# bible

book: Luke
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<verse num="41">And he withdrew from them about a stone's throw and {knelt down}<note>Literally "bent his knees"</note> <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("knelt down"; literally "bent his knees") has been translated as a finite verb</note> began to pray,<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to pray")</note></verse>


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<verse num="42">saying, "Father, if you are willing, take away this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will but yours be done." [[</verse>


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<verse num="44">And being in anguish, he began praying<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began praying")</note> more fervently and his sweat became like drops of blood falling down to the ground.]]<note>A number of early and important Greek manuscripts lack verses 43 and 44</note></verse>


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<verse num="45">And <transChange type="added">when he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("got up") which is understood as temporal</note> got up from the prayer <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the participle ("came") has been translated as a finite verb in keeping with English style</note> came to the disciples, he found them sleeping from sorrow,</verse>


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<verse num="46">and he said to them, "Why are you sleeping? Get up <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("get up") has been translated as a finite verb</note> pray that you will not enter into temptation!" </verse>


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<verse num="47"><transChange type="added">While</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">while</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("speaking")</note> he was still speaking, behold, <transChange type="added">there came</transChange> a crowd, and the one named Judas, one of the twelve, leading them. And he approached Jesus to kiss him.</verse>


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<verse num="48">But Jesus said to him, "Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?"</verse>


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<verse num="49">And <transChange type="added">when</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("saw") which is understood as temporal</note> those around him saw what was about to happen, they said, "Lord, should we strike with the sword?"</verse>


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<verse num="50">And a certain one of them struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his right ear.</verse>


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<verse num="51">But Jesus answered <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("answered") has been translated as a finite verb</note> said, "{Stop! No more of this!}"<note>Literally "leave off to this"</note> And he touched <transChange type="added">his</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> ear <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("touched") has been translated as a finite verb</note> healed him.</verse>


book: Luke
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<verse num="52">And Jesus said to the chief priests and officers of the temple and elders who had come out against him, "Have you come out with swords and clubs, as against a robber?</verse>


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<verse num="53">Every day <transChange type="added">when</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("was")</note> I was with you in the temple <transChange type="added">courts</transChange>,<note>*Here "<transChange type="added">courts</transChange>" is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself</note> you did not stretch out <transChange type="added">your</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> hands against me! But this is your hour and the domain of darkness!" </verse>


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<verse num="54">And they arrested him <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("arrested") has been translated as a finite verb</note> led <transChange type="added">him</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> away and brought <transChange type="added">him</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> into the house of the high priest. But Peter was following at a distance.</verse>


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<verse num="55">And <transChange type="added">when they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had kindled") which is understood as temporal</note> had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat down among them.</verse>


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<verse num="56">And a certain female slave, seeing him sitting in the light and looking intently at him, said, "This man also was with him!"</verse>


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<verse num="57">But he denied <transChange type="added">it</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> saying, "Woman, I do not know him!"</verse>


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<verse num="58">And after a short time another person saw him <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("saw") has been translated as a finite verb</note> said, "You also are <transChange type="added">one</transChange> of them!" But Peter said, "Man, I am not!"</verse>


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<verse num="59">And <transChange type="added">after</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">after</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("had passed")</note> about one hour had passed, someone else was insisting, saying, "In truth this man also was with him, because he is also a Galilean!"</verse>


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<verse num="60">But Peter said, "Man, I do not know what you are talking about!" And immediately, <transChange type="added">while</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">while</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("was speaking")</note> he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.</verse>


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<verse num="61">And the Lord turned around <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("turned around") has been translated as a finite verb</note> looked intently at Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord,<note>Some manuscripts have "the Lord's statement"</note> how he said to him, "Before the rooster crows today, you will deny me three times."</verse>


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<verse num="62">And he went outside <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("went") has been translated as a finite verb</note> wept bitterly. </verse>


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<verse num="63">And the men who were guarding him began to mock<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to mock")</note> him <transChange type="added">while</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("beat") which is understood as temporal</note> they beat <transChange type="added">him</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note></verse>


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<verse num="64">and <transChange type="added">after</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">after</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("blindfolding") which is understood as temporal</note> blindfolding him they repeatedly asked<note>*This imperfect verb is translated as iterative ("repeatedly asked")</note> <transChange type="added">him</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> saying, "Prophesy! Who is the one who struck you?"</verse>


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<verse num="65">And they were saying many other <transChange type="added">things</transChange> against him, reviling <transChange type="added">him</transChange>.<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> </verse>


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<verse num="66">And when day came, the council of elders of the people gathered, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away to their Sanhedrin,<note>Or "council"</note></verse>


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<verse num="67">saying, "If you are the Christ, tell us!" But he said to them, "If I tell you, you will never believe,</verse>


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<verse num="68">and if I ask <transChange type="added">you</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> you will never answer!</verse>


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<verse num="69">But from now on the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God."</verse>


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<verse num="70">So they all said, "Are you then the Son of God?" And he said to them, "You say that I am."</verse>


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<verse num="71">And they said, "Why do we have need <transChange type="added">of</transChange> further testimony? For <transChange type="added">we</transChange> ourselves have heard <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> from his mouth!" </verse>


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<verse num="1">And the whole assembly of them rose up <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("rose up") has been translated as a finite verb</note> brought him before Pilate.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And they began to accuse him, saying, "We have found this man misleading our nation and forbidding <transChange type="added">us</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> to pay taxes to Caesar, and saying <transChange type="added">he</transChange> himself is Christ, a king!"</verse>


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<verse num="3">And Pilate asked him, saying, "Are you the king of the Jews?" And he answered him <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("answered") has been translated as a finite verb</note> said, "You say <transChange type="added">so</transChange>."</verse>


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<verse num="4">So Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, "I find no basis for an accusation against this man."</verse>


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<verse num="5">But they insisted, saying, "He incites the people, teaching throughout the whole of Judea and beginning from Galilee as far as here." </verse>


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<verse num="6">Now <transChange type="added">when</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("heard") which is understood as temporal</note> Pilate heard <transChange type="added">this</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> he asked if the man was a Galilean.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And <transChange type="added">when he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("found out") which is understood as temporal</note> found out that he was from the jurisdiction of Herod, he sent him over to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem in those days.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And <transChange type="added">when</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("saw") which is understood as temporal</note> Herod saw Jesus, he was very glad, for he had been wanting to see him for a long time, because he had heard about him and was hoping to see some miracle performed by him.</verse>


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<verse num="9">So he questioned him {at considerable length},<note>Literally "with many words"</note> but he answered nothing to him.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And the chief priests and the scribes were standing there vehemently accusing him.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And Herod with his soldiers also treated him with contempt, and <transChange type="added">after</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">after</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("mocking") which is understood as temporal</note> mocking <transChange type="added">him</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied to connect the two participles ("mocking" and "dressing") in keeping with English style</note> dressing <transChange type="added">him</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> <transChange type="added">in</transChange> glistening clothing, he sent him back to Pilate.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And both Herod and Pilate became friends with one another on <transChange type="added">that</transChange> same day, {for they had previously been enemies of one another}.<note>Literally "for they had previously existed being at enmity with each other"</note> </verse>


book: Luke
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<verse num="14"><transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the participle in the previous verse ("called together") has been translated as a finite verb</note> said to them, "You brought me this man as one who was misleading the people, and behold, <transChange type="added">when I</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("examined") which is understood as temporal</note> examined <transChange type="added">him</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> before you, I found nothing in this man as basis for the accusation which {you are making}<note>Literally "you are accusing"</note> against him.</verse>


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<verse num="15">But neither <transChange type="added">did</transChange> Herod, because he sent him back to us. And behold, nothing deserving death {has been done}<note>Literally "is having been done"</note> by him.</verse>


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<verse num="16">Therefore I will punish him <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("punish") has been translated as a finite verb</note> release <transChange type="added">him</transChange>."<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> <note>Many of the most important Greek manuscripts lack v. 17, "Now he was obligated to release for them at the feast one person."</note></verse>


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<verse num="18">But they all cried out in unison, saying, "Take this man away, and release for us Barabbas!"</verse>


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<verse num="19">(who had been thrown in prison because of a certain insurrection that had taken place in the city, and <transChange type="added">for</transChange> murder).</verse>


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<verse num="20">And Pilate, wanting to release Jesus, addressed <transChange type="added">them</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note><note>Some manuscripts explicitly state "them"</note> again,</verse>


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<verse num="22">So he said to them a third <transChange type="added">time</transChange>, "Why? What wrong has this man done? I found no basis for an accusation {deserving death}<note>Literally "of death"</note> in him. Therefore I will punish him <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("punish") has been translated as a finite verb</note> release <transChange type="added">him</transChange>."<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note></verse>


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<verse num="23">But they were urgent, demanding with loud cries <transChange type="added">that</transChange> he be crucified. And their cries prevailed.</verse>


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<verse num="24">And Pilate decided <transChange type="added">that</transChange> their demand should be granted.</verse>


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<verse num="25">And he released the one who had been thrown into prison because of insurrection and murder, whom they were asking for, but Jesus he handed over to their will. </verse>


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<verse num="26">And as they led him away, they seized Simon, a certain <transChange type="added">man</transChange> of Cyrene, who was coming from the country, <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("seized") has been translated as a finite verb</note> placed the cross on him, to carry <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> behind Jesus.</verse>


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<verse num="27">And a great crowd of the people were following him, and of women who were mourning and lamenting him.</verse>


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<verse num="28">But turning to them, Jesus said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children!</verse>


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<verse num="29">For behold, days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the barren, and the wombs that did not give birth, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> breasts that did not nurse!'</verse>


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<verse num="30">Then they will begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and to the hills, 'Cover us!'</verse>


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<verse num="31">For if they do these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> {when the wood is green},<note>Literally "in the green wood"</note> what will happen {when it is dry}?"<note>Literally "in the dry"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="33">And when they came to the place that is called "The Skull," there they crucified him, and the criminals, the one on <transChange type="added">his</transChange> right and the other on <transChange type="added">his</transChange> left.</verse>


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<verse num="34"><transChange type="added">[But Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing."</transChange>]<note>Many important manuscripts lack v. 34a, "But Jesus said, 'Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.'"</note> And they cast lots to divide his clothes.</verse>


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<verse num="35">And the people stood there watching, but the rulers also ridiculed <transChange type="added">him</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> saying, "He saved others; let him save himself, if this <transChange type="added">man</transChange> is the Christ<note>Or "Messiah"</note> of God, the Chosen One!"</verse>


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<verse num="36">And the soldiers also mocked him, coming up <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied to connect the two participles ("coming up" and "offering") in keeping with English style</note> offering him sour wine</verse>


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<verse num="38">And there was also an inscription over him, "This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the king of the Jews." </verse>


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<verse num="39">And one of the criminals who were hanged there reviled him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself--and us!"</verse>


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<verse num="40">But the other answered <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied to connect the two participles ("answered" and "rebuked") in keeping with English style</note> rebuked him, saying, "Do you not even fear God, because you are undergoing the same condemnation?</verse>


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<verse num="41">And we indeed justly, for we are receiving {what we deserve}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">things</transChange> worthy"</note> <transChange type="added">for</transChange> what we have done. But this man has done nothing wrong!"</verse>


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<verse num="43">And he said to him, "Truly I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise." </verse>


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<verse num="44">And by this time it was about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour</verse>


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<verse num="45"><transChange type="added">because</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">because</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("failed") which is understood as causal</note> <transChange type="added">the light</transChange> of the sun failed. And the curtain of the temple was torn apart <transChange type="added">down</transChange> the middle.</verse>


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<verse num="46">And Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I entrust my spirit!"<note>A quotation from Ps 31:5</note> And <transChange type="added">after he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">after</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("said") which is understood as temporal</note> said this, he expired. </verse>


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<verse num="47">Now <transChange type="added">when</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("saw") which is understood as temporal</note> the centurion saw what had happened, he began to praise<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to praise")</note> God, saying, "Certainly this man was righteous!"</verse>


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<verse num="48">And all the crowds that had come together for this spectacle, <transChange type="added">when they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("saw") which is understood as temporal</note> saw the things that had happened, returned <transChange type="added">home</transChange><note>*The word "<transChange type="added">home</transChange>" is not in the Greek text, but is implied</note> beating <transChange type="added">their</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> breasts.</verse>


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<verse num="49">And all his acquaintances, and the women who had followed him from Galilee who saw these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, stood at a distance. </verse>


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<verse num="50">And behold, a man {named}<note>Literally "by name"</note> Joseph, who was a member of the council,<note>Or "a member of the Sanhedrin"</note> a good<note>Some manuscripts have "and a good"</note> and righteous man</verse>


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<verse num="51">(this man was not consenting to their plan and deed), from Arimathea, {a Judean town},<note>Literally "a town of the Jews"</note> who was looking forward to the kingdom of God.</verse>


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<verse num="52">This man approached Pilate <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("approached") has been translated as a finite verb</note> asked for the body of Jesus.</verse>


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<verse num="53">And he took <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> down <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("wrapped") has been translated as a finite verb</note> wrapped it in a linen cloth and placed him in a tomb cut into the rock where no one had ever been placed.</verse>


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<verse num="55">And the women who had been accompanying him from Galilee followed <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("followed") has been translated as a finite verb</note> saw the tomb and how his body was placed.</verse>


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<verse num="56">And they returned <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("returned") has been translated as a finite verb</note> prepared fragrant spices and perfumes, and on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Now on the first <transChange type="added">day</transChange> of the week, at very early dawn, they came back to the tomb bringing the fragrant spices which they had prepared.</verse>


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<verse num="3">but <transChange type="added">when they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("went in") which is understood as temporal</note> went in, they did not find the body.<note>Some manuscripts add "of the Lord Jesus"</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">And it happened that while they were perplexed about this, behold, two men in gleaming clothing stood near them.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And <transChange type="added">as</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">as</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participles ("were" and "bowed")</note> they were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, they said to them, "Why are you looking for the living among the dead?</verse>


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<verse num="6">He is not here, but has been raised! Remember how he spoke to you <transChange type="added">while he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">while</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("was") which is understood as temporal</note> was still in Galilee,</verse>


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<verse num="7">saying that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of men <transChange type="added">who are</transChange> sinners, and be crucified, and on the third day rise?"</verse>


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<verse num="9">and <transChange type="added">when they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("returned") which is understood as temporal</note> returned from the tomb, they reported all these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> to the eleven and to all the rest.</verse>


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<verse num="10">Now Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the <transChange type="added">mother</transChange> of James and the others with them were telling these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> to the apostles.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And these words appeared to them as nonsense, and they refused to believe them.</verse>


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<verse num="12">But Peter got up <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("got up") has been translated as a finite verb</note> ran to the tomb, and bending over to look, he saw only the <transChange type="added">strips of</transChange> linen cloth, and he went away to his home<note>Or "wondering to himself," if the prepositional phrase modifies the following participle</note> wondering what had happened. </verse>


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<verse num="13">And behold, on <transChange type="added">that</transChange> same day, two of them were traveling to a village {named}<note>Literally "to which the name"</note> Emmaus <transChange type="added">that was</transChange> sixty stadia<note>A "stade" or "stadium" (plur. "stadia") is about 607 ft (187 m)</note> distant from Jerusalem,</verse>


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<verse num="14">and they were conversing with one another about all these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> that had happened.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And it happened that while they were conversing, and discussing, Jesus himself also approached <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("approached") has been translated as a finite verb</note> began to go along with<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to go along with")</note> them,</verse>


book: Luke
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<verse num="17">And he said to them, "What <transChange type="added">are</transChange> these matters that you are discussing with one another <transChange type="added">as you</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">as</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("walking along") which is understood as temporal</note> are walking along?" And they stood still, looking sad.</verse>


book: Luke
content:
<verse num="18">And one <transChange type="added">of them</transChange>, {named}<note>Literally "by name"</note> Cleopas, answered <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("answered") has been translated as a finite verb</note> said to him, "<transChange type="added">Are</transChange> you the only one living near Jerusalem and not knowing the things that have happened in it in these days?"</verse>


book: Luke
content:
<verse num="19">And he said to them, "What <transChange type="added">things</transChange>?" So they said to him, "The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene, a man who was a prophet, powerful in deed and word before God and all the people,</verse>


book: Luke
content:
<verse num="20">and how our chief priests and rulers handed him over to a sentence of death, and crucified him.</verse>


book: Luke
content:
<verse num="21">But we were hoping that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. But in addition to all these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the third day {since}<note>Literally "he spends from which"</note> these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> took place.</verse>


book: Luke
content:
<verse num="22">But also some women from among us astonished us, who were at the tomb early in the morning,</verse>


book: Luke
content:
<verse num="23">and <transChange type="added">when they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("find") which is understood as temporal</note> did not find his body, they came back saying <transChange type="added">they</transChange> had seen even a vision of angels, who said <transChange type="added">that</transChange> he was alive!</verse>


book: Luke
content:
<verse num="24">And some of those with us went out to the tomb and found <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> like this, just as the women had also said, but him they did not see."</verse>


book: Luke
content:
<verse num="25">And he said to them, "O foolish and slow in heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!</verse>


book: Luke
content:
<verse num="26">Was it not necessary <transChange type="added">that</transChange> the Christ suffer these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> and enter into his glory?"</verse>


book: Luke
content:
<verse num="27">And beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them the things concerning himself in all the scriptures.</verse>


book: Luke
content:
<verse num="28">And they drew near to the village where they were going, and he acted as though he was going farther.</verse>


book: Luke
content:
<verse num="29">And they urged him strongly, saying, "Stay with us, because it is <transChange type="added">getting</transChange> toward evening, and by this time the day is far spent." And he went in to stay with them.</verse>


book: Luke
content:
<verse num="30">And it happened that when he reclined at the table with them, he took the bread <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("took") has been translated as a finite verb</note> gave thanks, and <transChange type="added">after</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">after</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("breaking") which is understood as temporal</note> breaking <transChange type="added">it</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> he gave <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> to them.</verse>


book: Luke
content:
<verse num="31">And their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he became invisible to them.</verse>


book: Luke
content:
<verse num="32">And they said to one another, "Were not our hearts burning within us while he was speaking with us on the road, while he was explaining the scriptures to us?"</verse>


book: Luke
content:
<verse num="33">And they got up <transChange type="added">that</transChange> same hour <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("got up") has been translated as a finite verb</note> returned to Jerusalem and found the eleven and those with them assembled,</verse>


book: Luke
content:
<verse num="35">And they began describing<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began describing")</note> {what happened}<note>Literally "the things"</note> on the road, and how he was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread. </verse>


book: Luke
content:
<verse num="36">And <transChange type="added">while</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">while</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("were saying")</note> they were saying these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, he himself stood there among them.<note>Some manuscripts add "and said to them, 'Peace to you!'"</note></verse>


book: Luke
content:
<verse num="37">But they were startled and became terrified, <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the two previous participles ("startled" and "terrified") have been translated as finite verbs</note> thought <transChange type="added">they</transChange> had seen a ghost.</verse>


book: Luke
content:
<verse num="38">And he said to them, "Why are you frightened? And for what <transChange type="added">reason</transChange> do doubts arise in your hearts?</verse>


book: Luke
content:
<verse num="39">Look at my hands and my feet, that I am I myself! Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as {you see that I have}."<note>Literally "you see me having"</note></verse>


book: Luke
content:
<verse num="40">And <transChange type="added">when he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had said") which is understood as temporal</note> had said this, he showed them <transChange type="added">his</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> hands and <transChange type="added">his</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> feet.</verse>


book: Luke
content:
<verse num="41">And <transChange type="added">while</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">while</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("disbelieving")</note> they were still disbelieving because of joy and were marveling, he said to them, "Do you have anything {to eat}<note>Literally "eatable"</note> here?"</verse>


book: Luke
content:
<verse num="43">and he took <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("took") has been translated as a finite verb</note> ate <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> in front of them. </verse>


book: Luke
content:
<verse num="44">And he said to them, "These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my words that I spoke to you <transChange type="added">while I</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">while</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("was") which is understood as temporal</note> was still with you, that everything that is written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and psalms must be fulfilled."</verse>


book: Luke
content:
<verse num="46">and said to them, "Thus it is written <transChange type="added">that</transChange> the Christ would suffer and would rise from the dead on the third day,</verse>


book: Luke
content:
<verse num="47">and repentance and the forgiveness<note>Some manuscripts have "repentance for the forgiveness"</note> of sins would be proclaimed in his name to all the nations,<note>The same Greek word can be translated "nations" or "Gentiles" depending on the context</note> beginning from Jerusalem.</verse>


book: Luke
content:
<verse num="49">And behold, I am sending out<note>Some manuscripts have "am sending"</note> what was promised by my Father upon you, but you stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high." </verse>


book: Luke
content:
<verse num="50">And he led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up his hands, he blessed them.</verse>


book: Luke
content:
<verse num="51">And it happened that while he was blessing them, he parted from them and was taken up into heaven.</verse>


book: Luke
content:
<verse num="52">And they worshiped him <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("worshiped") has been translated as a finite verb</note> returned to Jerusalem with great joy.</verse>


