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John - the Jewish Gospel

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From the first he was the Word ...

23 He said, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,' as Isaiah the prophet said.”

See, here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

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17 His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”

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14 As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,

34 For he whom God has sent says God's words;

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10 In answer Jesus said, If you had knowledge of what God gives freely and who it is who says to you, Give me water, you would make your prayer to him, and he would give you living water.

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31 Our fathers had the manna in the waste land, as the Writings say, He gave them bread from heaven.

45 The writings of the prophets say, And they will all have teaching from God.

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37 On the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus got up and said in a loud voice, If any man is in need of drink let him come to me and I will give it to him. 38 He who has faith in me, out of his body, as the Writings have said, will come rivers of living water. 39 This he said of the Spirit which would be given to those who had faith in him: the Spirit had not been given then, because the glory of Jesus was still to come.

42 Do not the Writings say that the Christ comes of the seed of David and from Bethlehem, the little town where David was?

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17 Even in your law it is said that the witness of two men is true.

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34 In answer, Jesus said, Is there not a saying in your law, I said, You are gods? 35 If he said they were gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Writings may not be broken),

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13 Took branches of palm-trees and went out to him, crying, A blessing on him who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!

15 As it is written, “Do not be afraid, daughter of Zion. Look, your King comes, sitting on a donkey's colt.”

34 Then the people in answer said to him, The law says that the Christ will have life without end: how say you then that it is necessary for the Son of man to be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?

38 But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they did not believe in him, that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, “Lord, who has believed our report, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

40 For this cause they could not believe, for Isaiah said again, “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I would heal them.”

49 For I have not said it on my authority, but the Father who sent me gave me orders what to say and how to say it.

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18 But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'He who ate my bread has lifted up his heel against me.’

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25 But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law, 'They hated Me without a cause.’

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9 And he went again into the Praetorium and said to Jesus, Where do you come from? But Jesus gave him no answer. 10 Then Pilate said to him, You say nothing to me? is it not clear to you that I have power to let you go free and power to put you to death on the cross?

18 Where they put him on the cross with two others, one on this side and one on that, and Jesus in the middle.

24 Then they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to decide whose it will be,” that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says, “They parted my garments among them. For my cloak they cast lots.”

28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty.” Now a vessel full of vinegar was set there; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and held it at His mouth.

Therefore the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with Him; 33 but when they came to Jesus, and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs. 34 However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out. 35 He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe. 36 For these things happened, that the Scripture might be fulfilled,
“A bone of him will not be broken.”
37 Again another Scripture says,
“They will look on him whom they pierced.”

38 After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, made a request to Pilate to let him take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate said he might do so. So he went and took away his body.

Genesis 1:1 the same wording "In the beginning"
Psalm 119:105 "Your word is..."
Exodus 12:3 reference to the passover lamb
Isaiah 40:3-5
Psalm 69
Numbers 21:9
Deuteronomy 18:18
Jeremiah 17:13
Exodus 16:4
Isaiah 54:13
Exodus 17:1-7
Psalm 132:11
Micah 5:2
Deuteronomy 19:15
Psalm 118:25,26
Zechariah 9:9
2 Samuel 7:12–13
Isaiah 53:1
Isaiah 6:10
Psalm 82:6
Psalm 41:9
Psalm 69:4
Isaiah 53:7; John 19:9
Isaiah 53:9
Psalm 22:18
Psalm 69:21
Exodus 12:46; Psalm 34:20
Zechariah 12:10
Isaiah 53:9 "He was with a rich man in his death"

Mark - the First Gentile Gospel

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2 Even as it is said in the book of Isaiah the prophet See, I send my servant before your face, who will make ready your way; The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.

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25 And he said to them, Have you no knowledge of what David did, when he had need and was without food, he, and those who were with him? 26 How he went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and took for food the holy bread, which only the priests may take, and gave it to those who were with him?

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11 And he said to them, To you is given the secret of the kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are given in the form of stories; 12 So that seeing they may see, and it will not be clear to them; and hearing it, they will not get the sense; for fear that they may be turned again to me and have forgiveness.

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6 And he said, Well did Isaiah say of you, you false ones: These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me. But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.

