Section II

            And one of his disciples says to Jesus, “The Pharisees say that Elijah will come.”  Having answered, Jesus said, “and I say to you that Elijah has come, and they did not know him, but did to him what they wanted, just as it has been written upon him.  Thus it is also in the days of the Son of man because they will do to him what they want, just as it has been written.”

            And Jesus said, “Father, these are my disciples.  For they know you, the one God over all and through all and in all.  I gave your name to the men whom you gave me from the world.  They believe that all things, which you have given me are from you and that the words which you gave me I have given to them.  Holy Father, come to them, in order that they may be one just as we are.  They are not from this world just as I am not from this world.  But [1] I am speaking not only concerning these ones, but also concerning those believing in me because of their word so that all may be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, so that they may also be in us, and so that the world may believe in you.  Father, I wish that all men may be with me.”  Having said these things, Jesus went out with his disciples to Bethany.

            The Lord said, “Therefore, all things whichever you want that the men may do for you, thus you also do to them.  For thus it has been written, ‘And not everyone calling me Lord, Lord, will go to the heavens, but one hearing my words and doing them.  Many will tell me on that day, ‘Lord Lord’ and I will tell them that I don’t know you.  If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”

            Then Jesus comes upon the Jordan from Galilee to John in order to be baptized by him.  But John did not want to baptize him and says, “Why do you come to me?”  But, having answered, Jesus said to him, “For thus it has been written.” And John baptized him in the Jordan.  And having been baptized, Jesus saw the Spirit of God coming from the heavens upon him, and heard these words, “This is My Son, to whom I gave every authority in heaven and upon the earth.”

            And Jesus and his disciples entered a certain city.  And having entered, Jesus said to them, “Whom do the men say me to be? [Who do they say I am?]”  And they said to him, saying, “John the Baptist or Elijah or Jeremiah.”  And he says to them, “and whom do you say me to be? [2] [Who do you say I am?]  Having answered, Peter says to him, “You are the Christ.”

            The Jews were saying to him, “Who are you?”  Jesus said to them, “The son of my father.”  They said to him, “Who is your father?”  Jesus answered, “You don’t know me or my father.”  For, I have come in the name of my father, and you don’t receive me.  If you believed Moses, you would believe me.  For, he wrote concerning me.  Truly, truly, I say to you, one receiving my disciple receives me and one receiving me receive the Father.”

            They answered and said to him, “Our father is Abraham.”  Jesus says to them, “if you were sons of Abraham, you would do the works of Abraham.  But you are not receiving me or the word I have told you, which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this.  You are doing the works of your father.”  They said to him, “We have one father, God.  Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would believe in me.  For I came out from God.  You are not able to receive my word.  For you are from the devil and want to do the works of your father.”  The Jews answered and said to him, “Don’t we say that you are a Samaritan and have demon [demon-possessed].”

            Then, Jesus was speaking to the Jews having believed in him, “I have much to say concerning you.  If you receive my word, you are my disciples.  For I came out from the father and I have come to the world.  And you have believed that I came out from God.  God is my father and what I heard from him, these I speak to the world.  Therefore, you, do what you heard from the father.”  After these things, many believed in him.

            The Lord said, “I don’t receive glory from men, but the glory from God.  One saying [having taken] [3] from himself has his own glory.  Then, the Jews said to themselves, “What [4] is this word that he spoke?  Jesus answered and said to them, “Give glory to God.”

            And it happened after these words that the Lord took Peter, James and John, and left with them to Galilee.  And he was saying, “Don’t you believe that I am in the father and the father is in me?  Truly, truly, I am saying to you, one believing in me will do the works, which I am doing, because I will go away to the father.”  One of the disciples says to the Lord, “Do you believe that we are able to do these things?”  And he answered to them saying, “Let it become to you according to your faith.”  And the Lord gave a name Peter to Simon, and gave a name Boanerges to James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James.

