John 7:30

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

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

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

Yes, since the day was, I am he. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, Yahweh? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior. There is no one besides me.

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

Jesus answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!”

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

Saul sent messengers to seize David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, God’s Spirit came on Saul’s messengers, and they also prophesied.

So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Who is like me? Who will call, and will declare it, and set it in order for me, since I established the ancient people? Let them declare the things that are coming, and that will happen.

I call a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. Yes, I have spoken. I will also bring it to pass. I have planned. I will also do it.

David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.

A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.”

When Jesus had finished saying these things, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching,

The multitudes said, “This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.”

He said, “Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.” ’ ”

But he, passing through the middle of them, went his way.

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

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

Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

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

The disciples asked him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you. Are you going there again?”

While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light.” Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.

I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

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.

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

Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be.

Behold, they cried out, saying, “What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”

About the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’

But Peter followed him from a distance, to the court of the high priest, and entered in and sat with the officers, to see the end.

Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much.

He looked up and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury.

Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come.”

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.

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

Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him?”

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

Jesus answered them, “The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

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

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.

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

Now about that time, King Herod stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

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

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.

Jesus said these things, then lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;

My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.

a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.

When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet.

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.

He came the third time, and said to them, “Sleep on now, and take your rest. It is enough. The hour has come. Behold, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

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.

When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”

You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.”

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

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

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.

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

Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.

Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.

Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”