10 For Moses said, Give honour to your father and mother, and, He who says evil of father or mother, let him have the punishment of death:

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47 And if your eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out: it is better for you to go into the kingdom of God with one eye than, having two eyes, to go into hell, Where their worm is ever living and the fire is not put out.

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2 And Pharisees came to him, testing him with the question, Is it right for a man to put away his wife? And he said to them in answer, What did Moses say you were to do? And they said to him, Moses let us give her a statement in writing, and be free from her.

But from the first, male and female made he them. For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; And the two will become one flesh; so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

19 You have knowledge of what is said in the law, Do not put any one to death, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness, Do not get money by deceit, Give honour to your father and mother.

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9 And those who went in front, and those who came after, were crying, Glory: A blessing on him who comes in the name of the Lord: A blessing on the coming kingdom of our father David: Glory in the highest.

17 And he gave them teaching, and said to them, Is it not in the Writings, My house is to be named a house of prayer for all the nations? but you have made it a hole of thieves.

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10 Have you not seen this which is in the Writings: The stone which the builders put on one side, the same was made the chief stone of the building: This was the Lord’s doing, and it is a wonder in our eyes?

26 But as to the dead coming back to life; have you not seen in the book of Moses, about the burning thorn-tree, how God said to him, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

29 Jesus said in answer, The first is, Give ear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord; 30 And you are to have love for the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. 31 The second is this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself. There is no other law greater than these.

35 And Jesus, when he was teaching in the Temple, said, How do the scribes say that the Christ is the Son of David? 36 David himself said in the Holy Spirit, The Lord said to my Lord, Be seated at my right hand, till I put those who are against you under your feet.

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14 But when you see the unclean thing which makes destruction, in the place where it has no right to be (let this be clear to the reader), then let those who are in Judaea go quickly to the mountains

24 But in those days, after that time of trouble, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light, And the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers which are in the heavens will be moved.

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And while they were seated taking food, Jesus said, Truly I say to you, One of you will be false to me, one who is taking food with me. They were sad, and said to him one by one, Is it I? And he said to them, It is one of the twelve, one who is putting his bread with me into the same plate. The Son of man goes, even as the Writings say of him: but cursed is that man through whom the Son of man is given up! It would have been well for that man if he had never been given birth.

27 And Jesus said to them, You will all be turned away from me: for it is in the Writings, I will put the keeper of the sheep to death, and the sheep will be put to flight.

And the high priest got up in the middle of them, and said to Jesus, Do you say nothing in answer? what is it which these say against you? But he kept quiet and said nothing.

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5 And Pilate again put a question, Do you say nothing in answer? see how much evil they say you have done. But Jesus gave no more answers, so that Pilate was full of wonder.

27 And they put two thieves on crosses with him, one on his right side, and one on his left.

34 Jesus said in a loud voice, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, My God, my God, why are you turned away from me?

36 And one of them went quickly and, getting a sponge full of bitter wine, put it on a rod, and gave it to him for drink, saying, Let be; let us see if Elijah will come to take him down.

43 There came Joseph of Arimathaea, a responsible man in high honour, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God; and he went in to Pilate without fear, and made a request for the body of Jesus. And Pilate was surprised that he was dead; and, sending for the captain, he put a question to see if he had been dead for long. And when he had news of it from the captain, he let Joseph have the body.

Malachi 3:1
Isaiah 40
1 Samuel:1-6
Isaiah 6:9,10
Isaiah 29:13
Exodus 20, Deuteronomy 5
Leviticus 20:9
Isaiah 66:24
Deuteronomy 24:1-4
Genesis 1:27
Genesis 2:24
Exodus 20, Deuteronomy 5
Psalm 118:25,26; John 12
Isaiah 56:7 and Jeremiah 7:11
Psalm 118:22
Exodus 3:6
Deuteronomy 6:4,5
Leviticus 19:18
Psalm 110:1
Daniel 9:27; 11:31; 12:11
Isaiah 13:10; 34:4
Psalm 41:9
Zechariah 13:7
Isaiah 53:7; John 19:9
Isaiah 53:7
Isaiah 53:9 He was assigned a grave with the wicked
Psalm 22:1
Psalm 69:21; John 19:28
Isaiah 53:9

Matthew - the Second Gentile Gospel

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22 Now all this took place so that the word of the Lord by the prophet might come true, See, the virgin will be with child, and will give birth to a son, and they will give him the name Immanuel, that is, God with us.

