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geneva@Matthew:1:1 @ The (note:)Jesus Christ came of Abraham of the tribe of Judah, and of the family of David as God promised.(:note)Rehearsal: as the Hebrews used to speak; see (Gen_5:1), the book of the generations. book of the Of the ancestors from whom Christ came. generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the Christ is also the son of Abraham. son of Abraham.

geneva@Matthew:1:2 @ Abraham begate Isaac. And Isaac begate Iacob; Iacob begat Iudas and his brethren.

geneva@Matthew:1:3 @ And Iudas begate Phares, and Zara of Thamar; Phares begate Esrom; Esrom begate Aram.

geneva@Matthew:1:4 @ And Aram begate Aminadab; Aminadab begate Naasson; Naasson begat Salmon.

geneva@Matthew:1:6 @ And Iesse begate Dauid the King; Dauid the King begate Solomon of her that was the wife of Vrias.

geneva@Matthew:1:7 @ And Solomon begate Roboam; Roboam begate Abia; Abia begate Asa.

geneva@Matthew:1:8 @ And Asa begate Iosaphat; Iosaphat begate Ioram; Ioram begate Hozias.

geneva@Matthew:1:9 @ And Hozias begat Ioatham; Ioatham begate Achaz; Achaz begate Ezekias.

geneva@Matthew:1:10 @ And Ezekias begate Manasses; Manasses begate Amon; Amon begate Iosias.

geneva@Matthew:1:11 @ and Josias begat (note:)That is, the captivity fell in the days of Jakim and Jechonias: for Jechonias was born before the carrying away into captivity.(:note) Jechonias and his brethren, at the time of the carrying away of Babylon.

geneva@Matthew:1:12 @ And after they were caried away into Babylon, Iechonias begate Salathiel. And Salathiel begate Zorobabel.

geneva@Matthew:1:16 @ And Iacob begat Ioseph ye husbad of Mary, of whom was borne Iesvs, that is called Christ.

geneva@Matthew:1:17 @ All (note:)All those who were considered to be in the lineage of David's family, as they begat one another orderly in turn.(:note) the generations, therefore, from Abraham to David [were] fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away of Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the carrying away of Babylon unto the Christ, fourteen generations.

geneva@Matthew:1:18 @ Now the birth of (note:)Christ is the true Emmanuel, and therefore, Jesus (that is, Saviour) is conceived in the virgin by the Holy Spirit, as foretold by the prophets.(:note) Jesus Christ was thus: His mother, Mary, that is, having been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found to be with child of [the] Holy Spirit.

geneva@Matthew:1:19 @ Then Ioseph her husbande being a iust man, and not willing to make her a publike example, was minded to put her away secretly.

geneva@Matthew:1:20 @ but while he pondered on these things, behold, an angel of [the] Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, fear not to (note:)Receive her from her parents and kinsfolks hands.(:note) take to [thee] Mary, thy Who was promised, and made sure to you to be your wife. wife, for that which is Of the mother's substance by the Holy Spirit. begotten in her is of [the] Holy Spirit.

geneva@Matthew:1:22 @ And al this was done that it might be fulfilled, which is spoken of the Lord by ye Prophet, saying,

geneva@Matthew:1:23 @ Behold, a (note:)There is an article added in the Hebrew and Greek text, to point out the woman and set her forth plainly: as we would say, the virgin, or a certain virgin.(:note) virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

geneva@Matthew:1:24 @ Then Ioseph, being raised from sleepe, did as the Angel of the Lorde had inioyned him, and tooke his wife.

geneva@Matthew:1:25 @ And knew her not (note:)The word «till», in the Hebrew language, gives us to understand that a thing will not come to pass in time to come: as Michal had no children «till» her death day, (2Sa_6:23). And in the last chapter of this evangelist: Behold, I am with you «till» the end of the world.(:note) till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.

geneva@Matthew:2:1 @ Now when (note:)Christ a poor child, laid down in a crib, and though given no attention by his own people, receives nonetheless a noble witness of his divinity from heaven, and of his kingly estate from strangers: which his own people unknowingly let happen, although they did not acknowledge him.(:note) Jesus was born in Bethlehem of For there was another in the tribe of Zebulun. Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came Wise and learned men: It is a Persian word which they use frequently. wise men from the east to Jerusalem,

geneva@Matthew:2:2 @ Saying, Where is that King of the Iewes that is borne? For wee haue seene his starre in the East, and are come to worship him.

geneva@Matthew:2:3 @ When Herod the king had heard [these things], he was (note:)Was much moved, for he was a foreigner, and became ruler by force; and the Jews were troubled; for wickedness is mad and raging.(:note) troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

geneva@Matthew:2:4 @ And when he had gathered all the (note:)The chief priests, that is, such as were of Aaron's family, who were divided into twenty-four orders. (1Ch_24:5; 2Ch_36:14).(:note) chief priests and They that expound the law to the people, for the Hebrews take this word for another, which means as much as to expound and to declare. scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.

geneva@Matthew:2:6 @ And thou Bethlehem, [in] the land of Juda, art not the (note:)Though you are a small town, yet you will be very famous and notable through the birth of the Messiah, who will be born in you.(:note) least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that That will rule and govern: for kings are rightly called leaders and shepherds of the people. shall rule my people Israel.

geneva@Matthew:2:9 @ So when they had heard the King, they departed: and loe, the starre which they had seene in the East, went before them, till it came and stoode ouer the place where the babe was.

geneva@Matthew:2:11 @ And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and (note:)A kind of humble and lovely reverence.(:note) fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their The rich and costly presents, which they brought him. treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.

geneva@Matthew:2:12 @ And being (note:)God warned and told them of it, even though they did not ask him.(:note) warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.

geneva@Matthew:2:15 @ And was there vnto the death of Herod, that that might be fulfilled, which is spoken of the Lord by the Prophet, saying, Out of Egypt haue I called my sonne.

geneva@Matthew:2:16 @ Then Herod, seeing that he was mocked of the Wisemen, was exceeding wroth, and sent foorth, and slew all the male children that were in Beth-leem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two yeere old and vnder, according to the time which he had diligently searched out of the Wisemen.

geneva@Matthew:2:17 @ Then was fulfilled that which was spoken (note:)For God speaketh by the mouth of the prophets.(:note) by Jeremy the prophet, saying,

geneva@Matthew:2:18 @ In Rama was there (note:)A voice of lamenting, weeping and howling.(:note) a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, That is to say, All who live around Bethlehem: for Rachel, Jacob's wife who died in childbirth, was buried by the road that leads to this town, which is also called Ephratah, because of the fruitfulness of the soil, and the plentifulness of corn. Rachel weeping [for] her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

geneva@Matthew:2:22 @ But whe he heard that Archelaus did reigne in Iudea in stead of his father Herod, he was afraide to go thither: yet after he was warned of God in a dreame, he turned aside into the parts of Galile,

geneva@Matthew:2:23 @ And went and dwelt in a citie called Nazareth, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Prophets, which was, That hee should be called a Nazarite.

geneva@Matthew:3:1 @ In (note:)Not when Joseph went to dwell at Nazareth, but a great while after, about fifteen years: for in the 30th year of his life Jesus was baptized by John: therefore «those days» means the time when Jesus remained as an inhabitant of the town of Nazareth.(:note) those days came John, who through his singular holiness and rare austerity of life caused men to cast their eyes on him, prepares the way for Christ who is following fast on his heels, as the prophet Isaiah foretold, and delivers the sum of the gospel, which a short time later would be delivered more fully. John the Baptist, preaching in the In a hilly country, which was nonetheless inhabited, for Zacharias dwelt there, (Luk_1:39-40), and there was Joab's house, (1Ki_2:34); and besides these, Joshua makes mention of six towns that were in the wilderness, (Jos_15:61-62). wilderness of Judaea,

geneva@Matthew:3:3 @ For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, (note:)Make him a plain and smooth way.(:note) make his paths straight.

geneva@Matthew:3:4 @ And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was (note:)Locusts were a type of meat which certain of the eastern people use, who were therefore called devourers of locusts.(:note) locusts and wild honey.

geneva@Matthew:3:10 @ And now also is the axe put to the roote of the trees: therfore euery tree which bringeth not forth good fruit, is hewen downe, & cast into ye fire.

geneva@Matthew:3:15 @ And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer [it to be so] now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil (note:)All such things as it has appointed for us to keep.(:note) all righteousness. Then he suffered him.

geneva@Matthew:3:16 @ And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto (note:)To John.(:note) him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:

geneva@Matthew:4:1 @ Then was (note:)Christ is tempted in all manner of ways, and still overcomes, that we also through his virtue may overcome.(:note) Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

geneva@Matthew:4:2 @ And when he had fasted (note:)A full forty days.(:note) forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

geneva@Matthew:4:5 @ Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a (note:)The battlement which encompassed the flat roof of the Temple so that no man might fall down: as was appointed by the law; (Deu_22:8).(:note) pinnacle of the temple,

geneva@Matthew:4:6 @ And said vnto him, If thou be the Sonne of God, cast thy selfe downe: for it is written, that he wil giue his Angels charge ouer thee, and with their hands they shall lift thee vp, lest at any time thou shouldest dash thy foote against a stone.

geneva@Matthew:4:13 @ And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in (note:)Which was a town a great deal more famous than Nazareth was.(:note) Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim:

geneva@Matthew:4:14 @ That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the Propet, saying,

geneva@Matthew:4:15 @ The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, [by] the way of the (note:)Of Tiberias, or because that country went toward Tyre, which borders the eastern Mediterranean Sea.(:note) sea, beyond Jordan, So called because it bordered upon Tyre and Sidon, and because Solomon gave the king of Tyre twenty cities in that quarter; (1Ki_9:11). Galilee of the Gentiles;

geneva@Matthew:4:21 @ And when he was gone forth from thence, he saw other two brethren, Iames the sonne of Zebedeus, and Iohn his brother in a ship with Zebedeus their father, mending their nets, & he called them.

geneva@Matthew:4:23 @ And (note:)Christ assures the hearts of the believers of his spiritual and saving virtue, by healing the diseases of the body.(:note) Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in Their, that is, the Galilaeans. their Synagogues, that is, the Churches of the Jews. synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the Of the Messiah. kingdom, and healing Diseases of all kinds, but not every disease: that is, as we say, some of every kind. all manner of sickness and all manner of The word properly signifies the weakness of the stomach: but here it is taken for those diseases which make those that have them faint and wear away. disease among the people.

geneva@Matthew:4:24 @ And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and (note:)The word signifies properly the stone with which gold is tried: and by a borrowed kind of speech, is applied to all kinds of examinations by torture, when as by rough dealing and torments, we draw out the truths from men who otherwise would not confess: in this place it is taken for those diseases, which put sick men to great woe.(:note) torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were Who at every full moon or the change of the moon, are troubled and diseased. lunatick, and those that had the Weak and feeble men, who have the parts of their body loosed and so weakened, that they are neither able to gather them up together, nor do with them as they wish. palsy; and he healed them.

geneva@Matthew:5:1 @ And when he sawe the multitude, he went vp into a mountaine: and when he was set, his disciples came to him.

geneva@Matthew:5:8 @ Blessed [are] the (note:)Fitly is this word «pure» joined with the heart, for as a bright and shining resemblance or image may be seen plainly in a clear and pure looking glass, even so does the face (as it were) of the everlasting God, shine forth, and clearly appear in a pure heart.(:note) pure in heart: for they shall see God.

geneva@Matthew:5:13 @ Ye (note:)The ministers of the word especially (unless they will be the most cowardly of all) must lead others both by word and deed to this greatest joy and happiness.(:note) are the salt of the Your doctrine must be very sound and good, for if it is not so, it will be not regarded and cast away as a thing unsavoury and vain. earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be What will you have to salt with? And so are fools in the Latin tongue called «saltless», as you would say, men that have no salt or savour and taste in them. salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

geneva@Matthew:5:22 @ But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be (note:)He speaks of the judgment of God, and of the difference of sins, and therefore applies his words to the form of civil judgments which were then used.(:note) in danger Of that judgment which was ruled by three men, who had the hearing and deciding of money matters, and such other small causes. of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the By that judgment which stood of 23 judges, who had the hearing and deciding of weighty affairs, as the matter of a whole tribe or of a high priest, or of a false prophet. council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of Whereas we read here «hell», it is in the text itself «Gehenna», which is one Hebrew word made out of two, and is as if to say «as the Valley of Hinnom», which the Hebrews called Topheth: it was a place where the Israelites cruelly sacrificed their children to false gods, whereupon it was taken for a place appointed to torment the reprobates in (Jer_7:31). hell The Jews used four kinds of punishments, before their government was taken away by Herod: hanging, beheading, stoning, and burning. It is burning that Christ meant, because burning was the greatest punishment; therefore by making mention of a judgment, a council, and a fire, he shows that some sins are worse than others are, but yet they are all such that we must give account for them, and will be punished for them. fire.

geneva@Matthew:5:26 @ Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast (note:)You will be dealt with in this manner, to the utmost extremity.(:note) paid the uttermost farthing.

geneva@Matthew:5:29 @ And if thy (note:)He names the right eye and the right hand, because the parts of the right side of our bodies are the chiefest, and the most ready to commit any wickedness.(:note) right eye Literally, do cause you to offend: for sins are stumbling blocks as it were, that is to say, rocks which we are cast upon. offend thee, pluck it out, and cast [it] from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not [that] thy whole body should be cast into hell.

geneva@Matthew:5:30 @ Also if thy right hand make thee to offend, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for better it is for thee that one of thy members perish, then that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

geneva@Matthew:5:42 @ Giue to him that asketh, and from him that would borowe of thee, turne not away.

geneva@Matthew:5:47 @ And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more [than others]? do not even the (note:)They that were the toll masters, and had the oversight of tributes and customs: this was a type of man that the Jews hated to death, both because they served the Romans in those offices (whose heavy bondage they could not overthrow) and also because these toll masters were for the most part given to covetousness.(:note) publicans so?

geneva@Matthew:5:48 @ Ye shall therefore be perfit, as your Father which is in heauen, is perfite.

geneva@Matthew:6:2 @ Therefore when thou doest [thine] alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the (note:)Counterfeits, for hypocrites were players that played a part in a play.(:note) hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

geneva@Matthew:6:6 @ But when thou prayest, enter into thy chamber and when thou hast shut thy doore, pray vnto thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret, shall rewarde thee openly.

geneva@Matthew:6:7 @ But when ye pray, use not (note:)Long prayers are not condemned, but vain, needless, and superstitious ones.(:note) vain repetitions, as the heathen [do]: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

geneva@Matthew:6:8 @ Be ye not like them therefore: for your Father knoweth whereof ye haue neede, before ye aske of him.

geneva@Matthew:6:10 @ Thy Kingdome come. Thy will be done euen in earth, as it is in heauen.

geneva@Matthew:6:11 @ Give us this day our (note:)That which is suitable for our nature for our daily food, or such as may suffice our nature and complexion.(:note) daily bread.

geneva@Matthew:6:12 @ And forgiue vs our dettes, as we also forgiue our detters.

geneva@Matthew:6:15 @ But if ye do not forgiue men their trespasses,, no more will your father forgiue you your trespaces.

geneva@Matthew:6:17 @ But when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face,

geneva@Matthew:6:18 @ That thou seeme not vnto men to fast, but vnto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret, will rewarde thee openly.

geneva@Matthew:6:20 @ But lay vp treasures for your selues in heauen, where neither the mothe nor canker corrupteth, & where theeues neither digge through, nor steale.

geneva@Matthew:6:21 @ For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

geneva@Matthew:6:27 @ Which of you by (note:)He speaks of care which is joined with thought of mind, and has for the most part distrust yoked with it.(:note) taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

geneva@Matthew:6:29 @ Yet I say vnto you, that euen Solomon in all his glorie was not arayed like one of these.

geneva@Matthew:6:30 @ Wherefore if God so clothe the grasse of the fielde which is to day, and to morowe is cast into the ouen, shall he not doe much more vnto you, O ye of litle faith?

geneva@Matthew:7:2 @ Eor with what iudgement ye iudge, ye shall be iudged, and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you againe.

geneva@Matthew:7:4 @ Or howe sayest thou to thy brother, Suffer me to cast out the mote out of thine eye, and beholde, a beame is in thine owne eye?

geneva@Matthew:7:5 @ Hypocrite, first cast out that beame out of thine owne eye, and then shalt thou see clearely to cast out the mote out of thy brothers eye.

geneva@Matthew:7:8 @ For whosoeuer asketh, receiueth: and he, that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

geneva@Matthew:7:9 @ For what man is there among you, which if his sonne aske him bread, woulde giue him a stone?

geneva@Matthew:7:10 @ Or if he aske fish, wil he giue him a serpent?

geneva@Matthew:7:11 @ If ye then, which are euill, can giue to your children good giftes, howe much more shall your Father which is in heauen, giue good thinges to them that aske him?

geneva@Matthew:7:14 @ Because (note:)The way is straight and narrow: we must pass through this rough way and suffer, endure, be changed and so enter into life.(:note) strait [is] the gate, and narrow [is] the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

geneva@Matthew:7:19 @ Euery tree that bringeth not forth good fruite, is hewen downe, and cast into the fire.

geneva@Matthew:7:22 @ Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy (note:)By «name» here is meant mighty working power of God, which every man witnesses that calls upon him.(:note) name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many Properly, powers: Now these excellent works which are done are called powers because of those things which they bring to pass, for by them we understand how mighty the power of God is. wonderful works?

geneva@Matthew:7:23 @ And then will I profess unto them, (note:)This is not of ignorance, but because he will cast them away.(:note) I never knew you: depart from me, You that are given to all kinds of wickedness, and seem to make an art of sin. ye that work iniquity.

geneva@Matthew:7:25 @ And the raine fell, and the floods came, and the windes blewe, and beat vpon that house, and it fell not: for it was grounded on a rocke.

geneva@Matthew:7:27 @ And the raine fell, and the floods came, and the windes blewe, and beat vpon that house, and it fell, and the fall thereof was great.

geneva@Matthew:7:28 @ And it came to passe, when Iesus had ended these wordes, the people were astonied at his doctrine.

geneva@Matthew:7:29 @ For he taught them as one hauing authoritie, and not as the Scribes.

geneva@Matthew:8:1 @ Nowe when he was come downe from the mountaine, great multitudes followed him.

geneva@Matthew:8:3 @ And Iesus putting foorth his hand, touched him, saying, I will, be thou cleane: and immediately his leprosie was clensed.

geneva@Matthew:8:6 @ And saide, Master, my seruant lieth sicke at home of the palsie, and is grieuously pained.

geneva@Matthew:8:8 @ But the Centurion answered, saying, Master, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come vnder my roofe: but speake the worde onely, and my seruant shall be healed.

geneva@Matthew:8:11 @ And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall (note:)A metaphor taken of banqueters, for they that sit down together are fellows in the banquet.(:note) sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.

geneva@Matthew:8:12 @ But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into (note:)Who are outside the kingdom: For in the kingdom is light, and outside the kingdom is darkness.(:note) outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

geneva@Matthew:8:13 @ Then Iesus saide vnto the Centurion, Goe thy way, and as thou hast beleeued, so be it vnto thee, And his seruant was healed the same houre.

geneva@Matthew:8:16 @ When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with [his] word, and healed (note:)Of all sorts.(:note) all that were sick:

geneva@Matthew:8:17 @ That it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by Esaias the Prophet, saying, He tooke our infirmities, and bare our sickenesses.

geneva@Matthew:8:18 @ Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave commandment to depart unto the (note:)For Capernaum was situated upon the lake of Tiberias.(:note) other side.

geneva@Matthew:8:24 @ And beholde, there arose a great tempest in the sea, so that the ship was couered with waues: but he was a sleepe.

geneva@Matthew:8:25 @ Then his disciples came, and awoke him, saying, Master, saue vs: we perish.

geneva@Matthew:8:26 @ And he said vnto them, Why are ye fearefull, O ye of litle faith? Then he arose, & rebuked the winds & the sea: & so there was a great calme.

geneva@Matthew:8:30 @ And there was (note:)On a hill, as Mark and Luke witness: Now Gederah, as Josephus records, book seventeen chapter thirteen, lived after the order of the Greeks and therefore we must not be surprised if there were swine there.(:note) a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding.

geneva@Matthew:8:31 @ And the deuils besought him, saying, If thou cast vs out, suffer vs to goe into the heard of swine.

geneva@Matthew:8:33 @ Then the heardmen fled: and when they were come into the citie, they tolde all things, and what was become of them that were possessed with the deuils.

geneva@Matthew:8:34 @ And, behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus: and when they saw him, they besought [him] that he would (note:)Where men live as swine, there Christ does not abide, but demons.(:note) depart out of their coasts.

geneva@Matthew:9:1 @ And he (note:)Sins are the cause of our afflictions, and Christ only forgives them if we believe.(:note) entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his Into Capernaum, for as Theophylact says, Bethlehem brought him forth, Nazareth brought him up, and Capernaum was his dwelling place. own city.

geneva@Matthew:9:3 @ And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This [man] (note:)To blaspheme, signifies among the divines, to speak wickedly: and among the more eloquent Greeks, to slander.(:note) blasphemeth.

geneva@Matthew:9:5 @ For whether is it easier to say, Thy sinnes are forgiuen thee, or to say, Arise, and walke?

geneva@Matthew:9:10 @ And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and (note:)The publicans who were placed by the Romans, after that time Judea was brought into the form of a province, to gather the taxes, and therefore by the rest of the Jews they were called sinners, that is to say, very vile men.(:note) sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.

geneva@Matthew:9:11 @ And when the Pharises sawe that, they saide to his disciples, Why eateth your master with Publicanes and sinners?

geneva@Matthew:9:15 @ And Jesus said unto them, Can the (note:)A Hebrew idiom, for they that are admitted into the marriage chamber are as the bridegroom's closest friends.(:note) children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.

geneva@Matthew:9:16 @ No man putteth a piece of (note:)Raw, which was never processed by the fuller.(:note) new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse.

geneva@Matthew:9:20 @ (And beholde, a woman which was diseased with an issue of blood twelue yeres, came behinde him, and touched the hemme of his garment.

geneva@Matthew:9:22 @ Then Iesus turned him about, and seeing her, did say, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; the woman was made whole at that same moment.)

geneva@Matthew:9:28 @ And when hee was come into the house, the blinde came to him, & Iesus saide vnto them, Beleeue yee that I am able to doe this? And they sayd vnto him, Yea, Lord.

geneva@Matthew:9:33 @ And when the deuill was cast out, the domme spake: then the multitude marueiled, saying, The like was neuer seene in Israel.

geneva@Matthew:9:34 @ But the Pharises saide, He casteth out deuils, through the prince of deuils.

geneva@Matthew:9:35 @ And Iesus went about all cities and townes, teaching in their Synagogues, and preaching the Gospel of the kingdome, and healing euery sickenesse and euery disease among the people.

geneva@Matthew:9:38 @ Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will (note:)Literally, «cast them out»: for men are very slow in a work so holy.(:note) send forth labourers into his harvest.

geneva@Matthew:10:1 @ And (note:)The apostles are sent to preach the gospel in Israel.(:note) when he had called unto [him] his twelve disciples, he gave them power [against] unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.

geneva@Matthew:10:3 @ Philippe and Bartlemewe: Thomas, and Matthewe that Publicane: Iames the sonne of Alpheus, & Lebbeus whose surname was Thaddeus:

geneva@Matthew:10:4 @ Simon the Canaanite, and Judas (note:)A man of Kerioth. Now Kerioth was in the tribe of Judah; (Jos_15:25).(:note) Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

geneva@Matthew:10:15 @ Truely I say vnto you, it shall be easier for them of the lande of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of iudgement, then for that citie.

geneva@Matthew:10:24 @ The disciple is not aboue his master, nor the seruant aboue his Lord.

geneva@Matthew:10:25 @ It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house (note:)It was the idol of the Acronites, which we call the god of flies.(:note) Beelzebub, how much more [shall they call] them of his household?

geneva@Matthew:11:1 @ And (note:)Christ shows by his works that he is the promised Messiah.(:note) it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of Of instructing them with precepts. commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in The disciples' cities, that is to say, in Galilee, where many of them were born; (Act_2:7). their cities.

geneva@Matthew:11:11 @ Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the (note:)In the new state of the Church where the true glory of God shines: the people are not compared together, but the types of doctrines, the preaching of John with the law and the prophets: and again, the most clear preaching of the gospel is compared with John's.(:note) kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

geneva@Matthew:11:14 @ And if ye will receiue it, this is that Elias, which was to come.

geneva@Matthew:11:21 @ Woe be to thee, Chorazin: Woe be to thee, Bethsaida: for if ye great workes, which were done in you, had bene done in Tyrus and Sidon, they had repented long agone in sackecloth and ashes.

geneva@Matthew:11:22 @ But I say to you, It shalbe easier for Tyrus and Sidon at the day of iudgement, then for you.

geneva@Matthew:11:24 @ But I say vnto you, that it shall be easier for them of the land of Sodom in the day of iudgement, then for thee.

geneva@Matthew:11:25 @ At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast (note:)Through the ministry of Christ, who alone shows the truth of all things pertaining to God.(:note) revealed them unto babes.

geneva@Matthew:11:28 @ Come vnto me, all ye that are wearie and laden, and I will ease you.

geneva@Matthew:11:30 @ For my yoke [is] (note:)May easily be carried. For his commandments are not grievous, for all who are born of God overcome the world; (1Jo_5:4).(:note) easy, and my burden is light.

geneva@Matthew:12:3 @ But he said vnto them, Haue ye not read what Dauid did when he was an hungred, & they that were with him?

geneva@Matthew:12:4 @ How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the (note:)The Hebrews call it «bread of faces», because it stood before the Lord all the week upon the golden table appointed for that service; (Lev_24:6).(:note) shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?

geneva@Matthew:12:10 @ And beholde, there was a man which had his hand dried vp; they asked him, saying, Is it lawfull to heale vpon a Sabbath day? That they might accuse him.

geneva@Matthew:12:13 @ Then said he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand; he stretched it foorth, and it was made whole as the other.

geneva@Matthew:12:17 @ That it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by Esaias the Prophet, saying,

geneva@Matthew:12:18 @ Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew (note:)By judgment is meant a godly kingdom, because Christ was to proclaim true religion among the Gentiles, and to cast out superstition; and wherever this is done, the Lord is said to reign and judge there, that is to say, to govern and rule matters.(:note) judgment to the Gentiles.

geneva@Matthew:12:23 @ And all the people were amased, and saide, Is not this that sonne of Dauid?

geneva@Matthew:12:24 @ But when the Pharises heard it, they saide, This man casteth the deuils no otherwise out, but through Beelzebub the prince of deuils.

geneva@Matthew:12:26 @ So if Satan cast out Satan, he is deuided against himself: how shal then his kingdom endure?

geneva@Matthew:12:27 @ Also if I through Beelzebub cast out deuils, by whom doe your children cast them out? Therefore they shall be your iudges.

geneva@Matthew:12:28 @ But if I cast out deuils by ye Spirit of God, then is the kingdome of God come vnto you.

geneva@Matthew:12:31 @ Wherefore I say vnto you, euery sinne and blasphemie shalbe forgiuen vnto men: but the blasphemie against the holy Ghost shall not be forgiuen vnto men.

geneva@Matthew:12:32 @ And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: (note:)Of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.(:note) but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the [world] to come.

geneva@Matthew:12:35 @ A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth foorth good things: & an euill man out of an euill treasure, bringeth forth euill things.

geneva@Matthew:12:39 @ But he answered and said unto them, An evil and (note:)Bastard, who fell from Abraham's faith or forsook the true worship of God.(:note) adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:

geneva@Matthew:12:40 @ For as Ionas was three daies & three nights in the whales belly: so shall the Sonne of man be three daies & three nights in ye heart of the earth.

geneva@Matthew:12:42 @ The queen of the (note:)He means the Queen of Sheba: whose country is south in respect to the land of Israel; (1Ki_10:1-13).(:note) south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the For Sheba is situated in the farthest coast of Arabia at the mouth of the Arabian Sea. uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon [is] here.

geneva@Matthew:13:4 @ And as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the foules came and deuoured them vp.

geneva@Matthew:13:6 @ And when the sunne was vp, they were parched, and for lacke of rooting, withered away.

geneva@Matthew:13:14 @ So in them is fulfilled the prophecie of Esaias, which prophecie saieth, By hearing, ye shall heare, and shall not vnderstand, and seeing, ye shal see, and shall not perceiue.

geneva@Matthew:13:19 @ When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth [it] not, then cometh the wicked [one], and catcheth away that which was sown in his (note:)Though there is mention made of the heart, yet this sowing is referred to as hearing without understanding. For whether the seed is received in the heart or not, yet he that sows, sows to the heart.(:note) heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.

geneva@Matthew:13:21 @ Yet hath he no roote in himselfe, and dureth but a season: for assoone as tribulation or persecution commeth because of the woorde, by and by he is offended.

geneva@Matthew:13:26 @ And when the blade was sprong vp, and brought forth fruite, then appeared the tares also.

geneva@Matthew:13:27 @ Then came the seruaunts of the housholder, and sayd vnto him, Master, sowedst not thou good seede in thy fielde? from whence then hath it tares?

geneva@Matthew:13:32 @ Which in deede is the least of all seedes: but when it is growen, it is the greatest among herbes, and it is a tree, so that the birdes of heauen come and builde in the branches thereof.

geneva@Matthew:13:35 @ That it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the Prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables, and will vtter the thinges which haue beene kept secrete from the foundation of the worlde.

geneva@Matthew:13:40 @ As then the tares are gathered and burned in ye fire, so shal it be in the end of this world.

geneva@Matthew:13:42 @ And shall cast them into a fornace of fire. There shalbe wailing and gnashing of teeth.

geneva@Matthew:13:43 @ Then shall the iust men shine as ye sunne in the kingdome of their Father. Hee that hath eares to heare, let him heare.

geneva@Matthew:13:48 @ Which, when it is full, men draw to lande, and sit and gather the good into vessels, and cast the bad away.

geneva@Matthew:13:50 @ And shall cast them into a fornace of fire: there shalbe wailing, and gnashing of teeth.

geneva@Matthew:13:52 @ Then sayd hee vnto them, Therefore euery Scribe which is taught vnto the kingdome of heauen, is like vnto an householder, which bringeth foorth out of his treasure things both newe and olde.

geneva@Matthew:13:53 @ And it came to passe, that when Iesus had ended these parables, he departed thence,

geneva@Matthew:13:55 @ Is not this the carpenters sonne? Is not his mother called Marie, and his brethren Iames and Ioses, and Simon and Iudas?

geneva@Matthew:14:3 @ For Herod had taken Iohn, and bounde him, and put him in prison for Herodias sake, his brother Philips wife.

geneva@Matthew:14:5 @ And when hee woulde haue put him to death, hee feared the multitude, because they counted him as a Prophet.

geneva@Matthew:14:6 @ But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased (note:)There were three Herods: the first of them was Antipater's son, who is also called Ascalonius, in whose reign Christ was born, and it was he that caused the children to be slain. The second was called Antipas, Magnus his son, whose mother's name was Malthaca or Martaca, and he was called Tetrarch, because he enlarged his dominion, when Archelaus was banished to Vienna in France. The third was Agrippa, Magnus his nephew by Aristobulus, and it was he that slew James.(:note) Herod.

geneva@Matthew:14:7 @ Wherefore he promised with an othe, that he would giue her whatsoeuer she would aske.

geneva@Matthew:14:9 @ And the King was sorie: neuerthelesse because of the othe, and them that sate with him at the table, he commanded it to be giuen her,

geneva@Matthew:14:11 @ And his head was brought in a platter, and giuen to the maide, and shee brought it vnto her mother.

geneva@Matthew:14:15 @ And when euen was come, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desart place, and the time is alreadie past: let the multitude depart, that they may goe into the townes, and bye them vitailes.

geneva@Matthew:14:19 @ And hee commanded the multitude to sit downe on the grasse, and tooke the fiue loaues and the two fishes, and looked vp to heauen and blessed, and brake, and gaue the loaues to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.

geneva@Matthew:14:20 @ And they did all eate, and were sufficed, and they tooke vp of the fragments that remained, twelue baskets full.

geneva@Matthew:14:23 @ And assoone as hee had sent the multitude away, he went vp into a moutaine alone to pray: and when the euening was come, hee was there alone.

geneva@Matthew:14:26 @ And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a (note:)A spirit, as it is taken here, is that which a man imagines to himself vainly in his mind, persuading himself that he sees something when he sees nothing.(:note) spirit; and they cried out for fear.

geneva@Matthew:14:29 @ And he saide, Come; when Peter was come downe out of the shippe, he walked on the water, to goe to Iesus.

geneva@Matthew:14:30 @ But when he sawe a mightie winde, he was afraide: and as he began to sinke, he cried, saying, Master, saue me.

geneva@Matthew:14:32 @ And assoone as they were come into the ship, the winde ceased.

geneva@Matthew:14:34 @ And when they were gone over, they came into the land of (note:)This Gennesaret was a lake near Capernaum, which is also called the Sea of Galilee or Tiberias; so the country itself grew to be called Gennesaret.(:note) Gennesaret.

geneva@Matthew:14:36 @ And besought him, that they might touch the hemme of his garment onely: and as many as touched it, were made whole.

geneva@Matthew:15:2 @ Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they (note:)Which they received handed down from their ancestors, or their elders allowed, who were the governors of the Church.(:note) wash not their hands when they eat bread.

geneva@Matthew:15:5 @ But ye say, (note:)The meaning is this: whatever I bestow upon the temple, is to your profit, for it is as good as if I gave it to you, for (as the Pharisees of our time say) it will be meritorious for you: for under this form of religion, they gathered all to themselves, as though he that had given anything to the temple, had done the duty of a child.(:note) Whosoever shall say to [his] father or [his] mother, [It is] a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;

geneva@Matthew:15:6 @ And honour not his father or his mother, [he shall be free]. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none (note:)As much as you could, you destroyed the power and authority of the commandment: for otherwise the commandments of God stand fast in the Church of God, in spite of the world and Satan.(:note) effect by your tradition.

geneva@Matthew:15:17 @ Perceiue ye not yet, that whatsoeuer entreth into the mouth, goeth into the bellie, and is cast out into the draught?

geneva@Matthew:15:20 @ These are the things, which defile the man: but to eat with vnwashen hands, defileth not ye man.

geneva@Matthew:15:21 @ Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the (note:)Coasts which were next to Tyre and Sidon, that is in that region where Palestine faces toward Venice, and the sea of Syria.(:note) coasts of Tyre and Sidon.

geneva@Matthew:15:22 @ And, behold, a woman of (note:)Of the people of the Canaanites, who dwelt in Phoenicia.(:note) Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, [thou] Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.

geneva@Matthew:15:26 @ And he answered, and said, It is not good to take the childrens bread, and to cast it to whelps.

geneva@Matthew:15:27 @ But she said, Trueth, Lord: yet in deede the whelpes eate of the crommes, which fall from their masters table.

geneva@Matthew:15:28 @ Then Iesus answered, and saide vnto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it to thee, as thou desirest; her daughter was made whole at that houre.

geneva@Matthew:15:30 @ And great multitudes came unto him, having with them [those that were] lame, blind, dumb, (note:)Whose members were weakened with paralysis, or by nature, for after it is said that he healed them. Now Christ preferred to heal in this way, that such members as were weak, he restored to health, and yet he could easily, if he had wanted, have given them hands and feet and other members which they lacked.(:note) maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them:

geneva@Matthew:15:33 @ And his disciples saide vnto him, Whence should we get so much bread in the wildernes, as should suffice so great a multitude!

geneva@Matthew:15:35 @ And he commanded the multitude to (note:)Literally, «to lie down backwards», as rowers do in rowing, when they draw their oars to themselves.(:note) sit down on the ground.

geneva@Matthew:15:37 @ And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken [meat] that was left seven (note:)A kind of container made with twigs.(:note) baskets full.

geneva@Matthew:16:1 @ The (note:)The wicked who otherwise disagree with one another, agree well together against Christ, but do what they can, Christ is victorious, and triumphs over them.(:note) Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and To see whether he could do that which they desired, but their purpose was useless for they thought to find something in him by it, in which case they might have just occasion to reprehend him: or else distrust and curiosity moved them to do so, for by such means also is God said to be tempted, that is to say, provoked to anger, as though men would strive with him. tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.

geneva@Matthew:16:3 @ And in the morning, [It will be] foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O [ye] hypocrites, ye can discern the (note:)The outward show and countenance, as it were, of all things, is called in the Hebrew language, a face.(:note) face of the sky; but can ye not [discern] the signs of the times?

geneva@Matthew:16:4 @ A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but (note:)The article shows how notable the sign is.(:note) the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.

geneva@Matthew:16:7 @ And they reasoned among themselues, saying, It is because we haue brought no bread.

geneva@Matthew:16:8 @ [Which] when Jesus (note:)Not by others, but by virtue of his divinity.(:note) perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?

geneva@Matthew:16:9 @ Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the (note:)That five thousand men were filled with so many loaves?(:note) five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?

geneva@Matthew:16:10 @ Neither the seuen loaues when there were foure thousande men, and howe many baskets tooke ye vp?

geneva@Matthew:16:14 @ And they said, Some [say that thou art] (note:)As Herod thought.(:note) John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.

geneva@Matthew:16:22 @ Then Peter (note:)Took him by the hand and led him aside, as they used to do, which meant to talk familiarly with one.(:note) took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.

geneva@Matthew:16:25 @ For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall (note:)Shall gain himself: And this is his meaning, they that deny Christ to save themselves, not only not gain that which they look for, but also lose the thing they would have kept, that is, themselves, which is the greatest loss of all: but as for them that doubt not to die for Christ, it goes well with them otherwise.(:note) find it.

geneva@Matthew:16:27 @ For the Son of man shall come (note:)Like a King, as (Mat_6:29).(:note) in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.

geneva@Matthew:16:28 @ Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his (note:)By his kingdom is understood the glory of his ascension, and what follows after that, (Eph_4:10), or the preaching of the gospel, (Mar_9:1).(:note) kingdom.

geneva@Matthew:17:1 @ And (note:)Christ in his present company is humble in the gospel, but all the while he is Lord both of heaven and earth.(:note)Luke counts eight days, containing in that number the first and last, and Matthew speaks but of the days between them. after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,

geneva@Matthew:17:2 @ And was (note:)Changed into another colour.(:note) transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.

geneva@Matthew:17:3 @ And beholde, there appeared vnto them Moses, and Elias, talking with him.

geneva@Matthew:17:4 @ Then answered Peter, and saide to Iesus, Master, it is good for vs to be here: if thou wilt, let vs make here three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.

geneva@Matthew:17:5 @ While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is (note:)The word «my» distinguishes Christ from other children. For he is God's natural son, we by adoption; therefore he is called the first begotten among the brethren, because although he is by right the only son, yet he is chief among many, in that he is the source and head of the adoption.(:note) my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.

geneva@Matthew:17:6 @ And when the disciples heard [it], they (note:)Fell down flat on their faces and worshipped him, as in (Mat_2:11).(:note) fell on their face, and were sore afraid.

geneva@Matthew:17:9 @ And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the (note:)Which they saw, otherwise the word used in this place is usually used in referring to that which is seen in a dream.(:note) vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead.

geneva@Matthew:17:10 @ And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the Scribes that Elias must first come?

geneva@Matthew:17:11 @ And Iesus answered, and saide vnto them, Certeinely Elias must first come, and restore all thinges.

geneva@Matthew:17:12 @ But I say vnto you that Elias is come alreadie, and they knewe him not, but haue done vnto him whatsoeuer they would: likewise shal also the Sonne of man suffer of them.

geneva@Matthew:17:15 @ Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is (note:)They that at certain times of the moon are troubled with the falling sickness, or any other kind of disease: but in this case, we must so understand it, that besides the natural disease he had a demonic derangement.(:note) lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.

geneva@Matthew:17:18 @ And Iesus rebuked the deuill, and he went out of him: and the childe was healed at that houre.

geneva@Matthew:17:20 @ And Iesus said vnto them, Because of your vnbeliefe: for verely I say vnto you, if ye haue faith as much as is a graine of mustarde seede, ye shall say vnto this mountaine, Remooue hence to yonder place, and it shall remoue: and nothing shalbe vnpossible vnto you.

geneva@Matthew:17:25 @ He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own (note:)By children we must not understand subjects who pay tribute, but natural children.(:note) children, or of strangers?

geneva@Matthew:17:27 @ Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a (note:)The word used here is «stater», which is in value four didrachmas; every drachma is about five pence.(:note) piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.

geneva@Matthew:18:3 @ And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be (note:)An idiom taken from the Hebrews which is equivalent to «repent».(:note) converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

geneva@Matthew:18:4 @ Whosoeuer therefore shal humble himselfe as this litle childe, the same is the greatest in the kingdome of heauen.

geneva@Matthew:18:8 @ Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot (note:){{See Mat_5:29}}(:note) offend thee, cut them off, and cast [them] from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.

geneva@Matthew:18:9 @ And if thine eye cause thee to offende, plucke it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, then hauing two eyes to be cast into hell fire.

geneva@Matthew:18:11 @ For the Sonne of man is come to saue that which was lost.

geneva@Matthew:18:12 @ How thinke ye? If a man haue an hundreth sheepe, and one of them be gone astray, doeth he not leaue ninetie & nine, & go into the mountaines, and seeke that which is gone astray?

geneva@Matthew:18:13 @ And if so be that he finde it, verely I say vnto you, he reioyceth more of that sheepe, then of the ninetie and nine which went not astray:

geneva@Matthew:18:16 @ But if he will not hear [thee, then] take with thee one or two more, that in the (note:)That is, by the word and witness; the mouth is sometimes taken for the word of speech, (Num_3:16), and also for a still witness, namely, when the matter speaks for itself, as below in (Mat_21:16).(:note) mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be Sure and certain. established.

geneva@Matthew:18:19 @ Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall (note:)This word, which is normally used of the body, is here used of the mind, for it belongs properly to poetry.(:note) agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.

geneva@Matthew:18:24 @ And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him (note:)Here is set down a very great sum of six thousand crowns, that the difference may be the greater, for there is no proportion between them.(:note) ten thousand talents.

geneva@Matthew:18:26 @ The servant therefore fell down, and (note:)This was a polite reverence which was very common in the East.(:note) worshipped him, saying, Lord, Yield not too much to your anger against me: so is God called in the Scripture, slow to anger, that is to say, gentle, and one that refrains his fierce wrath, (Psa_86:5); patient and of great mercy. have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.

geneva@Matthew:18:27 @ Then that seruants Lord had compassion, and loosed him, and forgaue him the dette.

geneva@Matthew:18:28 @ But when the seruant was departed, hee found one of his felow seruants, which ought him an hundred pence, & he layde hands on him, and thratled him, saying, Pay me that thou owest.

geneva@Matthew:18:30 @ Yet he would not, but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the dette.

geneva@Matthew:18:31 @ And when his other felowe seruants sawe what was done, they were very sory, & came, and declared vnto their Lord all that was done.

geneva@Matthew:18:33 @ Oughtest not thou also to haue had pitie on thy fellowe seruant, euen as I had pitie on thee?

geneva@Matthew:18:34 @ So his Lord was wroth, and deliuered him to the tormentours, till he should pay all that was due to him.

geneva@Matthew:18:35 @ So likewise shall mine heauenly Father doe vnto you, except ye forgiue from your hearts, eche one to his brother their trespasses.

geneva@Matthew:19:1 @ And it came to pass, [that] when Jesus had finished these sayings, he (note:)Passed over the water out of Galilee into the borders of Judea.(:note) departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judaea beyond Jordan;

geneva@Matthew:19:5 @ And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall (note:)The Greek word conveys «to be glued unto», by which it signifies the union by marriage, which is between man and wife, as though they were glued together.(:note) cleave to his wife: and they They who were two become one as it were: and this word «flesh» is figuratively taken for the whole man, or the body, after the manner of the Hebrews. twain shall be one flesh?

geneva@Matthew:19:6 @ Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath (note:)Has made them yokefellows, as the marriage itself is called a yoke, by a borrowed kind of speech.(:note) joined together, let not man put asunder.

geneva@Matthew:19:8 @ He saith unto them, Moses (note:)Being brought about because of the hardness of your hearts.(:note) because of the hardness of your hearts By a political law, not by the moral law: for the moral law is a perpetual law of God's justice; the other bows and bends as the carpenter's bevel. suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

geneva@Matthew:19:10 @ His disciples say unto him, If the (note:)If the matter stands in this way between man and wife, or in marriage.(:note) case of the man be so with [his] wife, it is not good to marry.

geneva@Matthew:19:12 @ For there are some (note:)A man can become a eunuch in one of two ways: the first is by castration or emasculation, and the other by natural causes, such as a rupture.(:note) eunuchs, which were so born from [their] mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have Who abstain from marriage, and live as celibates through the gift of God. made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive [it], let him receive [it].

geneva@Matthew:19:19 @ Honour thy father and mother: and thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe.

geneva@Matthew:19:21 @ Jesus said unto him, If (note:)The young man did not answer truly in saying that he had kept all the commandments: and therefore Christ sets forth an example of true charity before him, to show the disease that lay lurking in his mind.(:note) thou wilt be perfect, go [and] sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come [and] follow me.

geneva@Matthew:19:24 @ And again I say unto you, It is (note:)Literally, «it is of less labour».(:note) easier for a Theophylact notes, that by this word is meant a cable rope, but Caninius alleges out of the Talmuds that it is a proverb, and the word «Camel» signifies the beast itself. camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

geneva@Matthew:19:25 @ And whe his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amased, saying, Who then can be saued?

geneva@Matthew:19:29 @ And whosoeuer shal forsake houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my Names sake, he shall receiue an hundreth folde more, and shall inherite euerlasting life.

geneva@Matthew:20:6 @ And about the (note:)The last hour: for the day was twelve hours long, and the first hour began at sunrise.(:note) eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

geneva@Matthew:20:8 @ And when euen was come, the master of the vineyard sayd vnto his steward, Call the labourers, and giue them their hire, beginning at the last, till thou come to the first.

geneva@Matthew:20:11 @ And when they had receiued it, they murmured against the master of the house,

geneva@Matthew:20:12 @ Saying, These last haue wrought but one houre, and thou hast made them equall vnto vs, which haue borne the burden & heate of the day.

geneva@Matthew:20:14 @ Take that which is thine owne, and go thy way: I will giue vnto this last, as much as to thee.

geneva@Matthew:20:15 @ Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye (note:)Naught, that is to say, do you envy at my goodness towards them? For by an «evil eye» the Hebrews mean «envy», because such dispositions appear chiefly in the eyes, as above in (Mat_6:23). It is set in opposition to the word «single», and it is taken there for corrupt: for whereas he said before in verse 22, «If thine eye be single», he adds in verse 23, «but if thine eye by wicked», or «corrupt», the word being the same in that place as it is here. (Mat_6:22-23)(:note) evil, because I am good?

geneva@Matthew:20:16 @ So the last shalbe first, and the first last: for many are called, but fewe chosen.

geneva@Matthew:20:22 @ But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to (note:)«Taking the cup» is figurative speech for that which is contained in the cup. And again, the Hebrews understand by the word «cup», sometimes the manner of punishment which is rendered to sin, as (Psa_11:6), or the joy that is given to the faithful, as (Psa_23:5), and sometimes a lot or condition, as (Psa_16:5).(:note) drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the This is in reference to afflictions, as David commonly uses. baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.

geneva@Matthew:20:23 @ And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is (note:)The almightiness of Christ's divinity is not shut out by this, but it shows the debasing of himself by taking man's nature upon him.(:note) not mine to give, but [it shall be given to them] for whom it is prepared of my Father.

geneva@Matthew:20:28 @ Euen as the Sonne of man came not to be serued, but to serue, and to giue his life for the ransome of many.

geneva@Matthew:20:30 @ And beholde, two blinde men, sitting by the way side, when they heard that Iesus passed by, cryed, saying, O Lorde, the Sonne of Dauid, haue mercie on vs.

geneva@Matthew:20:34 @ And Iesus mooued with compassion, touched their eyes, & immediatly their eyes receiued sight, and they followed him.

geneva@Matthew:21:1 @ And (note:)Christ by his humility, triumphing over the pride of this world, ascends to true glory by the shame of the cross.(:note) when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples,

geneva@Matthew:21:2 @ Saying to them, Goe into the towne that is ouer against you, and anon yee shall finde an asse bounde, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them vnto me.

geneva@Matthew:21:3 @ And if any [man] say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway (note:)He that will say anything to you will let them go, that is, the ass and the colt.(:note) he will send them.

geneva@Matthew:21:4 @ All this was done that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the Prophet, saying,

geneva@Matthew:21:5 @ Tell ye the (note:)The city of Sion. This is a Hebrew idiom, common in the Lamentations of Jeremiah.(:note) daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.

geneva@Matthew:21:6 @ So the disciples went, and did as Iesus had commaunded them,

geneva@Matthew:21:7 @ And brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their (note:)Their uppermost garment.(:note) clothes, and they set [him] Upon their garments, not upon the ass and the colt. thereon.

geneva@Matthew:21:9 @ And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, (note:)This was an ancient kind of cry, which they voiced in the feast of Tabernacles, when they carried boughs according as God commanded; (Lev_23:40). And the word is corruptly made of two, for we should say, «Hoshiang-na», which is as much as to say, «Save I pray thee».(:note) Hosanna to the Son of David: Well is it to him that comes in the Name of the Lord, that is to say, whom the Lord has given us for our King. Blessed [is] he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.

geneva@Matthew:21:10 @ And when he was come into Jerusalem, (note:)That is, all the men of Jerusalem were moved.(:note) all the city was moved, saying, Who is this?

geneva@Matthew:21:12 @ And Iesus went into the Temple of God, and cast out all them that solde and bought in the Temple, and ouerthrew the tables of the money chagers, & the seates of them that sold doues,

geneva@Matthew:21:16 @ And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast (note:)You have made most perfect. We read in David, «Thou hast established» or «grounded», and if the matter is considered well, the evangelist says here the same thing, for that which is most perfect is stable and sure.(:note) perfected praise?

geneva@Matthew:21:22 @ And whatsoeuer ye shall aske in prayer, if ye beleeue, ye shall receiue it.

geneva@Matthew:21:24 @ And Jesus answered and said unto them, I also will ask you (note:)One thing, that is to say, I will ask you one thing first before I answer your questions.(:note) one thing, which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you by what authority I do these things.

geneva@Matthew:21:25 @ The (note:)The preaching of John is called by the figure «baptism» because he preached the baptism of repentance, etc.; (Mar_1:4; Act_19:3).(:note) baptism of John, whence was it? from From God, and so it is plainly seen how these are set one against another. heaven, or of men? And they Beat their heads about it, and mused, or laid their heads together. reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say unto us, Why did ye not then believe him?

geneva@Matthew:21:26 @ And if we say, Of men, we feare the multitude, for all holde Iohn as a Prophet.

geneva@Matthew:21:31 @ Whether of them twain did the will of [his] father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots (note:)They hurry to the kingdom of God and you go slowly, so that you should at least have followed their example. Mark then that this word, «go into», is improperly taken in this place because none of them followed Christ.(:note) go into the kingdom of God before you.

geneva@Matthew:21:37 @ But last of all he sent vnto them his owne sonne, saying, They will reuerence my sonne.

geneva@Matthew:21:38 @ But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us (note:)Literally, «let us hold it fast».(:note) seize on his inheritance.

geneva@Matthew:21:39 @ So they tooke him, and cast him out of the vineyarde, and slewe him.

geneva@Matthew:21:41 @ They say unto him, He will (note:)A kind of proverb, showing what punishment the wicked are worthy of.(:note) miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out [his] vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.

geneva@Matthew:21:42 @ Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the (note:)Master builders, who are chief builders of the house, that is of the Church.(:note) builders rejected, the same is Began to be. become the The chiefest stone in the corner is called the head of the corner: which bears up the couplings or joints of the whole building. head of the corner: That matter (in that the stone which was cast away is made the head) is the Lord's doing which we behold and greatly marvel at. this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?

geneva@Matthew:21:44 @ And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will (note:)As chaff used to be scattered with the wind, for he uses a word which properly signifies separating the chaff from the corn with winnowing, and to scatter it abroad.(:note) grind him to powder.

geneva@Matthew:22:1 @ And (note:)Not all of the whole company of those that are called by the voice of the gospel are the true Church before God: for the most part of them would rather follow the conveniences of this life: and some persecute very cruelly those that call them: but they are the true Church who obey when they are called, such as for the most part are those whom the world despises.(:note) Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,

geneva@Matthew:22:4 @ Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and [my] fatlings [are] (note:)The word used here is commonly used in sacrifices, and is by translation used for other feasts also: For feasts and banquets usually began with sacrifices.(:note) killed, and all things [are] ready: come unto the marriage.

geneva@Matthew:22:8 @ Then saith he to his servants, The (note:)The marriage feast.(:note) wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.

geneva@Matthew:22:10 @ So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both (note:)The general calling offers the gospel to all men: but those who enter in have their life examined.(:note) bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.

geneva@Matthew:22:12 @ And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was (note:)Literally, «haltered», that is to say, he held his peace, as though he had a bridle or a halter around his neck.(:note) speechless.

geneva@Matthew:22:13 @ Then said the king to the (note:)To those that served the guests.(:note) servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast [him] into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

geneva@Matthew:22:16 @ And they sent out unto him their disciples with the (note:)Those who with Herod made a new religion, composed of both heathen and Jewish religion.(:note) Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God Truly and sincerely. in truth, neither carest thou for any [man]: for thou regardest not the You are not moved with any appearance and outward show. person of men.

geneva@Matthew:22:19 @ Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a (note:)Before (Mat_17:24) there is mention made of a didrachma, and here of a penny, whereas a didrachma is more by the seventh part then a penny: so that there seems to be an inconsistency in these two places: but they may easily be reconciled in this way: The penny was paid to the Romans for tribute, according to the proportion they were rated at, and the drachma was payed by everyone to the Temple, which also the Romans took to themselves when they had subdued India.(:note) penny.

geneva@Matthew:22:24 @ Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no (note:)Daughters are also included by this word «children», but even though they were part of his family and bore his name, the man who had only daughters was in the same position as the man who had no children at all; this is because daughters were not at this time able to carry on the family name. Therefore, by «children» here, we should understand it to be referring to «sons».(:note) children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

geneva@Matthew:22:25 @ Nowe there were with vs seuen brethren, and the first maried a wife, and deceased: and hauing none yssue, left his wife vnto his brother.

geneva@Matthew:22:27 @ And last of all the woman died also.

geneva@Matthew:22:30 @ For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the (note:)He does not say that they will be without bodies, for then they would not be men any more; but, they will be as angels, for they will neither marry nor be married.(:note) angels of God in heaven.

geneva@Matthew:22:33 @ And when the multitude heard it, they were astonied at his doctrine.

geneva@Matthew:22:35 @ Then (note:)A scribe, so it says in (Mar_12:28). To understand what a scribe is, {{See Mat_2:4}}(:note) one of them, [which was] a lawyer, asked [him a question], tempting him, and saying,

geneva@Matthew:22:36 @ Master, which is ye great commaundement in the Lawe?

geneva@Matthew:22:39 @ And the second [is] like unto it, Thou shalt love thy (note:)Another man.(:note) neighbour as thyself.

geneva@Matthew:22:46 @ And none could answere him a worde, neither durst any from that day foorth aske him any moe questions.

geneva@Matthew:23:6 @ And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the (note:)When assemblies and councils are gathered together.(:note) synagogues,

geneva@Matthew:23:7 @ And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, (note:)This word «Rabbi» signifies one that is above his fellows, and is as good as any of them: and we may see by the repeating of it how proud a title it was. Now they were called Rabbi who, by the laying on of hands, were uttered and declared to the world to be wise men.(:note) Rabbi.

geneva@Matthew:23:10 @ Neither be ye called (note:)It seems that the scribes hunted very greatly after such titles, these scribes being the ones whom he called blind guides in (Mat_23:16).(:note) masters: for one is your Master, [even] Christ.

geneva@Matthew:23:12 @ And whosoever (note:)He seems to allude to the position of the rabbis, for rabbi signifies one that is in a high position.(:note) shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

geneva@Matthew:23:15 @ Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and (note:)The dry part: now that part of the earth is called dry which the Lord has given to us to live upon.(:note) land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

geneva@Matthew:24:3 @ And as he sate vpon the mount of Oliues, his disciples came vnto him apart, saying, Tell vs when these things shall be, and what signe shalbe of thy coming, and of the ende of the world.

geneva@Matthew:24:6 @ And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all [these things] must come to pass, but the (note:)That is, when those things are fulfilled, yet the end will not come.(:note) end is not yet.

geneva@Matthew:24:12 @ And because iniquitie shalbe increased, the loue of many shalbe colde.

geneva@Matthew:24:20 @ But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the (note:)It was not lawful to take a journey on the sabbath day; Josephus, book 13.(:note) sabbath day:

geneva@Matthew:24:21 @ For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the worlde to this time, nor shalbe.

geneva@Matthew:24:22 @ And except (note:)Those things which befell the people of the Jews in the thirty-four years, when the whole land was wasted, and at length the city of Jerusalem was taken, and both it and their temple destroyed, are mixed with those things which will come to pass before the last coming of the Lord.(:note) those days should be shortened, there should no The whole nation would utterly be destroyed: and this word «flesh» is a figurative word for «man», as the Hebrews used to say. flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

geneva@Matthew:24:27 @ For as the lightning commeth out of the East, and is seene into the West, so shall also the coming of the Sonne of man be.

geneva@Matthew:24:30 @ And then shall appear the (note:)The exceeding glory and majesty, which will bear witness that Christ the Lord of heaven and earth draws near to judge the world.(:note) sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the All nations, and he alludes to the dispersion which we read of in (Genesis 10-11), or to the dividing of the people of Israel. tribes of the earth They will be in such sorrow, that they will strike themselves: and it is transferred to the mourning. mourn, and they shall see the Son of man Sitting upon the clouds, as he was taken up into heaven. coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

geneva@Matthew:24:34 @ Verily I say unto you, This (note:)This age: the word «generation» or «age» is here being used for the men of this age.(:note) generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

geneva@Matthew:24:37 @ But as the dayes of Noe were, so likewise shall the coming of the Sonne of man be.

geneva@Matthew:24:38 @ For as in the days that were before the flood they were (note:)The word which the evangelist uses expresses the matter more fully then ours does: for it is a word which is used of brute beasts: and his meaning is that in those days men will pay attention to their appetites just like brute beasts: for otherwise there is nothing wrong with eating and drinking.(:note) eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

geneva@Matthew:24:45 @ Who then is a faithfull seruaunt and wise, whom his master hath made ruler ouer his household, to giue them meate in season?

geneva@Matthew:24:46 @ Blessed is that seruant, whom his master when he commeth, shall finde so doing.

geneva@Matthew:24:48 @ But if that euil seruant shal say in his heart, My master doth deferre his comming,

geneva@Matthew:24:50 @ That seruaunts master will come in a day, when he looketh not for him, and in an houre that he is not ware of,

geneva@Matthew:24:51 @ And shall (note:)That is, from the rest, or will cut him into two pieces, which was a most cruel kind of punishment: with which, as Justin Martyr witnesses, Isaiah the Prophet was executed by the Jews: the same kind of punishment we read of in (1Sa_15:33) and (Dan_3:29).(:note) cut him asunder, and appoint [him] his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

geneva@Matthew:25:1 @ Then (note:)We must desire strength from God's hand which may serve us as a torch while we walk through this darkness, to bring us to our desired end: otherwise, if we become slothful and negligent because we are weary of our pains and travail, we shall be kept from entering the doors.(:note) shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and The pomp of weddings was usually preferred to be done at night, and that by young unmarried women. went forth to meet the bridegroom.

geneva@Matthew:25:6 @ And at midnight there was a crie made, Behold, the bridegrome commeth: goe out to meete him.

geneva@Matthew:25:10 @ And while they went to bye, the bridegrome came: and they that were readie, went in with him to the wedding, and the gate was shut.

geneva@Matthew:25:15 @ And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several (note:)According to the wisdom and skill in dealing which was given to them.(:note) ability; and straightway took his journey.

geneva@Matthew:25:18 @ But he that receiued that one, went & digged it in the earth, and hid his masters money.

geneva@Matthew:25:19 @ But after a long season, the master of those seruants came, and reckoned with them.

