1 En Hy sê vir hulle: Voorwaar Ek sê vir julle, daar is sommige van die wat hier staan, wat die dood sekerlik nie sal smaak voordat hulle die koninkryk van God met krag sien kom het nie.
2 En n ses dae het Jesus vir Petrus en Jakobus en Johannes saamgeneem en hulle alleen op 'n hoë berg in die eensaamheid geneem; en Hy het voor hulle van gedaante verander,
3 en sy klere het blink geword, baie wit soos sneeu, wit soos geen bleiker op aarde dit kan maak nie.
4 En daar het aan hulle verskyn El¡a saam met Moses, en hulle was in gesprek met Jesus.
5 Toe spreek Petrus en sê vir Jesus: Rabbi, dit is goed dat ons hier is. Laat ons dan drie hutte maak: vir U een en vir Moses een en vir El¡a een.
6 Want hy het nie geweet wat om te sê nie, want hulle was heeltemal verskrik.
7 En daar kom 'n wolk wat hulle oordek; en uit die wolk kom 'n stem wat sê: Dit is my geliefde Seun, luister na Hom!
8 En meteens kyk hulle rond en sien niemand meer by hulle nie, behalwe Jesus alleen.
9 En onderwyl hulle van die berg afklim, gee Hy aan hulle bevel om aan niemand te vertel wat hulle gesien het voordat die Seun van die mens uit die dode opgestaan het nie.
10 En hulle het die woord vir hulleself gehou en onder mekaar gevra wat dit beteken om uit die dode op te staan.
11 En hulle vra Hom en sê: Waarom sê die skrifgeleerdes dat El¡a eers moet kom?
12 Toe antwoord Hy en sê vir hulle: Dis waar, El¡a kom eers om alles te herstel; en tog, hoe staan daar dan van die Seun van die mens geskrywe dat Hy baie moet ly en verag word?
13 Maar Ek sê vir julle dat El¡a al gekom het, en hulle het aan hom gedoen alles wat hulle wou, soos van hom geskrywe is.
14 En toe Hy by die dissipels kom, sien Hy 'n groot menigte om hulle, en skrifgeleerdes wat met hulle redetwis.
15 En dadelik toe die hele skare Hom sien, was hulle baie verbaas en het na Hom gehardloop en Hom gegroet.
16 Daarop vra Hy die skrifgeleerdes: Waarom redetwis julle met hulle?
17 En een uit die skare antwoord en sê: Meester, ek het my seun wat 'n stomme gees het, na U gebring;
18 en waar hy hom ook aangryp, skeur hy hom; en hy kry skuim in die mond, en hy kners met sy tande en word styf; en ek het u dissipels gevra om hom uit te dryf, en hulle kon nie.
19 Toe antwoord Hy hom en sê: o Ongelowige geslag, hoe lank sal Ek by julle wees, hoe lank sal Ek julle verdra? Bring hom na My toe.
20 En hulle bring hom na Hom toe; en toe hy Hom sien, laat die gees hom dadelik stuiptrekkings kry, en hy val op die grond neer en rol rond met skuim in die mond.
21 Daarop vra Hy sy vader: Hoe lank is dit al dat dit hom oorgekom het? En hy sê: Van sy kindsdae af;
22 en dikwels het hy hom selfs in die vuur en in die water gegooi om hom dood te maak. Maar as U iets kan doen, ontferm U oor ons en help ons.
23 En Jesus sê vir hom: Wat dit betref -- as jy kan glo, alle dinge is moontlik vir die een wat glo.
24 En dadelik roep die vader van die kind met trane uit en sê: Ek glo, Here, kom my ongeloof te hulp!
25 En toe Jesus sien dat 'n skare bymekaar stroom, het Hy die onreine gees bestraf en vir hom gesê: Jou stom en dowe gees, Ek gebied jou, gaan uit hom uit en kom nooit weer in hom nie.
26 En nadat hy geskreeu en hom baie stuiptrekkings laat kry het, het hy uitgegaan. En die seun het soos 'n dooie geword, sodat baie gesê het: Hy is dood.
