or a traveling bag for the trip, or an extra shirt, or sandals, or a walking stick, because a worker deserves his food.

Then the Pharisees went and planned how to trap Jesus in conversation.

"Similarly, it is like a man going on a trip, who called his servants and turned his money over to them.

To one man he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, based on their ability. Then he went on his trip.

He instructed them to take nothing along on the trip except a walking stick no bread, no traveling bag, nothing in their moneybag.

Then they sent some Pharisees and some Herodians to him, intending to trap him in what he said.

It's like a man who went on a trip. As he left home, he put his servants in charge, each with his own work, and he ordered the doorkeeper to be alert.

Now Anna, a prophetess, was also there. She was a descendant of Phanuel from the tribe of Asher. She was very old, having lived with her husband for seven years after her marriage,

He told them, "Don't take anything along on your trip no walking stick, traveling bag, bread, money, or even an extra shirt.

A friend of mine on a trip has dropped in on me, and I don't have anything to serve him.'

They watched him closely in an effort to trap him in something he might say.

So they watched him closely and sent spies who pretended to be honest men in order to trap him in what he would say. They wanted to hand him over to the jurisdiction of the governor,

Then he saw a destitute widow drop in two small copper coins.

like a trap, because it will come on everyone who lives on the face of the earth.

But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors on their first trip.

On their second trip, Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph introduced his family to Pharaoh.

"After that, he gave them judges until the time of the prophet Samuel. When they demanded a king, God gave them Kish's son Saul, from the tribe of Benjamin, for 40 years.

They were expecting him to swell up or suddenly drop dead, but after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.

So I ask, "God has not rejected his people, has he?" Of course not! I am an Israeli myself, a descendant of Abraham from the tribe of Benjamin.

And David says, "Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a punishment for them.

Having been circumcised on the eighth day, I am of the nation of Israel, from the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews. As far as the Law is concerned, I was a Pharisee.

He must be well thought of by outsiders, so he doesn't fall into disgrace and the trap set for him by the Devil.

For the person we are talking about belonged to a different tribe, and no one from that tribe has ever served at the altar.

Furthermore, it is obvious that our Lord was a descendant of Judah, and Moses said nothing about priests coming from that tribe.

a stone they stumble over and a rock they trip on." They keep on stumbling because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.

After all, they went on their trip for the sake of the Name, accepting no support from gentiles.

"Stop crying," one of the elders told me. "Look! The Lion from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered. He can open the scroll and its seven seals."

They sang a new song: "You are worthy to take the scroll and open its seals, because you were slaughtered. With your blood you purchased people for God from every tribe, language, people, and nation.

I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000. Those who were sealed were from every tribe of Israel:

12,000 from the tribe of Judah were sealed, 12,000 from the tribe of Reuben, 12,000 from the tribe of Gad,

12,000 from the tribe of Asher, 12,000 from the tribe of Naphtali, 12,000 from the tribe of Manasseh,

12,000 from the tribe of Simeon, 12,000 from the tribe of Levi, 12,000 from the tribe of Issachar,

12,000 from the tribe of Zebulun, 12,000 from the tribe of Joseph, and 12,000 from the tribe of Benjamin were sealed.

After these things, I looked, and there was a crowd so large that no one was able to count it! They were from every nation, tribe, people, and language. They were standing in front of the throne and the lamb and were wearing white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

It was allowed to wage war against the saints and to conquer them. It was also given authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation.

Then I saw another angel flying overhead with the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on earth to every nation, tribe, language, and people.