geneva@Matthew:25:20 @ Then came he that had receiued fiue talents, and brought other fiue talents, saying, Master, thou deliueredst vnto me fiue talents: behold, I haue gained with them other fiue talents.

geneva@Matthew:25:21 @ His lord said unto him, Well done, [thou] good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: (note:)Come and receive the fruit of my goodness: now the Lord's joy is doubled; see (Joh_15:11): that my joy may remain in you, and your joy be fulfilled.(:note) enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

geneva@Matthew:25:22 @ Also he that had receiued two talents, came, and said, Master, thou deliueredst vnto me two talents: behold, I haue gained two other talets more.

geneva@Matthew:25:23 @ His master saide vnto him, It is well done good seruant, and faithfull, Thou hast bene faithfull in litle, I will make thee ruler ouer much: enter into thy masters ioy.

geneva@Matthew:25:24 @ Then he which had receiued the one talent, came, & said, Master, I knewe that thou wast an hard man, which reapest where thou sowedst not, and gatherest where thou strawedst not:

geneva@Matthew:25:25 @ I was therefore afraide, and went, & hid thy talent in the earth: behold, thou hast thine owne.

geneva@Matthew:25:26 @ And his master answered, & said vnto him, Thou euill seruant, and slouthfull, thou knewest that I reape where I sowed not, and gather where I strawed not.

geneva@Matthew:25:27 @ Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the (note:)Bankers who have their shops or tables set up abroad, where they lend money at interest. Usury or loaning money at interest is strictly forbidden by the Bible, (Exo_22:25-27; Deu_23:19-20). Even a rate as low as one per cent interest was disallowed, (Neh_5:11). This servant had already told two lies. First he said the master was an austere or harsh man. This is a lie for the Lord is merciful and gracious. Next he called his master a thief because he reaped where he did not sow. Finally the master said to him sarcastically why did you not add insult to injury and loan the money out at interest so you could call your master a «usurer» too! If the servant had done this, his master would have been responsible for his servant's actions and guilty of usury.(:note) exchangers, and [then] at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.

geneva@Matthew:25:30 @ Cast therefore that vnprofitable seruant into vtter darkenes: there shalbe weeping and gnasshing of teeth.

geneva@Matthew:25:32 @ And before him shalbe gathered all nations, & he shal seperate them one from another, as a shepheard separateth the sheepe from ye goates.

geneva@Matthew:25:34 @ Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye (note:)Blessed and happy, upon whom my Father has most abundantly bestowed his benefits.(:note) blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

geneva@Matthew:25:35 @ For I was an hungred, and ye gaue me meate: I thirsted, and ye gaue me drinke: I was a stranger, and ye tooke me in vnto you.

geneva@Matthew:25:36 @ I was naked, & ye clothed me: I was sicke, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came vnto me.

geneva@Matthew:25:40 @ And the King shall answere, and say vnto them, Verely I say vnto you, in as much as ye haue done it vnto one of the least of these my brethre, ye haue done it to me.

geneva@Matthew:25:41 @ Then shal he say vnto them on ye left hand, Depart from me ye cursed, into euerlasting fire, which is prepared for the deuill and his angels.

geneva@Matthew:25:42 @ For I was an hungred, and ye gaue me no meate: I thirsted, and ye gaue me no drinke:

geneva@Matthew:25:43 @ I was a stranger, & ye tooke me not in vnto you: I was naked, & ye clothed me not: sicke, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

geneva@Matthew:25:45 @ Then shall he answere them, and say, Verely I say vnto you, in as much as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

geneva@Matthew:25:46 @ And these shall goe into euerlasting paine, and the righteous into life eternall.

geneva@Matthew:26:1 @ And (note:)Christ witnesses by his going to death voluntarily, that he will make full satisfaction for the sin of Adam by his obedience.(:note) it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples,

geneva@Matthew:26:3 @ Then assembled together the chiefe Priests, and the Scribes, and the Elders of ye people into the hall of the high Priest called Caiaphas:

geneva@Matthew:26:5 @ But they said, Not on the (note:)By the word «feast» is meant the whole feast of unleavened bread: the first and eighth day of which were so holy that they were not allowed to do any work on it, though the whole company of the Sanhedrin determined otherwise: And yet it came to pass through God's providence, that Christ suffered at that time, so that all the people of Israel might be witnesses of his everlasting sacrifice.(:note) feast [day], lest there be an uproar among the people.

geneva@Matthew:26:8 @ But when his (note:)This is a figure of speech called synecdoche: for it is said that only Judas was moved at this; (Joh_12:4).(:note) disciples saw [it], they had indignation, saying, To what purpose [is] this Unprofitable spending. waste?

geneva@Matthew:26:14 @ Then one of the twelue, called Iudas Iscariot, went vnto the chiefe Priestes,

geneva@Matthew:26:18 @ And he said, Goe yee into the citie to such a man, and say to him, The master saieth, My time is at hande: I will keepe the Passeouer at thine house with my disciples.

geneva@Matthew:26:19 @ And the disciples did as Iesus had giuen them charge, and made readie the Passeouer.

geneva@Matthew:26:20 @ Now when the even was come, he (note:)Because the Law appointed them to be wearing footwear, and to have their staffs in their hands, as though they were is haste, therefore it is to be gathered that they did not sit down when they ate the Passover, but stood, for normally when they went to eat they took off their shoes: therefore he speaks here in this place, not of the Passover, but of the supper which was celebrated after the Passover was solemnly done.(:note) sat down with the twelve.

geneva@Matthew:26:21 @ And as they did eate, he sayde, Verely I say vnto you, that one of you shall betraie me.

geneva@Matthew:26:22 @ And they were exceeding sorowfull, and began euery one of them to say vnto him, Is it I, Master?

geneva@Matthew:26:23 @ And he answered and said, He that (note:)That is to say, he whom I invited to come to my table, alluding in this to (Psa_41:9), which is not to be understood as though just as the Lord spoke these words Judas had his hand in the dish (for that would have been an undoubted sign) but it refers to his tabling and eating with him.(:note) dippeth [his] hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me.

geneva@Matthew:26:24 @ Surely the Sonne of man goeth his way, as it is written of him: but woe be to that man, by whom the Sonne of man is betrayed: it had bene good for that man, if hee had neuer bene borne.

geneva@Matthew:26:25 @ Then Judas, (note:)Who was thinking of nothing else but to betray him.(:note) which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is it I? He said unto him, Thou hast said.

geneva@Matthew:26:30 @ And when they had sung (note:)When they had made an end of their solemn singing, which some think was six Psalms, (Psa_112:1; Psa_117:2).(:note) an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.

geneva@Matthew:26:35 @ Peter saide vnto him, Though I should die with thee, I will in no case denie thee. Likewise also sayd all the disciples.

geneva@Matthew:26:37 @ And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and (note:)The word which he uses signifies great sorrow, and tremendous and deadly grief: this thing, as it indicates man's true nature, which shuns death as a thing that entered in against nature, shows that though Christ was void of sin, yet he sustained this horrible punishment, because he felt the wrath of God kindled against us for sins, which he revenged and punished in his person.(:note) very heavy.

geneva@Matthew:26:39 @ And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, (note:)Let it pass me, and not touch me.(:note) let this That is, which is at hand, and is offered and prepared for me: an idiom which the Hebrews use for the wrath of God, and the punishment he sends. {{See Mat_20:22}}. cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou [wilt].

geneva@Matthew:26:42 @ Againe he went away the second time, and praied, saying, O my Father, if this cuppe can not passe away from mee, but that I must drinke it, thy will be done.

geneva@Matthew:26:47 @ And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, (note:)Sent from the high Priests.(:note) from the chief priests and elders of the people.

geneva@Matthew:26:49 @ And forthwith he came to Iesus, and sayd, God saue thee, Master, and kissed him.

geneva@Matthew:26:55 @ The same houre sayde Iesus to the multitude, Ye be come out as it were against a thiefe, with swordes and staues to take mee: I sate daily teaching in the Temple among you, and yee tooke me not.

geneva@Matthew:26:56 @ But all this was done, that the Scriptures of the Prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsooke him, and fled.

geneva@Matthew:26:58 @ But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest's (note:)The word used here properly denotes an open large room in the front of a house, as we see in kings' palaces and noblemen's houses: we call it a court, for it is open to the air, and by the use of synecdoche, is understood to mean the house itself.(:note) palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end.

geneva@Matthew:26:60 @ But they founde none, and though many false witnesses came, yet founde they none: but at the last came two false witnesses,

geneva@Matthew:26:62 @ And the high priest arose, and said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? (note:)How does it come to pass that these men witness against thee?(:note) what [is it which] these witness against thee?

geneva@Matthew:26:64 @ Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, (note:)This word distinguishes his first coming from the latter.(:note) Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting Sitting with God in like and equal honour at the right hand of his power, that is, in greatest power: for the right hand signifies among the Hebrews that which is mighty and of great power. on the right hand of power, and coming in the Clouds of heaven; see above in (Mat_24:30). clouds of heaven.

geneva@Matthew:26:65 @ Then the high priest (note:)This was a peculiar custom among the Jews: for so were they bound to do when they heard any Israelite blaspheme God, and it was a tradition of their talmud in the book of the magistrates, in the title, of the four kinds of death.(:note) rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.

geneva@Matthew:26:71 @ And when hee went out into the porche, another maide sawe him, and sayde vnto them that were there, This man was also with Iesus of Nazareth.

geneva@Matthew:27:1 @ Vvhen the morning was come, all the chiefe Priests, and the elders of the people tooke counsell against Iesus, to put him to death,

geneva@Matthew:27:5 @ And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and (note:)Out of the sight of men.(:note) departed, and went and hanged himself.

geneva@Matthew:27:6 @ And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the (note:)The treasury of the temple.(:note) treasury, because it is the price Of life and death. of blood.

geneva@Matthew:27:9 @ Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by (note:)As this prophecy is found in (Zec_11:12) it cannot be denied that Jeremy's name slipped into the text either through the fault of the Scribe, or by someone else's ignorance: it may also be that it came out of the margin by means of the abbreviation on one of the letters, the one being «yod» and the other being «zayin», which are very similar: But in the Syrian text the Prophet's name is not written down at all.(:note) Jeremy the prophet, saying, The evangelist does not follow the prophet's words, but instead he follows the prophet's meaning, which he shows to have been fulfilled. And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value;

geneva@Matthew:27:10 @ And they gaue them for the potters fielde, as the Lord appointed me.)

geneva@Matthew:27:12 @ And when he was accused of the chiefe Priestes, and Elders, he answered nothing.

geneva@Matthew:27:16 @ And they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.

geneva@Matthew:27:17 @ When they were then gathered together, Pilate said vnto the, Whether will ye that I let loose vnto you Barabbas, or Iesus which is called Christ?

geneva@Matthew:27:19 @ Also when he was set downe vpon the iudgement seate, his wife sent to him, saying, Haue thou nothing to do with that iust man: for I haue suffered many things this day in a dreame by reason of him.)

geneva@Matthew:27:20 @ But the chiefe Priestes and the Elders had persuaded the people that they shoulde aske Barabbas, and should destroy Iesus.

geneva@Matthew:27:21 @ Then the gouernour answered, and said vnto them, Whether of the twaine will ye that I let loose vnto you? And they said, Barabbas.

geneva@Matthew:27:26 @ Thus let he Barabbas loose vnto them, and scourged Iesus, and deliuered him to be crucified.

geneva@Matthew:27:32 @ And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they (note:)They compelled Simon to bear his burdensome cross, by which it appears that Jesus was so poorly handled before that he fainted along the way, and was not able to bear his cross the whole distance: for John writes that he did bear the cross, that is, at the beginning.(:note) compelled to bear his cross.

geneva@Matthew:27:44 @ The (note:)This is spoken using the figure of speech called synecdoche, for only one of the thieves reviled him.(:note) thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.

geneva@Matthew:27:46 @ And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou (note:)That is, in this misery: And this crying out is a natural part of his humanity, which, even though it was void of sin, still felt the wrath of God, the wrath which is due to our sins.(:note) forsaken me?

geneva@Matthew:27:47 @ Some of them that stood there, when they heard [that], said, This [man] calleth for (note:)They allude to Elias' name, not because they did not understand what he said, but because of a profane impudence and disrespect, and he repeated those words so that this repetition of the name might be understood.(:note) Elias.

geneva@Matthew:27:49 @ Other said, Let be: let vs see, if Elias wil come and saue him.

geneva@Matthew:27:52 @ And the (note:)That is to say, the stones broke apart, and the graves opened themselves to show by this act that death was overcome: and the resurrection of the dead followed the resurrection of Christ, as the next verse indicates (Mat_27:53).(:note) graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,

geneva@Matthew:27:54 @ When the Centurion, and they that were with him watching Iesus, saw the earthquake, and the thinges that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truely this was the Sonne of God.

geneva@Matthew:27:56 @ Among whom was Marie Magdalene, and Marie the mother of Iames, & Ioses, and the mother of Zebedeus sonnes.

geneva@Matthew:27:58 @ He went to Pilate, & asked ye body of Iesus. Then Pilate commanded ye body to be deliuered.

geneva@Matthew:27:61 @ And there was Marie Magdalene, and the other Marie sitting ouer against the sepulchre.

geneva@Matthew:27:63 @ And said, Syr, we remember that that deceiuer saide, while he was yet aliue, Within three dayes I will rise.

geneva@Matthew:27:64 @ Command therefore, that the sepulchre be made sure vntill the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steale him away, and say vnto the people, He is risen from the dead: so shall the last errour be worse then the first.

geneva@Matthew:27:65 @ Pilate said unto them, Ye have a (note:)The soldiers of the garrison who were appointed to guard the temple.(:note) watch: go your way, make [it] as sure as ye can.

geneva@Matthew:28:1 @ In (note:)Christ, having routed death in the tomb, rises by his own power, as the angel immediately witnesses.(:note) the At the going out of the sabbath, that is, about daybreak after the Roman manner of telling time, which considers the natural day to be from the rising of the sun to the next sunrise: and not as the Hebrews, which count from evening to evening. end of the sabbath, as it When the morning of the first day after the sabbath began to dawn: and that first day is the same as that which we now call Sunday, or the Lord's day. began to dawn toward the first [day] of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.

geneva@Matthew:28:2 @ And behold, there was a great earthquake: for the Angel of the Lorde descended from heauen, and came and rolled backe the stone from the doore, and sate vpon it.

geneva@Matthew:28:3 @ His (note:)The beams of his eyes, and by the figure of speech called synecdoche, this is understood as the countenance.(:note) countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:

geneva@Matthew:28:4 @ And for feare of him, the keepers were astonied, and became as dead men.

geneva@Matthew:28:5 @ And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not (note:)The word «ye» is spoken with force to indicate that it was the women to whom he was speaking, as the soldiers were also afraid.(:note) ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.

geneva@Matthew:28:6 @ He is not here, for he is risen; as he saide: come, see the place where the Lord was laid,

geneva@Matthew:28:14 @ And if this (note:)For it was to be feared that it would be brought to the governor's ears.(:note) come to the governor's ears, we will persuade him, and secure you.

geneva@Matthew:28:15 @ So they tooke the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is noysed among the Iewes vnto this day.

geneva@Mark:1:6 @ Nowe Iohn was clothed with camels heare, and with a girdle of a skinne about his loynes: and he did eate Locusts and wilde hony,

geneva@Mark:1:11 @ And there came a voice from heaven, [saying], Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am (note:){{See Mat_3:17}}(:note) well pleased.

geneva@Mark:1:13 @ And he was there in the wildernesse fourtie daies, and was tempted of Satan: hee was also with the wilde beastes, and the Angels ministred vnto him.

geneva@Mark:1:22 @ And they were astonied at his doctrine, for he taught them as one that had authoritie, and not as the Scribes.

geneva@Mark:1:24 @ Saying, Let [us] alone; what have we to do with thee, thou (note:)He was born in Bethlehem, but through the error of the people he was called a Nazarene, because he was brought up in Nazareth.(:note) Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the He alludes to the name that was written in the golden plate which the high Priest wore; (Exo_28:36) Holy One of God.

geneva@Mark:1:27 @ And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned (note:)As men who were amazed.(:note) among themselves, saying, What thing is this? what new doctrine [is] this? for with authority By his own authority, or as a lord. commandeth he even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him.

geneva@Mark:1:32 @ And whe euen was come, at what time the sunne setteth, they brought to him all that were diseased, & them that were possessed with deuils.

geneva@Mark:1:33 @ And the whole citie was gathered together at the doore.

geneva@Mark:1:34 @ And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases, and cast out many devils; and (note:)For it is not proper for the demons to preach the gospel; (Act_16:18)(:note) suffered not the devils to speak, because they knew him.

geneva@Mark:1:39 @ And hee preached in their Synagogues, throughout all Galile, and cast the deuils out.

geneva@Mark:1:41 @ And Iesus had compassion, and put foorth his hand, and touched him, and said to him, I wil: be thou cleane.

geneva@Mark:1:42 @ And assone as he had spoken, immediatly ye leprosie departed fro him, & he was made cleane.

geneva@Mark:1:45 @ But when he was departed, hee began to tel many things, and to publish the matter: so that Iesus could no more openly enter into the citie, but was without in desert places: and they came to him from euery quarter.

geneva@Mark:2:1 @ And (note:)By healing this man who was sick from paralysis Christ shows that men recover all their lost strength in him through faith alone.(:note) again he entered into Capernaum after [some] days; and it was noised that he was in the In the house where he used to remain: for he chose Capernaum to dwell in and left Nazareth. house.

geneva@Mark:2:2 @ And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive [them], no, not so much as (note:)Neither the house nor the entry was able to hold them.(:note) about the door: and he preached the word unto them.

geneva@Mark:2:4 @ And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken [it] up, they (note:)They broke up the upper part of the house which was made simply, and let down the man that was sick from paralysis into the lower part where Christ preached, for they could not come before Christ in any other way.(:note) let down the The word signifies the poorest kind of bed, upon which men used to lay down at noon, and at such other times to refresh themselves; we call it a couch. bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.

geneva@Mark:2:6 @ But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and (note:)In their minds disputing upon the matter, arguing both sides.(:note) reasoning in their hearts,

geneva@Mark:2:7 @ Why doeth this man speake such blasphemies? who can forgiue sinnes, but God onely?

geneva@Mark:2:8 @ And immediatly when Iesus perceiued in his spirite, that thus they reasoned with themselues, he sayde vnto them, Why reason yee these things in your hearts?

geneva@Mark:2:9 @ Whether is it easier to say to the sicke of the palsie, Thy sinnes are forgiuen thee? or to say, Arise, and take vp thy bed, and walke?

geneva@Mark:2:12 @ And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all; insomuch that they were all (note:)Literally, «past themselves», or «out of their wit».(:note) amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it on this fashion.

geneva@Mark:2:14 @ And as he passed by, he saw (note:)Matthew's other name.(:note) Levi the [son] of Alphaeus sitting at the receipt of custom, and said unto him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him.

geneva@Mark:2:15 @ And it came to passe, as Iesus sate at table in his house, many Publicanes & sinners sate at table also with Iesus, and his disciples: for there were many that followed him.

geneva@Mark:2:19 @ And Iesus saide vnto them, Can the children of the marriage chamber fast, whiles the bridegrome is with them? as long as they haue the bridegrome with them, they cannot fast.

geneva@Mark:2:20 @ But the daies will come, when the bridegrome shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast in those daies.

geneva@Mark:2:25 @ And he saide to them, Haue yee neuer read what Dauid did when he had neede, and was an hungred, both he, and they that were with him?

geneva@Mark:2:27 @ And hee sayde to them, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.

geneva@Mark:2:28 @ Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the (note:)Has the sabbath day in his power, and may rule it as he desires.(:note) sabbath.

geneva@Mark:3:1 @ And (note:)Thirdly, because they preferred the ceremonial law (which was but an addition to the moral law) before the moral law, whereas in reality they should have learned from this the true use of the ceremonial law.(:note) he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there which had a That is, unprofitable and dead. withered hand.

geneva@Mark:3:4 @ And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save (note:)He uses here the figure of speech called synecdoche, for this type of saying, «to save the life», is the same as saying «to save the man».(:note) life, or to kill? But they held their peace.

geneva@Mark:3:5 @ And when he had looked round about on them (note:)Men are angry when they have wrong done to them, but not without sin: but Christ is angry without sin, and he is not sorry for the injury that is done to him as much as he is for their wickedness; and therefore he had pity upon them, and because of that he is said to have been grieved.(:note) with anger, being grieved for the As though their heart had been closed up and had grown together, so that wholesome doctrine had no effect upon them. hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched [it] out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.

geneva@Mark:3:10 @ For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had (note:)Diseases with which God scourges men as it were with whips.(:note) plagues.

geneva@Mark:3:15 @ And that they might haue power to heale sicknesses, and to cast out deuils.

geneva@Mark:3:16 @ And the first was Simon, and hee named Simon, Peter,

geneva@Mark:3:18 @ And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the [son] of Alphaeus, and (note:)Whom Luke also calls Judas: and to make a distinction the other Judas is called Iscariot.(:note) Thaddaeus, and Simon the Canaanite,

geneva@Mark:3:19 @ And Judas Iscariot, which also betrayed him: and they went into an (note:)The disciples whom Christ had taken as part of his company and to live with him come home to his house, to be with him from this point on.(:note) house.

geneva@Mark:3:20 @ And the multitude assembled againe, so that they could not so much as eate bread.

geneva@Mark:3:22 @ And the Scribes which came downe fro Hierusalem, saide, He hath Beelzebub, & through the prince of the deuils he casteth out deuils.

geneva@Mark:3:29 @ But hee that blasphemeth against the holy Ghost, shall neuer haue forgiuenesse, but is culpable of eternall damnation.

geneva@Mark:4:1 @ And he began again to teach by the (note:)Seaside of Tiberias.(:note) sea side: and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat In a ship which was launched into the sea. in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land.

geneva@Mark:4:4 @ And it came to passe as he sowed, that some fell by the way side, and the foules of the heauen came, and deuoured it vp.

geneva@Mark:4:6 @ But assoone as ye Sunne was vp, it was burnt vp, and because it had not roote, it withered away.

geneva@Mark:4:10 @ And when he was (note:)Literally, «solitary».(:note) alone, they that were They that followed him at his heels. about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.

geneva@Mark:4:11 @ And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are (note:)That is to say, to strangers, and such ones as are not of us.(:note) without, all [these] things are done in parables:

geneva@Mark:4:12 @ That they seeing, may see, and not discerne: and they hearing, may heare, and not vnderstand, least at any time they should turne, and their sinnes should be forgiuen them.

geneva@Mark:4:15 @ And these are they that receiue the seede by the wayes side, in whome the worde is sowen: but when they haue heard it, Satan commeth immediatly, and taketh away the worde that was sowen in their heartes.

geneva@Mark:4:18 @ Also they that receiue the seede among the thornes, are such as heare the word:

geneva@Mark:4:27 @ And (note:)That is, when he has finished sowing should wait both day and night not doubting that the seed should spring forth, which grows both by day and night.(:note) should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he It is the duty of the ministers to work the ground with all diligence, and accredit the success to God: for the mighty work of the seed coming to blade and ear is mysterious, and is only known by the fruit that comes. knoweth not how.

geneva@Mark:4:29 @ And assoone as the fruite sheweth it selfe, anon hee putteth in the sickle, because the haruest is come.

geneva@Mark:4:31 @ It is like a graine of mustarde seede, which when it is sowen in the earth, is the least of all seedes that be in the earth:

geneva@Mark:4:33 @ And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, (note:)According to the ability of the hearers.(:note) as they were able to hear [it].

geneva@Mark:4:34 @ But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he (note:)Literally, «loosed», as you would say, explained to them the hard riddles.(:note) expounded all things to his disciples.

geneva@Mark:4:35 @ Nowe the same day when euen was come, he saide vnto them, Let vs passe ouer vnto the other side.

geneva@Mark:4:36 @ And they left the multitude, and tooke him as he was in the shippe, and there were also with him other little shippes.

geneva@Mark:4:38 @ And he was in the sterne asleepe on a pillow: and they awoke him, and saide to him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?

geneva@Mark:4:39 @ And hee rose vp, and rebuked the winde, and saide vnto the sea, Peace, and be still. So the winde ceased, and it was a great calme.

geneva@Mark:4:40 @ And he said unto them, (note:)How does it come to pass that you have no faith?(:note) Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?

geneva@Mark:5:1 @ And (note:)Many hold the virtue of Christ in admiration, and yet they will not lose even the least thing they have in order to redeem it.(:note) they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the {{See Mat_8:30}} Gadarenes.

geneva@Mark:5:2 @ And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man (note:)Literally, «in an unclean spirit»; now they are said to be in the spirit because the spirit holds them tightly locked up, and as it were bound.(:note) with an unclean spirit,

geneva@Mark:5:4 @ Because that when hee was often bounde with fetters and chaines, he plucked the chaines asunder, and brake the fetters in pieces, neither could any man tame him.

geneva@Mark:5:7 @ And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, [thou] Son of the most high God? I (note:)That is, assure me by an oath that you will not vex me.(:note) adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.

geneva@Mark:5:9 @ And he asked him, What is thy name? and hee answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.

geneva@Mark:5:10 @ And he (note:)The demon that was the spokesperson of the many.(:note) besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.

geneva@Mark:5:11 @ Now there was there nigh unto the (note:)This whole country is for the most part very hilly, for the mountains of Galeed run through it.(:note) mountains a great herd of swine feeding.

geneva@Mark:5:13 @ And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the (note:)Strabo in the sixteenth book says that in Gadaris there is a standing pool of very polluted water, which if beasts taste, they shed their hair, nails, or hooves and horns.(:note) sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.

geneva@Mark:5:14 @ And the swineheards fled, and told it in the citie, and in the countrey, and they came out to see what it was that was done.

geneva@Mark:5:16 @ And they that saw it, tolde them, what was done to him that was possessed with the deuil, and concerning the swine.

geneva@Mark:5:17 @ Then they began to pray him, that hee would depart from their coastes.

geneva@Mark:5:18 @ And when he was come into the shippe, he that had bene possessed with the deuil, prayed him that he might be with him.

geneva@Mark:5:19 @ Howbeit, Iesus would not suffer him, but said vnto him, Goe thy way home to thy friendes, and shewe them what great thinges the Lorde hath done vnto thee, and howe hee hath had compassion on thee.

geneva@Mark:5:21 @ And when Iesus was come ouer againe by ship vnto the other side, a great multitude gathered together to him, & he was neere vnto the sea.

geneva@Mark:5:22 @ And, (note:)The whole company did not assemble without any structure, but in every synagogue there were certain men who governed the people.(:note) behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet,

geneva@Mark:5:27 @ When she had heard of Iesus, shee came in the preasse behinde, and touched his garment.

geneva@Mark:5:29 @ And straightway the course of her blood was dried vp, and she felt in her body, that she was healed of that plague.

geneva@Mark:5:30 @ And immediatly when Iesus did knowe in himselfe the vertue that went out of him, he turned him round about in the preasse, and said, Who hath touched my clothes?

geneva@Mark:5:33 @ And the woman feared and trembled: for she knewe what was done in her, and shee came and fell downe before him, and tolde him the whole trueth.

geneva@Mark:5:35 @ While hee yet spake, there came from the same ruler of the Synagogues house certaine which said, Thy daughter is dead: why diseasest thou the Master any further?

geneva@Mark:5:42 @ And straightway the mayden arose, and walked: for shee was of the age of twelue yeeres, and they were astonied out of measure.

geneva@Mark:6:2 @ And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing [him] were astonished, saying, From whence hath this [man] these things? and what wisdom [is] this which is given unto him, that even such (note:)The word signifies powers or virtues, by which are meant those wonderful works that Christ did which showed and set forth the virtue and power of his Godhead to all the world; (Mat_7:22).(:note) mighty works are wrought by his hands?

geneva@Mark:6:4 @ But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without (note:)Not only has that honour taken from him which is rightly due to him, but also has evil spoken of him and his words are misrepresented.(:note) honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.

geneva@Mark:6:13 @ And they cast out many devils, and (note:)This oil was a token and a sign of his marvellous virtue: and seeing that the gift of healing has stopped a good while since, the ceremony of anointing which is yet carried on by some is of no purpose.(:note) anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed [them].

geneva@Mark:6:15 @ Others said, That it is Elias. And others said, That it is a prophet, or as one of (note:)Of the old prophets.(:note) the prophets.

geneva@Mark:6:17 @ For Herod him selfe had sent forth, & had taken Iohn, and bound him in prison for Herodias sake, which was his brother Philippes wife, because he had maried her.

geneva@Mark:6:19 @ Therefore Herodias (note:)Sought all means to hurt him.(:note) had a quarrel against him, and would have killed him; but she could not:

geneva@Mark:6:20 @ For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just man and an holy, and observed him; and when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him (note:)The tyrant was very well content to hear sentence pronounced against himself, but the seed fell upon stony places.(:note) gladly.

geneva@Mark:6:22 @ And when the daughter (note:)This same Herodias had the daughter by Philip, not by Herod Antipas, and Josephus called the daughter Salome.(:note) of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat with him, the king said unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give [it] thee.

geneva@Mark:6:23 @ And he sware vnto her, Whatsoeuer thou shalt aske of me, I will giue it thee, euen vnto the halfe of my kingdome.

geneva@Mark:6:24 @ And (note:)For women did not used to eat with men.(:note) she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.

geneva@Mark:6:25 @ Then she came in straightway with haste vnto the King, & asked, saying, I would that thou shouldest giue me euen now in a charger the head of Iohn Baptist.

geneva@Mark:6:26 @ Then the King was very sory: yet for his othes sake, and for their sakes which sate at table with him, he would not refuse her.

geneva@Mark:6:27 @ And immediately the king sent an (note:)The word signifies one that bears a short lance, and the king's guard was so called because they bore short lances.(:note) executioner, and commanded his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the prison,

geneva@Mark:6:33 @ But the people sawe them when they departed, and many knewe him, and ran a foote thither out of all cities, and came thither before them, and assembled vnto him.

geneva@Mark:6:34 @ Then Iesus went out, and sawe a great multitude, and had compassion on them, because they were like sheepe which had no shepheard: and he began to teach them many things.

geneva@Mark:6:35 @ And when the day was nowe farre spent, his disciples came vnto him, saying, This is a desart place, and nowe the day is farre passed.