27 Maar Jesus het hom by die hand gegryp en hom opgerig; en hy het opgestaan.
28 En toe Hy in die huis kom, vra sy dissipels Hom afsonderlik: Waarom kon ons hom nie uitdrywe nie?
29 En Hy sê vir hulle: Hierdie geslag kan deur niks anders uitgaan as deur gebed en vas nie.
30 En hulle het daarvandaan weggegaan en verbygetrek deur Galil,a; en Hy wou nie hê dat iemand dit moes weet nie.
31 Want Hy het sy dissipels geleer en vir hulle gesê: Die seun van die mens word oorgelewer in die hande van die mense, en hulle sal Hom doodmaak; en nadat Hy gedood is, sal Hy die derde dag opstaan.
32 En hulle het die gesegde nie verstaan nie en was bang om Hom uit te vra.
33 En Hy het in Kap,rnaÂm gekom; en toe Hy in die huis was, vra Hy hulle: Wat het julle op die pad met mekaar geredeneer?
34 Maar hulle het stilgebly; want hulle het op die pad met mekaar gepraat oor wie die grootste is.
35 En toe Hy gaan sit het, roep Hy die twaalf en sê vir hulle: As iemand die eerste wil wees, moet hy die laaste van almal en almal se dienaar wees.
36 En Hy neem 'n kindjie en laat hom in hul midde staan en slaan sy arms om hom en sê vir hulle:
37 Elkeen wat een van sulke kindertjies ontvang in my Naam, ontvang My. En elkeen wat My ontvang, ontvang nie My nie, maar Hom wat My gestuur het.
38 Toe antwoord Johannes Hom en sê: Meester, ons het iemand gesien wat in u Naam duiwels uitdryf en wat ons nie volg nie; en ons het hom belet, omdat hy ons nie volg nie.
39 Maar Jesus sê: Moet hom nie belet nie, want daar is niemand wat 'n krag in my Naam sal doen en gou van My sal kan kwaadspreek nie;
40 want wie nie teen ons is nie, is vir ons.
41 Want elkeen wat vir julle in my Naam 'n beker water gee om te drink, omdat julle aan Christus behoort, voorwaar Ek sê vir julle, hy sal sy loon sekerlik nie verloor nie.
42 En elkeen wat een van hierdie kleintjies wat in My glo, laat struikel, dit is beter vir hom as 'n meulsteen om sy nek gehang en hy in die see gegooi word.
43 En as jou hand jou laat struikel, kap dit af. Dit is beter vir jou om vermink die lewe in te gaan, as om twee hande te hê en in die hel te gaan in die onuitbluslike vuur,
44 waar hulle wurm nie sterf en die vuur nie uitgeblus word nie.
45 En as jou voet jou laat struikel, kap dit af. Dit is beter vir jou om kreupel die lewe in te gaan, as om twee voete te hê en in die hel gewerp te word in die onuitbluslike vuur,
46 waar hulle wurm nie sterf en die vuur nie uitgeblus word nie.
47 En as jou oog jou laat struikel, pluk dit uit. Dit is beter vir jou om met een oog die koninkryk van God in te gaan, as om twee oë te hê en in die helse vuur gewerp te word,
48 waar hulle wurm nie sterf en die vuur nie uitgeblus word nie.
49 Want elkeen sal met vuur gesout word en elke offerande sal met sout gesout word.
50 Die sout is goed, maar as die sout souteloos word, waarmee sal julle dit smaaklik maak? Julle moet sout in julle hê en vrede hou met mekaar.
1 And he said to them, Truly I say to you, There are some here who will have no taste of death till they see the kingdom of God come with power.
2 And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and made them go up with him into a high mountain by themselves: and he was changed in form before them:
3 And his clothing became shining, very white, as no cleaner on earth would make it.
4 And there came before them Elijah with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus.
5 And Peter said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here: and let us make three tents; one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.
6 Because he was not certain what to say, for they were in great fear.
7 And a cloud came over them; and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, give ear to him.
8 And suddenly looking round about, they saw no one any longer, but Jesus only with themselves.
9 And while they were coming down from the mountain, he gave them orders not to give word to any man of the things they had seen, till the Son of man had come back from the dead.
10 And they kept the saying, questioning among themselves what the coming back from the dead might be.
11 And they put a question to him, saying, Why do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?
12 And he said to them, Truly, Elijah does come first, and puts all things in order; and how is it said in the Writings that the Son of man will go through much sorrow and be made as nothing?
13 But I say to you that Elijah has come, and they have done to him whatever they were pleased to do, even as the Writings say about him.
14 And when they came to the disciples, they saw a great mass of people about them, and scribes questioning them.
15 And straight away all the people, when they saw him, were full of wonder, and running to him, gave him worship.
16 And he said, What are you questioning them about?
17 And one of the number said to him in answer, Master, I came to you with my son, who has in him a spirit which takes away his power of talking;
18 And wherever it takes him, it puts him down violently, streaming at the lips and twisted with pain; and his strength goes from him; and I made a request to your disciples to send it out, and they were not able.
19 And he said to them in answer, O generation without faith, how long will I have to be with you? how long will I put up with you? let him come to me.
20 And they took him to him: and when he saw him, the spirit in him straight away became violent; and he went down on the earth, rolling about and streaming at the lips.
21 And Jesus questioning the father said, How long has he been like this? And he said, From a child.
22 And frequently it has sent him into the fire and into the water, for his destruction; but if you are able to do anything, have pity on us, and give us help.
23 And Jesus said to him, If you are able! All things are possible to him who has faith.
24 Straight away the father of the child gave a cry, saying, I have faith; make my feeble faith stronger.
25 And when Jesus saw that the people came running together, he gave orders to the unclean spirit, saying to him, You, spirit, who are the cause of his loss of voice and hearing, I say to you, come out of him, and never again go into him.
26 And after crying out and shaking him violently, it came out: and the child became like one dead; so that most of them said, He is dead.
27 But Jesus took him by the hand, lifting him up; and he got up.
28 And when he had gone into the house, his disciples said to him privately, Why were we unable to send it out?
29 And he said to them, Nothing will make this sort come out but prayer.
30 And they went out from there, through Galilee; and it was his desire that no man might have knowledge of it;
31 For he was giving his disciples teaching, and saying to them, The Son of man is given up into the hands of men, and they will put him to death; and when he is dead, after three days he will come back from the dead.
32 But the saying was not clear to them, and they were in fear of questioning him about it.
33 And they came to Capernaum: and when he was in the house, he put the question to them, What were you talking about on the way?
34 But they said nothing: because they had had an argument between themselves on the way, about who was the greatest.
35 And seating himself, he made the twelve come to him; and he said to them, If any man has the desire to be first, he will be last of all and servant of all.
36 And he took a little child, and put him in the middle of them; and taking him in his arms, he said to them,
37 Whoever will give honour to one such little child in my name, gives honour to me: and whoever gives honour to me, gives honour not to me, but to him who sent me.
38 John said to him, Master, we saw one driving out evil spirits in your name: and we said that he might not, because he is not one of us.
39 But Jesus said, Say not so: for there is no man who will do a great work in my name, and be able at the same time to say evil of me.
40 He who is not against us is for us.
41 Whoever gives you a cup of water, because you are Christ's, truly I say to you, he will in no way be without his reward.
42 And whoever is a cause of trouble to one of these little ones who have faith in me, it would be better for him if a great stone was put round his neck and he was dropped into the sea.
43 And if your hand is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off; it is better for you to go into life with one hand than to have two hands and go into hell, into the eternal fire.
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45 And if your foot is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off: it is better for you to go into life with one foot than to have two feet and go into hell.
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47 And if your eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out: it is better for you to go into the kingdom of God with one eye than, having two eyes, to go into hell,
48 Where their worm is ever living and the fire is not put out.
49 Everyone will be salted with fire.
50 Salt is good; but if the taste goes from it, how will you make it salt again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace one with another.