We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep price.

Now a woman was there who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years but could not be healed by anyone.

The Speaker: Who is this coming up from the desert like a column of smoke, like a fragrant billow of myrrh and frankincense, every kind of fragrant powder of the traveling merchants?

After this the following episode took place. Naboth the Jezreelite owned a vineyard in Jezreel adjacent to the palace of King Ahab of Samaria.

Then you must affirm before the Lord your God, "A wandering Aramean was my ancestor, and he went down to Egypt and lived there as a foreigner with a household few in number, but there he became a great, powerful, and numerous people.

She has sent out her female servants; she calls out on the highest places of the city.

When a man has sexual intercourse with a woman and there is a seminal emission, they must bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

So David hid in the field. When the new moon came, the king sat down to eat his meal.

For people everywhere report how you welcomed us and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God

So Agrippa said to Paul, "You have permission to speak for yourself." Then Paul held out his hand and began his defense:

Instead he must be hospitable, devoted to what is good, sensible, upright, devout, and self-controlled.

Joseph was no longer able to control himself before all his attendants, so he cried out, "Make everyone go out from my presence!" No one remained with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers.

But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why are you bothering her? She has done a good service for me.

As I was en route and near Damascus, about noon a very bright light from heaven suddenly flashed around me.

After they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret and anchored there.

He must then slaughter the male lamb in the place where the sin offering and the burnt offering are slaughtered, in the sanctuary, because, like the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest; it is most holy.

Jesus said to them, "I have shown you many good deeds from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?"

Day after day when I was with you in the temple courts, you did not arrest me. But this is your hour, and that of the power of darkness!"

"You must make no covenant with them or with their gods.

You must serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will remove sickness from your midst.

Adonijah feared Solomon, so he got up and went and grabbed hold of the horns of the altar.

When his family heard this they went out to restrain him, for they said, "He is out of his mind."

He will restore us in a very short time; he will heal us in a little while, so that we may live in his presence.

Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold were broken in pieces without distinction and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors that the wind carries away. Not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the statue became a large mountain that filled the entire earth.

He poured water into the washbasin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to dry them with the towel he had wrapped around himself.

Jesus replied, "I told you and you do not believe. The deeds I do in my Father's name testify about me.

But the angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid; I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified.

They will not remain in the Lord's land. Ephraim will return to Egypt; they will eat ritually unclean food in Assyria.

"Come, eat some of my food, and drink some of the wine I have mixed.

What is Apollos, really? Or what is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, and each of us in the ministry the Lord gave us.

If then I am in the wrong and have done anything that deserves death, I am not trying to escape dying, but if not one of their charges against me is true, no one can hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar!"

He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah.

The Israelites went up and wept before the Lord until evening. They asked the Lord, "Should we again march out to fight the Benjaminites, our brothers?" The Lord said, "Attack them!"

Jesus was teaching daily in the temple courts. The chief priests and the experts in the law and the prominent leaders among the people were seeking to assassinate him,

Moses and Aaron then entered into the Meeting Tent. When they came out, they blessed the people, and the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people.

Everyone who held the words of the God of Israel in awe gathered around me because of the unfaithful acts of the people of the exile. Devastated, I continued to sit there until the evening offering.

When they have completed their testimony, the beast that comes up from the abyss will make war on them and conquer them and kill them.

Now it is ordinarily an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh Barnea by way of Mount Seir.

The Lord said to him, "Go back the way you came and then head for the Desert of Damascus. Go and anoint Hazael king over Syria.

Then Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers, and the people,

The wicked are turned back and sent to Sheol; this is the destiny of all the nations that ignore God,

But he said, 'No, since in gathering the weeds you may uproot the wheat with them.

Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would save only their own lives by their righteousness, declares the sovereign Lord.

Whether it was for two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud prolonged its stay over the tabernacle, the Israelites remained camped without traveling; but when it was taken up, they traveled on.

I have applied these things to myself and Apollos because of you, brothers and sisters, so that through us you may learn "not to go beyond what is written," so that none of you will be puffed up in favor of the one against the other.

They began to call Barnabas Zeus and Paul Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.

they did something clever. They collected some provisions and put worn-out sacks on their donkeys, along with worn-out wineskins that were ripped and patched.

I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!"

When Paul had been summoned, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, "We have experienced a lengthy time of peace through your rule, and reforms are being made in this nation through your foresight.

He alone possesses immortality and lives in unapproachable light, whom no human has ever seen or is able to see. To him be honor and eternal power! Amen.

I will stand at my watch post; I will remain stationed on the city wall. I will keep watching, so I can see what he says to me and can know how I should answer when he counters my argument.

While I was watching, that horn began to wage war against the holy ones and was defeating them,

Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites must take it down, and whenever the tabernacle is to be reassembled, the Levites must set it up. Any unauthorized person who approaches it must be killed.

But after turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, "Get behind me, Satan. You are not setting your mind on God's interests, but on man's."

