John 5:32

I will tell of the decree: Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.

“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”

Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him.

Immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens parting, and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.

Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

Search in the book of Yahweh, and read: not one of these will be missing. None will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.

“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.

“Behold, my servant whom I have chosen; my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my Spirit on him. He will proclaim justice to the nations.

Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me.

I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.

He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”

For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,

coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.

John answered them all, “I indeed baptize you with water, but he comes who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire,

The lord of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son. It may be that seeing him, they will respect him.’

They said therefore to him, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”

Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.

Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake.

If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.

For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn’t know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected Yahweh’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?

Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John the things which you hear and see:

He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ”

A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.”

A voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him!”

There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father and has learned, comes to me.

Father, glorify your name!” Then a voice came out of the sky, saying, “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”

Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of God.

If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is God’s testimony which he has testified concerning his Son.

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.

It shall be with him, and he shall read from it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;

Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.

I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.

Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.

Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom.

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel.

The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.

For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.

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 must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

For he received from God the Father honor and glory when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

I looked, and saw a white cloud, and on the cloud one sitting like a son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.

“He trusts in Yahweh. Let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”

John testified, saying, “I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.

But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

“To the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write: “The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like burnished brass, says these things:

I didn’t recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water said to me, ‘On whomever you will see the Spirit descending and remaining on him is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.’

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.

I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I speak.”

about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won’t see me any more;

Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”

A voice came out of the sky, “You are my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form like a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying “You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.”