John 8:26

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.

He said to me, “These words are faithful and true. The Lord God of the spirits of the prophets sent his angel to show to his bondservants the things which must happen soon.”

I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now,

I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”

“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.”

The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.

“For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don’t receive our witness.

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.

For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.

With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.

For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

Jesus therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.

I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?

You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

You do the works of your father.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.

Now we know that you know all things, and don’t need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came from God.”

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

Write therefore the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will happen hereafter.

“Come near to me and hear this: “From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it happened, I was there.” Now the Lord Yahweh has sent me with his Spirit.

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.

He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.

For no one does anything in secret while he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.”

But when it was now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.

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.

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.”

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.

But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let’s go from here.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”

how that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before in few words,

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

I John, your brother and partner with you in the oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.

For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright.

If you are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, who is to come.

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.

What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness.

I have come in my Father’s name, and you don’t receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

Jesus answered them, “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don’t know where I came from, or where I am going.

I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father.”

If you love me, keep my commandments.

I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.

So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

“I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.

for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.

Jesus answered him, “I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.

But as God is faithful, our word toward you was not “Yes and no.”

He who doesn’t love me doesn’t keep my words. The word which you hear isn’t mine, but the Father’s who sent me.