They are dividing up my clothes among themselves; they are rolling dice for my garments.

Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies, your father's sons will bow down before you.

But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!'

Then the one making the offering must present all its fat: the fatty tail, the fat covering the entrails,

But if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but glorify God that you bear such a name.

For Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised plans against the Jews to destroy them. He had cast pur (that is, the lot) in order to afflict and destroy them.

So these approached Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested, "Sir, we would like to see Jesus."

Three times a year all your males must appear before the Lord your God in the place he chooses for the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Temporary Shelters; and they must not appear before him empty-handed.

in that our gospel did not come to you merely in words, but in power and in the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction (surely you recall the character we displayed when we came among you to help you).

"I looked for a man from among them who would repair the wall and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it, but I found no one.

Jesus answered them, "Those who are well don't need a physician, but those who are sick do.

And when Jesus came to that place, he looked up and said to him, "Zacchaeus, come down quickly, because I must stay at your house today."

When the chief priests and their officers saw him, they shouted out, "Crucify him! Crucify him!" Pilate said, "You take him and crucify him! Certainly I find no reason for an accusation against him!"

that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies, may serve him without fear,

From his mouth extends a sharp sword, so that with it he can strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod, and he stomps the winepress of the furious wrath of God, the All-Powerful.

The patriarchs, because they were jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt. But God was with him,

As an example of suffering and patience, brothers and sisters, take the prophets who spoke in the Lord's name.

You were watching as a stone was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its iron and clay feet, breaking them in pieces.

But now that you have come to know God (or rather to be known by God), how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless basic forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?

And how is it that each one of us hears them in our own native language?

Therefore, dear friends, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard that you do not get led astray by the error of these unprincipled men and fall from your firm grasp on the truth.

Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, "If this man were a prophet, he would know who and what kind of woman this is who is touching him, that she is a sinner."

If only these men were under my command, I would get rid of Abimelech!" He challenged Abimelech, "Muster your army and come out for battle!"

John replied, "No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.

(Now Jesus said this to indicate clearly by what kind of death Peter was going to glorify God.) After he said this, Jesus told Peter, "Follow me."

His offering was one silver platter weighing 130 shekels and one silver sprinkling bowl weighing 70 shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel, each of them full of fine flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering;

they set those on the breasts and he offered the fat parts up in smoke on the altar.

If I must boast, I will boast about the things that show my weakness.

Moreover, the Lord who rules over all says: 'In just a little while I will once again shake the sky and the earth, the sea and the dry ground.

But no human being can subdue the tongue; it is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

By pointing out such things to the brothers and sisters, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, having nourished yourself on the words of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed.

the men of Ramah and Geba, 621;

Do not return evil for evil or insult for insult, but instead bless others because you were called to inherit a blessing.

There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way that leads to death.

So in the same way at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.

I offered my back to those who attacked, my jaws to those who tore out my beard; I did not hide my face from insults and spitting.

"They will go out and observe the corpses of those who rebelled against me, for the maggots that eat them will not die, and the fire that consumes them will not die out. All people will find the sight abhorrent."

But Martha was distracted with all the preparations she had to make, so she came up to him and said, "Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Tell her to help me."

I still have left in Israel seven thousand followers who have not bowed their knees to Baal or kissed the images of him."

Tell me! Present the evidence! Let them consult with one another! Who predicted this in the past? Who announced it beforehand? Was it not I, the Lord? I have no peer, there is no God but me, a God who vindicates and delivers; there is none but me.

By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments.

On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat.

I say this to your shame! Is there no one among you wise enough to settle disputes between fellow Christians?

But I have given to the Levites for an inheritance the tithes of the Israelites that are offered to the Lord as a raised offering. That is why I said to them that among the Israelites they are to have no inheritance."

In the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you are to observe it at its appointed time; you must keep it in accordance with all its statutes and all its customs."

People will be fainting from fear and from the expectation of what is coming on the world, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

But God said to Abraham, "Do not be upset about the boy or your slave wife. Do all that Sarah is telling you because through Isaac your descendants will be counted.

It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

They replied, "Jesus the Nazarene." He told them, "I am he." (Now Judas, the one who betrayed him, was standing there with them.)

Now the ones who had arrested Jesus led him to Caiaphas, the high priest, in whose house the experts in the law and the elders had gathered.

So King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came against Jerusalem with his whole army and set up camp outside it. They built siege ramps all around it. He arrived on the tenth day of the tenth month in the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign.

He will not respect the gods of his fathers -- not even the god loved by women. He will not respect any god; he will elevate himself above them all.

He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. He gave them to his disciples to serve the people, and he divided the two fish among them all.

And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep.

In the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles at the Kebar River, the heavens opened and I saw a divine vision.

Therefore, dear friends, since you are waiting for these things, strive to be found at peace, without spot or blemish, when you come into his presence.

As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

The word of the Lord came to me:

I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of everything I get.'

You will by no means enter into the land where I swore to settle you. The only exceptions are Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

(Stop drinking just water, but use a little wine for your digestion and your frequent illnesses.)

But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with his own wife and each woman with her own husband.

In those days Israel had no king. Each man did what he considered to be right.

Other seeds fell on rocky ground where they did not have much soil. They sprang up quickly because the soil was not deep.

He exercised all the ruling authority of the first beast on his behalf, and made the earth and those who inhabit it worship the first beast, the one whose lethal wound had been healed.

I will climb up to the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High!"

Give thanks to the Lord! Call on his name! Make known his accomplishments among the nations!

There must never be a sacred prostitute among the young women of Israel nor a sacred male prostitute among the young men of Israel.

In the eighteenth year of King Josiah's reign, the king sent the scribe Shaphan son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, to the Lord's temple with these orders:

Now therefore kill every boy, and kill every woman who has had sexual intercourse with a man.

For whoever is not against us is for us.

Another angel holding a golden censer came and was stationed at the altar. A large amount of incense was given to him to offer up, with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar that is before the throne.

and the priest must offer the fat up in smoke on the altar, but the breast will belong to Aaron and his sons.

He declared in a loud voice: "Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has arrived, and worship the one who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water!"

"'If your brother becomes impoverished and is indebted to you, you must support him; he must live with you like a foreign resident.

Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says, "The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning"?

But even Moses revealed that the dead are raised in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

For the Israelites must live many days without a king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred fertility pillar, without ephod or idols.

But if you do not experience discipline, something all sons have shared in, then you are illegitimate and are not sons.

So Pilate decided that their demand should be granted.

Then the devil took him to the holy city, had him stand on the highest point of the temple,

Then I saw another angel ascending from the east, who had the seal of the living God. He shouted out with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given permission to damage the earth and the sea:

Do not fear, my land! Rejoice and be glad, because the Lord has accomplished great things!

She continued to do this for many days. But Paul became greatly annoyed, and turned and said to the spirit, "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!" And it came out of her at once.

Instead, does a Christian sue a Christian, and do this before unbelievers?

Old men, young men, young women, little children, and women -- wipe them out! But do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary!" So they began with the elders who were at the front of the temple.

They devour widows' property, and as a show make long prayers. They will receive a more severe punishment."

Their border touched Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth Shemesh, and ended at the Jordan. They had sixteen cities and their towns.

and their message will spread its infection like gangrene. Hymenaeus and Philetus are in this group.

At that time King Rezin of Syria and King Pekah son of Remaliah of Israel attacked Jerusalem. They besieged Ahaz, but were unable to conquer him.

Those along the path are the ones who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.

The Lord says, "Do not start following pagan religious practices. Do not be in awe of signs that occur in the sky even though the nations hold them in awe.

So Jacob named the place Peniel, explaining, "Certainly I have seen God face to face and have survived."

Moses came and told the people all the Lord's words and all the decisions. All the people answered together, "We are willing to do all the words that the Lord has said,"

Tell your children about it, have your children tell their children, and their children the following generation.

for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from brambles.

So then whether we are alive or away, we make it our ambition to please him.

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"'As for you, profane and wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come, the time of final punishment,

And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes on behalf of the saints according to God's will.

and that day made them woodcutters and water carriers for the community and for the altar of the Lord at the divinely chosen site. (They continue in that capacity to this very day.)

The pig is unclean to you because its hoof is divided (the hoof is completely split in two), even though it does not chew the cud.

and in the morning, 'It will be stormy today, because the sky is red and darkening.' You know how to judge correctly the appearance of the sky, but you cannot evaluate the signs of the times.

Your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness -- all those of you who were numbered, according to your full number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me.

They probed into what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating when he testified beforehand about the sufferings appointed for Christ and his subsequent glory.

In the second year of Asa's reign over Judah, Jeroboam's son Nadab became the king of Israel; he ruled Israel for two years.

The Lord said to Moses, "Come up to me to the mountain and remain there, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commandments that I have written, so that you may teach them."

Yes, I will restore you to health. I will heal your wounds. I, the Lord, affirm it! For you have been called an outcast, Zion, whom no one cares for."

But I saw none of the other apostles except James the Lord's brother.

From Issachar there were 200 leaders and all their relatives at their command -- they understood the times and knew what Israel should do.

"The tabernacle itself you are to make with ten curtains of fine twisted linen and blue and purple and scarlet; you are to make them with cherubim that are the work of an artistic designer.

This became known to all who lived in Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks; fear came over them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was praised.

(For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.)

He also made the large bronze basin called "The Sea." It measured 15 feet from rim to rim, was circular in shape, and stood seven-and-a-half feet high. Its circumference was 45 feet.

All the nations will be assembled before him, and he will separate people one from another like a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

He came to us, took Paul's belt, tied his own hands and feet with it, and said, "The Holy Spirit says this: 'This is the way the Jews in Jerusalem will tie up the man whose belt this is, and will hand him over to the Gentiles.'"

Then the glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherub where it had rested to the threshold of the temple. He called to the man dressed in linen who had the writing kit at his side.

"Regarding all the things I have been accused of by the Jews, King Agrippa, I consider myself fortunate that I am about to make my defense before you today,

Those who love your law are completely secure; nothing causes them to stumble.

"'You must not steal, you must not tell lies, and you must not deal falsely with your fellow citizen.

Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out from the temple area.

They brought Jesus to a place called Golgotha (which is translated, "Place of the Skull").

and they said, "Isn't this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I have come down from heaven'?"

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be charged against this generation.

For he is our God; we are the people of his pasture, the sheep he owns. Today, if only you would obey him!

Who has measured out the waters in the hollow of his hand, or carefully measured the sky, or carefully weighed the soil of the earth, or weighed the mountains in a balance, or the hills on scales?

to demonstrate in the coming ages the surpassing wealth of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

They will demolish you -- you and your children within your walls -- and they will not leave within you one stone on top of another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God."

It is like a mustard seed that when sown in the ground, even though it is the smallest of all the seeds in the ground --

Then his wife said to him, "Are you still holding firmly to your integrity? Curse God, and die!"

The son of Anah: Dishon. The sons of Dishon: Hamran, Eshban, Ithran, and Keran.

Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he had said.

Only my servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit and has followed me fully -- I will bring him into the land where he had gone, and his descendants will possess it.

One who has isolated himself seeks his own desires; he rejects all sound judgment.

Trust in the Lord from this time forward, even in Yah, the Lord, an enduring protector!

Next will be the tribe of Zebulun. The leader of the people of Zebulun is Eliab son of Helon.

"'You must count off seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, and the days of the seven weeks of years will amount to forty-nine years.

If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he will also deny us.

Do not let yourself be quickly provoked, for anger resides in the lap of fools.

"This is the covenant that I will establish with them after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws on their hearts and I will inscribe them on their minds,"

Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah.

Do not be led astray, my dear brothers and sisters.

So Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

But Jesus said to him, "Let the dead bury their own dead, but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God."

Then a champion came out from the camp of the Philistines. His name was Goliath; he was from Gath. He was close to seven feet tall.

At that time Israel will be the third member of the group, along with Egypt and Assyria, and will be a recipient of blessing in the earth.

The one who says he is in the light but still hates his fellow Christian is still in the darkness.

The two were running together, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and reached the tomb first.

Jesus replied, "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

Then Elisha prayed, "O Lord, open his eyes so he can see." The Lord opened the servant's eyes and he saw that the hill was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

Now when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him any more, but went on his way rejoicing.

turn this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

and said, "What will you give me to betray him into your hands?" So they set out thirty silver coins for him.

Then Barnabas departed for Tarsus to look for Saul,

For you yourselves know, brothers and sisters, about our coming to you -- it has not proven to be purposeless.

When they got out on the beach, they saw a charcoal fire ready with a fish placed on it, and bread.

Stay away from every form of evil.

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. The one who has ears had better listen!

Look, you will conceive and have a son. You must never cut his hair, for the child will be dedicated to God from birth. He will begin to deliver Israel from the power of the Philistines."

But Jesus cried out with a loud voice and breathed his last.

If you do not have enough to pay, your bed will be taken right out from under you!

So Samuel took the horn full of olive oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers. The Spirit of the Lord rushed upon David from that day onward. Then Samuel got up and went to Ramah.

Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! It is necessary that stumbling blocks come, but woe to the person through whom they come.

Then the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil. And he still holds firmly to his integrity, so that you stirred me up to destroy him without reason."

Blow the trumpet in Zion. Announce a holy fast; proclaim a sacred assembly!

Terror is coming! They will seek peace, but find none.

Finally, pray for us, brothers and sisters, that the Lord's message may spread quickly and be honored as in fact it was among you,

It could have been sold for more than three hundred silver coins and the money given to the poor!" So they spoke angrily to her.

Our dear friend Luke the physician and Demas greet you.

Give to everyone who asks you, and do not ask for your possessions back from the person who takes them away.

Then Jesus called the disciples and said, "I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days and they have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away hungry since they may faint on the way."

So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

The mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and the seven golden lampstands is this: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

A voice says, "Cry out!" Another asks, "What should I cry out?" The first voice responds: "All people are like grass, and all their promises are like the flowers in the field.

Everyone who resides in him does not sin; everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him.

But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

The Lord will continually lead you; he will feed you even in parched regions. He will give you renewed strength, and you will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring that continually produces water.

And all those who knew Jesus stood at a distance, and the women who had followed him from Galilee saw these things.

I will force you and your mother who gave you birth into exile. You will be exiled to a country where neither of you were born, and you will both die there.

"'You must sanctify yourselves and be holy, because I am the Lord your God.

The Lord spoke to Moses:

When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus.

Then they said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth."