geneva@Mark:6:39 @ And he commanded them to make all sit down by (note:)Literally, «by banquets», after the manner of the Hebrews who have no distributive words; see (Mar_6:7). Now he calls the rows of the sitters, «banquets».(:note) companies upon the green grass.

geneva@Mark:6:40 @ And they sat down in (note:)The word signifies the beds in a garden, and it is literally, «by beds and beds», meaning by this that they sat down in rows one by another, as beds in a garden.(:note) ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.

geneva@Mark:6:43 @ And they tooke vp twelue baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes.

geneva@Mark:6:47 @ And when euen was come, the ship was in the mids of the sea, and he alone on the land.

geneva@Mark:6:48 @ And he saw them troubled in rowing, (for the winde was contrary vnto them) and about the fourth watch of the night, hee came vnto them, walking vpon the sea, and would haue passed by them.

geneva@Mark:6:51 @ And he went up unto them into the ship; and the wind ceased: and they were (note:)They were still so amazed when they knew that it was no spirit, that they were much more astonished than they ever were before, when they saw the wind and the sea obey his commandment.(:note) sore amazed in themselves beyond measure, and wondered.

geneva@Mark:6:52 @ For they (note:)Either they did not perceive, or had not well considered that miracle of the five loaves, to the point that the virtue of Christ was just as strange to them as if they had not been present at that miracle which was done just a little before.(:note) considered not [the miracle] of the loaves: for their heart was hardened.

geneva@Mark:6:55 @ And ran about throughout all that region round about, and began to cary hither & thither in couches all that were sicke, where they heard that he was.

geneva@Mark:6:56 @ And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched (note:)Or the hem of his garment.(:note) him were made whole.

geneva@Mark:7:1 @ Then (note:)None resist the wisdom of God more than they that should be wisest, and they resist because of their zeal for their own traditions: for men please themselves in superstition more than in any other thing, that is to say, in a worship of God fondly devised by themselves.(:note) came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.

geneva@Mark:7:2 @ And when they saw some of his disciples (note:)Literally, «eat bread»: an idiom which the Hebrews use, understanding bread to represent every type of food.(:note) eat bread with For the Pharisees would not eat their food with unwashed hands, because they thought that their hands were defiled with the common handling of things; (Mat_15:11-12). defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.

geneva@Mark:7:3 @ For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash [their] hands oft, eat not, (note:)Observing diligently.(:note) holding the tradition of the elders.

geneva@Mark:7:4 @ And [when they come] from the (note:)That is to say, after coming from civil and worldly affairs they do not eat unless they first wash themselves.(:note) market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, [as] the washing of cups, and By these words are understood all types of vessels which we use daily. pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.

geneva@Mark:7:5 @ Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why (note:)Why live they not? This is a Hebrew idiom: for among them the «way» is taken for «lifestyle».(:note) walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?

geneva@Mark:7:17 @ And when hee came into an house, away from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.

geneva@Mark:7:22 @ Thefts, (note:)All types of craftiness by which men profit themselves at other men's losses.(:note) covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an Corrupted malice. evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

geneva@Mark:7:26 @ The woman was a (note:)By nationality, profane.(:note) Greek, a A neighbour of or near to Damascus. Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.

geneva@Mark:7:27 @ But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast [it] unto the (note:)«Dog» here signifies a little dog, and he uses this term that he may seem to speak more reproachfully.(:note) dogs.

geneva@Mark:7:28 @ And she answered and said unto him, (note:)As if she said, «It is as thou sayest Lord, for it is enough for the dogs if they can but gather up the crumbs that are under the table; therefore I crave the crumbs and not the children's bread.»(:note) Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.

geneva@Mark:7:30 @ And when shee was come home to her house, shee founde the deuill departed, and her daughter lying on the bed.

geneva@Mark:7:32 @ And they brought vnto him one that was deafe and stambered in his speache, and prayed him to put his hand vpon him.

geneva@Mark:7:33 @ Then hee tooke him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers in his eares, and did spit, and touched his tongue.

geneva@Mark:7:35 @ And straightway his eares were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and hee spake plaine.

geneva@Mark:7:37 @ And were beyonde measure astonied, saying, Hee hath done all thinges well: he maketh both the deafe to heare, & the domme to speake.

geneva@Mark:8:1 @ In those dayes, when there was a very great multitude, and had nothing to eate, Iesus called his disciples to him, and said vnto them,

geneva@Mark:8:2 @ I haue compassion on the multitude, because they haue nowe continued with mee three dayes, and haue nothing to eate.

geneva@Mark:8:3 @ And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will (note:)Literally, «they will fall apart», or «be dissolved», for when men faint they tear their muscles.(:note) faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.

geneva@Mark:8:5 @ And hee asked them, Howe many loaues haue ye? And they said, Seuen.

geneva@Mark:8:8 @ So they did eate, and were sufficed, and they tooke vp of the broken meate that was left, seuen baskets full.

geneva@Mark:8:12 @ And he (note:)These sighs came from the centre of his heart for the Lord was very much moved with the great unbelief of these men.(:note) sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, Literally, «If a sign be given». It is an abbreviated kind of speech very common among the Hebrews; it is the same as when we say, «Let me be taken for a liar», or something similar. And when they speak out the whole, they say, «The Lord do such and such by me.» There shall no sign be given unto this generation.

geneva@Mark:8:17 @ And when Iesus knew it, he said vnto them, Why reason you thus, because ye haue no bread? perceiue ye not yet, neither vnderstande? haue ye your hearts yet hardened?

geneva@Mark:8:19 @ When I brake the fiue loaues among fiue thousand, how many baskets full of broken meate tooke ye vp? They said vnto him, Twelue.

geneva@Mark:8:20 @ And when I brake seuen among foure thousande, howe many baskets of the leauings of broken meate tooke ye vp? And they said, Seuen.

geneva@Mark:8:21 @ And he said unto them, (note:)How does it come to pass that you do not understand these things which are so plain and evident.(:note) How is it that ye do not understand?

geneva@Mark:8:23 @ Then he tooke the blinde by the hand, and ledde him out of the towne, and spat in his eyes, and put his handes vpon him, and asked him, if he sawe ought.

geneva@Mark:8:24 @ And he looked up, and said, I (note:)He perceived men moving but at the same time could not discern their bodies.(:note) see men as trees, walking.

geneva@Mark:8:25 @ After that he put [his] hands again upon his eyes, and made him (note:)He commanded him to try again, to determine whether or not he could indeed see well.(:note) look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.

geneva@Mark:8:28 @ And they answered, Some say, Iohn Baptist: and some, Elias: and some, one of the Prophets.

geneva@Mark:8:38 @ For whosoeuer shall be ashamed of mee, and of my wordes among this adulterous and sinfull generation, of him shall the Sonne of man be ashamed also, when he commeth in the glorie of his Father with the holy Angels.

geneva@Mark:9:1 @ And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till they have seen the (note:)When he will begin his kingdom through the preaching of the gospel: that is to say, after the resurrection.(:note) kingdom of God come with power.

geneva@Mark:9:3 @ And his raiment (note:)Did sparkle as it were.(:note) became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them.

geneva@Mark:9:4 @ And there appeared vnto them Elias with Moses, and they were talking with Iesus.

geneva@Mark:9:5 @ Then Peter answered, and said to Iesus, Master, it is good for vs to be here: let vs make also three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.

geneva@Mark:9:7 @ And there was a cloude that shadowed them, and a voyce came out of the cloude, saying, This is my beloued Sonne: heare him.

geneva@Mark:9:10 @ And they (note:)Though just barely as it were.(:note) kept that saying with themselves, They did not question together concerning the general resurrection, which will be in the latter day, but they did not understand what he meant when he spoke of his own special resurrection. questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean.

geneva@Mark:9:12 @ And he answered, and said vnto them, Elias verely shall first come, and restore all things: and as it is written of the Sonne of man, hee must suffer many things, and be set at nought.

geneva@Mark:9:13 @ But I say vnto you, that Elias is come, (and they haue done vnto him whatsoeuer they would) as it is written of him.

geneva@Mark:9:15 @ And straightway all the people, when they behelde him, were amased, and ranne to him, and saluted him.

geneva@Mark:9:16 @ Then hee asked the Scribes, What dispute you among your selues?

geneva@Mark:9:17 @ And one of the companie answered, and said, Master, I haue brought my sonne vnto thee, which hath a dumme spirit:

geneva@Mark:9:18 @ And wheresoever he taketh him, he (note:)Vexes him inwardly, as the colic does.(:note) teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.

geneva@Mark:9:20 @ And they brought him unto him: and when he (note:)As soon as Jesus had looked upon the boy that was brought to him, the demon began to rage in this way.(:note) saw him, straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming.

geneva@Mark:9:21 @ Then he asked his father, How long time is it since he hath bin thus? And he said, Of a childe.

geneva@Mark:9:22 @ And oft times he casteth him into the fire, & into the water to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, helpe vs, and haue compassion vpo vs.

geneva@Mark:9:29 @ And he saide vnto them, This kinde can by no other meanes come foorth, but by prayer and fasting.

geneva@Mark:9:30 @ And they departed thence, and (note:)He and his disciples together.(:note) passed through Galilee; and he would not that any man should know [it].

geneva@Mark:9:32 @ But they vnderstoode not that saying, and were afraide to aske him.

geneva@Mark:9:34 @ And they helde their peace: for by the way they reasoned among themselues, who should bee the chiefest.

geneva@Mark:9:35 @ And he sate downe, and called the twelue, and said to them, If any man desire to be first, the same shalbe last of all, and seruant vnto all.

geneva@Mark:9:44 @ Where their (note:)Their worm who will be cast into that flame.(:note) worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

geneva@Mark:9:45 @ Likewise, if thy foote cause thee to offend, cut it off: it is better for thee to go halt into life, then hauing two feete, to be cast into hell, into the fire that neuer shalbe quenched,

geneva@Mark:9:47 @ And if thine eye cause thee to offende, plucke it out: it is better for thee to goe into the kingdome of God with one eye, then hauing two eyes, to be cast into hell fire,

geneva@Mark:9:50 @ Salt is good: but if the salt be vnsauerie, wherewith shall it be seasoned? haue salt in your selues, and haue peace one with another.

geneva@Mark:10:1 @ And he (note:)That is to say, departed and went from there: for in the Hebrew language sitting and dwelling are the same thing, and so are rising and going forth.(:note) arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judaea by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again.

geneva@Mark:10:2 @ Then the Pharises came and asked him, if it were lawfull for a man to put away his wife, and tempted him.

geneva@Mark:10:10 @ And in the house his disciples asked him againe of that matter.

geneva@Mark:10:14 @ But when Iesus sawe it, he was displeased, and said to them, Suffer the litle children to come vnto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdome of God.

geneva@Mark:10:15 @ Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God (note:)In our malice we must become as children if we will enter into the kingdom of heaven.(:note) as a little child, he shall not enter therein.

geneva@Mark:10:20 @ Then he answered, and said to him, Master, all these things I haue obserued from my youth.

geneva@Mark:10:21 @ And Iesus looked vpon him, & loued him, and sayde vnto him, One thing is lacking vnto thee. Go and sell all that thou hast, and giue to the poore, & thou shalt haue treasure in heauen, and come, followe me, and take vp the crosse.

geneva@Mark:10:22 @ But hee was sad at that saying, and went away sorowfull: for he had great possessions.

geneva@Mark:10:25 @ It is easier for a camel to goe through the eye of a needle, then for a riche man to enter into the kingdome of God.

geneva@Mark:10:26 @ And they were much more astonied, saying with themselues, Who then can be saued?

geneva@Mark:10:30 @ But he shall receive an (note:)A hundred times as much, if we use the commodities of this life in a proper way, so that we use them in accordance with the will of God, and not just to gain the wealth itself, and to fulfil our greedy desire.(:note) hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, Even in the midst of persecutions. with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.

geneva@Mark:10:31 @ But many that are first, shall be last, and the last, first.

geneva@Mark:10:38 @ But Iesus sayd vnto them, Ye knowe not what ye aske. Can ye drinke of the cup that I shal drinke of, and be baptized with the baptisme that I shall be baptized with?

geneva@Mark:10:47 @ And when hee heard that it was Iesus of Nazareth, he began to crye, and to say, Iesus the Sonne of Dauid, haue mercy on me.

geneva@Mark:11:2 @ And sayd vnto them, Goe your wayes into that towne that is ouer against you, and assoone as ye shall enter into it, ye shall finde a colte tied, whereon neuer man sate: loose him, and bring him.

geneva@Mark:11:6 @ And they sayde vnto them, as Iesus had commanded them: So they let them goe.

geneva@Mark:11:7 @ And they brought the colte to Iesus, & cast their garments on him, and he sate vpon him.

geneva@Mark:11:11 @ So Iesus entred into Hierusalem, and into the Temple: and when he had looked about on all things, and now it was euening, he went forth vnto Bethania with the twelue.

geneva@Mark:11:12 @ And on the morowe when they were come out from Bethania, he was hungry.

geneva@Mark:11:18 @ And the Scribes and hie Priestes heard it, and sought howe to destroy him: for they feared him, because the whole multitude was astonied at his doctrine.

geneva@Mark:11:19 @ But when euen was come, Iesus went out of the citie.

geneva@Mark:11:21 @ Then Peter remembred, and said vnto him, Master, beholde, the figge tree which thou cursedst, is withered.

geneva@Mark:11:22 @ And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have (note:)The faith of God is that assured faith and trust which we have in him.(:note) faith in God.

geneva@Mark:11:23 @ For verely I say vnto you, that whosoeuer shall say vnto this mountaine, Be thou taken away, and cast into the sea, and shall not wauer in his heart, but shall beleeue that those things which he saieth, shal come to passe, whatsoeuer he saieth, shall be done to him.

geneva@Mark:11:25 @ And when (note:)When you will appear before the altar.(:note) ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.

geneva@Mark:11:26 @ For if you will not forgiue, your Father which is in heauen, will not pardon you your trespasses.

geneva@Mark:11:29 @ Then Iesus answered, and saide vnto them, I will also aske of you a certaine thing, & answere ye me, and I will tell you by what authoritie I do these things.

geneva@Mark:11:30 @ The baptisme of Iohn, was it from heauen, or of men? answere me.

geneva@Mark:12:4 @ And againe he sent vnto them another seruant, and at him they cast stones, and brake his head, and sent him away shamefully handled.

geneva@Mark:12:6 @ Yet had he one sonne, his deare beloued: him also he sent the last vnto them, saying, They will reuerence my sonne.

geneva@Mark:12:8 @ So they tooke him, & killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.

geneva@Mark:12:10 @ Haue ye not read so much as this Scripture? The stone which the builders did refuse, is made the head of the corner.

geneva@Mark:12:11 @ This was done of the Lord, and it is marueilous in our eyes.

geneva@Mark:12:14 @ And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou (note:)You do not judge by the outward appearance, so that the truth is therefore not darkened by any means at all.(:note) regardest not the person of men, but teachest the The way by which we come to see God. way of God in truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?

geneva@Mark:12:19 @ Master, Moses wrote vnto vs, If any mans brother die, and leaue his wife, and leaue no children, that his brother should take his wife, and rayse vp seede vnto his brother.

geneva@Mark:12:22 @ So those seuen had her, and left no yssue: last of all the wife died also.

geneva@Mark:12:25 @ For when they shall rise againe from the dead, neither men marry, nor wiues are married, but are as the Angels which are in heauen.

geneva@Mark:12:26 @ And as touching the dead, that they shall rise againe, haue ye not read in the booke of Moses, howe in the bush God spake vnto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Iacob?

geneva@Mark:12:31 @ And the second is like, that is, Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe. There is none other commandement greater then these.

geneva@Mark:12:32 @ Then that Scribe said vnto him, Well, Master, thou hast saide the trueth, that there is one God, and that there is none but he,

geneva@Mark:12:33 @ And to loue him with all the heart, and with all the vnderstanding, and with all the soule, and with all the strength, and to loue his neighbour as himselfe, is more then all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

geneva@Mark:12:34 @ Then when Iesus saw that he answered discreetely, he saide vnto him, Thou art not farre from the kingdome of God; no man after that durst aske him any question.

geneva@Mark:12:36 @ For David himself said by (note:)Literally, «in the Holy Spirit»; and there is a great power in this kind of speech, by which is meant that it was not so much David who was speaking, but instead the Holy Spirit, who in a way possessed David.(:note) the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool.

geneva@Mark:12:39 @ And the chiefe seates in the Synagogues, and the first roumes at feastes,

geneva@Mark:12:43 @ Then he called vnto him his disciples, and said vnto them, Verely I say vnto you, that this poore widowe hath cast more in, then all they which haue cast into the treasurie.

geneva@Mark:12:44 @ For they all did cast in of their superfluitie: but she of her pouertie did cast in all that she had, euen all her liuing.

geneva@Mark:13:1 @ And (note:)The destruction of the temple, city, and whole nation is foretold, and the troubles of the Church: but yet there are many comforts added, and last of all, the end of the world is described.(:note) as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings [are here]!

geneva@Mark:13:3 @ And as he sate on the mount of Oliues, ouer against the Temple, Peter, and Iames, and Iohn, and Andrew asked him secretly,

geneva@Mark:13:11 @ But when they shall lead [you], and deliver you up, (note:)We are not forbidden to think beforehand, but we are willed to beware of that pensive carefulness by which men discourage themselves, which proceeds from distrust and lack of confidence and sure hope of God's assistance. {{See Mat_6:27}}(:note) take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither By any kind of made-up and cunning type of story to tell. do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.

geneva@Mark:13:19 @ For [in] (note:)This is an idiom which the Hebrews use and it has a great power in it, for it shows us that during that entire time one misery will follow another in such a way as if the time itself was very misery itself. So the prophet Amos says that the day of the Lord will be darkness; (Amo_5:20).(:note) those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.

geneva@Mark:13:29 @ So in like maner, when ye see these things come to passe, knowe that the kingdom of God is neere, euen at the doores.

geneva@Mark:13:30 @ Verely I say vnto you, that this generation shall not passe, till all these things be done.

geneva@Mark:13:31 @ Heauen and earth shall passe away, but my woordes shall not passe away.

geneva@Mark:13:34 @ For the Sonne of man is as a man going into a strange countrey, & leaueth his house, & giueth authoritie to his seruaunts, and to euery man his woorke, and commandeth the porter to watch.

geneva@Mark:13:35 @ Watch ye therefore, (for ye know not whe ye master of the house will come, at eue, or at midnight, at the cocke crowing, or in the dawning,)

geneva@Mark:13:36 @ Least if he come suddenly, he should finde you sleeping.

geneva@Mark:14:1 @ After (note:)By the will of God, against the counsel of men, it came to pass that Christ should be put to death upon the solemn day of the passover, that in all respects the truth of his sacrifice might agree to the symbol of the passover.(:note) two days was [the feast of] the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put [him] to death.

geneva@Mark:14:2 @ But they sayde, Not in the feast day, least there be any tumult among the people.

geneva@Mark:14:3 @ And when hee was in Bethania in the house of Simon the leper, as he sate at table, there came a woman hauing a boxe of oyntment of spikenarde, very costly, and shee brake the boxe, and powred it on his head.

geneva@Mark:14:14 @ And whithersoeuer he goeth in, say yee to the good man of the house, The Master sayeth, Where is the lodging where I shal eate the Passeouer with my disciples?

geneva@Mark:14:16 @ So his disciples went foorth, and came to the citie, and found as he had said vnto them, and made readie the Passeouer.

geneva@Mark:14:21 @ Truly the Sonne of man goeth his way, as it is written of him: but woe bee to that man, by whome the Sonne of man is betrayed: it had beene good for that man, if hee had neuer beene borne.

geneva@Mark:14:22 @ And as they did eate, Iesus tooke the bread, and when hee had giuen thankes, he brake it and gaue it to them, and sayde, Take, eate, this is my bodie.

geneva@Mark:14:35 @ So he went forward a litle, and fell downe on the ground, and praied, that if it were possible, that houre might passe from him.

geneva@Mark:14:36 @ And he said, (note:)This doubling of the word was used in those days when their languages were mixed together: for the word «Abba» is a Syrian word.(:note) Abba, Father, all things [are] possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.

geneva@Mark:14:45 @ And assoone as hee was come, hee went straightway to him, and saide, Haile Master, and kissed him.

geneva@Mark:14:48 @ And Iesus answered and saide to them, Ye be come out as against a thiefe with swordes, and with staues, to take me.

geneva@Mark:14:49 @ I was daily with you teaching in the Temple, and yee tooke me not: but this is done that the Scriptures should be fulfilled.

geneva@Mark:14:53 @ And they led Jesus away to the high priest: and with him were (note:)The highest council was assembled because Christ was accused as a blasphemer and a false prophet: for as to the other crime of treason, it was forged against him by the priest in order to force Pilate to condemn him.(:note) assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes.

geneva@Mark:14:60 @ Then the hie Priest stoode vp amongst them, and asked Iesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? What is the matter that these beare witnesse against thee?

geneva@Mark:14:61 @ But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the (note:)Of God, who is most worthy of all praise?(:note) Blessed?

geneva@Mark:14:64 @ Ye haue heard the blasphemie: what thinke yee? And they all condemned him to be worthie of death.

geneva@Mark:14:67 @ And when shee sawe Peter warming him selfe, shee looked on him, and sayde, Thou wast also with Iesus of Nazareth.

geneva@Mark:14:69 @ And (note:)If we carefully compare the evangelists together we will perceive that Peter was known by many through the maiden's report: furthermore, when the second denial is spoken of in Luke, there is a man servant mentioned and not a maid.(:note) a maid saw him again, and began to say to them that stood by, This is [one] of them.

geneva@Mark:15:1 @ And (note:)Christ being bound before the judgment seat of an earthly Judge, is condemned before the open assembly as guilty unto the death of the cross, not for his own sins (as is shown by the judge's own words) but for all of ours, that we who are indeed guilty creatures, in being delivered from the guiltiness of our sins, might be acquitted before the judgment seat of God, even in the open assembly of the angels.(:note) straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried [him] away, and It was not lawful for them to put any man to death, for all authority to punish by death was taken away from them, first by Herod the great, and afterward by the Romans, about forty years before the destruction of the temple, and therefore they deliver Jesus to Pilate.delivered [him] to Pilate.

geneva@Mark:15:2 @ Then Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Iewes? And hee answered, and sayde vnto him, Thou sayest it.

geneva@Mark:15:4 @ Wherefore Pilate asked him againe, saying, Answerest thou nothing? beholde howe many things they witnesse against thee.

geneva@Mark:15:6 @ Now at [that] feast he (note:)Pilate used to deliver.(:note) released unto them one prisoner, whomsoever they desired.

geneva@Mark:15:7 @ Then there was one named Barabbas, which was bounde with his fellowes, that had made insurrection, who in the insurrection had committed murther.

geneva@Mark:15:8 @ And the people cried aloude, and began to desire that he woulde doe as he had euer done vnto them.

geneva@Mark:15:11 @ But the high Priestes had moued the people to desire that he would rather deliuer Barabbas vnto them.

geneva@Mark:15:15 @ So Pilate willing to content the people, loosed them Barabbas, & deliuered Iesus, when he had scourged him, that he might be crucified.

geneva@Mark:15:21 @ And they (note:)The rage of the wicked has no measure; meanwhile, even the weakness of Christ, who was in pain under the heavy burden of the cross, manifestly shows that a lamb is led to be sacrificed.(:note) compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.

geneva@Mark:15:25 @ And it was the third houre, when they crucified him.

geneva@Mark:15:26 @ And ye title of his cause was written aboue, That king of the iewes.

geneva@Mark:15:28 @ Thus the Scripture was fulfilled, which sayth, And he was counted among the wicked.

geneva@Mark:15:33 @ And when the sixth hour was come, there was (note:)How angry God was against our sins, which he punished in his son who is our sure substitute, is made evident by this horrible darkness.(:note) darkness over the By this word «land» he means Palestine: so that the strangeness of the wonder is all the more set forth in that at the feast of the passover, and in the full moon, when the sun shone over all the rest of the world, and at midday, this corner of the world in which so wicked an act was committed was covered over with great darkness. whole land until the ninth hour.

geneva@Mark:15:34 @ And at the (note:)Christ striving mightily with Satan, sin and death, all three armed with the horrible curse of God, grievously tormented in body hanging upon the cross, and in soul plunged into the depth of hell, yet he clears himself, crying with a mighty voice: and notwithstanding the wound which he received from death, in that he died, yet by smiting both things above and things beneath, by the renting of the veil of the temple, and by the testimony wrung out of those who murdered him, he shows evidently unto the rest of his enemies who are as yet obstinate, and mock at him, that he will be known without delay to be conqueror and Lord of all.(:note) ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

geneva@Mark:15:35 @ And some of them that stoode by, when they heard it, said, Behold, he calleth Elias.

geneva@Mark:15:36 @ And one ranne, and filled a spondge full of vineger, and put it on a reede, and gaue him to drinke, saying, Let him alone: let vs see if Elias will come, and take him downe.

geneva@Mark:15:38 @ And the vaile of the Temple was rent in twaine, from the toppe to the bottome.

geneva@Mark:15:39 @ Nowe when the Centurion, which stoode ouer against him, sawe that he thus crying gaue vp the ghost, he saide, Truely this man was the Sonne of God.

geneva@Mark:15:41 @ Which also when he was in Galile, folowed him, and ministred vnto him, and many other women which came vp with him vnto Hierusalem.

geneva@Mark:15:42 @ And nowe when the night was come (because it was the day of the preparation that is before the Sabbath)

geneva@Mark:15:43 @ Joseph of Arimathaea, an (note:)A man of great authority, of the council of the sanhedrin, or else a man who was taken by Pilate for his own council.(:note) honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in If we consider what danger Joseph put himself into we shall perceive how bold he was. boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.

geneva@Mark:15:44 @ And Pilate marueiled, if he were already dead, and called vnto him the Centurion, and asked of him whether he had bene any while dead.

geneva@Mark:15:46 @ Who bought a linnen cloth, & tooke him downe, and wrapped him in the linnen cloth, and laide him in a tombe that was hewen out of a rocke, and rolled a stone vnto the doore of the sepulchre:

geneva@Mark:16:1 @ And when the Sabbath day was past, Marie Magdalene, and Marie the mother of Iames, and Salome, bought sweete oyntments, that they might come, and anoynt him.

geneva@Mark:16:2 @ Therefore early in the morning, the first day of the weeke, they came vnto the sepulchre, when the Sunne was nowe risen.

geneva@Mark:16:4 @ And when they (note:)When they cast their eyes toward the sepulchre.(:note) looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.

geneva@Mark:16:5 @ And entering into the (note:)Into the cave out of which the sepulchre was cut.(:note) sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted.

geneva@Mark:16:7 @ But goe your way, and tell his disciples, and Peter, that he will goe before you into Galile: there shall ye see him, as he said vnto you.

geneva@Mark:16:8 @ And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre: for they trembled, and were amased: neither said they any thing to any man: for they were afraide.

geneva@Mark:16:11 @ And when they heard that he was aliue, and had appeared to her, they beleeued it not.

geneva@Mark:16:17 @ And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with (note:)Strange tongues, ones which they did not know before.(:note) new tongues;

geneva@Luke:1:1 @ Forasmuch as (note:)Luke commends the witnesses that saw this present account.(:note) many have Many took it in hand, but did not perform: Luke wrote his gospel before Matthew and Mark. taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,

geneva@Luke:1:3 @ It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things (note:)Luke began his gospel a great deal further in the past than the others did.(:note) from the very first, to write unto thee in order, It is «most mighty», and therefore Theophilus was a very honourable man, and in a place of great dignity. most excellent Theophilus,

geneva@Luke:1:4 @ That thou mightest (note:)Have fuller knowledge of those things which you know only partially.(:note) know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.

geneva@Luke:1:5 @ There (note:)John, who was another Elias and appointed to be the herald of Christ, coming from the family of Aaron, and of two famous and blameless parents, has shown in his conception (which was against the course of nature) a double miracle, to the end that men should be more readily prepared for the hearing of his preaching, according to the forewarning of the prophets.(:note) was This is a Hebrew idiom which shows us how short and frail a thing the power of princes is. in the days of Herod the great. Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the For the posterity of Aaron was divided into courses. course of Abia: and his wife [was] of the daughters of Aaron, and her name [was] Elisabeth.

geneva@Luke:1:6 @ And they were both (note:)The true mark of righteousness is demonstrated when one is liked and accepted in the judgment of God.(:note) righteous before God, Lived, as the Hebrews say, for our life is as a way in which we must walk until we come to the mark. walking in all the In all the moral and ceremonial law. commandments and ordinances of the Lord Whom no man could justly reprove: now so it is that the fruits of justification are set forth here, and not the cause, which is faith only, and nothing else. blameless.

geneva@Luke:1:7 @ And they had no childe, because that Elisabet was barren: and both were well stricken in age.

geneva@Luke:1:8 @ And it came to passe, as he executed the Priestes office before God, as his course came in order,

geneva@Luke:1:9 @ According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the (note:)The temple was one, and the court another, for Zacharias went out of the court (or outward room) where all the people were (and therefore they are said to be without) and into the temple.(:note) temple of the Lord.

geneva@Luke:1:10 @ And the whole multitude of the people were without in prayer, while the incense was burning.

geneva@Luke:1:12 @ And when Zacharias sawe him, he was troubled, and feare fell vpon him.

geneva@Luke:1:13 @ But the Angel saide vnto him, Feare not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard, and thy wise Elisabet shall beare thee a sonne, and thou shalt call his name Iohn.

geneva@Luke:1:15 @ For he shall be great in the (note:)So the Hebrews say when a rare kind of excellency is signified: so it is said of Nimrod in (Gen_10:9), «He was a mighty hunter before the LORD».(:note) sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor Any drink that might make someone drunk. strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.

geneva@Luke:1:17 @ And he shall go (note:)As they used to go before kings, and when you see them, you know the king is not far off.(:note) before him This is spoken by the figure of speech metonymy, taking the spirit for the gift of the spirit; as you would say, the cause of that which comes from the cause. in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the By the figure of speech synecdoche he shows that he will take away all types of enmities which used to breed great troubles and turmoils among men. hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the Wisdom and goodness are two of the main causes which make men revere and honour their fathers. wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

geneva@Luke:1:18 @ Then Zacharias said vnto ye Angel, Whereby shall I knowe this? For I am an olde man, and my wife is of a great age.

