¹³⁹ My passion has overcome me; because my haters are turned away from your words.

¹⁷ And it came to the minds of the disciples that the Writings say, I am on fire with passion for your house.

⁹ I am on fire with passion for your house; and the hard things which are said about you have come on me.

¹⁰ And he said, I have been burning for the honour of the Lord, the God of armies; for the children of Israel have not kept your agreement; they have made destruction of your altars, and have put your prophets to death with the sword: till I, even I, am the only one living; and now they are attempting to take away my life.

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.

²⁴ And some were in agreement with what he said, but some had doubts.

²⁵ And they went away, for there was a division among them after Paul had said this one thing: Well did the Holy Spirit say by the prophet Isaiah to your fathers,

²⁶ Go to this people and say, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:

²⁷ 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.

²⁷ For the men of Jerusalem and their rulers, having no knowledge of him, or of the sayings of the prophets which come to their ears every Sabbath day, gave effect to them by judging him.

²⁹ But Jesus said to them in answer, You are in error, not having knowledge of the Writings, or of the power of God.

⁴² 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?

¹⁶ 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?

¹³ And he said to them, It is in the Writings, My house is to be named a house of prayer, but you are making it a hole of thieves.

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.

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?

⁵ Or is it not said in the law, how the Sabbath is broken by the priests in the Temple and they do no wrong?

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.

⁴ Have the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food, as they would take bread; they make no prayer to God.

¹⁴ And he said, I have been burning for the honour of the Lord, the God of armies; for the children of Israel have not kept your agreement; they have had your altars broken down, and have put your prophets to death with the sword: till I, even I, am the only one living; and now they are attempting to take away my life.