Book of Common Prayer

Brothers, I Wrote To You As a Minister of Christ To The Gentiles, Serving The Gospel

¹⁴ Now I am convinced, my brothers— even I myself concerning you— that you yourselves also are full of goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, being able also to admonish one another. ¹⁵ But I wrote more-boldly^[a] to you, in part^[b] as reminding you again, because of the grace having been given to me by God ¹⁶ so that I might be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, performing-priestly-service-for^[c] the good-news of God in order that the offering of ^[d] the Gentiles might become acceptable^[e], having been sanctified^[f] by the Holy Spirit.

My Ministry of The Gospel To Gentiles Who Have Not Heard Is My Boast And My Ambition

¹⁷ I then have this boasting^[g] in Christ Jesus as to the things pertaining to God— ¹⁸ for I will not dare^[h] to speak anything of things which Christ did not accomplish through me in word and deed for^[i] the obedience of the Gentiles, ¹⁹ by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God— so-that from Jerusalem and around as far as Illyricum^[j] I have completed^[k] the good-news of Christ, ²⁰ and was thus being ambitious^[l] to be announcing-the-good-news where Christ was not named in order that I might not be building upon a foundation belonging-to-another, ²¹ but just as it has been written [in Isa 52:15]: “Ones to whom it was not declared concerning Him will see, and they who have not heard will understand”.

Pursuing This Ministry, I Hope To Come To You On The Way To Spain

²² Therefore indeed I was hindered as to many^[m] things from coming to you. ²³ But now no longer having a place in these regions, and having a yearning for many years that I should come to you ²⁴ whenever I am proceeding into Spain^[n]— for I hope, while proceeding-through, to see you and to be sent-forward there by you, if I may first be filled in part with your company.

Jesus Is Led Before The Roman Governor, Pilate

27 Now having become early-morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus so as to put Him to death. ² And having bound Him, they led Him away and handed Him over to Pilate the governor.

The Betrayer Kills Himself

³ Then Judas (the one handing Him over)— having seen that He was condemned, having regretted it— returned the thirty silver-coins to the chief priests and elders, ⁴ saying, “I sinned, having handed-over innocent blood!” But the ones said, “What is it to us? You shall see to it”. ⁵ And having thrown the silver-coins into^[a] the temple, he departed. And having gone away, he hanged himself. ⁶ But the chief priests, having taken the silver-coins, said, “It is not lawful to put them into the temple-treasury, since it is the price of blood”. ⁷ And having taken counsel, they bought the field of the potter with^[b] them, for a burial-place for strangers. ⁸ For this reason^[c], that field was called the Field of Blood up to today. ⁹ Then the thing was fulfilled having been spoken through Jeremiah^[d] the prophet saying “And they took the thirty silver-coins— the price of the One having been priced^[e], Whom they from the sons of Israel priced— ¹⁰ and they gave them for the field of the potter, just as the Lord directed me”.