Book of Common Prayer
For God Has Displayed Us Apostles As Last And Lowest In This World
8 You are already satisfied[a]! You already became-rich! You became-kings[b] without us! And o-that indeed you became-kings, in order that we also might reign with you. 9 For I think God displayed[c] us the apostles as last[d], like ones condemned-to-death— because we were-made[e] a spectacle[f] to the world, both to angels and to people. 10 We are foolish ones for the sake of Christ, but you are wise ones in Christ. We are weak ones, but you are strong ones. You are distinguished ones, but we are dishonored ones. 11 Until the present hour indeed we hunger, and thirst, and are naked[g], and are beaten, and live-transiently[h], 12 and labor— working with our own hands. 13 While being reviled[i], we bless; while being persecuted, we endure; while being slandered, we conciliate[j]. We were-made[k] like the sweepings[l] of the world, the scum[m] of all things, up to now.
I Am Writing To Admonish You As My Children. Be Imitators of Me
14 I am writing these things not shaming you, but admonishing you as my beloved children. 15 For if you should have ten-thousand tutors[n] in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers. For I fathered you in Christ Jesus through the good-news. 16 Therefore I exhort you— be[o] imitators of me. 17 For this reason I sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you as to my ways in Christ Jesus, just as I am teaching everywhere in every church. 18 Now some were puffed-up as-if I were not coming to you. 19 But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills. And I shall come-to-know not the talk[p] of the ones having been puffed-up, but the power. 20 For the kingdom of God is not in[q] talk, but in power. 21 What do you want? Should I come to you with a rod, or with love and a spirit of gentleness?
A Great Multitude Comes To Jesus To Be Healed
7 And Jesus withdrew[a] to the sea with His disciples, and a great multitude from Galilee followed. And from Judea, 8 and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea and beyond the Jordan and around Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude hearing all that He was doing came to Him. 9 And He said to His disciples that a small-boat should be standing-ready-for Him because of the crowd— in order that they might not be pressing[b] Him. 10 For He cured many, so that they were falling-upon Him in order that all who were having scourges[c] might touch Him. 11 And the unclean spirits, whenever they were seeing Him, were falling-before Him and crying-out, saying that “You are the Son of God”. 12 And He was sternly rebuking them in order that they might not make Him known.
The Twelve Are Appointed
13 And He goes up on the mountain and summons whom He was wanting. And they went to Him. 14 And He appointed twelve, whom He also named apostles, in order that they might be with Him, and in order that He might send them out to proclaim 15 and to have authority to cast out the demons. 16 And He appointed the twelve, even Peter (He put the name on Simon), 17 and James, the son of Zebedee, and John, the brother of James (and He put on them the name Boanerges, which means “sons of thunder”), 18 and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James, the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon, the Cananaean[d], 19 and Judas Iscariot, who also handed Him over.
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