Old Testament

Exodus 20-21

^20:1God spoke all these words, saying, ^20:2"I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. ^20:3You shall have no other gods before me.

^20:4"You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: ^20:5you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me, ^20:6and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

^20:7"You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

^20:8"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. ^20:9You shall labor six days, and do all your work, ^20:10but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your man-servant, nor your maid-servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates; ^20:11for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.

^20:12"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

^20:13"You shall not murder.

^20:14"You shall not commit adultery.

^20:15"You shall not steal.

^20:16"You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

^20:17"You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's."

^20:18All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance. ^20:19They said to Moses, "Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don't let God speak with us, lest we die."

^20:20Moses said to the people, "Don't be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won't sin." ^20:21The people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.

^20:22Yahweh said to Moses, "This is what you shall tell the children of Israel: 'You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. ^20:23You shall most certainly not make alongside of me gods of silver, or gods of gold for yourselves. ^20:24You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace-offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you. ^20:25If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it. ^20:26Neither shall you go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.'

^21:1"Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.

^21:2If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything. ^21:3If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him. ^21:4If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. ^21:5But if the servant shall plainly say, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;' ^21:6then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the door-post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.

^21:7"If a man sells his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do. ^21:8If she doesn't please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, seeing he has dealt deceitfully with her. ^21:9If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. ^21:10If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights. ^21:11If he doesn't do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.

^21:12"One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death, ^21:13but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee. ^21:14If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

^21:15"Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

^21:16"Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

^21:17"Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

^21:18"If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn't die, but is confined to bed; ^21:19if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.

^21:20"If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished. ^21:21Notwithstanding, if he gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his property.

^21:22"If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman's husband demands and the judges allow. ^21:23But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life, ^21:24eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, ^21:25burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.

^21:26"If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. ^21:27If he strikes out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

^21:28"If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible. ^21:29But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and it has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death. ^21:30If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid on him. ^21:31Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him. ^21:32If the bull gores a man-servant or a maid-servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.

^21:33"If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn't cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it, ^21:34the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.

^21:35"If one man's bull injures another's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and divide its price; and they shall also divide the dead animal. ^21:36Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.

New Testament

Mark 14

^14:1It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might sieze him by deception, and kill him. ^14:2For they said, "Not during the feast, because there might be a riot of the people."

^14:3While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard -- very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head. ^14:4But there were some who were indignant among themselves, saying, "Why has this ointment been wasted? ^14:5For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor." They grumbled against her.

^14:6But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me. ^14:7For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me. ^14:8She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying. ^14:9Most assuredly I tell you, wherever this gospel may be preached throughout the whole world, that which this woman has done will also be spoken of for a memorial of her."

^14:10Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he might deliver him to them. ^14:11They, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. He sought how he might conveniently deliver him. ^14:12On the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the Passover, his disciples asked him, "Where do you want us to go and make ready that you may eat the Passover?"

^14:13He sent two of his disciples, and said to them, "Go into the city, and there you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him, ^14:14and wherever he enters in, tell the master of the house, 'The Teacher says, "Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?"' ^14:15He will himself show you a large upper room furnished and ready. Make ready for us there."

^14:16His disciples went out, and came into the city, and found things as he had said to them, and they prepared the Passover.

^14:17When it was evening he came with the twelve. ^14:18As they sat and were eating, Jesus said, "Most assuredly I tell you, one of you will betray me -- he who eats with me."

^14:19They began to be sorrowful, and to ask him one by one, "Surely not I?" And another said, "Surely not I?"

^14:20He answered them, "It is one of the twelve, he who dips with me in the dish. ^14:21For the Son of Man goes, even as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born."

^14:22As they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had blessed, he broke it, and gave to them, and said, "Take, eat. This is my body."

^14:23He took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave to them. They all drank of it. ^14:24He said to them, "This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many. ^14:25Most assuredly I tell you, I will no more drink of the fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it anew in the Kingdom of God." ^14:26When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

^14:27Jesus said to them, "All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.' ^14:28However, after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee."

^14:29But Peter said to him, "Although all will be offended, yet I will not."

^14:30Jesus said to him, "Most assuredly I tell you, that you today, even this night, before the cock crows twice, you will deny me three times."

^14:31But he spoke all the more, "If I must die with you, I will not deny you." They all said the same thing.

^14:32They came to a place which was named Gethsemane. He said to his disciples, "Sit here, while I pray." ^14:33He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed. ^14:34He said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch."

^14:35He went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass away from him. ^14:36He said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Please remove this cup from me. However, not what I desire, but what you desire."

^14:37He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn't you watch one hour? ^14:38Watch and pray, that you not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."

^14:39Again he went away, and prayed, saying the same words. ^14:40Again he returned, and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy, and they didn't know what to answer him. ^14:41He came the third time, and said to them, "Sleep on now, and take your rest. It is enough. The hour has come. Behold, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. ^14:42Arise, let us be going. Behold, he who betrays me is at hand."

^14:43Immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, came -- and with him a multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders. ^14:44Now he who betrayed him had given them a sign, saying, "Whoever I will kiss, that is he. Seize him, and lead him away safely." ^14:45When he had come, immediately he came to him, and said, "Rabbi! Rabbi!" and kissed him. ^14:46They laid their hands on him, and seized him. ^14:47But a certain one of those who stood by drew his sword, and struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.

^14:48Jesus answered them, "Have you come out, as against a robber, with swords and clubs to seize me? ^14:49I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you didn't arrest me. But this is so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled."

^14:50They all left him, and fled. ^14:51A certain young man followed him, having a linen cloth thrown around himself, over his naked body. The young men grabbed him, ^14:52but he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked. ^14:53They led Jesus away to the high priest. All the chief priests, the elders, and the scribes came together with him.

^14:54Peter had followed him from a distance, until he came into the court of the high priest. He was sitting with the officers, and warming himself in the light of the fire. ^14:55Now the chief priests and the whole council sought witnesses against Jesus to put him to death, and found none. ^14:56For many gave false testimony against him, and their testimony didn't agree with each other. ^14:57Some stood up, and gave false testimony against him, saying, ^14:58"We heard him say, 'I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.'" ^14:59Even so, their testimony did not agree.

^14:60The high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, "Have you no answer? What is it which these testify against you?" ^14:61But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?"

^14:62Jesus said, "I AM. You will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of the sky."

^14:63The high priest tore his clothes, and said, "What further need have we of witnesses? ^14:64You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think?" They all condemned him to be worthy of death. ^14:65Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, "Prophesy!" The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.

^14:66As Peter was in the courtyard below, one of the maids of the high priest came, ^14:67and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him, and said, "You were also with the Nazarene, Jesus!"

^14:68But he denied it, saying, "I neither know, nor understand what you are saying." He went out on the porch, and the cock crowed.

^14:69The maid saw him, and began again to tell those who stood by, "This is one of them." ^14:70But he again denied it. After a little while again those who stood by said to Peter, "You truly are one of them, for you are a Galilean, and your speech shows it." ^14:71But he began to curse, and to swear, "I don't know this man of whom you speak!" ^14:72The cock crowed the second time. Peter remembered the word, how that Jesus said to him, "Before the cock crows twice, you will deny me three times." When he thought about that, he wept.