book: Luke
content:
<verse num="53">And they were {continually}<note>Literally "through everything"</note> in the temple <transChange type="added">courts</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">courts</transChange>" is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself</note> praising God. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="1">In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="3">All <transChange type="added">things</transChange> came into being through him, and apart from him not one <transChange type="added">thing</transChange> came into being that<note>Or "came into being. What ...," beginning a new sentence connected with the following verse. A major punctuation problem is involved, since the earliest manuscripts have no punctuation, but some important later ones place the punctuation before this phrase, effectively connecting it to v. 4: "What has come into being was life in him"</note> has come into being.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="4">In him was life, and the life was the light of humanity.<note>Or "humankind"</note></verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="5">And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome<note>Or "comprehend" (if primarily referring to people in the world)</note> it. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="6">A man came, sent from God, {whose name was}<note>Literally "the name to him"</note> John.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="7">This one came for a witness, in order that he could testify about the light, so that all would believe through him.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="8">That one was not the light, but <transChange type="added">came</transChange><note>The verb is implied from the previous verse, and must be supplied in the English translation</note> in order that he could testify about the light.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="10">He was in the world, and the world came into being through him, and the world did not recognize<note>Or "acknowledge"</note> him.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="11">He came to his own <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, and his own <transChange type="added">people</transChange> did not receive him.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="12">But as many as received him--to those who believe in his name--he gave to them authority to become children of God,</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="13">who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of a husband, but of God. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="14">And the Word became flesh and took up residence among us, and we saw his glory, glory as of the one and only from the Father, full of grace and truth.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="15">John testified about him and cried out, saying, "This one was <transChange type="added">he about</transChange> whom I said, 'The one who comes after me is ahead of me, because he existed before me.'"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="17">For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="18">No one has seen God at any time; the one and only, God, the one who is in the bosom of the Father--that one has made <transChange type="added">him</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> known. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="19">And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent<note>Some manuscripts have "sent to him"</note> priests and Levites from Jerusalem so that they could ask him, "Who are you?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="20">And he confessed--and he did not deny, and confessed--"I am not the Christ!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="21">And they asked him, "Then who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you? Are you Elijah?" And he said, "I am not!" "Are you the Prophet?"<note>A reference to the "Prophet like Moses" of Deut 18:15 (see Acts 3:22)</note> And he answered, "No!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="22">Then they said to him, "Who are you, so that we can give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?" </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="25">And they asked him and said to him, "Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?" </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="26">John answered them, saying, "I baptize with water. In your midst stands <transChange type="added">one</transChange> whom you do not know--</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="27">the one who comes after me, of whom I am not worthy {to untie}<note>Literally "that I might untie"</note> the strap of his sandal!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="28">These <transChange type="added">things</transChange> took place in Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="29">On the next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, "Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="30">This one is <transChange type="added">the one</transChange> about whom I said, 'After me is coming a man who is ahead of me, because he existed before me.'</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="31">And I did not know him, but in order that he could be revealed to Israel, because of this I came baptizing with water." </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="32">And John testified, saying, "I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove from heaven and remaining upon him.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="33">And I did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water, that one said to me, '<transChange type="added">The one</transChange> upon whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining upon him--this one is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="34">And I have seen and testify that this one is the Chosen One<note>Some manuscripts have "the Son of God"</note> of God. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="35">On the next day again John was standing <transChange type="added">there</transChange>,<note>*The word "<transChange type="added">there</transChange>" is not in the Greek text but is implied</note> and two of his disciples,</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="36">and looking at Jesus <transChange type="added">as he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">as</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("walking by") which is understood as temporal</note> was walking by, he said, "Look! The Lamb of God!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="38">And Jesus, turning around and seeing them following <transChange type="added">him</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> said to them, "What do you seek?" And they said to him, "Rabbi" (which means <transChange type="added">when</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("translated") which is understood as temporal</note> translated "Teacher"), "where are you staying?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="39">He said to them, "Come and you will see!" So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day (it was about the tenth hour). </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="40">Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard John and followed him.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="41">This one first found his own brother Simon and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!" (which is translated "Christ").</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="42">He brought him to Jesus. Looking at him, Jesus said, "You are Simon the son of John. You will be called Cephas" (which is interpreted "Peter"). </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="43">On the next day he wanted to depart for Galilee, and he found Philip. And Jesus said to him, "Follow me!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="45">Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found <transChange type="added">the one</transChange> whom Moses wrote <transChange type="added">about</transChange> in the law, and the prophets wrote <transChange type="added">about</transChange>--Jesus son of Joseph from Nazareth!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="46">And Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see!" </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="47">Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said about him, "Look! {A true Israelite}<note>Literally "truly an Israelite"</note> in whom is no deceit!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="48">Nathanael said to him, "From where do you know me?" Jesus answered and said to him, "Before Philip called you, <transChange type="added">when you</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("were") which is understood as temporal</note> were under the fig tree, I saw you."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="49">Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the king of Israel!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="50">Jesus answered and said to him, "Because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater <transChange type="added">things</transChange> than these!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="51">And he said to him, "Truly, truly I say to all of you, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man." </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="1">And on the third day, there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="3">And <transChange type="added">when the</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("ran out")</note> wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="4">And Jesus said to her, "What {does your concern have to do with me},<note>Literally "to me and to you"</note> woman? My hour has not yet come."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="5">His mother said to the servants, "Whatever he says to you, do <transChange type="added">it</transChange>!"<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="6">Now six stone water jars were set there, in accordance with the ceremonial cleansing of the Jews, each holding two or three measures.<note>A "measure" was about 9 gallons (40 liters)</note></verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="7">Jesus said to them, "Fill the water jars with water." And they filled them to the brim.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="8">And he said to them, "Now draw <transChange type="added">some</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> out and take <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> to the head steward. So they took <transChange type="added">it</transChange>.<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note></verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="9">Now when the head steward tasted the water which had become wine and did not know where it was from--but the servants who had drawn the water knew--the head steward summoned the bridegroom</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="10">and said to him, "{Everyone}<note>Literally "every man"</note> serves the good wine first, and whenever they are drunk, the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="11">This beginning of signs Jesus performed at Cana in Galilee, and revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="12">After this he went down to Capernaum, and his mother and brothers<note>Some manuscripts have "his brothers"</note> and his disciples, and they stayed there {a few}<note>Literally "not many"</note> days.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="14">And he found in the temple <transChange type="added">courts</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">courts</transChange>" is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself</note> those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers seated.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="15">And he made a whip of cords <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("made") has been translated as a finite verb</note> drove <transChange type="added">them</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> all out of the temple <transChange type="added">courts</transChange>,<note>*Here "<transChange type="added">courts</transChange>" is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself</note> both the sheep and the oxen, and he poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their<note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> tables.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="16">And to the ones selling the doves he said, "Take these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> away from here! Do not make my Father's house {a marketplace}!"<note>Literally "a market house"; or "a house of merchants" (an allusion to Zech 14:21)</note></verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="17">His disciples remembered that it is written, "Zeal for your house will consume me."<note>A quotation from Ps 69:9</note> </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="18">So the Jews answered and said to him, "What sign do you show to us, because you are doing these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="19">Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="20">Then the Jews said, "This temple has been under construction<note>This translation of the aorist verb is based on a very close parallel in Ezra 5:16 (LXX), where it is clear from the following verb that the construction had not yet been completed</note> forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="22">So when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the saying that Jesus had spoken. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="23">Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name <transChange type="added">because they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">because</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("saw") which is understood as causal</note> saw his signs which he was doing.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="24">But Jesus himself did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all <transChange type="added">people</transChange>,<note>The Greek term is masculine and thus refers to "all <transChange type="added">people</transChange>" rather than "all <transChange type="added">things</transChange>" (which would be neuter)</note></verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="25">and because he did not {need}<note>Literally "have need that"</note> anyone {to testify}<note>Literally "should testify"</note> about man, for he himself knew what was in man.<note>*Here "man" has been retained rather than the generic "people" to maintain the connection with the following verse</note> </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="1">Now there was a man of the Pharisees {whose name was}<note>Literally "the name to him"</note> Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="2">This man came to him at night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that <transChange type="added">you are</transChange><note>*Here both the pronoun and verb are understood in Greek and are supplied in the translation</note> a teacher who has come from God, for no one is able to perform these signs that you are performing unless God were with him."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="3">Jesus answered and said to him, "Truly, truly I say to you, unless someone is born from above,<note>The same Greek word can mean either "from above" or "again," which allows for the misunderstanding by Nicodemus here; Jesus was speaking of new birth "from above," while Nicodemus misunderstood him to mean a second physical birth</note> he is not able to see the kingdom of God."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="4">Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born <transChange type="added">when he</transChange> is an old man? He is not able to enter into his mother's womb for the second time and be born, <transChange type="added">can he</transChange>?"<note>*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase "<transChange type="added">can he</transChange>"</note> </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="5">Jesus answered, "Truly, truly I say to you, unless someone is born of water and spirit, he is not able to enter into the kingdom of God.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="6">What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="7">Do not be astonished that I said to you, 'It is necessary for you to be born from above.'<note>The same Greek word can mean either "from above" or "again" (see also v. 3)</note></verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="8">The wind blows wherever it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit." </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="9">Nicodemus answered and said to him, "How can these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> be?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="10">Jesus answered and said to him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and you do not understand these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>?</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="11">Truly, truly I say to you, we speak what we know, and we testify <transChange type="added">about</transChange> what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony!</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="12">If I tell you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="13">And no one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven--the Son of Man.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="14">And just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness,<note>An allusion to Num 21:5-9</note> thus it is necessary <transChange type="added">that</transChange> the Son of Man be lifted up,</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="15">so that everyone who believes in him will have eternal life."<note>Some interpreters and Bible translations extend the quotation of Jesus' words through v. 21</note> </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="16">For in this way God loved the world, so that he gave his one and only Son, in order that everyone who believes in him will not perish, but will have eternal life.</verse>


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<verse num="17">For God did not send his Son into the world in order that he should judge<note>Or "he should condemn"</note> the world, but in order that the world should be saved through him.</verse>


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<verse num="18">The one who believes in him is not judged,<note>Or "condemned"</note> but the one who does not believe has already been judged,<note>Or "been condemned"</note> because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And this is the judgment: that the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="20">For everyone who practices evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds be exposed.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="21">But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, in order that his deeds may be revealed, that they are done in God. </verse>


book: John
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<verse num="22">After these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> Jesus and his disciples came into Judean territory, and there he spent time with them and was baptizing.</verse>


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<verse num="23">Now John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and they were coming and were being baptized.</verse>


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<verse num="25">So a dispute occurred on the part of John's disciples with a Jew<note>Some significant early manuscripts read "the Jews"</note> concerning purification.</verse>


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<verse num="26">And they came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, about whom you testified--look, this one is baptizing, and all are coming to him!" </verse>


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<verse num="27">John answered and said, "A man can receive not one <transChange type="added">thing</transChange> unless it is granted to him from heaven!</verse>


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<verse num="28">You yourselves testify about me that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but I am sent before that one.'</verse>


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<verse num="29">The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices {greatly}<note>Literally "with joy"</note> because of the bridegroom's voice. So this joy of mine is complete.</verse>


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<verse num="30">It is necessary for that one to increase, but <transChange type="added">for</transChange> me to decrease." </verse>


book: John
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<verse num="31">The one who comes from above is over all. The one who is from the earth is from the earth and speaks from the earth; the one who comes from heaven is over all.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="32">What he has seen and heard, this he testifies, and no one accepts his testimony.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="34">For <transChange type="added">the one</transChange> whom God sent speaks the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit by measure.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="35">The Father loves the Son and has given all <transChange type="added">things</transChange> into his hand.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="36">The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who disobeys the Son will not see life--but the wrath of God remains on him.<note>Some interpreters and Bible translations extend the quotation of John the Baptist's words through v. 36</note> </verse>


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<verse num="1">Now when Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John</verse>


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<verse num="4">And it was necessary <transChange type="added">for</transChange> him to go through Samaria. </verse>


book: John
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<verse num="5">Now he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="6">And Jacob's well was there, so Jesus, <transChange type="added">because he</transChange> had become tired from the journey, simply sat down at the well. It was about the sixth hour. </verse>


book: John
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<verse num="7">A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me <transChange type="added">water</transChange><note>*Here "water" is supplied in the translation as the understood direct object of the verb "give"</note> to drink."</verse>


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<verse num="9">So the Samaritan woman said to him, "How do you, being a Jew, ask from me <transChange type="added">water</transChange><note>*Here "water" is supplied in the translation as the understood direct object of the verb "ask"</note> to drink, <transChange type="added">since I</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">since</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("am") which is understood as causal</note> am a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) </verse>


book: John
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<verse num="10">Jesus answered and said to her, "If you had known the gift of God and who it is who says to you, 'Give me <transChange type="added">water</transChange><note>*Here "water" is supplied in the translation as the understood direct object of the verb "give"</note> to drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="11">The woman said to him, "Sir, you have no bucket and the well is deep! From where then do you get this living water?</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="12">You are not greater than our father Jacob, <transChange type="added">are you</transChange>,<note>*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated by the supplied phrase "<transChange type="added">are you</transChange>" in the translation</note> who gave us the well and drank from it himself, and his sons and his livestock?" </verse>


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<verse num="13">Jesus answered and said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="14">But whoever drinks of this water which I will give to him will never be thirsty for eternity, but the water which I will give to him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="15">The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or come here to draw <transChange type="added">water</transChange>!"<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note></verse>


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<verse num="17">The woman answered and said to him, "I do not have a husband." Jesus said to her, "You have said rightly, 'I do not have a husband,'</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="18">for you have had five husbands, and <transChange type="added">the one</transChange> whom you have now is not your husband; this you have said truthfully!" </verse>


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<verse num="20">Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you <transChange type="added">people</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">people</transChange>" is supplied in the translation because the Greek pronoun is plural</note> say that in Jerusalem is the place where it is necessary to worship."</verse>


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<verse num="21">Jesus said to her, "Believe me, woman, that an hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="22">You worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="23">But an hour is coming--and now is <transChange type="added">here</transChange><note>*The word "<transChange type="added">here</transChange>" is not in the Greek text but is implied</note>--when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for indeed the Father seeks such <transChange type="added">people</transChange> <transChange type="added">to be</transChange> his worshipers.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="24">God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> spirit, and the ones who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="25">The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming" (the one called Christ); "whenever that one comes, he will proclaim all <transChange type="added">things</transChange> to us."</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="26">Jesus said to her, "I, the one speaking to you, am <transChange type="added">he</transChange>.<note>*Here the predicate nominative is supplied from context in the English translation</note> </verse>


book: John
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<verse num="27">And at this <transChange type="added">point</transChange><note>*The word "<transChange type="added">point</transChange>" is not in the Greek text but is implied</note> his disciples came, and they were astonished that he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, "What do you seek?" or "Why are you speaking with her?"</verse>


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<verse num="28">So the woman left her water jar and went away into the town and said to the people,<note>Assuming the term is used here in a generic sense to refer to persons of either gender, it should be translated "people"; if instead the term here refers only to the town leaders or elders who met at the town gate, then "men" would be appropriate</note></verse>


book: John
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<verse num="29">"Come, see a man who told me everything I have ever done! Perhaps this one is the Christ?"</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="31">In the meanwhile the disciples were asking him, saying, "Rabbi, eat <transChange type="added">something</transChange>!"<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note></verse>


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<verse num="33">So the disciples began to say<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to say")</note> to one another, "No one brought him <transChange type="added">anything</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> to eat, <transChange type="added">did they</transChange>?"<note>*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated by the supplied phrase "<transChange type="added">did they</transChange>" in the translation</note></verse>


book: John
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<verse num="34">Jesus said to them, "My food is that I do the will of the one who sent me and complete his work.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="35">Do you not say, 'There are yet four months and the harvest comes'? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.<note>Some interpreters and Bible translations place the word "already" at the beginning of the next verse: "Already the one who reaps receives wages ..."</note></verse>


book: John
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<verse num="36">The one who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for eternal life, in order that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="37">For in this <transChange type="added">instance</transChange><note>*The word "<transChange type="added">point</transChange>" is not in the Greek text but is implied</note> the saying is true, 'It is one who sows and another who reaps.'</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="38">I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have worked, and you have entered into their work." </verse>


book: John
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<verse num="39">Now from that town many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman who testified, "He told me everything that I have done."</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="40">So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began asking")</note> him to stay with them. And he stayed there two days.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="42">And they were saying to the woman, "No longer because of {what you said}<note>Literally "your speaking"</note> do we believe, for we ourselves have heard, and we know that this one is truly the Savior of the world!" </verse>


book: John
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<verse num="44">For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own homeland.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="45">So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, <transChange type="added">because they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">because</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had seen") which is understood as causal</note> had seen all <transChange type="added">the things</transChange> he had done in Jerusalem at the feast (for they themselves had also come to the feast). </verse>


book: John
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<verse num="46">Now he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And <transChange type="added">there</transChange> was at Capernaum a certain royal official whose son was sick.</verse>


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<verse num="47">This man, <transChange type="added">when he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("heard") which is understood as temporal</note> heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, went to him and asked that he come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="48">So Jesus said to him, "Unless you <transChange type="added">people</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">people</transChange>" is supplied in the translation because the Greek verb ("see") is plural</note> see signs and wonders, you will never believe!"</verse>


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<verse num="50">Jesus said to him, "Go, your son will live." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he departed. </verse>


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<verse num="51">Now <transChange type="added">as</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">as</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("was going down")</note> he was going down, his slaves met him, saying that his child was alive.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="52">So he inquired from them the hour at which he had gotten better. Then they said to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him."</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="53">So the father knew that <transChange type="added">it was</transChange> that<note>Some manuscripts have "that <transChange type="added">it was</transChange> at that same hour"</note> same hour at which Jesus said to him, "Your son will live," and he himself believed, and his whole household.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="54">Now this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> again a second sign Jesus performed <transChange type="added">when he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("came") which is understood as temporal</note> came from Judea into Galilee. </verse>


book: John
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<verse num="1">After these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> <transChange type="added">there</transChange> was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.</verse>


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<verse num="2">Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool called in Aramaic Bethzatha,<note>The majority of later manuscripts read "Bethesda," while other early manuscripts read "Bethsaida"</note> which has five porticoes.</verse>


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<verse num="3">In these were lying a large number of those who were sick, blind, lame, paralyzed.<note>The majority of later manuscripts add the following words: "waiting for the moving of the water. 4 For an angel of the Lord from time to time went down in the pool and stirred up the water. So the one who went in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he suffered."</note></verse>


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<verse num="5">And a certain man was there who had <transChange type="added">been</transChange> thirty-eight years in his sickness.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="6">Jesus, <transChange type="added">when he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("saw") which is understood as temporal</note> saw this one lying <transChange type="added">there</transChange> and knew that he had <transChange type="added">been sick</transChange><note>*The phrase "<transChange type="added">been sick</transChange>" is not in the Greek text, but is supplied from the context</note> a long time already, said to him, "Do you want to become well?"</verse>


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<verse num="7">The one who was sick answered him, "Sir, I do not have anyone that, whenever the water is stirred up, could put me into the pool. But {while}<note>Literally "during which <transChange type="added">time</transChange>"</note> I am coming, another goes down before me."</verse>


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<verse num="9">And immediately the man became well and picked up his mat and began to walk.<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to walk")</note> (Now it was the Sabbath on that day.) </verse>


book: John
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<verse num="10">So the Jews were saying to the one who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and it is not permitted for you to pick up the mat!"<note>Some manuscripts have "your mat"</note></verse>


book: John
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<verse num="11">But he answered them, "The one who made me well--that one said to me, 'Pick up your mat and walk!'"</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="12">So they asked him,<note>Some manuscripts have "They asked him"</note> "Who is the man who said to you, 'Pick up <transChange type="added">your mat</transChange><note>*In Greek the direct object ("<transChange type="added">your mat</transChange>") is not in the Greek text but the repetition is implied from the previous verse</note> and walk?'"</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="13">But the one who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn <transChange type="added">while</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">while</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("was")</note> a crowd was in the place. </verse>


book: John
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<verse num="14">After these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "Look, you have become well! Sin no longer, lest something worse happen to you."</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="15">The man went and reported to the Jews that Jesus was the one who made him well.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="16">And on account of this the Jews began to persecute<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to persecute")</note> Jesus, because he was doing these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> on the Sabbath.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="17">But he answered<note>Some manuscripts have "Jesus answered"</note> them, "My Father is working until now, and I am working."</verse>


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<verse num="18">So on account of this the Jews were seeking even more to kill him, because he not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God his own Father, <transChange type="added">thus</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">thus</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("making") which is understood as result</note> making himself equal with God. </verse>


book: John
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<verse num="19">So Jesus answered and said to them, "Truly, truly I say to you, the Son can do nothing from himself except what he sees the Father doing. For whatever that one does, these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> also the Son does likewise.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="20">For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything that he himself is doing. And greater works than these he will show him, so that you will be astonished.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="21">For just as the Father raises the dead and makes <transChange type="added">them</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> alive, thus also the Son makes alive whomever he wishes.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="22">For the Father does not judge anyone, but he has given all judgment to the Son,</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="23">in order that all <transChange type="added">people</transChange><note>*The word "<transChange type="added">people</transChange>" is not in the Greek text but is implied</note> will honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="24">Truly, truly I say to you that the one who hears my word and who believes the one who sent me has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life. </verse>


book: John
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<verse num="25">"Truly, truly I say to you, that an hour is coming--and now is <transChange type="added">here</transChange>--when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and the ones who hear will live.</verse>


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<verse num="26">For just as the Father has life in himself, thus also he has granted to the Son to have life in himself.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="27">And he has granted him authority to carry out judgment, because he is the Son of Man. </verse>


book: John
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<verse num="28">"Do not be astonished <transChange type="added">at</transChange> this, because an hour is coming in which all those in the tombs will hear his voice</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="29">and they will come out--those who have done good <transChange type="added">things</transChange> to a resurrection of life, but those who have practiced evil <transChange type="added">things</transChange> to a resurrection of judgment.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="30">I am able to do nothing from myself. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my <transChange type="added">own</transChange> will, but the will of the one who sent me. </verse>