            I am writing concerning my brothers who are Israelites, of whom the glory is, of whom the fathers are, and from whom came the Christ the God being over all, Amen.  For not all men from Israel are Israelites, and not all Israelites are sons of Abraham.  Just as Abraham believed in God, you know that the men from faith, these are sons of Abraham.  For you are all one in Christ Jesus.  And if you are of Christ, you are sons of Abraham.  I, Paul write these things to you according to the authority that the Lord gave me.  May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirits!

            And it has been written, “Therefore thus the grace has come from God on these days.  And if the spirit was given by grace, it is not from works.  For God receives us through his grace that is in Christ Jesus.  But I say, “What is Israel?  Then what shall we say?  Will we say to God, ‘Why did you do thus to Israel?’  Or doesn’t God have an authority to do what he want?”

            Paul the Apostle of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Rome, grace to you from God the Father of us and the Lord Jesus Christ.  What shall we say then to these things?  If God is for us, who is against us?  For, he gave his own Son for all of us.  For, Christ did not come for himself, but just as it has been written, so did he.  These things I wrote to you, my brothers, because of the grace, which was given to me from God. 

Section III

            Then Jesus and his disciples go from Capernaum to Judea.  But Jesus was not able to do anything.  And He was saying, “Truly, truly, I am saying to you, ‘the Son is not able to do anything on his own.  Everything that the father gives me comes to me.’”  Therefore, many said, “Who is able to hear this word?” And Jesus answered, “because of this, I have told you that no one is able to come to me except the one having believed in me.

            From this [time], many of disciples left.  Then Jesus said to the twelve, “Don’t you want to go too?”  Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go?  We have believed and have known that you are the holy one of God.”  And Jesus told them, “but, among you, is someone who does not believe, for one of you is a devil.”

            And the disciples go with Jesus to Bethany and Jesus was teaching.  And the crowd said, “Who is this?”  For, he was teaching them like one having an authority, and [but] not like the Pharisees.  And no one was able to answer him a word.

            And then, someone from his disciples was speaking to him, “Lord, teach us to speak to God, just as John also taught his disciples.”  And he told them, “Say, ‘Father, let your kingdom come.’”  And they told Jesus, “Does the kingdom come into the world?”  And having answered, Jesus said, “Concerning that day, no one knows.” 

            The crowd was coming to him and, having seen them, he was speaking to them concerning the kingdom of God.  The Lord said, “My kingdom is not from this world.  Everyone committing the sin is not able to see the kingdom of God.  And one being from this world is not able to enter the kingdom of God.”

            But [5] everything that is not from faith is sin.  What shall we say then?  Is the law a sin?  It may never be.  Rather I did not know the sin except through the law.  For we know that the law is holy.  But I am under the sin, for not what I desire, this I am doing.  But if Christ is in you, you are not under the law, but under grace.

            And Jesus said, “The Son of man will come in the glory of his father with his angels.   But concerning that day no one knows, neither the angels in heaven nor the Son.” And no one said anything to him.

            After [6] these things, he saw an angel coming from the heaven, having a great authority.  And he says, “Woe! woe! The great city, Babylon the city.”  And after these things, I heard a great multitude in heaven saying, “Hallellujah!  The glory to our God.”

            There was a man the brother of Simon Peter, one among those having followed John and having come to Jesus. [7]   He finds his brother Simon and says to him, “We have found the Messiah.”  And Simon finds Philip.  But Philip was from Bethsaida, from the city of Andrea and Peter.  Philip finds Nathanael and says to him, “We have found Messiah, Jesus the Son of Joseph one from Nazareth.”  And Nathanael said to him, “What, from Nazareth?”  Philip says to him, “Come and see!” 

            Then, Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples, saying, “You are all brothers, for your father is one.  He made every nation of men upon every land from one.  But I tell you that men from all nations that are under the heaven will come and eat with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of God.”

            But Jesus says to the crowds concerning John, “What did you come to see?  Prophet?  Truly truly I am saying to you, ‘he is Elijah the coming one.’  One having ears to hear [let him] hear. [8]   For John came not eating, and they say, ‘he has demon.’  The son of man came eating, and they say, ‘he eats with those having sin.’”