Now many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the report of the woman who testified, "He told me everything I ever did."

because his judgments are true and just. For he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and has avenged the blood of his servants poured out by her own hands!"

But there are some of you who do not believe." (For Jesus had already known from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)

So Moses extended his hand toward the sea, and the sea returned to its normal state when the sun began to rise. Now the Egyptians were fleeing before it, but the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.

I will place my rainbow in the clouds, and it will become a guarantee of the covenant between me and the earth.

At Horeb you provoked him and he was angry enough with you to destroy you.

"Which ones?" he asked. Jesus replied, "Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony,

Approach me! Listen to this! From the very first I have not spoken in secret; when it happens, I am there." So now, the sovereign Lord has sent me, accompanied by his spirit.

The righteous person behaves in integrity; blessed are his children after him.

When he came and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with devoted hearts,

Look! Even if they flee from the destruction, Egypt will take hold of them, and Memphis will bury them. The weeds will inherit the silver they treasure -- thorn bushes will occupy their homes.

We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but if anyone is devout and does his will, God listens to him.

By faith, even though Sarah herself was barren and he was too old, he received the ability to procreate, because he regarded the one who had given the promise to be trustworthy.

Jesus replied, "You do not understand what I am doing now, but you will understand after these things."

The last enemy to be eliminated is death.

When he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom.

Indeed, ask about the distant past, starting from the day God created humankind on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether there has ever been such a great thing as this, or even a rumor of it.

And I want you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord.

I take no delight when they offer up to me frankincense that comes from Sheba or sweet-smelling cane imported from a faraway land. I cannot accept the burnt offerings they bring me. I get no pleasure from the sacrifices they offer to me.'

For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother."

Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah with this warning, "May the gods judge me severely if by this time tomorrow I do not take your life as you did theirs!"

But Jesus replied, "Woe to you experts in religious law as well! You load people down with burdens difficult to bear, yet you yourselves refuse to touch the burdens with even one of your fingers!

When he says above, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them" (which are offered according to the law),

On behalf of such an individual I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except about my weaknesses.

Do not address an older man harshly but appeal to him as a father. Speak to younger men as brothers,

If only you would tear apart the sky and come down! The mountains would tremble before you!

His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who committed the sin that caused him to be born blind, this man or his parents?"

The crowds that went ahead of him and those following kept shouting, "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!"

The Lord who rules over all says this: "These people have said, 'The time for rebuilding the Lord's temple has not yet come.'"

Shout for joy, Daughter Zion! Shout out, Israel! Be happy and boast with all your heart, Daughter Jerusalem!

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his loyal love endures.

"For I will be merciful toward their evil deeds, and their sins I will remember no longer."

"You must not wrong a foreigner nor oppress him, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

For the music director; a song, a psalm. Shout out praise to God, all the earth!

"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls.

Then I will bring the remaining third into the fire; I will refine them like silver is refined and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name and I will answer; I will say, 'These are my people,' and they will say, 'The Lord is my God.'"

So you who believe see his value, but for those who do not believe, the stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,

As they were going away, a man who could not talk and was demon-possessed was brought to him.

Moses then said to Aaron, "Approach the altar and make your sin offering and your burnt offering, and make atonement on behalf of yourself and on behalf of the people; and also make the people's offering and make atonement on behalf of them just as the Lord has commanded."

By faith, when Moses was born, his parents hid him for three months, because they saw the child was beautiful and they were not afraid of the king's edict.

What I say to you I say to everyone: Stay alert!"

but with Cain and his offering he was not pleased. So Cain became very angry, and his expression was downcast.

Sometimes I think, "I will make no mention of his message. I will not speak as his messenger any more." But then his message becomes like a fire locked up inside of me, burning in my heart and soul. I grow weary of trying to hold it in; I cannot contain it.

one male goat for a purification offering;

If a man is caught having sexual relations with a married woman both the man who had relations with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge evil from Israel.

Then the angel of the Lord went farther, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right or to the left.

who then testified to everything that he saw concerning the word of God and the testimony about Jesus Christ.

You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends, and they will have some of you put to death.

For if only in this life we have hope in Christ, we should be pitied more than anyone.

"For six years you are to sow your land and gather in its produce.

So, I find the law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me.

to James and his brother John, the sons of Zebedee, he gave the name Boanerges (that is, "sons of thunder");

The angel of God, who was going before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them.

So Jesus added, "Because of this I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has allowed him to come."

You godly ones, shout for joy because of the Lord! It is appropriate for the morally upright to offer him praise.

You prepare a feast before me in plain sight of my enemies. You refresh my head with oil; my cup is completely full.

Our ancestors received possession of it and brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our ancestors, until the time of David.

And to all the animals of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to all the creatures that move on the ground -- everything that has the breath of life in it -- I give every green plant for food." It was so.

The Lord spoke to Moses:

When the fourteenth night had come, while we were being driven across the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors suspected they were approaching some land.

For in those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark.

Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and reported to him what the chief adviser had said.

