John 16:12

Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.

I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now,

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.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.

“For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

They asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the prophet?” He answered, “No.”

For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Then Eli answered, “Go in peace; and may the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him.”

He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”

Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.

But when they believed Philip preaching good news concerning God’s Kingdom and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

He entered into the synagogue and spoke boldly for a period of three months, reasoning and persuading about the things concerning God’s Kingdom.

the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

I had many things to write to you, but I am unwilling to write to you with ink and pen;

So David received from her hand that which she had brought him. Then he said to her, “Go up in peace to your house. Behold, I have listened to your voice, and have granted your request.”

They, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse, for they are a rebellious house, yet they will know that there has been a prophet among them.

Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! They say of me, ‘Isn’t he a speaker of parables?’ ”

He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.

for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again; and I would heal them.’

His disciples asked him, saying, “Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

Without a parable he didn’t speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

He spoke to them openly. Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.

When the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until another time.

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.

But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this.

Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

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.

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”

Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, “Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive.” Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”

I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will solve my riddle on the harp.

I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,

For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright.

Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”

“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

If you are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to come.

No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made.

He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?

With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.

He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be cured of your disease.”

He asked them, “Don’t you understand yet?”

They asked him, saying, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they have also done to him whatever they wanted to, even as it is written about him.”

even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,

The devil said to him, “I will give you all this authority, and their glory, for it has been delivered to me; and I give it to whomever I want.

He said to them, “Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

If I told you earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness.

He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.

I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father.”

Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them.

I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.

They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

After eight days again his disciples were inside and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the middle, and said, “Peace be to you.”

and he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people.

For this people’s heart has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. Lest they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, then I would heal them.’

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.

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.

So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.

You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and no sin is in him.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

He said to him, “Go in peace.” So he departed from him a little way.

No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch would tear away from the garment, and a worse hole is made.

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.”

I have said these things to you while still living with you.

I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God’s Kingdom.

Having many things to write to you, I don’t want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come to you, and to speak face to face, that our joy may be made full.