Luke 24:25

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite.

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

Some of those who are wise will fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.

For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

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

Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.

Then he said to Thomas, “Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don’t be unbelieving, but believing.”

For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’ ”

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.

Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.

God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God.

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? Haven’t you been told from the beginning? Haven’t you understood from the foundations of the earth?

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

But Yahweh is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles. The nations aren’t able to withstand his indignation.

“Son of man, you dwell in the middle of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don’t see, who have ears to hear, and don’t hear; for they are a rebellious house.

Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

But they didn’t understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.

But they didn’t understand this saying. It was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn’t yet glorified.

With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”

Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him about Jesus.

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

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.

The eternal God is your dwelling place. Underneath are the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you, and said, ‘Destroy!’

Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces. He will thunder against them in the sky. “Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.”

I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.”

For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.

Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.

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.

“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Behold, Yahweh’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save; nor his ear dull, that it can’t hear.

and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to Yahweh offerings in righteousness.

He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.

for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again; and I would heal them.’

When they heard that he was alive, and had been seen by her, they disbelieved.

They went away and told it to the rest. They didn’t believe them, either.

They didn’t understand the saying which he spoke to them.

As they said these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”

He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”

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

Jesus answered him, “You don’t know what I am doing now, but you will understand later.”

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”

and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

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

For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention.

Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.

Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live.

“Those who are wise among the people will instruct many; yet they will fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder, many days.

Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand; but those who are wise will understand.

Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”

He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?

Without a parable he didn’t speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

“But Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.’

When therefore it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”

Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days.

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

for they hadn’t understood about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.

Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, “Why do you reason that it’s because you have no bread? Don’t you perceive yet, neither understand? Is your heart still hardened?

He answered him, “Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me.”

Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn’t believe those who had seen him after he had risen.

You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?

They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they didn’t understand the things that were said.

These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they didn’t believe them.

Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

His disciples didn’t understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.

Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?”

They said therefore, “What is this that he says, ‘A little while’? We don’t know what he is saying.”

The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”

saying, ‘Go to this people and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive.

You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

He said to them, “Are you also without understanding? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him,