John 4:8

They buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver. They became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.

Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for one hundred pieces of money.

Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.”

But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

“Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?”

Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.

Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city.

His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

“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.’ ”

David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand.”

His servant said, “What, should I set this before a hundred men?” But he said, “Give the people, that they may eat; for Yahweh says, ‘They will eat, and will have some left over.’ ”

Don’t let your heart faint. Don’t fear for the news that will be heard in the land. For news will come one year, and after that in another year news will come, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his correction;

Sheol, the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; and the fire that doesn’t say, ‘Enough.’

“If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? Though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?

Jesus sent these twelve out, and commanded them, saying, “Don’t go among the Gentiles, and don’t enter into any city of the Samaritans.

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

They told him, “We only have here five loaves and two fish.”

He said to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go see.” When they knew, they said, “Five, and two fish.”

Many believed in him there.

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

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

Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time, Canaanites were in the land.

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

“It will happen, if they will not believe you or listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.

If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”

Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all Yahweh’s people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on them!”

He gave a sign the same day, saying, “This is the sign which Yahweh has spoken: Behold, the altar will be split apart, and the ashes that are on it will be poured out.”

The altar was also split apart, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by Yahweh’s word.

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”

He said, “What then is to be done for her?” Gehazi answered, “Most certainly she has no son, and her husband is old.”

Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me’?”

Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, “Get the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”

“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

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

Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?

They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron, Yahweh’s saint.

because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke rashly with his lips.

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

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.

who say, “Let him make haste, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!”

‘You said, “Woe is me now! For Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain! I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.” ’

The disciples said to him, “Where should we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?”

But he answered them, “You give them something to eat.” They asked him, “Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread, and give them something to eat?”

He asked them, “How many loaves do you have?” They said, “Seven.”

The Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, and testing him.

Let the Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe him.” Those who were crucified with him also insulted him.

But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.

Jesus said, “Who touched me?” When all denied it, Peter and those with him said, “Master, the multitudes press and jostle you, and you say, ‘Who touched me?’”

But he said to them, “You give them something to eat.” They said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we should go and buy food for all these people.”

Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven.

When the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began to say, “This is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah, the prophet.

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

he left Judea and departed into Galilee.

So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph.

Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his children and his livestock?”

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.”

From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me everything that I did.”

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.”

“There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so many?”

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.

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?

But I told you that you have seen me, and yet you don’t believe.

But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, “When the Christ comes, he won’t do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?”

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.”

Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did believed in him.

The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”

while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus.”

For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,

for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.

envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, by various works of power and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will?

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

“I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,