Matthew 12:18

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

John testified, saying, “I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.

I will tell of the decree: Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.

For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh upholds the righteous.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

“Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him among you, even as you yourselves know,

“You are my witnesses,” says Yahweh, “With my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, neither will there be after me.

For the Lord Yahweh will help me. Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I won’t be disappointed.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.

for a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.

I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

In that day, Yahweh’s branch will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of Israel.

It will happen in that day that his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil.

A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.

Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he will reign as king and deal wisely, and will execute justice and righteousness in the land.

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

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.”

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

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,

For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds,

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

The eyes of those who see will not be dim, and the ears of those who hear will listen.

and speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: and he shall grow up out of his place; and he shall build Yahweh’s temple;

He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ”

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.

“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.

Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.

Because it is contained in Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”

But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons, then God’s Kingdom has come upon you.

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”

even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

“He trusts in Yahweh. Let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”

Then you spoke in vision to your saints, and said, “I have given strength to the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people.

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them.

Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.

Behold, my servant will deal wisely. He will be exalted and lifted up, and will be very high.

After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.

The nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. You will be called by a new name, which Yahweh’s mouth will name.

Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and will say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit.

In that day, says Yahweh of Armies, I will take you, Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel,’ says Yahweh, ‘and will make you as a signet, for I have chosen you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.”

Hear now, Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows who sit before you; for they are men who are a sign: for, behold, I will bring out my servant, the Branch.

A voice came out of the sky, “You are my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.”

and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form like a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying “You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.”

A voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him!”

The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”

You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.

about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”

When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.

For he received from God the Father honor and glory when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”