book: John
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<verse num="32">There is another who testifies about me, and I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="34">(And I do not receive testimony from people, but I say these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> in order that you may be saved.)</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="35">That one was the lamp <transChange type="added">which was</transChange> burning and shining, and you wanted to rejoice for an hour in his light. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="36">"But I have a testimony greater than John's, for the works which the Father has given to me that I should complete them--the very works which I am doing--<transChange type="added">these</transChange> testify about me, that the Father has sent me.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="37">And the Father who sent me, that one has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time nor seen his form.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="38">And you do not have his word residing in yourselves, because the one whom that one sent, in this one you do not believe.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="39">You search<note>Or "Search" (an imperative)</note> the scriptures because you think that you have eternal life in them, and it is these that testify about me.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="43">I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me. If another should come in his own name, you would accept that one!</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="44">How are you able to believe, <transChange type="added">if you</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">if</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("accept") which is understood as conditional</note> accept glory from one another, and do not seek the glory <transChange type="added">which is</transChange> from the only God?</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="45">Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father! The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have put your hope!</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="46">For if you had believed Moses, you would believe me, for that one wrote about me.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="47">But if you do not believe that one's writings, how will you believe my words?" </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="1">After these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee (that is, Tiberias).</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="2">And a large crowd was following him because they were observing the signs that he was doing on those who were sick.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="5">{Then Jesus, when he looked up}<note>Literally "then Jesus lifting up the eyes"</note> <note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" in the translation is supplied as a component of the participle "lifting up" which is understood as temporal</note> and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where can we buy bread so that these <transChange type="added">people</transChange> can eat?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="7">Philip replied to him, "Two hundred denarii <transChange type="added">worth of</transChange> bread would not be enough for them, in order that each one could receive a little."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="9">"Here is a boy who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these for so many <transChange type="added">people</transChange>?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="10">Jesus said, "Make the people recline." (Now <transChange type="added">there</transChange> was a lot of grass in the place.) So the men reclined, approximately five thousand <transChange type="added">in</transChange> number.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="11">Then Jesus took the bread, and <transChange type="added">after he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">after</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had given thanks") which is understood as temporal</note> had given thanks, he distributed <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> to those who were reclining--likewise also of the fish, as much as they wanted.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="12">And when they were satisfied, he said to his disciples, "Gather the remaining fragments so that nothing is lost."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="13">So they gathered <transChange type="added">them</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves which were left over by those who had eaten. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="14">Now <transChange type="added">when</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("saw") which is understood as temporal</note> the people saw the sign that he performed, they began to say,<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to say")</note> "This one is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="15">Then Jesus, <transChange type="added">because he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">because</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("knew") which is understood as causal</note> knew that they were about to come and seize him in order to make <transChange type="added">him</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> king, withdrew again up the mountain <transChange type="added">by</transChange> himself alone. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="17">And getting into a boat, they began to go<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to go")</note> to the other side of the sea, to Capernaum. And it had already become dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="18">And the sea began to be stirred up<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to be stirred up")</note> <transChange type="added">because</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">because</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("was blowing") which is understood as causal</note> a strong wind was blowing.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="19">Then <transChange type="added">when they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had rowed") which is understood as temporal</note> had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia,<note>A "stade" or "stadium" (plur. "stadia") is about 607 ft (187 m), so this was around 3 miles (5 km)</note> they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were afraid.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="20">But he said to them, "<transChange type="added">It</transChange> is I! Do not be afraid!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="21">So they were wanting to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat came to the land to which they were going. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="22">On the next day, the crowd that was on the other side of the sea saw that other boats were not there (except one), and that Jesus had not entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had departed alone.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="23">Other boats from Tiberias came near the place where they had eaten the bread <transChange type="added">after</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">after</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("had given thanks")</note> the Lord had given thanks.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="24">So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and came to Capernaum seeking Jesus. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="25">And <transChange type="added">when they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("found") which is understood as temporal</note> found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="26">Jesus replied to them and said, "Truly, truly I say to you, you seek me not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were satisfied!</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="27">Do not work for the food that perishes, but the food that remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has set his seal on this one." </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="28">So they said to him, "What shall we do that we can accomplish the works of God?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="29">Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God: that you believe in <transChange type="added">the one</transChange> whom that one sent."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="30">So they said to him, "Then what sign will you perform, so that we can see <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> and believe you? What will you do?</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="31">Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'<note>A quotation from Ps 78:24 which refers to the events of Exod 16:4-36</note> </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="32">Then Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly I say to you, Moses did not give you bread from heaven, but my Father is giving you the true bread from heaven!</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="33">For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="35">Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. The one who comes to me will never be hungry, and the one who believes in me will never be thirsty again.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="37">Everyone whom the Father gives to me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never throw out,</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="38">because I have come down from heaven not that I should do my will, but the will of the one who sent me.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="39">Now this is the will of the one who sent me: that everyone whom he has given me, I would not lose <transChange type="added">any</transChange> of them,<note>This pronoun is neuter singular in Greek, but is collective</note> but raise them<note>This pronoun is neuter singular in Greek, but is collective</note> up on the last day.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="40">For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks at the Son and believes in him would have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day." </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="41">Now the Jews began to grumble<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to grumble")</note> about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven,"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="42">and they were saying, "Is this one not Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, 'I have come down from heaven'?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="43">Jesus answered and said to them, "Do not grumble {among yourselves}!<note>Literally "with one another"</note></verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="44">No one is able to come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="45">It is written in the prophets, 'And they will all be taught by God.'<note>A quotation from Isa 54:13</note> Everyone who hears from the Father and learns comes to me.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="46">(Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God--this one has seen the Father.)<note>The switch from first person in vv. 44-45 to third person here and back to first person in vv. 47-51 suggests that this verse is a parenthetical comment by the author rather than the words of Jesus</note></verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="50">This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that someone may eat from it and not die.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="51">I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread, he will live {forever}.<note>Literally "for the age"</note> And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh." </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="52">So the Jews began to quarrel<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to quarrel")</note> {among themselves},<note>Literally "with one another"</note> saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="53">Then Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves!</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="54">The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="56">The one who eats<note>*This term is somewhat graphic and typically used for animals feeding, but the distinction from other Greek verbs for eating is difficult to convey in English</note> my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me and I in him.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="57">Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, <transChange type="added">so</transChange> also the one who eats<note>*This term is somewhat graphic and typically used for animals feeding, but the distinction from other Greek verbs for eating is difficult to convey in English</note> me--that one will live because of me.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="58">This is the bread that came down from heaven, not as the fathers ate and died. The one who eats<note>*This term is somewhat graphic and typically used for animals feeding, but the distinction from other Greek verbs for eating is difficult to convey in English</note> this bread will live {forever}."<note>Literally "for the age"</note> </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="59">He said these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> <transChange type="added">while</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("teaching") which is understood as temporal</note> teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="60">Thus many of his disciples, <transChange type="added">when they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("heard") which is understood as temporal</note> heard <transChange type="added">it</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> said, "This saying is hard! Who can understand it?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="61">But Jesus, <transChange type="added">because he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">because</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("knew") which is understood as causal</note> knew within himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, "Does this cause you to be offended?</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="62">Then <transChange type="added">what</transChange> if you see the Son of Man ascending where he was before?</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="63">The Spirit is the one who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="64">But there are some of you who do not believe." (For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="65">And he said, "Because of this I said to you that no one can come to me unless it has been granted to him by the Father." </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="66">For this <transChange type="added">reason</transChange> many of his disciples {drew back}<note>Literally "went away to the things behind"</note> and were not walking with him any longer.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="67">So Jesus said to the twelve, "You do not want to go away also, <transChange type="added">do you</transChange>?"<note>*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase "<transChange type="added">do you</transChange>"</note></verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="68">Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="69">And we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="70">Jesus replied to them, "Did I not choose you, the twelve, and one of you is the devil?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="71">(Now he was speaking about Judas <transChange type="added">son</transChange> of Simon Iscariot, because this one--one of the twelve--was going to betray him.) </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="1">And after these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> Jesus was going about in Galilee. For he did not want to go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="2">Now the feast of the Jews--the <transChange type="added">feast of</transChange> Tabernacles--was near.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="3">So his brothers said to him, "Depart from here and go to Judea, so that your disciples also can see your works that you are doing.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="4">For no one does anything in secret and <transChange type="added">yet</transChange> he himself desires to be {publicly recognized}.<note>Literally "with openness"</note> If you are doing these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, reveal yourself to the world!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="6">So Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="7">The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it, that its deeds are evil.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="8">You go up to the feast. I am not<note>Most manuscripts read "not yet" here, but this is obviously an easier reading intended to reconcile the statement with Jesus' later actions</note> going up to this feast, because my time is not yet completed.<note>Or "fulfilled"</note></verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="9">And <transChange type="added">when he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had said") which is understood as temporal</note> had said these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, he remained in Galilee. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="10">But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not openly, but (as it were) in secret.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="11">So the Jews were looking for him at the feast, and were saying, "Where is he?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="12">And there was a lot of grumbling concerning him among the crowds; some were saying, "He is a good <transChange type="added">man</transChange>," but others were saying, "No, but he deceives the crowd."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="14">{Now when the feast was already half over},<note>Literally "now it being already in the middle of the feast"</note> Jesus went to the temple <transChange type="added">courts</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">courts</transChange>" is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself</note> and began to teach.<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to teach")</note></verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="15">Then the Jews were astonished, saying, "How does this man {possess knowledge},<note>Literally "know letters"</note> <transChange type="added">because he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">because</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("been taught") which is understood as causal</note> has not been taught?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="16">So Jesus answered them and said, "My teaching is not mine, but <transChange type="added">is</transChange> from the one who sent me.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="17">If anyone wants to do his will, he will know about my<note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> teaching, whether it is from God or I am speaking from myself.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="18">The one who speaks from himself seeks his own glory. But the one who seeks the glory of the one who sent him--this one is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="19">Has not Moses given you the law, and none of you carries out the law? Why do you seek to kill me?" </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="21">Jesus answered and said to them, "I performed one work, and you are all astonished.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="22">Because of this Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="23">If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses would not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a whole man well<note>Or "a man entirely well"</note> on the Sabbath?</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="24">Do not judge according to outward appearance, but judge according to righteous judgment!" </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="25">Then some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem began to say,<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to say")</note> "Is this not <transChange type="added">the one</transChange> whom they are seeking to kill?</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="26">And behold, he is speaking openly and they are saying nothing to him! Can it be that the rulers truly know that this man is the Christ?</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="27">Yet we know where this man is from, but the Christ, whenever he comes--no one knows where he is from!" </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="28">Then Jesus cried out in the temple <transChange type="added">courts</transChange>,<note>*Here "<transChange type="added">courts</transChange>" is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself</note> teaching and saying, "You both know me and you know where I am from! And I have not come from myself, but the one who sent me is true, whom you do not know.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="30">So they were seeking to seize him, and no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="31">But from the crowd many believed in him and were saying, "Whenever the Christ comes, he will not perform more signs than this man has done, <transChange type="added">will he</transChange>?"<note>*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase "<transChange type="added">will he</transChange>"</note> </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="32">The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> about him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers in order {to take him into custody }.<note>Literally "that they could seize him"</note></verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="33">Then Jesus said, "Yet a little time I am with you, and I am going to the one who sent me.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="34">You will seek me and will not find <transChange type="added">me</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note><note>Some manuscripts explicitly state "me"</note> and where I am, you cannot come." </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="35">So the Jews said to one another, "Where <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this one going to go, that we will not find him? He is not going to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, <transChange type="added">is he</transChange>?<note>*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase "<transChange type="added">is he</transChange>"</note></verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="36">What is this saying that he said, 'You will seek me and will not find <transChange type="added">me</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note><note>Some manuscripts explicitly state "me"</note> and where I am, you cannot come'?" </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="37">Now on the last day of the feast--the great <transChange type="added">day</transChange>--Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and let him drink,</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="38">the one who believes in me.<note>An alternative punctuation of vv. 37-38 reads: "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and let him drink. 38 The one who believes in me, just as the scripture said, 'Out of his belly will flow rivers of living water.'"</note> Just as the scripture said, 'Out of his belly will flow rivers of living water.'"<note>A quotation from the Old Testament of uncertain origin; texts most often suggested are Isa 44:3; 55:1; 58:11; Zech 14:8</note></verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="39">Now he said this concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were about to receive. For the Spirit was not yet <transChange type="added">given</transChange>,<note>A few manuscripts supply the participle "given" here; while it is unlikely this represents the original reading, many English versions nevertheless supply "given" to avoid the impression that the Spirit did not exist prior to this point</note> because Jesus had not yet been glorified.) </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="40">Then, <transChange type="added">when they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("heard") which is understood as temporal</note> heard these words, <transChange type="added">some</transChange> from the crowd began to say,<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to say")</note> "This man is truly the Prophet!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="41">Others were saying, "This man is the Christ!" But others were saying, "No, for the Christ does not come from Galilee, <transChange type="added">does he</transChange>?<note>*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase "<transChange type="added">does he</transChange>"</note></verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="42">Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes from the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="45">So the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees. And they said to them, "{Why}<note>Literally "because of what"</note> did you not bring him?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="47">Then the Pharisees replied to them, "You have not also been deceived, <transChange type="added">have you</transChange>?<note>*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase "<transChange type="added">have you</transChange>"</note></verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="48">{None}<note>Literally "not anyone"</note> of the rulers or of the Pharisees have believed in him, <transChange type="added">have they</transChange>?<note>*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase "<transChange type="added">have they</transChange>"</note></verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="50">Nicodemus, the one who came to him previously--who was one of them--said to them,</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="51">"Our law does not condemn a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, <transChange type="added">does it</transChange>?"<note>*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase "<transChange type="added">does it</transChange>"</note></verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="52">They answered and said to him, "You are not also from Galilee, <transChange type="added">are you</transChange>?<note>*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase "<transChange type="added">are you</transChange>"</note> Investigate and see that a prophet does not arise from Galilee!" [[</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="53">And each one went to his <transChange type="added">own</transChange> house.<note>John 7:53-8:11 is not found in the earliest and best manuscripts and was almost certainly not an original part of the Gospel of John; one significant group of Greek manuscripts places it after Luke 21:38</note> </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="2">Now early in the morning he came again to the temple <transChange type="added">courts</transChange>.<note>*Here "<transChange type="added">courts</transChange>" is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself</note> And all the people were coming,<note>Some manuscripts have "were coming to him"</note> and he sat down <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("sat down") has been translated as a finite verb</note> began to teach<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to teach")</note> them. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="3">Now the scribes and the Pharisees brought to him a woman<note>Some manuscripts have "brought a woman"</note> caught in adultery. And standing her in <transChange type="added">their</transChange> midst,</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="4">they said to him, testing <transChange type="added">him</transChange>,<note>Some manuscripts omit "testing <transChange type="added">him</transChange>"</note> "Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery!</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="6">(Now they were saying this to test him, so that they would have <transChange type="added">an occasion</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> to bring charges against him.) But Jesus, bending down, began to write<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to write")</note> with <transChange type="added">his</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> finger on the ground, taking no notice.<note>Some manuscripts omit "taking no notice"</note></verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="7">And when they persisted in asking him, straightening up he said<note>Some manuscripts have "he straightened up and said"</note> to them, "The <transChange type="added">one</transChange> of you without sin, let him throw the first stone at her!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="9">Now <transChange type="added">when they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("heard") which is understood as temporal</note> heard <transChange type="added">it</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> being convicted by their conscience,<note>Some manuscripts omit "being convicted by their conscience"</note> they began to depart,<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to depart")</note> one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus<note>Some manuscripts have "he"</note> was left alone--and the woman who was in <transChange type="added">their</transChange> midst.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="10">So Jesus, straightening up and seeing no one except the woman,<note>Some manuscripts omit "and seeing no one except the woman"</note> said to her, "Where are those accusers of yours?<note>Some manuscripts have "said to her, 'Woman, where are they?"</note> Does no one condemn you?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="11">And she said, "No one, Lord." So Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go, and<note>Some manuscripts have "and from now on"</note> sin no more."]]<note>John 7:53-8:11 is not found in the earliest and best manuscripts and was almost certainly not an original part of the Gospel of John; one significant group of Greek manuscripts places it after Luke 21:38</note> </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="12">Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, "I am the light of the world! The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="13">So the Pharisees said to him, "You testify concerning yourself! Your testimony is not true."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="14">Jesus answered and said to them, "Even if I testify concerning myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I have come from and where I am going. But you do not know where I have come from or where I am going.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="16">But even if I judge, my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent me.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="17">And even in your law it is written that the testimony of two men is true.<note>An allusion to Deut 17:6</note></verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="18">I am the one who testifies concerning myself, and the Father who sent me testifies concerning me." </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="19">So they were saying to him, "Where is your father?" Jesus replied, "You know neither me nor my Father! If you had known me, you would have known my Father also."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="20">He spoke these words by the treasury <transChange type="added">while</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">while</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("teaching") which is understood as temporal</note> teaching in the temple <transChange type="added">courts</transChange>,<note>*Here "<transChange type="added">courts</transChange>" is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself</note> and no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="21">So he said to them again, "I am going away, and you will seek me and will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="22">Then the Jews began to say,<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to say")</note> "Perhaps he will kill himself, because he is saying, 'Where I am going you cannot come.'"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="23">And he said to them, "You are from below; I am from above. You are from this world; I am not from this world.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="24">Thus I said to you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am <transChange type="added">he</transChange>, you will die in your sins." </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="25">So they began to say to him,<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to say")</note> "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "{What}<note>Literally "that which"</note> I have been saying to you <transChange type="added">from</transChange> the beginning.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="26">I have many <transChange type="added">things</transChange> to say and to judge concerning you, but the one who sent me is true, and <transChange type="added">the things</transChange> which I heard from him, these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> I say to the world."</verse>


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<verse num="28">Then Jesus said,<note>Some manuscripts have "said to them"</note> "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will recognize that I am <transChange type="added">he</transChange>, and I do nothing from myself, but just as the Father taught me, I say these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="29">And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do the things that are pleasing to him."</verse>


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<verse num="30"><transChange type="added">While</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">while</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("was saying")</note> he was saying these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, many believed in him. </verse>


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<verse num="31">Then Jesus said to those Jews who had believed him, "If you continue in my word you are truly my disciples,</verse>


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<verse num="33">They replied to him, "We are descendants of Abraham and have not been enslaved to anyone at any time. How do you say, 'You will become free'?"</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="34">Jesus replied to them, "Truly, truly I say to you, that everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.</verse>


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<verse num="35">And the slave does not remain in the household {forever};<note>Literally "for the age"</note> the son remains {forever}.<note>Literally "for the age"</note></verse>


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<verse num="37">I know that you are descendants of Abraham. But you are seeking to kill me, because my word makes no progress among you.</verse>


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<verse num="38">I speak <transChange type="added">the things</transChange> that I have seen with the Father; so also you do <transChange type="added">the things</transChange> that you have heard from the Father." </verse>


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<verse num="39">They answered and said to him, "Abraham is our father!" Jesus said to them, "If you are children of Abraham, do the deeds of Abraham!</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="40">But now you are seeking to kill me, a man who spoke to you the truth which I heard from God. This Abraham did not do.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="42">Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I have come forth from God and have come. For I have not come from myself, but that one sent me.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="43">{Why}<note>Literally "because of what"</note> do you not understand my way of speaking? Because you are not able to listen to my message.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="44">You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father! That one was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he speaks the lie, he speaks from his own <transChange type="added">nature</transChange>,<note>*The word "<transChange type="added">nature</transChange>" is not in the Greek text but is implied</note> because he is a liar and the father {of lies}.<note>Literally "of it"</note></verse>


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<verse num="46">Who among you convicts me concerning sin? If I am telling the truth, {why}<note>Literally "because of what"</note> do you not believe me?</verse>


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<verse num="47">The one who is from God listens to the words of God. Because of this you do not listen--because you are not of God." </verse>


book: John
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<verse num="48">The Jews answered and said to him, "Do we not correctly say that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?"</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="49">Jesus replied, "I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me!</verse>


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<verse num="50">But I do not seek my <transChange type="added">own</transChange> glory. There is one who seeks and judges!</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="51">Truly, truly I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never experience death {forever}."<note>Literally "for the age"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="52">The Jews<note>Some manuscripts have "Then the Jews"</note> said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham and the prophets died, and you say, 'If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death {forever}.'<note>Literally "for the age"</note></verse>


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<verse num="53">You are not greater than our father Abraham who died, <transChange type="added">are you</transChange>?<note>*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase "<transChange type="added">are you</transChange>"</note> And the prophets died! Who do you make yourself <transChange type="added">to be</transChange>?"</verse>


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<verse num="54">Jesus replied, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. The one who glorifies me is my Father, <transChange type="added">about</transChange> whom you say, 'He is our God.'</verse>


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<verse num="55">And you have not known him, but I know him. And if I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you! But I know him and I keep his word.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="56">Abraham your father rejoiced that he would see my day, and he saw <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> and was glad." </verse>


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<verse num="57">So the Jews said to him, "{You are}<note>Literally "you have"</note> not yet fifty years <transChange type="added">old</transChange>, and have you seen Abraham?"</verse>


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<verse num="59">Then they picked up stones in order to throw <transChange type="added">them</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> at him. But Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple <transChange type="added">courts</transChange>.<note>*Here "<transChange type="added">courts</transChange>" is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself</note> </verse>


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<verse num="1">And <transChange type="added">as he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">as</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("went away") which is understood as temporal</note> went away, he saw a man blind from birth.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And his disciples asked him, saying, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?"</verse>


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<verse num="3">Jesus replied, "Neither this man sinned nor his parents, but <transChange type="added">it happened</transChange><note>*The words "<transChange type="added">it happened</transChange>" are not in the Greek text but are implied</note> so that the works of God could be revealed in him.</verse>


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<verse num="4">It is necessary <transChange type="added">for</transChange> us to do the deeds of the one who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work!</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="6"><transChange type="added">When he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had said") which is understood as temporal</note> had said these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, he spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and smeared the clay on his eyes.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And he said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated "sent"). So he went and washed and came back seeing. </verse>


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<verse num="8">Then the neighbors and those who saw him previously (because he was a beggar) began to say,<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to say")</note> "Is this man not the one who used to sit and beg?"</verse>


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<verse num="9">Others were saying, "It is this man"; others were saying, "No, but he is like him." That one was saying, "I am <transChange type="added">he</transChange>!"</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="10">So they began to say<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to say")</note> to him, "How<note>Some manuscripts have "Then how"</note> were your eyes opened?"</verse>


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<verse num="11">He replied, "The man who is called Jesus made clay and smeared <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> on my eyes and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash!' So I went, and I washed, <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the two previous participles ("went" and "washed") have been translated as finite verbs</note> I received sight."</verse>


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<verse num="14">(Now the day on which Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes was the Sabbath.)</verse>


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<verse num="15">So the Pharisees also were asking him again how he received sight. And he said to them, "He put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and I see."</verse>


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<verse num="16">So some of the Pharisees were saying, "This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath!" Others<note>Some manuscripts have "But others"</note> were saying, "How can a man <transChange type="added">who is</transChange> a sinner perform such signs?" And there was a division among them.</verse>


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<verse num="17">So they said to the blind man again, "What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?" And he said, "He is a prophet." </verse>


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<verse num="18">So the Jews did not believe concerning him that he had been blind and received sight, until they summoned the parents of the one<note>Literally "of him"</note> who received sight.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And they asked them, saying, "Is this man your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?"</verse>


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<verse num="20">So his parents answered and said, "We know that this man is our son, and that he was born blind.</verse>


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<verse num="21">But how he now sees we do not know, or who opened his eyes we do not know. Ask him! {He is a mature adult};<note>Literally "he has maturity"</note> he will speak for himself!"</verse>


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<verse num="22">(His parents said these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already decided that if anyone should confess him <transChange type="added">to be</transChange> Christ, he would be expelled from the synagogue.</verse>


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<verse num="23">Because of this his parents said, "{He is a mature adult};<note>Literally "he has maturity"</note> ask him.") </verse>


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<verse num="24">So they summoned the man who had been blind for the second time and said to him, "Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner!"</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="25">Then that man replied, "Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One <transChange type="added">thing</transChange> I know--that <transChange type="added">although I</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">although</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("was") which is understood as concessive</note> was blind, now I see!"</verse>


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<verse num="27">He replied to them, "I told you already and you did not listen! Why do you want to hear <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> again? You do not want to become his disciples also, <transChange type="added">do you</transChange>?"<note>*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase "<transChange type="added">do you</transChange>"</note></verse>


book: John
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<verse num="28">They reviled<note>Some manuscripts have "And they reviled"</note> him and said, "You are his disciple! But we are disciples of Moses!</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="29">We know that God has spoken to Moses, but we do not know where this man is from."</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="30">The man answered and said to them, "For the remarkable thing is this, that you do not know where he is from, and he opened my eyes!</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="31">We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if someone is devout and does his will, he listens to this one.</verse>


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<verse num="32">From {time immemorial}<note>Literally "the age"</note> it has not been heard that someone opened the eyes of one born blind.</verse>


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<verse num="34">They answered and said to him, "You were born completely in sin, and are you attempting to teach<note>*Here the present tense is translated as a conative present ("attempting to teach")</note> us?" And they threw him out. </verse>


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<verse num="35">Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"</verse>


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<verse num="36">He answered and said, "And who is <transChange type="added">he</transChange>, sir, that I may believe in him?"</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="37">Jesus said to him, "You have both seen him, and he is the one who is speaking with you." [[</verse>


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<verse num="39">And Jesus said,]]<note>A number of important manuscripts lack v. 38 and the first part of v. 39 ("and Jesus said")</note> "For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind!"</verse>


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<verse num="40"><transChange type="added">Some</transChange> of the Pharisees who were with him heard these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> and said to him, "We are not also blind, <transChange type="added">are we</transChange>?"<note>*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase "<transChange type="added">are we</transChange>"</note></verse>


book: John
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<verse num="41">Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would not have sin. But now you say, 'We see,' your sin remains. </verse>


book: John
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<verse num="1">"Truly, truly I say to you, the one who does not enter through the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up at some other place--that one is a thief and a robber.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="3">For this one the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.</verse>


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<verse num="4">Whenever he sends out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And they will never follow a stranger, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="6">Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what it was that he was saying to them. </verse>


book: John
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<verse num="7">Then Jesus said to them<note>Some manuscripts omit "to them"</note> again, "Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="8">All those who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep do not listen to them.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="9">I am the door. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved, and will come in and will go out and will find pasture.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="10">The thief {comes only}<note>Literally "does not come except"</note> so that he can steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and have <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> abundantly. </verse>


book: John
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<verse num="11">"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="12">The hired hand, who is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf approaching and abandons the sheep and runs away--and the wolf seizes them and scatters <transChange type="added">them</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note>--</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="13">because he is a hired hand and {he is not concerned}<note>Literally "it is not a concern to him"</note> about the sheep. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="14">"I am the good shepherd, and I know my <transChange type="added">own</transChange>, and my <transChange type="added">own</transChange> know me,</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="15">just as the Father knows me and I know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="16">And I have other sheep which are not from this fold. I must bring these also, and they will hear my voice, and they will become one flock--one shepherd.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="17">Because of this the Father loves me, because I lay down my life so that I may take possession of it again.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="18">No one takes it from me, but I lay it down {voluntarily}.<note>Literally "from myself"</note> I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take possession of it again. This commandment I received from my Father." </verse>


book: John
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<verse num="20">And many of them were saying, "He has a demon and is out of his mind! Why do you listen to him?"</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="21">Others were saying, "These are not the words of one who is possessed by a demon! A demon is not able to open the eyes of the blind, <transChange type="added">is it</transChange>?"<note>*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase "<transChange type="added">is it</transChange>"</note> </verse>


book: John
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<verse num="24">So the Jews surrounded him and began to say<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to say")</note> to him, "{How long will you keep us in suspense}?<note>Literally "until when will you take away our life"</note> If you are the Christ, tell us plainly!"</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="25">Jesus answered them, "I told you and you do not believe! The deeds that I do in the name of my Father, these testify about me.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="28">And I give them eternal life, and they will never perish {forever},<note>Literally "for the age"</note> and no one will seize them out of my hand.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="29">My Father, who has given <transChange type="added">them</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> to me, is greater than all, and no one can seize <transChange type="added">them</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> from the Father's hand.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="31">Then<note>Some manuscripts omit "Then"</note> the Jews picked up stones again so that they could stone him.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="32">Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good deeds from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="33">The Jews answered him, "We are not going to stone you concerning a good deed, but concerning blasphemy, and because you, <transChange type="added">although you</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">although</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("are") which is understood as concessive</note> are a man, make yourself <transChange type="added">to be</transChange> God!"</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="34">Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, "You are gods" '?<note>A quotation from Ps 82:6 (in common usage "law" could refer to the entire Old Testament)</note></verse>


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<verse num="35">If he called them 'gods' to whom the word of God came--and the scripture cannot be broken--</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="36">do you say about <transChange type="added">he</transChange> whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="38">But if I am doing <transChange type="added">them</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, so that you may know and understand that the Father <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in me and I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> in the Father."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="39">So they were seeking again to seize him, and he departed out of their hand. </verse>


book: John
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<verse num="40">And he went away again on the other side of the Jordan, to the place where John was baptizing at an earlier time, and he stayed there.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="41">And many came to him and began to say,<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to say")</note> "John performed no sign, but everything John said about this man was true!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="1">Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="2">(Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="3">So the sisters sent <transChange type="added">word</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> to him, saying, "Lord, behold, <transChange type="added">the one</transChange> whom you love is sick."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="4">And <transChange type="added">when he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("heard") which is understood as temporal</note> heard <transChange type="added">it</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> Jesus said, "This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, in order that the Son of God may be glorified through it."</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="6">So when he heard that he was sick, then he remained in the place {where}<note>Literally "in which"</note> he was two days. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="8">The disciples said to him, "Rabbi, the Jews were seeking just now to stone you, and are you going there again?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="9">Jesus replied, Are <transChange type="added">there</transChange> not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks around in the daylight, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="10">But if anyone walks around in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="11">He said these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, and after this he said to them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I can awaken him."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="12">So the disciples said to him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="13">(Now Jesus had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was speaking about {real sleep}.<note>Literally "the sleep of slumber"</note>)</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="15">and I am glad {for your sake}<note>Literally "for the sake of you"</note> that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="16">Then Thomas (the one who is called Didymus)<note>"Didymus" means "the twin" in Greek</note> said to his fellow disciples, "Let us go also, so that we may die with him." </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="17">So <transChange type="added">when he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("arrived") which is understood as temporal</note> arrived, Jesus found he had already <transChange type="added">been</transChange> four days in the tomb.</verse>


