Book of Common Prayer

James Quotes The Prophets To Show That It Is God’s Plan To Save The Gentiles

¹² And the whole assembly was silent. And they were listening-to Barnabas and Paul describing all the signs and wonders that God did through them among the Gentiles. ¹³ And after they were silent, James responded, saying, “Men, brothers, listen-to me. ¹⁴ Simeon^[a] described how God first visited to take a people for His name from the Gentiles. ¹⁵ And the words of the prophets agree with this, just as it has been written [in Amos 9:11-12]: ¹⁶ ‘After these things I will return and I will rebuild the fallen tent of David. And I will rebuild its things having been torn-down. And I will restore it ¹⁷ so that the rest of mankind may seek-out the Lord— even all the Gentiles upon whom My name has been called-upon them^[b]’, says the Lord doing these things ¹⁸ known from the past age. ¹⁹ Therefore I judge that we not be troubling the ones from the Gentiles turning to God, ²⁰ but that we write to them that they should be abstaining from the contaminated^[c] things of idols, and sexual-immorality, and the strangled^[d] thing, and blood. ²¹ For from ancient generations, Moses has the ones proclaiming him in each city— being read in the synagogues every Sabbath”.

³⁰ Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha met Him. ³¹ So the Jews— the ones being with her in the house and consoling her—having seen that Mary stood up quickly and went out, followed her, having supposed that she was going to the tomb in order that she might weep there. ³² Then Mary— when she came where Jesus was, having seen Him— fell at His feet, saying to Him, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died”. ³³ Then Jesus— when He saw her weeping, and the Jews having come with her weeping— was deeply-moved^[a] in His spirit, and troubled^[b] Himself. ³⁴ And He said, “Where have you laid him?” They say to Him, “Lord, come and see”. ³⁵ Jesus wept. ³⁶ So the Jews were saying, “Look— how He was loving him!” ³⁷ And^[c] some of them said, “Was not this One— the One having opened the eyes of the blind one— able to cause that this one also should not die?”

Jesus Calls Lazarus Out of The Tomb. Many Believe In Him

³⁸ Then Jesus, again being deeply-moved in Himself, comes to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone was lying upon^[d] it. ³⁹ Jesus says, “Take away the stone”. Martha, the sister of the one having come-to-an-end^[e], says to Him, “Lord, he already stinks, for it is the fourth-day”. ⁴⁰ Jesus says to her, “Did I not say to you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?” ⁴¹ So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted His eyes upward, and said, “Father, I thank You that You heard Me. ⁴² Now I knew that You always hear Me. But I said this for the sake of the crowd having stood around— in order that they may believe that You sent Me forth”. ⁴³ And having said these things, He shouted with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come outside!” ⁴⁴ The one having died came out, having been bound as to the feet and the hands with grave-cloths. And his face had been bound-around with a face-cloth. Jesus says to them, “Unbind him, and allow him to go”.