John 9:10

All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.

for a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,

praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds,

then I saw all the work of God, that man can’t find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won’t find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won’t be able to find it.

He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” I answered, “Lord Yahweh, you know.”

The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?”

They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the brothers.

When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.

“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.

Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, seeing I am a virgin?”

When they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly and the apostles and the elders, and they reported everything that God had done with them.

“Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the nations, and they will listen.”

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.

My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.

I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

They asked Baruch, saying, “Tell us now, how did you write all these words at his mouth?”

Therefore his parents said, “He is of age. Ask him.”

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”

For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.

Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, how Yahweh had brought Israel out of Egypt.

The people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God today!” So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn’t die.

Jehozadak went into captivity, when Yahweh carried Judah and Jerusalem away by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.

who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;

An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.

You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.

Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.

They say, “How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”

Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom, you have made them all. The earth is full of your riches.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?

As you don’t know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don’t know the work of God who does all.

If she is a wall, we will build on her a turret of silver. If she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost. We are completely cut off.’

I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven,

“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.

and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, though he doesn’t know how.

A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians and could not be healed by any

Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?”

Nicodemus answered him, “How can these things be?”

A certain man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.

The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

What is this word that he said, ‘You will seek me, and won’t find me;’ and ‘Where I am, you can’t come’?”

Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see.”

but how he now sees, we don’t know; or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself.”

They said to him again, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”

Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?”

“Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him among you, even as you yourselves know,

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn’t understand.

As he talked with him, he went in and found many gathered together.

Now the apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.

But Peter began, and explained to them in order, saying,

When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly, and taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

They wrote these things by their hand: “The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings.

Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.

If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won’t they say that you are crazy?

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

But someone will say, “How are the dead raised?” and, “With what kind of body do they come?”

who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.