John 18:38

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

Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, “Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”

When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band.

While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of him.”

Your lamb shall be without defect, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats.

If the stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double.

saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”

Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, “I find no basis for a charge against this man.”

When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him.”

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.

I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Yahweh,

He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.

and as he sowed, some seed fell by the road, and the birds came and devoured it.

Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”

Pilate therefore said to them, “Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law.” Therefore the Jews said to him, “It is illegal for us to put anyone to death,”

Others, mocking, said, “They are filled with new wine.”

A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ part stood up, and contended, saying, “We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let’s not fight against God!”

I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but not to be charged with anything worthy of death or of imprisonment.

Or else let these men themselves say what injustice they found in me when I stood before the council,

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”

For if I have done wrong and have committed anything worthy of death, I don’t refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!”

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

that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

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—

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.

If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives in addition to my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you.”

But you shall not offer whatever has a defect, for it shall not be acceptable for you.

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”

Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets: “This man is not worthy of death; for he has spoken to us in the name of Yahweh our God.”

Moreover Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, “How have I sinned against you, against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison?

“ ‘To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth. You will lie in the middle of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. “ ‘This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

“In that day there will be a spring opened to David’s house and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.

Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

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.

But they said, “Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people.”

They all as one began to make excuses. “The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.’

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

He said to them the third time, “Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him.”

And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong.”

and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.

because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

but had certain questions against him about their own religion, and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”

But when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything about which to accuse my nation.

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

for he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you. In a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins.

For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.

Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.

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

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

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

I saw in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.

They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,

He said to them, “Yahweh is witness against you, and his anointed is witness today, that you have not found anything in my hand.” They said, “He is witness.”

David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him; for who can stretch out his hand against Yahweh’s anointed, and be guiltless?”

Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?

But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.

When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.”

The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them.

Pilate said to them, “Why, what evil has he done?” But they cried out exceedingly, “Crucify him!”

Those along the road are those who hear, then the devil comes, and takes away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved.

He sent them out to preach God’s Kingdom and to heal the sick.

Heal the sick who are there, and tell them, ‘God’s Kingdom has come near to you.’

Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers, and the people,

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the price of the land?

Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”

Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed.

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”

but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don’t want to be a judge of these matters.”

“Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about preaching God’s Kingdom, will see my face no more.

In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and as he himself appealed to the emperor I determined to send him,

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,

There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;

but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ,