Book of Common Prayer

And I Came To You Proclaiming Christ Crucified Without Human Eloquence Or Wisdom

2 And I, having come^[a] to you, brothers, did not come in accordance with superiority^[b] of speech or of wisdom while proclaiming to you the mystery of God. ² For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ— and this One having been crucified. ³ And I was^[c] with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. ⁴ And my speech and my proclamation was not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration^[d] of ^[e] the Spirit and power, ⁵ in order that your faith might not be in the wisdom of humans but in the power of God.

Yet We Are Speaking God’s Wisdom To The Mature

⁶ Yet we are speaking wisdom among the mature, but a wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age— the ones being brought-to-nothing. ⁷ Rather we are speaking God’s wisdom in a mystery; the wisdom having been hidden which God predestined before the ages for our glory, ⁸ which none of the rulers of this age has understood. For if they had understood, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. ⁹ But it ^[f] is just as it has been written: “Things which an eye did not see and an ear did not hear, and which did not come-up^[g] on the heart of a human— which God prepared for the ones loving Him”.

God Revealed This Wisdom To Us Through His Spirit

¹⁰ And God revealed it ^[h] to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. ¹¹ For who among people knows the things of the person except the spirit of the person within him? In this manner also, no one has known the things of God except the Spirit of God. ¹² And we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the Spirit from God, in order that we might know the things having been freely-given to us by God— ¹³ things which we also are speaking not in words taught by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, combining^[i] spiritual things with spiritual words.

That Evening The Whole City of Capernaum Brings Their Sick To Him For Healing

²⁹ And immediately, having gone out of the synagogue, they came into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. ³⁰ Now the mother-in-law of Simon was lying-down, being sick-with-fever. And immediately they speak to Him concerning her. ³¹ And having gone to her, He raised her, having taken-hold-of her hand. And the fever left her and she was serving them. ³² And having become evening, when the sun set^[a], they were bringing to Him all the ones being ill and the ones being demon-possessed. ³³ And the whole city was gathered-together at the door. ³⁴ And He cured many being ill with various diseases. And He cast-out many demons, and was not permitting the demons to speak, because they knew Him. ³⁵ And having arisen early-in-the-morning^[b], very late at-night, He went out and went away to a desolate^[c] place, and was praying there. ³⁶ And Simon and the ones with him hunted-for Him, ³⁷ and found Him. And they say to Him that “Everyone is seeking You”. ³⁸ And He says to them, “Let us be going elsewhere, into the next towns, in order that I may proclaim there also. For I came-forth for this purpose”.

Jesus Heals a Leper, Who Spreads The Word of Him. People Come From All Directions

³⁹ And He went proclaiming in their synagogues in all Galilee and casting out the demons. ⁴⁰ And a leper comes to Him, appealing-to Him and kneeling, and saying to Him that “If You are willing, You are able to cleanse me”. ⁴¹ And having felt-deep-feelings [of compassion], having stretched-out His hand, He touched him. And He says to him, “I am willing^[d]. Be cleansed”. ⁴² And immediately the leprosy departed from him and he was cleansed. ⁴³ And having sternly-commanded^[e] him, He immediately sent him out. ⁴⁴ And He says to him, “See that you tell no one anything. But go, show yourself to the priest^[f], and offer for your cleansing the things which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them”. ⁴⁵ But the one, having gone forth, began to proclaim greatly and widely-spread the word, so that He was no longer able to enter openly into a city, but was outside at desolate places. And they were coming to Him from-all-directions.