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2:6 And they said to him, In Bethlehem of Judaea; for so it is said in the writings of the prophet, You Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are not the least among the chiefs of Judah: out of you will come a ruler, who will be the keeper of my people Israel.

14 So he took the young child and his mother by night, and went into Egypt; And was there till the death of Herod; so that the word of the Lord through the prophet might come true, Out of Egypt have I sent for my son.

16 Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, was very angry; and he sent out, and put to death all the male children in Bethlehem and in all the parts round about it, from two years old and under, acting on the knowledge which he had got with care from the wise men. 17 Then the word of Jeremiah the prophet came true, In Ramah there was a sound of weeping and great sorrow, Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be comforted for their loss.

23 And he came and was living in a town named Nazareth: so that the word of the prophets might come true, He will be named a Nazarene.

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1 And in those days John the Baptist came preaching in the waste land of Judaea, 2 Saying, Let your hearts be turned from sin; for the kingdom of heaven is near. 3 For this is he of whom Isaiah the prophet said, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.

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4 But he made answer and said, It is in the Writings, Bread is not man’s only need, but every word which comes out of the mouth of God

6 If you are the Son of God, let yourself go down; for it is in the Writings, He will give his angels care over you; and, In their hands they will keep you up, so that your foot may not be crushed against a stone. Jesus said to him, Again it is in the Writings, You may not put the Lord your God to the test.

10 Then said Jesus to him, Away, Satan: for it is in the Writings, Give worship to the Lord your God and be his servant only.

12 Now when it came to his ears that John had been put in prison, he went away to Galilee; 13 And going away from Nazareth, he came and made his living-place in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the country of Zebulun and Naphtali: 14 So that the word of the prophet Isaiah might come true, 15 The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, by the way of the sea, the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles, The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.

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21 You have knowledge that it was said in old times, You may not put to death; and, Whoever puts to death will be in danger of being judged:

27 You have knowledge that it was said, You may not have connection with another man’s wife

31 Again, it was said, Whoever puts away his wife has to give her a statement in writing for this purpose

38 You have knowledge that it was said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:

43 You have knowledge that it was said, Have love for your neighbour, and hate for him who is against you:

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17 So that the word of Isaiah the prophet might come true: He himself took our pains and our diseases.

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12 But on hearing this he said, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill. 13 But go and take to heart the sense of these words, My desire is for mercy, not offerings: for I have come not to get the upright, but sinners.

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34 Do not have the thought that I have come to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword. For I have come to put a man against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: 36 And a man will be hated by those of his house.

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10 This is he of whom it has been said, See, I send my servant before your face, who will make ready your way before you.

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3 But he said to them, Have you no knowledge of what David did when he had need of food, and those who were with him? 4 How he went into the house of God and took for food the holy bread which it was not right for him or for those who were with him to take, but only for the priests?

7 But if these words had been in your minds, My desire is for mercy and not for offerings, you would not have been judging those who have done no wrong.

17 So that what was said by Isaiah the prophet might come true, See my servant, the man of my selection, my loved one in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my Spirit on him, and he will make my decision clear to the Gentiles. His coming will not be with fighting or loud cries; and his voice will not be lifted up in the streets. The crushed stem will not be broken by him; and the feebly burning light will he not put out, till he has made righteousness overcome all. And in his name will the Gentiles put their hope.

40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the stomach of the great fish, so will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

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13 And for them the words of Isaiah have come true, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you: For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

35 That it might come true which was said by the prophet, Opening my mouth, I will give out stories; I will give knowledge of things kept secret from before all time.

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4 For God said, Give honour to your father and mother: and, He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death.

7 You false ones, well did Isaiah say of you, 8 These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me. 9 But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.

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4 Have you not seen in the Writings, that he who made them at the first made them male and female, and said, 5 For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; and the two will become one flesh? 6 So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Then let not that which has been joined by God be parted by man. 7 They say to him, Why then did Moses give orders that a husband might give her a statement in writing and be free from her?