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<verse num="18">(Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia.<note>A "stade" or "stadium" (plur. "stadia") is about 607 ft (187 m), so this was just under two miles (3 km)</note></verse>


book: John
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<verse num="19">So many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary in order to console them concerning their<note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> brother.)</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="20">Now Martha, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went to meet him, but Mary was sitting in the house.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="21">So Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="22">Even<note>Some manuscripts have "But even"</note> now I know that whatever you ask God, God will grant you."</verse>


book: John
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<verse num="24">Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="25">Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even if he dies, will live,</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="26">and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die {forever}.<note>Literally "for the age"</note> Do you believe this?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="27">She said to him, "Yes, Lord, I have believed that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who comes into the world." </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="28">And <transChange type="added">when she</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had said") which is understood as temporal</note> had said this, she went and called her sister Mary privately, saying, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="29">So that one, when she heard <transChange type="added">it</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> got up quickly and went to him.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="30">(Now Jesus has not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha went to meet him.)</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="31">So the Jews who were with her in the house and were consoling her, <transChange type="added">when they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("saw") which is understood as temporal</note> saw Mary--that she stood up quickly and went out--followed her, <transChange type="added">because they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">because</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("thought") which is understood as causal</note> thought that she was going to the tomb in order to weep there. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="32">Then Mary, when she came where Jesus was <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the participle ("saw") has been translated as a finite verb in keeping with English style</note> saw him, fell at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="33">Then Jesus, when he saw her weeping and the Jews who came with her weeping, was deeply moved in spirit and was troubled within himself.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="34">And he said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to him, "Lord, come and see."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="37">But some of them said, "Was not this man who opened the eyes of the blind able to do <transChange type="added">something</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> so that this man also would not have died?" </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="38">Then Jesus, deeply moved within himself again, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone was lying on it.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="39">Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the one who had died, said to him, "Lord, he is stinking already, because it has been four days."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="40">Jesus said to her, "Did I not say to you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="41">So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his<note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> eyes above and said, "Father, I give thanks to you that you hear me.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="42">And I know that you always hear me, but for the sake of the crowd standing around I said <transChange type="added">it</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> so that they may believe that you sent me."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="43">And <transChange type="added">when he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had said") which is understood as temporal</note> had said these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, he cried out with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="44">The one who had died came out, his<note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> feet and his<note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> hands bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped with a facecloth. Jesus said to them, "Untie him and let him go." </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="45">Then many of the Jews who had come with Mary and saw <transChange type="added">the things</transChange> which he did believed in him.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="46">But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them <transChange type="added">the things</transChange> which Jesus had done.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="47">So the chief priests and the Pharisees called together the Sanhedrin and said, "What are we doing? For this man is performing many signs!</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="48">If we allow him <transChange type="added">to go on</transChange> in this way, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place<note>Generally understood to be a reference to the Jerusalem temple</note> and our<note>Literally "both the place and the nation of us"; the possessive pronoun is repeated in the translation (rather than the article) in keeping with English style</note> nation." </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="49">But a certain one of them, Caiaphas (who was high priest in that year), said to them, "You do not know anything at all!</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="50">Nor do you consider that it is profitable for you that one man should die for the people, and the whole nation not perish."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="51">(Now he did not say this from himself, but being high priest in that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="52">and not for the nation only, but also that the children of God who are scattered would be gathered into one.)</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="54">So Jesus was no longer walking openly among the Jews, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there he stayed with the disciples. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="55">Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the <transChange type="added">surrounding</transChange> country before the Passover, so that they could purify themselves.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="56">So they were looking for Jesus, and were speaking with one another <transChange type="added">while</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">while</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("standing") which is understood as temporal</note> standing in the temple <transChange type="added">courts</transChange>,<note>*Here "<transChange type="added">courts</transChange>" is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself</note> "What do you think? That he will not come to the feast?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="57">(Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, they should report <transChange type="added">it</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> in order that they could arrest him.) </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="1">Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="2">So they made him a dinner there, and Martha was serving, but Lazarus was one of the ones reclining at table with him.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="3">Then Mary took a pound<note>The Greek term refers to a Roman pound, 327.45 grams (approximately 12 ounces)</note> of ointment of very valuable genuine nard <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("took") has been translated as a finite verb</note> anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="4">But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was going to betray him) said,</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="5">"{Why}<note>Literally "because of what"</note> was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="6">(Now he said this not because {he was concerned}<note>Literally "it was a concern to him"</note> about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, he used to steal what was put into <transChange type="added">it</transChange>.)<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note></verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="7">So Jesus said, "Leave her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of my preparation for burial.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="9">Now a large crowd<note>Some manuscripts have "the large crowd"</note> of Jews found out that he was there, and they came, not only because of Jesus, but so that they could see Lazarus also, whom he raised from the dead.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="11">because on account of him many of the Jews were going and believing in Jesus. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="12">On the next day the large crowd who had come to the feast, <transChange type="added">when they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("heard") which is understood as temporal</note> heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="13">took the branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, and began crying out, </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="14">So Jesus found a young donkey <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("found") has been translated as a finite verb</note> sat on it, just as it is written, </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="15">"Do not be afraid, daughter of Zion! Behold, your king is coming, seated on the foal of a donkey!"<note>A quotation from Zech 9:9</note></verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="16">(His disciples did not understand these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> had been written about him and they did these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> to him.)</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="17">So the crowd who was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead were continuing to testify.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="18">Because of this also the crowd went to meet him, for they had heard <transChange type="added">that</transChange> he had performed this sign.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="19">So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see that you are accomplishing nothing! Behold, the world has gone after him." </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="20">Now some Greeks were among those who had gone up in order to worship at the feast.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="21">So these approached Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and began asking him saying, "Sir, we want to see Jesus."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="23">And Jesus answered them, saying, "The hour has come that the Son of Man will be glorified.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="24">Truly, truly I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("falls") has been translated as a finite verb</note> dies, it remains <transChange type="added">by</transChange> itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="25">The one who loves his life loses it, and the one who hates his life in this world preserves it for eternal life.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="26">If anyone serves me, he must follow me, and where I am, there my servant will be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="27">"Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? 'Father, deliver me from this hour'? But for this <transChange type="added">reason</transChange> I have come to this hour!</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="28">Father, glorify your name!" Then a voice came from heaven, "I have both glorified <transChange type="added">it</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> and I will glorify <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> again."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="29">Now the crowd that stood <transChange type="added">there</transChange> and heard <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> said {it had thundered}.<note>Literally "thunder had happened"</note> Others were saying, "An angel has spoken to him!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="30">Jesus answered and said, "This voice has not happened for my sake, but <transChange type="added">for</transChange> your sake.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="31">Now is the judgment of this world! Now the ruler of this world will be thrown out!</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="32">And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all <transChange type="added">people</transChange> to myself."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="34">Then the crowd replied to him, "We have heard from the law that the Christ remains {forever}!<note>Literally "for the age"; probably an allusion to Ps 89:35-37 (in common usage "law" could refer to the entire Old Testament)</note> And how do you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="35">So Jesus said to them, "Yet a little time the light is with you! Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness does not overtake you! And the one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="36">While you have the light, believe in the light, in order that you may become sons of light." Jesus said these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, and <transChange type="added">then</transChange> he went away <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("went away") has been translated as a finite verb</note> was hidden from them. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="37">But as many signs <transChange type="added">as</transChange> he had performed before them, they did not believe in him,</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="39">For this <transChange type="added">reason</transChange> they were not able to believe, because again Isaiah said, </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="40">"He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, lest they see with <transChange type="added">their</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> eyes and understand with <transChange type="added">their</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> hearts and turn, and I heal them."<note>A quotation from Isa 6:10</note></verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="41">Isaiah said these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> because he saw his glory, and he spoke about him. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="42">Yet despite that, even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess <transChange type="added">it</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> so that they would not be expelled from the synagogue.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="44">But Jesus cried out and said, "The one who believes in me does not believe in me, but in the one who sent me,</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="46">I have come <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a light into the world, in order that everyone who believes in me will not remain in the darkness.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="47">And if anyone hears my words and does not observe <transChange type="added">them</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> I will not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="48">The one who rejects me and does not accept my words has one who judges him; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="49">For I have not spoken from myself, but the Father himself who sent me {has commanded me}<note>Literally "has given me commandment"</note> what I should say and what I should speak.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="50">And I know that his commandment is eternal life. So <transChange type="added">the things</transChange> that I say, just as the Father said to me, thus I say." </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="1">Now before the feast of Passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied in keeping with English style</note> having loved <transChange type="added">his</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> own in the world, loved them to the end.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="2">And <transChange type="added">as</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">as</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("was taking place")</note> a dinner was taking place, <transChange type="added">when</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("put")</note> the devil had already put into the heart of Judas <transChange type="added">son</transChange> of Simon Iscariot that he should betray him,</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="3"><transChange type="added">because he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">because</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("knew") which is understood as causal</note> knew that the Father had given him all <transChange type="added">things</transChange> into <transChange type="added">his</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> hands, and that he had come forth from God and was going away to God,</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="4">he got up from the dinner and took off <transChange type="added">his</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> outer clothing, and taking a towel, tied <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> around himself.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="5">Then he poured water into the washbasin and began to wash the feet of the disciples, and to wipe <transChange type="added">them</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> dry with the towel {which he had tied around himself}.<note>Literally "with which he was girded"</note> </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="6">Then he came to Simon Peter. He said to him, "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="7">Jesus answered and said to him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will understand after these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="8">Peter said to him, "You will never wash my feet {forever}!"<note>Literally "for the age"</note> Jesus replied to him, "Unless I wash you, you do not have a share with me."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="9">Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, not my feet only, but also <transChange type="added">my</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> hands and <transChange type="added">my</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> head!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="10">Jesus said to him, "The one who has bathed {only needs}<note>Literally "does not have need except"</note> to wash <transChange type="added">his</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not all <transChange type="added">of you</transChange>."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="11">(For he knew the one who would betray him; because of this he said, "Not all <transChange type="added">of you</transChange> are clean.") </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="12">So when he had washed their feet and taken his outer clothing and reclined at table again, he said to them, "Do you understand what I have done for you?</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="14">If then I--<transChange type="added">your</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> Lord and Teacher--wash your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="15">For I have given you an example, that just as I have done for you, you also do.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="16">Truly, truly I say to you, a slave is not greater than his master, nor a messenger greater than the one who sent him.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="17">If you understand these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, you are blessed if you do them. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="18">"I am not speaking about all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but in order that the scripture would be fulfilled, 'The one who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.'<note>A quotation from Ps 41:9</note></verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="19">From now <transChange type="added">on</transChange> I am telling you before <transChange type="added">it</transChange> happens, in order that when <transChange type="added">it</transChange> happens you may believe that I am <transChange type="added">he</transChange>.<note>*Here the predicate nominative ("<transChange type="added">he</transChange>") is understood, but must be supplied in the translation</note></verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="20">Truly, truly I say to you, the one who receives anyone I send receives me, and the one who receives me receives the one who sent me." </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="21"><transChange type="added">When he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had said") which is understood as temporal</note> had said these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified and said, "Truly, truly I say to you that one of you will betray me."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="22">The disciples began looking<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began looking")</note> at one another, uncertain about whom he was speaking.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="23">One of his disciples--the one whom Jesus loved--was reclining {close beside}<note>Literally "in the bosom of" (a position dictated by ancient banqueting practice)</note> Jesus.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="24">So Simon Peter gestured for this one to inquire who it was about whom he was speaking.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="25">He leaned back<note>Some manuscripts have "Then he leaned back"</note> accordingly against Jesus' chest <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("leaned back") has been translated as a finite verb</note> said to him, "Lord, who is it?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="26">Jesus replied, "It is he to whom I dip the piece of bread and give <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> to him." Then <transChange type="added">after</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">after</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("dipping") which is understood as temporal</note> dipping the piece of bread, he gave <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note><note>Some manuscripts have "after dipping the piece of bread, he took <transChange type="added">it</transChange> and gave <transChange type="added">it</transChange>"</note> to Judas <transChange type="added">son</transChange> of Simon Iscariot.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="27">And after the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, "What you are doing, do quickly!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="28">(Now no one of those reclining at table knew for what <transChange type="added">reason</transChange> he said this to him.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="29">For some were thinking because Judas had the money box, Jesus was telling him, "Purchase {what we need}<note>Literally "of which we have need"</note> for the feast," or that he should give something to the poor.)</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="30">So <transChange type="added">after he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">after</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had taken") which is understood as temporal</note> had taken the piece of bread, he went out immediately. And it was night. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="31">Then, when he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in him.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="32">If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and will glorify him immediately.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="33">Children, yet a little <transChange type="added">time</transChange> I am with you. You will seek me and just as I said to the Jews, "Where I am going you cannot come," now I say also to you. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="34">"A new commandment I give to you: that you love one another--just as I have loved you, that you also love one another.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="35">By this everyone will know that you are my disciples--if you have love for one another." </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="36">Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus replied,<note>Some manuscripts have "replied to him"</note> "Where I am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow later."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="37">Peter said to him, "Lord, why am I not able to follow you now? I will lay down my life for you!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="38">Jesus replied, "Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly I say to you, the rooster will not crow until you have denied me three times! </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="1">"Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe<note>Or simply "Believe"; the verb form can be either indicative (e.g., KJV, NAB, NLT) or imperative (e.g., NIV, NRSV, ESV)</note> in God; believe<note>Like the previous verb "believe" this form could also be either indicative or imperative, though most English versions regard it as imperative</note> also in me.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="2">In my Father's house there are many dwelling places; but if not, I would have told you, because<note>A large number of manuscripts, many of them later, lack "because"</note> I am going away to prepare a place for you.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="3">And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to myself, so that where I am, you may be also.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="5">Thomas said to him, "Lord, we do not know where you are going. How are we able to know the way?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="6">Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="7">If you had known me, you would have known<note>Some manuscripts have "If you have known me, you will know"</note> my Father also. From now on<note>Some manuscripts have "And from now on"</note> you know him and have seen him." </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="9">Jesus said to him, "Am I with you so long a time and you have not known me, Philip? The one who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say, 'Show us the Father?'</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="10">Do you not believe that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak from myself, but the Father residing in me does his works.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="11">Believe me that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> in the Father and the Father <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in me; but if not, believe because of the works themselves.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="12">Truly, truly I say to you, the one who believes in me, the works that I am doing he will do also, and he will do greater <transChange type="added">works</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> than these because I am going to the Father.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="13">And {whatever}<note>Literally "anything which"</note> you ask in my name, I will do this, in order that the Father may be glorified in the Son.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="14">If you ask me anything in my name, I will do <transChange type="added">it</transChange>.<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="16">And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, in order that he may be with you {forever}<note>Literally "for the age"</note>--</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="17">the Spirit of truth, whom the world is not able to receive, because it does not see him or know <transChange type="added">him</transChange>.<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> You know him, because he resides with you and will be in you. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="18">"I will not leave you <transChange type="added">as</transChange> orphans; I am coming to you.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="19">Yet a little <transChange type="added">time</transChange> and the world will see me no longer, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="20">On that day you will know that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> in my Father, and you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in me, and I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> in you.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="21">The one who has my commandments and keeps them--that one is the one who loves me. And the one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him." </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="22">Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, why<note>Some manuscripts have "and why"</note> is it that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="23">Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves me he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and {will take up residence with him}.<note>Literally "will make abode with him"</note></verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="24">The one who does not love me does not keep my words, and the word that you hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="25">These <transChange type="added">things</transChange> I have spoken to you <transChange type="added">while</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">while</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("residing") which is understood as temporal</note> residing with you.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="26">But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name--that one will teach you all <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, and will remind you of everything that I said to you. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="27">"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you--not as the world gives, I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let <transChange type="added">them</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> be afraid.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="28">You have heard that I said to you, 'I am going away, and I am coming to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I <transChange type="added">am</transChange>.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="29">And now I have told you before <transChange type="added">it</transChange> happens, so that when it happens, you may believe.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="30">I will no longer speak much with you, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has {no power}<note>Literally "nothing"</note> {over}<note>Literally "in"</note> me.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="31">But so that the world may know that I love the Father, and just as the Father has commanded me, thus I am doing. Get up, let us go from here! </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="2">Every branch that does not bear fruit in me, he removes it, and every <transChange type="added">branch</transChange> that bears fruit, he prunes it in order that it may bear more fruit.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="4">Remain in me, and I in you. Just as the branch is not able to bear fruit from itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither <transChange type="added">can</transChange> you, unless you remain in me. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="5">"I am the vine; you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him--this one bears much fruit, for apart from me you are not able to do anything.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="6">If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and dries up, and they gather them and throw <transChange type="added">them</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> into the fire, and they are burned.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="7">If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want and it will be done for you.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="8">My Father is glorified by this: that you bear much fruit, and prove to be my disciples. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="10">If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and remain in his love.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="11">I have spoken these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> to you in order that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be made complete.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="13">No one has greater love than this: that someone lay down his life for his friends.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="15">No longer do I call you slaves, because the slave does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything that I have heard from my Father I have revealed to you.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="16">You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and your fruit should remain, in order that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="17">These <transChange type="added">things</transChange> I command you: that you love one another. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="18">If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before <transChange type="added">it hated</transChange><note>*Here the verb "<transChange type="added">hated</transChange>" is an understood repetition of the verb earlier in this verse</note> you.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="19">If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this <transChange type="added">reason</transChange> the world hates you.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="20">Remember the word that I said to you: 'A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="21">But they will do all these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="22">If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin. But now they do not have a valid excuse for their sin.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="24">If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not have sin. But now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="25">But <transChange type="added">this happened</transChange><note>*The phrase "<transChange type="added">this happened</transChange>" is not in the Greek text but is implied</note> so that the word that is written in their law would be fulfilled, 'They hated me without a reason.' </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="26">"When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father--the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father--that one will testify about me.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="27">And you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="1">"I have said these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> to you so that you will not fall away.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="2">{They will expel you from the synagogue},<note>Literally "they will make you expelled from the synagogue"</note> but an hour is coming that everyone who kills you will think they are offering service to God.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="3">And they will do these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> because they do not know the Father or me.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="4">But I have said these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> to you so that when their hour comes, you may remember that I told you about them. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="5">But now I am going away to the one who sent me, and none of you is asking me, 'Where are you going?'</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="6">But because I have said these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> to you, sorrow has filled your hearts.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="7">But I tell you the truth, it is better for you that I go away. For if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="8">And <transChange type="added">when he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("comes") which is understood as temporal</note> comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and concerning righteousness and concerning judgment:</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="10">and concerning righteousness, because I am going away to the Father and you will see me no more,</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="11">and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been condemned. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="12">I still have many <transChange type="added">things</transChange> to say to you, but you are not able to bear <transChange type="added">them</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> now.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="13">But when he--the Spirit of truth--comes, he will guide you into all the truth. For he will not speak from himself, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will proclaim to you the things to come.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="14">He will glorify me, because he will take from what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> mine and will proclaim <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> to you.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="15">Everything that the Father has is mine. For this <transChange type="added">reason</transChange> I said that he takes from what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> mine and will proclaim <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> to you. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="16">"A little <transChange type="added">while</transChange> and you will see me no more, and again a little <transChange type="added">while</transChange> and you will see me.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="17">So some of his disciples said to one another, "What is this that he is saying to us, 'A little <transChange type="added">while</transChange> and you will not see me, and again a little <transChange type="added">while</transChange> and you will see me,' and 'Because I am going away to the Father'?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="18">So they kept on saying, "What is this that he is saying, 'A little <transChange type="added">while</transChange>'? We do not understand what he is speaking about!" </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="19">Jesus knew that they were wanting to ask him, and he said to them, "Are you deliberating with one another about this--that I said, 'A little <transChange type="added">while</transChange>, and you will not see me, and again a little <transChange type="added">while</transChange> and you will see me'?</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="20">Truly, truly I say to you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will become sorrowful, but your sorrow will change to joy.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="21">A woman, when she gives birth, experiences pain because her hour has come. But when <transChange type="added">her</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> child is born, she no longer remembers the affliction, on account of the joy that a human being has been born into the world.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="22">So you also are experiencing sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy from you.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="23">And on that day you will ask me nothing. Truly, truly I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give you.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="24">Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="25">"I have said these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> to you in figurative sayings. An hour is coming when I will speak to you in figurative sayings no longer, but I will tell you plainly about the Father.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="26">On that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="27">For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="28">I have gone out from the Father and have come into the world; again, I am leaving the world and am going to the Father." </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="29">His disciples said, "Behold, now you are speaking {plainly}<note>Literally "with plainness"</note> and are telling <transChange type="added">us</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> no figurative saying!</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="30">Now we know that you know everything and do not {need for}<note>Literally "have need that"</note> anyone to ask you <transChange type="added">questions</transChange>.<note>*Here the word "<transChange type="added">questions</transChange>" is not in the Greek text but is implied</note> By this we believe that you have come from God." </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="32">Behold, an hour is coming--and has come--that you will be scattered each one to his own <transChange type="added">home</transChange>,<note>Or "to his own things"; or "to his own people" (i.e., family); the Greek text is somewhat ambiguous here</note> and you will leave me alone. And I am not alone, because the Father is with me.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="33">I have said these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction, but have courage! I have conquered the world." </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="1">Jesus said these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, and lifting up his eyes to heaven he said, "Father, the hour has come! Glorify your Son, in order that your Son may glorify you--</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="2">just as you have given him authority over all flesh, in order that he would give eternal life to them--everyone whom you have given him.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="3">Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="4">I have glorified you on earth <transChange type="added">by</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">by</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("completing") which is understood as means</note> completing the work that you have given me {to do}.<note>Literally "that I may do it"</note></verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="5">And now, Father, you glorify me {at your side}<note>Literally "by the side of yourself"</note> with the glory that I had {at your side}<note>Literally "by the side of you"</note> before the world existed. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="6">"I have revealed your name to the men whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me, and they have kept your word.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="7">Now they understand that all <transChange type="added">the things</transChange> that<note>Literally "whatever"</note> you have given me are from you,</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="8">because the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they received <transChange type="added">them</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> and know truly that I have come from you, and they have believed that you have sent me.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="9">I am asking on behalf of them. I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you have given me, because they are yours,</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="10">and all my <transChange type="added">things</transChange> are yours, and your <transChange type="added">things</transChange> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> mine, and I have been glorified in<note>Or "by"; or "through"</note> them.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="11">And I am no longer in the world, and they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given to me, so that they may be one, just as we <transChange type="added">are</transChange>.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="12">When I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given to me, and guarded <transChange type="added">them</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> and none of them has perished except the son of destruction, in order that the scripture would be fulfilled.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="13">And now I am coming to you, and I am saying these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> in the world so that they may have my joy completed in themselves.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="14">I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world just as I am not of the world.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="15">I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you protect them from the evil one.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="19">And for them I sanctify myself, so that <transChange type="added">they</transChange> themselves also may be sanctified in the truth. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="20">"And I do not ask on behalf of these only, but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their word,</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="21">that they all may be one, just as you, Father, <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in me and I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> in you, that they also may be in us, in order that the world may believe that you sent me.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="22">And the glory that you have given to me, I have given to them, in order that they may be one, just as we <transChange type="added">are</transChange> one--</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="23">I in them, and you in me, in order that they may be completed in one, so that the world may know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="24">"Father, <transChange type="added">those</transChange> whom you have given to me--I want that those also may be with me where I am, in order that they may see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="25">Righteous Father, although the world does not know you, yet I have known you, and these <transChange type="added">men</transChange> have come to know that you sent me.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="26">And I made known to them your name, and will make <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> known, in order that the love <transChange type="added">with</transChange> which you loved me may be in them, and I <transChange type="added">may be</transChange> in them." </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="1"><transChange type="added">When</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had said") which is understood as temporal</note> Jesus had said these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, he went out with his disciples to the other side of the ravine of the Kidron, where <transChange type="added">there</transChange> was a garden into which he and his disciples entered.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="2">(Now Judas, the one who betrayed him, also knew about the place, because Jesus often gathered there with his disciples.)</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="3">So Judas, taking the cohort and officers from the chief priests and from the Pharisees, came there with lanterns and torches and weapons.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="4">Then Jesus, <transChange type="added">because he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">because</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("knew") which is understood as causal</note> knew all the things that were coming upon him, went out and said to them, "Who are you looking for?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="5">They replied to him, "Jesus the Nazarene." He said to them, "I am <transChange type="added">he</transChange>."<note>*Here the predicate nominative is supplied from context in the English translation</note> (Now Judas, the one who betrayed him, was also standing with them.)</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="6">So when he said to them, "I am <transChange type="added">he</transChange>,"<note>*Here the predicate nominative is supplied from context in the English translation</note> {they drew back}<note>Literally "they went to the back"</note> and fell to the ground.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="7">Then he asked them again, "Who are you looking for?" And they said, "Jesus the Nazarene."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="8">Jesus replied, "I said to you that I am <transChange type="added">he</transChange>!<note>*Here the predicate nominative is supplied from context in the English translation</note> So if you are looking for me, let these <transChange type="added">men</transChange> go,"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="9">in order that the word that he had spoken would be fulfilled: "Those whom you have given to me--I have not lost anyone of them."<note>A paraphrase of the statement in John 17:12</note> </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="10">Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his right ear. (Now the name of the slave was Malchus.)</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="11">So Jesus said to Peter, "Put the sword into <transChange type="added">its</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> sheath! The cup that the Father has given me--shall I not drink it?" </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="12">Then the cohort and the military tribune and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and tied him up,</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="13">and brought <transChange type="added">him</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> to Annas first, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="14">(Now it was Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it was better <transChange type="added">that</transChange> one man die for the people.) </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="15">So Simon Peter and another disciple followed Jesus. (Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and entered with Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest.)</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="16">But Peter was standing by the door outside. So the other disciple <transChange type="added">who was</transChange> known to the high priest went out and spoke to the doorkeeper and brought Peter in.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="17">Then the female slave <transChange type="added">who was</transChange> the doorkeeper said to Peter, "You are not also <transChange type="added">one</transChange> of the disciples of this man, <transChange type="added">are you</transChange>?"<note>*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase "<transChange type="added">are you</transChange>"</note> He said, "I am not!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="18">(Now the slaves and the officers were standing there, having made a charcoal fire because it was cold, and they were warming themselves. And Peter was also standing there with them and warming himself.) </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="19">So the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="20">Jesus replied to him, "I have spoken openly to the world. I always taught in the synagogue and in the temple <transChange type="added">courts</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">courts</transChange>" is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself</note> where all the Jews assemble, and I have said nothing in secret.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="21">Why are you asking me? Ask those who heard what I have said to them! Behold, these <transChange type="added">people</transChange> know what I said."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="22">Now <transChange type="added">when</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("had said")</note> he had said these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, one of the officers who was standing by gave a slap in the face to Jesus, saying, "Do you reply to the high priest in this way?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="23">Jesus replied to him, "If I have spoken wrongly, testify about what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> wrong! But if <transChange type="added">I have spoken</transChange><note>*The phrase "I have spoken" is an implied repetition of the earlier phrase in this verse</note> correctly, why do you strike me?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="25">Now Simon Peter was standing there and warming himself. So they said to him, "You are not also <transChange type="added">one</transChange> of his disciples, <transChange type="added">are you</transChange>?"<note>*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase "<transChange type="added">are you</transChange>"</note> He denied <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> and said, "I am not!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="26">One of the slaves of the high priest, who was related to the one whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Did I not see you in the garden with him?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="27">So Peter denied <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> again, and immediately a rooster crowed. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="28">Then they brought Jesus from Caiaphas to the governor's residence. Now it was early, and they did not enter into the governor's residence so that they would not be defiled, but could eat the Passover.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="29">So Pilate came outside to them and said, "What accusation do you bring against this man?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="30">They answered and said to him, "If this man were not doing evil, we would not have handed him over to you!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="31">So Pilate said to them, "You take him and judge him according to your law!" The Jews said to him, "It is not permitted for us to kill anyone,"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="32">in order that the word of Jesus would be fulfilled that he had spoken, indicating by what sort of death he was going to die. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="33">Then Pilate entered again into the governor's residence and summoned Jesus and said to him, "Are you the king of the Jews?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="34">Jesus replied, "Do you say this from yourself, or have others said <transChange type="added">this</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> to you about me?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="35">Pilate replied, "I am not a Jew, <transChange type="added">am I</transChange>?<note>*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase "<transChange type="added">am I</transChange>"</note> Your people and the chief priests handed you over to me! What have you done?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="36">Jesus replied, "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would be fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews. But now my kingdom is not from here."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="37">Then Pilate said to him, "So then you are a king!" Jesus replied, "You say that I am a king. For this <transChange type="added">reason</transChange> I was born, and for this reason I have come into the world: in order that I can testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="39">But it is your custom that I release for you one <transChange type="added">prisoner</transChange><note>*The word "<transChange type="added">prisoner</transChange>" is not in the Greek text, but is implied</note> at the Passover. So do you want <transChange type="added">me</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> to release for you the king of the Jews?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="40">Then they shouted again, saying, "Not this man, but Barabbas!" (Now Barabbas was a revolutionary.)<note>Or perhaps "robber"</note> </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="1">So then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged.<note>*This verb has causative force in context; Pilate did not personally carry out the sentence</note></verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="2">And the soldiers wove a crown of thorns and placed <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> on his head, and put a purple robe on him,</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="3">and were coming up to him and saying, "Hail, king of the Jews!" and were giving him slaps in the face. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="4">And Pilate came outside again and said to them, "Behold, I am bringing him outside to you, so that you will know that I find no basis for an accusation against him."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="5">Then Jesus came outside wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, and he said to them, "Behold the man!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="6">So when they saw him, the chief priests and the officers shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate said to them, "You take him and crucify <transChange type="added">him</transChange>!<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> For I do not find a basis for an accusation against him."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="7">The Jews replied to him, "We have a law, and according to the law he ought to die, because he made himself out to be the Son of God!" </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="9">and he entered into the governor's residence again and said to Jesus, "Where are you from?" But Jesus did not give him an answer.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="10">So Pilate said to him, "Will you not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you, and I have authority to crucify you?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="11">Jesus replied to him, "You would not have any authority over me unless it was given to you from above. For this <transChange type="added">reason</transChange> the one who handed me over to you has greater sin." </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="12">From this <transChange type="added">point on</transChange> Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews shouted, saying, "If you release this man, you are not a friend of Caesar! Everyone who makes himself out to be a king opposes Caesar!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="13">So Pilate, <transChange type="added">when he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("heard") which is understood as temporal</note> heard these words, brought Jesus outside and sat down on the judgment seat, in the place called The Stone Pavement (but Gabbatha in Aramaic).</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="14">(Now it was the day of preparation of the Passover; it was about the sixth hour.) And he said to the Jews, "Behold your king!" </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="15">Then those shouted, "Away <transChange type="added">with him</transChange>! Away <transChange type="added">with him</transChange>! Crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your king?" The chief priests replied, "We do not have a king except Caesar!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="17">and carrying for himself the cross, he went out to the <transChange type="added">place</transChange> called The Place of a Skull (which is called Golgotha in Aramaic),</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="18">where they crucified him, and with him two others, {one on each side},<note>Literally "from here and from here"</note> and Jesus in the middle.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="19">And Pilate also wrote a notice and placed <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> on the cross, and it was written: "Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="20">So many of the Jews read this notice, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city. And it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> in Greek.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="21">Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "Do not write 'The king of the Jews,' but, 'He said, I am king of the Jews.'"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="23">Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his clothing and made four shares--for each soldier a share--and the tunic. (Now the tunic was seamless, woven from the top {in a single piece}.)<note>Literally "through the whole"</note></verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="24">So they said to one another, "Let us not tear it apart, but cast lots for it, <transChange type="added">to see</transChange> whose it will be," so that the scripture would be fulfilled that says, </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="25">Now his mother and the sister of his mother, Mary the <transChange type="added">wife</transChange> of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene were standing near the cross of Jesus.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="26">So Jesus, seeing <transChange type="added">his</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> mother and the disciple whom he loved standing there, said to <transChange type="added">his</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> mother, "Woman, behold your son!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="27">Then he said to the disciple, "Behold your mother!" And from that hour the disciple took her into his own <transChange type="added">home</transChange>. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="28">After this, Jesus, knowing that now at last everything was completed, in order that the scripture would be fulfilled, said, "I am thirsty."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="29">A jar full of sour wine was standing there, so <transChange type="added">they</transChange> put a sponge full of the sour wine on a <transChange type="added">branch of</transChange> hyssop <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("put") has been translated as a finite verb</note> brought <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> to his mouth.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="30">Then when he had received the sour wine, Jesus said, "It is completed,"<note>Or (traditionally) "it is finished"</note> and bowing <transChange type="added">his</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> head, he gave up <transChange type="added">his</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> spirit. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="31">Then the Jews, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was an important day), asked Pilate that their legs could be broken and they could be taken away.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="32">So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who had been crucified with him.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="33">But <transChange type="added">when they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("came") which is understood as temporal</note> came to Jesus, after they saw he was already dead, they did not break his legs.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="34">But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and blood and water came out immediately.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="35">And the one who has seen <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> has testified, and his testimony is true, and that person knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="36">For these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> happened in order that the scripture would be fulfilled: "Not a bone of his will be broken."<note>A quotation from Exod 12:46, Num 9:12, and Ps 34:20</note></verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="37">And again another scripture says, "They will look on <transChange type="added">the one</transChange> whom they have pierced."<note>A quotation from Zech 12:10</note> </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="38">And after these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, Joseph <transChange type="added">who was</transChange> from Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus (but a secret one for fear of the Jews), asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus. And Pilate allowed <transChange type="added">it</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> so he came and took away his body.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="39">And Nicodemus--the one who had come to him formerly at night--also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes <transChange type="added">weighing</transChange> about a hundred pounds.<note>The Greek term refers to a Roman pound, 327.45 grams (approximately 12 ounces)</note></verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="40">So they took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in <transChange type="added">strips of</transChange> linen cloth with the fragrant spices, as is the Jews' custom to prepare for burial.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="41">Now <transChange type="added">there</transChange> was a garden at the place where he was crucified, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one was yet buried.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="42">So there, on account of the day of preparation of the Jews, because the tomb was close by, they buried Jesus. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="1">Now on the first <transChange type="added">day</transChange> of the week, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, <transChange type="added">while it</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">while</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("was")</note> was still dark, and saw the stone had been taken away from the tomb.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="2">So she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved and said to them, "They have taken away the Lord from the tomb and we do not know where they have put him!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="4">And the two were running together, and the other disciple ran ahead, faster than Peter, and came to the tomb first.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="5">And bending over to look, he saw the <transChange type="added">strips of</transChange> linen cloth lying there, though he did not go in.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="6">Then Simon Peter also came following him, and he went into the tomb and saw the <transChange type="added">strips of</transChange> linen cloth lying there,</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="7">and the facecloth that was on his head--not lying with the <transChange type="added">strips of</transChange> linen cloth, but folded up separately in one place.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="8">So then the other disciple who had come to the tomb first also went in, and he saw and believed.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="9">(For they did not yet know the scripture that it was necessary for him to rise from the dead.) </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="10">Then the disciples went away again to their <transChange type="added">own homes</transChange>.<note>*The phrase "<transChange type="added">own homes</transChange>" is not in the Greek text but is implied</note></verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="11">But Mary stood outside at the tomb, weeping. Then, while she was weeping, she bent over to look into the tomb,</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="12">and she saw two angels in white, seated one at the head and one at the feet where the body of Jesus had been lying.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="13">And they said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have put him!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="14"><transChange type="added">When she</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had said") which is understood as temporal</note> had said these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, she turned {around}<note>Literally "to the back"</note> and saw Jesus standing there, and she did not know that it was Jesus. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="15">Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?" She thought that it was the gardener, <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("thought") has been translated as a finite verb</note> said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="16">Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned around <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("turned around") has been translated as a finite verb</note> said to him in Aramaic, "Rabboni" (which means "Teacher").</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="17">Jesus said to her, "Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, and my God and your God.'"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="18">Mary Magdalene came <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the participle ("announced") has been translated as a finite verb in keeping with English style</note> announced to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord," and he had said these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> to her. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="19">Now <transChange type="added">when it</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("was")</note> was evening on that day--the first <transChange type="added">day</transChange> of the week--and the doors had been shut where the disciples were because of fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, "Peace to you."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="20">And <transChange type="added">when he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had said") which is understood as temporal</note> had said this, he showed <transChange type="added">his</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> hands and <transChange type="added">his</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> side to them. Then the disciples rejoiced <transChange type="added">when they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("saw") which is understood as temporal</note> saw the Lord.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="21">So Jesus said to them again, "Peace to you. As the Father has sent me, I also send you."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="22">And <transChange type="added">when he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had said") which is understood as temporal</note> had said this, he breathed on <transChange type="added">them</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="23">If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them. If you retain <transChange type="added">the sins</transChange><note>*An understood repetition of the phrase from earlier in the verse</note> of any, they are retained." </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="24">Now Thomas, one of the twelve, who was called Didymus,<note>The Greek term means "the Twin"</note> was not with them when Jesus came.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="25">So the other disciples said to him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he said to them, "Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and put my finger into the mark of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will never believe!" </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="26">And after eight days his disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. <transChange type="added">Although</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">although</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had been shut") which is understood as concessive</note> the doors had been shut, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said, "Peace to you."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="27">Then he said to Thomas, "Place your finger here and see my hands, and place your hand and put <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> into my side. And do not be unbelieving, but believing!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="29">Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen me, have you believed? Blessed <transChange type="added">are</transChange> those who have not seen and have believed." </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="30">Now Jesus also performed many other signs in the presence of the disciples<note>Some manuscripts have "his disciples"</note> which are not recorded in this book,</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="31">but these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> are recorded in order that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that <transChange type="added">by</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">by</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("believing") which is understood as means</note> believing you may have life in his name. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="1">After these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias. Now he revealed <transChange type="added">himself</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> in this way:</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="2">Simon Peter and Thomas (who was called Didymus)<note>The Greek term means "the Twin"</note> and Nathanael from Cana in Galilee and the <transChange type="added">sons</transChange> of Zebedee and two others of his disciples were together.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="3">Simon Peter said to them, "I am going fishing!" They said to him, "We also are coming with you." They went out and got into the boat, and during that night they caught nothing. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="4">Now <transChange type="added">when it</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("was")</note> was already early morning, Jesus stood on the beach. However, the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="5">So Jesus said to them, "Children, you do not have any fish to eat, <transChange type="added">do you</transChange>?<note>*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase "<transChange type="added">do you</transChange>"</note> They answered him, "No."</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="6">And he said to them, "Throw the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find <transChange type="added">some</transChange>."<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> So they threw <transChange type="added">it</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> and were no longer able to haul it in from the large number of the fish. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="7">Then that disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" So Simon Peter, <transChange type="added">when he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("heard") which is understood as temporal</note> heard that it was the Lord, tied around himself his outer garment (for he was naked)<note>I.e., "he was naked underneath the outer garment," which he tucked into his belt; alternatively, this could mean "for he was stripped for work"</note> and threw himself into the sea.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="8">But the other disciples came in the boat, dragging the net of fish, because they were not far from the land, but about two hundred cubits<note>Approximately 100 yards or 92 meters, based on a cubit of 18 inches.</note> away. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="9">So when they got out on the land, they saw a charcoal fire laid <transChange type="added">there</transChange>, and a fish lying on <transChange type="added">it</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> and bread.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="11">So Simon Peter got into <transChange type="added">the boat</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> and hauled the net to the land, full of large fish--one hundred fifty-three--and <transChange type="added">although there</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">although</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("were") which is understood as concessive</note> were so many, the net was not torn.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="12">Jesus said to them, "Come, eat breakfast!" But none of the disciples dared to ask him, "Who are you?" <transChange type="added">because they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">because</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("knew") which is understood as causal</note> knew that it was the Lord.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="13">Jesus came and took the bread and gave <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> to them, and the fish likewise.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="14">This <transChange type="added">was</transChange> now <transChange type="added">the</transChange> third <transChange type="added">time</transChange> Jesus was revealed to the disciples <transChange type="added">after he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">after</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had been raised") which is understood as temporal</note> had been raised from the dead. </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="15">Now when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon <transChange type="added">son</transChange> of John, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="16">He said to him again a second time, "Simon <transChange type="added">son</transChange> of John, do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." He said to him, "Shepherd my sheep!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="17">He said to him a third <transChange type="added">time</transChange>, "Simon <transChange type="added">son</transChange> of John, do you love me?" Peter was distressed because he said to him a third <transChange type="added">time</transChange>, "Do you love me?" and he said to him, "Lord, you know everything! You know that I love you!" Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep!</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="18">Truly, truly I say to you, when you were young, you tied <transChange type="added">your clothes</transChange><note>*The words "<transChange type="added">your clothes</transChange>" are not in the Greek text but are implied</note> around yourself and walked wherever you wanted. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will tie you up and carry <transChange type="added">you</transChange> where you do not want <transChange type="added">to go</transChange>.<note>*The words "<transChange type="added">to go</transChange>" are not in the Greek text but are implied</note></verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="19">(Now he said this to indicate by what kind of death he would glorify God.) And <transChange type="added">after he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">after</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had said") which is understood as temporal</note> had said this, he said to him, "Follow me!" </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="20">Peter turned <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("turned") has been translated as a finite verb</note> saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following <transChange type="added">them</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> (who also leaned back on his chest at the dinner and said, "Lord, who is the one betraying you?")</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="21">So <transChange type="added">when he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("saw") which is understood as temporal</note> saw this one, Peter said to Jesus, "Lord, but what about this one?"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="22">Jesus said to him, "If I want him to remain until I come, what <transChange type="added">is that</transChange><note>*The words "<transChange type="added">is that</transChange>" are not in the Greek text but are supplied in keeping with English style</note> to you? You follow me!"</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="23">So this saying went out to the brothers that that disciple would not die. But Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but "If I want him to remain until I come, what <transChange type="added">is that</transChange><note>*The words "<transChange type="added">is that</transChange>" are not in the Greek text but are supplied in keeping with English style</note> to you?" </verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="24">This is the disciple who is testifying about these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, and who has written down these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>. And we know that his testimony is true.</verse>


