John 3:1

They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him.

Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He went in, and sat at the table.

Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said to them,

My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh, that lies between my breasts.

spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree; myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee’s house, and sat at the table.

They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to kill him.

If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

For those who lead this people lead them astray; and those who are led by them are destroyed.

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him.

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.

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

The man answered them, “How amazing! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.

Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron came with all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God.

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.

Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

and give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision.”

They buried him in his own tomb, which he had dug out for himself in David’s city, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers’ art; and they made a very great fire for him.

All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.

Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

The words of the wise are like goads; and like nails well fastened are words from the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.

Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, to the hill of frankincense.

His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark— dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

Gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ would be born.

At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a smoking flax, until he leads justice to victory.

Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

But many will be last who are first; and first who are last.

He said to them, “Are you also without understanding? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him,

They answered Jesus, “We don’t know.” Jesus said to them, “Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.”

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

When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.

After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the middle of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions.

It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.

But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial.

Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, “I find no basis for a charge against him.

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.”

Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds.

In the morning, their rulers, elders, and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem.

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “You rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

But one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honored by all the people, and commanded to put the apostles out for a little while.

For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;

For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ,

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

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

Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and don’t understand these things?

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.