Jerusalem gather together to Him. 2 And seeing some of His students, that with profane hands – that is, unwashed – they eat bread (3 for the Pharisees and all the Judaeans if they do not wash the hands to the elbow they do not eat, holding to the tradition of the elders, 4 and from the marketplace if they do not rinse they do not eat, and there are many other things which they undertook to hold to, washings of cups and pitchers and pots) 5 and the Pharisees and the scribes questioned Him: “For what reason do Your students not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but with profane hands they eat bread?” 6 But He said to them: “Well did Isaiah prophecy concerning your hypocrisy, as it is written that ‘This people honors Me with their lips, but their hearts keep far from Me! 7 And vainly do they worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men!’ 8 Leaving the commandment of Yahweh you hold to the tradition of men!” 9 And He said to them: “Well do you reject the commandment of Yahweh, that you may keep your tradition! 10 For Moses said: ‘Honor your father and your mother’, and ‘He speaking evil of father or mother must die in sentence of death’! 11 But you say: ‘If a man should say to father or mother; whatever you have benefited from me is korban (which is a gift)’, you no longer allow him to do anything for the father or mother, rendering void the Word of Yahweh by your tradition which you have transmitted, and many such similar things which you do!”
14 And summoning the crowd again He said to them: “All must hear Me and understand! 15 There is nothing outside of the man entering into him which is able to defile him, but the things coming out from a man are the things defiling him!”
17 And when He had entered into a house away from the crowd, His students asked Him the parable. 18 And He says to them: “Thusly also are you without understanding? Do you not perceive that everything from outside entering into the man is not able to defile him 19 because it does not enter into his heart but into the belly, and it goes out into the latrine, cleansing all foods?” 20 Then He said that “That which is coming out from the man, that would defile the man. 21 For from inside of the hearts of men are evil reasonings coming out, acts of fornication, thefts, murders, 22 acts of adultery, greediness, wickedness, treachery, licentiousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, arrogance, foolishness; 23 all these wicked thing come out from inside and defile the man!”
24 And arising from there He departed for the borders of Turos and Sidon. And entering into a house He desired to know no one, yet was not able to escape notice, 25 but immediately a woman hearing about Him, of whom her daughter had an unclean spirit, having come fell to His feet, 26 and the woman was a Greek, a Syro-Phoenician by race, and she asked Him that He would cast out the demon from her daughter. 27 And He said to her: “Let the children be fed first, for it is not good to take the bread of the children and cast it to the little dogs!” 28 But she responded and says to Him “Yes, Master, yet the little dogs under the table eat from the crumbs of the children!” 29 And He said to her “On account of this word, go! The demon has departed from your daughter!” 30 And having gone off to her house she found the child cast upon a couch and the demon departed.
31 And again coming out from the borders of Turos He came through Sidon to the Sea of Galilaia midway between the borders of Dekapolis. 32 And they bring to Him a deaf and dumb man and exhorted Him that He would lay the hand upon him. 33 And taking him away from the crowd by himself, He put His finger into his ears and spitting touched his tongue, 34 and looking up to the heaven He groaned and says to him: “Ephphatha!” (which is “Be opened!”), 35 and his ear opened, and the binding of his tongue loosed and he spoke correctly. 36 And He ordered them that they should tell it to no one, but as much as He commanded them, still more abundantly they proclaimed it. 37 And they were over-abundantly astonished, saying “He has done all good things! And He makes the deaf to hear and the mute to speak!”
VIII 1 In those days again upon a great crowd being present and not having anything which they could eat, summoning His students He says to them: 2 “I am deeply moved for the crowd, because already they have remained with Me for three days and they do not have anything which they may eat. 3 And if I let them go away to their house fasting, they shall faint on the road, and some of them have come from afar!” 4 And His students replied to Him that “From where is one able to feed so many bread here in a desert place?” 5 And He asked them: “How many loaves do you have?” And they said “Seven.” 6 And He commands the crowd to recline upon the ground, and taking the seven loaves, giving thanks He broke and gave them to His students that they would serve, and they served to the crowd. 7 And they had a few fish, and blessing them He said to serve those also. 8 And they ate and were filled, and there were seven creels of excess fragments. 9 And they were about four thousand, and He released them.
10 And immediately boarding into a vessel with His students He came into the parts of Dalmanoutha. 11 And the Pharisees came out and began to dispute with Him, seeking by Him a sign from heaven, trying Him. 12 And bemoaning in His Spirit He says: “Why does this race seek a sign? Truly I say to you whether a sign shall be given to this race!” 13 And leaving them, boarding again He departed for the other side.
14 And they forgot to take bread, and except for one loaf they did not have it with them in the vessel. 15 And He commanded them, saying: “Look! Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herodas!” 16 And they debated with one another because they do not have bread. 17 And knowing it He says to them “Why do you debate because you do not have bread? Not yet do you perceive nor understand? Do you have hardening of your hearts? 18 Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear? And do you not remember, 19 when the five loaves had been broken for the five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments you took?” They say to Him: “Twelve!” 20 “When the seven for the four thousand, how many creels full of fragments you took?” And they say to Him: “Seven!” 21 And He said to them: “How do you not understand?”
22 And they come into Bethsa?da. And they bring to Him a blind man and exhort Him in order that He would touch him. 23 And taking the hand of the blind man He brought him outside of the town and having spat in his eyes, putting the hands upon him asked him if “Do you see anything?” 24 And looking up he said “I see men, that as trees I see walking!” 25 Then again He put the hands upon his eyes, and he stared and was restored and looked at all things clearly. 26 And He sent him to his house, saying: “Now you should not enter into the town!”
27 And Yahshua went out and His students into the town of Caesareia Philippos, and on the road He questioned His students, saying to them: “What do men say for Me to be?” 28 And they spoke to Him saying that “Iohannes the Baptist, and others Elijah, but others that one of the prophets.” 29 And He asked them: “But what do you say for Me to be?” Responding Petros says to Him: “You are the Christ!” 30 And He admonished them that they should speak to no one concerning Him.
31 And He began to instruct them that it is necessary for the Son of Man to suffer many things and to be rejected by the elders and the high priests and the scribes and to be put to death and after three days to be resurrected. 32 And He spoke the Word openly. And taking Him aside, Petros began to admonish Him. 33 But He turning and seeing His students admonished Petros and says: “Go behind Me, adversary, because you do not mind the things of Yahweh, but the things of men!”
34 And summoning the crowd with His students He said to them: “If one wishes to come behind Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me! 35 For he who should desire to save his life shall lose it, and he who would lose his life because of Me and the good message shall save it! 36 For what shall it benefit a man to gain the whole Society and for his life to be lost? 37 For what could a man give in exchange for his life? 38 For whoever should be ashamed of Me and My words among this adulterous and sinful race, also the Son of Man shall be ashamed of him, when he should come in the honor of His Father with the holy messengers!”
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