geneva@Luke:1:20 @ And beholde, thou shalt be domme, & not be able to speake, vntill the day that these things be done, because thou beleeuedst not my words, which shalbe fulfilled in their season.

geneva@Luke:1:21 @ Now the people waited for Zacharias, and marueiled that he taried so long in the Temple.

geneva@Luke:1:23 @ And it came to passe, when the daies of his office were fulfilled, that he departed to his owne house.

geneva@Luke:1:27 @ To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the (note:)The same can be said of Mary, otherwise Christ would not have been of the stock of David, nor his son.(:note) house of David; and the virgin's name [was] Mary.

geneva@Luke:1:29 @ And when she saw [him], she was (note:)Moved at the strangeness of the matter.(:note) troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.

geneva@Luke:1:30 @ And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast (note:)So the Hebrews said, saying that those men have found favour who are in favour.(:note) found favour with God.

geneva@Luke:1:32 @ He shall be great, and shall be (note:)He will be declared to be so, for he was the Son of God from everlasting, but was made manifest in the flesh in his time.(:note) called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:

geneva@Luke:1:34 @ Then said Mary unto the angel, (note:)The greatness of the matter causes the virgin to ask this question, not that she distrusted by any means at all, for she asks only of the manner of the conceiving, so that it is plain she believed all the rest.(:note) How shall this be, seeing So speak the Hebrews, signifying by this modest kind of speech the company of man and wife together, and this is the meaning of it: how will this be, for as I will be Christ's mother I am very sure I will not know any man: for the godly virgin had learned by the prophets that the Messiah would be born of a virgin. I know not a man?

geneva@Luke:1:35 @ And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost (note:)That is, the Holy Spirit will cause thee to conceive by his mighty power.(:note) shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that That thing which is pure and void of all spot of uncleanliness: for he that was to take away sin must of necessity be void of sin. holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be Declared and shown to the world to be the Son of God. called the Son of God.

geneva@Luke:1:36 @ And, behold, thy (note:)Though Elisabeth was of the tribe of Levi, yet it was possible for her to be Mary's cousin: for whereas it was forbidden by the Law for maidens to be married to men of other tribes, there was an exception among the Levites, who could take for themselves wives out of any tribe: for the Levites had no portion allotted to them when the land was divided among the people.(:note) cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the This is now the sixth month from the time when she conceived. sixth month with her, who was called barren.

geneva@Luke:1:40 @ And entred into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabet.

geneva@Luke:1:41 @ And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe (note:)This was no ordinary or usual type of moving.(:note) leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:

geneva@Luke:1:44 @ For loe, assoone as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine eares, the babe sprang in my bellie for ioye,

geneva@Luke:1:48 @ For he hath (note:)Has freely and graciously loved.(:note) regarded the Literally, «My baseness», that is, my base estate: so that the virgin did not boast of her deserts, but the grace of God. low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.

geneva@Luke:1:50 @ And his mercy [is] on them (note:)To those that live godly and religiously, as the Hebrews say.(:note) that fear him from generation to generation.

geneva@Luke:1:51 @ He hath shewed strength with his (note:)Here many more words than necessary are used, which the Hebrews use very much: and «arm» here is taken for strength.(:note) arm; he hath Even as the wind does to the chaff. scattered the proud in the He has scattered them, and the imagination of their hearts; or, by and through the imagination of their own hearts; so that their wicked counsel turned to their own destruction. imagination of their hearts.

geneva@Luke:1:55 @ As he (note:)Promised.(:note) spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.

geneva@Luke:1:59 @ And it was so that on the eight day they came to circumcise the babe, and called him Zacharias after the name of his father.

geneva@Luke:1:63 @ So hee asked for writing tables, and wrote, saying, His name is Iohn, and they marueiled all.

geneva@Luke:1:64 @ And his mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue, and he spake and praised God.

geneva@Luke:1:65 @ And fear came on all that dwelt round about them: and all (note:)All this which was said and done.(:note) these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country of Judaea.

geneva@Luke:1:66 @ And all they that heard [them] (note:)Thought upon them diligently and earnestly, and as it were, printed them in their hearts.(:note) laid [them] up in their hearts, saying, What manner of child shall this be! And the That is, the present favour of God, and a singular type of virtue appeared in him. hand of the Lord was with him.

geneva@Luke:1:68 @ Blessed [be] the Lord God of Israel; for he hath (note:)That he has shown himself mindful of his people, to the extent that he came down from heaven himself to visit us in person, and to redeem us.(:note) visited and Has paid the ransom, that is to say, the price of our redemption. redeemed his people,

geneva@Luke:1:69 @ And hath raised up an (note:)This word «horn», in the Hebrew language, signifies strength, and it is a metaphor taken from beasts that fight with their horns: And by raising up the might of Israel is meant that the kingdom of Israel was defended, and the enemies of it laid on the ground, even then when the strength of Israel seemed to be utterly gone.(:note) horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;

geneva@Luke:1:70 @ As he spake by ye mouth of his holy Prophets, which were since the world began, saying,

geneva@Luke:1:72 @ To perform the mercy [promised] to our fathers, and (note:)Declare indeed that he was mindful.(:note) to remember his holy covenant;

geneva@Luke:1:74 @ Which was, that he would graunt vnto vs, that we being deliuered out of the handes of our enemies, should serue him without feare,

geneva@Luke:1:78 @ Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the (note:)Or «bud», or «branch»; he alludes to (Jer_23:5) (Zec_3:8; Zec_6:12); and he is called a bud from on high, that is, sent from God unto us, and not as other buds which bud out of the earth.(:note) dayspring from on high hath visited us,

geneva@Luke:1:80 @ And the childe grewe, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the wildernesse, til the day came that he should shewe him selfe vnto Israel.

geneva@Luke:2:1 @ And (note:)Christ, the son of God, taking upon himself the form of a servant, and making himself of no reputation, is poorly born in a stable: and by the means of Augustus, the mightiest prince in the world, (thinking nothing of it) has his cradle prepared in Bethlehem, as the prophets foretold.(:note) it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the As far as the empire of the Romans stretched. world should be That is, the inhabitants of every city should have their names recorded, and their goods rated at a certain value, that the emperor might understand how rich every country, city, family, and house was. taxed.

geneva@Luke:2:2 @ (This first taxing was made when Cyrenius was gouernour of Syria.)

geneva@Luke:2:4 @ And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the (note:)Which David was born and brought up in.(:note) city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)

geneva@Luke:2:5 @ To bee taxed with Marie that was giuen him to wife, which was with childe.

geneva@Luke:2:6 @ And so it was, that while they were there, the daies were accomplished that shee shoulde be deliuered,

geneva@Luke:2:7 @ And she brought foorth her first begotten sonne, and wrapped him in swadling clothes, and laide him in a cratch, because there was no roome for them in the ynne.

geneva@Luke:2:13 @ And suddenly there was with the angel (note:)Whole armies of angels, who compass the majesty of God round about, just as soldiers, as it were.(:note) a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,

geneva@Luke:2:15 @ And it came to passe whe the Angels were gone away from them into heauen, that the shepheards sayde one to another, Let vs goe then vnto Beth-leem, and see this thing that is come to passe which the Lord hath shewed vnto vs.

geneva@Luke:2:16 @ So they came with haste, and founde both Marie and Ioseph, & the babe laid in the cratch.

geneva@Luke:2:17 @ And when they had seene it, they published abroade the thing, that was tolde them of that childe.

geneva@Luke:2:20 @ And the shepheardes returned glorifiyng and praising God, for all that they had heard and seene as it was spoken vnto them.

geneva@Luke:2:23 @ (As it is written in the Lawe of the Lorde, Euery man childe that first openeth ye wombe, shalbe called holy to the Lord)

geneva@Luke:2:24 @ And to giue an oblation, as it is commanded in the Lawe of the Lorde, a paire of turtle doues, or two yong pigeons.

geneva@Luke:2:26 @ And it was declared to him from God by the holy Ghost, that he shoulde not see death, before he had seene that Anointed of the Lord.

geneva@Luke:2:29 @ Lord, now (note:)Let me depart out of this life, to be joined to my Father.(:note) lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy As you promised me. word:

geneva@Luke:2:30 @ For (note:)That is, for I have seen with my very eyes: for he saw before in mind, as it is said of Abraham, «He saw my day and rejoiced.»(:note) mine eyes have seen thy That in which your salvation is contained. salvation,

geneva@Luke:2:31 @ Which thou hast prepared (note:)As a sign set up in a high place for all men to look upon.(:note) before the face of all people;

geneva@Luke:2:37 @ And she was widowe about foure score and foure yeeres, and went not out of the Temple, but serued God with fastings & prayers, night and day.

geneva@Luke:2:40 @ And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, (note:)As Christ grew up in age, so the virtue of his Godhead showed itself more and more.(:note) filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.

geneva@Luke:2:42 @ And when hee was twelue yeere olde, and they were come vp to Hierusalem, after the custome of the feast,

geneva@Luke:2:43 @ And had finished the dayes thereof, as they returned, the childe Iesus remained in Hierusalem, and Ioseph knew not, nor his mother,

geneva@Luke:2:46 @ And it came to passe three dayes after, that they found him in the Temple, sitting in the mids of the doctours, both hearing them, and asking them questions:

geneva@Luke:2:47 @ And all that heard him, were astonied at his vnderstanding and answeres.

geneva@Luke:2:52 @ And Iesus increased in wisedome, and stature, and in fauour with God and men.

geneva@Luke:3:1 @ Now (note:)John comes at the time foretold by the prophets and lays the foundation of the gospel which is exhibited unto us, setting forth the true observing of the law and free mercy in Christ, which comes after John, using also baptism which is the outward sign both of regeneration and also forgiveness of sins.(:note) in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,

geneva@Luke:3:3 @ And hee came into all the coastes about Iordan, preaching the baptisme of repentance for the remission of sinnes,

geneva@Luke:3:4 @ As it is written in the booke of the sayings of Esaias the Prophet, which saith, The voyce of him that crieth in the wildernes is, Prepare ye the way of the Lord: make his paths straight.

geneva@Luke:3:9 @ Nowe also is the axe layed vnto the roote of the trees: therefore euery tree which bringeth not foorth good fruite, shalbe hewen downe, and cast into the fire.

geneva@Luke:3:10 @ Then the people asked him, saying, What shall we doe then?

geneva@Luke:3:12 @ Then came there Publicanes also to bee baptized, and saide vnto him, Master, what shall we doe?

geneva@Luke:3:14 @ And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse [any] falsely; and be content with your (note:)Which was paid to them partly in money and partly in food.(:note) wages.

geneva@Luke:3:22 @ And the holy Ghost came downe in a bodily shape like a doue, vpon him, and there was a voyce from heauen, saying, Thou art my beloued Sonne: in thee I am well pleased.

geneva@Luke:3:25 @ The sonne of Mattathias, the sonne of Amos, the sonne of Naum, the sonne of Esli, the sonne of Nagge,

geneva@Luke:3:26 @ The sonne of Maath, the sonne of Mattathias, the sonne of Semei, the sonne of Ioseph, the sonne of Iuda,

geneva@Luke:3:32 @ The sonne of Iesse, the sonne of Obed, the sonne of Booz, the sonne of Salmon, the sonne of Naasson,

geneva@Luke:4:1 @ And (note:)Christ, being carried away (as it were out of the world) into the desert, comes suddenly as if from heaven, having fasted for forty days and overcoming Satan three times, and thus begins his office.(:note) Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

geneva@Luke:4:2 @ And was there fourtie dayes tempted of the deuil, & in those dayes he did eate nothing: but when they were ended, he afterward was hungry.

geneva@Luke:4:7 @ If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be (note:)Out of a high place, from which would be seen a good and first-class country, and thus the devil showed him all countries.(:note) thine.

geneva@Luke:4:9 @ Then hee brought him to Hierusalem, and set him on a pinacle of the Temple, and said vnto him, If thou be the Sonne of God, cast thy selfe downe from hence,

geneva@Luke:4:11 @ And with their handes they shall lift thee vp, least at any time thou shouldest dash thy foote against a stone.

geneva@Luke:4:13 @ And when the deuil had ended all the tentation, he departed from him for a litle season.

geneva@Luke:4:15 @ For he taught in their Synagogues, and was honoured of all men.

geneva@Luke:4:17 @ And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had (note:)Their books in those days were rolled up as scrolls upon a ruler: and so Christ unrolled or unfolded it, which is here called «opened».(:note) opened the book, he found the place where it was written,

geneva@Luke:4:20 @ And hee closed the booke, and gaue it againe to the minister, and sate downe: and the eyes of all that were in the Synagogue were fastened on him.

geneva@Luke:4:25 @ But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the (note:)Land of Israel; {{See Mar_15:33}}.(:note) land;

geneva@Luke:4:26 @ But vnto none of them was Elias sent, saue into Sarepta, a citie of Sidon, vnto a certaine widowe.

geneva@Luke:4:27 @ Also many lepers were in Israel, in the time of Eliseus the Prophet: yet none of them was made cleane, sauing Naaman the Syrian.

geneva@Luke:4:29 @ And rose vp, and thrust him out of the citie, and led him vnto the edge of the hil, whereon their citie was built, to cast him downe headlong.

geneva@Luke:4:30 @ But he passed through the middes of them, and went his way,

geneva@Luke:4:32 @ And they were astonied at his doctrine: for his worde was with authoritie.

geneva@Luke:4:33 @ And in the Synagogue there was a man which had a spirit of an vncleane deuill, which cryed with a loude voyce,

geneva@Luke:4:40 @ Now at the sunne setting, all they that had sicke folkes of diuers diseases, brought them vnto him, and he layd his hands on euery one of them, and healed them.

geneva@Luke:5:1 @ And (note:)Christ reveals to the four disciples whom he had taken unto himself the office of the apostleship, which would be committed unto them in the future.(:note) it came to pass, that, as the people Did as it were lie upon him, so desirous were they both to see him and hear him, and therefore he taught them out of a ship. pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret,

geneva@Luke:5:2 @ And sawe two shippes stand by the lakes side, but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nettes.

geneva@Luke:5:3 @ And he entred into one of the ships, which was Simons, & required him that he would thrust off a litle from the land: and he sate downe, and taught the people out of the ship.

geneva@Luke:5:5 @ And Simon answering said unto him, (note:)The word signifies someone that has rule over anything.(:note) Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net.

geneva@Luke:5:9 @ For he was vtterly astonied, and all that were with him, for the draught of fishes which they tooke.

geneva@Luke:5:10 @ And so was also Iames & Iohn the sonnes of Zebedeus, which were companions with Simon. Then Iesus sayde vnto Simon, Feare not: from henceforth thou shalt catch men.

geneva@Luke:5:14 @ And he commaunded him that hee should tell it no man: but Go, sayth he, and shew thy selfe to the Priest, and offer for thy clensing, as Moses hath commanded, for a witnes vnto them.

geneva@Luke:5:18 @ Then beholde, men brought a man lying in a bed, which was taken with a palsie, and they sought meanes to bring him in, and to lay him before him.

geneva@Luke:5:19 @ And when they could not finde by what way they might bring him in, because of the preasse, they went vp on the house, and let him downe through the tyling, bed and all, in the middes before Iesus.

geneva@Luke:5:21 @ Then the Scribes & the Pharises began to reason, saying, Who is this that speaketh blasphemies? who can forgiue sinnes, but God onely?

geneva@Luke:5:22 @ But when Iesus perceiued their reasoning, he answered, and sayd vnto them, What reason ye in your hearts?

geneva@Luke:5:23 @ Whether is easier to say, Thy sinnes are forgiuen thee, or to say, Rise and walke?

geneva@Luke:5:26 @ And they were all amased, & praysed God, and were filled with feare, saying, Doutlesse we haue seene strange things to day.

geneva@Luke:5:29 @ Then Leui made him a great feast in his owne house, where there was a great company of Publicanes, and of other that sate at table with them.

geneva@Luke:5:35 @ But the dayes will come, euen when the bridegrome shalbe taken away from them: then shall they fast in those dayes.

geneva@Luke:6:1 @ And (note:)Christ shows against the superstitious, who dwell on every trifling matter, that the law of the very sabbath was not given to be kept without exception: much less that the salvation of man should consist in the outward keeping of it.(:note) it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he went through the corn fields; and his disciples Epiphanius notes well in his treatise, where he refutes Ebion, that the time when the disciples plucked the ears of the corn was in the feast of unleavened bread. Now, in those feasts which were kept over a period of many days, as the feast of tabernacles and passover, their first day and the last were very solemn; see (Leviticus. strkjv@23:1-44). Luke then fitly calls the last day the second sabbath, though Theophylact understands it to be any of the sabbaths that followed the first. plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbing [them] in [their] hands.

geneva@Luke:6:3 @ Then Iesus answered them, and said, Haue ye not read this, that Dauid did when he himselfe was an hungred, and they which were with him,

geneva@Luke:6:4 @ Howe he went into the house of God, and tooke, and ate the shewbread, and gaue also to them which were with him, which was not lawful to eate, but for the Priests onely?

geneva@Luke:6:9 @ Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to (note:)Whoever does not help his neighbour when he can, he kills him.(:note) destroy [it]?

geneva@Luke:6:10 @ And he behelde them all in compasse, and sayd vnto the man, Stretch forth thine hand; he did so, and his hand was restored againe, as whole as the other.

geneva@Luke:6:13 @ And when it was day, he called his disciples, and of them he chose twelue which also he called Apostles.

geneva@Luke:6:15 @ Matthewe and Thomas: Iames the sonne of Alpheus, and Simon called Zelous,

geneva@Luke:6:16 @ Iudas Iames brother, and Iudas Iscariot, which also was the traitour.)

geneva@Luke:6:17 @ And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the (note:)From all the sea coast, which is called Syrophoenecia.(:note) sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;

geneva@Luke:6:22 @ Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall (note:)Cast you out of their synagogues, as John expounds in (Joh_16:2), which is the severest punishment the Church has, if the elders judge rightfully, and by the word of God.(:note) separate you [from their company], and shall reproach [you], and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.

geneva@Luke:6:23 @ Rejoice ye in that day, and (note:)Leap for exceeding joy, as cattle do who are spurred on by food.(:note) leap for joy: for, behold, your reward [is] great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.

geneva@Luke:6:30 @ Giue to euery man that asketh of thee: and of him that taketh away the things that be thine, aske them not againe.

geneva@Luke:6:31 @ And as ye would that men should doe to you, so doe ye to them likewise.

geneva@Luke:6:35 @ But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, (note:)When you will lend, do it only to benefit and please with it, and not with the hope of receiving the principal again.(:note) hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and [to] the evil.

geneva@Luke:6:36 @ Be ye therefore mercifull, as your Father also is mercifull.

geneva@Luke:6:38 @ Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, (note:)These are borrowed types of sayings, taken from those who used to measure dry things, as corn and such things, who do it in a rather forceful manner, and thrust it down and shake it together, and press it and put it into a pile.(:note) pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

geneva@Luke:6:40 @ The disciple is not aboue his master: but whosoeuer will be a perfect disciple, shall bee as his master.

geneva@Luke:6:42 @ Either howe canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou seest not the beame that is in thine owne eye? Hypocrite, cast out the beame out of thine owne eye first, and then shalt thou see, perfectly to pull out the mote that is in thy brothers eye.

geneva@Luke:6:45 @ A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth foorth good, and an euill man out of the euill treasure of his heart bringeth foorth euill: for of the aboundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

geneva@Luke:6:48 @ He is like a man which built an house, and digged deepe, and layde the fundation on a rocke: and when the waters arose, the flood beat vpon that house, and coulde not shake it: for it was grounded vpon a rocke.

geneva@Luke:6:49 @ But hee that heareth and doeth not, is like a man that built an house vpon the earth without foundation, against which the flood did beate, and it fell by and by: and the fall of that house was great.

geneva@Luke:7:2 @ And a certaine Ceturions seruant was sicke and readie to die, which was deare vnto him.

geneva@Luke:7:4 @ So they came to Iesus, and besought him instantly, saying that hee was worthy that hee should doe this for him:

geneva@Luke:7:6 @ Then Iesus went with them: but when he was now not farre from the house, the Centurion sent friendes to him, saying vnto him, Lorde, trouble not thy selfe: for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter vnder my roofe:

geneva@Luke:7:10 @ And when they that were sent, turned backe to the house, they founde the seruant that was sicke, whole.

geneva@Luke:7:12 @ Nowe when hee came neere to the gate of the citie, behold, there was a dead man caried out, who was the onely begotten sonne of his mother, which was a widowe, and much people of the citie was with her.

geneva@Luke:7:13 @ And when the Lord sawe her, he had compassion on her, and said vnto her, Weepe not.

geneva@Luke:7:15 @ And he that was dead, sate vp, and began to speake, and he deliuered him to his mother.

geneva@Luke:7:28 @ For I say vnto you, there is no greater Prophet then Iohn, among them that are begotten of women: neuerthelesse, hee that is the least in the kingdome of God, is greater then he.

geneva@Luke:7:29 @ And all the people that heard [him], and the publicans, (note:)Said that he was just, good, faithful and merciful.(:note) justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.

geneva@Luke:7:37 @ And beholde, a woman in the citie, which was a sinner, when she knewe that Iesus sate at table in the Pharises house, shee brought a boxe of oyntment.

geneva@Luke:7:38 @ And shee stoode at his feete behinde him weeping, and began to wash his feete with teares, and did wipe them with the heares of her head, and kissed his feete, and anoynted them with the oyntment.

geneva@Luke:7:41 @ There was a certaine lender which had two detters: the one ought fiue hundreth pence, and the other fiftie:

geneva@Luke:7:43 @ Simon answered, and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgaue most; he said vnto him, Thou hast truely iudged.

geneva@Luke:7:44 @ Then he turned to the woman, and said vnto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entred into thine house, and thou gauest mee no water to my feete: but she hath washed my feete with teares, and wiped them with the heares of her head.

geneva@Luke:7:45 @ Thou gauest me no kisse: but she, since the time I came in, hath not ceased to kisse my feete.

geneva@Luke:7:47 @ Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; (note:)That is, says Theophylact, she has shown her faith abundantly: and Basil in his «Sermon of Baptism» says, «He that owes much has much forgiven him, that he may love much more». And therefore Christ's saying is so plain in light of this that it is a wonder to see the enemies of the truth so badly distort and misinterpret this place in such a thorough manner in order to establish their meritorious works: for the greater sum a man has forgiven him, the more he loves him that has been so gracious to him. And this woman shows by deeds of love how great the benefit was she had received: and therefore the charity that is here spoken of is not to be taken as the cause of her forgiveness, but as a sign of it: for Christ does not say as the Pharisees did that she was a sinner, but bears her witness that the sins of her past life are forgiven her.(:note) for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, [the same] loveth little.

geneva@Luke:8:1 @ And it came to passe afterwarde, that hee himselfe went through euery citie and towne, preaching and publishing the kingdome of God, and the twelue were with him,

geneva@Luke:8:2 @ And certaine women, which were healed of euill spirites, and infirmities, as Mary which was called Magdalene, out of whom went seuen deuils,

geneva@Luke:8:5 @ A sower went out to sowe his seede, and as he sowed, some fell by the wayes side, and it was troden vnder feete, and the foules of heauen deuoured it vp.

geneva@Luke:8:6 @ And some fell on the stones, and when it was sprong vp, it withered away, because it lacked moystnesse.

geneva@Luke:8:8 @ And some fell on good ground, and sprang vp, and bare fruite, an hundreth folde; as hee sayd these things, he cryed, He that hath eares to heare, let him heare.

geneva@Luke:8:9 @ Then his disciples asked him, demaunding what parable that was.

geneva@Luke:8:12 @ And they that are beside the way, are they that heare: afterward commeth the deuill, and taketh away the worde out of their hearts, least they should beleeue, and be saued.

geneva@Luke:8:14 @ And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, (note:)That is, as soon as they have heard the word, they go about their business.(:note) go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of [this] life, and They do not bring forth perfect and full fruit to the ripening: or, they begin, but they do not bring to an end. bring no fruit to perfection.

geneva@Luke:8:20 @ And it was tolde him by certaine which said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, and would see thee.

geneva@Luke:8:23 @ But as they sailed he fell (note:)Jesus fell asleep, and it appears that he was very fast asleep, because they called him twice before he awoke.(:note) asleep: and there came down a storm of wind on the lake; and Not the disciples, but the ship. they were filled [with water], and were in jeopardy.

geneva@Luke:8:24 @ Then they went to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, Master, we perish; he arose, and rebuked the winde, and the waues of water: and they ceased, and it was calme.

geneva@Luke:8:29 @ (For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, (note:)By force and violence, as a horse when he is spurred.(:note) and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)

geneva@Luke:8:30 @ Then Iesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he sayd, Legion, because many deuils were entred into him.

geneva@Luke:8:32 @ And there was there by, an hearde of many swine, feeding on an hill: and the deuils besought him, that he would suffer them to enter into them. So he suffered them.

geneva@Luke:8:33 @ Then went the deuils out of the man, and entred into the swine: and the hearde was caried with violence from a steepe downe place into the lake, and was choked.

geneva@Luke:8:34 @ When the heardmen sawe what was done, they fled: and when they were departed, they tolde it in the citie and in the countrey.

geneva@Luke:8:35 @ Then they came out to see what was done, and came to Iesus, and found the man, out of whom the deuils were departed, sitting at the feete of Iesus, clothed, and in his right minde: and they were afrayd.

geneva@Luke:8:36 @ They also which saw it, tolde them by what meanes he that was possessed with the deuill, was healed.

geneva@Luke:8:39 @ Return to thine own house, and shew how great things God hath done unto thee. And he went his way, and published (note:)That is, the city of the Gadarenes: and though Mark says that he preached it in Decapolis, these accounts do not differ, for Pliny records in lib. 5, chap. 18, that Gadara is a town of Decapolis: so that Decapolis was partly on this side of Jordan, and partly on the other side.(:note) throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done unto him.

geneva@Luke:8:40 @ And it came to pass, that, when Jesus was returned, the people (note:)The multitude was glad he had come again, and greatly rejoiced.(:note) [gladly] received him: for they were all waiting for him.

geneva@Luke:8:42 @ For he had but a daughter onely, about twelue yeeres of age, and she lay a dying (and as he went, the people thronged him.

geneva@Luke:8:45 @ Then Iesus sayd, Who is it that hath touched me? When euery man denied, Peter sayd and they that were with him, Master, the multitude thrust thee, and tread on thee, & sayest thou, Who hath touched me?

geneva@Luke:8:47 @ When the woman sawe that she was not hid, she came trembling, and fell downe before him, and tolde him before all the people, for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediatly.

geneva@Luke:8:49 @ While he yet spake, there came one from the ruler of the Synagogues house, which sayde to him, Thy daughter is dead: disease not the Master.

geneva@Luke:8:53 @ And they laught him to scorne, knowing that she was dead.

geneva@Luke:8:55 @ And her spirit came again, and she (note:)The corpse was lying there, and then the young girl received life, and rose out of the bed, that all the world might see that she was not only restored to life, but also void of all sickness.(:note) arose straightway: and he commanded to give her meat.

geneva@Luke:8:56 @ Then her parents were astonied: but hee commaunded them that they should tell no man what was done.

geneva@Luke:9:1 @ Then (note:)The twelve apostles are sent forth only at the commandment of Christ and equipped with the power of the Holy Spirit: both that none of the Israelites might pretend ignorance, and also that they might be better prepared for their general mission.(:note) he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.

geneva@Luke:9:4 @ And whatsoever house ye enter into, there (note:)When you depart out of any city, depart from that place where you first took up your lodging: so that in these few words the Lord forbids them to change their lodgings: for this publishing of the gospel was as it were a publishing throughout the whole land, that no one in Judea might pretend ignorance, as though he had not heard that Christ had come.(:note) abide, and thence depart.

geneva@Luke:9:8 @ And of some, that Elias had appeared: and of some, that one of the olde Prophets was risen againe.

geneva@Luke:9:16 @ Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, (note:)He gave God thanks for these loaves and fishes, and prayed at the same time that God would feed this multitude which was so great with such a small quantity, and to put it briefly, that this whole banquet might be to the glory of God.(:note) he blessed them, and brake, and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude.

geneva@Luke:9:17 @ So they did all eate, and were satisfied: and there was taken vp of that remained to them, twelue baskets full of broken meate.

geneva@Luke:9:19 @ They answered, and sayd, Iohn Baptist: and others say, Elias: and some say, that one of the olde Prophets is risen againe.

geneva@Luke:9:23 @ And he said to [them] all, If any [man] will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross (note:)Even as one day follows another, so does one cross follow another, and the cross is by the figure of speech metonymy taken for the miseries of this life: for to be hanged on the cross was the most grievous and cruel punishment that there was amongst the Jews.(:note) daily, and follow me.

geneva@Luke:9:26 @ For whosoeuer shall be ashamed of me, and of my wordes, of him shall the Sonne of man be ashamed, when hee shall come in his glorie, and in the glorie of the Father, and of the holy Angels.

geneva@Luke:9:27 @ And I tell you of a suretie, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they haue seene the kingdome of God.

geneva@Luke:9:29 @ And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was changed, and his garment was white and glistered.

geneva@Luke:9:30 @ And beholde, two men talked with him, which were Moses and Elias:

geneva@Luke:9:31 @ Who appeared in glory, and spake of his (note:)What death he would die in Jerusalem.(:note) decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem.

geneva@Luke:9:33 @ And it came to passe, as they departed fro him, Peter said vnto Iesus, Master, it is good for vs to be here: let vs therefore make three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias, and wist not what he said.

geneva@Luke:9:36 @ And when the voice was past, Jesus was found alone. And they kept [it] close, and told no man in (note:)Until Christ was risen again from the dead.(:note) those days any of those things which they had seen.

geneva@Luke:9:38 @ And beholde, a man of the companie cried out, saying, Master, I beseech thee, beholde my sonne: for he is all that I haue.

geneva@Luke:9:39 @ And, lo, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out; and it teareth him that he foameth again, and (note:)As it happens in the falling sickness.(:note) bruising him hardly departeth from him.

geneva@Luke:9:40 @ Nowe I haue besought thy disciples to cast him out, but they could not.

geneva@Luke:9:42 @ And whiles he was yet comming, the deuill rent him, and tare him: and Iesus rebuked the vncleane spirite, and healed the childe, and deliuered him to his father.

