John 12:19

From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.

The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

Saul sent messengers to seize David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, God’s Spirit came on Saul’s messengers, and they also prophesied.

Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.

Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.

The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions will serve and obey him.’

For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of Yahweh’s glory, as the waters cover the sea.

The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.

whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.

The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be present.

All the earth will worship you, and will sing to you; they will sing to your name.”

All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord. They shall glorify your name.

He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and the good of their children after them.

But in the latter days, it will happen that the mountain of Yahweh’s temple will be established on the top of the mountains, and it will be exalted above the hills; and peoples will stream to it.

Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”

But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them,

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.

But the goat on which the lot fell for the scapegoat shall be presented alive before Yahweh, to make atonement for him, to send him away as the scapegoat into the wilderness.

God will bless us. All the ends of the earth shall fear him.

Ascribe to Yahweh, you families of nations, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.

“ ‘ “But you, mountains of Israel, you shall shoot out your branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at hand to come.

I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘My God!’ ”

For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on Yahweh’s name, to serve him shoulder to shoulder.

The multitudes who went in front of him, and those who followed, kept shouting, “Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”

But Peter followed him from a distance, to the court of the high priest, and entered in and sat with the officers, to see the end.

He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.

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

even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

I and the Father are one.”

And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them.

“The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.

But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.

For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

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.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

He deceives my own people who dwell on the earth because of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast, saying to those who dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast who had the sword wound and lived.

For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.

Let all the earth fear Yahweh. Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.

Yes, all kings shall fall down before him. All nations shall serve him.

The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.

Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

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.”

Yahweh will be King over all the earth. In that day Yahweh will be one, and his name one.

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

For he knew that because of envy they had delivered him up.

They found him and told him, “Everyone is looking for you.”

They came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, he baptizes, and everyone is coming to him.”

The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.

But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,

for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.

Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn’t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,

so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another,

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They started to dread the children of Israel.

Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will return to David’s house.

Hear this, all you peoples. Listen, all you inhabitants of the world,

In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.

But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the son of David!” they were indignant,

For they said, “Not during the feast, because there might be a riot among the people.”

The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of God’s Kingdom is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.

Some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!”

The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy

Now when the high priest, the captain of the temple, and the chief priests heard these words, they were very perplexed about them and what might become of this.

When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

One of his heads looked like it had been wounded fatally. His fatal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled at the beast.

They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees.