The Gospel of Matthew (Greek: Ευαγγέλιον κατά Μαθθαίον or Ματθαίον) is the first book of the New Testament and the first of the four canonical gospels. It is traditionally followed by the gospels of Mark, Luke and John.

The main theme of the gospel is the life and preaching of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. The features of the gospel stem from the intended use of the book for a Jewish audience - in the gospel there are frequent references to the messianic prophecies of the Old Testament, with the aim of showing the fulfillment of these prophecies in Jesus Christ.

The Gospel begins with the genealogy of Jesus Christ, going in ascending line from Abraham to Joseph the Betrothed, the named husband of the Virgin Mary. This genealogy, the analogous genealogy in the Gospel of Luke, and their differences from each other have been the subject of much research by historians and biblical scholars.

Chapters five through seven provide the most complete exposition of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, laying out the quintessence of Christian teaching, including the Beatitudes (5:2-11) and the Lord's Prayer (6:9-13).

The evangelist sets out the speeches and deeds of the Savior in three sections, corresponding to the three sides of the Messiah's service: as a Prophet and Legislator (ch. 5-7), King over the visible and invisible world (ch. 8-25) and the High Priest, who sacrifices himself for sins all people (ch. 26 - 27).

Only the Gospel of Matthew mentions the healing of two blind men (9:27-31), a mute possessed (9:32-33), as well as an episode with a coin in the mouth of a fish (17:24-27). Only in this Gospel are parables about the tares (13:24), about the treasure in the field (13:44), about the precious pearl (13:45), about the net (13:47), about the merciless lender (18:23), about workers in the vineyard (20:1), about two sons (21:28), about a wedding feast (22:2), about ten virgins (25:1), about talents (25:31).

Genealogy of Jesus Christ (1:1-17)
Christmas (1:18-12)
Flight into Egypt of the Holy Family and return to Nazareth (2:13-23)
The Sermon of John the Baptist and the Baptism of Jesus (ch. 3)
Temptation of Christ in the Wilderness (4:1-11)
Jesus comes to Galilee. The Beginning of the Sermon and the Calling of the First Disciples (4:12-25)
Sermon on the Mount (5-7)
Miracles and preaching in Galilee (8-9)
Calling 12 apostles and instructing them to preach (10)
Miracles and parables of Christ. Sermon in Galilee and surrounding lands (11-16)
Transfiguration of the Lord (17:1-9)
New Parables and Healings (17:10-18)
Jesus goes from Galilee to Judea. Parables and miracles (19-20)
Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem (21:1-10)
Sermon in Jerusalem (21:11-22)
Rebuking the Pharisees (23)
Jesus' Predictions about the Destruction of Jerusalem, His Second Coming, and the Rapture of the Church (24)
Parables (25)
Anointing of Jesus with chrism (26:1-13)
The Last Supper (26:14-35)
Gethsemane wrestling, arrest and judgment (26:36-75)
Christ before Pilate (27:1-26)
Crucifixion and burial (27:27-66)
Apparitions of the Risen Christ (28)

church tradition

Although all the Gospels (and Acts) are anonymous texts, and the authors of these texts are not known, ancient church tradition considers the apostle Matthew, the tax collector who followed Jesus Christ, to be such (9:9, 10:3). This tradition is attested by the church historian of the 4th century. Eusebius of Caesarea, who reports the following:

Matthew originally preached to the Jews; having gathered also to other peoples, he handed them his gospel, written in his native language. Recalled from them, he left them his Scripture in return.

Eusebius of Caesarea, Church History, III, 24, 6

Quoted by the same Eusebius, a Christian writer of the first half of the 2nd century. Papias of Hierapolis reports that

Matthew wrote down the conversations of Jesus in Hebrew, translated them as best he could

Eusebius of Caesarea, Church History, III, 39, 16

This tradition was also known to St. Irenaeus of Lyon (II century):

Matthew issued the gospel to the Jews in their own language, while Peter and Paul were preaching the gospel and founding the Church in Rome

St. Irenaeus of Lyon, Against Heresies, III, 1, 1

Blessed Jerome of Stridon even claims that he happened to see the original Gospel of Matthew in Hebrew, which was in the Caesarea library, collected by the martyr Pamphil.

In his lectures on the Gospel of Matthew, ep. Cassian (Bezobrazov) wrote: “For us, the question of the authenticity of the Gospel of Matthew is not essential. We are interested in the writer, because his personality and the conditions of his ministry can explain the writing of the book.
Modern researchers

The text of the Gospel itself does not contain any indication of the identity of the author, and, according to most scholars, the Gospel of Matthew was not written by eyewitnesses. In view of the fact that the text of the Gospel itself does not contain either the name of the author or any explicit indication of his identity, many modern researchers believe that the first of the four Gospels was written not by the Apostle Matthew, but by another author unknown to us. There is a hypothesis of two sources, according to which the author of the Gospel of Matthew actively used the material of the Gospel of Mark and the so-called source Q.

The text of the Gospel has undergone a number of changes over time, and it is not possible to reconstruct the original text in our time.
Language

If we consider the testimonies of the Church Fathers about the Hebrew language of the original Gospel as true, then the Gospel of Matthew is the only book of the New Testament, the original of which was not written in Greek. However, the Hebrew (Aramaic) original has been lost; the ancient Greek translation of the Gospel, mentioned by Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch and other Christian writers of antiquity, is included in the canon.

Features of the language of the Gospel indicate the author as a Palestinian Jew, a large number of Jewish phrases are found in the Gospel, the author assumes that readers are familiar with the area and Jewish customs. It is characteristic that in the list of apostles in the Gospel of Matthew (10:3) the name Matthew is marked with the word "publican" - probably this is a sign indicating the humility of the author, for the publicans aroused deep contempt among the Jews.

The word Gospel in modern language has two meanings: the Christian gospel of the coming of the Kingdom of God and the salvation of the human race from sin and death, and a book that presents this message in the form of a story about the incarnation, earthly life, saving suffering, death on the cross and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Initially, in the Greek language of the classical period, the word gospel had the meaning of "retribution (reward) for the good news", "a thankful sacrifice for the good news". Later, the good news itself began to be called that. Later, the word gospel acquired a religious meaning. In the New Testament, it began to be used in a specific sense. In several places the gospel denotes the preaching of Jesus Christ himself (Matt. 4:23; Mark 1:14-15), but most often the gospel is the Christian proclamation, the message of salvation in Christ and the preaching of this message. arch. Kirill Kopeikin Gospel - books of the New Testament, which contain a description of the life, teachings, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The gospel is four books named after the authors-compilers - Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Among the 27 books of the New Testament, the Gospels are considered law-positive. This name shows that the Gospels have the same meaning for Christians as the Law of Moses - the Pentateuch had for the Jews. “GOSPEL (Mark 1:1, etc.) is a Greek word meaning: gospel, i.e. good, joyful news... These books are called the Gospel because there can be no better and more joyful news for a person than the news of the Divine Savior and eternal salvation. That is why the reading of the Gospel in church is each time accompanied by a joyful exclamation: Glory to Thee, Lord, glory to Thee!” Biblical Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus

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The Bible is divided into two parts: the Old Testament, which tells about the participation of God in the life of the Jewish people before the coming of Jesus Christ, and the New Testament, which gives information about the life and teachings of Christ in all His truth and beauty.

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1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God,
2 as it is written in the prophets: Behold, I am sending my angel before your face, who will prepare your way before you.
3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord; make straight his paths.
4 John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins....

1 Genealogy of Jesus Christ, Son of David, Son of Abraham.
2 Abraham begat Isaac; Isaac begat Jacob; Jacob begat Judah and his brothers;
3 Judah begat Perez and Zerah by Tamar; Perez begat Esrom; Esrom begat Aram;
4 Aram begat Aminadab; Aminadab begat Nahshon; Nahshon begat Salmon;...

1. As many have already begun to compose narratives about events that are completely known between us,
2. as those who from the very beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the Word told us,
3. then I also decided, after a careful study of everything from the beginning, to describe to you in order, venerable Theophilus,
4. so that you may know the solid foundation of the doctrine in which you have been instructed....

Evangelist Luke

Introduction to the Books of the New Testament

The New Testament Scriptures were written in Greek, with the exception of the Gospel of Matthew, which is said to have been written in Hebrew or Aramaic. But since this Hebrew text has not survived, the Greek text is considered the original for the Gospel of Matthew. Thus, only the Greek text of the New Testament is the original, and numerous editions in various modern languages ​​​​of the whole world are translations from the Greek original. The Greek language in which the New Testament was written was no longer the classical ancient Greek language and was not, as previously thought, special New Testament language. This is a spoken everyday language of the 1st century. according to P. X., which has spread throughout the world and is known in science under the name "common speech", nevertheless, both the style and turns of speech and the way of thinking of the sacred writers of the New Testament reveal Hebrew or Aramaic influence.

The original text of the New Testament has come down to us in a large number of ancient manuscripts, more or less complete, numbering about 5000 (from the 2nd to the 16th centuries). Until recent years, the most ancient of them did not go further than the 4th century. according to P. X. But recently, many fragments of ancient manuscripts of the New Testament on papyrus (III and even II century) have been discovered. For example, Bodmer's manuscripts: Jn, Lk, 1 and 2 Pet, Jude - were found and published in the bos of the 20th century. In addition to Greek manuscripts, we have ancient translations or versions in Latin, Syriac, Coptic and other languages ​​(Vetus Itala, Peshitto, Vulgata, etc.), of which the oldest existed already from the 2nd century to P.X.

Finally, numerous quotations from the Church Fathers in Greek and other languages ​​have been preserved in such quantity that if the text of the New Testament were lost and all ancient manuscripts were destroyed, then specialists could restore this text from quotations from the works of the Holy Fathers. All this abundant material makes it possible to check and refine the text of the New Testament and to classify its various forms (the so-called textual criticism). Compared with any ancient author (Homer, Euripides, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Cornelius Nepos, Julius Caesar, Horace, Virgil, etc.), our modern - printed - Greek text of the New Testament is in an exceptionally favorable position. And by the number of manuscripts, and by a short time. separating the oldest of them from the original, and in the number of translations, and in their antiquity, and in the seriousness and volume of critical work carried out on the text, it surpasses all other texts (for details, see: "Hidden Treasures and New Life", archaeological discoveries and the Gospel , Bruges, 1959, pp. 34 ff.).

The text of the New Testament as a whole is fixed absolutely irrefutably.

The New Testament consists of 27 books. They are subdivided into 260 chapters of unequal length by the publishers for ease of reference and quotation. The original text does not contain this division. The modern division into chapters in the New Testament, as in the whole Bible, has often been attributed to the Dominican Cardinal Hugh (1263), who worked it out in composing a symphony to the Latin Vulgate, but it is now thought with great reason that the division goes back to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Stephen Langton, who died in 1228. As for the division into verses now accepted in all editions of the New Testament, it goes back to the publisher of the Greek New Testament text, Robert Stephen, and was introduced by him into his edition in 1551.

The sacred books of the New Testament are usually divided into law-positive (the Four Gospels), historical (the Acts of the Apostles), teaching (seven conciliar epistles and the seventeen epistles of the Apostle Paul) and prophetic: the Apocalypse, or the Revelation of St. John the Theologian (see Metropolitan Philatera's Long Catechism)

However, modern experts consider this distribution outdated: in fact, all the books of the New Testament are both law-positive and historical teaching, and there is prophecy not only in the Apocalypse. New Testament scholarship pays great attention to establishing the exact chronology of the gospels and other New Testament events. Scientific chronology allows the reader to follow with sufficient accuracy the life and ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ, the apostles and the original Church according to the New Testament (see Appendixes).

The books of the New Testament can be distributed as follows.

• Three so-called Synoptic Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke and separately, the fourth - the Gospel of John. New Testament scholarship devotes much attention to the study of the relationship of the first three Gospels and their relation to the Gospel of John (the synoptic problem).
• The book of the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles of the Apostle Paul ("Corpus Paulinum"), which are usually divided into:
  - Early Epistles: 1 and 2 to the Thessalonians;
  - Great Epistles: to the Galatians, 1 and 2 to the Corinthians, to the Romans;
  - Messages from bonds, i.e., written from Rome, where ap. Paul was in prison: to the Philippians, to the Colossians, to the Ephesians, to Philemon;
  - Pastoral Epistles: 1 to Timothy, to Titus, 2 to Timothy;
  - Epistle to the Hebrews;
• Catholic Epistles ("Corpus Catholicum")
• Revelation of John the Evangelist. (Sometimes in the New Testament they single out "Corpus Joannicum", i.e., everything that the Apostle John wrote for a comparative study of his Gospel in connection with his epistles and Revelation)

four gospel

1. The word "gospel" in Greek means "good news". This is how our Lord Jesus Christ Himself called his teaching (Matthew 24:14; 26:13; Mark 1:15; 13:10; 19:; 16:15). Therefore, for us, the "gospel" is inextricably linked with Him: it is the "good news" of salvation given to the world through the incarnate Son of God. Christ and His apostles preached the gospel without writing it down. By the middle of the 1st century, this sermon was fixed by the Church in a persistent oral tradition. The Eastern custom of memorizing sayings, stories, and even large texts helped the Christians of the apostolic age to accurately preserve the unwritten First Gospel. After the 1950s, when eyewitnesses to Christ's earthly ministry began to pass away one by one, the need arose to record the gospel (Luke 1:1). Thus, the "gospel" began to denote the narration of the teachings of the Savior recorded by the apostles. It was read at prayer meetings and in preparing people for baptism.
2. The most important Christian centers of the 1st c. (Jerusalem, Antioch, Rome, Ephesus, etc.) had their own gospels. Of these, only four (Mt, Mk, Lk, Jn) are recognized by the Church as inspired by God, that is, written under the direct influence of the Holy Spirit. They are called "from Matthew", "from Mark", etc. (the Greek kata corresponds to the Russian "according to Matthew", "according to Mark", etc.), because the life and teachings of Christ are set forth in these books by these four priests. Their gospels were not brought together in one book, which made it possible to see the gospel story from different points of view. In the II century. St. Irenaeus of Lyon calls the evangelists by name and points to their gospels as the only canonical ones (Against Heresies, 2, 28, 2). A contemporary of St. Irenaeus Tatian made the first attempt to create a single gospel narrative, composed of various texts of the four gospels, the Diatessaron, i.e., the gospel of the four.
3. The apostles did not set themselves the goal of creating a historical work in the modern sense of the word. They sought to spread the teachings of Jesus Christ, helped people to believe in Him, correctly understand and fulfill His commandments. The testimonies of the evangelists do not coincide in all details, which proves their independence from each other: the testimonies of eyewitnesses are always individual in color. The Holy Spirit does not certify the accuracy of the details of the facts described in the gospel, but the spiritual meaning contained in them.
   The insignificant contradictions encountered in the presentation of the evangelists are explained by the fact that God gave the clergymen complete freedom in conveying certain specific facts in relation to different categories of listeners, which further emphasizes the unity of meaning and direction of all four gospels.

New Testament books

• Gospel of Matthew
• Gospel of Mark
• Gospel of Luke
• Gospel of John

Acts of the Holy Apostles

Cathedral Messages

• The Epistle of James
• First Epistle of Peter
• Second Epistle of Peter
• First Epistle of John
• Second Epistle of John
• Third Epistle of John
• The Epistle of Jude

The Epistles of the Apostle Paul

• Epistle to the Romans
• First Epistle to the Corinthians
• Second Epistle to the Corinthians
• Epistle to the Galatians
• Epistle to the Ephesians
• Epistle to the Philippians
• Epistle to the Colossians
• First Epistle to the Thessalonians
• Second Epistle to the Thessalonians
• First Epistle to Timothy
• Second Epistle to Timothy
• Epistle to Titus
• Epistle to Philemon
• Hebrews

Revelation of John the Evangelist

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The gospel is the name given to the book of the New Testament. There are four Gospels that are recognized as canonical: from Matthew, from Luke, from Mark and from John, as well as many apocrypha and other books that tell about the earthly life of Christ. On the one hand, the Bible begins with the Old Testament, on the other hand, we are people of the New Testament and should know the Gospel well, and not rely on apocryphal texts. It can be difficult for a person to understand and accommodate everything that is said in the Gospel, so the Church suggests turning to interpretations and explanations of the New Testament. Difficult passages in the Gospel are commented on by theologians who have dedicated their lives to the study of Holy Scripture.

In this article you will find the Gospel of Matthew with interpretations, explanations and comments on difficult passages from the theologian Andrei Desnitsky.

The details of the life of the holy Apostle Matthew have not come down to us. It is known (Luke 5:27-29) that he lived in Capernaum and was a tax collector, that is, he served the occupation regime of the Romans and profited from his compatriots. Hearing the preaching of Christ, he invited Him to come to his house. After meeting with Christ, Levi (the Hebrew name of Matthew) repented, distributed property and followed the Savior.

After Pentecost, Matthew preached for 8 years in Palestine. There he wrote down his gospel in Hebrew. The original text has not come down to us, but the Greek translation from it entered the canon of the New Testament as its first book - the Gospel of Matthew.

Matthew's Holy Gospel

1 Genealogy of Jesus Christ, Son of David, Son of Abraham.

2 Abraham begat Isaac; Isaac begat Jacob; Jacob begat Judah and his brothers;

3 Judah begat Perez and Zerah by Tamar; Perez begat Esrom; Esrom begat Aram;

4 Aram begat Aminadab; Aminadab begat Nahshon; Nahshon begat Salmon;

5 Salmon begat Boaz by Rahava; Boaz begat Obed by Ruth; Obed begat Jesse;

6 Jesse begat David the king; David the king gave birth to Solomon from the former after Uriah;

7 Solomon begat Rehoboam; Rehoboam begat Abijah; Abijah begat Asa;

8 Asa begat Jehoshaphat; Jehoshaphat begat Jehoram; Jehoram begat Uzziah;

9 Uzziah begat Jotham; Jotham begat Ahaz; Ahaz begat Hezekiah;

10 Hezekiah begat Manasseh; Manasseh begat Amon; Amon begat Josiah;

11 Josiah begat Jehoiakim; Joachim begat Jeconiah and his brothers before moving to Babylon.

12 After they had migrated to Babylon, Jeconiah begat Salathiel; Salafiel begat Zerubbabel;

13 Zerubbabel begat Abihu; Abihu begat Eliakim; Eliakim begat Azor;

14 Azor begat Zadok; Zadok begat Achim; Achim begat Elihu;

15 Elihu begat Eleazar; Eleazar begat Matthan; Matthan begat Jacob;

16 Jacob begat Joseph, the husband of Mary, from whom was born Jesus, called Christ.

17 So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations; and from David to the migration to Babylon fourteen generations; and from the migration to Babylon to Christ, fourteen generations.

18 The birth of Jesus Christ was like this: after the betrothal of His mother Mary to Joseph, before they were combined, it turned out that she was pregnant with the Holy Spirit.

19 But Joseph her husband, being a righteous man and not wanting to publicize her, wanted to secretly let her go.

20 But when he thought this, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, Joseph, son of David! do not be afraid to take Mary your wife, for what is born in her is from the Holy Spirit;

21 she will bear a Son, and you will call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.

22 And all these things happened, so that what was spoken of the Lord through the prophet might come true, who says:

23 Behold, the Virgin shall conceive and give birth to a Son, and they shall call his name Immanuel, which means: God is with us.

24 Rising from his sleep, Joseph did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took his wife,

25 and did not know her. [How] at last she gave birth to her firstborn son, and he called his name: Jesus.

1 And when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of King Herod, magicians from the east came to Jerusalem and said:

2 Where is he who is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and have come to worship him.

3 When King Herod heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

4 And he gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people, and asked them, Where is the Christ to be born?

5 And they said to him, In Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it is written through the prophet:

6 And you, Bethlehem, the land of Judah, are nothing less than the governors of Judah, for out of you will come a Leader who will shepherd my people Israel.

7 Then Herod, secretly calling the magi, found out from them the time of the appearance of the star

8 And sending them to Bethlehem, he said, Go, search carefully for the Child, and when you find it, let me know so that I too can go and worship Him.

9 After hearing the king, they went. [And] behold, the star which they saw in the east went before them, *as* at last it came and stood over *the place* where the Child was.

10 And when they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy,

11 And when they entered the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and fell down and worshiped him; and having opened their treasures, they brought him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

12 And being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed by another way into their own country.

13 When they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph and said, Arise, take the Child and His mother, and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod wants to seek the Child in order to destroy Him.

14 He got up and took the child and his mother by night and went to Egypt,

15 And there he was until the death of Herod, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord through the prophet, who says, Out of Egypt I called my Son.

16 Then Herod, seeing himself ridiculed by the magi, became very angry, and sent to beat all the babies in Bethlehem and in all its borders, from two years old and below, according to the time that he found out from the magi.

17 Then came true what was spoken through the prophet Jeremiah, who says:

18 a voice is heard in Rama, weeping and sobbing and a great cry; Rachel weeps for her children and does not want to be consoled, for they are gone.

19 And after the death of Herod, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt

20 And he says, Get up, take the Child and His Mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the soul of the Child have died.

21 He got up and took the child and his mother and went into the land of Israel.

22 But when he heard that Archelaus reigned in Judea instead of Herod his father, he was afraid to go there; but having received a revelation in a dream, he went to the borders of Galilee

23 And when he came, he dwelt in a city called Nazareth, so that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets, that he would be called a Nazarene.

1 In those days John the Baptist comes and preaches in the wilderness of Judea

2 and says, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

3 For he is the one of whom the prophet Isaiah said: The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord; make straight his paths.

4 And John himself had a garment of camel's hair and a leather belt around his loins, and his food was locusts and wild honey.

5 Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region around Jordan went out to him

6 And they were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.

7 And when John saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to him to be baptized, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers! who inspired you to flee from future wrath?

8 Bring forth fruit worthy of repentance

9 And do not think to say within yourselves, (We have Abraham as a father), for I say to you that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.

10 Even the ax lies at the root of the trees: every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

11 I baptize you with water for repentance, but He who comes after me is stronger than I; I am not worthy to bear His shoes; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire;

12 His shovel is in his hand, and he will clean his threshing floor and gather his wheat into a barn, but he will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire.

13 Then Jesus comes from Galilee to the Jordan to John to be baptized by him.

14 But John held him back, and said, I need to be baptized by you, and are you coming to me?

15 But Jesus answered and said to him, Leave now, for in this way it becomes us to fulfill all righteousness. Then *John* admits Him.

16 And being baptized, Jesus immediately went up out of the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw *John* the Spirit of God descending like a dove and descending upon him.

17 And lo, a voice from heaven, saying: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil,

2 And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he finally got hungry.

3 And the tempter came to him and said, If you are the Son of God, say that these stones become bread.

4 And he answered and said to him, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

5 Then the devil takes him to the holy city and sets him up on the wing of the temple,

6 And he said to him, If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written: He will command his angels about you, and they will lift you up in their hands, lest you strike your foot against a stone.

7 Jesus said to him, It is also written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

8 Again the devil takes him to a very high mountain and shows him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory,

9 And he says to him, All this I will give you, if you fall down and worship me.

10 Then Jesus said to him, Depart from Me, Satan, for it is written, Worship the Lord your God, and serve Him alone.

11 Then the devil leaves him, and behold, the angels came and ministered to him.

12 And when Jesus heard that John had been handed over *under* *prisonment,* he withdrew into Galilee

13 And leaving Nazareth, he came and settled in Capernaum by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,

14 May it be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet Isaiah, who says:

15 The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, on the way by the seaside, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles,

16 The people that sat in darkness saw a great light, and to those that sat in the land and shadow of death a light shone forth.

17 From that time on Jesus began to preach and say, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

18 And as he passed near the Sea of ​​Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon, who was called Peter, and Andrew his brother, throwing their nets into the sea, for they were fishermen,

19 And he said to them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

20 And immediately they left their nets and followed him.

22 And immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him.

23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.

24 And the news about him spread throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all the weak, possessed by various diseases and seizures, and demon-possessed, and lunatics, and paralyzed, and He healed them.

25 And there followed him a multitude of people from Galilee, and Decapolis, and Jerusalem, and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan.

1 When he saw the people, he went up the mountain; and when he sat down, his disciples came to him.

2 And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:

3 Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

4 Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

5 Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

7 Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.

8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

9 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.

10 Blessed are those persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

11 Blessed are you when they reproach you and persecute you and speak evil of every kind for me.

12 Rejoice and be glad, for great is your reward in heaven: so they persecuted *and* the prophets who were before you.

13 You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its potency, how will you make it salty? She is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out to be trampled by people.

14 You are the light of the world. A city on top of a mountain cannot hide.

15 And when they light a candle, they do not put it under a vessel, but on a candlestick, and it gives light to all in the house.

16 So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.

17 Do not think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets: I did not come to destroy, but to fulfill.

18 For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one jot or one tittle will pass from the law until all is fulfilled.

19 So whoever breaks one of these least commandments and teaches people so, he will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; and whoever does and teaches, he will be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

20 For I tell you, unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.

21 You have heard what the ancients said: Thou shalt not kill, but whoever kills is subject to judgment.

22 But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother in vain is subject to judgment; whoever says to his brother: (cancer), is subject to the Sanhedrin; but whoever says: (foolish), is subject to hellfire.

23 So if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you,

24 Leave your gift there before the altar, and go, first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

25 Make peace with your rival quickly, while you are still on the way with him, lest your rival hand you over to the judge, and the judge hand you over to a servant and throw you into prison;

26 Truly I say to you, you will not get out of there until you have paid every last penny.

27 You have heard what the ancients said, Do not commit adultery.

28 But I tell you that everyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

29 But if your right eye offends you, pluck it out and throw it away from you, for it is better for you that one of your members perish, and not your whole body be cast into hell.

30 And if your right hand offends you, cut it off and throw it away from you, for it is better for you that one of your members perish, and not your whole body be cast into hell.

31 It is also said that if a man divorces his wife, let him give her a bill of divorce.

32 But I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for the guilt of adultery, gives her an occasion to commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

33 You have also heard what was said of the ancients: Do not transgress your oath, but fulfill your oaths before the Lord.

34 But I say to you, do not swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God;

35 nor the earth, for it is his footstool; nor Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King;

36 Do not swear by your head, for you cannot make a single hair white or black.

37 But let your word be, yes, yes; no no; but what is more than this is from the evil one.

38 You heard what was said: an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.

39 But I say to you, resist not evil. But whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also;

40 And whoever wants to sue you and take your shirt, give him your coat as well.

41 And whoever forces you to go one race with him, go two runs with him.

42 Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.

43 You have heard that it was said: Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.

44 But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who despitefully use you and persecute you,

45 May you be sons of your Father in heaven, for he causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

46 For if you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Do not the publicans do the same?

47 And if you greet only your brothers, what special thing do you do? Don't the pagans do the same?

48 Therefore be perfect, even as your heavenly Father is perfect.

1 Be careful not to do your charity in front of people so that they can see you: otherwise you will not be rewarded from your Father in heaven.

2 Therefore, when you do almsgiving, do not blow your trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that the people may glorify them. I tell you truly, they already receive their reward.

3 But when you do charity, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

4 so that your charity may be in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you openly.

5 And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites who love in synagogues and on street corners, stopping to pray so that they can appear before people. I tell you truly, they already receive their reward.

6 But when you pray, go into your closet, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you openly.

7 But when you pray, do not talk too much like the Gentiles, for they think that in their verbosity they will be heard;

8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

9 Pray thus: _ _ _ _ _ Our Father who art in heaven! hallowed be thy name;

10 Thy kingdom come; may Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven;

11 Give us this day our daily bread;

12 And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors;

13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

14 For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,

15 But if you do not forgive people their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive you your trespasses.

16 Also, when you fast, do not be despondent like the hypocrites, for they put on gloomy faces in order to appear to people who are fasting. I tell you truly, they already receive their reward.

17 But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,

18 to appear to those who fast, not before men, but before your Father who is in the secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you openly.

19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal,

20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in and steal,

21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

22 The lamp for the body is the eye. So if your eye is clear, then your whole body will be bright;

23 But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. So if the light that is in you is darkness, then what is the darkness?

24 No one can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one and love the other; or he will be zealous for one, and neglect the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

25 Therefore I say to you, worry not for your soul what you should eat or drink, nor for your body what you should wear. Is not the soul more than food, and the body more than clothes?

26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you much better than them?

27 And which of you, by taking care, can add one cubit to his stature?

28 And why are you concerned about clothing? Look at the lilies of the field, how they grow: neither toil nor spin;

29 but I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory did not dress like one of them;

30 But if the grass of the field, which is today, and tomorrow will be thrown into the oven, God so clothes, how much more than you, you of little faith!

31 So worry not, and say, What shall we eat? or what to drink? Or what to wear?

32 because all these things are sought by the Gentiles, and because your Father in heaven knows that you have need of all this.

33 Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

34 So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow *himself* will take care of his own: enough for *every* day of his care.

1 Judge not, lest you be judged,

2 For by what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with what measure you use, it will be measured to you again.

3 And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not feel the beam in your eye?

4 Or how will you say to your brother: (Let me take the speck out of your eye), but behold, there is a log in your eye?

5 Hypocrite! first take the log out of your eye, and then you will see *how* to take the speck out of your brother's eye.

6 Do not give anything holy to dogs, and do not cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample it under their feet and turn and tear you to pieces.

7 Ask, and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you;

8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

9 Is there a man among you who, when his son asks him for bread, would give him a stone?

10 And when he asks for a fish, would you give him a snake?

11 If then, being evil, you know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him.

12 Therefore, whatever you want people to do to you, do also to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

13 Enter through the narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many go through it;

14 For narrow is the gate and narrow is the way that leads to life, and there are few who find it.

15 Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

16 By their fruits you will know them. Do they gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

17 So every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.

18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.

19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

20 Therefore by their fruits you shall know them.

21 Not everyone who says to me: (Lord! Lord, войдет в Царство Небесное, но исполняющий волю Отца Моего Небесного.!}

22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord! God! Have we not prophesied in Your name? and did they not cast out demons in your name? and did not many miracles work in your name?

23 And then I will declare to them: I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of iniquity.

24 So whoever hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock;

25 And the rain came down, and the rivers flooded, and the winds blew, and rushed against that house, and it did not fall, because it was founded on a stone.

26 But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand;

27 And it began to rain, and the rivers were flooded, and the winds blew, and struck against that house; and he fell, and his fall was great.

28 And when Jesus finished these words, the people marveled at his teaching,

29 for he taught them as one having authority, and not as scribes and Pharisees.

1 And when He came down from the mountain, many people followed Him.

2 And behold, a leper came near, and bowing to him, said: Lord! if you want, you can cleanse me.

3 Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him and said, I want you to be clean. And he was immediately cleansed of leprosy.

4 And Jesus said to him, Be careful not to tell anyone, but go and show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded as a testimony to them.

5 When Jesus entered Capernaum, a centurion came up to him and asked him:

6 Lord! my servant lies at home in relaxation and suffers severely.

7 Jesus says to him: I will come and heal him.

8 And the centurion answered and said, Lord! I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only speak the word, and my servant will be healed;

9 For I am also a subject man, but having soldiers under me, I say to one, Go, and he goes; and to another: come, and it comes; and to my servant: Do this, and he does.

10 When Jesus heard this, he was astonished and said to those who followed him, “Truly, I say to you, even in Israel I did not find such faith.

11 I tell you that many will come from the east and the west and sit down with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven;

12 And the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

13 And Jesus said to the centurion, Go, and, as you believed, be done to you. And his servant recovered in that hour.

14 When Jesus came to the house of Peter, he saw his mother-in-law lying with a fever,

15 and touched her hand, and the fever left her; and she arose and ministered to them.

16 And when evening came, many demoniacs were brought to him, and he cast out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick,

17 May it be fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah, who says: He took upon Himself our infirmities and bore our sicknesses.

18 And when Jesus saw a multitude of people around Him, He bade [the disciples] sail away to the other side.

19 Then a certain scribe came up and said to him, Master! I will follow You wherever You go.

20 And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.

22 But Jesus said to him, Follow me, and let the dead bury their dead.

23 And when he got into the boat, his disciples followed him.

24 And behold, there was a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was covered with waves; and he slept.

25 Then his disciples came up to him and woke him up and said, Lord! save us, we are dying.

26 And he said to them: why are you *so* fearful, you of little faith? Then, rising, he forbade the winds and the sea, and there was a great silence.

27 And the people, wondering, said, Who is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him?

28 And when He arrived on the other side, in the country of the Gergeses, He was met by two demoniacs who came out of the tombs, very fierce, so that no one dared to pass that way.

29 And behold, they cried out, What have you to do with us, Jesus, Son of God? You came here before the time to torment us.

30 Far from them, a large herd of pigs pastured.

31 And the demons asked him: If you cast us out, then send us into the herd of pigs.

32 And He said to them, Go. And they went out and went into the herd of swine. And so, the whole herd of pigs rushed down the steep into the sea and perished in the water.

33 And the shepherds ran and, having come into the city, told about everything, and about what had happened to the demoniacs.

34 And behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus; and when they saw Him, they asked Him to depart from their borders.

1 Then He entered the boat, crossed *back* and arrived in His city.

2 And behold, they brought unto him a paralytic, laid on a bed. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic: Be of good cheer, child! your sins are forgiven you.

3 And some of the scribes said to themselves, He blasphemes.

4 But Jesus, seeing their thoughts, said, Why do you think evil in your hearts?

5 For which is easier to say, Your sins are forgiven, or to say, Arise and walk?

6 But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins, then he says to the paralytic, Get up, take up your bed, and go to your house.

7 And he got up, *took* *the bed* *his* and went to his house.

8 When the people saw this, they marveled and glorified God, who had given such power to men.

9 Passing from there, Jesus saw a man sitting at the toll booth named Matthew, and he said to him, Follow me. And he got up and followed Him.

10 And while Jesus was reclining in the house, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.

11 When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, Why does your teacher eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?

12 And when Jesus heard this, he said to them, “The healthy do not need a doctor, but the sick,

13 Go and learn what it means: I want mercy, and not sacrifice? For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

14 Then the disciples of John come to him and say, Why do we and the Pharisees fast a lot, but your disciples do not fast?

15 And Jesus said to them, Can the sons of the bridal chamber mourn while the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

16 And no one puts a patch of unbleached cloth on an old garment, for what is sewn on again will be torn off from the old, and the hole will be even worse.

17 Nor do they pour new wine into old wineskins; otherwise, the wineskins break, and the wine flows out, and the wineskins are lost, but young wine is poured into new wineskins, and both are saved.

18 As he was speaking to them, a certain leader came up to him, and bowing to him, said, “My daughter is now dying; but come, lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.

19 And rising up, Jesus followed him, and his disciples.

20 And behold, a woman who had been bleeding for twelve years came up behind and touched the hem of his garment,

21 for she said to herself, If only I touch his garment, I will be healed.

22 And Jesus, turning and seeing her, said, Be of good cheer, daughter! your faith has saved you. The woman has since become well.

23 And when Jesus came to the ruler's house, and saw the pipers and the people in confusion,

24 He said to them, Get out, for the maiden is not dead, but is sleeping. And they laughed at him.

25 When the people had been sent out, he went in and took her by the hand, and the maiden got up.

26 And the rumor of this went out throughout all that land.

27 As Jesus was walking from there, two blind men followed him and cried out, Have mercy on us, Jesus, son of David!

28 And when he came into the house, the blind came to him. And Jesus said to them, Do you believe that I can do this? They say to Him: yes, Lord!

29 Then He touched their eyes and said, According to your faith be it to you.

30 And their eyes were opened; and Jesus sternly said to them: See that no one finds out.

31 And they went out and spread the word about him throughout all that land.

32 And as they were going out, they brought to Him a mute demon-possessed man.

33 And when the demon was cast out, the dumb man began to speak. And the people, wondering, said: Never had such a thing happened in Israel.

34 But the Pharisees said: He casts out demons by the power of the prince of demons.

35 And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.

36 Seeing the crowds of people, He had pity on them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.

37 Then he said to his disciples, The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few;

38 Pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.

1 And calling his twelve disciples, he gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out and heal every sickness and every disease.

2 And these are the names of the Twelve Apostles: the first is Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, James Zebedee, and John his brother,

3 Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the publican, Jacob Alpheus and Leoway, surnamed Thaddeus,

4 Simon the Zealot and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.

5 Jesus sent these twelve, and commanded them, saying, Do not go into the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter into the city of the Samaritans;

6 but go especially to the lost sheep of the house of Israel;

7 As you go, preach that the kingdom of heaven is at hand;

8 heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons; Received as a gift, give as a gift.

9 Do not take with you gold or silver or copper in your belts,

10 Not a bag for the journey, not two robes, not shoes, not a staff, for the worker is worthy of his sustenance.

11 Whatever city or village you enter, see who is worthy in it, and stay there until you go out;

12 but when you enter a house, greet it, saying, Peace be to this house;

13 and if the house is worthy, then your peace will come upon it; but if it is not worthy, then your peace will return to you.

14 But if anyone does not receive you and does not listen to your words, then when you go out of that house or city, shake off the dust from your feet;

15 Truly, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.

16 Behold, I am sending you as sheep among wolves: therefore be wise as serpents, and simple as doves.

17 But beware of people, for they will hand you over to the courts and beat you in their synagogues,

18 And they will bring you before rulers and kings for me, to be a witness before them and the Gentiles.

19 When they betray you, do not worry about how or what to say; for in that hour you will be given something to say,

20 For it is not you who will speak, but the Spirit of your Father will speak in you.

21 And brother shall betray brother to death, and father his son; and children will rise up against their parents and kill them;

22 and you will be hated by all because of my name; but he who endures to the end shall be saved.

23 When they persecute you in one city, flee to another. For truly I say to you, you will not have gone round the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

24 A student is not higher than a teacher, and a servant is not higher than his master:

25 It is sufficient for a student to be like his teacher, and for a servant to be like his master. If the owner of the house was called Beelzebub, how much more so of his household?

26 So do not be afraid of them, for there is nothing hidden that would not be revealed, and secret that would not be known.

27 What I say to you in the dark, speak in the light; and whatever you hear in your ear, preach on the rooftops.

28 And do not be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

29 Aren't two sparrows sold for an assarium? And not one of them will fall to the ground without the *will* of your Father;

30 and the hairs of your head are all numbered;

31 Fear not: you are better than many small birds.

32 Therefore, whoever confesses me before men, him I will also confess before my Father in heaven;

33 but whoever denies me before men, I will also deny him before my Father in heaven.

34 Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; not peace I came to bring, but a sword,

35 For I have come to divide a man from his father, and a daughter from her mother, and a daughter-in-law from her mother-in-law.

36 And the enemies of a man are his household.

37 Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;

38 And whoever does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.

39 He who saves his life will lose it; but he who loses his life for my sake will save it.

40 Whoever receives you receives Me, and whoever receives Me receives the One who sent Me;

41 Whoever receives a prophet, in the name of a prophet, will receive a prophet's reward; and whoever receives the righteous, in the name of the righteous, will receive the reward of the righteous.

42 And whoever gives one of these little ones only a cup of cold water to drink, in the name of a disciple, I tell you truly, he will not lose his reward.

1 And when Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went from there to teach and preach in their cities.

2 And when John heard in prison about the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples

3 to say to him, Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?

4 And Jesus answered and said to them, Go, tell John what you hear and see:

5 The blind receive their sight and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, the dead are raised and the poor preach the gospel.

6 And blessed is he who is not offended by me.

7 And when they went, Jesus began to speak to the people about John: What did you go to see in the wilderness? a reed shaken by the wind?

8 What did you go to see? a man dressed in soft clothes? Those who wear soft clothes are in the palaces of the kings.

9 What did you go to see? a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.

10 For he is the one of whom it is written: Behold, I am sending my angel before your face, who will prepare your way before you.

11 Truly, I say to you, among those born of women, no greater than John the Baptist has arisen; but the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than him.

12 But from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven is taken by force, and those who use force take it by force,

13 for all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.

14 And if you want to receive it, he is Elijah who is to come.

15 Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear!

16 But to whom shall I liken this generation? He is like children who sit in the street and, addressing their comrades,

17 they say, We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang sad songs to you, and you did not weep.

18 For John came neither eating nor drinking; and they say: there is a demon in him.

Sophia the Wisdom of God, fragment of an icon.

19 The Son of Man has come, eating and drinking; and they say: here is a man who loves to eat and drink wine, a friend to tax collectors and sinners.

20 Then He began to rebuke the cities, in which His might was most manifested, because they did not repent:

21 Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! for if in Tire and Sidon the powers manifested in you were manifested, they would long ago have repented in sackcloth and ashes,

22 But I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Tire and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you.

23 And thou, Capernaum, having ascended to heaven, thou shalt cast down to hell;

24 but I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for you.

25 At that time, continuing to speak, Jesus said: I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them to babes;

26 to her, Father! for such was thy good pleasure.

27 All things are delivered to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son but the Father; and no one knows the Father except the Son, and to whom the Son wants to reveal.

28 Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest;

29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls;

30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

1 At that time Jesus was passing through the sown fields on the Sabbath; His disciples became hungry and began to pluck the ears and eat.

2 When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, Behold, your disciples are doing what ought not to be done on the Sabbath.

3 And he said to them, Have you not read what David did when he and those with him were hungry?

4 How did he enter into the house of God and eat the showbread, which neither he nor those with him were to eat, but only the priests?

5 Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath, but are innocent?

6 But I tell you that here is He who is greater than the temple;

7 If you knew what it means: I want mercy, and not sacrifice, you would not condemn the innocent,

8 for the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.

9 And departing from there, He entered into their synagogue.

10 And behold, there was a man with a dry hand. And they asked Jesus to accuse Him: is it possible to heal on the Sabbath?

11 And he said to them, Who among you, having one sheep, if it falls into a ditch on the Sabbath, will not take it up and pull it out?

12 How much better is a man than a sheep! So you can do good on Saturdays.

13 Then he said to that man, Stretch out your hand. And he stretched it out, and she became healthy, like another.

14 But the Pharisees went out and took counsel against him, how to destroy him. But Jesus, having learned, departed from there.

15 And a multitude of people followed him, and he healed them all

17 May it be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet Isaiah, who says:

18 Behold, my servant, whom I have chosen, my beloved, whom my soul delights in. I will put my spirit on him, and he will proclaim judgment to the nations;

19 he will not rebuke, he will not cry out, and no one will hear his voice in the streets;

20 He will not break a bruised reed, nor quench a smoking flax, until he has brought victory to judgment;

21 And in his name the nations will hope.

22 Then they brought him a demon-possessed, blind and dumb; and healed him, so that the blind and dumb man both spoke and saw.

23 And all the people marveled, and said, Is this not the Christ, the son of David?

24 And the Pharisees, having heard *this,* said: He does not cast out demons except by *power* of Beelzebub, the prince of demons.

25 But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.

26 And if Satan casts out Satan, then he is divided against himself: how can his kingdom stand?

27 And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by what power do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.

28 But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then surely the kingdom of God has come upon you.

29 Or how can anyone enter the strong man's house and plunder his things, unless he first binds the strong man? and then he will plunder his house.

30 He who is not with me is against me; and whoever does not gather with me, he squanders.

31 Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men;

32 if anyone speaks a word against the Son of Man, he will be forgiven; but if anyone speaks against the Holy Spirit, he will not be forgiven either in this age or in the future.

33 Or make the tree good and its fruit good; or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit.

34 offspring of vipers! how can you speak good when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

35 A good man brings forth good out of a good treasure, but an evil man brings forth evil out of an evil treasure.

36 I tell you that for every idle word that people say, they will answer in the day of judgment:

37 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.

38 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said: Teacher! we would like to see a sign from you.

39 But He answered and said to them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks a sign; and no sign will be given to him except the sign of Jonah the prophet;

40 For as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.

41 The Ninevites will rise to judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented from the preaching of Jonah; and behold, there is more Jonah here.

42 The queen of the south will rise up for judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, here is more than Solomon.

43 When the unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he walks through dry places, seeking rest, and does not find it;

44 Then he says, I will return to my house, whence I came out. And, having come, he finds *him* unoccupied, swept and cleaned;

45 Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits worse than himself, and having entered, dwell there; and for that person the last is worse than the first. So it will be with this evil race.

46 While He was still speaking to the people, His mother and brothers stood outside *the house* wanting to speak with Him.

47 And someone said to him, Behold, your mother and your brothers stand outside, desiring to speak with you.

48 And he answered the one who spoke, Who is my mother? and who are my brothers?

49 And pointing out his hand to his disciples, he said, Behold my mother and my brothers;

50 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven, the same is my brother and sister and mother.

1 And on that day Jesus went out of the house, and sat by the sea.

2 And a multitude of people gathered to him, so that he got into the boat and sat down; and all the people stood on the shore.

3 And he taught them many parables, saying, Behold, a sower has gone out to sow;

4 And while he was sowing, something fell by the way, and birds came and ate it;

5 Some fell on stony places, where there was little earth, and quickly rose up, because the earth was not deep.

6 And when the sun had risen, it withered, and, as it had no root, it dried up;

7 some fell into the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked him;

8 Some fell on the good ground and brought forth fruit: one a hundredfold, and another sixty, and another thirty.

9 He who has ears to hear, let him hear!

10 And the disciples drew near and said to him, Why do you speak to them in parables?

11 He answered and said to them, Because it has been given to you to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but it has not been given to them,

12 For whoever has, to him it will be given and it will increase, but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him;

13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, and they do not understand;

14 And the prophecy of Isaiah comes true over them, which says: You will hear with your ears and you will not understand, and you will look with your eyes and you will not see,

15 For this people's heart is hardened, and they can hardly hear with their ears, and they close their eyes, so that they will not see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and will not understand with their hearts, and will not turn to me to heal them.

16 But blessed are your eyes that see, and your ears that hear,

17 For I tell you truly that many prophets and righteous people have desired to see what you see and did not see, and to hear what you hear and did not hear.

18 But listen to the *meaning* of the parable of the sower:

19 To everyone who hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart - this is what is sown along the way.

20 And that which is sown on rocky places signifies the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy;

21 But it has no root in itself and is unstable: when tribulation or persecution comes for the sake of the word, it is immediately offended.

22 And that which is sown among thorns signifies the one who hears the word, but the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it becomes fruitless.

23 But that which is sown on good ground signifies the one who hears the word and understands, and who also bears fruit, so that one bears fruit a hundredfold, another sixty, and another thirty.

25 While the people were asleep, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went away;

26 When the grass sprang up and the fruit appeared, then the tares also appeared.

27 When the servants of the householder came, they said to him, Sir! Have you not sown good seed in your field? where are the tares on it?

28 And he said to them, The enemy of man has done this. And the servants said to him: Do you want us to go and choose them?

29 But he said, No, lest when you pick up the tares you pull up the wheat with them,

30 let both grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will say to the reapers, Gather first the tares and bind them in sheaves to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.

31 He set forth another parable to them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field,

32 which is smaller than all seeds, but when it has grown, it is larger than all herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and take refuge in its branches.

33 He spoke another parable to them: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and put into three measures of meal until it was all leavened.

34 All these things Jesus spoke to the people in parables, and without a parable he did not speak to them,

35 let it be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, who says, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter the secret from the foundation of the world.

36 Then Jesus dismissed the people and went into the house. And coming to Him, His disciples said: Explain to us the parable of the tares in the field.

37 And he answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;

38 the field is the world; the good seed are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the evil one;

39 The enemy who sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels.

40 Therefore, as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so it will be at the end of this age:

41 The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all stumbling blocks and those who do iniquity,

42 And cast them into the fiery furnace; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth;

43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear!

44 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field, which, having found, a man hid, and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

45 Still the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls,

46 who, having found one pearl of great value, went and sold everything he had and bought it.

47 Still the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was thrown into the sea and caught every kind of fish,

48 which, when it was full, they dragged it ashore, and sat down, and gathered the good things into vessels, but threw the bad things out.

49 So it will be at the end of the age: angels will go out and separate the wicked from among the righteous,

50 And they will cast them into the fiery furnace: there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

51 And Jesus asked them, Have you understood all this? They say to Him: Yes, Lord!

52 He said to them, Therefore, every scribe who has been instructed in the kingdom of heaven is like a master who brings out of his treasury both new and old.

53 And when Jesus had finished these parables, he went from there.

54 And when he came into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said, Where did he get such wisdom and power?

55 Is he not the carpenters' son? Is not His Mother called Mary, and His brothers James and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?

56 And his sisters, are they not all among us? where did he get all this?

57 And they were offended by him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country and in his own house.

58 And he did not do many miracles there because of their unbelief.

1 At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the rumor about Jesus

2 And he said to his servants, This is John the Baptist; he rose from the dead, and therefore miracles are performed by him.

3 For Herod took John and bound him and put him in prison for Herodias his brother Philip's wife,

4 because John said to him, You must not have it.

5 And he wanted to kill him, but he was afraid of the people, because he was considered a prophet.

6 And at the time of the *celebration* of the birthday of Herod, the daughter of Herodias danced in front of the assembly and pleased Herod,

7 Therefore he swore to her that he would give her whatever she asked.

8 And she, at the instigation of her mother, said, Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist.

9 And the king was sad, but for the sake of the oath and of those who sat with him, he commanded to give her,

10 And he sent to behead John in prison.

11 And they brought his head on a platter and gave it to the maiden, and she took it to her mother.

12 And his disciples came and took his body and buried it; and went and told Jesus.

13 And when Jesus heard, he departed from there in a boat into a desert place alone; And when the people heard of this, they followed Him out of the cities on foot.

14 And going out, Jesus saw a multitude of people, and had compassion on them, and healed their sick.

15 And when evening came, his disciples came to him and said, “This is a deserted place, and the time is already late; send the people away to go into the villages and buy food for themselves.

16 But Jesus said to them, They don't have to go; you give them something to eat.

17 And they say to him, We have here only five loaves and two fish.

18 He said, Bring them hither to Me.

19 And he commanded the people to lie down on the grass, and taking five loaves of bread and two fishes, he looked up into heaven, blessed, and breaking it, gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples to the people.

20 And they all ate and were satisfied; and they took up the remaining pieces twelve baskets full;

21 And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.

22 And straightway Jesus compelled his disciples to get into the boat and go ahead of him to the other side, while he sent the people away.

23 And sending the people away, he went up the mountain to pray in private; and stayed there alone in the evening.

24 And the boat was already in the middle of the sea, and the waves were tossing it, because the wind was contrary.

25 In the fourth watch of the night Jesus went to them, walking on the sea.

26 And the disciples, seeing him walking on the sea, were troubled, and said, This is a ghost; and cried out in fear.

27 But immediately Jesus spoke to them and said, Take heart; It's me, don't be afraid.

28 Peter answered and said to him, Lord! if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.

29 And he said, Go. And getting out of the boat, Peter walked on the water to come to Jesus,

30 But seeing a strong wind, he was frightened, and, beginning to drown, he cried out: Lord! save me.

31 Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand, supported him, and said to him, You of little faith! why did you doubt?

32 And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased.

33 And those who were in the boat approached, bowed down to Him, and said, Truly You are the Son of God.

34 And they crossed over and came to the land of Gennesaret.

35 And the inhabitants of that place, recognizing Him, sent to all that region, and brought to Him all the sick,

36 and besought Him, just to touch the hem of His garment; and those who touched were healed.

1 Then the scribes of Jerusalem and the Pharisees came to Jesus and said:

2 Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.

3 And he answered and said to them, Why do you also transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?

4 For God commanded: Honor your father and mother; and: whoever speaks evil of his father or mother, let him die by death.

5 But you say: if anyone says to a father or mother: A gift *to God* is what you would use from me,

6 he may not honor his father or his mother; thus you have made void the commandment of God by your tradition.

7 Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied well of you, saying:

8 These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.

9 but in vain they worship me, teaching doctrines, the commandments of men.

10 And calling the people, he said to them, Listen and understand!

11 It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth defiles a person.

12 Then his disciples came and said to him, Do you know that when the Pharisees heard this word, they were offended?

13 And he answered and said, Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted;

14 Leave them: they are blind leaders of the blind; and if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the pit.

15 But Peter answered and said to him, Explain to us this parable.

16 Jesus said, Do you still not understand?

17 Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the belly and is cast out?

18 But what comes out of the mouth comes out of the heart - this defiles a person,

19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemy—

20 it defiles a man; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile a person.

21 And going out from there, Jesus withdrew into the countries of Tire and Sidon.

22 And behold, a Canaanite woman came out of that place, crying out to Him, Lord, have mercy on me, son of David, my daughter is violently mad.

23 But He answered her not a word. And His disciples, approaching, asked Him: Let her go, because she is screaming after us.

24 And he answered and said, I have only been sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

25 And she, coming up, bowed to Him, and said, Lord! help me.

26 And he answered and said, It is not good to take bread from the children and throw it to the dogs.

27 She said, Yes, Lord! but dogs also eat the crumbs that fall from the table of their masters.

28 Then Jesus answered and said to her, O woman! great is thy faith; let it be to you as you wish. And her daughter was healed in that hour.

29 Passing over from there, Jesus came to the Sea of ​​Galilee, and going up to the mountain, he sat down there.

30 And a multitude of people came to him, having with them the lame, the blind, the dumb, the crippled, and many others, and cast them down at the feet of Jesus; and he healed them;

31 so that the people marveled, seeing the dumb speaking, the crippled healthy, the lame walking, and the blind seeing; and glorified the God of Israel.

32 And Jesus, calling his disciples, said to them, “I am sorry for the people, who have been with me for three days already, and have nothing to eat for them; I don’t want to let them go hungry, lest they weaken on the road.

33 And his disciples said to him, How can we get so many loaves of bread in the wilderness to feed so many people?

34 Jesus said to them, How many loaves do you have? They said: seven, and a few fish.

35 Then he commanded the people to lie down on the ground.

36 And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and broke them, and gave them to his disciples, and the disciples to the people.

37 And they all ate and were satisfied; and they took up the pieces that were left, seven baskets full,

38 And those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children.

39 And having dismissed the people, he entered the boat and came to the region of Magdala.

1 And the Pharisees and Sadducees approached, and tempting him, they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

2 And he answered and said to them, In the evening you say, There will be a pail, because the sky is red;

3 and in the morning: today there is bad weather, because the sky is purple. Hypocrites! You know how to discern the face of heaven, but you cannot tell the signs of the times.

4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeks a sign, and no sign will be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet. And leaving them, he departed.

5 Having crossed over to the other side, His disciples forgot to take the loaves.

6 Jesus said to them, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

7 But they thought within themselves and said: *this* *means* that we did not take the loaves.

8 Understanding this, Jesus said to them: What do you think in yourselves, you of little faith, that you have not taken any loaves?

9 Do you not yet understand and remember the five loaves of bread for five thousand people, and how many baskets you have taken?

10 nor about the seven loaves of four thousand, and how many baskets did you take?

11 How can you not understand that it was not about bread that I said to you, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?

12 Then they understood that He was not telling them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teachings of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

13 And having come into the countries of Caesarea Philippi, Jesus asked His disciples: Whom do people say that I, the Son of Man, is?

14 They said, Some for John the Baptist, others for Elijah, and others for Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.

15 He says to them, But who do you say that I am?

16 Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God.

17 Then Jesus answered and said to him, Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonas, because it was not flesh and blood that revealed these things to you, but my Father who is in heaven;

18 And I say to you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it;

19 And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

20 Then [Jesus] forbade his disciples that no one should be told that he is Jesus Christ.

21 From that time on, Jesus began to reveal to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer much at the hands of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and rise again on the third day.

22 And taking Him away, Peter began to rebuke Him: Be merciful to Yourself, Lord! may it not be with you!

24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, If anyone wants to follow me, deny yourself and take up your cross and follow me.

25 for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it;

26 What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

27 For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will repay every man according to his deeds.

28 Truly I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.

1 At the end of six days, Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, and brought them up to a high mountain alone,

2 And he was transfigured before them: and his face shone like the sun, and his garments became white as light.

3 And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with him.

4 At this Peter said to Jesus, Lord! it's good for us to be here; if you wish, we will make three tabernacles here: one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah.

5 While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and behold, a voice from the cloud, saying: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; Listen to him.

6 And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their faces and were greatly afraid.

7 But Jesus, coming forward, touched them, and said, Arise, and be not afraid.

8 And when they lifted up their eyes, they saw no one but Jesus alone.

9 And as they were descending from the mountain, Jesus rebuked them, saying, Tell no one about this vision until the Son of Man is risen from the dead.

10 And his disciples asked him, How then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?

11 Jesus answered and said to them, Truly, Elijah must come first and arrange everything;

12 but I tell you that Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but did to him as they pleased; so the Son of Man will suffer from them.

13 Then the disciples understood that He was speaking to them about John the Baptist.

14 When they came to the people, a man came up to him, and kneeling before him,

15 said: Lord! have mercy on my son; he * rages * on the new moon and suffers greatly, for he often throws himself into fire and often into water,

16 I brought him to your disciples, and they could not heal him.

17 And Jesus answering said, O unfaithful and perverted generation! how long will I be with you? how long can I bear you? bring him here to Me.

19 Then the disciples came to Jesus in private, and said, Why could we not cast him out?

20 And Jesus said to them, Because of your unbelief; For truly, I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, (move from here to there), and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you;

21 This kind is driven out only by prayer and fasting.

22 While they were in Galilee, Jesus said to them, The Son of Man will be delivered into the hands of men,

23 And they will kill him, and on the third day he will rise again. And they were very sad.

24 And when they came to Capernaum, the collectors of didrachmas came up to Peter and said, “Will your teacher give you didrachms?

25 He says yes. And when he entered the house, Jesus, warning him, said: What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth collect duties or taxes? from his own sons, or from strangers?

26 Peter says to him, From strangers. Jesus said to him: Therefore, the sons are free;

27 But lest we offend them, go to the sea, cast your hook, and take the first fish that comes along, and when you open its mouth, you will find a stater; take it and give it to them for me and for yourself.

1 At that time the disciples came to Jesus and said, Who is greater in the kingdom of heaven?

2 Jesus called a child and placed him in the midst of them

3 And he said, Truly I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.

4 Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child, that one is greater in the kingdom of heaven;

5 and whoever receives one such child in my name receives me;

6 And whoever offends one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for him if they hung a millstone around his neck and drowned him in the depths of the sea.

