Acts 2:30

while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”

Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;” which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”

Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

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

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

‘You Bethlehem, land of Judah, are in no way least among the princes of Judah: for out of you shall come a governor, who shall shepherd my people, Israel.’ ”

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

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

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”

The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

Behold, you will conceive in your womb and give birth to a son, and shall name him ‘Jesus.’

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”

(as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets who have been from of old),

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

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.’

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

One of the elders said to me, “Don’t weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome: he who opens the book and its seven seals.”

For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

It will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through. It will reach even to the neck. The stretching out of its wings will fill the width of your land, Immanuel.

Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying,

I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,

The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn’t yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing.

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.

For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and from him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph’s)—

I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

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

A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords.

His eyes are a flame of fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has names written and a name written which no one knows but he himself.

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”

Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.

For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons or take bribes.

They divide my garments among them. They cast lots for my clothing.

Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? For Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth: a woman will encompass a man.”

Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.

Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

For many are called, but few chosen.”

The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.

Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

Most certainly I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live.

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

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,

among whom you are also called to belong to Jesus Christ;

Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering, but you prepared a body for me.

for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

Yahweh has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: “I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.

but they will serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.

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

“I watched until thrones were placed, and one who was ancient of days sat. His clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool. His throne was fiery flames, and its wheels burning fire.

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,

He said to them, “Why do they say that the Christ is David’s son?

God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,

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

When your days are fulfilled, and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom.

When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, “What portion do we have in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse! Every man to your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So all Israel departed to their tents.

“I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,

If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forever more.”

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.

Behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, “Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!”

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

When they had crucified him, they divided his clothing among them, casting lots,

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.” ’

He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”

“Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.

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

From this man’s offspring, God has brought salvation to Israel according to his promise,

concerning his Son, who was born of the offspring of David according to the flesh,

Again, Isaiah says, “There will be the root of Jesse, he who arises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will hope.”

Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the offspring of David, according to my Good News,

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

he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts.”

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

(for they indeed have been made priests without an oath), but he with an oath by him that says of him, “The Lord swore and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.’ ”

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and those who are with him are called chosen and faithful.”

He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”