Luke 9:45

Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.

Jesus said to him, “Don’t forbid him, for he who is not against us is for us.”

A dispute also arose among them, which of them was considered to be greatest.

For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

“Son of man, hasn’t the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, ‘What are you doing?’

Dominion was given him, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which will not pass away, and his kingdom that which will not be destroyed.

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.

Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.

The people asked me, “Won’t you tell us what these things are to us, that you do so?”

Don’t you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

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

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?

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

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.”

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.

But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’

A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”

not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

“I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies: a nation whose language you will not understand,

He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers; and the king of Babylon captured him in the eighth year of his reign.

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.

I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

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.

O Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants’ sake, the tribes of your inheritance.

In the fifth of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity,

and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “A great eagle with great wings and long feathers, full of feathers, which had various colors, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar.

“When the children of your people speak to you, saying, ‘Won’t you show us what you mean by these?’

The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, will be given to the people of the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions will serve and obey him.’

and I will make that which was lame a remnant, and that which was cast far off a strong nation: and Yahweh will reign over them on Mount Zion from then on, even forever.”

Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

He summoned the multitude, and said to them, “Hear, and understand.

But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

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,

He spoke to them openly. Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.

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

They remembered his words,

Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”

At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, “What are you looking for?” or, “Why do you speak with her?”

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’

Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s go also, that we may die with him.”

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.

Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet!” Jesus answered him, “If I don’t wash you, you have no part with me.”

Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, “Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?’

that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;

But he, because he lives forever, has his priesthood unchangeable.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land.”

He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, with the king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officers, and the chief men of the land. He carried them into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

At the return of the year, king Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the valuable vessels of Yahweh’s house, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.

I am a stranger on the earth. Don’t hide your commandments from me.

“Say now to the rebellious house, ‘Don’t you know what these things mean?’ Tell them, ‘Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took its king, and its princes, and brought them to him to Babylon.

So Jesus said, “Do you also still not understand?

Peter took him aside, and began to rebuke him, saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This will never be done to you.”

Then little children were brought to him, that he should lay his hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them.

Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages, and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat.”

There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the “rising from the dead” meant.

An argument arose among them about which of them was the greatest.

The disciples therefore said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?”

The multitude answered him, “We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever. How do you say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up?’ Who is this Son of Man?”

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

Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you won’t see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;’ and, ‘Because I go to the Father’?”

For as yet they didn’t know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

Jesus said to them, “Come and eat breakfast!” None of the disciples dared inquire of him, “Who are you?” knowing that it was the Lord.

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

without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;

What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice.