Crossword

ACROSS
1   Arouse (Song of Songs 2:7) (6)
4   Extinguish (Isaiah 1:31) (6)
8   ‘“They — — ,” you will say, “but I’m not hurt!”’ (Proverbs 23:35) (3,2)
9   Unhappiness (Nehemiah 2:2) (7)
10 Jewish (7)
11 Dirge (anag.) (5)
12 ‘A truthful witness gives honest — , but a false witness tells lies’ (Proverbs 12:17) (9)
17 Paul quoted from the second one in his address in the synagogue at Pisidian Antioch (Acts 13:33) (5)
19 ‘Do not use your freedom to — the sinful nature’ (Galatians 5:13) (7)
21 ‘As you can see, he has done nothing to — death’ (Luke 23:15) (7)
22 Name applied by Isaiah to Jerusalem (Isaiah 29:1) (5)
23 ‘All the people — — one man, saying, “None of us will go home”’ (Judges 20:8) (4,2)
24 Lazarus, who was carried by angels to Abraham’s side when he died, was one (Luke 16:20) (6)

DOWN
1   Appalled (Job 26:11) (6)
2   ‘In an — to escape from the ship, the sailors let the lifeboat down into the sea’ (Acts 27:30) (7)
3   Expel (Acts 18:16) (5)
5   ‘But I have a baptism to — , and how distressed I am until it is completed!’ (Luke 12:50) (7)
6   ‘Of the increase of his government and peace there will be — — ’ (Isaiah 9:7) (2,3)
7   Hurry (Psalm 119:60) (6)
9   ‘For I desire mercy, not — , and acknowledgement of God rather than burnt offerings’ (Hosea 6:6) (9)
13 One of its towns was Sychar, where Jesus met a woman at Jacob’s well (John 4:5) (7)
14 Shouting (Acts 7:57) (7)
15 Arachnid (Isaiah 59:5) (6)
16 One of Paul’s first converts in Philippi was Lydia, a — in purple cloth (Acts 16:14) (6)
18 Donkeys (5)
20 Raked (anag.) (5)

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