book: John
content:
<verse num="25">Now there are also many other <transChange type="added">things</transChange> that Jesus did, which--if they were written down one after the other--I suppose not even the world itself could contain the books that would be written. </verse>


book: Acts
content:
<verse num="1">I produced the former account, O Theophilus, about all {that}<note>Literally "of what"</note> Jesus began to do and to teach,</verse>


book: Acts
content:
<verse num="2">until the day he was taken up, <transChange type="added">after he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">after</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had given orders") which is understood as temporal</note> had given orders through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen,</verse>


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<verse num="3">to whom he also presented himself alive after he suffered, with many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking the things about the kingdom of God.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And <transChange type="added">while he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">while</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("was with") which is understood as temporal</note> was with<note>Or "was assembling with," or "was sharing a meal with"</note> <transChange type="added">them</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> he commanded them, "Do not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for what was promised by the Father, which you heard about from me.</verse>


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<verse num="5">For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit {not many days from now}."<note>Literally "not many days after these"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="6">So <transChange type="added">when</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had come together") which is understood as temporal</note> they had come together, they began asking<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began asking")</note> him, saying, "Lord, <transChange type="added">is it</transChange> at this time you are restoring the kingdom to Israel?"</verse>


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<verse num="7">But he said to them, "It is not for you to know <transChange type="added">the</transChange> times or seasons that the Father has set by his own authority.</verse>


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<verse num="8">But you will receive power <transChange type="added">when</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("has come")</note> the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the farthest part of the earth."</verse>


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<verse num="9">And <transChange type="added">after he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">after</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had said") which is understood as temporal</note> had said these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, <transChange type="added">while</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">while</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("were watching")</note> they were watching, he was taken up, and a cloud received him from their sight.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And as they were staring into the sky <transChange type="added">while</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">while</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("was departing")</note> he was departing, behold, two men in white clothing stood by them</verse>


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<verse num="11">who also said, "Men {of Galilee},<note>Literally "Galileans"</note> why do you stand there looking<note>Some manuscripts have "gazing"</note> into the sky? This Jesus who was taken up from you into heaven like this will come back in the same way you saw him departing into heaven!" </verse>


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<verse num="12">Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain that is called Olive Grove<note>This is a variation of the name "Mount of Olives"</note> which is near Jerusalem, {a Sabbath day's journey away}.<note>Literally "having a journey of a Sabbath"</note></verse>


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<verse num="13">And when they had entered, they went up to the upstairs room where they were staying--Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James <transChange type="added">son</transChange> of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot and Judas <transChange type="added">son</transChange> of James.</verse>


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<verse num="14">All these were busily engaged with one mind in prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus and with<note>Some manuscripts omit "with"</note> his brothers. </verse>


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<verse num="15">And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the brothers (and it was a crowd of persons of about one hundred twenty at the same <transChange type="added">place</transChange>) <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("stood up") has been translated as a finite verb</note> said,</verse>


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<verse num="16">"Men <transChange type="added">and</transChange> brothers, it was necessary <transChange type="added">that</transChange> the scripture be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit proclaimed beforehand through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus,</verse>


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<verse num="18">(Now this man acquired a field for the wages of <transChange type="added">his</transChange> wickedness, and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his intestines spilled out.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And it became known to all who live in Jerusalem, so that that field was called in their own language<note>That is, Aramaic</note> "Akeldama," that is, "Field of Blood.")</verse>


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<verse num="21">Therefore it is necessary for <transChange type="added">one</transChange> of the men who have accompanied us during all the time <transChange type="added">in</transChange> which the Lord Jesus went in and went out among us,</verse>


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<verse num="22">beginning from the baptism of John until the day <transChange type="added">on</transChange> which he was taken up from us--one of these <transChange type="added">men</transChange> must become a witness of his resurrection together with us."</verse>


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<verse num="23">And they proposed two <transChange type="added">men</transChange>, Joseph called Barsabbas (who was called Justus) and Matthias.</verse>


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<verse num="24">And they prayed <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("prayed") has been translated as a finite verb</note> said, "You, Lord, who know the hearts of all, show clearly which one of these two you have chosen</verse>


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<verse num="25">to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to depart to his own place."</verse>


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<verse num="26">And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was added <transChange type="added">to serve</transChange><note>*The words "<transChange type="added">to serve</transChange>" are not in the Greek text, but are implied</note> with the eleven apostles. </verse>


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<verse num="1">And when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in the same <transChange type="added">place</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And suddenly a sound like a violent rushing wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And divided<note>Or perhaps "distributed"</note> tongues like fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages<note>Or "tongues"</note> as the Spirit gave them <transChange type="added">ability</transChange> to speak out. </verse>


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<verse num="5">Now there were Jews residing in Jerusalem, devout men from every nation under heaven.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And <transChange type="added">when</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("happened")</note> this sound occurred, the crowd gathered and was in confusion, because each one was hearing them speaking in his own language.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And they were astounded and astonished, saying, "Behold, are not all these who are speaking Galileans?</verse>


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<verse num="8">And how do we hear, each one <transChange type="added">of us</transChange>, in {our own native language}?<note>Literally "our own language in which we were born"</note></verse>


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<verse num="9">Parthians and Medes and Elamites and those residing <transChange type="added">in</transChange> Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,<note>A reference to the Roman province of Asia (modern Asia Minor)</note></verse>


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<verse num="10">Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya toward Cyrene, and the Romans who were in town,</verse>


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<verse num="11">both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs--we hear them speaking in our <transChange type="added">own</transChange> languages the great deeds of God!"</verse>


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<verse num="12">And all were amazed and greatly perplexed, saying {to one another},<note>Literally "one to the other"</note> "{What can this mean?}"<note>Literally "what does this want to be"</note></verse>


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<verse num="13">But others jeered <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("jeered") has been translated as a finite verb</note> said, "They are full of sweet new wine!" </verse>


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<verse num="14">But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and declared to them, "Judean men, and all those who live <transChange type="added">in</transChange> Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and pay attention to my words!</verse>


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<verse num="15">For these <transChange type="added">men</transChange> are not drunk, as you assume, because it is the third hour of the day.</verse>


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<verse num="17">'And it will be in the last days,' God says, 'I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.</verse>


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<verse num="18">And even on my male slaves and on my female slaves I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And I will cause wonders in the heaven<note>Or "sky"</note> above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and vapor of smoke.</verse>


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<verse num="20">The sun will be changed to darkness and the moon to blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.</verse>


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<verse num="21">And it will be <transChange type="added">that</transChange> everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved.'<note>A quotation from Joel 2:28-32</note></verse>


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<verse num="22">"Israelite men, listen to these words! Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested to you by God with deeds of power and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, just as <transChange type="added">you</transChange> yourselves know--</verse>


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<verse num="23">this man, delivered up by the determined plan and foreknowledge of God, you executed <transChange type="added">by</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">by</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("nailing to") which is understood as means</note> nailing to <transChange type="added">a cross</transChange><note>*The words "<transChange type="added">a cross</transChange>" are not in the Greek text but are implied by the nature of the verb</note> through the hand of lawless men.</verse>


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<verse num="24">God raised {him}<note>Literally "whom"; it is necessary to specify "him" in the translation to avoid confusion with the "lawless men" in the previous verse</note> up, having brought to an end the pains of death, because it was not possible <transChange type="added">for</transChange> him to be held by it.</verse>


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<verse num="26">For this <transChange type="added">reason</transChange> my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced greatly, furthermore also my flesh will live in hope,</verse>


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<verse num="27">because you will not abandon my soul in Hades, nor will you permit your Holy One to experience decay.</verse>


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<verse num="28">You have made known to me the paths of life; you will fill me with gladness with your presence.'<note>A quotation from Ps 16:8-11</note></verse>


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<verse num="29">"Men <transChange type="added">and</transChange> brothers, it is possible to speak with confidence to you about the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us until this day.</verse>


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<verse num="30">Therefore, <transChange type="added">because he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">because</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("was") which is understood as causal</note> was a prophet and knew that God had sworn to him with an oath to seat {one of his descendants}<note>Literally "from the fruit of his loins"</note> on his throne,</verse>


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<verse num="31"><transChange type="added">by</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">by</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("having foreseen") which is understood as means</note> having foreseen <transChange type="added">this</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> he spoke about the resurrection of the Christ,<note>Or "Messiah"</note> that neither was he abandoned in Hades nor did his flesh experience decay.</verse>


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<verse num="32">This Jesus God raised up, of which<note>Or "of whom," referring to Jesus</note> we all are witnesses.</verse>


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<verse num="33">Therefore, having been exalted to the right hand of God and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he has poured out this that you see and hear.<note>Some manuscripts have "both see and hear"</note></verse>


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<verse num="35">until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet." '<note>A quotation from Ps 110:1</note></verse>


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<verse num="36">Therefore let all the house of Israel know beyond a doubt, that God has made him both Lord and Christ--this Jesus whom you crucified!" </verse>


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<verse num="37">Now <transChange type="added">when they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("heard") which is understood as temporal</note> heard <transChange type="added">this</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> they were pierced to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, "What should we do, men <transChange type="added">and</transChange> brothers?"</verse>


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<verse num="38">And Peter <transChange type="added">said</transChange><note>Some manuscripts explicitly add "said"</note> to them, "Repent and be baptized, each one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.</verse>


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<verse num="39">For the promise is for you and for your children, and for all those <transChange type="added">who are</transChange> far away, as many as the Lord our God calls to himself."</verse>


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<verse num="40">And with many other words he solemnly urged and exhorted them, saying, "Be saved from this crooked generation!"</verse>


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<verse num="41">So those who accepted his message were baptized, and on that day about three thousand souls were added. </verse>


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<verse num="42">And they were devoting themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayers.</verse>


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<verse num="43">And fear came on every soul, and many wonders and signs were being performed by the apostles.</verse>


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<verse num="44">And all who believed were in the same <transChange type="added">place</transChange>, and had everything in common.</verse>


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<verse num="45">And they began selling<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began selling")</note> <transChange type="added">their</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> possessions and property, and distributing these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> to all, to the degree that anyone had need.</verse>


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<verse num="46">And every day, devoting themselves <transChange type="added">to meeting</transChange><note>*The words "<transChange type="added">to meeting</transChange>" are not in the Greek text but are implied</note> with one purpose in the temple <transChange type="added">courts</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">courts</transChange>" is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself</note> and breaking bread from house <transChange type="added">to house</transChange>, they were eating <transChange type="added">their</transChange> food with joy and simplicity of heart,</verse>