geneva@Luke:9:45 @ But they vnderstood not that word: for it was hid from them, so that they could not perceiue it: and they feared to aske him of that worde.

geneva@Luke:9:48 @ And said vnto them, Whosoeuer receiueth this litle childe in my Name, receiueth me: and whosoeuer shall receiue me, receiueth him that sent me: for he that is least among you all, he shall be great.

geneva@Luke:9:53 @ But they woulde not receiue him, because his behauiour was, as though he would go to Hierusalem.

geneva@Luke:9:55 @ But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of (note:)So the Hebrews say, that is, you do not know what will, mind, and counsel you are of: so the gifts of God are called the spirit because they are given by God's Spirit, and so are the things that are contrary to them also called the spirit, which proceed from the wicked spirit, such as the spirit of covetousness, of pride, and madness.(:note) spirit ye are of.

geneva@Luke:9:60 @ Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury (note:)Who, even though they live in this frail life of man, yet are strangers from the true life, which is everlasting and heavenly.(:note) their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.

geneva@Luke:10:1 @ After (note:)The seventy are sent as the second forewarners of the coming of Christ.(:note) these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.

geneva@Luke:10:4 @ Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute (note:)This is spoken figuratively, which manner of speech men use when they put down more in words than is meant. This is usual among the Hebrews when they command a thing to be done speedily without delay, as is found in (2Ki_4:29); for in any other case courteous and gentle salutations are matters of Christian duty: as for the calling, it was only for a limited time.(:note) no man by the way.

geneva@Luke:10:7 @ And in the same house (note:)Take up your lodging in that house which you enter into first, that is, do not be concerned about comfortable lodging, as men do who plan to stay in a place a long time: for here that solemn preaching of the gospel, which was used afterward when the Churches were settled, is not instituted: but these are sent abroad to all the coasts of Judea to show them that the last jubilee is at hand.(:note) remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.

geneva@Luke:10:8 @ And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, (note:)Be content with the food that is set before you.(:note) eat such things as are set before you:

geneva@Luke:10:11 @ Euen the very dust, which cleaueth on vs of your citie, we wipe off against you: notwithstanding knowe this, that the kingdome of God was come neere vnto you.

geneva@Luke:10:12 @ For I say to you, that it shall be easier in that day for them of Sodom, then for that citie.

geneva@Luke:10:13 @ Woe be to thee, Chorazin: woe be to thee, Beth-saida: for if the miracles had bene done in Tyrus and Sidon, which haue bene done in you, they had a great while agone repented, sitting in sackecloth and ashes.

geneva@Luke:10:14 @ Therefore it shall be easier for Tyrus, and Sidon, at the iudgement, then for you.

geneva@Luke:10:18 @ And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning (note:)Paul writes that the location of the devil and his angels is in the air, as is found in (Eph_6:12), and he is said to be cast down from there by force, when his power is abolished by the voice of the Gospel.(:note) fall from heaven.

geneva@Luke:10:27 @ And he answered, and saide, Thou shalt loue thy Lord God with all thine heart, and with all thy soule, and with all thy strength, and with all thy thought, and thy neighbour as thy selfe.

geneva@Luke:10:28 @ Then he said vnto him, Thou hast answered right: this doe, and thou shalt liue.

geneva@Luke:10:31 @ Nowe so it fell out, that there came downe a certaine Priest that same way, and when he sawe him, he passed by on the other side.

geneva@Luke:10:32 @ And likewise also a Leuite, when he was come neere to the place, went and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.

geneva@Luke:10:33 @ Then a certaine Samaritane, as he iourneyed, came neere vnto him, and when he sawe him, he had compassion on him,

geneva@Luke:10:34 @ And went to him, & bound vp his wounds, and powred in oyle and wine, and put him on his owne beast, and brought him to an Inne, and made prouision for him.

geneva@Luke:10:36 @ Which nowe of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour vnto him that fell among the theeues?

geneva@Luke:10:40 @ But Martha was combred about much seruing, and came to him, and saide, Master, doest thou not care that my sister hath left me to serue alone? bid her therefore, that she helpe me.

geneva@Luke:11:1 @ And so it was, that as he was praying in a certaine place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said vnto him, Lord, teache vs to pray, as Iohn also taught his disciples.

geneva@Luke:11:2 @ And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, (note:)A form of true prayer.(:note) Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.

geneva@Luke:11:3 @ Give us (note:)That is, as much as is needed for us this day, by which we are not prevented from having an honest care for the maintenance of our lives; but that complaining care, which kills a number of men, is cut off and restrained.(:note) day by day our daily bread.

geneva@Luke:11:8 @ I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his (note:)Literally, «impudence»: but that impudency which is spoken of here is not to be found fault with, but is very commendable before God, for he is well pleased by such importunity.(:note) importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.

geneva@Luke:11:9 @ And I say vnto you, Aske, and it shall be giuen you: seeke, and yee shall finde: knocke, and it shalbe opened vnto you.

geneva@Luke:11:10 @ For euery one that asketh, receiueth: and he that seeketh, findeth: & to him that knocketh, it shalbe opened.

geneva@Luke:11:11 @ If a sonne shall aske bread of any of you that is a father, will he giue him a stone? Or if hee aske a fish, will he for a fish giue him a serpent?

geneva@Luke:11:12 @ Or if hee aske an egge, will hee giue him a scorpion?

geneva@Luke:11:14 @ Then hee cast out a deuill which was domme: and when the deuill was gone out, the domme spake, and the people wondered.

geneva@Luke:11:18 @ If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because ye say that I cast out devils (note:)By the name and power of Beelzebub.(:note) through Beelzebub.

geneva@Luke:11:19 @ If I through Beelzebub cast out deuils, by whome doe your children cast them out? Therefore shall they be your iudges.

geneva@Luke:11:20 @ But if I with the (note:)That is, by the power of God: so it says in {{See Exo_8:19}}.(:note) finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.

geneva@Luke:11:26 @ Then goeth hee, and taketh to him seuen other spirites worse then himselfe: and they enter in, and dwel there: so the last state of that man is worse then the first.

geneva@Luke:11:29 @ And when the people were gathered thicke together, he began to say, This is a wicked generation: they seeke a signe, and there shall no signe be giuen them, but the signe of Ionas the Prophet.

geneva@Luke:11:30 @ For as Ionas was a signe to the Niniuites: so shall also the Sonne of man bee to this generation.

geneva@Luke:11:32 @ The men of Niniue shall rise in iudgement with this generation, and shall condemne it: for they repented at the preaching of Ionas: and beholde, a greater then Ionas is here.

geneva@Luke:11:36 @ If therefore thy whole body shall be light, hauing no part darke, then shall all be light, euen as when a candle doth light thee with the brightnesse.

geneva@Luke:11:38 @ And when the Pharise saw it, he marueiled that he had not first washed before dinner.

geneva@Luke:11:41 @ But rather give alms (note:)That is, according to your ability: as one would say, instead of your extortion which hindered you so that you could not eat cleanly, use charity, and in accordance with your ability be good to the poor, and in this way will that which is within the platter be sanctified even though the platter is unwashed.(:note) of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.

geneva@Luke:11:48 @ Truly (note:)When you persecute God's servants like mad men, even as your fathers did, though you try and cover it with a pretence of godliness, yet nonetheless, by beautifying the sepulchres of the prophets, what else are you doing but glorying in your father's cruelty, and setting up monuments (as it were) in glory and triumph of it?(:note) ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.

geneva@Luke:11:50 @ That the blood of all the prophets, which was (note:)That you may be called to give an account for it, yea, and be punished for the shedding of that blood of the prophets.(:note) shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;

geneva@Luke:11:51 @ From the blood of Abel vnto the blood of Zacharias, which was slaine betweene the altar and the Temple: verely I say vnto you, it shall be required of this generation.

geneva@Luke:12:5 @ But I will (note:)He warns them of dangers that presently hang over their heads, for those that come upon one suddenly make a greater wound.(:note) forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.

geneva@Luke:12:10 @ And whosoeuer shall speake a woorde against the Sonne of man, it shall be forgiuen him: but vnto him, that shal blaspheme ye holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiuen.

geneva@Luke:12:19 @ And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, [and] (note:)Be merry and make good cheer.(:note) be merry.

geneva@Luke:12:20 @ But God said vnto him, O foole, this night wil they fetch away thy soule fro thee: then whose shall those things be which thou hast prouided?

geneva@Luke:12:21 @ So [is] he that layeth up treasure (note:)Caring for no man but for himself, and making sure to trust in himself.(:note) for himself, and is not rich toward God.

geneva@Luke:12:26 @ If yee then bee not able to doe the least thing, why take yee thought for the remnant?

geneva@Luke:12:27 @ Consider the lilies howe they growe: they labour not, neither spin they: yet I say vnto you, that Solomon himselfe in all his royaltie was not clothed like one of these.

geneva@Luke:12:28 @ If then God so clothe the grasse which is to day in the field, and to morowe is cast into the ouen, howe much more will he clothe you, O yee of litle faith?

geneva@Luke:12:34 @ For where your treasure is, there will your hearts be also.

geneva@Luke:12:36 @ And ye your selues like vnto men that waite for their master, when he will returne from the wedding, that when he commeth and knocketh, they may open vnto him immediatly.

geneva@Luke:12:41 @ Then Peter saide vnto him, Master, tellest thou this parable vnto vs, or euen to all?

geneva@Luke:12:42 @ And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom [his] lord shall make ruler over his household, to give [them their] (note:)That is, every month the measure of corn that was given to them.(:note) portion of meat in due season?

geneva@Luke:12:43 @ Blessed is that seruant, whom his master when he commeth, shall finde so doing.

geneva@Luke:12:45 @ But if that seruant say in his heart, My master doeth deferre his comming, and ginne to smite the seruants, and maydens, and to eate, and drinke, and to be drunken,

geneva@Luke:12:46 @ The master of that seruant will come in a day when he thinketh not, and at an houre when he is not ware of, and will cut him off, and giue him his portion with the vnbeleeuers.

geneva@Luke:12:47 @ And that seruant that knewe his masters will, and prepared not himselfe, neither did according to his will, shalbe beaten with many stripes.

geneva@Luke:12:48 @ But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few [stripes]. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask (note:)More than the one who did not receive as much.(:note) the more.

geneva@Luke:12:55 @ And when ye see the South winde blowe, ye say, that it wilbe hoate: & it commeth to passe.

geneva@Luke:12:58 @ When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, [as thou art] in the way, give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him; lest he hale thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the (note:)To him that has to demand and gather the fines from those who were fined at the discretion of the court, people who had wrongly troubled men: moreover, the magistrate's officers make those who are condemned pay what they owe, yea and often if they are obstinate, they not only take the fine, but also imprison them.(:note) officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.

geneva@Luke:12:59 @ I tell thee, thou shalt not depart thence, till thou hast payed the vtmost mite.

geneva@Luke:13:1 @ There (note:)We must not rejoice at the just punishment of others, but rather we should be instructed by it to repent.(:note) were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea almost ten years, and about the fourth year of his government, which might be about the fifteenth year of Tiberius' reign, Christ finished the work of our redemption by his death. Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.

geneva@Luke:13:4 @ Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in (note:)That is, in the place, or river: for Siloam was a small river from which the conduits of the city came; see (Joh_9:7; Isa_8:6); and therefore it was a tower or a castle, built upon the conduit side, which fell down suddenly and killed some.(:note) Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem?

geneva@Luke:13:11 @ And, behold, there was a woman which had a (note:)Troubled with a disease which Satan caused.(:note) spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up [herself].

geneva@Luke:13:12 @ And when Jesus saw her, he called [her to him], and said unto her, Woman, thou art (note:)For Satan had the woman bound, as if she had been in chains, to the extent that for eighteen years time she could not hold up her head.(:note) loosed from thine infirmity.

geneva@Luke:13:13 @ And he laide his handes on her, and immediately she was made straight againe, and glorified God.

geneva@Luke:13:15 @ Then answered him the Lord, and said, Hypocrite, doth not eche one of you on the Sabbath day loose his oxe or his asse from the stall, & leade him away to the water?

geneva@Luke:13:17 @ And when he said these things, all his aduersaries were ashamed: but all the people reioyced at all the excellent things, that were done by him.

geneva@Luke:13:21 @ It is like leauen, which a woman tooke, and hid in three peckes of floure, till all was leauened.

geneva@Luke:13:29 @ And they shall come from the (note:)From all the corners of the world, and the places mentioned here are four of the main ones.(:note) east, and [from] the west, and from the north, and [from] the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.

geneva@Luke:13:30 @ And beholde, there are last, which shalbe first, and there are first, which shalbe last.

geneva@Luke:13:32 @ And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that (note:)That deceitful and treacherous man.(:note) fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures That is, a small time, and Theophylact says it is a proverb: or else by «to day» we may understand the present time, and by tomorrow the time to come, meaning by this the entire time of his ministry and office. to day and to morrow, and the third [day] I shall be That is, when the sacrifice for sin is finished. perfected.

geneva@Luke:13:34 @ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen [doth gather] her (note:)Literally, «the nest»: now the brood of chickens is the nest.(:note) brood under [her] wings, and ye would not!

geneva@Luke:14:1 @ And (note:)The law of the very sabbath ought not to hinder the offices of charity.(:note) it came to pass, as he went into the house of Either one of the elders, whom they called the sanhedrin, or one of the chiefs of the synagogue: for all the Pharisees were not chief men of the synagogue (Joh_7:48); for this word Pharisee was the name of a sect, though it appears by viewing the whole history of the matter that the Pharisees had much authority. one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him.

geneva@Luke:14:2 @ And beholde, there was a certaine man before him, which had the dropsie.

geneva@Luke:14:5 @ And answered them, saying, Which of you shall haue an asse, or an oxe fallen into a pit, & wil not straightway pull him out on the Sabbath day?

geneva@Luke:14:13 @ But when thou makest a feast, call ye poore, the maimed, the lame, and the blind,

geneva@Luke:14:21 @ So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the (note:)Wide and broad areas.(:note) streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.

geneva@Luke:14:22 @ And the seruaunt saide, Lorde, it is done as thou hast commaunded, and yet there is roome.

geneva@Luke:14:23 @ Then the master sayd to the seruaunt, Goe out into the hie wayes, and hedges, and compell them to come in, that mine house may bee filled.

geneva@Luke:14:24 @ For I say vnto you, that none of those men which were bidden, shall taste of my supper.

geneva@Luke:14:26 @ If any [man] come to me, and (note:)If anything stands between God and him, as Theophylact says: and therefore these words are spoken in a comparative way, and not by themselves.(:note) hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

geneva@Luke:14:30 @ Saying, This man began to builde, and was not able to make an end?

geneva@Luke:14:32 @ Or els while hee is yet a great way off, hee sendeth an ambassage, and desireth peace.

geneva@Luke:14:35 @ It is neither meete for the land, nor yet for the dunghill, but men cast it out. He that hath eares to heare, let him heare.

geneva@Luke:15:1 @ Then drew near unto (note:)We must not give up on those who have gone out of the way, but according to the example of Christ we must take great pains for them.(:note) him Some publicans and sinners came to Christ from all areas. all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.

geneva@Luke:15:6 @ And when he commeth home, he calleth together his friendes and neighbours, saying vnto them, Reioyce with mee: for I haue founde my sheepe which was lost.

geneva@Luke:15:13 @ So not many daies after, when the yonger sonne had gathered all together, hee tooke his iourney into a farre countrey, and there hee wasted his goods with riotous liuing.

geneva@Luke:15:19 @ And am no more worthy to be called thy sonne: make me as one of thy hired seruants.

geneva@Luke:15:20 @ So hee arose and came to his father, and when hee was yet a great way off, his father sawe him, and had compassion, and ranne and fell on his necke, and kissed him.

geneva@Luke:15:24 @ For this my sonne was dead, and is aliue againe: and he was lost, but he is found; they began to be merie.

geneva@Luke:15:26 @ And called one of his seruaunts, and asked what those things meant.

geneva@Luke:15:28 @ Then he was angry, and would not goe in: therefore came his father out and entreated him.

geneva@Luke:15:30 @ But when this thy sonne was come, which hath deuoured thy good with harlots, thou hast for his sake killed the fat calfe.

geneva@Luke:15:32 @ It was meete that we shoulde make merie, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is aliue againe: and hee was lost, but he is found.

geneva@Luke:16:1 @ And he said also unto his disciples, (note:)Seeing that men often purchase friendship for themselves at the expense of others, we are to be ashamed if we do not please the Lord or procure the good will of our neighbours with the goods which the Lord has bestowed on us freely and liberally, making sure that by this means riches, which are often occasions of sin, are used for another end and purpose.(:note) There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.

geneva@Luke:16:3 @ Then the stewarde saide within himselfe, What shall I doe? for my master taketh away from me the stewardship. I cannot digge, and to begge I am ashamed.

geneva@Luke:16:5 @ Then called he vnto him euery one of his masters detters, & said vnto the first, Howe much owest thou vnto my master?

geneva@Luke:16:6 @ And he said, An hudreth measures of oyle; he saide to him, Take thy writing, and sitte downe quickely, and write fiftie.

geneva@Luke:16:7 @ Then said he to another, How much owest thou? And hee sayde, An hundreth measures of wheate. Then he saide to him, Take thy writing, and write foure score.

geneva@Luke:16:8 @ And the lord commended (note:)This parable does not approve the steward's evil dealing, for it was definitely theft: but parables are set forth to show a thing in a secret way, and as it were, to present the truth by means of an allegory, even though it may not be exact: so that by this parable Christ means to teach us that worldly men are more clever in the affairs of this world than the children of God are diligent for everlasting life.(:note) the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the Men that are given to this present life, contrary to whom are the children of light: Paul calls the former carnal and the latter spiritual. children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.

geneva@Luke:16:9 @ And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon (note:)This is not spoken of goods that are gotten wrongly, for God will have our bountifulness to the poor proceed and come from a good fountain: but he calls those things riches of iniquity which men use wickedly.(:note) of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting That is, the poor Christians: for they are the inheritors of these habitations; Theophylact. habitations.

geneva@Luke:16:17 @ Nowe it is more easie that heauen and earth shoulde passe away, then that one title of the Lawe should fall.

geneva@Luke:16:18 @ Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her (note:)They that gather by this passage that a man cannot be married again after he has divorced his wife for adultery, while she lives, reason incorrectly: for Christ speaks of those divorces which the Jews had which were not because of adultery, for adulterers were put to death by the law.(:note) that is put away from [her] husband committeth adultery.

geneva@Luke:16:20 @ Also there was a certaine begger named Lazarus, which was laide at his gate full of sores,

geneva@Luke:16:22 @ And it was so that the begger died, and was caried by the Angels into Abrahams bosome. The rich man also died, and was buried.

geneva@Luke:16:25 @ But Abraham saide, Sonne, remember that thou in thy life time receiuedst thy pleasures, and likewise Lazarus paines: now therefore is he comforted, and thou art tormented.

geneva@Luke:16:28 @ (For I haue fiue brethren) that he may testifie vnto them, least they also come into this place of torment.

geneva@Luke:17:1 @ Then said he unto the disciples, (note:)The Church is of necessity subject to offences, but the Lord will not suffer them unpunished, if any of the least be offended.(:note) It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe [unto him], through whom they come!

geneva@Luke:17:2 @ It is better for him that a great milstone were hanged about his necke, and that he were cast into ye sea, then that he should offende one of these litle ones.

geneva@Luke:17:6 @ And the Lord said, If ye had faith as (note:)If you had no more faith, but the quantity of the grain of mustard seed.(:note) a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.

geneva@Luke:17:9 @ Doeth he thanke that seruant, because hee did that which was commaunded vnto him? I trowe not.

geneva@Luke:17:12 @ And as hee entred into a certaine towne, there met him tenne men that were lepers, which stoode a farre off.

geneva@Luke:17:13 @ And they lift vp their voyces and saide, Iesus, Master, haue mercie on vs.

geneva@Luke:17:14 @ And when he saw them, he said vnto them, Goe, shewe your selues vnto the Priestes; it came to passe, that as they went, they were clensed.

geneva@Luke:17:15 @ Then one of them, when hee sawe that hee, was healed, turned backe, and with a loude voyce praised God,

geneva@Luke:17:16 @ And fell downe on his face at his feete, and gaue him thankes: and he was a Samaritan.

geneva@Luke:17:21 @ Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is (note:)You look around for the Messiah as though he were absent, but he is amongst you in the midst of you.(:note) within you.

geneva@Luke:17:24 @ For as the lightening that lighteneth out of the one part vnder heauen, shineth vnto the other part vnder heauen, so shall the Sonne of man be in his day.

geneva@Luke:17:28 @ Likewise also, as it was in the dayes of Lot: they ate, they dranke, they bought, they solde, they planted, they built.

geneva@Luke:17:33 @ Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall (note:)That is, will save it, as Matthew expounds it: for the life that is spoken of here is everlasting salvation.(:note) preserve it.

geneva@Luke:18:1 @ And (note:)God will have us to continue in prayer, not to weary us, but to exercise us; therefore we must fight against impatience so that a long delay does not cause us to quit our praying.(:note) he spake a parable unto them [to this end], that men ought always to pray, and not to Yield to afflictions and adversities as those do who have lost heart. faint;

geneva@Luke:18:3 @ And there was a widowe in that citie, which came vnto him, saying, Doe mee iustice against mine aduersarie.

geneva@Luke:18:5 @ Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she (note:)Literally, «beat me down with her blows», and it is a metaphor taken of wrestlers who beat their adversaries with their fists or clubs: in the same way those that are persistent beat the judge's ears with their crying out, even as it were with blows.(:note) weary me.

geneva@Luke:18:12 @ I fast twise in the weeke: I giue tithe of all that euer I possesse.

geneva@Luke:18:13 @ And the publican, standing (note:)Far from the Pharisee in a lower place.(:note) afar off, would not lift up so much as [his] eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.

geneva@Luke:18:18 @ Then a certaine ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what ought I to doe, to inherite eternall life?

geneva@Luke:18:22 @ Nowe when Iesus heard that, he saide vnto him, Yet lackest thou one thing. Sell all that euer thou hast, and distribute vnto the poore, and thou shalt haue treasure in heauen, and come followe mee.

geneva@Luke:18:23 @ But when he heard those things, he was very heauie: for he was marueilous riche.

geneva@Luke:18:25 @ Surely it is easier for a camel to go through a needles eye, then for a riche man to enter into the kingdome of God.

geneva@Luke:18:30 @ Which shall not receiue much more in this world, and in the world to come life euerlasting.

geneva@Luke:18:34 @ And they understood (note:)By this we see how ignorant the disciples were.(:note) none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.

geneva@Luke:18:36 @ And when he heard the people passe by, he asked what it meant.

geneva@Luke:18:37 @ And they saide vnto him, that Iesus of Nazareth passed by.

geneva@Luke:18:40 @ And Iesus stoode stil, and commanded him to be brought vnto him; when he was come neere, he asked him,

geneva@Luke:19:1 @ And (note:)Christ especially guides by his grace those who seem to be furthest from it.(:note) [Jesus] entered and passed through Jericho.

geneva@Luke:19:2 @ And, behold, [there was] a man named Zacchaeus, which was the (note:)The overseer and head of the publicans who were there together: for the publicans were divided into companies, as we may gather from many places in the orations of Cicero.(:note) chief among the publicans, and he was rich.

geneva@Luke:19:3 @ And he sought to see Iesus, who hee should be, and coulde not for the preasse, because he was of a lowe stature.

geneva@Luke:19:6 @ Then he came downe hastily, and receiued him ioyfully.

geneva@Luke:19:9 @ And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a (note:)Beloved of God, one that walks in the steps of Abraham's faith: and we gather that salvation came to that house because they received the blessing as Abraham had. (Ed.)(:note) son of Abraham.

geneva@Luke:19:10 @ For the Sonne of man is come to seeke, and to saue that which was lost.

geneva@Luke:19:14 @ Nowe his citizens hated him, and sent an ambassage after him, saying, We will not haue this man to reigne ouer vs.

geneva@Luke:19:15 @ And it came to passe, when hee was come againe, and had receiued his kingdome, that he commanded the seruants to be called to him, to whome he gaue his money, that he might knowe what euery man had gained.

geneva@Luke:19:16 @ Then came the first, saying, Lord, (note:)This was a piece of money which the Greeks used, and was worth about one hundred pence, which is about ten crowns.(:note) thy pound hath gained ten pounds.

geneva@Luke:19:17 @ And he sayd vnto him, Well, good seruant: because thou hast bene faithfull in a very litle thing, take thou authoritie ouer ten cities.

geneva@Luke:19:18 @ And the second came, saying, Lord, thy piece hath encreased fiue pieces.

geneva@Luke:19:23 @ Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the (note:)To the bankers and money changers. Usury or loaning money at interest is strictly forbidden by the Bible, (Exo_22:25-27; Deu_23:19-20). Even a rate as low as one per cent interest was disallowed, (Neh_5:11). This servant had already told two lies. First he said the master was an austere or harsh man. This is a lie for the Lord is merciful and gracious. Next he called his master a thief because he reaped where he did not sow. Finally the master said to him that why did you not add insult to injury and loan the money out at interest so you could call your master a «usurer» too! If the servant had done this, his master would have been responsible for his servant's actions and guilty of usury. (Ed.)(:note) bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?

geneva@Luke:19:28 @ And when he had thus spoken, (note:)The disciples were staggered and stopped by what Christ said, but Christ goes on boldly even though death was before his eyes.(:note) he went before, ascending up to Jerusalem.

geneva@Luke:19:30 @ Saying, Goe ye to the towne which is before you, wherein, assoone as ye are come, ye shall finde a colte tied, whereon neuer man sate: loose him, and bring him hither.

geneva@Luke:19:31 @ And if any man aske you, why ye loose him, thus shall ye say vnto him, Because the Lord hath neede of him.

geneva@Luke:19:32 @ So they that were sent, went their way, and found it as he had sayd vnto them.

geneva@Luke:19:33 @ And as they were loosing the colte, the owners thereof sayd vnto them, Why loose ye the colte?

geneva@Luke:19:35 @ So they brought him to Iesus, and they cast their garments on the colte, and set Iesus thereon.

geneva@Luke:19:36 @ And as he went, they spred their clothes in the way.

geneva@Luke:19:37 @ And when he was nowe come neere to the going downe of the mount of Oliues, the whole multitude of the disciples began to reioyce, and to prayse God with a loude voyce, for all the great workes that they had seene,

geneva@Luke:19:43 @ For the dayes shall come vpon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compasse thee round, and keepe thee in on euery side,

geneva@Luke:20:1 @ And (note:)The Pharisees, being overcome with the truth of Christ's doctrine, propose a question about his outward calling, and are overcome by the witness of their own conscience.(:note) it came to pass, [that] on one of those days, as he taught the people in the temple, and preached the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes came upon [him] with the elders,

geneva@Luke:20:3 @ And he answered, and sayde vnto them, I also will aske you one thing: tell me therefore:

geneva@Luke:20:4 @ The baptisme of Iohn, was it from heauen, or of men?

geneva@Luke:20:5 @ And they reasoned within themselues, saying, If we shall say, From heauen, he will say, Why then beleeued ye him not?

geneva@Luke:20:6 @ But if we shall say, Of men, all the people will stone vs: for they be perswaded that Iohn was a Prophet.

geneva@Luke:20:7 @ Therefore they answered, that they could not tell whence it was.

geneva@Luke:20:12 @ Moreouer he sent the third, and him they wounded, and cast out.

geneva@Luke:20:14 @ But when the husbandmen sawe him, they reasoned with themselues, saying, This is the heire: come, let vs kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.

geneva@Luke:20:15 @ So they cast him out of the vineyarde, and killed him. What shall the Lord of the vineyarde therefore doe vnto them?

geneva@Luke:20:21 @ And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, neither acceptest thou the (note:)You are not moved by favour of any man: and by «person» he means outward circumstances, for if a man judges according to these, there will be those who are truly alike whom he will judge to be different.(:note) person [of any], but teachest the way of God truly:

geneva@Luke:20:28 @ Saying, Master, Moses wrote vnto vs, If any mans brother die hauing a wife, and hee die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise vp seede vnto his brother.

geneva@Luke:20:32 @ And last of all the woman dyed also.

geneva@Luke:20:34 @ And Jesus answering said unto them, The (note:)«The children of this world» refers here to those who live in this world, and not those that are wholly given to the world (and therefore contrary to the children of light), as above in (Luk_16:8).(:note) children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:

geneva@Luke:20:36 @ Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the (note:)That is, men who partake in the resurrection: for as we truly say that they will indeed live who will enjoy everlasting bliss, so do those indeed rise who rise to life; though if this word «resurrection» is taken generally, it refers also to the wicked, who will rise to condemnation, which is not properly life, but death.(:note) children of the resurrection.

geneva@Luke:20:39 @ Then certaine of the Scribes answered, and sayd, Master, thou hast well sayd.

geneva@Luke:20:40 @ And after that, durst they not aske him any thing at all.

geneva@Luke:21:1 @ And (note:)According to the judgment of God, the poor may even exceed the rich in generosity and liberality.(:note) he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.

geneva@Luke:21:2 @ And he sawe also a certaine poore widowe which cast in thither two mites:

geneva@Luke:21:3 @ And he sayd, Of a trueth I say vnto you, that this poore widowe hath cast in more then they all.

geneva@Luke:21:4 @ For they all haue of their superfluitie cast into the offerings of God: but she of her penurie hath cast in all the liuing that she had.

geneva@Luke:21:7 @ Then they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what signe shall there be when these things shall come to passe?

geneva@Luke:21:12 @ But before all these, they shal lay their hands on you, and persecute you, deliuering you vp to the assemblies, and into prisons, and bring you before Kings and rulers for my Names sake.

geneva@Luke:21:13 @ And it shall turn to you for (note:)This will be the result of your troubles and afflictions: they will be witnesses both before God and man of the treacherous and cruel dealing of your enemies, as well as of your steadfastness: A noble saying, that the afflictions of the godly and holy men pertain to the witness of the truth.(:note) a testimony.

geneva@Luke:21:14 @ Lay it vp therefore in your heartes, that ye cast not before hand, what ye shall answere.

geneva@Luke:21:23 @ But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and (note:)By «wrath» are meant those things which God sends when he is displeased.(:note) wrath upon this people.

geneva@Luke:21:28 @ And when these things beginne to come to passe, then looke vp, and lift vp your heades: for your redemption draweth neere.

