¹And they journeyed from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the Wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they departed from the land of Egypt. ²Then the whole congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. ³And the children of Israel said to them, “Oh, that we had died by the hand of the Lᴏʀᴅ in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat and when we ate bread to the full! For you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.” ⁴Then the Lᴏʀᴅ said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you. And the people shall go out and gather a certain quota every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in My law or not. ⁵And it shall be on the sixth day that they shall prepare what they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.” ⁶Then Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, “At evening you shall know that the Lᴏʀᴅ has brought you out of the land of Egypt. ⁷And in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lᴏʀᴅ; for He hears your complaints against the Lᴏʀᴅ. But what are we, that you complain against us?” ⁸Also Moses said, “This shall be seen when the Lᴏʀᴅ gives you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to the full; for the Lᴏʀᴅ hears your complaints which you make against Him. And what are we? Your complaints are not against us but against the Lᴏʀᴅ.” ⁹Then Moses spoke to Aaron, “Say to all the congregation of the children of Israel, ‘Come near before the Lᴏʀᴅ, for He has heard your complaints.’ ” ¹⁰Now it came to pass, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the Lᴏʀᴅ appeared in the cloud. ¹¹And the Lᴏʀᴅ spoke to Moses, saying, ¹²“I have heard the complaints of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. And you shall know that I am the Lᴏʀᴅ your God.’ ” ¹³So it was that quails came up at evening and covered the camp, and in the morning the dew lay all around the camp. ¹⁴And when the layer of dew lifted, there, on the surface of the wilderness, was a small round substance, as fine as frost on the ground. ¹⁵So when the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “This is the bread which the Lᴏʀᴅ has given you to eat. ¹⁶This is the thing which the Lᴏʀᴅ has commanded: ‘Let every man gather it according to each one’s need, one omer for each person, according to the number of persons; let every man take for those who are in his tent.’ ” ¹⁷Then the children of Israel did so and gathered, some more, some less. ¹⁸So when they measured it by omers, he who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack. Every man had gathered according to each one’s need. ¹⁹And Moses said, “Let no one leave any of it till morning.” ²⁰Notwithstanding they did not heed Moses. But some of them left part of it until morning, and it bred worms and stank. And Moses was angry with them. ²¹So they gathered it every morning, every man according to his need. And when the sun became hot, it melted. ²²And so it was, on the sixth day, that they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one. And all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses. ²³Then he said to them, “This is what the Lᴏʀᴅ has said: ‘Tomorrow is a Sabbath rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lᴏʀᴅ. Bake what you will bake today, and boil what you will boil; and lay up for yourselves all that remains, to be kept until morning.’ ” ²⁴So they laid it up till morning, as Moses commanded; and it did not stink, nor were there any worms in it. ²⁵Then Moses said, “Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to the Lᴏʀᴅ; today you will not find it in the field. ²⁶Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath, there will be none.” ²⁷Now it happened that some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather, but they found none. ²⁸And the Lᴏʀᴅ said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My laws? ²⁹See! For the Lᴏʀᴅ has given you the Sabbath; therefore He gives you on the sixth day bread for two days. Let every man remain in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.” ³⁰So the people rested on the seventh day. ³¹And the house of Israel called its name Manna. And it was like white coriander seed, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey. ³²Then Moses said, “This is the thing which the Lᴏʀᴅ has commanded: ‘Fill an omer with it, to be kept for your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’ ” ³³And Moses said to Aaron, “Take a pot and put an omer of manna in it, and lay it up before the Lᴏʀᴅ, to be kept for your generations.” ³⁴As the Lᴏʀᴅ commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept. ³⁵And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan. ³⁶Now an omer is one-tenth of an ephah.