If it is not redeemed before the full calendar year is ended, the house in the walled city will belong without reclaim to the one who bought it throughout his generations; it will not revert in the jubilee.

"But now, ask the animals and they will teach you, or the birds of the sky and they will tell you.

Sheol below is stirred up about you, ready to meet you when you arrive. It rouses the spirits of the dead for you, all the former leaders of the earth; it makes all the former kings of the nations rise from their thrones.

And the Lord God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"

Even if these three men were in it, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, they could not save their own sons or daughters -- they would save only their own lives.

Now when the Pharisees and Sadducees came to test Jesus, they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

"If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged and has sexual relations with her, he must surely endow her to be his wife.

Someone asked him, "Lord, will only a few be saved?" So he said to them,

See, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, that is why he is giving you food for two days on the sixth day. Each of you stay where you are; let no one go out of his place on the seventh day."

The Holy Spirit is making clear that the way into the holy place had not yet appeared as long as the old tabernacle was standing.

For it is right for me to think this about all of you, because I have you in my heart, since both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel all of you became partners in God's grace together with me.

61,000 donkeys,

"Now those who will be camping on the east, toward the sunrise, are the divisions of the camp of Judah under their standard. The leader of the people of Judah is Nahshon son of Amminadab.

in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

I will set one shepherd over them, and he will feed them -- namely, my servant David. He will feed them and will be their shepherd.

Listen, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

"Here is my servant whom I have chosen, the one I love, in whom I take great delight. I will put my Spirit on him, and he will proclaim justice to the nations.

When Pilate saw that he could do nothing, but that instead a riot was starting, he took some water, washed his hands before the crowd and said, "I am innocent of this man's blood. You take care of it yourselves!"

The man said, "The woman whom you gave me, she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it."

When Herod saw Jesus, he was very glad, for he had long desired to see him, because he had heard about him and was hoping to see him perform some miraculous sign.

Plans fail when there is no counsel, but with abundant advisers they are established.

But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a person.

So I turned my attention to the Lord God to implore him by prayer and requests, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

One friend deceives another and no one tells the truth. These people have trained themselves to tell lies. They do wrong and are unable to repent.

But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year after year.

He is the one who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases,

When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.

Besides, we have experienced discipline from our earthly fathers and we respected them; shall we not submit ourselves all the more to the Father of spirits and receive life?

Indeed, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.

Dear friend, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, just as it is well with your soul.

Their tongues are like deadly arrows. They are always telling lies. Friendly words for their neighbors come from their mouths. But their minds are thinking up ways to trap them.

For the unconverted pursue these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

You must not oppress your neighbor or commit robbery against him. You must not withhold the wages of the hired laborer overnight until morning.

Answer me, O Lord, answer me, so these people will know that you, O Lord, are the true God and that you are winning back their allegiance."

Your throne, O God, is permanent. The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of justice.

Do not withhold good from those who need it, when you have the ability to help.

"See here," Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I place you in authority over all the land of Egypt."

And they observed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight in the wilderness of Sinai; in accordance with all that the Lord had commanded Moses, so the Israelites did.

If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us.

Such testimony is true. For this reason rebuke them sharply that they may be healthy in the faith

O Lord, your loyal love fills the earth. Teach me your statutes!

where their worm never dies and the fire is never quenched.

Then the Lord will go to battle and fight against those nations, just as he fought battles in ancient days.

So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

There right in front of him was a man suffering from dropsy.

You are to offer them with their drink offerings in addition to the continual burnt offering and its grain offering -- they must be unblemished.

When he had said this, he remained in Galilee.

Now John wore clothing made from camel's hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his diet consisted of locusts and wild honey.

After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he could see again. He got up and was baptized,

Some days later, when Felix arrived with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, he sent for Paul and heard him speak about faith in Christ Jesus.

You must not give any of your children as an offering to Molech, so that you do not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord!

God said, "Do not approach any closer! Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground."

Fix these words of mine into your mind and being, and tie them as a reminder on your hands and let them be symbols on your forehead.

They do not belong to the world just as I do not belong to the world.

Then all the disciples left him and fled.

He did not speak to them without a parable. But privately he explained everything to his own disciples.

Then the brothers sent Paul away to the coast at once, but Silas and Timothy remained in Berea.

"When you have experienced all these things, both the blessings and the curses I have set before you, you will reflect upon them in all the nations where the Lord your God has banished you.

"Tell the Israelites, 'On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the Festival of Temporary Shelters for seven days to the Lord.

They tied him up, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate the governor.

A righteous person cares for the life of his animal, but even the most compassionate acts of the wicked are cruel.

The men of Israel said to the Hivites, "Perhaps you live near us. So how can we make a treaty with you?"

But the olive tree said to them, 'I am not going to stop producing my oil, which is used to honor gods and men, just to sway above the other trees!'

But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.