geneva@Luke:21:31 @ So likewise yee, when yee see these thinges come to passe, knowe ye that the kingdome of God is neere.

geneva@Luke:21:32 @ Verely I say vnto you, This age shall not passe, till all these things be done:

geneva@Luke:21:33 @ Heauen and earth shall passe away, but my wordes shall not passe away.

geneva@Luke:21:34 @ Take heede to your selues, lest at any time your hearts be oppressed with surfeting and drunkennesse, and cares of this life, and least that day come on you at vnwares.

geneva@Luke:21:35 @ For as a snare shall it come (note:)On all men wherever they may be.(:note) on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

geneva@Luke:21:36 @ Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to (note:)You will appear before him in a condition such that you will abide the presence and sentence of the Judge without fear.(:note) stand before the Son of man.

geneva@Luke:22:1 @ Now the (note:)Christ is taken upon the day of the Passover rather by the providence of his Father, than by the will of men.(:note) feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.

geneva@Luke:22:4 @ And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and (note:)Those that had the charge of keeping the temple, who were not from among the priests and bishops, as is shown below in (Luk_22:52).(:note) captains, how he might betray him unto them.

geneva@Luke:22:6 @ And he promised, and sought opportunity to betray him unto them in the (note:)Without tumult, doing it without the knowledge of the people who used to follow him: and therefore they indeed waited patiently until they knew he was alone in the garden.(:note) absence of the multitude.

geneva@Luke:22:8 @ And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the (note:)The lamb which was the symbol of the passover: And this is said using the figure of speech metonymy, which is often used when talking about the sacraments.(:note) passover, that we may eat.

geneva@Luke:22:11 @ And say vnto the good man of the house, The Master saith vnto thee, Where is the lodging where I shall eate my Passeouer with my disciples?

geneva@Luke:22:13 @ So they went, and found as he had said vnto them, and made readie the Passeouer.

geneva@Luke:22:15 @ And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I (note:)I am put to death.(:note) suffer:

geneva@Luke:22:20 @ Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This (note:)Here is a double use of metonymy: for first, the vessel is taken for that which is contained in the vessel, as the cup is spoken of for the wine which is within the cup. Second, the wine is called the covenant or testament, whereas in reality it is but the sign of the testament, or rather of the blood of Christ by which the testament was made: neither is it a vain sign, although it is not the same as the thing that it represents.(:note) cup [is] This word «the» shows the excellency of the testament, and corresponds to (Jer_31:31) where the new testament is promised. the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.

geneva@Luke:22:25 @ And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called (note:)Have great titles, for so it was the custom to honour princes with some great titles.(:note) benefactors.

geneva@Luke:22:26 @ But yee shall not be so: but let the greatest among you be as the least: and the chiefest as he that serueth.

geneva@Luke:22:27 @ For who is greater, he that sitteth at table, or he that serueth? Is not he that sitteth at table? And I am among you as he that serueth.

geneva@Luke:22:29 @ Therefore I appoint vnto you a kingdome, as my Father hath appointed vnto me,

geneva@Luke:22:34 @ But he said, I tell thee, Peter, the cocke shall not crowe this day, before thou hast thrise denied that thou knewest me.

geneva@Luke:22:37 @ For I say vnto you, That yet the same which is written, must be perfourmed in me, Euen with the wicked was he nombred: for doubtlesse those things which are written of me, haue an ende.

geneva@Luke:22:39 @ And he came out, and went (as he was wont) to the mount of Oliues: and his disciples also followed him.

geneva@Luke:22:44 @ And being in an (note:)This agony shows that Christ struggled hard and was in great distress: for Christ struggled hard not only with the fears of death as other men do (for in this regard many martyrs might seem more constant then Christ), but also with the fearful judgment of his angry Father, which is the most fearful thing in the world: and this was because he took the burden of all our sins upon himself.(:note) agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great These do not only show that Christ was true man, but also other things which the godly have to consider of, in which the secret of the redemption of all mankind is contained in the Son of God when he debased himself to the state of a servant: such things as these no man can sufficiently declare. drops of blood falling down to the ground.

geneva@Luke:22:46 @ And he said vnto them, Why sleepe ye? rise and pray, least ye enter into tentation.

geneva@Luke:22:48 @ And Iesus saide vnto him, Iudas, betrayest thou the Sonne of man with a kisse?

geneva@Luke:22:53 @ When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the (note:)The power that was given to darkness to oppress the light for a time.(:note) power of darkness.

geneva@Luke:22:56 @ And a certaine mayde behelde him as hee sate by the fire, and hauing well looked on him, said, This man was also with him.

geneva@Luke:22:59 @ And about the space of an houre after, a certaine other affirmed, saying. Verely euen this man was with him: for he is also a Galilean.

geneva@Luke:22:64 @ And when they had blindfolded him, they smote him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophecie who it is that smote thee.

geneva@Luke:22:65 @ And many other thinges blasphemously spake they against him.

geneva@Luke:22:68 @ And if also I aske you, you will not answere me, nor let me goe.

geneva@Luke:23:3 @ And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Iewes? And hee answered him, and sayd, Thou sayest it.

geneva@Luke:23:7 @ And as soon as he knew that he belonged unto (note:)This was Herod Antipas the Tetrarch, in the time of whose period of rule (which was almost twenty-two years long) John the Baptist preached and was put to death, and Jesus Christ also died and rose again, and the apostles began to preach, and various things were done at Jerusalem almost seven years after Christ's death. This Herod was sent into banishment to Lyons, about the second year of Gaius Caesar.(:note) Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem at that time.

geneva@Luke:23:8 @ And when Herod sawe Iesus, hee was exceedingly glad: for he was desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard many things of him, and trusted to haue seene some signe done by him.

geneva@Luke:23:14 @ And sayd vnto them, Ye haue brought this man vnto me, as one that peruerted the people: and beholde, I haue examined him before you, and haue found no fault in this man, of those things whereof ye accuse him:

geneva@Luke:23:17 @ (For of necessitie hee must haue let one loose vnto them at the feast.)

geneva@Luke:23:18 @ Then all ye multitude cried at once, saying, Away with him, and deliuer vnto vs Barabbas:

geneva@Luke:23:19 @ Which for a certaine insurrection made in the citie, and murther, was cast in prison.

geneva@Luke:23:24 @ So Pilate gaue sentence, that it should be as they required.

geneva@Luke:23:25 @ And he let loose vnto them him that for insurrection and murther was cast into prison, whome they desired, and deliuered Iesus to doe with him what they would.

geneva@Luke:23:31 @ For if they do these things in a (note:)As if he said, «If they do this to me who is always fruitful and flourishing, and who lives forever by reason of my Godhead, what will they do to you who are unfruitful and void of all active righteousness?»(:note) green tree, what shall be done in the dry?

geneva@Luke:23:43 @ And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in (note:)God made the visible paradise in the eastern part of the world: but that which we behold with the eyes of our mind is the place of everlasting joy and salvation, through the goodness and mercy of God, a most pleasant rest for the souls of the godly, and a most quiet and joyful dwelling.(:note) paradise.

geneva@Luke:23:51 @ Hee did not consent to the counsell and deede of them, which was of Arimathea, a citie of the Iewes: who also himselfe waited for the kingdome of God.

geneva@Luke:23:52 @ He went vnto Pilate, and asked the body of Iesus,

geneva@Luke:23:53 @ And tooke it downe, & wrapped it in a linnen cloth, and laide it in a tombe hewen out of a rocke, wherein was neuer man yet laide.

geneva@Luke:23:54 @ And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath (note:)Literally, «dawning», and now beginning, for the light of the former day drew toward the going down of the sun, and that was the day of preparation for the feast, that is, the feast which was to be kept the following day.(:note) drew on.

geneva@Luke:24:1 @ Now upon the (note:)Poor humble women, who were certainly not expecting it, are chosen to be the first witnesses of the resurrection, so that there might not be any suspicion of either deceit or violence.(:note) first [day] of the week, very Very early, as Mark says: or as John says, while it was yet dark, that is, when it was yet hardly the dawning of day. early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain [others] with them.

geneva@Luke:24:4 @ And it came to passe, that as they were amased thereat, beholde, two men suddenly stood by them in shining vestures.

geneva@Luke:24:5 @ And as they were afraide, & bowed downe their faces to the earth, they sayd to them, Why seeke ye him that liueth, among the dead?

geneva@Luke:24:6 @ He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake vnto you, when he was yet in Galile,

geneva@Luke:24:10 @ Now it was Mary Magdalene, and Ioanna, and Mary the mother of Iames, and other women with them, which tolde these things vnto the Apostles.

geneva@Luke:24:11 @ But their wordes seemed vnto them, as a fained thing, neither beleeued they them.

geneva@Luke:24:15 @ And it came to passe, as they communed together, and reasoned, that Iesus himselfe drewe neere, and went with them.

geneva@Luke:24:17 @ And he sayd vnto them, What maner of communications are these that ye haue one to another as ye walke and are sad?

geneva@Luke:24:18 @ And (note:)Some of the old fathers think that the other disciple was the same evangelist who wrote this book, but Epiphanius, writing against the Saturnilians, says it was Nathanael; but none of these are certainties.(:note) the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?

geneva@Luke:24:19 @ And he said vnto them, What things? And they sayd vnto him, Of Iesus of Nazareth, which was a Prophet, mightie in deede and in word before God, and all people,

geneva@Luke:24:21 @ But we trusted that it had bene he that should haue deliuered Israel, and as touching all these things, to day is ye third day, that they were done.

geneva@Luke:24:22 @ Yea, & certaine women among vs made vs astonied, which came early vnto the sepulchre.

geneva@Luke:24:23 @ And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seene a vision of Angels, which sayd, that he was aliue.

geneva@Luke:24:24 @ Therefore certaine of them which were with vs, went to the sepulchre, and found it euen so as the women had sayd, but him they saw not.

geneva@Luke:24:28 @ And they drew neere vnto ye towne, which they went to, but he made as though hee would haue gone further.

geneva@Luke:24:30 @ And it came to passe, as hee sate at table with them, he tooke the bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gaue it to them.

geneva@Luke:24:31 @ And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he (note:)Suddenly taken away, and we may not therefore imagine that he was there in an invisible body, but indeed believe that he suddenly changed the place where he was.(:note) vanished out of their sight.

geneva@Luke:24:35 @ And they told what things [were done] in the way, and how he was known of them in (note:)When he broke bread, which that people used to do, and as the Jews still do today at the beginning of their meals and say a prayer.(:note) breaking of bread.

geneva@Luke:24:37 @ But they were abashed and afraide, supposing that they had seene a spirit.

geneva@Luke:24:39 @ Beholde mine handes and my feete: for it is I my selfe: handle me, and see: for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me haue.

geneva@Luke:24:51 @ And it came to passe, that as he blessed them, he departed from them, and was caried vp into heauen.

geneva@John:1:1 @ In (note:)The Son of God is of one and the selfsame eternity or everlastingness, and of one and the selfsame essence or nature with the Father.(:note) the From the beginning, as the evangelist says in (1Jo_1:1); it is as though he said that the Word did not begin to have his being when God began to make all that was made: for the Word was even then when all things that were made began to be made, and therefore he was before the beginning of all things. beginning Had his being. was This word «the» points out to us a peculiar and choice thing above all others, and puts a difference between this «Word», which is the Son of God, and the laws of God, which are also called the word of God. the Word, and the Word was This word «with» points out that there is a distinction of persons here. with God, and the This word «Word» is the first in order in the sentence, and is the subject of the sentence, and this word «God» is the latter in order, and is the predicate of the sentence. Word was God.

geneva@John:1:2 @ This same was in the beginning with God.

geneva@John:1:8 @ He was not (note:)That light which we spoke of, that is, Christ, who alone can enlighten our darkness.(:note) that Light, but [was sent] to bear witness of that Light.

geneva@John:1:13 @ Which were born, not of blood, nor of the (note:)Of that shameful and corrupt nature of man, which is throughout the scriptures described as an enemy of the spirit.(:note) will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

geneva@John:1:17 @ For the Lawe was giuen by Moses, but grace, and trueth came by Iesus Christ.

geneva@John:1:20 @ And he (note:)He did acknowledge him, and spoke of him plainly and openly.(:note) confessed, and This repeating of the one and the selfsame thing, though in different words, is often used by the Hebrews, and it has great force, for they used to speak one thing twice in order to set it out more certainly and plainly. denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.

geneva@John:1:21 @ And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, (note:)The Jews thought that Elias would come again before the days of the Messiah, and they took as the basis of their opinion (Mal_4:5), which is to be understood as referring to John, see (Mat_11:14). And yet John denies that he is Elias, answering their question just as they meant it.(:note) I am not. Art thou They are inquiring about some great prophet, and not about Christ, for John denied before that he is Christ, for they thought that some great prophet would be sent like Moses, using to support this position (Deu_18:15), which is to be understood to refer to all the company of the prophets and ministers, which have been and shall be to the end, and especially of Christ who is the head of all prophets. that prophet? And he answered, No.

geneva@John:1:23 @ He said, I am the voyce of him that cryeth in the wildernesse, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the Prophet Esaias.

geneva@John:1:25 @ And they asked him, and said unto him, (note:)By this we may prove that the Jews knew there should be some change in religion under the Messiah.(:note) Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?

geneva@John:1:27 @ He it is that commeth after me, which was before me, whose shoe latchet I am not worthie to vnloose.

geneva@John:1:30 @ This is he of whom I saide, After me commeth a man, which was before me: for he was better then I.

geneva@John:1:38 @ Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and saith unto them, What seek ye? They said unto him, Rabbi, (which is to say, being interpreted, Master,) (note:)Where is your lodging?(:note) where dwellest thou?

geneva@John:1:39 @ He saith unto them, Come and see. They came and saw where he dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was about the (note:)It was getting later in the night.(:note) tenth hour.

geneva@John:1:40 @ Andrewe, Simon Peters brother, was one of the two which had heard it of Iohn, and that followed him.

geneva@John:1:41 @ He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the (note:)That is, anointed, and king after the manner of the Jewish people.(:note) Christ.

geneva@John:1:42 @ And he brought him to Iesus; Iesus behelde him, and saide, Thou art Simon the sonne of Iona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, a stone.

geneva@John:1:44 @ Nowe Philip was of Bethsaida, the citie of Andrewe and Peter.

geneva@John:1:51 @ And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God (note:)These words signify the power of God which would appear in Christ's ministry by the angels serving him as the head of the Church.(:note) ascending and descending upon the Son of man.

geneva@John:2:1 @ And (note:)Christ, declaring openly in an assembly by a notable miracle that he has power over the nature of things to feed man's body, leads the minds of all men to consider his spiritual and saving strength and power.(:note) the After the talk which he had with Nathanael, or after his departure from John, or after he came into Galilee. third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:

geneva@John:2:2 @ And Iesus was called also, and his disciples vnto the mariage.

geneva@John:2:6 @ And there were set there six (note:)These were vessels made for the use of water, in which they washed themselves.(:note) waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three Every firkin contained one hundred pounds, at twelve ounces a pound: By this we gather that Christ helps them with one thousand and eight hundred pounds of wine. (about 135 imperial gallons or 600 litres Ed.) firkins apiece.

geneva@John:2:8 @ Then he sayde vnto them, Draw out nowe and beare vnto the gouernour of the feast. So they bare it.

geneva@John:2:9 @ Nowe when the gouernour of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, (for he knewe not whence it was: but the seruants, which drewe the water, knewe) the gouernour of ye feast called the bridegrome,

geneva@John:2:10 @ And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have (note:)Literally, «are drunken». Now this saying, to be drunken, does not always refer to being drunk in the evil sense in the Hebrew language, but sometimes signifies an abundant and plentiful use of wine, which is nonetheless a measured amount, as in (Gen_43:34).(:note) well drunk, then that which is worse: [but] thou hast kept the good wine until now.

geneva@John:2:17 @ And his disciples remembered that it was written, The (note:)«Zeal» in this place is taken for a wrathful indignation and displeasure of the mind, brought about when someone deals wickedly and evilly towards those whom we love well.(:note) zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.

geneva@John:2:20 @ Then said the Iewes, Fourtie & sixe yeeres was this Temple a building, and wilt thou reare it vp in three daies?

geneva@John:2:22 @ Assoone therefore as he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembred that hee thus sayde vnto them: and they beleeued the Scripture, and the worde which Iesus had saide.

geneva@John:2:23 @ Nowe when hee was at Hierusalem at the Passeouer in the feast, many beleeued in his Name, when they sawe his miracles which he did.

geneva@John:3:1 @ There (note:)There are none sometimes more unlearned than the learned, but the learned as well as the unlearned must desire wisdom from Christ only.(:note) was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a A man of great estimation and a ruler amongst the Jews. ruler of the Jews:

geneva@John:3:2 @ The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a (note:)We know that you are sent from God to teach us.(:note) teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, But he in whom some part of the excellency of God appears. And if Nicodemus had rightly known Christ, he would not only have said that God was with him, but in him, as Paul does in (2Co_1:19). except God be with him.

geneva@John:3:4 @ Nicodemus saith unto him, How (note:)How can I who am old be born again? For Nicodemus answers as if Christ's words were only addressed to himself.(:note) can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?

geneva@John:3:6 @ That which is born of the flesh is (note:)That is, fleshly, namely, wholly unclean and under the wrath of God: and therefore this word «flesh» signifies the corrupt nature of man: contrary to which is the Spirit, that is, the man ingrafted into Christ through the grace of the Holy Spirit, whose nature is everlasting and immortal, though the strife of the flesh remains.(:note) flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

geneva@John:3:8 @ The wind bloweth where it (note:)With free and wandering blasts as it wishes.(:note) listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

geneva@John:3:11 @ Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our (note:)You handle doubtful things even though you have no solid basis for believing them, and yet men believe you: but I teach those things that are of a truth and well known, and you do not believe me.(:note) witness.

geneva@John:3:13 @ And no (note:)Only Christ can teach us heavenly things, for no man ascends, etc.(:note) man That is, has any spiritual light and understanding, or ever had any, but only the Son of God who came down to us. hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, [even] Whereas he is said to have come down from heaven, this must be understood as referring to his Godhead, and of the manner of his conception: for Christ's birth upon the earth was heavenly and not earthly, for he was conceived by the Holy Spirit. the Son of man which That which is proper to the divinity of Christ, is here spoken of the whole Christ, to show us that he is but one person in which two natures are united. is in heaven.

geneva@John:3:14 @ And as Moses lift vp the serpent in the wildernesse, so must that Sonne of man be lift vp,

geneva@John:3:20 @ For euery man that euill doeth, hateth the light, neither commeth to light, least his deedes should be reprooued.

geneva@John:3:21 @ But he that (note:)That is, he that leads an honest life, and is void of all cunning and deceit.(:note) doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought That is, with God, God as it were going before. in God.

geneva@John:3:23 @ And Iohn also baptized in Enon besides Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.

geneva@John:3:24 @ For Iohn was not yet cast into prison.

geneva@John:3:26 @ And they came vnto Iohn, and saide vnto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Iorden, to whom thou barest witnesse, behold, he baptizeth, and all men come to him.

geneva@John:3:30 @ He must increase, but I must decrease.

geneva@John:3:34 @ For hee whome God hath sent, speaketh the woordes of God: for God giueth him not the Spirit by measure.

geneva@John:3:36 @ He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not (note:)Shall not enjoy.(:note) see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

geneva@John:4:1 @ When (note:)This balance is to be kept in doing our duty, that neither by fear are we terrified from going forward, and neither by rashness procure or bring dangers upon ourselves.(:note) therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,

geneva@John:4:6 @ Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with [his] journey, sat (note:)Even as he was weary, or because he was weary.(:note) thus on the well: [and] it was about the It was almost noon. sixth hour.

geneva@John:4:9 @ Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews (note:)There is no familiarity nor friendship between the Jews and the Samaritans.(:note) have no dealings with the Samaritans.

geneva@John:4:10 @ Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest (note:)By this word «the» we are shown that Christ speaks of some excellent gift, that is to say, even about himself, whom his Father offered to this woman.(:note) the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee This everlasting water, that is to say, the exceeding love of God, is called «living» or «of life», to make a difference between it and the water that should be drawn out of a well: and these metaphors are frequently used by the Jews. living water.

geneva@John:4:11 @ The woman saide vnto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to drawe with, and the well is deepe: from whence then hast thou that water of life?

geneva@John:4:14 @ But whosoeuer drinketh of the water that I shall giue him, shall neuer be more a thirst: but the water that I shall giue him, shalbe in him a well of water, springing vp into euerlasting life.

geneva@John:4:17 @ The woman answered, and saide, I haue no husband. Iesus said vnto her, Thou hast well said, I haue no husband.

geneva@John:4:18 @ For thou hast had fiue husbands, and he whom thou nowe hast, is not thine husband: that saidest thou truely.

geneva@John:4:23 @ But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in (note:)This word «spirit» is to be taken here as it is set against that commandment which is called carnal in (Heb_7:16), as the commandment is considered in itself: and so he speaks of «truth» not as we set it against a lie, but as we take it in respect of the outward ceremonies of the law, which only shadowed that which Christ indeed performed.(:note) spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

geneva@John:4:25 @ The woman said vnto him, I knowe well that Messias shall come which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell vs all things.

geneva@John:4:27 @ And vpon that, came his disciples, and marueiled that he talked with a woman: yet no man said vnto him, What askest thou? or why talkest thou with her?

geneva@John:4:31 @ In the meane while, the disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eate.

geneva@John:4:45 @ Then when he was come into Galile, the Galileans receiued him, which had seene all the things that he did at Hierusalem at the feast: for they went also vnto the feast.

geneva@John:4:47 @ When he heard that Iesus was come out of Iudea into Galile, he went vnto him, and besought him that he would goe downe, and heale his sonne: for he was euen ready to die.

geneva@John:4:51 @ And as he was nowe going downe, his seruants met him, saying, Thy sonne liueth.

geneva@John:4:53 @ Then the father knew, that it was the same houre in the which Iesus had said vnto him, Thy sonne liueth; he beleeued, & all his houshold.

geneva@John:4:54 @ This second miracle did Iesus againe, after he was come out of Iudea into Galile.

geneva@John:5:1 @ After that, there was a feast of the Iewes, and Iesus went vp to Hierusalem.

geneva@John:5:4 @ For an Angel went downe at a certaine season into the poole, and troubled the water: whosoeuer then first, after the stirring of the water, stepped in, was made whole of whatsoeuer disease he had.

geneva@John:5:5 @ And a certaine man was there, which had bene diseased eight and thirtie yeeres.

geneva@John:5:6 @ When Iesus sawe him lie, and knew that he nowe long time had bene diseased, he saide vnto him, Wilt thou be made whole?

geneva@John:5:9 @ And immediately the man was made whole, and tooke vp his bed, and walked: and the same day was the Sabbath.

geneva@John:5:12 @ Then asked they him, What man is that which said vnto thee, Take vp thy bed and walke?

geneva@John:5:13 @ And he that was healed, knewe not who it was: for Iesus had conueied himselfe away from the multitude that was in that place.

geneva@John:5:15 @ The man departed and tolde the Iewes that it was Iesus, which had made him whole.

geneva@John:5:18 @ Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was (note:)That is, his alone and no one else's, which they gather from his saying, «And I work», applying this word «work» to himself which properly belongs to God, and therefore makes himself equal to God.(:note) his Father, making himself equal with God.

geneva@John:5:22 @ For the Father (note:)This word «judgeth» is taken by the figure of speech synecdoche to represent all governing.(:note) judgeth These words are not to be taken as though they simply denied that God governed the world, but rather they deny that he governed as the Jews imagined it, who separate the Father from the Son, whereas indeed, the Father does not govern the world, but only in the person of his Son, being made manifest in the flesh: so he says below in (Joh_5:30), that he came not to do his own will: that his doctrine is not his own, that the blind man and his parents did not sin (Joh_7:16; Joh_9:3), etc. no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:

geneva@John:5:23 @ Because that all men shoulde honour the Sonne, as they honour the Father: he that honoureth not the Sonne, the same honoureth not the Father, which hath sent him.

geneva@John:5:26 @ For as the Father hath life in himselfe, so likewise hath he giuen to the Sonne to haue life in himselfe,

geneva@John:5:27 @ And hath given him (note:)That is, high and sovereign power to rule and govern all things, in so much that he has power over life and death.(:note) authority to execute judgment also, because he is That is, he will not only judge the world as he is God, but also as he is man, he received this from his Father, to be judge of the world. the Son of man.

geneva@John:5:35 @ He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for (note:)A little while.(:note) a season to rejoice in his light.

geneva@John:6:1 @ After these things Jesus went (note:)Not that he cut across the lake of Tiberias, but by sailing across the large creeks he made his journey shorter: therefore he is said to have gone over the sea, when in reality he passed over from one side of the creek to the other.(:note) over the sea of Galilee, which is [the sea] of Tiberias.

geneva@John:6:2 @ And a great multitude followed him, because they sawe his miracles, which hee did on them that were diseased.

geneva@John:6:4 @ Now the Passeouer, a feast of the Iewes, was neere.

geneva@John:6:10 @ And Iesus saide, Make ye people sit downe. (Nowe there was much grasse in that place.) Then the men sate downe in nomber, about fiue thousande.

geneva@John:6:11 @ And Iesus tooke the bread, & gaue thanks, & gaue to the disciples, and the disciples, to them that were set downe: and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.

geneva@John:6:13 @ Then they gathered it together, and filled twelue baskets with the broken meat of the fiue barly loaues, which remained vnto them that had eaten.

geneva@John:6:17 @ And entered into a ship, and went over the sea (note:)In (Mar_6:45) they are told to go ahead to Bethsaida, for Bethsaida was along the way to Capernaum.(:note) toward Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus was not come to them.

geneva@John:6:21 @ Then they (note:)They were afraid at first, but when they recognized his voice they became new men and took him willingly into the ship, the very one whom they had shunned and fled from before.(:note) willingly received him into the ship: and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went.

geneva@John:6:22 @ The day following, the people which stoode on the other side of the sea, saw that there was none other ship there, saue that one, whereinto his disciples were entred, and that Iesus went not with his disciples in the ship, but that his disciples were gone alone,

geneva@John:6:23 @ And that there came other ships from Tiberias neere vnto the place where they ate the bread, after the Lord had giuen thankes.

geneva@John:6:24 @ Nowe when the people sawe that Iesus was not there, neither his disciples, they also tooke shipping, and came to Capernaum, seeking for Iesus.

geneva@John:6:28 @ Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the (note:)Which please God: for they think that everlasting life depends upon the condition of fulfilling the law: therefore Christ calls them back to faith.(:note) works of God?

geneva@John:6:31 @ Our fathers did eate Manna in the desart, as it is written, Hee gaue them bread from heauen to eate.

geneva@John:6:35 @ And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread (note:)Which has life and gives life.(:note) of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

geneva@John:6:39 @ And this is the Fathers will which hath sent mee, that of all which hee hath giuen mee, I should lose nothing, but shoulde raise it vp againe at the last day.

geneva@John:6:40 @ And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which (note:)Seeing and believing are joined together: for there is another type of seeing which is general, which the demons have, for they see: but here he speaks about that type of seeing which properly belongs to the elect.(:note) seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.

geneva@John:6:44 @ No man can come to mee, except the Father, which hath sent mee, drawe him: and I will raise him vp at the last day.

geneva@John:6:45 @ It is written in the (note:)In the book of the prophets, for the Old Testament was divided by them into three general parts: into the law, the prophets, and the holy writings.(:note) prophets, And they shall be all That is, they will be children of the Church, for so the prophet Isaiah expounds it in (Isa_54:13); that is to say, ordained to life, {{See Act_13:48}}, and therefore the knowledge of the heavenly truth is the gift and work of God, and does not rest in any power of man. taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.

geneva@John:6:46 @ Not that any man hath seen the Father, (note:)If only the Son has seen the Father, then it is only he that can truly teach us and instruct us.(:note) save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.

geneva@John:6:47 @ Verely, verely I say vnto you, hee that beleeueth in me, hath euerlasting life.

geneva@John:6:54 @ Whosoeuer eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternall life, and I will raise him vp at the last day.

geneva@John:6:57 @ As (note:)In that Christ is man, he receives that power which quickens and gives life to those that are his, from his Father: and he adds this word «the» to make a distinction between his Father and all other fathers.(:note) the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Christ means that although he is man, yet his flesh can give life, not by its own nature, but because his flesh lives by the Father, that is to say, sucks and draws out of the Father that power which it has to give life. Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.

geneva@John:6:58 @ This is that bread which came downe from heauen: not as your fathers haue eaten Manna, and are deade. Hee that eateth of this bread, shall liue for euer.

geneva@John:6:59 @ These things spake he in the Synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.

geneva@John:6:62 @ What then if yee should see that Sonne of man ascend vp where he was before?

geneva@John:6:68 @ Then Simon Peter answered him, Master, to whome shall we goe? thou hast the wordes of eternall life:

geneva@John:6:71 @ Now he spake it of Iudas Iscariot the sonne of Simon: for hee it was that shoulde betraie him, though he was one of the twelue.

geneva@John:7:2 @ Now the Jews' (note:)This feast was so called because of the booths and tents which they made out of different types of boughs, and sat under them seven days altogether; and during this entire time the feast went on.(:note) feast of tabernacles was at hand.

geneva@John:7:8 @ Go ye vp vnto this feast: I wil not go vp yet vnto this feast: for my time is not yet fulfilled.

geneva@John:7:11 @ Then the Iewes sought him at the feast, and saide, Where is hee?

geneva@John:7:12 @ And much murmuring was there of him among the people. Some said, He is a good man: other sayd, Nay: but he deceiueth the people.

geneva@John:7:20 @ The people answered, and said, Thou hast a deuil: who goeth about to kill thee?

geneva@John:7:38 @ He that believeth on me, as the (note:)The scripture being referred to is not found anywhere word for word, but rather Christ seems to be referring to many different places where mention is made of the gifts of the Holy Spirit; see (Joe_2:28-29; Isa_44:3) and especially (Isa_55:1-13).(:note) scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

geneva@John:7:39 @ (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the (note:)What is meant by the Holy Spirit he expressed a little before, speaking of the Spirit which they that believed in him should receive. So that by the name of Holy Spirit are meant the powers and mighty workings of the Holy Spirit.(:note) Holy Ghost was not yet [given]; because that Jesus was not yet That is, those things were not yet seen and perceived which were to show and set forth the glory of the only begotten. glorified.)

