⁹ And they gave teaching in Judah and had the book of the law of the Lord with them; they went through all the towns of Judah teaching the people.

⁴ Give ear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord:

⁵ And the Lord your God is to be loved with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

⁶ Keep these words, which I say to you this day, deep in your hearts;

⁷ Teaching them to your children with all care, talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up.

⁸ Let them be fixed as a sign on your hand, and marked on your brow;

⁹ Have them lettered on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns.

² Much in every way: first of all because the words of God were given to them.

²³ And when a day had been fixed, they came to his house in great numbers; and he gave them teaching, giving witness to the kingdom of God, and having discussions with them about Jesus, from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning till evening.

²¹ For Moses, from times long past, has his preachers in every town, reading his law in the Synagogues every Sabbath.

¹⁵ And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the Synagogue sent to them, saying, Brothers, if you have a word of comfort for the people, say on.

⁴⁰ But Philip came to Azotus, and went through all the towns, preaching the good news, till he came to Caesarea.

⁴⁶ If you had belief in Moses you would have belief in me; for his writings are about me.

³⁹ You make search in the holy Writings, in the belief that through them you get eternal life; and it is those Writings which give witness about me.

¹⁷ And the book of the prophet Isaiah was given to him and, opening the book, he came on the place where it is said,

¹⁸ The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make well those who are broken-hearted; to say that the prisoners will be let go, and the blind will see, and to make the wounded free from their chains,

¹⁹ To give knowledge that the year of the Lord's good pleasure is come.

¹⁹ Go then, and make disciples of all the nations, giving them baptism in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit:

²⁰ Teaching them to keep all the rules which I have given you: and see, I am ever with you, even to the end of the world.

² Why do your disciples go against the teaching of the fathers? for they take food with unwashed hands.

³ And in answer he said to them, Why do you, yourselves, go against the word of God on account of the teaching which has been handed down to you?

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.

⁵ But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is given to God;

⁶ There is no need for him to give honour to his father. And you have made the word of God without effect because of your teaching.

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.

¹ And it came about that when Jesus had come to the end of giving these orders to his twelve disciples, he went away from there, teaching and preaching in their towns.

²³ But when they are cruel to you in one town, go in flight to another: for truly, I say to you, You will not have gone through the towns of Israel before the Son of man comes.

²⁰ Then say to them, Put your faith in the teaching and the witness. ... If they do not say such things. ... For him there is no dawn. ...

⁷ And Jeshua and Bani and Sherebiah and Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites made the law clear to the people: and the people kept in their places.

³ And he said to the Levites, the teachers of all Israel, who were holy to the Lord, See, the holy ark is in the house which Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel, made; it will no longer have to be transported on your backs: now be the servants of the Lord your God and his people Israel,

⁷ Only take heart and be very strong; take care to do all the law which Moses my servant gave you, not turning from it to the right hand or to the left, so that you may do well in all your undertakings.

⁸ Let this book of the law be ever on your lips and in your thoughts day and night, so that you may keep with care everything in it; then a blessing will be on all your way, and you will do well.

¹¹ When all Israel has come before the Lord your God in the place named by him, let a reading be given of this law in the hearing of all Israel.

¹² Make all the people come together, men and women and children, and anyone from another country who is with you, so that hearing they may become wise in the fear of the Lord your God, and take care to do all the words of this law;

¹³ And so that your children, to whom it is new, may give ear and be trained in the fear of the Lord your God, while you are living in the land which you are going over Jordan to take for your heritage.

¹¹ If anyone has anything to say, let it be as the words of God; if anyone has the desire to be the servant of others, let him do it in the strength which is given by God; so that in all things God may have the glory through Jesus Christ, whose are the glory and the power for ever.