Acts 26:23

For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.

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

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep God’s commandments and hold Jesus’ testimony.

Now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things:

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

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 will be scattered.’

He must increase, but I must decrease.

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.

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

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

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.”

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

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

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

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”

“It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.

The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;

I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

Yahweh says, “I have answered you in an acceptable time. I have helped you in a day of salvation. I will preserve you and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage,

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

“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.”

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.’

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

Again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they pierced.”

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.

Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

I won’t hide my face from them any more; for I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called “Favor”, and the other I called “Union”, and I fed the flock.

For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let’s go from here.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

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—

a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel.”

But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.

He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.

“I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness. I will hold your hand. I will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations,

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

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.”

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

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.”

The nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. You will be called by a new name, which Yahweh’s mouth will name.

I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, they entered into the holy city and appeared to many.

He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,

While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

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

being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

“Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’

For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’ ”

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead?

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.