7 Woe to the world because of temptations, for temptations must come; but woe to the man through whom the offense comes.

8 But if your hand or your foot offends you, cut them off and throw them away from you: it is better for you to enter into life without an arm or without a leg, than with two arms and two legs to be thrown into eternal fire;

9 And if your eye offends you, pluck it out and cast it away from you: it is better for you to enter into life with one eye than to be cast into hellfire with two eyes.

1 ° Look, do not despise any of these little ones; for I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.

11 For the Son of Man came to seek and save that which was lost.

12 What do you think? If a man had a hundred sheep and one of them went astray, would he not leave the ninety-nine in the mountains and go looking for the lost one?

13 And if it happens to find her, then I tell you truly, he rejoices over her more than over ninety-nine who did not go astray.

14 Even so, it is not the will of your Father in heaven that one of these little ones perish.

15 If your brother sins against you, go and reprove him between you and him alone; if he listens to you, then you have gained your brother;

16 But if he does not listen, take one or two more with you, so that every word may be confirmed by the mouth of two or three witnesses.

17 But if he does not listen to them, tell the church; and if he does not listen to the church, then let him be to you, like a pagan and a publican.

18 Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

19 Truly I also say to you that if two of you agree on earth to ask for any matter, then whatever they ask, it will be done by my Father in heaven,

20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

21 Then Peter came to him and said, Lord! how many times shall I forgive my brother who sins against me? up to seven times?

22 Jesus said to him, I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.

23 Therefore the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to reckon with his servants;

25 And since he had nothing to pay, his master ordered that he be sold, and his wife, and children, and everything that he had, and pay;

26 Then the servant fell down, and, bowing to him, said: Sir! bear with me, and I will pay you everything.

27 The sovereign, having mercy on that servant, let him go and forgave him the debt.

28 And the servant went out and found one of his companions who owed him a hundred denarii, and seizing him, he strangled him, saying, Give me back what you owe.

29 Then his companion fell at his feet, begged him, and said, Be patient with me, and I will give you everything.

30 But he did not want to, but went and put him in prison until he repaid the debt.

31 His comrades, seeing what had happened, were very upset and, having come, told their sovereign everything that had happened.

32 Then his master calls him, and says: Wicked servant! all that debt I have forgiven you, because you begged me;

33 Was it not right for you also to have mercy on your companion, as I also had mercy on you?

34 And in anger, his sovereign handed him over to the tormentors until he paid him all the debt.

35 So also will My Heavenly Father deal with you if each of you does not forgive his brother from his heart for his sins.

1 When Jesus had finished these words, he went out of Galilee and came into the region of Judea, on the side of the Jordan.

2 Many people followed him, and he healed them there.

3 And the Pharisees came to him, and tempting him, they said to him, Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?

4 He answered and said to them, Have you not read that He who made male and female in the first place created them?

5 And he said, Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh,

6 so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. So what God has joined together, let no man separate.

7 They say to him, How then did Moses command to give a bill of divorce and divorce her?

8 He says to them: Moses, because of your hardness of heart, allowed you to divorce your wives, but at first it was not so;

9 but I say to you, whoever divorces his wife not for adultery, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

10 His disciples say to him: If such is the duty of a man to his wife, then it is better not to marry.

11 And he said to them, Not everyone can receive this word, but to whom it has been given,

12 For there are eunuchs who were born like this from their mother's womb; and there are eunuchs who are castrated out of men; and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven. Who can accommodate, let him accommodate.

13 Then children were brought to him, that he should lay his hands on them and pray; the disciples rebuked them.

14 But Jesus said, Let the children go, and do not hinder them from coming to me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.

15 And laying his hands on them, he went from there.

16 And behold, someone came up and said to him: Good teacher! What good can I do to have eternal life?

17 And he said to him, Why do you call me good? Nobody is good but God alone. If you want to enter into life *eternal*, keep the commandments.

18 He says to him, What kind? Jesus said: do not kill; do not commit adultery; do not steal; do not bear false witness;

19 honor your father and mother; and: love your neighbor as yourself.

20 The young man said to him, All this I have kept from my youth; what else am I missing?

21 Jesus said to him, If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor; and you will have treasure in heaven; and come and follow me.

22 Hearing this word, the young man departed with sorrow, because he had a large estate.

23 But Jesus said to his disciples, Truly I say to you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven;

24 And again I say to you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

25 When his disciples heard this, they were greatly amazed and said, Who then can be saved?

26 And Jesus looked up and said to them, With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.

27 Then Peter answered and said to him, Behold, we have left everything and followed you; what will happen to us?

28 Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you that you who have followed me are in everlasting life, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones to judge the twelve tribes of Israel.

29 And whoever leaves houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for the sake of my name, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit eternal life.

30 But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.

1 For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard

2 And having agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard;

3 And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace,

4 And he said to them, Go you also into my vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you. They went.

5 And going out again about the sixth and ninth hour, he did the same.

6 Finally, going out about the eleventh hour, he found others standing idle, and said to them, Why are you standing idle all day long?

7 They tell him: no one hired us. He says to them: Go, you also into my vineyard, and whatever follows, you will receive.

8 When evening came, the lord of the vineyard said to his steward, Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.

9 And those who came about the eleventh hour received a denarius each.

10 And those who came first thought that they would receive more, but they also received a denarius each;

11 And when they received it, they began to grumble against the owner of the house

12 And they said: These last worked one hour, and you made them equal to us, who endured the burden of the day and the heat.

13 And he answered and said to one of them, Friend! I don't offend you; Was it not for a denarius that you agreed with me?

14 Take what is yours and go; I want to give this last one *the* *same* as to you;

15 Do I not have the power to do what I want? Or is your eye envious because I am kind?

16 Thus shall the last be first, and the first last; for many are called, but few are chosen.

17 And going up to Jerusalem, Jesus took the twelve disciples alone on the way, and said to them:

18 behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death;

19 And they will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and beaten and crucified; and rise on the third day.

20 Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, bowing down and asking something of him.

21 He said to her, What do you want? She says to him: Tell these two my sons to sit with you, one on your right hand and the other on your left in your kingdom.

22 Jesus answered and said, You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I will drink, or be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized? They say to him: we can.

23 And he said to them: You will drink my cup, and with the baptism with which I am baptized you will be baptized, but let me sit on my right hand and on my left - it does not *depend on me,* but to whom it is prepared by my Father.

24 Hearing *this,* *the other* ten *disciples* were angry with the two brothers.

25 And Jesus, calling them, said, You know that the princes of the nations rule over them, and the nobles rule over them;

26 but let it not be so among you: but whoever wants to be great among you, let him be your servant;

27 And whoever wants to be first among you, let him be your slave;

28 for the Son of Man came not *to* *to* be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.

29 And as they went out of Jericho, a multitude of people followed Him.

30 And behold, two blind men sitting by the road, hearing that Jesus was passing by, began to cry out: Have mercy on us, Lord, Son of David!

31 And the people made them keep silent; but they began to shout even louder: have mercy on us, Lord, Son of David!

32 Jesus stopped and called them and said, What do you want from me?

33 They say to him: Lord! to open our eyes.

34 But Jesus, being merciful, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.

1 And when they drew near to Jerusalem, and came to Bethphage to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,

2 Saying to them, Go to the village which is right in front of you; and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a young donkey with her; untie, bring to Me;

3 And if anyone says anything to you, answer that the Lord needs them; and immediately send them.

4 But all this happened, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, who says:

5 Say to the daughter of Zion, Behold, your King is coming to you, meek, sitting on a donkey and a colt, the son of a donkey.

6 The disciples went and did as Jesus commanded them:

7 They brought a donkey and a colt and put their clothes on them, and he sat on top of them.

8 And a multitude of people spread their clothes along the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them along the road;

9 And the people who preceded and accompanied them exclaimed: Hosanna to the Son of David! blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord! hosanna in the highest!

10 And when he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was moved, and said, Who is this?

11 And the people said: This is Jesus, the Prophet from Nazareth of Galilee.

12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, and drove out all those who sold and bought in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money-changers and the benches of those who sold doves,

13 And he said to them, It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves.

14 And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.

15 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonders that He had done, and the children crying out in the temple, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David! - resented

16 And they said to him, Do you hear what they say? Jesus says to them: yes! Have you never read: Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings You have ordained praise?

17 And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany, and spent the night there.

18 In the morning, returning to the city, he was hungry;

19 And when he saw a fig tree by the way, he went up to her, and finding nothing on it but only leaves, he said to her, Let there be no fruit from you forever. And immediately the fig tree dried up.

20 When the disciples saw this, they were astonished and said, How did the fig tree wither immediately?

21 Jesus answered and said to them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done with the fig tree, but if you say to this mountain, Get up and throw yourself into the sea, it will happen;

22 And whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.

23 And when he came into the temple and taught, the chief priests and elders of the people came to him and said, By what authority do you do this? and who gave you such authority?

24 Jesus answered and said to them, I will also ask you one thing; if you tell Me this, I will also tell you by what authority I do these things.

25 Where did the baptism of John come from: from heaven, or from men? And they reasoned among themselves: if we say: from heaven, then He will say to us: why did you not believe him?

26 but if we say: from men, we are afraid of the people, for all consider John a prophet.

27 And they answered Jesus, We do not know. He also said to them: Nor will I tell you by what authority I do these things.

28 What do you think? One man had two sons; and he, going up to the first, said: Son! go and work today in my vineyard.

29 But he answered and said, I will not; and then, repentant, he went.

30 And coming to another, he said the same thing. This one said in response: I am going, sir, and did not go.

31 Which of the two did the will of the father? They say to Him: the first. Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, publicans and harlots go into the kingdom of God ahead of you,

32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the publicans and harlots believed him; but when you saw it, you did not repent afterwards to believe him.

33 Hear another parable: There was a certain owner of a house who planted a vineyard, surrounded it with a fence, dug a winepress in it, built a tower, and having given it to the vinedressers, went away.