            On that day, the angel Gabriel was coming from God to the city of Galilee, the name of which was Nazareth, to a woman, and her name was Maria.  And having come [9] to her, he said, “The Lord is with you.  But she did not answer anything.  And the angel said to her, “you found grace from God.  And you will bear a son, and the name for him is Jesus. [10]   He will be great and the Lord God will give him the kingdom.  But Maria said to the angel, “I don’t believe this, for I don’t know man. [11]   And having answered, the angel said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you.”

            But having seen the great multitude, the Lord taught them saying, “Therefore, everyone who hear these words of me and do them, he will be great in the kingdom of heavens.  And as the multitude don’t have anything to eat, the Lord says to the disciples, “You, give them to eat!”

            And [12] some disciples coming from Cyprus came to Antioch, speaking the word to the Jews.  But some of them were Cyprian men, who, having come to Antioch, were speaking also to the Gentile.  And a hand of Lord was with them, and many, having believed, were coming to the Lord.  Then, the disciples answered, “Can’t these be baptized, who received the Holy Spirit like we also [received]?  Thus, in the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized.

            My God, the heavens are the works of your hands.  For didn’t your hand create all things?  And we know that God, He is the Lord; he created us and not we [created].  We are all the works of his hands.

            The Lord said, “As a man believes in his heart, so it will be.”  And Paul writes, “Don’t say in your heart, ‘Who will go to the heaven?’  The word is in your heart, because if you believe in your heart that God gave the Son for us, God will give you the kingdom.”

            And it happened after these things that Jesus went to the city called Nain, and his disciples and a great multitude were going with him.  And a certain man was saying to Jesus, “and for I am a man under authority, having men under me, and I say to this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and [I say] to that one, ‘come,’ and he comes, or ‘Do this,’ and he does.”

            And some said to him, “Look, your mother and your brothers have stood with the multitude desiring to talk to you.”  Then, Jesus answered saying, “Look, my mother and my brothers are these ones hearing and doing the word of God.”  But the multitude having stood and having heard was saying, “What is this, which he speaks to us.”

            After these things, he saw, and look, a great multitude from all nations, having stood before the throne, gave glory to God of heaven.  And all the angels stood around the throne, saying, “Amen, the glory to our God, Amen.”  And I heard one of the angels saying, “The great day has come, and who is able to stand?  And I said to the angel, “These having stood before the throne, who are they?”  And he answered me, “Look, the holy ones of God and of his Christ.”

            But Paul stood in the synagogue saying, “Israelite men, hear.  The God of Israel gave our fathers Saul the son of Kis, a man from the tribe of Benjamin.  Then he gave David to them, whom God said, “I found David the son of Jesee, a man after my heart, who will do all things that I desire.  But God gave us a son on these days, this one Jesus.  Therefore, let every Israelite know that God made him both the Lord and Christ.

Section IV

            But [13] the Lord was speaking to the apostles, “Behold, I am sending you to every city two by two.  One hearing you hears me.  For you are not ones speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking in you.  Just as the Father sent me to the world, I also send you to the world. 

I [14] am saying this thing because one of you says, ‘I am of Paul on the one hand, but another [says], I am of Apollo on the other hand.’  Were you baptized in the name of Paul?  I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius so that no one may say that you were baptized in my name.  For Christ did not send me to baptize.  (I don’t know whether I baptized other ones.)

            And again Jesus spoke to them saying, “If God were your father, you would love me.  For, he sent me.  On having my words, that one is one loving me.  And one loving me will be loved by my father and I also will love him.”

            While [15] Peter and James were speaking, [16] every man came into to them.  And having seen them, Peter answered to the people, “Moses said that God will send you a prophet from your brothers like me and you will hear that prophet.”  And the two apostles spoke concerning all things that the prophet Jesus from Nazareth did and taught.  And many of those having heard their word believed. 

