The Revised New Testament.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3904, 4 July 1881, Page 2

The Revised New Testament.

John xii 1 to B.—Jesus, therefore, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus raised from the dead. So they made him a supper there; and Martha served; but Lazarus was one of them that sat at meat with him. Mary, therefore, took a pound of ointment of spikenard, very precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair ; and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment. But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, which should betray him, saith, " Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence and given to the poor ?" Now, this he said, not because be cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the bag, took away what was put therein. Jesus, therefore said, " Suffer her to beep it against the day of my burying. For the poor ye have always wilh you; but me ye have not always."

II Cob. xi., 23 to 33.—Are they ministers of Christ ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more ; in labours more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in strifes above measure, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Turice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day have I been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my countrymen, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; in labour and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Beside those things that are without, there is that which presseth upon me daily, anxiety for all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak ? who is made to stumble, and I burn not? If I must need glory, I will glory to the things that concern my weakness, The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed for evermore know that I lie not. In "Damascus the Governor under Aretas the king guarded the City of the Damascenes in order to take me; and through a window was I let down in a basket by the wall and escaped his hands.

Acts xvii., 22 to 32.—Ye men of Athens, in all things I perceive that ye are somewhat superstitious. For as I passed along, and obserred the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, To an unknown God. What therefore ye worship in ignorance, this set I forth unto you. The God that made the world and all things therein, He, being Lovd of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands ; neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself giveth to all life, and breath 1, and alt things ; and he made of one every nation of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation: that they should seek God, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he is not far from each oue of us: for in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain even as your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. Being then the offspring of God we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and device of man. The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked ; but now he commandeth men that they should all everywhere repent: inasmuch as he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he hath ordained ; whereof he hath given

assurance onto all met), in that he hatr raised him from the dead I. Cob., xiii.—lf I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but hare not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cjmbal. And if I have the. gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, lam nothing. And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to he burned, but have not love, it proQteth me nothing. Love suffereth long, and is kind ; love envieth not: love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil; rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth ; beareth all things, beliereth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all all things. Love never faileth; bat whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away: whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall be done away. For we know in part; but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part sball be done away. When I was a child I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child : now that lam become a man, I have put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, darkly ; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I have been know. But now abideth faith, hope, love, ,these three; and the greatest of these is love.