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<verse num="47">praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord was adding every day to the total <transChange type="added">of</transChange> those who were being saved. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth <transChange type="added">hour</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And a certain man was being carried who was lame {from birth}.<note>Literally "from his mother's womb"</note> {He}<note>Literally "who," but a new sentence was begun here in the translation in keeping with English style</note> was placed every day at the gate of the temple called "Beautiful," <transChange type="added">so that he</transChange> could ask for charitable gifts from those who were going into the temple <transChange type="added">courts</transChange>.<note>*Here "<transChange type="added">courts</transChange>" is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself</note></verse>


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<verse num="3"><transChange type="added">When he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("saw") which is understood as temporal</note> saw Peter and John about to go into the temple <transChange type="added">courts</transChange>,<note>*Here "<transChange type="added">courts</transChange>" is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself</note> he began asking to receive alms.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And Peter looked intently at him, together with John, <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("looked intently") has been translated as a finite verb</note> said, "Look at us!"</verse>


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<verse num="6">But Peter said, "Silver and gold {I do not possess},<note>Literally "is not to me"</note> but what I have, this I give to you--in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, walk!"<note>Some manuscripts have "get up and walk"</note></verse>


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<verse num="7">And taking hold of him by the right hand, he raised him up, and immediately his feet and ankles were made strong.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And leaping up, he stood and began walking around<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began walking around")</note> and entered into the temple <transChange type="added">courts</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">courts</transChange>" is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself</note> with them, walking and leaping and praising God.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And they recognized him, that this one<note>Some manuscripts have "that <transChange type="added">he</transChange> himself"</note> was the one who used to sit <transChange type="added">asking</transChange> for alms at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with awe and astonishment at what had happened to him. </verse>


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<verse num="11">And <transChange type="added">while</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">while</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("was holding fast to")</note> he was holding fast to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the portico called Solomon's, utterly astonished.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And <transChange type="added">when he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("saw") which is understood as temporal</note> saw <transChange type="added">it</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> Peter replied to the people, "Men <transChange type="added">and</transChange> Israelites, why are you astonished at this? Or why are you staring at us, as <transChange type="added">if</transChange> by our own power or godliness we have made him walk?</verse>


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<verse num="13">The God of Abraham and of Isaac<note>Some manuscripts have "the God of Isaac"</note> and of Jacob,<note>Some manuscripts have "the God of Jacob"</note> the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and denied in the presence of Pilate, <transChange type="added">after</transChange><note>Or "<transChange type="added">although</transChange>"; this genitive absolute construction can be understood as either temporal "<transChange type="added">after</transChange>" or concessive "<transChange type="added">although</transChange>"</note> he had decided to release <transChange type="added">him</transChange>.<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note></verse>


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<verse num="14">But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and demanded <transChange type="added">that</transChange> a man--a murderer--be granted to you.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And you killed the originator of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses!</verse>


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<verse num="16">And on the basis of faith in his name, his name has made this man strong, whom you see and know, and the faith <transChange type="added">that is</transChange> through him has given him this perfect health in the presence of you all.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, just as your rulers did also.</verse>


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<verse num="18">But <transChange type="added">the things</transChange> which God foretold through the mouth of all the prophets, <transChange type="added">that</transChange> his Christ<note>Or "Messiah"</note> would suffer, he has fulfilled in this way.</verse>


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<verse num="20">so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and he may send the Christ<note>Or "Messiah"</note> appointed for you--Jesus,</verse>


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<verse num="21">whom heaven must receive until the times of the restoration of all <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, about which God spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets from earliest times.</verse>


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<verse num="22">Moses said, 'The Lord God<note>Some manuscripts have "The Lord your God"</note> will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers. You will listen to him in everything that he says to you.<note>A quotation from Deut 18:15</note></verse>


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<verse num="23">And it will be <transChange type="added">that</transChange> every soul who does not listen to that prophet will be destroyed utterly from the people.'<note>A quotation from Deut 18:19 and Lev 23:29</note></verse>


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<verse num="24">And indeed, all the prophets from Samuel and all those who followed <transChange type="added">him</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> have spoken <transChange type="added">about</transChange> and proclaimed these days.</verse>


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<verse num="25">You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God ordained with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed.'<note>A quotation from Gen 22:18</note></verse>


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<verse num="26">God, <transChange type="added">after he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">after</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had raised up") which is understood as temporal</note> had raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning each <transChange type="added">of you</transChange> back from your wickedness!" </verse>


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<verse num="1">And <transChange type="added">while</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">while</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("were speaking")</note> they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees approached them,</verse>


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<verse num="2">greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And they laid hands on them and put <transChange type="added">them</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> in custody until the next day, because it was already evening.</verse>


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<verse num="4">But many of those who listened to the message believed, and the number of the men was approximately five thousand. </verse>


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<verse num="5">And it happened that on the next day, their rulers and elders and scribes came together in Jerusalem,</verse>


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<verse num="6">and Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all those who were from the high priest's family.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And they made them stand in <transChange type="added">their</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> midst <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("stand") has been translated as a finite verb</note> began to ask,<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to ask")</note> "By what power or by what name did you do this?"</verse>


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<verse num="8">Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, "Rulers of the people and elders,</verse>


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<verse num="9">if we are being examined today concerning a good deed <transChange type="added">done to</transChange> a sick man--by what <transChange type="added">means</transChange><note>Or "through whom"</note> this man was healed--</verse>


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<verse num="10">let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead--by him this man stands before you healthy!</verse>


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<verse num="11">This one<note>"This one" refers to Jesus</note> is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, that has become {the cornerstone}.<note>Literally "the head of the corner"; this verse is an allusion to Ps 118:22</note></verse>


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<verse num="12">And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among people by which we must be saved." </verse>


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<verse num="13">Now <transChange type="added">when they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("saw") which is understood as temporal</note> saw the boldness of Peter and John, and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were astonished, and recognized them, that they had been with Jesus.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And <transChange type="added">because they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">because</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("saw") which is understood as causal</note> saw the man who had been healed standing there with them, they had nothing to say in return.</verse>


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<verse num="15">But <transChange type="added">after they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">after</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had ordered") which is understood as temporal</note> had ordered them to go outside the Sanhedrin,<note>Or "council"</note> they began to confer<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to confer")</note> with one another,</verse>


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<verse num="16">saying, "What should we do with these men? For that a remarkable sign has taken place through them <transChange type="added">is</transChange> evident to all those who live <transChange type="added">in</transChange> Jerusalem, and we are not able to deny <transChange type="added">it</transChange>!<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note></verse>


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<verse num="17">But in order that it may not spread much <transChange type="added">further</transChange> among the people, let us warn them to speak no more in this name {to anyone at all}."<note>Literally "to no man"</note></verse>


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<verse num="18">And they called them <transChange type="added">back</transChange> <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("called") has been translated as a finite verb</note> commanded <transChange type="added">them</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> not to speak or to teach at all in the name of Jesus.</verse>


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<verse num="19">But Peter and John answered <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("answered") has been translated as a finite verb</note> said to them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than God, you decide!</verse>


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<verse num="20">For we are not able to refrain from speaking about <transChange type="added">the things</transChange> that we have seen and heard."</verse>


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<verse num="21">So <transChange type="added">after</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">after</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("threatening ... further") which is understood as temporal</note> threatening <transChange type="added">them</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> further, they released them, finding no way to punish them on account of the people, because they were all praising God for what had happened.</verse>


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<verse num="22">For the man on whom this sign of healing had been performed was more <transChange type="added">than</transChange> forty years <transChange type="added">old</transChange>. </verse>


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<verse num="23">And <transChange type="added">when they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("were released") which is understood as temporal</note> were released, they went to their own <transChange type="added">people</transChange> and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.</verse>


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<verse num="24">And <transChange type="added">when they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("heard") which is understood as temporal</note> heard <transChange type="added">it</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> they lifted <transChange type="added">their</transChange> voices with one mind to God and said, "Master, you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the one who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all the things in them,</verse>


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<verse num="25">the one who said by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of our father David, your servant, </verse>


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<verse num="26">The kings of the earth stood opposed, and the rulers assembled together at the same <transChange type="added">place</transChange>, against the Lord and against his Christ.'<note>Or "Messiah"; this is a quotation from Ps 2:1-2</note></verse>


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<verse num="27">For in truth both Herod and Pontius Pilate, together with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, assembled together in this city against your holy servant Jesus whom you anointed,</verse>


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<verse num="28">to do all that your hand and plan<note>Some manuscripts have "and your plan"</note> had predestined to take place.</verse>


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<verse num="29">And now, Lord, concern yourself with their threats and grant your slaves to speak your message with all boldness,</verse>


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<verse num="30"><transChange type="added">as</transChange> you extend your hand to heal and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus."</verse>


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<verse num="31">And <transChange type="added">when</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("had prayed")</note> they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to speak")</note> the word<note>Or "message"</note> of God with boldness. </verse>


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<verse num="32">Now the group of those who believed were one heart and soul, and no one said anything of what belonged to him was his own, but all <transChange type="added">things</transChange> were theirs in common.</verse>


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<verse num="33">And with great power the apostles were giving testimony <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was on them all.</verse>


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<verse num="34">For there was not even anyone needy among them, because all those who were owners of plots of land or houses were selling <transChange type="added">them</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("were selling") has been translated as a finite verb</note> bringing the proceeds of the things that were sold</verse>


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<verse num="35">and placing <transChange type="added">them</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> at the feet of the apostles. And it was being distributed to each as anyone had need.</verse>


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<verse num="36">So Joseph, who was called Barnabas by the apostles (which is translated "son of encouragement"), a Levite of Cyprus by nationality,</verse>


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<verse num="37">sold a field<note>Or "a farm"</note> that belonged to him <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("sold") has been translated as a finite verb</note> brought the money and placed <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> at the feet of the apostles. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Now a certain man {named}<note>Literally "by name"</note> Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property,</verse>


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<verse num="2">and he kept back for himself <transChange type="added">some</transChange> of the proceeds, and <transChange type="added">his</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> wife was aware of <transChange type="added">it</transChange>.<note>*Here the participle "was aware of" in this genitive absolute construction has been translated as a finite verb in keeping with English style</note> And he brought a certain part <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("brought") has been translated as a finite verb</note> placed <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> at the feet of the apostles.</verse>


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<verse num="3">But Peter said, "Ananias, for what <transChange type="added">reason</transChange> has Satan filled your heart, <transChange type="added">that</transChange> you lied to the Holy Spirit and kept back for yourself <transChange type="added">some</transChange> of the proceeds of the piece of land?</verse>


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<verse num="4"><transChange type="added">When it</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("remained") which is understood as temporal</note> remained to you, did it not remain <transChange type="added">yours</transChange>? And <transChange type="added">when it</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("was sold") which is understood as temporal</note> was sold, was it at your disposal? How <transChange type="added">is it</transChange> that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to people, but to God!" </verse>


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<verse num="5">And <transChange type="added">when</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("heard") which is understood as temporal</note> Ananias heard these words, he fell down <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("fell down") has been translated as a finite verb</note> died. And great fear came on all those who heard about <transChange type="added">it</transChange>.<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note></verse>


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<verse num="6">So the young men stood up, wrapped him up, and carried <transChange type="added">him</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> out <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("carried ... out") has been translated as a finite verb</note> buried <transChange type="added">him</transChange>.<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note></verse>


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<verse num="7">And it happened that <transChange type="added">there was</transChange> an interval of about three hours, and his wife came in, not knowing what had happened.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And Peter said to her, "Tell me whether you <transChange type="added">both</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">both</transChange>" reflects the second person plural verb, which refers to both Ananias and Sapphira</note> were paid this much <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the piece of land." And she said, "Yes, this much."</verse>


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<verse num="9">So Peter <transChange type="added">said</transChange> to her, "How <transChange type="added">is it</transChange> that it was agreed by you <transChange type="added">two</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">two</transChange>" is supplied in the translation to indicate that the pronoun ("you") is plural in the Greek text</note> to test the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who buried your husband <transChange type="added">are</transChange> at the door, and they will carry you out!"</verse>


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<verse num="10">And immediately she fell down at his feet and died. So <transChange type="added">when</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("came in") which is understood as temporal</note> the young men came in, they found her dead, and carried <transChange type="added">her</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> out <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("carried ... out") has been translated as a finite verb</note> buried <transChange type="added">her</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> with her husband.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And great fear came on the whole church and on all who heard about these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>. </verse>


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<verse num="12">Now many signs and wonders were being performed among the people through the hands of the apostles. And they were all together<note>Or perhaps "by common consent"</note> in Solomon's Portico.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And none of the rest dared to join them, but the people spoke highly of them.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And even more believers in the Lord<note>Or "even more believers were being added to the Lord"</note> were being added, large numbers of both men and women,</verse>


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<verse num="15">so that they even carried out the sick into the streets and put <transChange type="added">them</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> on cots and mats<note>Or "mattresses"</note> so that <transChange type="added">when</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("came by")</note> Peter came by, at least <transChange type="added">his</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> shadow would fall on some of them.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And the people of the towns around Jerusalem also came together, bringing the sick and those tormented by unclean spirits, who were all being healed. </verse>


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<verse num="17">Now the high priest rose up and all those <transChange type="added">who were</transChange> with him (that is, the party of the Sadducees), <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("rose up") has been translated as a finite verb</note> they were filled with jealousy.</verse>


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<verse num="19">But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the prison and led them <transChange type="added">out</transChange> <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the two previous participles ("opened" and "led") have been translated as finite verbs</note> said,</verse>


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<verse num="20">"Go and stand in the temple <transChange type="added">courts</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">courts</transChange>" is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself</note> <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("stand") has been translated as a finite verb</note> proclaim to the people all the words of this life."</verse>


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<verse num="21">And <transChange type="added">when they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("heard") which is understood as temporal</note> heard <transChange type="added">this</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> they entered at daybreak into the temple <transChange type="added">courts</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">courts</transChange>" is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself</note> and began teaching.<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began teaching")</note> </verse>


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<verse num="22">But the officers who came<note>Or "<transChange type="added">when they</transChange> came"</note> did not find them in the prison, and they returned <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("returned") has been translated as a finite verb</note> reported,</verse>


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<verse num="23">saying, "We found the prison locked with all security and the guards standing at the doors, but <transChange type="added">when we</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("opened") which is understood as temporal</note> opened <transChange type="added">them</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> we found no one inside!"</verse>


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<verse num="24">Now when both the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were greatly perplexed concerning them, <transChange type="added">as to</transChange> what this might be.</verse>


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<verse num="25">But someone came <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("came") has been translated as a finite verb</note> reported to them, "Behold, the men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple <transChange type="added">courts</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">courts</transChange>" is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself</note> and teaching the people!"</verse>


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<verse num="26">Then the captain went with the officers <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("went") has been translated as a finite verb</note> brought them, not with force (for they were afraid of the people, lest they be stoned <transChange type="added">by them</transChange>).<note>*The words "<transChange type="added">by them</transChange>" are not in the Greek text but are implied</note> </verse>


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<verse num="27">And <transChange type="added">when they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had brought") which is understood as temporal</note> had brought them, they made <transChange type="added">them</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> stand in the Sanhedrin,<note>Or "council"</note> and the high priest put a question to them,</verse>


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<verse num="28">saying, "{We strictly commanded}<note>Literally "we commanded with a commandment"</note> you<note>Some manuscripts have "Did we not strictly command you"</note> not to teach in this name? And behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching! And you are intending to bring upon us the blood of this man!"</verse>


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<verse num="29">But Peter and the apostles answered <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("answered") has been translated as a finite verb</note> said, "It is necessary to obey God rather than men!</verse>


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<verse num="30">The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed <transChange type="added">by</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">by</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("hanging") which is understood as means</note> hanging <transChange type="added">him</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> on a tree.</verse>


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<verse num="31">This one God has exalted to his right hand <transChange type="added">as</transChange> Leader and Savior to grant repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.</verse>


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<verse num="32">And we are witnesses of these things, and <transChange type="added">so is</transChange><note>*The words "<transChange type="added">so is</transChange>" are not in the Greek text but are implied</note> the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him."</verse>


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<verse num="33">Now <transChange type="added">when</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("heard") which is understood as temporal</note> they heard <transChange type="added">this</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> they were infuriated, and were wanting to execute them.</verse>


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<verse num="34">But a certain man stood up in the Sanhedrin,<note>Or "council"</note> a Pharisee {named}<note>Literally "by name"</note> Gamaliel, a teacher of the law respected by all the people, <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("stood up") has been translated as a finite verb</note> gave orders to put the men outside for a short time.</verse>


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<verse num="35">And he said to them, "Men <transChange type="added">and</transChange> Israelites, take care for yourselves what you are about to do to these men!</verse>


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<verse num="36">For before these days, Theudas rose up saying he was somebody. A number of men, about four hundred, joined {him}.<note>Literally "to whom"</note> {He}<note>Literally "who"</note> was executed, and all who followed him were dispersed and came to nothing.</verse>


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<verse num="37">After this man, Judas the Galilean rose up in the days of the census and {caused people to follow him in revolt}.<note>Literally "caused people to revolt after him"</note> And that one perished, and all who followed him were scattered.</verse>


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<verse num="38">And now I tell you, keep away from these men, and leave them alone, because if this plan or this matter is from people, it will be overthrown.<note>Or "it will fail"</note></verse>


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<verse num="39">But if it is from God, you will not be able to overthrow them, lest you even be found fighting against God." So they were persuaded by him.</verse>


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<verse num="40">And they summoned the apostles, beat <transChange type="added">them</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> commanded <transChange type="added">them</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> not to speak in the name of Jesus, and released <transChange type="added">them</transChange>.<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note></verse>


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<verse num="41">So they went out from the presence of the Sanhedrin<note>Or "council"</note> rejoicing, because they had been considered worthy to be dishonored for the sake of the name.</verse>


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<verse num="42">Every day, both in the temple <transChange type="added">courts</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">courts</transChange>" is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself</note> and from house <transChange type="added">to house</transChange>, they did not stop teaching and proclaiming the good news <transChange type="added">that</transChange> the Christ<note>Or "Messiah"</note> <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Jesus. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Now in these days, <transChange type="added">as</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">as</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("were increasing")</note> the disciples were increasing <transChange type="added">in number</transChange>,<note>*The words "<transChange type="added">in number</transChange>" are not in the Greek text but are implied</note> a complaint arose by the {Greek-speaking Jews}<note>Literally "Hellenists"</note> against the {Hebraic Jews}<note>Literally "Hebrews"</note> because<note>Or "that"</note> their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution <transChange type="added">of food</transChange>.<note>*The words "<transChange type="added">of food</transChange>" are not in the Greek text but are implied</note></verse>


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<verse num="2">So the twelve summoned the community of disciples <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("summoned") has been translated as a finite verb</note> said, "It is not desirable <transChange type="added">that</transChange> we neglect the word of God to serve tables.</verse>


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<verse num="3">So, brothers, select from among you seven men {of good reputation},<note>Literally "well spoken of"</note> full of the Spirit and wisdom, whom we will put in charge of this need.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And the statement pleased the whole group, and they chose Stephen (a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit), and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus (a convert from Antioch),</verse>


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<verse num="6">whom they stood before the apostles. And they prayed <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("prayed") has been translated as a finite verb</note> placed <transChange type="added">their</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> hands on them. </verse>


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<verse num="7">And the word of God kept spreading, and the number of disciples in Jerusalem was increasing greatly, and a large number of priests began obeying<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began obeying")</note> the faith. </verse>


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<verse num="8">Now Stephen, full of grace and power, was performing great wonders and signs among the people.</verse>


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<verse num="9">But some of those from the Synagogue of the Freedmen ({as it was called}),<note>Literally "called"</note> both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and those from Cilicia and Asia,<note>A reference to the Roman province of Asia (modern Asia Minor)</note> stood up <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the participle ("disputed") has been translated as a finite verb in keeping with English style</note> disputed with Stephen.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking.</verse>


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<verse num="11">Then they secretly instigated men who said, "We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God!"</verse>


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<verse num="12">And they incited the people and the elders and the scribes, and they came up <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("came up") has been translated as a finite verb</note> seized him and brought <transChange type="added">him</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> to the Sanhedrin.<note>Or "council"</note></verse>


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<verse num="13">And they put forward false witnesses who said, "This man does not stop speaking words against the holy place<note>Some manuscripts have "this holy place"</note> and the law!</verse>


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<verse num="14">For we have heard him saying that this Nazarene Jesus will destroy this place and will change the customs that Moses handed down to us."</verse>


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<verse num="15">And <transChange type="added">as they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">as</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("looked intently") which is understood as temporal</note> looked intently at him, all those who were sitting in the Sanhedrin<note>Or "council"</note> saw his face <transChange type="added">was</transChange> like the face of an angel. </verse>


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<verse num="1">And the high priest said, "Is it so concerning these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>?"</verse>


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<verse num="2">So he said, "Men--brothers and fathers--listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham <transChange type="added">while he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">while</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("was") which is understood as temporal</note> was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,</verse>


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<verse num="3">and said to him, 'Go out from your land and from your relatives and come to the land that I will show you.'</verse>


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<verse num="4">Then he went out from the land of the Chaldeans <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("went out") has been translated as a finite verb</note> settled in Haran. And from there, after his father died, he caused him to move to this land in which you now live.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And he did not give him an inheritance in it--not even a footstep<note>Literally "a step of a foot"</note>--and he promised to give <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> to him for his possession, and to his descendants after him, {although he did not have}<note>Literally "not being to him"</note><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">although</transChange>" is supplied in the translation as a component of the participle ("was") which is understood as concessive</note> a child.</verse>


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<verse num="6">But God spoke like this: 'His descendants will be foreigners in a foreign land, and they will enslave them and mistreat <transChange type="added">them</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> four hundred years,</verse>


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<verse num="7">and the nation {that}<note>Literally "to which"</note> they will serve as slaves, I will judge,' God said, 'and after these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> they will come out<note>Verses 6-7 are a quotation from Gen 15:13-14</note> and will worship me in this place.'<note>The final phrase is an allusion to Exod 3:12</note></verse>


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<verse num="8">And he gave him the covenant of circumcision, and so he became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac <transChange type="added">did so with</transChange><note>*Here the words "<transChange type="added">did so with</transChange>" are not in the Greek text but are implied; in view of the "covenant of circumcision" mentioned earlier in the verse, it is probable that circumcision and not just fatherhood is involved</note> Jacob, and Jacob <transChange type="added">did so with</transChange><note>*Here the words "<transChange type="added">did so with</transChange>" are not in the Greek text but are implied; see the note on the same phrase earlier in this verse</note> the twelve patriarchs.</verse>


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<verse num="9">And the patriarchs, <transChange type="added">because they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">because</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("were jealous of") which is understood as causal</note> were jealous of Joseph, sold <transChange type="added">him</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> into Egypt. And God was with him,</verse>


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<verse num="10">and rescued him from all his afflictions and granted him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And he appointed him ruler over Egypt and all<note>Some manuscripts have "over all"</note> his household.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And a famine came over all Egypt and Canaan and great affliction, and our fathers could not find food.</verse>


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<verse num="12">So <transChange type="added">when</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("heard") which is understood as temporal</note> Jacob heard <transChange type="added">there</transChange> was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And on the second <transChange type="added">visit</transChange><note>*The word "<transChange type="added">visit</transChange>" is not in the Greek text but is implied</note> Joseph was made known to his brothers, and the family of Joseph became known to Pharaoh.</verse>


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<verse num="14">So Joseph sent <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("sent") has been translated as a finite verb</note> summoned his father Jacob and all <transChange type="added">his</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> relatives, seventy-five persons in <transChange type="added">all</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And they were brought back to Shechem and buried in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem. </verse>


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<verse num="17">"But as the time of the promise that God had made to Abraham was drawing near, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt</verse>


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<verse num="19">This man deceitfully took advantage of our<note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> people <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("deceitfully took advantage of") has been translated as a finite verb</note> mistreated our ancestors, {causing them to abandon their infants}<note>Literally "making their infants be abandoned"</note> so that they would not be kept alive.</verse>


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<verse num="20">At this time Moses was born, and he was beautiful to God. {He}<note>Literally "who"</note> was brought up <transChange type="added">for</transChange> three months in <transChange type="added">his</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> father's house,</verse>


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<verse num="21">and <transChange type="added">when</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("was abandoned")</note> he was abandoned, the daughter of Pharaoh took him <transChange type="added">up</transChange> and brought him <transChange type="added">up</transChange> {as her own son}.<note>Literally "for a son to herself"</note></verse>


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<verse num="22">And Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was powerful in his words and deeds. </verse>


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<verse num="23">"But when {he was forty years old},<note>Literally "a period of time of forty years was fulfilled for him"</note> it entered in his heart to visit his brothers, the sons of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="24">And <transChange type="added">when he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("saw") which is understood as temporal</note> saw one of them being unjustly harmed, he defended <transChange type="added">him</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> and {avenged}<note>Literally "produced vengeance <transChange type="added">for</transChange>"</note> the one who had been oppressed <transChange type="added">by</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">by</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("striking down") which is understood as means</note> striking down the Egyptian.</verse>


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<verse num="25">And he thought his<note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> brothers would understand that God was granting deliverance to them by his hand, but they did not understand.</verse>