34 And when the time of fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the vinedressers to take their fruit;

35 The husbandmen seized his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

36 Again he sent other servants, more than before; and they did the same.

37 Finally, he sent his son to them, saying, They will be ashamed of my son.

38 But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said to one another, This is the heir; let us go and kill him and take possession of his inheritance.

39 And they seized him and brought him out of the vineyard and killed him.

40 So when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do with these tenants?

41 They say to him: He will put these evildoers to an evil death, but he will give the vineyard to other vinedressers, who will give him fruit in their seasons.

42 Jesus said to them, Have you never read in the Scriptures: The stone that the builders rejected has become the head of the corner? Is this from the Lord, and is it marvelous in our eyes?

43 Therefore I say to you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that will bear its fruits;

44 And whoever falls on this stone will be crushed, and whoever it falls on will be crushed.

45 And when the chief priests and Pharisees heard his parables, they understood that he was talking about them,

46 And they tried to seize him, but they were afraid of the people, because they thought he was a prophet.

1 Jesus, continuing to speak to them in parables, said:

2 The kingdom of heaven is like a king who made a wedding feast for his son

3 and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast; and didn't want to come.

4 Again he sent other servants, saying, Tell those who are invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner, my calves and what is fattened, slaughtered, and everything is ready; come to the wedding feast.

5 But they despised this and went, some to their field, and some to their trade;

6 And the rest, seizing his servants, insulted and killed *them.*

7 When the king heard of this, he became angry, and sent his armies and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.

8 Then he said to his servants: The wedding feast is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy;

9 Go therefore to the crossroads, and invite all whom you find to the marriage feast.

10 And those servants, going out into the roads, gathered together all whom they found, both the bad and the good; and the wedding feast was filled with those reclining.

11 When the king came in to see those reclining, he saw a man there who was not wearing a wedding garment,

12 and says to him, friend! how did you come in here not in wedding clothes? He was silent.

13 Then the king said to his servants, Bind his hands and feet, take him, and cast him into outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth;

14 For many are called, but few are chosen.

15 Then the Pharisees went and conferred how they might entrap him in words.

16 And they send their disciples to him with the Herodians, saying: Master! we know that you are just, and you truly teach the way of God, and do not care about pleasing anyone, for you do not look at any person;

17 So tell us, what do you think? Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?

18 But Jesus, seeing their craftiness, said, Why are you tempting me, you hypocrites?

19 show Me the coin that pays tribute. They brought Him a denarius.

20 And he said to them, Whose image and inscription is this?

21 They say unto him, Caesars. Then he said to them, Render therefore what is Caesar's to Caesar, and what is God's to God.

22 When they heard this, they were astonished, and left him and went away.

23 On that day the Sadducees came to him, who say there is no resurrection, and asked him:

24 Teacher! Moses said: If a man dies without having children, let his brother take his wife for himself and restore seed to his brother;

25 We had seven brothers; the first, having married, died, and, having no children, left his wife to his brother;

26 likewise the second, and the third, even up to the seventh;

27 And after all the wife also died;

28 So, in the resurrection, which of the seven will she be the wife of? for all had it.

29 Jesus answered and said to them, You are erring, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God,

30 For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like the angels of God in heaven.

31 And concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what God said to you:

32 Am I the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

33 And when the people heard, they marveled at his teaching.

34 And the Pharisees, hearing that He had silenced the Sadducees, gathered together.

35 And one of them, a lawyer, tempted him, asked, saying:

36 Teacher! what is the greatest commandment in the law?

37 Jesus said to him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind:

38 this is the first and greatest commandment;

39 the second is like it: love thy neighbor as thyself;

40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

41 When the Pharisees had assembled, Jesus asked them,

42 what do you think of Christ? whose son is he? They say to Him: Davidov.

43 He said to them, How can David, by inspiration, call him Lord when he says:

44 The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool?

45 So if David calls him Lord, how can he be his son?

46 And no one could answer him a word; and from that day on no one dared to question Him.

1 Then Jesus began to speak to the people and to his disciples

2 And he said, The scribes and the Pharisees sat on the seat of Moses;

3 so whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do; but do not do according to their deeds, for they say and do not:

4 They bind burdens that are heavy and unbearable, and lay them on the shoulders of men, but they themselves are not willing to move them with a finger.

5 Yet they do their works so that people can see them: they expand their storehouses and increase the resurrection of their garments;

6 They also love to sit before feasts and sit in synagogues.

7 and salutations in the assemblies of the people, and that the people should call them: teacher! teacher!

8 But do not call yourself teachers, for one is your teacher, Christ, yet you are brothers;

9 And call no one on earth your father, for one is your Father, who is in heaven;

10 And do not call yourself teachers, for you have one teacher, Christ.

11 The greatest among you shall be your servant:

12 For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, but whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

17 Mad and blind! Which is greater: gold, or a temple consecrating gold?

18 Also, if anyone swears by the altar, then nothing, but if anyone swears by the gift that is on it, then he is guilty.

19 Crazy and blind! Which is greater: a gift, or an altar consecrating a gift?

20 So he who swears by the altar swears by it and all that is on it;

21 And whoever swears by the temple swears by it and by him that dwells in it;

22 And whoever swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits on it.

23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, who give tithes of mint, anise, and cumin, and have left the most important thing in the law: judgment, mercy, and faith; this was to be done, and that not to be abandoned.

24 Blind leaders, who strain out a gnat, but swallow a camel!

25 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, while inside they are full of theft and unrighteousness.

26 Blind Pharisee! cleanse first the inside of the cup and dish, so that their outside may also be clean.

27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you are like painted tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of the bones of the dead and all kinds of uncleanness;

28 So also you outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

29 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, who build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous,

30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in *shedding* the blood of the prophets;

31 thus you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who slew the prophets;

32 Fill up the measure of your fathers.

The Gospel of Matthew is the first book in the New Testament. The Gospel of Matthew belongs to the canonical gospels. The New Testament begins with the four gospels, the lives of Jesus Christ. The first three Gospels are similar to each other, therefore they are called synoptic (from the Greek "synopticos" - to see together).

Read the Gospel of Matthew.

The Gospel of Matthew has 28 chapters.

Church tradition calls the author Matthew, the tax collector who followed Christ. However, modern researchers believe that the Gospel was not written by a direct eyewitness of the event, and, therefore, the Apostle Matthew cannot be the author of the first Gospel. It is believed that this text was written somewhat later, and the unknown author relied on the Gospel of Mark and on the source Q that has not come down to us.

The theme of the Gospel of Matthew

The main theme of the Gospel of Matthew is the life and work of Jesus Christ. The book was intended for a Jewish audience. The Gospel of Matthew is replete with references to messianic Old Testament prophecies. The purpose of the author is to show that messianic prophecies come true in the coming of the Son of God.

The Gospel describes in detail the genealogy of the Savior, starting from Abraham and ending with Joseph the Betrothed, the husband of the Virgin Mary.

Features of the Gospel of Matthew.

The Gospel of Matthew is the only book in the New Testament that was not written in Greek. The Aramaic original of the Gospel was lost, and the Greek translation was included in the canon.

The activity of the Messiah is considered in the Gospel from three points of view:

• like a prophet
• as legislator,
• as the High Priest.

This book focuses on the teachings of Christ.

The Gospel of Matthew repeats many of the other synoptic gospels, but there are a few points that are not covered in any other book of the New Testament:

• The story of the healing of two blind men,
• The story of the healing of the dumb demoniac,
• The story of the coin in the fish's mouth.

There are also several original parables in this Gospel:

• parable of the tares,
• parable of the treasure in the field,
• parable of the precious pearl,
• parable of the net,
• the parable of the merciless creditor,
• the parable of the laborers in the vineyard,
• parable of two sons
• parable of the marriage feast,
• parable of the ten virgins
• parable of talents.

Interpretation of the Gospel of Matthew

In addition to describing the birth, life and death of Jesus, the gospel also reveals themes about the Second Coming of Christ, about the eschatological revelation of the Kingdom and in the daily spiritual life of the Church.

The book was written for 2 purposes:

1. Tell the Jews that Jesus is their Messiah.
2. To encourage those who believed in Jesus as the Messiah and feared that God would turn away from His people after His Son was crucified. Matthew said that God had not given up on the people and that the Kingdom promised earlier would come in the future.

The Gospel of Matthew testifies that Jesus is the Messiah. The author answers the question "If Jesus is indeed the Messiah, why didn't He establish the promised Kingdom?" The author says that this Kingdom has taken on a different form and that Jesus will return to earth again to establish His authority over it. The Savior came with good news to the people, but in accordance with God's plan, His message was rejected in order to sound later to all nations throughout the world.

Chapter 1. Pedigree of the Savior. Birth of the Messiah.

Chapter 2 Flight of the Holy Family to Egypt. Return of the Holy Family to Nazareth.

Chapter 3. Baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist.

Chapter 4 The beginning of the preaching work of Jesus Christ in Galilee. The first disciples of Christ.

Chapters 5 - 7. Sermon on the Mount.

Chapters 8 - 9. Sermons in Galilee. Miracles of Christ. The power of the savior over disease, the forces of evil, nature, over death. The ability of the Savior to forgive. The ability to turn darkness into light and cast out demons.

Chapter 10. The call of the 12 apostles

Chapter 11. A challenge to the authority of the Son of God.

Chapter 12 Disputes about the power of the new Tsar.

Chapters 13 - 18. Miracles and parables of Christ. Sermon in Galilee and nearby lands.

Chapters 19 - 20. Jesus goes from Galilee to Judea.

Chapters 21 - 22. Entry of Jesus into Jerusalem and preaching there.

Chapter 23 Jesus' denunciation of the Pharisees.

Chapter 24 Jesus predicts his Second Coming after the destruction of Jerusalem.

Chapter 25 New parables. Explanation of future events.

Chapter 26 The anointing of Jesus with peace. The Last Supper. Arrest of the Messiah and trial.

Chapter 27 Jesus Christ before Pilate. Crucifixion and burial of the Savior.

Chapter 28 Resurrection of Jesus.