            At that time, the chief priests of the people came to Jesus saying, “Who are your disciples?”  But having answered, he said, “Everyone having the faith in me [is my disciples.]  Then, the chief priests asked him again, “Who are your disciples?”  Jesus answered, “Behold, I have told you.  Why do you want to hear again?  Do you also want to become my disciples?” [17]

            And before the faith came, we were under the law.  But just as the sin entered the world through one man, thus did the grace of God entered also through the one Christ Jesus.  And we know that the Gentiles not having the law did the works of the law.  For, sin was in the world before the law.  Therefore, these not having a law with themselves were the law, who had the law in their heart. [18]

            The Lord told his own disciples, “Because I live, you will live also.  Truly, truly, I am saying to you that the day when all the dead will hear the Son of God is coming and those having heard will live.  For as the Father has life in himself, thus he gave also to the son to have the life in himself. 

            We believe concerning the dead that the dead rise.  Don’t you know that God said, “I am the God of Abraham and God of Isaac and God of Jacob?  He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

            What shall we say then?  May we now live in sin?  It may never be.  Don’t you see that we who were baptized in Christ Jesus were baptized in his life?  For, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, thus will we also live.

            Behold, an angel of the Lord calls Joseph saying, “Having been risen, take the son and his mother, go to Egypt, and be in Egypt until I speak to you.”  And having been risen, He took the son and his mother, and went to Egypt.  For thus it has been written in the prophet, “I have called my son from Egypt.”

            And Jesus sees two brothers, Simon called Peter and Andrea his brother.  And calling them, he says, “Come, and I will make you to be my disciples. Then, he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, and he called them.

            A man having been called by God came and his name was John.  And seeing Jesus, he says, “He comes in order that all may believe through him.  And the Word became flesh, and we saw his glory, that the law was given through Moses, the grace came through Jesus Christ.” [19]

            And I, Paul, write these things to you now.  The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus was given to you, to those living not according to flesh, but according to the Spirit.  For, those being according to flesh love the things of flesh, but those according to the Spirit love the things of the Spirit.  But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not of him.  But if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin on the one hand, the spirit lives on the other hand.  

            Jesus told his disciples, “Know that after two days the son of man will be delivered in the hand of the chief priests.  And he was delivered to them.  And the chief priest told Jesus, “Are you the Son of the living God?” Jesus answered to the chief priest, “You said.”

            But I am saying to you, “if your hand is sin for you, cast it from you, lest your body should be cast into the hell.”  Then, some of the multitude, having heard these words, kept saying, “He is the prophet.”  Others kept saying, “He is the Christ.”  But they kept saying, “For does Christ come from Galilee?  Hasn’t it been written that the Christ comes from Bethlehem?”  But some of them wanted to betray him, but no one laid the hands upon him. 

            The Lord said, “For truly I say to you, ‘until heaven and earth pass away, nothing will pass away from the law until all things will come.  But whoever does the law and teaches the men thus, he will be called great in the kingdom of the heavens.’  Again I say to you, ‘a servant is not over his master, nor is the one sent over the one having sent him.  And the slave of God will live by faith, [20] in order that he will become like his master is.  For everyone doing the sin is a slave of the sin.  But, now, I don’t call you slaves, because the slave does not know what his master does.  But to you, I have said all things.”

            And everything whichever you do in word or in work, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus.  Thus, one eating eats for the Lord, and one not eating does not eat for the Lord.  For if we live, we live for the Lord.  Then, whether we live or not live, we are of the Lord.  For, none of us lives for himself.

             Then, the Lord said, “But why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord’ and do not do what I say?  Everyone coming to me and hearing my words and doing them, he is one loving me.  Do you see that woman?  I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven, because she loved much.  But one to whom it was forgiven little loves little.”  And he said to her, “Your sins have been forgiven.”  And the Jews were saying, “Who is he that forgives even sins?”

Section V

            Brothers, [21] if we love others, God abides in us and his love is in us.  In this, we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us from his Spirit.  The Father has sent the Son to save the world.  And we have known and have believed the love, which God has for us.  God is love and one abiding in love abides in God.

            After [22] these things, I heard [something] like a great voice of many multitudes saying in heaven, “Hallellujah!  Great are your works, Lord God, the King of the nations.” I heard another voice saying from heaven, “Give glory to God, because his hour came.  Give glory to the maker of heaven and earth.”