Now these are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon (called Peter), and Andrew his brother; James son of Zebedee and John his brother;

They went out to the field, harvested their grapes, squeezed out the juice, and celebrated. They came to the temple of their god and ate, drank, and cursed Abimelech.

(This requires a mind that has wisdom.) The seven heads are seven mountains the woman sits on. They are also seven kings:

And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is futile and your faith is empty.

So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth. Then ugly and painful sores appeared on the people who had the mark of the beast and who worshiped his image.

I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things, and when I heard and saw them, I threw myself down to worship at the feet of the angel who was showing them to me.

Now, if you pay close attention to my commandments that I am giving you today and love the Lord your God and serve him with all your mind and being,

As they were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed them.

You will once again have mercy on us; you will conquer our evil deeds; you will hurl our sins into the depths of the sea.

"Lord," Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, "what has happened that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?"

"Then, Jeremiah, make the following prophecy against them: 'Like a lion about to attack, the Lord will roar from the heights of heaven; from his holy dwelling on high he will roar loudly. He will roar mightily against his land. He will shout in triumph like those stomping juice from the grapes against all those who live on the earth.

"Moses my servant is dead. Get ready! Cross the Jordan River! Lead these people into the land which I am ready to hand over to them.

but when they went in, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

He defeated 10,000 Edomites in the Salt Valley; he captured Sela in battle and renamed it Joktheel, a name it has retained to this very day.

The Lord spoke to Moses:

"God will provide for himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son," Abraham replied. The two of them continued on together.

He will treat the poor fairly, and make right decisions for the downtrodden of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and order the wicked to be executed.

He accepted the gold from them, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molten calf. Then they said, "These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt."

Eleazar son of Aaron died, and they buried him in Gibeah in the hill country of Ephraim, where his son Phinehas had been assigned land.

She exclaimed with a loud voice, "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child in your womb!

I put this charge before you, Timothy my child, in keeping with the prophecies once spoken about you, in order that with such encouragement you may fight the good fight.

He came a third time and said to them, "Are you still sleeping and resting? Enough of that! The hour has come. Look, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

He answered, "Elijah does indeed come first and will restore all things.

Is not their excess wealth taken away from them? They die, yet without attaining wisdom.

They came to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal and said to him and the men of Israel, "We have come from a distant land. Make a treaty with us."

His mouth is very sweet; he is totally desirable. This is my beloved! This is my companion, O maidens of Jerusalem!

So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks toward the wilderness.

When they journeyed from Elim, the entire company of Israelites came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their exodus from the land of Egypt.

and thus the Gentiles glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "Because of this I will confess you among the Gentiles, and I will sing praises to your name."

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

Abijah chased Jeroboam; he seized from him these cities: Bethel and its surrounding towns, Jeshanah and its surrounding towns, and Ephron and its surrounding towns.

they formed an alliance to fight against Joshua and Israel.

and were continually in the temple courts blessing God.

At that time Merodach-Baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard that Hezekiah was ill.

and will go out to deceive the nations at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to bring them together for the battle. They are as numerous as the grains of sand in the sea.

The circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were greatly astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles,

The priest will then examine it, and if the infection has turned white, the priest is to pronounce the person with the infection clean -- he is clean.

"Tell the Israelites, 'In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you must have a complete rest, a memorial announced by loud horn blasts, a holy assembly.

and said to him, "Do you hear what they are saying?" Jesus said to them, "Yes. Have you never read, 'Out of the mouths of children and nursing infants you have prepared praise for yourself'?"

Your words have supported those who stumbled, and you have strengthened the knees that gave way.

(Now Rachel had taken the idols and put them inside her camel's saddle and sat on them.) Laban searched the whole tent, but did not find them.

After they journeyed from Rephidim, they came to the Desert of Sinai, and they camped in the desert; Israel camped there in front of the mountain.

"Then, when they were at rest again, they went back to doing evil before you. Then you abandoned them to their enemies, and they gained dominion over them. When they again cried out to you, in your compassion you heard from heaven and rescued them time and again.

Then the temple of God in heaven was opened and the ark of his covenant was visible within his temple. And there were flashes of lightning, roaring, crashes of thunder, an earthquake, and a great hailstorm.

Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and prepare the Passover for us to eat."

So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

Now this happened to fulfill the word that is written in their law, 'They hated me without reason.'

But some who were present indignantly said to one another, "Why this waste of expensive ointment?

"In that day there will be a fountain opened up for the dynasty of David and the people of Jerusalem to cleanse them from sin and impurity.

And when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they did not believe.

No one will live there again; no one will ever reside there again. No bedouin will camp there, no shepherds will rest their flocks there.

So communicate these things with the sort of exhortation or rebuke that carries full authority. Don't let anyone look down on you.

From the days of our fathers until this very day our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities we, along with our kings and priests, have been delivered over by the local kings to sword, captivity, plunder, and embarrassment -- right up to the present time.

A river of fire was streaming forth and proceeding from his presence. Many thousands were ministering to him; Many tens of thousands stood ready to serve him. The court convened and the books were opened.

