Jesus Cleanses the Temple

12 ^eAnd Jesus entered the temple¹ and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of ^fthe money-changers and the seats of those who sold ^gpigeons. 13 He said to them, “It is written, ^h‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but ⁱyou make it a den of robbers.”

14 ^jAnd the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. 15 ^kBut when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, ^x“Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant, 16 and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; ^lhave you never read,

17 And ^oleaving them, he ^pwent out of the city to ^qBethany and lodged there.

Jesus Curses the Fig Tree

18 ^rIn the morning, as he was returning to the city, ^she became hungry. 19 ^tAnd seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” And the fig tree withered at once.

20 When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree wither at once?” 21 And Jesus answered them, ^u“Truly, I say to you, ^vif you have faith and ^wdo not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ^x‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen. 22 And ^vwhatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, ^yif you have faith.”

Paul in Rome

17 After three days he called together the local leaders of the Jews, and when they had gathered, he said to them, “Brothers, ^bthough I had done nothing against our people or ^cthe customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans. 18 When they had examined me, they ^dwished to set me at liberty, ^ebecause there was no reason for the death penalty in my case. 19 But because the Jews objected, I was compelled ^fto appeal to Caesar—though I had no charge to bring against ^gmy nation. 20 For this reason, therefore, I have asked to see you and speak with you, since it is ^hbecause of ⁱthe hope of Israel that I am wearing ^jthis ^kchain.” 21 And they said to him, “We have received no letters from Judea about you, and none of ^lthe brothers coming here has reported or spoken any evil about you. 22 But we desire to hear from you what your views are, for with regard to this ^msect we know that everywhere ⁿit is spoken against.”

23 When they had appointed a day for him, they came to him at his lodging in greater numbers. From morning till evening ^ohe expounded to them, testifying to ^pthe kingdom of God and ^qtrying to convince them about Jesus ^rboth from the Law of Moses and from the Prophets. 24 And ^ssome were convinced by what he said, but others disbelieved. 25 And disagreeing among themselves, they departed after Paul had made one statement: ^t“The Holy Spirit was right in saying to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet:

28 Therefore let it be known to you that ^ythis ^zsalvation of God ^ahas been sent to the Gentiles; ^bthey will listen.”¹

30 He lived there two whole years at his own expense,² and ^cwelcomed all who came to him, 31 ^dproclaiming ^ethe kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ ^fwith all boldness and ^gwithout hindrance.

God Is King over All the Earth

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of ^wthe Sons of Korah.

Blessings for Obedience

1 “You shall not make ^sidols for yourselves or erect an ^timage or ^upillar, and you shall not set up a ^vfigured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God. 2 ^wYou shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.

3 ^x“If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, 4 then ^yI will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5 ^zYour threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And ^ayou shall eat your bread to the full and ^bdwell in your land securely. 6 ^cI will give peace in the land, and ^dyou shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. And ^eI will remove harmful beasts from the land, ^fand the sword shall not go through your land. 7 You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. 8 ^gFive of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. 9 ^hI will turn to you and ⁱmake you fruitful and multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you. 10 You shall eat ^jold store long kept, and you shall clear out the old to make way for the new. 11 ^kI will make my dwelling¹ among you, and my soul shall not abhor you. 12 ^lAnd I ^mwill walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people. 13 ⁿI am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. ^oAnd I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.

Punishment for Disobedience

14 ^p“But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments, 15 if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but ^qbreak my covenant, 16 then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with ^rwasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And ^syou shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17 I will ^tset my face against you, and ^uyou shall be struck down before your enemies. ^vThose who hate you shall rule over you, and ^wyou shall flee when none pursues you. 18 And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again ^xsevenfold for your sins, 19 and I will break ^ythe pride of your power, and I ^zwill make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze. 20 And ^ayour strength shall be spent in vain, for ^byour land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.

21 ^c“Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins. 22 And ^dI will let loose the wild beasts against you, which shall bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock and make you few in number, so that ^eyour roads shall be deserted.

23 “And ^fif by this discipline you are not turned to me ^cbut walk contrary to me, 24 ^gthen I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins. 25 And ^hI will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, ⁱI will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. 26 ^jWhen I break your supply² of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and ^kyou shall eat and not be satisfied.

27 “But ^lif in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me, 28 then I will walk contrary to you ^min fury, and I myself will discipline you ^xsevenfold for your sins. 29 ⁿYou shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters. 30 And ^oI will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and ^pcast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you. 31 And I will ^qlay your cities waste and will ^rmake your sanctuaries desolate, and ^sI will not smell your pleasing aromas. 32 And ^tI myself will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be ^uappalled at it. 33 And ^vI will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

34 ^w“Then the land shall enjoy³ its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths. 35 As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, the rest that it did not have on your Sabbaths when you were dwelling in it. 36 And as for those of you who are left, ^xI will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The ^ysound of a ^zdriven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues. 37 They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues. And ^ayou shall have no power to stand before your enemies. 38 And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. 39 And those of you who are left shall ^brot away in your enemies’ lands because of their iniquity, and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall rot away like them.

40 “But if ^cthey confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they ^dcommitted against me, and also in walking contrary to me, 41 so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies—if then their ^euncircumcised heart is ^fhumbled and they make amends for their iniquity, 42 then I will ^gremember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will ^hremember the land. 43 But ^wthe land shall be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my rules and their soul abhorred my statutes. 44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, ⁱI will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and ^jbreak my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God. 45 But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, ^kwhom I brought out of the land of Egypt ^lin the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.”

46 ^mThese are the statutes and rules and laws that the Lord made between himself and the people of Israel through Moses ⁿon Mount Sinai.

Laws About Vows

1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, If anyone ^omakes a special vow to the Lord involving the valuation of persons, 3 then the valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels⁴ of silver, according to the ^pshekel of the sanctuary. 4 If the person is a female, the valuation shall be thirty shekels. 5 If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, the valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels. 6 If the person is from a month old up to five years old, the valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female the valuation shall be three shekels of silver. 7 And if the person is sixty years old or over, then the valuation for a male shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels. 8 And if someone is too poor to pay the valuation, then he shall be made to stand before the priest, and the priest shall value him; the priest shall value him according to what the vower can afford.

9 “If the vow⁵ is an animal that may be offered as an offering to the Lord, all of it that he gives to the Lord is holy. 10 ^qHe shall not exchange it or make a substitute for it, good for bad, or bad for good; and if he does in fact substitute one animal for another, then both it and the substitute shall be holy. 11 And if it is any unclean animal that may not be offered as an offering to the Lord, then he shall stand the animal before the priest, 12 and the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall be. 13 ^rBut if he wishes to redeem it, he shall add a ^sfifth to the valuation.

14 “When a man dedicates his house as a holy gift to the Lord, the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand. 15 ^tAnd if the donor wishes to redeem his house, he shall add a ^sfifth to the valuation price, and it shall be his.

16 “If a man dedicates to the Lord part of the land that is his possession, then the valuation shall be in proportion to its seed. A homer⁶ of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. 17 If he dedicates his field from the year of jubilee, the valuation shall stand, 18 but if he dedicates his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall ^ucalculate the price according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and a deduction shall be made from the valuation. 19 ^vAnd if he who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, then he shall add a ^sfifth to its valuation price, and it shall remain his. 20 But if he does not wish to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed anymore. 21 But the field, ^wwhen it is released in the jubilee, shall be a holy gift to the Lord, like a field that has been ^xdevoted. The priest shall be in ^ypossession of it. 22 If he dedicates to the Lord a field that he has bought, ^zwhich is not a part of his possession, 23 ^athen the priest shall calculate the amount of the valuation for it up to the year of jubilee, and the man shall give the valuation on that day as a holy gift to the Lord. 24 ^bIn the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession. 25 Every valuation shall be according to ^cthe shekel of the sanctuary: ^dtwenty gerahs⁷ shall make a shekel.

26 “But a ^efirstborn of animals, which as a firstborn belongs to the Lord, no man may dedicate; whether ox or sheep, it is the Lord’s. 27 And if it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back at the valuation, ^fand add a fifth to it; or, if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at the valuation.

28 “But ^gno devoted thing that a man devotes to the Lord, of anything that he has, whether man or beast, or of his inherited field, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord. 29 ^hNo one devoted, who is to be devoted for destruction⁸ from mankind, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.

30 ⁱ“Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the Lord’s; it is holy to the Lord. 31 If a man wishes to redeem some of his tithe, he shall add a fifth to it. 32 And every tithe of herds and flocks, every tenth animal of all that ^jpass under the herdsman’s staff, shall be holy to the Lord. 33 One shall not differentiate between good or bad, ^kneither shall he make a substitute for it; and if he does substitute for it, then both it and the substitute shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.”

34 ^lThese are the commandments that the Lord commanded Moses for the people of Israel ^mon Mount Sinai.