John 20:25

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,

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

But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.

The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,

Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own plans, and we will each follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.’ ”

Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand; but those who are wise will understand.

When they came to the place that is called “The Skull”, they crucified him there with the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left.

Again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they pierced.”

They divide my garments among them. They cast lots for my clothing.

Yet they didn’t obey, nor turn their ear, but everyone walked in the stubbornness of their evil heart. Therefore I brought on them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they didn’t do them.’ ”

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.”

One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table, leaning against Jesus’ breast.

Then he said to Thomas, “Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don’t be unbelieving, but believing.”

See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don’t know when the time is.

Crucifying him, they parted his garments among them, casting lots on them, what each should take.

These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they didn’t believe them.

Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!”

As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

Then Peter, turning around, saw a disciple following. This was the disciple whom Jesus loved, the one who had also leaned on Jesus’ breast at the supper and asked, “Lord, who is going to betray you?”

Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life

“When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘Perform a miracle!’ then you shall tell Aaron, ‘Take your rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, and it will become a serpent.’ ”

Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

“Know therefore and discern that from the going out of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.

As for both these kings, their hearts will be to do mischief, and they will speak lies at one table; but it won’t prosper, for the end will still be at the appointed time.

“At the time of the end the king of the south will contend with him; and the king of the north will come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, with horsemen, and with many ships. He will enter into the countries, and will overflow and pass through.

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”

They set up over his head the accusation against him written, “THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

When they heard that he was alive, and had been seen by her, they disbelieved.

They went away and told it to the rest. They didn’t believe them, either.

Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed.”

Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

Behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.

They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”

who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end;

The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog.

At evening let them return. Let them howl like a dog, and go around the city.

because they didn’t believe in God, and didn’t trust in his salvation.

This is Yahweh’s doing. It is marvelous in our eyes.

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.

Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.

You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.

Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever.

Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”

Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”

Jesus answered them, “Be careful that no one leads you astray.

He answered him, “Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me.”

But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.

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

Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.”

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

But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed.

When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.

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.”

The Jews therefore answered him, “What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?”

We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn’t believe in him,

Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!”

However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.

Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have laid him!”

They both ran together. The other disciple outran Peter, and came to the tomb first.

When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad when they saw the Lord.

Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know my ways.’

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

If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.

For all this they still sinned, and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.

Some of those who are wise will fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.

When they had crucified him, they divided his clothing among them, casting lots,

“He saved others, but he can’t save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him.

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

See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn’t have flesh and bones, as you see that I have.”

He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is, being interpreted, Christ).

They said therefore to him, “What then do you do for a sign, that we may see and believe you? What work do you do?

So then the other disciple who came first to the tomb also entered in, and he saw and believed.

That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It’s the Lord!” So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he wrapped his coat around himself (for he was naked), and threw himself into the sea.

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;