And others experienced mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.

Every day you are to prepare a bull for a purification offering for atonement. You are to purge the altar by making atonement for it, and you are to anoint it to set it apart as holy.

but now he has reconciled you by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him --

Under his rule Judah will enjoy safety and Israel will live in security. This is the name he will go by: 'The Lord has provided us with justice.'

Moses built an altar, and he called it "The Lord is my Banner,"

He saw them straining at the oars, because the wind was against them. As the night was ending, he came to them walking on the sea, for he wanted to pass by them.

As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives.

Then God said to Abraham, "As for your wife, you must no longer call her Sarai; Sarah will be her name.

Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

"Do not damage the earth or the sea or the trees until we have put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God."

And in this regard we pray for you always, that our God will make you worthy of his calling and fulfill by his power your every desire for goodness and every work of faith,

"Do not suppose that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope.

I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean in itself; still, it is unclean to the one who considers it unclean.

Then Abraham bowed down with his face to the ground and laughed as he said to himself, "Can a son be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?"

"We heard him say, 'I will destroy this temple made with hands and in three days build another not made with hands.'"

far above every rule and authority and power and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.

"When you have completed these days, then lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah 40 days -- I have assigned one day for each year.

The women who had accompanied Jesus from Galilee followed, and they saw the tomb and how his body was laid in it.

And the people stayed up all that day, all that night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail. The one who gathered the least gathered ten homers, and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.

O Lord, you are great, mighty, majestic, magnificent, glorious, and sovereign over all the sky and earth! You have dominion and exalt yourself as the ruler of all.

Therefore, tell the Israelites, 'I am the Lord. I will bring you out from your enslavement to the Egyptians, I will rescue you from the hard labor they impose, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.

"'If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd he must present it as a flawless male; he must present it at the entrance of the Meeting Tent for its acceptance before the Lord.

We are witnesses of all the things he did both in Judea and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a tree,

"The one being cleansed must then wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe in water, and so be clean. Then afterward he may enter the camp, but he must live outside his tent seven days.

Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha,

As for me, the Lord was also angry with me on your account. He said, "You also will not be able to go there.

who will speak a message to you by which you and your entire household will be saved.'

Obey with enthusiasm, as though serving the Lord and not people,

As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia.

Furthermore, be aware of the fact that you have no authority to impose tax, tribute, or toll on any of the priests, the Levites, the musicians, the doorkeepers, the temple servants, or the attendants at the temple of this God.

The king of Assyria sent his commanding general, the chief eunuch, and the chief adviser from Lachish to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem, along with a large army. They went up and arrived at Jerusalem. They went and stood at the conduit of the upper pool which is located on the road to the field where they wash and dry cloth.

Moses said to the Lord, "See, you have been saying to me, 'Bring this people up,' but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. But you said, 'I know you by name, and also you have found favor in my sight.'

Heaven is my throne, and earth is the footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is my resting place?

Or do you think that I cannot call on my Father, and that he would send me more than twelve legions of angels right now?

As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve aside privately and said to them on the way,

(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

So they came to him, all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they dined with him in his house. They comforted him and consoled him for all the trouble the Lord had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.

For your husband is the one who made you -- the Lord who commands armies is his name. He is your protector, the Holy One of Israel. He is called "God of the entire earth."

"'You must not deal unjustly in judgment: you must neither show partiality to the poor nor honor the rich. You must judge your fellow citizen fairly.

"This is what the Lord has commanded: 'Each person is to gather from it what he can eat, an omer per person according to the number of your people; each one will pick it up for whoever lives in his tent.'"

When the Israelites had mustered and had received their supplies, they marched out to face them in battle. When the Israelites deployed opposite them, they were like two small flocks of goats, but the Syrians filled the land.

He spoke openly about this. So Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.

On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard who served the king of Babylon, arrived in Jerusalem.

For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your deliverer. I have handed over Egypt as a ransom price, Ethiopia and Seba in place of you.

They do one act of violence after another, and one deceitful thing after another. They refuse to pay attention to me," says the Lord.

and they will come to their senses and escape the devil's trap where they are held captive to do his will.

Some of the prophets said to Elisha, "Look, the place where we meet with you is too cramped for us.

Listen! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you at all!

Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife because she was childless. The Lord answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.

I will give the whole land of Canaan -- the land where you are now residing -- to you and your descendants after you as a permanent possession. I will be their God."

The Lord's spirit empowered him. He went down to Ashkelon and murdered thirty men. He took their clothes and gave them to the men who had solved the riddle. He was furious as he went back home.

Why do you worry about clothing? Think about how the flowers of the field grow; they do not work or spin.

or a hunchback, or a dwarf, or one with a spot in his eye, or a festering eruption, or a feverish rash, or a crushed testicle.

But they persisted in saying, "He incites the people by teaching throughout all Judea. It started in Galilee and ended up here!"