Mark 8:21

He who sees me sees him who sent me.

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

I and the Father are one.”

If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him.”

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:

Looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, “Ephphatha!” that is, “Be opened!”

I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

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.

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.

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.’

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

They said therefore to him, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”

In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”

Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”

Awake, awake! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from Yahweh’s hand the cup of his wrath. You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.

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

Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.

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

But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, “Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?

You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don’t interpret this time?

He said to them, “Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.

If I told you earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you.”

The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.

He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.

“I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.

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 this people’s heart has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. Lest they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, then I would heal them.’

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,

For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

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

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?

because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

“How long shall I bear with this evil congregation that complain against me? I have heard the complaints of the children of Israel, which they complain against me.

He said, “I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end will be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.

because they didn’t believe in God, and didn’t trust in his salvation.

Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

Every man has become brutish and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You will not be made clean. How long will it yet be?”

For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.

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

An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” He left them, and departed.

How is it that you don’t perceive that I didn’t speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

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.”

You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand.

His disciples answered him, “From where could one satisfy these people with bread here in a deserted place?”

He sighed deeply in his spirit, and said, “Why does this generation seek a sign? Most certainly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation.”

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.

Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.”

She said, “No one, Lord.” Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more.”

“Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this time?’ But I came to this time for this cause.

“He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”

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?’

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?

Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.