These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Matthew 17
Brit Hadashah 27 verses
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Six day later, took with Him and the brothers and , and brought them up a high mountain to a solitary place.
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- 2 There in their presence His form underwent a change; His face shone like the sun, and His raiment became as white as the light.
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And suddenly and appeared to them conversing with Him.
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- 4 Then said to , “Master, we are thankful to you that we are here. If you approve, I will put up three tents here, one for you, one for , and one for .”
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He was still speaking when a luminous cloud spread over them; and a voice was heard from within the cloud, which said, “This is My Son dearly beloved, in whom is My delight. Listen to Him.”
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Matthew 3:17 Deuteronomy 18:15 Isaiah 42:1 Deuteronomy 18:19 Acts 3:22-23 Luke 3:22 John 3:35 Mark 9:7 Mark 1:11 Matthew 12:18 Hebrews 1:1-2 Revelation 1:7 Psalm 81:7 Exodus 19:19 Hebrews 2:1-3 2 Peter 1:16-17 John 5:20-23 Ephesians 1:6 Deuteronomy 4:11-12 John 3:16 Acts 1:9 Colossians 1:13 John 12:28-30 Deuteronomy 5:22 Hebrews 5:9 Hebrews 12:25-26 1 Kings 8:10-12 Acts 9:3-6 John 15:9-10 John 5:37 Luke 9:34-35 Job 38:1 Psalm 18:10-11 Isaiah 42:21 Exodus 40:34-35 Acts 7:37 - 6 On hearing this voice, the disciples fell on their faces and were filled with terror.
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But came and touched them, and said, “Rouse yourselves and have no .”
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So they looked up, and saw no one but .
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- 9 As they were descending the mountain, laid a command upon them. “Tell no one,” He said, “of the sight you have seen till the Son of Man has risen from among the dead.”
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“Why then,” asked the disciples, “do the Scribes say that must first come?”
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“ was indeed to come,” He replied, “and would reform everything.
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- 12 But I tell you that he has already come, and they did not recognize him, but dealt with him as they chose. And before long the Son of Man will be treated by them in a similar way.”
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Then it dawned upon the disciples that it was the Baptist about whom He had spoken to them.
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When they had returned to the people, there came to Him a man who fell on his knees before Him and besought Him.
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“Sir,” he said, “have pity on my son, for he is an epileptic and is very ill. Often he falls into the fire and often into the water.
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I have brought him to your disciples, and they have not been able to cure him.”
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- 17 “O unbelieving and perverse generation!” replied ; “how long shall I be with you? how long shall I endure you? Bring him to me.”
- 18 Then reprimanded the , and it came out and left him; and the boy was cured from that moment.
- 19 Then the disciples came to privately and asked Him, “Why could not we expel the ?”
- 20 “Because your is so small,” He replied; “for I solemnly declare to you that if you have like a mustard-seed, you shall say to this mountain, ‘Remove from this place to that,’ and it will remove; and nothing shall be impossible to you.
- 21 But an evil of this kind is only driven out by prayer and fasting.”
- 22 As they were travelling about in , said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men;
- 23 they will put Him to death, but on the third day He will be raised to life again.” And they were exceedingly distressed.
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After their arrival at the collectors of the half-shekel came and asked , “Does not your Teacher pay the half-shekel?”
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“Yes,” he replied, and then went into the house. But before he spoke a said, “What think you, Simon? From whom do this world’s kings receive customs or capitation tax? from their own children, or from others?”
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- 26 “From others,” he replied. “Then the children go free,” said .
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“However, lest we cause them to sin, go and throw a hook into the Lake, and take the first fish that comes up. When you open its mouth, you will find a shekel in it: bring that coin and give it to them for yourself and me.”
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