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<verse num="26">And on the following day, he made an appearance to them <transChange type="added">while they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">while</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("were fighting") which is understood as temporal</note> were fighting and was attempting to reconcile<note>*Here the imperfect verb has been translated as conative ("was attempting to reconcile")</note> them in peace, saying, 'Men <transChange type="added">and</transChange> brothers, why are you doing wrong to one another?'</verse>


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<verse num="27">But the one who was doing wrong to <transChange type="added">his</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> neighbor pushed him aside, saying, 'Who appointed you a ruler and a judge over us?</verse>


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<verse num="28">You do not want to do away with me {the same way}<note>Literally "in the manner in which"</note> you did away with the Egyptian yesterday, <transChange type="added">do you</transChange>?'<note>A quotation from Exod 2:14; the negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated by "<transChange type="added">do you</transChange>"</note></verse>


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<verse num="29">And at this statement, Moses fled and became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons. </verse>


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<verse num="30">"And <transChange type="added">when</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("had been completed")</note> forty years had been completed, an angel appeared to him in the desert of Mount Sinai in the flame of a burning bush.</verse>


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<verse num="31">And <transChange type="added">when</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("saw") which is understood as temporal</note> Moses saw <transChange type="added">it</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> he was astonished at the sight, and <transChange type="added">when</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("approached")</note> he approached to look at <transChange type="added">it</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> the voice of the Lord came:</verse>


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<verse num="32">'I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob!'<note>A quotation from Exod 3:6</note> So Moses began trembling <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("began") has been translated as a finite verb</note> did not dare to look at <transChange type="added">it</transChange>.<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note></verse>


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<verse num="33">And the Lord said to him, 'Untie the sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.</verse>


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<verse num="34">{I have certainly seen}<note>Literally "seeing I have seen"</note> the mistreatment of my people <transChange type="added">who are</transChange> in Egypt and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt.'<note>A quotation from Exod 3:5, 7-8, 10</note></verse>


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<verse num="35">This Moses whom they had repudiated, saying, 'Who appointed you a ruler and a judge?'<note>A quotation from Exod 2:14 (see v. 27 above)</note>--this man God sent <transChange type="added">as</transChange> both ruler and redeemer with {the help}<note>Literally "hand"</note> of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.</verse>


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<verse num="36">This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness <transChange type="added">for</transChange> forty years. </verse>


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<verse num="37">"This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, 'God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.'<note>A quotation from Deut 18:15</note></verse>


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<verse num="38">This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and who <transChange type="added">with</transChange> our fathers received living oracles to give to us,</verse>


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<verse num="39">to whom our fathers were not willing to become obedient, but rejected <transChange type="added">him</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> and turned <transChange type="added">back</transChange> in their hearts to Egypt,</verse>


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<verse num="40">saying to Aaron, 'Make us gods who will go on before us! For this Moses, who led us out from the land of Egypt--we do not know what has happened to him!'<note>A quotation from Exod 32:1, 23</note></verse>


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<verse num="41">And they manufactured a calf in those days, and offered up a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began rejoicing")</note> in the works of their hands.</verse>


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<verse num="42">But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, just as it is written in the book of the prophets: </verse>


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<verse num="43">And you took along the tabernacle<note>Or "tent"</note> of Moloch and the star of the god<note>Some manuscripts have "of your god"</note> Rephan, the images that you made, to worship them, and I will deport you beyond Babylon!'<note>A quotation from Amos 5:25-27</note></verse>


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<verse num="44">The tabernacle of the testimony {belonged}<note>Literally "was"</note> to our fathers in the wilderness, just as the one who spoke to Moses directed <transChange type="added">him</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> to make it according to the design that he had seen,</verse>


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<verse num="45">and which, <transChange type="added">after</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">after</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("receiving") which is understood as temporal</note> receiving <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> in turn, our fathers brought in with Joshua {when they dispossessed the}<note>Literally "in the possession of the"</note> nations that God drove out from the presence of our fathers, until the days of David,</verse>


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<verse num="46">who found favor in the sight of God and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.<note>Some manuscripts have "for the house of Jacob"</note></verse>


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<verse num="48">But the Most High does not live in <transChange type="added">houses</transChange><note>Or "temples made by human hands"; either word ("houses" or "temples") is understood here</note> made by human hands, just as the prophet says, </verse>


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<verse num="49">'Heaven <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my throne and earth <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what <transChange type="added">is the</transChange> place of my rest?</verse>


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<verse num="50">Did not my hand make all these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>?'<note>A quotation from Isa 66:1-2</note></verse>


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<verse num="51">"<transChange type="added">You</transChange> stiff-necked <transChange type="added">people</transChange> and uncircumcised in hearts and in <transChange type="added">your</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> ears! You constantly resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers <transChange type="added">did</transChange>, <transChange type="added">so</transChange> also <transChange type="added">do</transChange> you!</verse>


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<verse num="52">Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand about the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become,</verse>


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<verse num="53"><transChange type="added">you</transChange> who received the law by directions of angels and have not observed <transChange type="added">it</transChange>!" </verse>


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<verse num="54">Now <transChange type="added">when they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("heard") which is understood as temporal</note> heard these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, they were infuriated in their hearts and gnashed <transChange type="added">their</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> teeth at him.</verse>


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<verse num="55">But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently into heaven <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("looked intently") has been translated as a finite verb</note> saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.</verse>


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<verse num="56">And he said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!"</verse>


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<verse num="57">But crying out with a loud voice, they stopped their ears and rushed at him with one purpose.</verse>


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<verse num="58">And <transChange type="added">after they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">after</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had driven") which is understood as temporal</note> had driven <transChange type="added">him</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> out of the city, they began to stone<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began stoning")</note> <transChange type="added">him</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> and the witnesses laid aside their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul.</verse>


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<verse num="59">And they kept on stoning Stephen <transChange type="added">as he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">as</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("was calling out") which is understood as temporal</note> was calling out and saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"</verse>


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<verse num="60">And falling to <transChange type="added">his</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> knees, he cried out with a loud voice, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them!" And <transChange type="added">after he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">after</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("said") which is understood as temporal</note> said this, he fell asleep.<note>Or "he passed away"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="1">And Saul was agreeing with his murder. Now there happened on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.</verse>


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<verse num="3">But Saul was attempting to destroy the church. Entering {house after house},<note>Literally "from house" <transChange type="added">to house</transChange></note> he dragged off both men and women <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("dragged off") has been translated as a finite verb</note> delivered <transChange type="added">them</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> to prison. </verse>


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<verse num="4">Now those who had been scattered went about proclaiming the good news <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the word.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And Philip came down to the city of Samaria <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("came down") has been translated as a finite verb</note> began proclaiming<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began proclaiming")</note> the Christ<note>Or "Messiah"</note> to them.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And the crowds with one mind were paying attention to what was being said by Philip, <transChange type="added">as</transChange> they heard <transChange type="added">him</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> and saw the signs that he was performing.</verse>


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<verse num="7">For many of those who had unclean spirits, they were coming out <transChange type="added">of them</transChange>,<note>*The words "<transChange type="added">of them</transChange>" are supplied in the translation to indicate that the unclean spirits were coming out of the people</note> crying out with a loud voice, and many who were paralyzed and lame were healed.</verse>


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<verse num="9">Now a certain man {named}<note>Literally "by name"</note> Simon had been in the city practicing magic and astonishing the people of Samaria, saying he was someone great.</verse>


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<verse num="10">They were all paying attention to {him},<note>Literally "whom"</note> from the least to the greatest, saying, "This man is the power of God that is called 'Great.'"</verse>


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<verse num="11">And they were paying attention to him because for a long time he had astonished them with <transChange type="added">his</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> magic.</verse>


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<verse num="12">But when they believed Philip <transChange type="added">as he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">as</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("was proclaiming the good news") which is understood as temporal</note> was proclaiming the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were being baptized.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And Simon himself also believed, and <transChange type="added">after he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">after</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("was baptized") which is understood as temporal</note> was baptized he was {keeping close company with}<note>Literally "attaching himself to"</note> Philip. And <transChange type="added">when he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("saw") which is understood as temporal</note> saw the signs and great miracles that were taking place, he was astonished. </verse>


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<verse num="14">Now <transChange type="added">when</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("heard") which is understood as temporal</note> the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them,</verse>


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<verse num="15">who went down <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("went down") has been translated as a finite verb</note> prayed for them so that they would receive the Holy Spirit.</verse>


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<verse num="16">(For he had not yet fallen on any of them, {but they had only been baptized}<note>Literally "but they were only having been baptized"</note> in the name of the Lord Jesus.)</verse>


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<verse num="17">Then they placed <transChange type="added">their</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit. </verse>


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<verse num="18">Now Simon, <transChange type="added">when he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("saw") which is understood as temporal</note> saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, offered them money,</verse>


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<verse num="19">saying, "Give to me also this power, so that whomever I place <transChange type="added">my</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> hands on may receive the Holy Spirit!"</verse>


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<verse num="20">But Peter said to him, "May your silver {be destroyed along with you},<note>Literally "be for destruction with you"</note> because you thought {you could acquire}<note>Literally "to acquire"</note> the gift of God by means of money!</verse>


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<verse num="21">{You have no}<note>Literally "there is for you no"</note> part or share in this matter, because your heart is not right before God.</verse>


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<verse num="22">Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and ask the Lord if perhaps the intent of your heart may be forgiven you!"</verse>


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<verse num="23">For I see you are in {a state of bitter envy}<note>Literally "the gall of bitterness"</note> and {bound by unrighteousness}."<note>Literally "the fetter of unrighteousness"</note></verse>


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<verse num="24">But Simon answered <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("answered") has been translated as a finite verb</note> said, "You pray to the Lord for me so that nothing of what you have said will come upon me."</verse>


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<verse num="25">So <transChange type="added">when</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had solemnly testified") which is understood as temporal</note> they had solemnly testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they turned back toward Jerusalem, and were proclaiming the good news <transChange type="added">to</transChange> many villages of the Samaritans. </verse>


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<verse num="26">Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, "Get up and go toward the south<note>Or "go about noon"</note> on the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza." (This is a desert <transChange type="added">road</transChange>.)</verse>


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<verse num="27">And he got up <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("got up") has been translated as a finite verb</note> went, and behold, <transChange type="added">there was</transChange> a man, an Ethiopian eunuch (a court official of Candace,<note>Or "the Candace" (the title of the queen of Ethiopia)</note> queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasury) who had come to worship in Jerusalem</verse>


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<verse num="28">and was returning and sitting in his chariot, and reading aloud the prophet Isaiah.</verse>


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<verse num="30">So Philip ran up to <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("ran up to") has been translated as a finite verb</note> heard him reading aloud Isaiah the prophet and said, "So then, do you understand what you are reading?"</verse>


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<verse num="31">And he said, "So how could I, unless someone will guide me?" And he invited Philip to come up <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("come up") has been translated as an infinitive</note> sit with him.</verse>


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<verse num="33">In his<note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> humiliation justice was taken from him. Who can describe his {descendants}?<note>Or perhaps "family history"; literally "generation"</note> For his life was taken away from the earth."<note>A quotation from Isa 53:7-8</note></verse>


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<verse num="34">And the eunuch answered <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("answered") has been translated as a finite verb</note> said to Philip, "I ask you, about whom does the prophet say this--about himself or about someone else?"</verse>


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<verse num="35">So Philip opened his mouth and beginning from this scripture, proclaimed the good news to him <transChange type="added">about</transChange> Jesus.</verse>


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<verse num="36">And as they were traveling down the road, they came to some water. And the eunuch said, "Look! Water! What prevents me from being baptized?"<note>A few later manuscripts add v. 37, with minor variations: "He said to him, 'If you believe with your whole heart, you may.' And he answered and said, 'I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.'" The verse is almost certainly not an original part of the text of Acts.</note></verse>


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<verse num="38">And he ordered the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water--Philip and the eunuch--and he baptized him.</verse>


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<verse num="39">And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him any longer, for he went on his way rejoicing.</verse>


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<verse num="40">But Philip found himself at Azotus, and <transChange type="added">as he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">as</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("passed through") which is understood as temporal</note> passed through, he proclaimed the good news <transChange type="added">to</transChange> all the towns until he came to Caesarea. </verse>


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<verse num="1">But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest</verse>


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<verse num="2"><transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the participle in the previous verse ("went to") has been translated as a finite verb</note> asked for letters from him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, both men and women, he could bring <transChange type="added">them</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> tied up<note>Or figuratively "bring <transChange type="added">them</transChange> under arrest"</note> to Jerusalem.</verse>


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<verse num="3">Now as <transChange type="added">he</transChange> proceeded, it happened that <transChange type="added">when</transChange> he approached Damascus, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?"</verse>


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<verse num="5">So he said, "Who are you, Lord?" And he <transChange type="added">said</transChange>, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting!</verse>


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<verse num="6">But get up and enter into the city, and it will be told to you {what you must do}."<note>Literally "what thing it is necessary <transChange type="added">that</transChange> you do"</note></verse>


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<verse num="7">(Now the men who were traveling together with him stood speechless, <transChange type="added">because they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">because</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("heard") which is understood as causal</note> heard the voice but saw no one.)</verse>


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<verse num="8">So Saul got up from the ground, but <transChange type="added">although</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">although</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the genitive absolute participle ("were open") which is understood as concessive</note> his eyes were open he could see nothing. And leading him by the hand, they brought <transChange type="added">him</transChange> into Damascus.</verse>


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<verse num="9">And he was {unable to see}<note>Literally "not seeing"</note> <transChange type="added">for</transChange> three days, and he did not eat or drink. </verse>


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<verse num="10">Now there was a certain disciple in Damascus {named}<note>Literally "by name"</note> Ananias, and the Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias!" And he said, "Behold, <transChange type="added">here</transChange> I <transChange type="added">am</transChange>, Lord!"</verse>


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<verse num="11">And the Lord <transChange type="added">said</transChange> to him, "Get up, go to the street called 'Straight' and in the house of Judas look for {a man named Saul from Tarsus}.<note>Literally "Saul by name of Tarsus"</note> For behold, he is praying,</verse>


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<verse num="12">and he has seen in a vision a man {named}<note>Literally "by name"</note> Ananias coming in and placing hands<note>Some manuscripts have "placing his hands"</note> on him so that he may regain <transChange type="added">his</transChange> sight."</verse>


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<verse num="13">But Ananias replied, "Lord, I have heard from many <transChange type="added">people</transChange> about this man, how much harm he has done to your saints in Jerusalem,</verse>


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<verse num="14">and here he has authority from the chief priests to tie up<note>Or figuratively "to arrest" or "to imprison"</note> all who call upon your name!"</verse>


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<verse num="15">But the Lord said to him, "Go, because this man is my chosen instrument to carry my name before Gentiles<note>The same Greek word can be translated "nations" or "Gentiles" depending on the context</note> and kings and the sons of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="17">So Ananias departed and entered into the house, and placing <transChange type="added">his</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> hands on him, he said, "Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me so that you may regain <transChange type="added">your</transChange> sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit."</verse>


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<verse num="18">And immediately <transChange type="added">something</transChange> like scales fell from his eyes and he regained <transChange type="added">his</transChange> sight and got up <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("got up") has been translated as a finite verb</note> was baptized,</verse>


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<verse num="19">and <transChange type="added">after</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">after</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("taking") which is understood as temporal</note> taking food, he regained his strength. And he was with the disciples in Damascus several days. </verse>


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<verse num="20">And immediately he began proclaiming<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began proclaiming")</note> Jesus in the synagogues: "This one is the Son of God!"</verse>


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<verse num="21">And all who heard <transChange type="added">him</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> were amazed, and were saying, "Is this not the one who was wreaking havoc in Jerusalem <transChange type="added">on</transChange> those who call upon this name, and had come here for this <transChange type="added">reason</transChange>, that he could bring them tied up<note>Or figuratively "bring them under arrest"</note> to the chief priests?"</verse>


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<verse num="22">But Saul was increasing in strength even more, and was confounding the Jews who lived in Damascus <transChange type="added">by</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">by</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("proving") which is understood as means</note> proving that this one is the Christ.<note>Or "Messiah"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="24">But their plot became known to Saul, and they were also watching the gates both day and night so that they could do away with him.</verse>


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<verse num="25">But his disciples took <transChange type="added">him</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> at night <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("took") has been translated as a finite verb</note> let him down through the wall <transChange type="added">by</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">by</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("lowering") which is understood as means</note> lowering <transChange type="added">him</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> in a basket. </verse>


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<verse num="26">And <transChange type="added">when he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("arrived") which is understood as temporal</note> arrived in Jerusalem, he was attempting to associate with the disciples, and they were all afraid of him, <transChange type="added">because they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">because</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("believe") which is understood as causal</note> did not believe that he was a disciple.</verse>


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<verse num="27">But Barnabas took him <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("took") has been translated as a finite verb</note> brought <transChange type="added">him</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> to the apostles and related to them how he had seen the Lord on the road and that he had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken boldly in the name of Jesus.</verse>


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<verse num="28">And he was going in and going out among them in Jerusalem, speaking boldly in the name of the Lord.</verse>


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<verse num="29">And he was speaking and debating with the {Greek-speaking Jews},<note>Literally "Hellenists"</note> but they were trying to do away with him.</verse>


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<verse num="30">And <transChange type="added">when</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("found out") which is understood as temporal</note> the brothers found out, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus. </verse>


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<verse num="31">Then the church throughout all of Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, being strengthened. And living in the fear of the Lord and the encouragement of the Holy Spirit, it was increasing <transChange type="added">in numbers</transChange>.<note>*The words "<transChange type="added">in numbers</transChange>" are not in the Greek text but are implied</note> </verse>


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<verse num="32">Now it happened that <transChange type="added">as</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">as</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("was traveling") which is understood as temporal</note> Peter was traveling through all <transChange type="added">the places</transChange>,<note>*The words "<transChange type="added">the places</transChange>" are not in the Greek text but are implied</note> <transChange type="added">he</transChange> also came down to the saints who lived <transChange type="added">in</transChange> Lydda.</verse>


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<verse num="33">And he found there a certain man {named}<note>Literally "by name"</note> Aeneas who was paralyzed, who had been lying on a mat<note>Or "mattress"</note> for eight years.</verse>


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<verse num="34">And Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you! Get up and make your bed yourself!" And immediately he got up.</verse>


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<verse num="35">And all those who lived <transChange type="added">in</transChange> Lydda and Sharon saw him, who <transChange type="added">all</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">all</transChange>" is supplied to indicate the relative pronoun is plural</note> indeed turned to the Lord. </verse>


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<verse num="36">Now in Joppa there was a certain female disciple {named}<note>Literally "by name"</note> Tabitha (which translated means "Dorcas").<note>"Dorcas" is the Greek translation of the Aramaic name "Tabitha" which means "deer" or "gazelle"</note> She was full of good deeds and charitable giving which she was constantly doing.<note>*Here the imperfect verb is translated as a customary imperfect ("was constantly doing")</note></verse>


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<verse num="37">Now it happened that in those days <transChange type="added">after</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">after</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("becoming sick") which is understood as temporal</note> becoming sick, she died. And <transChange type="added">after</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">after</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("washing") which is understood as temporal</note> washing <transChange type="added">her</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> they placed her in an upstairs room.</verse>


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<verse num="38">And <transChange type="added">because</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">because</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("was") which is understood as causal</note> Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, <transChange type="added">when they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("heard") which is understood as temporal</note> heard that Peter was in {Lydda},<note>Literally "in it"</note> sent two men to him, urging, "Do not delay to come to us!"</verse>


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<verse num="39">So Peter got up <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("got up") has been translated as a finite verb</note> accompanied them. <transChange type="added">When he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("arrived") which is understood as temporal</note> arrived, they brought <transChange type="added">him</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> up to the upstairs room, and all the widows came to him, weeping and showing <transChange type="added">him</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> tunics and <transChange type="added">other</transChange> clothing that Dorcas used to make <transChange type="added">while she</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">while</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("was") which is understood as temporal</note> was with them.</verse>


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<verse num="40">But Peter sent <transChange type="added">them</transChange> all outside, and, falling to <transChange type="added">his</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> knees, he prayed. And turning toward the body, he said, "Tabitha, get up!" And she opened her eyes, and <transChange type="added">when she</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("saw") which is understood as temporal</note> saw Peter, she sat up.</verse>


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<verse num="41">And he gave her <transChange type="added">his</transChange> hand <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("gave") has been translated as a finite verb</note> raised her up. And he called the saints and the widows <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("called") has been translated as a finite verb</note> presented her alive.</verse>


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<verse num="43">And it happened that <transChange type="added">he</transChange> stayed many days in Joppa with a certain Simon, a tanner.<note>Or "with a certain Simon Berseus"; most modern English versions treat the word as Simon's profession ("Simon the tanner"), but the word may actually be a surname ("Simon Berseus" or "Simon Tanner")</note> </verse>


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<verse num="1">Now <transChange type="added">there was</transChange> a certain man in Caesarea {named}<note>Literally "by name"</note> Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian Cohort,</verse>


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<verse num="2">devout and fearing God together with all his household, doing many charitable deeds for the people and praying to God {continually}.<note>Literally "through everything"</note></verse>


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<verse num="3">About the ninth hour of the day, he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God coming to him and saying to him, "Cornelius."</verse>


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<verse num="4">And he stared at him and became terrified <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("became") has been translated as a finite verb</note> said, "What is <transChange type="added">it</transChange>, Lord?" And he said to him, "Your prayers and your charitable deeds have gone up for a memorial offering before God.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And now, send men to Joppa and summon a certain Simon, who is also called Peter.</verse>


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<verse num="6">This man is staying as a guest with a certain Simon, a tanner,<note>Or "with a certain Simon Berseus"; most modern English versions treat the word as Simon's profession ("Simon the tanner"), but the word may actually be a surname ("Simon Berseus" or "Simon Tanner")</note> whose house is by the sea."</verse>


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<verse num="7">And when the angel who spoke to him departed, he summoned two of the household slaves and a devout soldier from those who attended him,</verse>


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<verse num="8">and <transChange type="added">after he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">after</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had explained") which is understood as temporal</note> had explained everything to them, he sent them to Joppa. </verse>


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<verse num="9">And the next day, <transChange type="added">as</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">as</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("were on their way")</note> they were on their way and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray <transChange type="added">at</transChange> about the sixth hour.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And he became hungry and wanted to eat. But <transChange type="added">while</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">while</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("were preparing")</note> they were preparing <transChange type="added">the food</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> a trance came over him.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And he saw heaven opened and an object something like a large sheet coming down, being let down to the earth by its four corners,</verse>


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<verse num="12">in which were all the four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth and birds of the sky.</verse>


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<verse num="14">But Peter said, "Certainly not, Lord! For I have never eaten anything common and unclean!"</verse>


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<verse num="15">And the voice <transChange type="added">came</transChange> again to him for the second time: "<transChange type="added">The things</transChange> which God has made clean, you must not consider unclean!"</verse>


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<verse num="16">And this happened three times, and immediately the object was taken up into heaven. </verse>


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<verse num="17">Now while Peter was greatly perplexed within himself <transChange type="added">as to</transChange> what the vision that he had seen might be, behold, the men who had been sent by Cornelius, having found the house of Simon by asking around, stood at the gate.</verse>


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<verse num="18">And they called out <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("called out") has been translated as a finite verb</note> asked if Simon who was also called Peter was staying there as a guest.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And <transChange type="added">while</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">while</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("was reflecting")</note> Peter was reflecting about the vision, the Spirit said to him, "Behold, men<note>Some manuscripts have "three men"</note> are looking for you.</verse>


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<verse num="20">But get up, go down, and go with them--not hesitating at all, because I have sent them."</verse>


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<verse num="21">So Peter went down to the men <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("went down") has been translated as a finite verb</note> said, "Behold, I am <transChange type="added">he</transChange> whom you are looking for! What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the reason for which you have come?"</verse>


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<verse num="22">And they said, "Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous and God-fearing man--and well spoken of by the whole nation of the Jews--was directed by a holy angel to summon you to his house and to hear words from you."</verse>


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<verse num="23">So he invited them in <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("invited ... in") has been translated as a finite verb</note> entertained them as guests, and on the next day he got up <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("got up") has been translated as a finite verb</note> went away with them. And some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him.</verse>


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<verse num="25">So it happened that when Peter entered, Cornelius met him, fell at <transChange type="added">his</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> feet, <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("fell") has been translated as a finite verb</note> worshiped <transChange type="added">him</transChange>.<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note></verse>


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<verse num="27">And <transChange type="added">as he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">as</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("conversed with") which is understood as temporal</note> conversed with him, he went in and found many <transChange type="added">people</transChange> gathered.</verse>


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<verse num="28">And he said to them, "You know that it is forbidden for a Jewish man to associate with or to approach a foreigner. And to me God has shown <transChange type="added">that</transChange> I should call no man common or unclean.</verse>


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<verse num="29">Therefore--and without raising any objection--I came <transChange type="added">when I</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("was sent for") which is understood as temporal</note> was sent for. So I ask for what reason you sent for me." </verse>


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<verse num="30">And Cornelius said, "{Four days ago at this hour},<note>Literally "from the fourth day until this hour"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ninth, I was praying in my house. And behold, a man in shining clothing stood before me</verse>


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<verse num="31">and said, 'Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your charitable deeds have been remembered before God.</verse>


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<verse num="32">Therefore send to Joppa and summon Simon who is also called Peter. This man is staying as a guest in the house of Simon, a tanner,<note>Or "of Simon Berseus"; most modern English versions treat the word as Simon's profession ("Simon the tanner"), but the word may actually be a surname ("Simon Berseus" or "Simon Tanner")</note> by the sea.</verse>


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<verse num="33">Therefore I sent for you at once, and you {were kind enough to come}.<note>Literally "have done rightly coming"</note> So now we all are present before God to hear all the things that have been commanded to you by the Lord." </verse>


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<verse num="34">So Peter opened <transChange type="added">his</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> mouth <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("opened") has been translated as a finite verb</note> said, "In truth I understand that God is not one who shows partiality,</verse>


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<verse num="35">but in every nation the one who fears him and who does what is right is acceptable to him.</verse>


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<verse num="36"><transChange type="added">As for</transChange><note>*The words "<transChange type="added">As for</transChange>" are not in the Greek text, but are supplied in the translation in keeping with English style</note> the message that he sent to the sons of Israel, proclaiming the good news of peace through Jesus Christ--this one is Lord of all--</verse>


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<verse num="37">you know the thing that happened throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee, after the baptism that John proclaimed:</verse>


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<verse num="38">Jesus of Nazareth--how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with him.</verse>


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<verse num="39">And we <transChange type="added">are</transChange> witnesses of all <transChange type="added">the things</transChange> that he did both in the land of the Judeans and in Jerusalem, whom they also executed <transChange type="added">by</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">by</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("hanging") which is understood as means</note> hanging <transChange type="added">him</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> on a tree.</verse>


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<verse num="40">God raised this one up on the third day and granted <transChange type="added">that</transChange> he should become visible,</verse>


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<verse num="41">not to all the people but to us who had been chosen beforehand by God <transChange type="added">as</transChange> witnesses, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.</verse>


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<verse num="42">And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify solemnly that this one is the one appointed<note>Or "one who is designated"</note> by God <transChange type="added">as</transChange> judge of the living and of the dead.</verse>


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<verse num="43">To this one all the prophets testify, <transChange type="added">that</transChange> through his name everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins." </verse>


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<verse num="44"><transChange type="added">While</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">while</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("was ... speaking")</note> Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who were listening to the message.</verse>


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<verse num="45">And those believers from the circumcision who had accompanied Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles,</verse>


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<verse num="46">for they heard them speaking in tongues and glorifying God. Then Peter said,</verse>


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<verse num="47">"Surely no one can withhold the water for these <transChange type="added">people</transChange> to be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit as we also did!"</verse>


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<verse num="48">So he ordered <transChange type="added">that</transChange> they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay for several days. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had accepted the word<note>Or "message"</note> of God.</verse>


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<verse num="2">So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision took issue with him,</verse>


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<verse num="3">saying, "You went to men {who were uncircumcised}<note>Literally "who had uncircumcision</note> and ate with them!"</verse>


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<verse num="4">But Peter began <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("began") has been translated as a finite verb</note> explained <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> to them in an orderly sequence, saying,</verse>


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<verse num="5">"I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision--an object something like a large sheet coming down, being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came to me.</verse>


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<verse num="6"><transChange type="added">As I</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">as</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("looked intently") which is understood as temporal</note> looked intently into it, I was considering <transChange type="added">it</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> and I saw the four-footed animals of the earth and the wild animals and the reptiles and the birds of the sky.</verse>


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<verse num="8">But I said, 'Certainly not, Lord! For nothing common or unclean has ever entered into my mouth!'</verse>


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<verse num="9">But the voice replied from heaven for the second time, '<transChange type="added">The things</transChange> which God has made clean, you must not consider unclean!'</verse>


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<verse num="10">And this happened three times, and everything was pulled up into heaven again.</verse>


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<verse num="11">And behold, at once three men who had been sent to me from Caesarea approached the house in which we were <transChange type="added">staying</transChange>.<note>*Here the word "staying" is not in the Greek text but is implied</note></verse>


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<verse num="12">And the Spirit told me to accompany them, not hesitating <transChange type="added">at all</transChange>. So these six brothers also went with me, and we entered into the man's house.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And he reported to us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying, 'Send to Joppa and summon Simon, who is also called Peter,</verse>


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<verse num="14">who will speak words to you by which you will be saved, you and all your household.'</verse>


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<verse num="15">And <transChange type="added">as</transChange> I was beginning to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, just as also on us at the beginning.</verse>


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<verse num="16">And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, 'John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.'<note>An allusion to Acts 1:5</note></verse>


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<verse num="17">Therefore if God gave them the same gift as also to us <transChange type="added">when we</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("believed") which is understood as temporal</note> believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I <transChange type="added">to be</transChange> able to hinder God?"</verse>


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<verse num="18">And <transChange type="added">when they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("heard") which is understood as temporal</note> heard these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, they became silent<note>*Here the aorist verb is translated as ingressive ("became silent")</note> and praised God, saying, "Then God has granted the repentance <transChange type="added">leading</transChange> to life to the Gentiles also!" </verse>


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<verse num="19">Now those who had been scattered because of the persecution that took place over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, proclaiming the message to no one except Jews alone.</verse>


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<verse num="20">But some of them were men from Cyprus and Cyrene, who, <transChange type="added">when they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("came") which is understood as temporal</note> came to Antioch, began to speak<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to speak")</note> to the Hellenists<note>*Here this term could refer to (1) Greek-speaking Jews or (2) Greek-speaking non-Jews (i.e., Gentiles)</note> also, proclaiming the good news about the Lord Jesus.</verse>


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<verse num="21">And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a large number who believed turned to the Lord.</verse>


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<verse num="22">{And the report came to the attention}<note>Literally "and the report was heard in the ears"</note> of the church that was in Jerusalem about them, and they sent out Barnabas as far as<note>Some manuscripts have "to go as far as"</note> Antioch,</verse>


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<verse num="23">who, <transChange type="added">when he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("arrived") which is understood as temporal</note> arrived and saw the grace of God, rejoiced and encouraged <transChange type="added">them</transChange> all to remain true to the Lord with {devoted hearts},<note>Literally "purpose of heart"</note></verse>


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<verse num="24">because he was a good man and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a large number were added<note>Or "were brought"</note> to the Lord.</verse>


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<verse num="26">And <transChange type="added">when he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("found") which is understood as temporal</note> found <transChange type="added">him</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> he brought <transChange type="added">him</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> to Antioch. And it happened to them also <transChange type="added">that they</transChange> met together <transChange type="added">for</transChange> a whole year with the church and taught a large number <transChange type="added">of people</transChange>.<note>*The words "<transChange type="added">of people</transChange>" are not in the Greek text but are implied</note> And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians. </verse>


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<verse num="28">And one of them {named}<note>Literally "by name"</note> Agabus stood up <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("stood up") has been translated as a finite verb</note> indicated by the Spirit <transChange type="added">that</transChange> a great famine was about to come over the whole inhabited earth (which took place in the time of Claudius).</verse>


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<verse num="29">So from the disciples, {according to their ability to give},<note>Literally "to the degree that anyone was prospering"</note> each one of them determined to send <transChange type="added">financial aid</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> for support to the brothers who lived in Judea,</verse>


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<verse num="30">which they also did, sending <transChange type="added">the aid</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Now at that time, Herod the king laid hands on some of those from the church to harm <transChange type="added">them</transChange>.<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note></verse>


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<verse num="3">And <transChange type="added">when he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("saw") which is understood as temporal</note> saw that it was pleasing to the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. ({Now this was during the feast}<note>Literally "now these were the days"</note> of Unleavened Bread.)</verse>


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<verse num="4"><transChange type="added">After he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">after</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had arrested") which is understood as temporal</note> had arrested {him},<note>Literally "whom"</note> he also put <transChange type="added">him</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> in prison, handing <transChange type="added">him</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending to bring him {out for public trial}<note>Literally "to the people"</note> after the Passover.</verse>


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<verse num="5">Thus Peter was kept in the prison, but prayer was fervently being made to God by the church for him. </verse>


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<verse num="6">Now when Herod was about to bring him <transChange type="added">out</transChange>, on that <transChange type="added">very</transChange> night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards before the door were watching the prison.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And behold, an angel of the Lord stood near <transChange type="added">him</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> and a light shone in the prison cell. And striking Peter's side, he woke him up, saying, "Get up {quickly}!"<note>Literally "with quickness"</note> And his chains fell off of <transChange type="added">his</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> hands.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And the angel said to him, "Gird yourself and put on your sandals!" And he did so. And he said to him, "Wrap your cloak around you and follow me!"</verse>


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<verse num="9">And he went out <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("went out") has been translated as a finite verb</note> was following <transChange type="added">him</transChange>.<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> And he did not know that what was being done by the angel was real, but was thinking <transChange type="added">he</transChange> was seeing a vision.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And <transChange type="added">after they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">after</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had passed") which is understood as temporal</note> had passed the first and second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads to the city, which opened for them by itself, and they went out <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("went out") has been translated as a finite verb</note> went forward <transChange type="added">along</transChange> one narrow street, and at once the angel departed from him. </verse>


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<verse num="11">And <transChange type="added">when</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("came") which is understood as temporal</note> Peter came to himself, he said, "Now I know truly that the Lord has sent out his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and all {that the Jewish people expected}!"<note>Literally "the expectation of the people of the Jews"</note></verse>


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<verse num="12">And <transChange type="added">when he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("realized") which is understood as temporal</note> realized <transChange type="added">this</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John (who is also called Mark), where many <transChange type="added">people</transChange> were gathered together and were praying.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And <transChange type="added">when</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("knocked")</note> he knocked at the door of the gateway, a female slave {named}<note>Literally "by name"</note> Rhoda came up to answer.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And recognizing Peter's voice, because of <transChange type="added">her</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> joy she did not open the gate, but ran in <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("ran in") has been translated as a finite verb</note> announced <transChange type="added">that</transChange> Peter was standing at the gate.</verse>


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<verse num="15">But they said to her, "You are out of your mind!" But she kept insisting<note>*This imperfect verb is translated as an iterative imperfect ("kept insisting")</note> it was so. And they kept saying,<note>*This imperfect verb is translated as an iterative imperfect ("kept saying")</note> "It is his angel!"</verse>


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<verse num="16">But Peter was continuing to knock, and <transChange type="added">when they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("opened") which is understood as temporal</note> opened <transChange type="added">the door</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> they saw him and were astonished.</verse>


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<verse num="17">But motioning to them with <transChange type="added">his</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> hand to be silent, he related to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, "Report these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> to James and to the brothers," and he departed <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("departed") has been translated as a finite verb</note> went to another place. </verse>


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<verse num="18">Now <transChange type="added">when</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("came")</note> day came, there was not a little commotion among the soldiers <transChange type="added">as to</transChange> what then had become of Peter.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And <transChange type="added">when</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had searched for") which is understood as temporal</note> Herod had searched for him and did not find <transChange type="added">him</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> he questioned the guards <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("questioned") has been translated as a finite verb</note> ordered <transChange type="added">that they</transChange> be led away to execution. And he came down from Judea to Caesarea <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("came down") has been translated as a finite verb</note> stayed <transChange type="added">there</transChange>. </verse>


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<verse num="20">Now he was very angry with the Tyrians and Sidonians. So they came to him with one purpose, and <transChange type="added">after</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">after</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("persuading") which is understood as temporal</note> persuading Blastus, {the king's chamberlain},<note>Literally "the <transChange type="added">one</transChange> over the bedroom of the king"</note> they asked for peace, because their country was supported with food from the king's country.</verse>


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<verse num="21">So on an appointed day Herod, <transChange type="added">after</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">after</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("putting on") which is understood as temporal</note> putting on royal clothing and sitting down on the judgment seat, began to deliver a public address to them.</verse>


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<verse num="22">But the people began to call out loudly,<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to call out loudly")</note> "The voice of a god and not of a man!"</verse>


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<verse num="23">And immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down {because}<note>Literally "in return for which"</note> he did not give the glory to God. And he was eaten by worms <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("was") has been translated as a finite verb</note> died.</verse>


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<verse num="24">But the word of God kept on increasing<note>*This imperfect verb has been translated as customary ("kept on increasing")</note> and multiplying. </verse>


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<verse num="25">So Barnabas and Saul returned to<note>Some manuscripts read "from"</note> Jerusalem <transChange type="added">when they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had completed") which is understood as temporal</note> had completed <transChange type="added">their</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> service, having taken along with <transChange type="added">them</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> John (who is also called Mark). </verse>


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<verse num="1">Now there were prophets and teachers in Antioch in the church that was there: Barnabas, and Simeon (who was called Niger), and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen (a close friend of Herod the tetrarch), and Saul.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And <transChange type="added">while</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">while</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("were serving")</note> they were serving the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart now for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them."</verse>


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<verse num="3">Then, <transChange type="added">after they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">after</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had fasted") which is understood as temporal</note> had fasted and prayed and placed <transChange type="added">their</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> hands on them, they sent <transChange type="added">them</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> away. </verse>


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<verse num="4">Therefore, sent out by the Holy Spirit, they came down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed away to Cyprus.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And <transChange type="added">when they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("came") which is understood as temporal</note> came to Salamis, they began to proclaim the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. And they also had John <transChange type="added">as</transChange> assistant.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And <transChange type="added">when they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had crossed over") which is understood as temporal</note> had crossed over the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a certain man, a magician, a Jewish false prophet whose name <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Bar-Jesus,</verse>


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<verse num="7">who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("summoned") has been translated as a finite verb</note> wished to hear the word of God.</verse>


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<verse num="8">But Elymas the magician (for his name is translated in this way) opposed them, attempting to turn the proconsul away from the faith.</verse>


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<verse num="9">But Saul (also called Paul), filled with the Holy Spirit, looked intently at him</verse>


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<verse num="10"><transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the participle in the previous verse ("looked intently at") has been translated as a finite verb</note> said, "O <transChange type="added">you who are</transChange> full of all deceit and of all unscrupulousness, <transChange type="added">you</transChange> son of the devil, <transChange type="added">you</transChange> enemy of all righteousness! Will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord!</verse>


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<verse num="11">And now behold, the hand of the Lord <transChange type="added">is</transChange> against you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun {for a while}.<note>Literally "until the time"</note> And immediately mist and darkness fell over him, and he was going around looking for <transChange type="added">people</transChange><note>*In Greek the direct object ("people") is understood and must be supplied in the English translation; since the following noun is plural, "people" rather than "someone" is used here</note> to lead <transChange type="added">him</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> by the hand.</verse>


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<verse num="12">Then <transChange type="added">when</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("saw") which is understood as temporal</note> the proconsul saw what had happened, he believed, <transChange type="added">because he</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">because</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("was astounded") which is understood as causal</note> was astounded at the teaching about<note>*Here "about" reflects an objective genitive ("the Lord" is the object of the teaching)</note> the Lord. </verse>


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<verse num="13">Now {Paul and his companions}<note>Literally "those around Paul"</note> put out to sea from Paphos <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("put out to sea") has been translated as a finite verb</note> came to Perga in Pamphylia, but John departed from them <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("departed") has been translated as a finite verb</note> returned to Jerusalem.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And they went on from Perga <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("went on") has been translated as a finite verb</note> arrived at Pisidian Antioch. And they entered into the synagogue on the day of the Sabbath <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("entered") has been translated as a finite verb</note> sat down.</verse>


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<verse num="15">So after the reading from the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent <transChange type="added">word</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> to them, saying, "Men <transChange type="added">and</transChange> brothers, if there is any message of exhortation by you for the people, say <transChange type="added">it</transChange>."<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> </verse>


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<verse num="16">So Paul stood up,<note>*Here the participle ("stood up") is translated as a finite verb because of English style</note> and motioning with <transChange type="added">his</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> hand, he said, "Israelite men, and those who fear God, listen!</verse>


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<verse num="17">The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and exalted the people during <transChange type="added">their</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it.</verse>


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<verse num="18">And for a period of time <transChange type="added">of</transChange> about forty years, he put up with them in the wilderness.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And <transChange type="added">after</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">after</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("destroying") which is understood as temporal</note> destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave their land <transChange type="added">to his people</transChange><note>*The words "<transChange type="added">to his people</transChange>" are supplied as a clarification of who received the land</note> as an inheritance.</verse>


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<verse num="20"><transChange type="added">This took</transChange><note>*The words "<transChange type="added">This took</transChange>" are not in the Greek text but are supplied in keeping with English style</note> about four hundred and fifty years. And after these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, he gave <transChange type="added">them</transChange><note>*Here the indirect object "<transChange type="added">them</transChange>" is not in the Greek text but is implied</note> judges until Samuel the prophet.</verse>


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<verse num="21">And then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, <transChange type="added">for</transChange> forty years.</verse>


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<verse num="22">And <transChange type="added">after</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">after</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("removing") which is understood as temporal</note> removing him, he raised up David for their king, about whom he also said, testifying, 'I have found David the <transChange type="added">son</transChange> of Jesse <transChange type="added">to be</transChange> a man in accordance with my heart, who will carry out all my will.'<note>A quotation from 1 Sam 13:14</note></verse>


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<verse num="23">From the descendants of this man, according to <transChange type="added">his</transChange> promise, God brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus.</verse>


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<verse num="24">Before {his coming}<note>Literally "the presence of his coming"</note> John had publicly proclaimed<note>*Here the participle ("had publicly proclaimed") has been translated as a finite verb in keeping with English style</note> a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="25">But while John was completing <transChange type="added">his</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> mission, he said, 'What do you suppose me to be? I am not <transChange type="added">he</transChange>! But behold, one is coming after me of whom I am not worthy to untie the sandals of <transChange type="added">his</transChange><note>*Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun</note> feet!' </verse>


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<verse num="26">"Men <transChange type="added">and</transChange> brothers, sons of the family of Abraham and those among you who fear God--to us the message of this salvation has been sent!</verse>


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<verse num="27">For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, <transChange type="added">because they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">because</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("did not recognize") which is understood as causal</note> did not recognize this one, and the voices of the prophets that are read on every Sabbath, fulfilled <transChange type="added">them</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> <transChange type="added">by</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">by</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("condemning") which is understood as means</note> condemning <transChange type="added">him</transChange>.<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note></verse>


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<verse num="28">And <transChange type="added">although they</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">although</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the genitive absolute participle ("found") which is understood as concessive</note> found no charge <transChange type="added">worthy</transChange> of death, they asked Pilate <transChange type="added">that</transChange> he be executed.</verse>


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<verse num="29">And when they had carried out all the things that were written about him, they took <transChange type="added">him</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> down from the tree <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("took ... down") has been translated as a finite verb</note> placed <transChange type="added">him</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> in a tomb.</verse>


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<verse num="31">who appeared for many days to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem--who are now his witnesses to the people.</verse>


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<verse num="32">And we proclaim the good news to you: that the promise that was made to the fathers,</verse>


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<verse num="33">this <transChange type="added">promise</transChange><note>It is necessary to repeat the word "<transChange type="added">promise</transChange>" from the previous verse for clarity here</note> God has fulfilled to our children<note>Some manuscripts have "to us their children"</note> <transChange type="added">by</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">by</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("raising") which is understood as means</note> raising Jesus, as it is also written in the second psalm, </verse>


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<verse num="34">But that he has raised him from the dead, no more going to return to decay, he has spoken in this way: 'I will give you the reliable divine decrees of David.'<note>A quotation from Isa 55:3</note></verse>


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<verse num="35">Therefore he also says in another <transChange type="added">psalm</transChange>,<note>*The word "<transChange type="added">psalm</transChange>" is not in the Greek text but is implied</note> </verse>


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<verse num="36">For David, <transChange type="added">after</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">after</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("serving") which is understood as temporal</note> serving the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and {was buried with}<note>Literally "was gathered to"</note> his fathers, and experienced decay.</verse>


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<verse num="38">"Therefore let it be known to you, men <transChange type="added">and</transChange> brothers, that through this one forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, and from all <transChange type="added">the things</transChange> from which you were not able to be justified by the law of Moses,</verse>


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<verse num="40">Watch out, therefore, lest what is stated by the prophets come upon <transChange type="added">you</transChange>:<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> </verse>


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<verse num="41">'Look, you scoffers, and be astonished and perish! For I am doing a work in your days, a work that you would never believe <transChange type="added">even</transChange> if someone were to tell <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> to you.'"<note>A quotation from Hab 1:5</note></verse>


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<verse num="42">And <transChange type="added">as</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">as</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("were going out")</note> they were going out, they began urging<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began urging")</note> <transChange type="added">that</transChange> these things be spoken about to them on the next Sabbath.</verse>


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<verse num="43">And <transChange type="added">after</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">after</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("had broken up")</note> the synagogue had broken up, many of the Jews and the devout<note>Or "God-fearing"</note> proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who were speaking to them <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("were speaking to") has been translated as a finite verb</note> were persuading them to continue in the grace of God.</verse>


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<verse num="44">And on the coming Sabbath, nearly the whole city came together to hear the word of the Lord.</verse>


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<verse num="45">But <transChange type="added">when</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("saw") which is understood as temporal</note> the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and began contradicting what was being said by Paul <transChange type="added">by</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">by</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("reviling") which is understood as means</note> reviling <transChange type="added">him</transChange>.<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note></verse>


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<verse num="46">Both Paul and Barnabas spoke boldly <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("spoke boldly") has been translated as a finite verb</note> said, "It was necessary <transChange type="added">that</transChange> the word of God be spoken first to you, since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life! Behold, we are turning to the Gentiles!</verse>


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<verse num="48">And <transChange type="added">when</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("heard") which is understood as temporal</note> the Gentiles heard <transChange type="added">this</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> they began to rejoice<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to rejoice")</note> and to glorify the word of the Lord. And all those who were designated for eternal life believed.</verse>


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<verse num="50">But the Jews incited the devout women of high social standing and the most prominent men of the city, and stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and threw them out of their district.</verse>


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<verse num="51">So <transChange type="added">after</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">after</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("shaking off") which is understood as temporal</note> shaking off the dust from <transChange type="added">their</transChange> feet against them, they went to Iconium.</verse>


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<verse num="1">Now it happened that in Iconium they entered {together}<note>Literally "according to the same"</note> into the synagogue of the Jews and spoke in such a way that a large number of both Jews and Greeks believed.</verse>


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<verse num="2">But the Jews who were disobedient stirred up and {poisoned the minds}<note>Literally "embittered the souls"</note> of the Gentiles against the brothers.</verse>


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<verse num="3">So they stayed <transChange type="added">there</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> for a considerable time, speaking boldly for the Lord, who testified to the message of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be performed through their hands.</verse>


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<verse num="4">But the population of the city was divided, and {some}<note>Literally "those on the one hand"</note> were with the Jews {and some}<note>Literally "those on the other hand"</note> with the apostles.</verse>


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<verse num="5">So when an inclination took place <transChange type="added">on the part</transChange> of both the Gentiles and the Jews, together with their rulers, to mistreat <transChange type="added">them</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> and to stone them,</verse>


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<verse num="6">they became aware of <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("became aware of") has been translated as a finite verb</note> fled to the Lycaonian cities--Lystra and Derbe and the surrounding region.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And in Lystra a certain man was sitting powerless in his feet, lame from {birth},<note>Literally "his mother's womb"</note> who had never walked.</verse>


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<verse num="9">This man listened <transChange type="added">while</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">while</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("was speaking")</note> Paul was speaking. {Paul},<note>Literally "who"</note> looking intently at him and seeing that he had faith to be healed,</verse>


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<verse num="10">said with a loud voice, "Stand upright on your feet!" And he leaped up and began walking.<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began walking")</note></verse>


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<verse num="11">And <transChange type="added">when</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("saw") which is understood as temporal</note> the crowds saw what Paul had done, they raised their voices in the Lycaonian language, saying, "The gods have become like men <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("have become like") has been translated as a finite verb</note> have come down to us!"</verse>


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<verse num="12">And they began calling<note>*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began calling")</note> Barnabas Zeus and Paul Hermes, because he was the {principal speaker}.<note>Literally "leader of the message"</note></verse>


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<verse num="13">And the priest of the <transChange type="added">temple</transChange><note>*The word "<transChange type="added">temple</transChange>" is not in the Greek text but is implied</note> of Zeus that was just outside the city brought bulls and garlands to the gates <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("brought") has been translated as a finite verb</note> was wanting to offer sacrifice, along with the crowds.</verse>


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<verse num="14">But <transChange type="added">when</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">when</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("heard about") which is understood as temporal</note> the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard about <transChange type="added">it</transChange>,<note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> they tore their clothing <transChange type="added">and</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">and</transChange>" is supplied because the previous participle ("tore") has been translated as a finite verb</note> rushed out into the crowd, shouting</verse>


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<verse num="15">and saying, "Men, why are you doing these <transChange type="added">things</transChange>? We also are men with the same nature as you, proclaiming the good news <transChange type="added">that</transChange> you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all the things <transChange type="added">that are</transChange> in them--</verse>


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<verse num="16">who in generations that are past permitted all the nations<note>Or "Gentiles"; the same Greek word can be translated "nations" or "Gentiles" depending on the context</note> to go their <transChange type="added">own</transChange> ways.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And yet he did not leave himself without witness <transChange type="added">by</transChange><note>*Here "<transChange type="added">by</transChange>" is supplied as a component of the participle ("doing good") which is understood as means</note> doing good, giving you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying <transChange type="added">you</transChange><note>*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation</note> with food and your hearts with gladness."</verse>


