Luke 11:38

Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews’ way of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece.

I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.

“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”

whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

Therefore a dispute arose on the part of John’s disciples with some Jews about purification.

Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now we will deal worse with you than with them!” They pressed hard on the man Lot, and came near to break the door.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him.

On the seventh day, they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you called us to impoverish us? Isn’t that so?”

He said, “If Yahweh doesn’t help you, where could I get help for you? From of the threshing floor, or from the wine press?”

Then he said, “God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat stays on him today.”

A wise man fears and shuns evil, but the fool is hot headed and reckless.

If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace.

The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.

They were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.

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.

But John would have hindered him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and you come to me?”

Then John’s disciples came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”

These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t defile the man.”

Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is unwashed, hands, they found fault.

They don’t eat when they come from the marketplace unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)

The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why don’t your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?”

“For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men—the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things.”

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

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,

They said to him, “Why do John’s disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?”

But some of the Pharisees said to them, “Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?”

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

But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!

and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.”

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.’

Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,

about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

Ananias departed and entered into the house. Laying his hands on him, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

“Can anyone forbid these people from being baptized with water? They have received the Holy Spirit just like us.”

Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.

When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay.” So she persuaded us.

He took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.

Take them and purify yourself with them, and pay their expenses for them, that they may shave their heads. Then all will know that there is no truth in the things that they have been informed about you, but that you yourself also walk keeping the law.

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”

having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead?

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

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.

Lay hands hastily on no one. Don’t be a participant in other people’s sins. Keep yourself pure.

For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

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

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

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.

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,