            On the same hour, Jesus answered in the Holy Spirit and said, “I beseech you, Father, the Lord of heaven and earth, to judge the church.  All things were given me by my father, and no one knows who is the father except the Son.”  And he said to his disciples, “Holy are the men who seeing what you see.  For I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see what you see, but did not see, and they wanted hear what you hear, but did not hear.”

            A certain man rose up saying, “Lord, what shall I do in order that I may have eternal life?”  And He told him, “What has been written in the law?  What do you say concerning this?”  And having answered, he said, “You shall love Lord your God.”  But Jesus said, “How can you love the God whom you do not see?”

            Husbands! Love the wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it.  Thus it is necessary for the husbands to love their own wives as they love their own bodies, just as Christ also loved the church.            

            Therefore, I, Paul, a servant of God, exhort you to remain in the faith.  One body and one spirit, just as you also were called in one soul.  One Lord, one faith, one baptism.  One God and father of all, One over all things and through all things and in all things. 

            And Annas the High priest and Caiaphas said to the disciples, “In what name did your do this thing?”  Then, Peter said to them, “How is it necessary for us to answer in what name this man has been saved?  Know you all and every Israelite man that in the name of Jesus Christ, the man of Nazareth, whom God raised from the dead, in this name this man was saved.        

            Paul an Apostle of Christ Jesus to the church of God that is in Corinth, Grace to you from God our Father. And I exhort you, brothers, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all may speak the same thing.  Having come to you, brothers, I also came so that I may save the souls.  For, I determined not to know anything except Jesus Christ.  For, God did not give the Son so that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him.  One believing in him is not judged and one not believing has been judged, because he has not believed in the name of the Son of God.

            Therefore, at that time, another disciple entered, and saw and believed.  For they did not know that it was necessary for Jesus to rise from the dead.

            If anyone says to have faith, but don’t have works, is the faith able to save him?  Thus also the faith, unless it has works, is dead according to it.  But someone will say, “you have faith, but I have works.” 

            And, while Saul was going, he heard a voice speaking to him, “Saul, Saul!”  And he said, “Who are you, Lord?”  And he said, “I am Jesus.  But be risen and enter the city, and it will be spoken to you what it is necessary for you to do.”  And the men who were with him heard the voice, but saw nothing.  And Saul was risen from the ground and was seeing nothing.

            And there was a certain disciple in Damascus with his name Anania, and the Lord said to him, “Anania!”  And he said, “Here am I, Lord.”  And the Lord said to him, “Being risen, go and seek a man, with his name Saul!”  But Anania answered, “Lord, I heard from many concerning this man, what he did to your saints in Jerusalem.”  But the Lord said to him, “Go!”  And Anania departed.

            The Lord said, “Seek and you shall find.  For everyone seeking will find.  Therefore, all things whichever you wish that the men may do to you, thus you also do to them.  For this is the Law and the Prophet. [23]

            And Herod the tetrarch heard the all things happened and the thing said by some that John was raised from the dead.  And Herod said, “Who is he concerning whom I hear these things?”  And he was seeking to see Him. 

            And I see a woman coming to me from heaven, saying, “Herma!  Greeting! [24]   And having looked her intently, I say to her, “Lady!  What are you doing?”  And she answered me, “I spoke concerning your sins to the kingdom of heaven.”  I say to her, “Don’t you love me now?”  She says, “No, but hear what I say to you, ‘The God, who is in the heavens and having created the beings from no beings for his holy church, does not love you.’” 

            After she said these things, I was saying on that hour, “If my sin itself is written, how I will be able to be saved?  While I am speaking, behold, a woman came and says to me, “Herma!  Greeting!”  And I said, “Lady!  Greeting!”  And she said to me, “Sin was in your heart and how are you able to be saved?  But this has saved you, believing in the living God.”

            And John, having heard the works of Christ, said to him, “Are you the Coming One, or shall we seek another?”  Therefore, Jesus said to his disciples, “What the men say the Son of man to be?” The disciples answered, “Some say John the Baptist on the one hand, others say Elijah on the other hand, but others say Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”  And the Lord said, “All things whatever you wish not to happen to you, you also don’t do to the other.  Receive the word that is able to save your souls.”