Acts 4:25

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

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.’

“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.

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.

What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.

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.

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.

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

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

“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?

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

But arise, get down, and go with them, doubting nothing; for I have sent them.”

Do all things without complaining and arguing,

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

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.”

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

He said to Korah and to all his company, “In the morning, Yahweh will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him. Even him whom he shall choose, he will cause to come near to him.

(Yahweh gave Israel a savior, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians; and the children of Israel lived in their tents as before.

But Yahweh was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect for them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, and he didn’t cast them from his presence as yet.

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.

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.

“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down, like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

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

Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,

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

My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his correction;

She arms her waist with strength, and makes her arms strong.

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet they plot evil against me.

Yet I taught Ephraim to walk. I took them by his arms; but they didn’t know that I healed them.

I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven; and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven.”

“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!

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!”

They told him, “He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season.”

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.

John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

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

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.

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,

He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn’t understand.

Now send men to Joppa, and get Simon, who is also called Peter.

The Spirit told me to go with them, without discriminating. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered into the man’s house.

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.”

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

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.

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

“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,

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

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.

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

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.”

(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.’ ”

You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

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?

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.