¹Then Jesus entered and passed through Jericho. ²Now behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus who was a chief tax collector, and he was rich. ³And he sought to see who Jesus was, but could not because of the crowd, for he was of short stature. ⁴So he ran ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see Him, for He was going to pass that way. ⁵And when Jesus came to the place, He looked up and saw him, and said to him, “Zacchaeus, make haste and come down, for today I must stay at your house.” ⁶So he made haste and came down, and received Him joyfully. ⁷But when they saw it, they all complained, saying, “He has gone to be a guest with a man who is a sinner.” ⁸Then Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, I give half of my goods to the poor; and if I have taken anything from anyone by false accusation, I restore fourfold.” ⁹And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham; ¹⁰for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.” ¹¹Now as they heard these things, He spoke another parable, because He was near Jerusalem and because they thought the kingdom of God would appear immediately. ¹²Therefore He said: “A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return. ¹³So he called ten of his servants, delivered to them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Do business till I come.’ ¹⁴But his citizens hated him, and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We will not have this man to reign over us.’ ¹⁵And so it was that when he returned, having received the kingdom, he then commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know how much every man had gained by trading. ¹⁶Then came the first, saying, ‘Master, your mina has earned ten minas.’ ¹⁷And he said to him, ‘Well done, good servant; because you were faithful in a very little, have authority over ten cities.’ ¹⁸And the second came, saying, ‘Master, your mina has earned five minas.’ ¹⁹Likewise he said to him, ‘You also be over five cities.’ ²⁰Then another came, saying, ‘Master, here is your mina, which I have kept put away in a handkerchief. ²¹For I feared you, because you are an austere man. You collect what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow.’ ²²And he said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I was an austere man, collecting what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow. ²³Why then did you not put my money in the bank, that at my coming I might have collected it with interest?’ ²⁴And he said to those who stood by, ‘Take the mina from him, and give it to him who has ten minas.’ ²⁵(But they said to him, ‘Master, he has ten minas.’) ²⁶For I say to you, that to everyone who has will be given; and from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. ²⁷But bring here those enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, and slay them before me.’ ” ²⁸When He had said this, He went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. ²⁹And it came to pass, when He came near to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mountain called Olivet, that He sent two of His disciples, ³⁰saying, “Go into the village opposite you, where as you enter you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Loose it and bring it here. ³¹And if anyone asks you, ‘Why are you loosing it?’ thus you shall say to him, ‘Because the Lord has need of it.’ ” ³²So those who were sent went their way and found it just as He had said to them. ³³But as they were loosing the colt, the owners of it said to them, “Why are you loosing the colt?” ³⁴And they said, “The Lord has need of him.” ³⁵Then they brought him to Jesus. And they threw their own clothes on the colt, and they set Jesus on him. ³⁶And as He went, many spread their clothes on the road. ³⁷Then, as He was now drawing near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen, ³⁸saying: “‘Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord!’ Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” ³⁹And some of the Pharisees called to Him from the crowd, “Teacher, rebuke Your disciples.” ⁴⁰But He answered and said to them, “I tell you that if these should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out.” ⁴¹Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it, ⁴²saying, “If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. ⁴³For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side, ⁴⁴and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.” ⁴⁵Then He went into the temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it, ⁴⁶saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ ” ⁴⁷And He was teaching daily in the temple. But the chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people sought to destroy Him, ⁴⁸and were unable to do anything; for all the people were very attentive to hear Him.

¹Elihu further answered and said: ²“Hear my words, you wise men; Give ear to me, you who have knowledge. ³For the ear tests words As the palate tastes food. ⁴Let us choose justice for ourselves; Let us know among ourselves what is good. ⁵“For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, But God has taken away my justice; ⁶Should I lie concerning my right? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’ ⁷What man is like Job, Who drinks scorn like water, ⁸Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, And walks with wicked men? ⁹For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing That he should delight in God.’ ¹⁰“Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: Far be it from God to do wickedness, And from the Almighty to commit iniquity. ¹¹For He repays man according to his work, And makes man to find a reward according to his way. ¹²Surely God will never do wickedly, Nor will the Almighty pervert justice. ¹³Who gave Him charge over the earth? Or who appointed Him over the whole world? ¹⁴If He should set His heart on it, If He should gather to Himself His Spirit and His breath, ¹⁵All flesh would perish together, And man would return to dust. ¹⁶“If you have understanding, hear this; Listen to the sound of my words: ¹⁷Should one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn Him who is most just? ¹⁸Is it fitting to say to a king, ‘You are worthless,’ And to nobles, ‘You are wicked’? ¹⁹Yet He is not partial to princes, Nor does He regard the rich more than the poor; For they are all the work of His hands. ²⁰In a moment they die, in the middle of the night; The people are shaken and pass away; The mighty are taken away without a hand. ²¹“For His eyes are on the ways of man, And He sees all his steps. ²²There is no darkness nor shadow of death Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. ²³For He need not further consider a man, That he should go before God in judgment. ²⁴He breaks in pieces mighty men without inquiry, And sets others in their place. ²⁵Therefore he knows their works; He overthrows them in the night, And they are crushed. ²⁶He strikes them as wicked men In the open sight of others, ²⁷Because they turned back from Him, And would not consider any of His ways, ²⁸So that they caused the cry of the poor to come to Him; For He hears the cry of the afflicted. ²⁹When He gives quietness, who then can make trouble? And when He hides His face, who then can see Him, Whether it is against a nation or a man alone?— ³⁰That the hypocrite should not reign, Lest the people be ensnared. ³¹“For has anyone said to God, ‘ I have borne chastening; I will offend no more; ³²Teach me what I do not see; If I have done iniquity, I will do no more’? ³³Should He repay it according to your terms, Just because you disavow it? You must choose, and not I; Therefore speak what you know. ³⁴“Men of understanding say to me, Wise men who listen to me: ³⁵‘Job speaks without knowledge, His words are without wisdom.’ ³⁶Oh, that Job were tried to the utmost, Because his answers are like those of wicked men! ³⁷For he adds rebellion to his sin; He claps his hands among us, And multiplies his words against God.”

¹Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart. ²But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. ³But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, ⁴whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them. ⁵For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus’ sake. ⁶For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. ⁷But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. ⁸We are hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; ⁹persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed— ¹⁰always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. ¹¹For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. ¹²So then death is working in us, but life in you. ¹³And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak, ¹⁴knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus, and will present us with you. ¹⁵For all things are for your sakes, that grace, having spread through the many, may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God. ¹⁶Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. ¹⁷For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, ¹⁸while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.