Luke 2:49

The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

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.

For this is he, of whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’

He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers!”

To those who sold the doves, he said, “Take these things out of here! Don’t make my Father’s house a marketplace!”

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

As it is written in the prophets, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you:

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

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.

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.

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”

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.

When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished.” He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.

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

Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors.

I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.

Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

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.

“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.

Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it,” says Yahweh.

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

He was changed before them. His face shone like the sun, and his garments became as white as the light.

He taught, saying to them, “Isn’t it written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?’ But you have made it a den of robbers!”

And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways,

There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.

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.

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

Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me.

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.

Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

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

For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,

Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand; tablets that were written on both their sides. They were written on one side and on the other.

“ ‘If his offering to Yahweh is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall offer his offering from turtledoves or of young pigeons.

I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they are as Yahweh commanded me.

She named the child Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel!” because God’s ark was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make the way of the Lord ready! Make his paths straight!”

He who swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him who has been living in it.

But he said to them, “I must preach the good news of God’s Kingdom to the other cities also. For this reason I have been sent.”

This is he of whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’

No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

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

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

If she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons: the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering. The priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.’ ”

The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.

I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”

“Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her. Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her;

But Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.

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

But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.”

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.

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

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

He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”

If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me.

She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God’s Son, he who comes into the world.”

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.

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

Paul said, “John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.

Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells.

Jesus entered into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables and the seats of those who sold the doves.

When they saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us this way? Behold, your father and I were anxiously looking for you.”

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

When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mountain, Moses didn’t know that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him.

But he answered him who spoke to him, “Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?”

He said to them, “Let’s go elsewhere into the next towns, that I may preach there also, because I came out for this reason.”

He answered them, “Who are my mother and my brothers?”

He needed to pass through Samaria.

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