Luke 8:9

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

“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the early rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the early rain and the latter rain, as before.

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

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

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

He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

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

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

On that day Jesus went out of the house, and sat by the seaside.

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.

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.’ ”

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

“So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.

They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.

For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,

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

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

Many nations will go and say, “Come! Let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law will go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem;

The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”

“Hear, then, the parable of the farmer.

He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,

When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.

As he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately,

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

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

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.

I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

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.

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.

He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.

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,

They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.

The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but he loves him who follows after righteousness.

In the light of the king’s face is life. His favor is like a cloud of the spring rain.

He who follows after righteousness and kindness finds life, righteousness, and honor.

until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.

Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.

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

The remnant of Jacob will be among many peoples, like dew from Yahweh, like showers on the grass, that don’t wait for man, nor wait for the sons of men.

and the inhabitants of one shall go to another, saying, ‘Let’s go speedily to entreat the favor of Yahweh, and to seek Yahweh of Armies. I will go also.’

Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time, Yahweh who makes storm clouds, and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.

It will happen in that day, that there will not be light, cold, or frost.

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

When he had come into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They told him, “Yes, Lord.”

He spoke another parable to them. “The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened.”

Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the darnel weeds of the field.”

Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat, and to go ahead of him to the other side, while he sent the multitudes away.

Peter answered him, “Explain the parable to us.”

Then he sent away the multitudes, got into the boat, and came into the borders of Magdala.

“Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.

For the earth bears fruit: first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

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

Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat, and to go ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he himself sent the multitude away.

When he had entered into a house away from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable.

Those who had eaten were about four thousand. Then he sent them away.

Turning to the disciples, he said privately, “Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see,

If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light.”

The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.

If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world.”

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

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.

His disciples said to him, “Behold, now you are speaking plainly, and using no figures of speech.

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

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.”

which in other generations was not made known to the children of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit,

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.

searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that would follow them.