Acts 1:16

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

He protects all of his bones. Not one of them is broken.

I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’

They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it.

Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

while he said in his defense, “Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all.”

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare under you. There is no understanding in him.”

He answered, “He who dipped his hand with me in the dish will betray me.

The Son of Man indeed goes, as it has been determined, but woe to that man through whom he is betrayed!”

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.

In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,

I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife. They went from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.

It must be eaten in one house. You shall not carry any of the meat outside of the house. Do not break any of its bones.

All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.

Yahweh’s voice is on the waters. The God of glory thunders, even Yahweh on many waters.

My heart overflows with a noble theme. I recite my verses for the king. My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer.

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, “Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me.

The multitudes asked him, “What then must we do?”

But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

But behold, the hand of him who betrays me is with me on the table.

Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

who by the mouth of your servant, David, said, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were determined to kill them.

brought them out, and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

unless it is for this one thing that I cried standing among them, ‘Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged before you today!’ ”

having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.

But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar friend.

Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

Now in the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal offspring and one of the chief officers of the king, and ten men with him, came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they ate bread together in Mizpah.

The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

While he was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and elders of the people.

Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.

Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.

As also the high priest and all the council of the elders testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and traveled to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

But which of the angels has he told at any time, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet?”

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,

He said to Abram, “I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.”

“He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!

Judas then, having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.

Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that would follow them.

Because it is contained in Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

“Yahweh’s Spirit spoke by me. His word was on my tongue.

This was Yahweh’s word which he spoke to Jehu, saying, “Your sons to the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.” So it came to pass.

“Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!

He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,

Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests,

How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?”

But all this has happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.

For David himself said in the Holy Spirit, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet.” ’

Immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, came—and with him a multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders.

If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),

For these things happened that the Scripture might be fulfilled, “A bone of him will not be broken.”

For it is written in the book of Psalms, ‘Let his habitation be made desolate. Let no one dwell in it;’ and, ‘Let another take his office.’

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,

Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.”

Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins,

When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News and believe.

“Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you.”

Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”

After three days Paul called together those who were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come together, he said to them, “I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,

When they didn’t agree among themselves, they departed after Paul had spoken one word, “The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers,

So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.

and was there until the death of Herod; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, “Out of Egypt I called my son.”

While he was still speaking, behold, a multitude, and he who was called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He came near to Jesus to kiss him.

After they were silent, James answered, “Brothers, listen to me.

For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.