" 'And you, Bethlehem in Judah's land, You are by no means least important among the leading places of Judah, For from you will come a leader Who will be the shepherd of my people Israel.' "

and said, "Wake up! Take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child's life are dead."

Then he awoke, and took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel.

When Jesus heard this he was astonished, and said to his followers, "I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such faith as this.

and as soon as the demon was driven out, the dumb man was able to speak. And the crowds were amazed, and said, "Nothing like this was ever seen in Israel!"

but proceed instead to the lost sheep of Israel's house.

But when they persecute you in one town, make your escape to another, for I tell you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man arrives.

But he answered, "I am sent only to the lost sheep of Israel's house."

so that the people were astonished to see the dumb speak, the lame walk, and the blind see. And they praised the God of Israel.

Jesus said to them, "In the new world, I tell you, when the Son of Man takes his seat on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit upon twelve thrones, and judge the twelve tribes of Israel!

"He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is King of Israel; let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him.

Jesus answered, "The first one is, 'Hear, Israel! The Lord our God is one lord,

Let this Christ, the king of Israel, come down from the cross now, so that we may see it and believe!" And the men who were crucified with him abused him.

and he will turn many of Israel's descendants to the Lord their God.

"He has helped his servant Israel, Remembering his mercy,

"Blessings on the Lord, the God of Israel, Because he has turned his attention to his people, and brought about their deliverance,

And the child grew up and became strong in the Spirit, and he lived in the desert until the day when he proclaimed himself to Israel.

Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Symeon, an upright, devout man, who was living in expectation of the comforting of Israel, and under the influence of the holy Spirit.

A light of revelation for the heathen, And a glory to your people Israel!"

And he gave them his blessing, and said to Mary, the child's mother, "This child is destined to cause the fall and rise of many in Israel, and to be a portent that will be much debated??35 you yourself will be pierced to the heart??nd so the thoughts of many minds will be revealed."

But, I tell you, there were plenty of widows in Israel in Elijah's time, when the sky was closed for three years and a half, and there was a great famine all over the land,

And there were plenty of lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cured, but Naaman the Syrian."

When Jesus heard this, he was astonished at him, and turning to the crowd that was following him, he said, "I tell you, I have not found such faith as this even in Israel!"

I confer on you the right to eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and to sit on thrones and judge the twelve tribes of Israel!

But we were hoping that he was to be the deliverer of Israel. Why, besides all this, it is three days since it happened.

Jesus answered, "Are you the teacher of Israel and yet ignorant of this?

got palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, "God bless him! God bless him who comes in the Lord's name! Blessings on the king of Israel!"

So those who were present asked him, "Master, is this the time when you are going to re-establish the kingdom for Israel?"

"Men of Israel, listen to what I say. Jesus of Nazareth, as you know, was a man whom God commended to you by the wonders, portents, and signs that God did right among you through him.

"Therefore the whole nation of Israel must understand that God has declared this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ."

When Peter saw this, he said to the people. "Men of Israel, why are you so surprised at this? Why do you stare so at us, as though it were some power or some piety of ours that had made him able to walk?

you and the people of Israel must all know that it is through the power of Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that he stands here before you well.

For they have assembled here in this city against your holy servant Jesus, whom you had consecrated??erod and Pontius Pilate, with the heathen and the peoples of Israel,

God took him up to his right hand as our leader and savior, in order to give repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.

and then said, "Men of Israel, take care what you propose to do with these men.

When he was forty years old, it occurred to him to visit his brothers, the descendants of Israel.

This was the Moses who said to the descendants of Israel, 'God will make a prophet rise from among your brothers to teach you, just as he made me rise.'

So God turned his back on them and left them to worship the starry host, just as the Book of the Prophets says, " 'Was it victims and sacrifices that you offered to me, O house of Israel, Those forty years in the desert?

The Lord said to him, "Go! This man is the means I have chosen for carrying my name among the heathen and their kings, and among the descendants of Israel.

He has sent his message to Israel's descendants, and made the good news of peace known to them through Jesus Christ. He is Lord of us all.

Then Paul got up, and motioning with his hand, said, "Men of Israel, and you who reverence God, listen!

The God of this people of Israel chose our forefathers, and made the people great during their stay in Egypt, and then with uplifted hand led them out of Egypt.

It is from his descendants that God has brought to Israel as he promised to do, a savior in Jesus,

in preparation for whose coming John had preached to all the people of Israel baptism in token of repentance.

shouting, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everybody everywhere against our people and the Law and this place, and besides he has actually brought Greeks into the Temple and desecrated this sacred place."

That is why I asked to see you and speak with you, for it is on account of Israel's hope that I have to wear this chain."

Not that God's message has failed. For not everybody who is descended from Israel really belongs to Israel,

And Isaiah cries out about Israel, "Although the sons of Israel are as numerous as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved,

while Israel, straining after a law that should bring uprightness, did not come up to it.

But I ask again, did Israel fail to understand? Why, to begin with, Moses said, "I will make you jealous of what is no nation at all, I will exasperate you at a senseless nation."

But of Israel he said, "All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and obstinate people."

God has not repudiated his people, which he had marked out from the first. Do you not know what the Scripture says in speaking of Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel?

What follows? Israel failed to get what it sought, but those whom God selected got it.

For to keep you from thinking too well of yourselves, brothers, I do not want you to miss this secret, that only partial insensibility has come upon Israel, to last until all the heathen have come in,

and then all Israel will be saved, just as the Scripture says, "The deliverer will come from Zion, He will drive all ungodliness away from Jacob,

Peace and mercy be on all who will follow this rule, and on the true Israel of God.

At that time you had no connection with Christ, you were aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the agreements about God's promise; with no hope and no God in all the world.

I was circumcised when I was eight days old. I am a descendant of Israel. I belong to the tribe of Benjamin. I am a Hebrew, and the son of Hebrews. As to the Law, I was a Pharisee;

But in his dissatisfaction with them he says, " 'See! the time is coming,' says the Lord, 'When I will conclude a new agreement with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,

'For this is the agreement that I will make with the house of Israel, In those later days,' says the Lord; 'I will put my laws into their minds, And write them on their hearts, And they will have me for their God, And I will have them for my people.

Yet I hold it somewhat against you that you have among you some adherents of the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entrap the children of Israel into eating meat that had been sacrificed to idols, and into immoral practices.

I heard that the number of those that were marked with the seal was 144,000. They were from every tribe of the children of Israel:

It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and twelve angels at the gates, which had carved upon them the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.