¹¹ He came to the things which were his and his people did not take him to their hearts.

² For his growth was like that of a delicate plant before him, and like a root out of a dry place: he had no grace of form, to give us pleasure;

³ Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.

³² He gives witness of what he has seen and of what has come to his ears; and no man takes his witness as true.

¹³ And the lord of the garden said, What am I to do? I will send my dearly loved son; they may give respect to him.

¹⁴ But when the workmen saw him, they said to one another, This is he who will one day be the owner of the property: let us put him to death and the heritage will be ours.

¹⁵ And driving him out of the garden they put him to death. Now what will the lord do to these workmen?

¹⁴ But his people had no love for him, and sent representatives after him, saying, We will not have this man for our ruler.

⁵¹ You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

⁵² Which of the prophets was not cruelly attacked by your fathers? and they put to death those who gave them the news of the coming of the Upright One; whom you have now given up and put to death;

²⁴ But he made answer and said, I was sent only to the wandering sheep of the house of Israel.

⁴⁶ Then Paul and Barnabas without fear said, It was necessary for the word of God to be given to you first; but because you will have nothing to do with it, and have no desire for eternal life, it will now be offered to the Gentiles.

⁴ But when the time had come, God sent out his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

²⁵ You are the sons of the prophets, and of the agreement which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, Through your seed a blessing will come on all the families of the earth.

²⁶ To you, first, God sent his servant, blessing you by turning every one of you from his sins.

⁸ Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision to give effect to the undertakings given by God to the fathers,

⁵ Whose are the fathers, and of whom came Christ in the flesh, who is over all, God, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it.

¹ I say what is true in Christ, and not what is false, my mind giving witness with me in the Holy Spirit,

²⁶ My brothers, children of the family of Abraham, and those among you who have the fear of God, to us the word of this salvation is sent.