geneva@John:7:42 @ Saith not the Scripture that that Christ shall come of the seede of Dauid, and out of the towne of Beth-leem, where Dauid was?

geneva@John:7:43 @ So was there dissension among the people for him.

geneva@John:7:50 @ Nicodemus said vnto them, ( he that came to Iesus by night, and was one of them.)

geneva@John:7:51 @ Doth our law judge [any] man, before it hear him, and know (note:)What the one who is accused has committed.(:note) what he doeth?

geneva@John:8:4 @ And said vnto him, Master, we foud this woman committing adulterie, euen in the very acte.

geneva@John:8:9 @ And when they heard it, being accused by their owne conscience, they went out one by one, beginning at ye eldest euen to the last: so Iesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the mids.

geneva@John:8:14 @ Jesus answered and said unto them, (note:)That which he denied before in (Joh_5:31) must be understood as Christ granting their position in a way, for in that place he talked of himself somewhat in line with the opinions of his hearers, who acknowledged nothing in Christ but his humanity, and therefore he was content they should not regard his own witness, unless it were otherwise confirmed. But in this place he stands and affirms Godhead, and praises his Father, who is his witness, and agrees with him.(:note) Though I bear record of myself, [yet] my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go.

geneva@John:8:20 @ These words spake Jesus in the (note:)This was a certain place appointed for the gathering of the offerings.(:note) treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; We live and die according to the pleasure of God, and not of men: therefore it behooves us that we constantly go forward in our calling. for his hour was not yet come.

geneva@John:8:28 @ Then said Iesus vnto them, When ye haue lift vp the Sonne of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I doe nothing of my selfe, but as my Father hath taught me, so I speake these things.

geneva@John:8:29 @ For he that sent me, is with me: the Father hath not left me alone, because I do alwayes those things that please him.

geneva@John:8:30 @ As hee spake these thinges, many beleeued in him.

geneva@John:8:43 @ Why do ye not understand my (note:)Or, language: as though he said, «You do not understand what I say any more than if I spoke in a strange and unknown language to you.»(:note) speech? [even] because ye cannot hear my word.

geneva@John:8:44 @ Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the (note:)From the beginning of the world: for as soon as man was made, the devil cast him headlong into death.(:note) beginning, and That is, did not continue constantly, or did not remain. abode not in the That is, in faithfulness and uprightness, that is, he did not remain in the manner in which he was created. truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his Even from his own head, and from his own mind or disposition. own: for he is a liar, and the The author of it. father of it.

geneva@John:8:57 @ Then sayd ye Iewes vnto him, Thou art not yet fiftie yeere olde, & hast thou seene Abraham?

geneva@John:8:58 @ Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I (note:)Christ, as he was God, was before Abraham: and he was the Lamb slain from the beginning of the world.(:note) am.

geneva@John:9:1 @ And (note:)Sin is even the beginning of all bodily diseases, and yet it does not follow that in punishing, even very severely, that God is punishing because of sin.(:note) as [Jesus] passed by, he saw a man which was blind from [his] birth.

geneva@John:9:2 @ And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sinne, this man, or his parents, that he was borne blinde?

geneva@John:9:3 @ Jesus answered, (note:)Christ reasons here as his disciples thought, who presupposed that no diseases came except for the reason of sins: as a result of this he answers that there was another cause of this man's blindness, and that was in order that God's work might be seen.(:note) Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

geneva@John:9:5 @ As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

geneva@John:9:7 @ And sayd vnto him, Go wash in the poole of Siloam (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came againe seeing.

geneva@John:9:11 @ He answered, and sayd, The man that is called Iesus, made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and sayde vnto me, Goe to the poole of Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and receiued sight.

geneva@John:9:13 @ They brought to the Pharises him that was once blinde.

geneva@John:9:14 @ And it was the Sabbath day, when Iesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.

geneva@John:9:15 @ Then againe the Pharises also asked him, how he had receiued sight; hee sayd vnto them, He layd clay vpon mine eyes, & I washed, and doe see.

geneva@John:9:19 @ And they asked them, saying, Is this your sonne, whom ye say was borne blinde? How doeth he nowe see then?

geneva@John:9:20 @ His parents answered them, and sayd, We know that this is our sonne, & that he was borne blinde:

geneva@John:9:21 @ But by what meanes hee nowe seeth, we know not: or who hath opened his eyes, can we not tell: he is olde ynough: aske him: hee shall answere for himselfe.

geneva@John:9:22 @ These wordes spake his parents, because they feared the Iewes: for the Iewes had ordeined already, that if any man did confesse that he was Christ, he should be excommunicate out of the Synagogue.

geneva@John:9:23 @ Therefore sayde his parents, Hee is olde ynough: aske him.

geneva@John:9:24 @ Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him, (note:)A solemn order, by which men were put under oath in ancient time to acknowledge their fault before God, as if it was said to them, «Consider that you are before God, who knows the entire matter, and therefore be sure that you revere his majesty, and do him this honour and confess the whole matter openly rather than to lie before him»; (Jos_7:19; 1Sa_6:5).(:note) Give God the praise: we know that this man is a He is called a sinner in the Hebrew language, who is a wicked man, and someone who makes an art of sinning. sinner.

geneva@John:9:25 @ Then he answered, and sayd, Whether hee be a sinner or no, I can not tell: one thing I know, that I was blinde, and nowe I see.

geneva@John:9:32 @ Since the world began, was it not heard, that any man opened the eyes of one that was borne blinde.

geneva@John:9:34 @ They answered and said unto him, (note:)You are wicked even from your cradle, and as we used to say, there is nothing in you but sin.(:note) Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.

geneva@John:9:37 @ And Iesus sayd vnto him, Both thou hast seene him, and he it is that talketh with thee.

geneva@John:10:15 @ As the Father (note:)Loves me, allows me.(:note) knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

geneva@John:10:22 @ And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the (note:)The feast of the dedication was instituted by Judas Maccabeus and his brethren after the restoring of God's true religion, by the casting out of Antiochus' garrison.(:note) dedication, and it was winter.

geneva@John:10:33 @ The Iewes answered him, saying, For the good worke we stone thee not, but for blasphemie, and that thou being a man, makest thy selfe God.

geneva@John:10:36 @ Say ye of him, whome the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the worlde, Thou blasphemest, because I said, I am the Sonne of God?

geneva@John:11:1 @ Now (note:)Christ, in restoring the rotting body of his friend to life, shows an example both of his mighty power, and also of his singular good will toward men: and this is also an image of the resurrection to come.(:note) a certain [man] was sick, [named] Lazarus, of Bethany, the Where his sisters dwelt. town of Mary and her sister Martha.

geneva@John:11:2 @ (And it was that Mary which anointed the Lord with oyntment, and wiped his feete with her heare, whose brother Lazarus was sicke.)

geneva@John:11:9 @ Jesus answered, Are there not (note:)All things happen in a proper way and are brought to pass in their due time.(:note) twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.

geneva@John:11:15 @ And I am glad for your sakes, that I was not there, that ye may beleeue: but let vs go vnto him.

geneva@John:11:16 @ Then saide Thomas (which is called Didymus) vnto his felow disciples, Let vs also goe, that we may die with him.

geneva@John:11:18 @ (Nowe Bethania was neere vnto Hierusalem, about fifteene furlongs off.)

geneva@John:11:20 @ Then Martha, when shee heard that Iesus was comming, went to meete him: but Mary sate still in the house.

geneva@John:11:22 @ But now I know also, that whatsoeuer thou askest of God, God will giue it thee.

geneva@John:11:24 @ Martha said vnto him, I know that he shall rise againe in the resurrection at the last day.

geneva@John:11:28 @ And when she had so saide, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee.

geneva@John:11:30 @ For Iesus was not yet come into the towne, but was in the place where Martha met him.

geneva@John:11:31 @ The Iewes then which were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they sawe Marie, that she rose vp hastily, & went out, folowed her, saying, She goeth vnto the graue, to weepe there.

geneva@John:11:32 @ Then when Mary was come where Iesus was, and sawe him, she fell downe at his feete, saying vnto him, Lord, if thou haddest bene here, my brother had not bene dead.

geneva@John:11:38 @ Iesus therefore againe groned in himselfe, and came to the graue; it was a caue, and a stone was layde vpon it.

geneva@John:11:39 @ Iesus saide, Take ye away the stone. Martha the sister of him that was dead, said vnto him, Lorde, he stinketh alreadie: for he hath bene dead foure dayes.

geneva@John:11:41 @ Then they tooke away the stone from the place where the dead was layde; Iesus lift vp his eyes, and saide, Father, I thanke thee, because thou hast heard me.

geneva@John:11:42 @ I knowe that thou hearest me alwayes, but because of the people that stand by, I said it, that they may beleeue, that thou hast sent me.

geneva@John:11:43 @ As hee had spoken these things, hee cried with a loude voyce, Lazarus, come foorth.

geneva@John:11:44 @ Then he that was dead, came forth, bound hande and foote with bandes, and his face was bound with a napkin. Iesus said vnto them, Loose him, and let him goe.

geneva@John:11:48 @ If we let him thus alone, all [men] will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and (note:)That is, take away from us by force: for at that time, though the high priest's authority was greatly lessened and weakened, yet there was some type of government left among the Jews.(:note) take away both our place and nation.

geneva@John:11:52 @ And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that (note:)For they were not gathered together in one country, as the Jews were, but were to be gathered from all quarters, from the east to the west.(:note) were scattered abroad.

geneva@John:11:55 @ And the Iewes Passeouer was at hande, and many went out of the countrey vp to Hierusalem before the Passeouer, to purifie themselues.

geneva@John:11:56 @ Then sought they for Iesus, and spake among themselues, as they stoode in the Temple, What thinke ye, that he cometh not to the feast?

geneva@John:12:1 @ Then Iesus, sixe dayes before the Passeouer, came to Bethania, where Lazarus was, who died, whom he had raised from the dead.

geneva@John:12:2 @ There they made him a supper, and Martha serued: but Lazarus was one of them that sate at the table with him.

geneva@John:12:3 @ Then tooke Mary a pound of oyntment of Spikenarde very costly, and anoynted Iesus feete, and wiped his feete with her heare, and the house was filled with the sauour of the oyntment.

geneva@John:12:4 @ Then said one of his disciples, euen Iudas Iscariot Simons sonne, which should betray him:

geneva@John:12:6 @ Nowe he said this, not that he cared for the poore, but because hee was a theefe, and had the bagge, and bare that which was giuen.

geneva@John:12:12 @ On the morowe a great multitude that were come to the feast, when they heard that Iesus should come to Hierusalem,

geneva@John:12:14 @ And Iesus found a yong asse, and sate thereon, as it is written,

geneva@John:12:15 @ Feare not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King commeth sitting on an asses colte.

geneva@John:12:16 @ But his disciples vnderstoode not these thinges at the first: but when Iesus was glorified, then remembred they, that these thinges were written of him, and that they had done these things vnto him.

geneva@John:12:17 @ The people therefore that was with him, bare witnesse that hee called Lazarus out of the graue, and raised him from the dead.

geneva@John:12:20 @ And there were certain Greeks among them that (note:)After the solemn custom: the Greeks were first so called by the name of the country of Greece, where they lived: but afterward, all that were not of the Jew's religion, but worshipped false gods and were also called heathens, were called by the name Greeks.(:note) came up to worship at the feast:

geneva@John:12:21 @ And they came to Philippe, which was of Bethsaida in Galile, and desired him, saying, Syr, we would see that Iesus.

geneva@John:12:29 @ Then saide the people that stoode by, and heard, that it was a thunder: other said, An Angel spake to him.

geneva@John:12:31 @ Now is the iudgement of this world: nowe shall the prince of this world be cast out.

geneva@John:12:32 @ And I, if I be (note:)Christ used a word which has a double meaning, for it signifies either to lift up or to get out of the way: for he intended them to think of his death, but the Jews seemed to take it another way.(:note) lifted up from the earth, will draw Chrysostom and Theophylact say that this word «all» refers to all nations: that is, not only to the Jews. all [men] unto me.

geneva@John:12:38 @ That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the (note:)The arm of the Lord is the gospel, which is the power of God to salvation to all that believe, and therefore the arm of the Lord is not revealed to those whose hearts the Lord has not opened.(:note) arm of the Lord been revealed?

geneva@John:12:39 @ Therefore could they not beleeue, because that Esaias saith againe,

geneva@John:12:41 @ These things sayd Esaias when he sawe his glory, and spake of him.

geneva@John:12:48 @ He that refuseth me, and receiueth not my wordes, hath one that iudgeth him: the worde that I haue spoken, it shall iudge him in the last day.

geneva@John:12:50 @ And I knowe that his commaundement is life euerlasting: the thinges therefore that I speake, I speake them so as the Father sayde vnto me.

geneva@John:13:1 @ Now (note:)Christ is as sure of the victory as he is of the combat which was at hand, and by using the sign of washing the feet, gives by this an example in part of singular modesty, and his great love toward his apostles in this notable act, being likely to depart very shortly from them: and he partly witnesses unto them that it is he alone who washes away the filth of his people, and sanctifies them little by little in their time and season.(:note) before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his Those of his household, that is, his saints. own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

geneva@John:13:2 @ And when supper was done (and that the deuill had now put in the heart of Iudas Iscariot, Simons sonne, to betray him)

geneva@John:13:3 @ Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his (note:)Into his power.(:note) hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God;

geneva@John:13:4 @ He (note:)In that he is said to rise, it argues that there was a space of time between the ceremony of the passover and this washing of feet, at which time it seems that the Lord's supper was instituted.(:note) riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself.

geneva@John:13:5 @ After that, hee powred water into a basen, and began to wash the disciples feete, and to wipe them with the towell, wherewith he was girded.

geneva@John:13:6 @ Then came he to Simon Peter, who sayd to him, Lord, doest thou wash my feete?

geneva@John:13:8 @ Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast (note:)Unless you allow me to wash you, you will have no part in the kingdom of heaven.(:note) no part with me.

geneva@John:13:10 @ Iesus sayd to him, He that is washed, needeth not, saue to wash his feete, but is cleane euery whit: and ye are cleane, but not all.

geneva@John:13:12 @ So after he had washed their feete, and had taken his garments, and was set downe againe, he sayd vnto them, Knowe ye what I haue done to you?

geneva@John:13:13 @ Ye call me Master, and Lorde, and ye say well: for so am I.

geneva@John:13:14 @ If I then your Lorde, and Master, haue washed your feete, ye also ought to wash one an others feete.

geneva@John:13:15 @ For I haue giuen you an example, that ye should doe, euen as I haue done to you.

geneva@John:13:16 @ Verely, verely I say vnto you, The seruant is not greater then his master, neither the ambassadour greater then he that sent him.

geneva@John:13:19 @ From henceforth tell I you before it come, that when it is come to passe, ye might beleeue that I am he.

geneva@John:13:21 @ When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and (note:)He affirmed it openly and sealed it.(:note) testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.

geneva@John:13:23 @ Now there was (note:)John's leaning was such that sitting down on his mat his head was toward the head of Jesus: for it is certain that in ancient times men used to not sit at the table, but to lie down on one of their sides.(:note) leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.

geneva@John:13:24 @ To him beckened therefore Simon Peter, that he should aske who it was of whom he spake.

geneva@John:13:25 @ He then, as he leaned on Iesus breast, saide vnto him, Lord, who is it?

geneva@John:13:26 @ Iesus answered, He it is, to whome I shall giue a soppe, when I haue dipt it: and hee wet a soppe, and gaue it to Iudas Iscariot, Simons sonne.

geneva@John:13:29 @ For some of them thought because Iudas had the bag, that Iesus had sayd vnto him, Buy those things that we haue neede of against ye feast: or that he should giue some thing to the poore.

geneva@John:13:30 @ Assoone then as he had receiued the soppe, he went immediately out, and it was night.

geneva@John:13:34 @ A newe commaundement giue I vnto you, that ye loue one another: as I haue loued you, that ye also loue one another.

geneva@John:14:2 @ In my Father's house are many mansions: if [it were] not [so], (note:)That is, if it were not as I am telling you, that is, unless there was room enough not only for me, but also for you in my Father's house, I would not deceive you in this way with a vain hope, but I would have plainly told you so.(:note) I would have told you. I go to This whole speech is an allegory, by which the Lord comforts his own, declaring to them his departure into heaven; and he departs not to reign there alone, but to go before and prepare a place for them. prepare a place for you.

geneva@John:14:5 @ Thomas sayd vnto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest: how ca we then know ye way?

geneva@John:14:9 @ Iesus sayd vnto him, I haue bene so long time with you, and hast thou not knowen mee, Philippe? he that hath seene me, hath seene my Father: how then sayest thou, Shewe vs thy Father?

geneva@John:14:11 @ Beleeue me, that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me: at the least, beleeue me for the very workes sake.

geneva@John:14:13 @ And whatsoeuer ye aske in my Name, that will I doe, that the Father may be glorified in the Sonne.

geneva@John:14:14 @ If ye shall aske any thing in my Name, I will doe it.

geneva@John:14:17 @ [Even] the (note:)The Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of truth by reason of that which he does, because he inspires the truth into us, because he has the truth in himself.(:note) Spirit of truth; whom the Worldly men. world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

geneva@John:14:20 @ At that day ye shall know that I [am] (note:)The Son is in the Father in such a way that he is of one selfsame substance with the Father, but he is in his disciples in a different way, as an aider and helper of them.(:note) in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

geneva@John:14:21 @ He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will (note:)I will show myself to him, and be known by him, as if he saw me with his eyes: but this showing of himself is not bodily, but spiritual, yet so plain that no other showing could be more evident.(:note) manifest myself to him.

geneva@John:14:29 @ And nowe haue I spoken vnto you, before it come, that when it is come to passe, ye might beleeue.

geneva@John:14:31 @ But it is that the world may knowe that I loue my Father: and as the Father hath commanded me, so I doe. Arise, let vs goe hence.

geneva@John:15:1 @ I (note:)We are by nature dry and fit for nothing but the fire. Therefore, in order that we may live and be fruitful, we must first be grafted into Christ, as it were into a vine, by the Father's hand: and then be daily moulded with a continual meditation of the word, and the cross: otherwise it will not avail any man at all to have been grafted unless he cleaves fast to the vine, and so draws juice out of it.(:note) am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

geneva@John:15:4 @ Abide in me, and I in you: as the branche cannot beare fruite of it selfe, except it abide in the vine, no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

geneva@John:15:6 @ If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branche, and withereth: and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they burne.

geneva@John:15:10 @ If ye shall keepe my commandements, ye shall abide in my loue, as I haue kept my Fathers commandements, and abide in his loue.

geneva@John:15:12 @ This is my commandement, that ye loue one another, as I haue loued you.

geneva@John:15:20 @ Remember the word that I said vnto you, The seruant is not greater then his master. If they haue persecuted me, they will persecute you also: if they haue kept my worde, they will also keepe yours.

geneva@John:15:25 @ But [this cometh to pass], that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their (note:)Sometimes this word «law» refers to the five books of Moses, but in this place it refers to the whole scripture: for the place that he refers to is found in the Psalms.(:note) law, They hated me without a cause.

geneva@John:16:4 @ But these things haue I tolde you, that when the houre shall come, ye might remember, that I tolde you them; these things said I not vnto you from ye beginning, because I was with you.

geneva@John:16:5 @ But now I go my way to him that sent me, and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?

geneva@John:16:10 @ Of (note:)Of Christ himself: for when the world will see that I have poured out the Holy Spirit they will be forced to confess that I was just, and was not condemned by my Father when I went out of this world.(:note) righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;

geneva@John:16:19 @ Now Iesus knew that they would aske him, and said vnto them, Doe ye enquire among your selues, of that I said, A litle while, & ye shal not see me: and againe, a litle while, and yee shall see me?

geneva@John:16:21 @ A woman when she traueileth, hath sorowe, because her houre is come: but assoone as she is deliuered of the childe, she remembreth no more the anguish, for ioy that a man is borne into the world.

geneva@John:16:23 @ And in that day shall ye aske me nothing. Verely, verely I say vnto you, whatsoeuer ye shall aske the Father in my Name, he will giue it you.

geneva@John:16:24 @ Hitherto haue ye asked nothing in my Name: aske, and ye shall receiue, that your ioye may be full.

geneva@John:16:30 @ Nowe knowe wee that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should aske thee. By this we beleeue, that thou art come out from God.

geneva@John:17:1 @ These (note:)Jesus Christ, the everlasting high Priest, being ready to immediately offer himself up, by solemn prayers consecrates himself to God the Father as a sacrifice, and us together with himself. Therefore this prayer was from the beginning, is, and will be to the end of the world, the foundation and ground of the Church of God.(:note) words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, He first declares that as he came into the world so that the Father might show in him (being apprehended by faith) his glory in saving his elect, so he applied himself to that only: and therefore he desires from the Father that he would bless the work which he had finished. Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:

geneva@John:17:2 @ As thou hast given him power over (note:)Over all men.(:note) all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.

geneva@John:17:3 @ And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the (note:)He calls the Father the only true God in order to set him against all false gods, and to include himself and the Holy Spirit, for he immediately joins the knowledge of the Father and the knowledge of himself together, and according to his accustomed manner sets forth the whole Godhead in the person of the Father. So is the Father alone said to be King, immortal, wise, dwelling in light which no man can attain unto, and invisible; (Rom_16:27; 1Ti_1:17).(:note) only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

geneva@John:17:5 @ And nowe glorifie me, thou Father, with thine owne selfe, with the glorie which I had with thee before the world was.

geneva@John:17:7 @ Nowe they knowe that all things whatsoeuer thou hast giuen me, are of thee.

geneva@John:17:8 @ For I haue giuen vnto them the wordes which thou gauest me, and they haue receiued them, and haue knowen surely that I came out from thee, & haue beleeued that thou hast sent me.

geneva@John:17:9 @ I pray for them: I pray not for the worlde, but for them which thou hast giuen me: for they are thine.

geneva@John:17:11 @ And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be (note:)He prays that his people may peaceably agree and be joined together in one, that as the Godhead is one, so they may be of one mind and one consent together.(:note) one, as we [are].

geneva@John:17:12 @ While I was with them in the worlde, I kept them in thy Name: those that thou gauest me, haue I kept, and none of them is lost, but the childe of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

geneva@John:17:14 @ I haue giuen them thy word, & the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.

geneva@John:17:16 @ They are not of the worlde, as I am not of the world.

geneva@John:17:19 @ And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the (note:)The true and substantial sanctification of Christ is contrasted with the outward purifyings of the law.(:note) truth.

geneva@John:17:21 @ That they all may bee one, as thou, O Father, art in me, and I in thee: euen that they may be also one in vs, that the worlde may beleeue that thou hast sent me.

geneva@John:17:22 @ And the glory that thou gauest me, I haue giuen them, that they may be one, as we are one,

geneva@John:17:23 @ I in them, and thou in mee, that they may be made perfect in one, and that the worlde may knowe that thou hast sent mee, and hast loued them, as thou hast loued me.

geneva@John:17:24 @ Father, I will that they which thou hast giuen me, be with me euen where I am, that they may beholde that my glorie, which thou hast giuen mee: for thou louedst me before the foundation of the world.

geneva@John:17:25 @ O righteous Father, the worlde also hath not knowen thee, but I haue knowen thee, and these haue knowen, that thou hast sent me.

geneva@John:18:1 @ When (note:)Christ goes of his own accord into a garden, which his betrayer knew, to be taken, so that by his obedience he might take away the sin that entered into the world by one man's rebellion, and that in a garden.(:note) Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples.

geneva@John:18:2 @ And Iudas which betraied him, knewe also the place: for Iesus oft times resorted thither with his disciples.

geneva@John:18:5 @ They answered him, Iesus of Nazareth. Iesus sayde vnto them, I am hee. Nowe Iudas also which betraied him, stoode with them.

geneva@John:18:6 @ Assoone then as hee had saide vnto them, I am hee, they went away backewardes, and fell to the grounde.

geneva@John:18:7 @ Then he asked them againe, Whome seeke yee? And they sayd, Iesus of Nazareth.

geneva@John:18:9 @ This was that the worde might be fulfilled which hee spake, Of them which thou gauest me, haue I lost none.

geneva@John:18:14 @ And Caiaphas was he, that gaue counsel to the Iewes, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.

geneva@John:18:16 @ But Peter stood at the doore without. Then went out the other disciple which was knowen vnto the hie Priest, and spake to her that kept the doore, and brought in Peter.

geneva@John:18:18 @ And the seruants and officers stoode there, which had made a fire of coles: for it was colde, & they warmed themselues; Peter also stood among them, and warmed himselfe.

geneva@John:18:21 @ Why askest thou mee? aske them which heard mee what I sayde vnto them: beholde, they knowe what I sayd.

geneva@John:18:24 @ Nowe Annas had sent him bound vnto Caiaphas the hie Priest)

geneva@John:18:35 @ Pilate answered, Am I a Iewe? Thine owne nation, and the hie Priestes haue deliuered thee vnto me. What hast thou done?

geneva@John:18:39 @ But you haue a custome, that I shoulde deliuer you one loose at the Passeouer: will yee then that I loose vnto you the King of ye Iewes?

geneva@John:18:40 @ Then (note:)Literally, «made a great and foul voice».(:note) cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.

geneva@John:19:1 @ Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and (note:)The wisdom of the flesh chooses the least of two evils, but God curses that very wisdom.(:note) scourged [him].

geneva@John:19:6 @ When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, (note:)They will have him crucified whom, by an old custom of theirs, they should have stoned and hanged up as convicted of blasphemy: but they desire to have him crucified after the manner of the Romans.(:note) Crucify [him], crucify [him]. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify [him]: for I find no fault in him.

geneva@John:19:14 @ And it was the Preparation of the Passeouer, and about the sixt houre: and hee sayde vnto the Iewes, Beholde your King.

geneva@John:19:20 @ This title then read many of the Iewes: for the place where Iesus was crucified, was neere to the citie: and it was written in Hebrewe, Greeke and Latine.

geneva@John:19:24 @ Therefore they sayde one to another, Let vs not deuide it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be. This was that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which sayth, They parted my garments among them, and on my coate did cast lots. So the souldiers did these things in deede.

geneva@John:19:29 @ Now there was set a (note:)Galatinus witnesses out of the book called Sanhedrin that the Jews often gave those who were executed vinegar mixed with frankincense to drink, to make them somewhat delirious: so the Jews provided charitably for the poor men's conscience who were executed.(:note) vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put [it] upon hyssop, and put [it] to his mouth.

geneva@John:19:32 @ Then came the souldiers and brake the legges of the first, and of the other, which was crucified with Iesus.

geneva@John:19:33 @ But when they came to Iesus, and saw that he was dead alreadie, they brake not his legges.

geneva@John:19:40 @ Then tooke they the body of Iesus, and wrapped it in linnen clothes with the odours, as the maner of the Iewes is to burie.

geneva@John:19:41 @ Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was (note:)That no man might frivolously object to his resurrection, as though someone else that had been buried there had risen; Theophylact.(:note) never man yet laid.

geneva@John:19:42 @ There then laide they Iesus, because of the Iewes Preparation day, for the sepulchre was neere.

geneva@John:20:1 @ The (note:)Mary Magdalene, Peter, and John, are the first witnesses of the resurrection, and these cannot justly be suspected, for they themselves could hardly be persuaded of it; therefore, they would obviously not invent such a story on purpose.(:note) first [day] of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.

geneva@John:20:7 @ And the kerchiefe that was vpon his head, not lying with the linnen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by it selfe.

geneva@John:20:9 @ For as yet they knewe not the Scripture, That he must rise againe from the dead.

geneva@John:20:11 @ But Mary stood (note:)That is, outside of the cave which the sepulchre was cut out of.(:note) without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, [and looked] into the sepulchre,

geneva@John:20:13 @ And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away (note:)Mary spoke as the common people used to speak: for they spoke of a dead carcass as they did of a living man.(:note) my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him.

geneva@John:20:15 @ Iesus saith vnto her, Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou? She supposing that he had bene the gardener, said vnto him, Sir, if thou hast borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.

geneva@John:20:16 @ Iesus saith vnto her, Marie. She turned her selfe, and said vnto him, Rabboni, which is to say, Master.

geneva@John:20:21 @ Then saide Iesus to them againe, Peace be vnto you: as my Father sent me, so sende I you.

geneva@John:20:26 @ And eight dayes after, againe his disciples were within, and Thomas with them. Then came Iesus, when the doores were shut, and stood in the middes, and said, Peace be vnto you.

geneva@John:20:27 @ After saide he to Thomas, Put thy finger here, and see mine hands, & put forth thine hand, and put it into my side, and be not faithlesse, but faithfull.

geneva@John:20:28 @ Then Thomas answered, & said vnto him, Thou art my Lord, and my God.

geneva@John:21:1 @ After these things (note:)In that Christ is not only present here but also eats with his disciples, he gives a most full assurance of his resurrection.(:note) Jesus shewed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and on this wise shewed he [himself].

geneva@John:21:2 @ There were together Simon Peter, & Thomas, which is called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galile, and the sonnes of Zebedeus, and two other of his disciples.

geneva@John:21:4 @ But when the morning was nowe come, Iesus stoode on the shore: neuerthelesse the disciples knewe not that it was Iesus.

geneva@John:21:6 @ Then he said vnto them, Cast out the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall finde. So they cast out, & they were not able at all to draw it, for the multitude of fishes.

geneva@John:21:7 @ Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt [his] fisher's (note:)It was a linen garment which prevented him from swimming freely.(:note) coat [unto him], (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea.

geneva@John:21:9 @ Assoone then as they were come to land, they sawe hoate coales, and fish laide thereon, and bread.

geneva@John:21:11 @ Simon Peter stepped foorth and drewe the net to land, full of great fishes, an hundreth, fiftie and three: and albeit there were so many, yet was not the net broken.

geneva@John:21:12 @ Iesus saide vnto them, Come, and dine; none of the disciples durst aske him, Who art thou? seeing they knewe that he was the Lord.

geneva@John:21:14 @ This is now the third time that Iesus shewed himselfe to his disciples, after that he was risen againe from the dead.

geneva@John:21:17 @ He saith unto him the (note:)It was appropriate that he that had denied him three times should confess him three times, so that Peter might neither doubt the forgiveness of his grievous sin, nor his being restored to the office of the apostleship.(:note) third time, Simon, [son] of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.