John 1:46

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,

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.”

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.

“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

They urged him, saying, “Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over.” He went in to stay with them.

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.”

From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me everything that I did.”

Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?

Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among ourselves what is good.

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.

As Jesus passed by from there, two blind men followed him, calling out and saying, “Have mercy on us, son of David!”

When he had gone out onto the porch, someone else saw him, and said to those who were there, “This man also was with Jesus of Nazareth.”

He said to them, “Come, and see.” They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.

“Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?”

But when it was now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.

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

They said therefore to him, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”

I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world.”

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

Yahweh said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided a king for myself among his sons.”

For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.

“Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see.

Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.

and came and lived in a city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets that he will be called a Nazarene.

Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

saying, “Ha! What do we have to do with you, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!”

Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth,

For there is born to you today, in David’s city, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

When they had accomplished all things that were according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth.

“Return to your house, and declare what great things God has done for you.” He went his way, proclaiming throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.

He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered, “The Christ of God.”

But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”

The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah comes, he who is called Christ. When he has come, he will declare to us all things.”

So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.

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

I have come in my Father’s name, and you don’t receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

Jesus answered them, “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don’t know where I came from, or where I am going.

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.

I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.

Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled?

proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

“I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

Nevertheless, hold that which you have firmly until I come.

Samuel did that which Yahweh spoke, and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, “Do you come peaceably?”

I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.

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

Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, along with the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together. They will return as a great company.

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

All the multitudes were amazed, and said, “Can this be the son of David?”

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!”

The multitudes said, “This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.”

Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,

Now Peter was sitting outside in the court, and a maid came to him, saying, “You were also with Jesus, the Galilean!”

When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out, and say, “Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!”

Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to David’s city, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David;

Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?

When they are already budding, you see it and know by your own selves that the summer is already near.

Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know.

They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus said to them, “I am he.” Judas also, who betrayed him, was standing with them.

Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, “JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us.”

For unclean spirits came out of many of those who had them. They came out, crying with a loud voice. Many who had been paralyzed and lame were healed.

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, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”