18 He says to him, Which? And Jesus said, Do not put anyone to death, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness, 19 Give honour to your father and your mother: and, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

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Now this took place so that these words of the prophet might come true,
Say to the daughter of Zion, See, your King comes to you, gentle and seated on an ass, and on a young ass.

9 And those who went before him, and those who came after, gave loud cries, saying, Glory to the Son of David: A blessing on him who comes in the name of the Lord: Glory in the highest.

But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the works of power which he did, and the children crying out in the Temple, Glory to the son of David, they were angry and said to him, Have you any idea what these are saying? And Jesus said to them, Yes: have you not seen in the Writings, From the lips of children and babies at the breast you have made your praise complete?

Jesus says to them, Did you never see in the Writings, The stone which the builders put on one side, the same has been made the chief stone of the building: this was the Lord’s doing, and it is a wonder in our eyes? 

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29 But Jesus said to them in answer, You are in error, not having knowledge of the Writings, or of the power of God. For when they come back from the dead there are no husbands and wives, but they are as the angels in heaven. But about the dead coming back to life, have you no knowledge of what was said to you by God in the Writings: I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead but of the living.

35 And one of them, a teacher of the law, put a question to him, testing him, and saying, 36 Master, which is the chief rule in the law? 37 And he said to him, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. 38 This is the first and greatest rule. 39 And a second like it is this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.

43 How then does David in the Spirit give him the name of Lord, saying, The Lord said to my Lord, Be seated at my right hand, till I put under your feet all those who are against you?

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Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

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When, then, you see in the holy place the unclean thing which makes destruction, of which word was given by Daniel the prophet (let this be clear to the reader), Then let those who are in Judaea go in flight to the mountains.

29 But straight away, after the trouble of those days, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light and the stars will come down from heaven and the powers of heaven will be moved: 30 And then the sign of the Son of man will be seen in heaven; and then all the nations of the earth will have sorrow, and they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

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15 And the price was fixed at thirty bits of silver

31 Then said Jesus to them, All of you will be turned away from me this night: for it is said in the Writings, I will put to death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep of the flock will be put to flight.

But how then would the Writings come true, which say that so it has to be?

62 And the high priest got up and said to him, Have you no answer? what is it which these say against you? But Jesus said not a word.

64 Jesus says to him, You say so: but I say to you, From now you will see the Son of man seated at the right hand of power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.

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And they made a decision to get with the silver the potter’s field, as a place for the dead of other countries. For this cause that field was named, The field of blood, to this day. Then came true that which was said by Jeremiah the prophet,
And they took the thirty bits of silver, the price of him who was valued by the children of Israel; And they gave them for the potter’s field, as I had word from the Lord.

14 But when the chief priests and those in authority made statements against him, he gave no answer.

46 And about the ninth hour Jesus gave a loud cry, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is, My God, my God, why are you turned away from me?

Isaiah 7
Micah 5:2
Hosea 11:1
Jeremiah 31:15
Isaiah 40:3
Deuteronomy 8:3
Psalm 91:11,12
Deuteronomy 6:16
Deuteronomy 6:13
Isaiah 9:1,2
Exodus 20:13
Exodus 20:14
Deuteronomy 24:1
Exodus 21:24; Leviticus 24:20; Deuteronomy 19:21
Leviticus 19:18
Isaiah 53:4
Hosea 6:6
Micah 7:6
Malachi 3:1
1 Samuel 21:6
Hosea 6:6
Isaiah 42:1-4
The book of Jonah
Isaiah 6:9,10
Psalm 78:2
Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16
Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9
Isaiah 29:13
Genesis 1:27
Genesis 2:24
Deuteronomy 24:1-4
Exodus 20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20
Leviticus 19:18
Zechariah 9:9
Psalm 118:25,26
Psalm 8:2
Psalm 118:22,23
Exodus 3:6
Deuteronomy 6:5
Leviticus 19:18
Psalm 110:1
Psalm 118:26
Daniel 9:27; 11:31; 12:11
Isaiah 13:10; 34:4
Daniel 7:13-14
Zechariah 11:12
Zechariah 13:7
Isaiah 53:7
NIV: Psalm 110:1; Daniel 7:13
NIV: Zechariah 11:12,13; Jeremiah 19:1-13; 32:6-9
Isaiah 53:7
Psalm 22:1