Judah fathered Perez and Zerah by Tamar,
Perez fathered Hezron,
Hezron fathered Aram,

Then the news about Him spread throughout Syria. So they brought to Him all those who were afflicted, those suffering from various diseases and intense pains, the demon-possessed, the epileptics, and the paralytics. And He healed them.

Neither should you swear by your head, because you cannot make a single hair white or black.

And their eyes were opened. Then Jesus warned them sternly, “Be sure that no one finds out!”

Then He told them many things in parables, saying: “Consider the sower who went out to sow.

“You, then, listen to the parable of the sower:

Then the man went to the other and said the same thing.

“‘I will, sir,’ he answered. But he didn’t go.

Then He said to them, “My soul is swallowed up in sorrow —to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake with Me.”

Then he started to curse and to swear with an oath, “I do not know the man!” Immediately a rooster crowed,

Immediately one of them ran and got a sponge, filled it with sour wine, fixed it on a reed, and offered Him a drink.

and said, “Sir, we remember that while this deceiver was still alive He said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’

After looking around at them with anger and sorrow at the hardness of their hearts, He told the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

“Listen! Consider the sower who went out to sow.

The sower sows the word.

So he swore oaths to her: “Whatever you ask me I will give you, up to half my kingdom.”

Then He said to them, “My soul is swallowed up in sorrow —to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake.”

Then he started to curse and to swear with an oath, “I don’t know this man you’re talking about!”

Someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, fixed it on a reed, offered Him a drink, and said, “Let’s see if Elijah comes to take Him down!”

the oath that He swore to our father Abraham.
He has given us the privilege,

This first registration took place while Quirinius was governing Syria.

“A sower went out to sow his seed. As he was sowing, some fell along the path; it was trampled on, and the birds of the sky ate it up.

“But he replied to him, ‘Sir, leave it this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.

The soldiers also mocked Him. They came offering Him sour wine

“Sir,” said the woman, “You don’t even have a bucket, and the well is deep. So where do You get this ‘living water’?

“Sir,” the woman said to Him, “give me this water so I won’t get thirsty and come here to draw water.”

“Sir,” the woman replied, “I see that You are a prophet.

The reaper is already receiving pay and gathering fruit for eternal life, so the sower and reaper can rejoice together.

“Sir,” the official said to Him, “come down before my boy dies!”

“Sir,” the sick man answered, “I don’t have a man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, someone goes down ahead of me.”

Then they said, “Sir, give us this bread always!”

“Who is He, Sir, that I may believe in Him?” he asked.

So they came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested of him, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”

Yet, because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

“I assure you: You will weep and wail, but the world will rejoice. You will become sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn to joy.

So you also have sorrow now. But I will see you again. Your hearts will rejoice, and no one will rob you of your joy.

A jar full of sour wine was sitting there; so they fixed a sponge full of sour wine on hyssop and held it up to His mouth.

When Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” Then bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.

“Woman,” Jesus said to her, “why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?”

Supposing He was the gardener, she replied, “Sir, if you’ve removed Him, tell me where you’ve put Him, and I will take Him away.”

They wrote this letter to be delivered by them:

From the apostles and the elders, your brothers,

To the brothers among the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia:

Greetings.

He traveled through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.

So Paul, having stayed on for many days, said good-bye to the brothers and sailed away to Syria. Priscilla and Aquila were with him. He shaved his head at Cenchreae because he had taken a vow.

and stayed three months. When he was about to set sail for Syria, a plot was devised against him by the Jews, so a decision was made to go back through Macedonia.

After we sighted Cyprus, leaving it on the left, we sailed on to Syria and arrived at Tyre, because the ship was to unload its cargo there.

He considered his own body to be already dead (since he was about 100 years old) and also considered the deadness of Sarah’s womb, without weakening in the faith.

that I have intense sorrow and continual anguish in my heart.

For this is the statement of the promise: At this time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.

and not only by his arrival, but also by the comfort he received from you. He told us about your deep longing, your sorrow, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced even more.

Now the One who provides seed for the sower and bread for food will provide and multiply your seed and increase the harvest of your righteousness.

Afterward, I went to the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

I am sure of this, that He who started a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

To be sure, some preach Christ out of envy and strife, but others out of good will.

So I swore in My anger,
“They will not enter My rest.”

And who did He swear to that they would not enter His rest, if not those who disobeyed?

(for we who have believed enter the rest), in keeping with what He has said:

So I swore in My anger,
they will not enter My rest.

And yet His works have been finished since the foundation of the world,

For when God made a promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself:

For men swear by something greater than themselves, and for them a confirming oath ends every dispute.

We have this hope as an anchor for our lives, safe and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain.

By faith even Sarah herself, when she was unable to have children, received power to conceive offspring, even though she was past the age, since she considered that the One who had promised was faithful.

Be miserable and mourn and weep. Your laughter must change to mourning and your joy to sorrow.

Now above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath. Your “yes” must be “yes,” and your “no” must be “no,” so that you won’t fall under judgment.

just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. You have become her children when you do what is good and are not frightened by anything alarming.

This is how we are sure that we have come to know Him: by keeping His commands.

I said to him, “Sir, you know.”

Then he told me:

These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation.
They washed their robes and made them white
in the blood of the Lamb.

He swore an oath by the One who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it: “There will no longer be an interval of time,