Matthew 2:9
Greek Text— Matthew 2:9They, having heard the king, went their way; and behold, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, until it came and stood over where the young child was.
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Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.
I see him, but not now. I see him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob. A scepter will rise out of Israel, and shall strike through the corners of Moab, and crush all the sons of Sheth.
One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
“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.
“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.
“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.
The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.
I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”
Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.
Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
A man’s steps are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.
How you have fallen from heaven, shining one, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!
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 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.
A man’s steps are from Yahweh; how then can man understand his way?
Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them;”
Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death.
Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
They came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered, “So you say.”
because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the dawn from on high will visit us,
Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!”
Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
We love him, because he first loved us.
and I will give him the morning star.
For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images.
“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.
Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.
God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!
Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.
But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.
I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the room of her who conceived me.
With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.
Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
but they will serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.
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;
“Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him.”
Now Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus said to him, “So you say.”
saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!”
An inscription was also written over him in letters of Greek, Latin, and Hebrew: “THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
He said to them, “Come, and see.” They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.
that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him.
He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.
From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.
When he again brings in the firstborn into the world he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him.”
He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”
In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil which is before the covenant, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
The children of Israel brought a free will offering to Yahweh; every man and woman whose heart made them willing to bring for all the work, which Yahweh had commanded to be made by Moses.
then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.
then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.
“Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place,
What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.
For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.
The fear of Yahweh teaches wisdom. Before honor is humility.
By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.
My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.
This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.
Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be like a roe or a young deer on the mountains of Bether.
Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, to the hill of frankincense.
Search in the book of Yahweh, and read: not one of these will be missing. None will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.
A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called “The Holy Way”. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools shall not go there.
Who among you fears Yahweh and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.
There were windows in it and in its arches all around, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the width twenty-five cubits.
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.”
Yahweh’s word which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah.
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.
“Tell the daughter of Zion, behold, your King comes to you, humble, and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”
Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered him, “So you say.”
“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
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.
He said, “Lord, I believe!” and he worshiped him.
they took the branches of the palm trees and went out to meet him, and cried out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!”
Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”
They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say.”
who will speak to you words by which you will be saved, you and all your house.’
Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.
We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:
As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.