John 7:25

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

he left Judea and departed into Galilee.

Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.

Moses commanded us a law, an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.

But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel until the Son of Man has come.

But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and seize his inheritance.’

They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.

You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”

But the Pharisees went out, and conspired against him, how they might destroy him.

When they heard it, they marveled, and left him, and went away.

If we should say, ‘From men’ ”—they feared the people, for all held John to really be a prophet.

They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him, and went away.

They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.

This is John’s testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”

This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.

So the Jews said to him who was cured, “It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat.”

They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.

Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

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.

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

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

He took up his parable, and said, “From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.

Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight.

There was no king like him before him, who turned to Yahweh with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; and there was none like him who arose after him.

joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;

For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you! Even they have cried aloud after you! Don’t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.

Utter a parable to the rebellious house, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says, “Put the cauldron on the fire. Put it on, and also pour water into it.

Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Are you that Daniel of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Judah?

In that day they will take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, ‘We are utterly ruined! My people’s possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!’ ”

Woe to the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! Yahweh’s word is against you, Canaan, the land of the Philistines. I will destroy you, that there will be no inhabitant.

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.

Then he told the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out; and it was restored whole, just like the other.

Jesus, perceiving that, withdrew from there. Great multitudes followed him; and he healed them all,

He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.

for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again; and I would heal them.’

But if we say, ‘From men,’ we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet.”

He said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?” But they were silent.

The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

But those farmers said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’

But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another about what they might do to Jesus.

He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests, the scribes, and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.

But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.”

The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people—for they knew he had spoken this parable against them.

But he who was healed didn’t know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place.

For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.

For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

You don’t have his word living in you, because you don’t believe him whom he sent.

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

“Don’t think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”

They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

They answered him, “We are Abraham’s offspring, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, ‘You will be made free’?”

I know that you are Abraham’s offspring, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.

But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this.

Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word.

He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”

Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad.”

Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.

They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.

They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.

He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and he stayed there.

So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.

This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,

But he, beckoning to them with his hand to be silent, declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He said, “Tell these things to James and to the brothers.” Then he departed and went to another place.

Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.

Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on the law, glory in God,

Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.”

For even they who receive circumcision don’t keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.