Matthew 26:54

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

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

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

“Yahweh’s Spirit spoke by me. His word was on my tongue.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

“When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’

I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’

You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire.

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”

Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called “Favor”, and the other I called “Union”, and I fed the flock.

He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,

Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

Jesus therefore said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”

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

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

For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.

The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home among the wise.

Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

“ ‘You sword of Yahweh, how long will it be before you are quiet? Put yourself back into your scabbard; rest, and be still.’

“ ‘ “My servant David will be king over them. They all will have one shepherd. They will also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.

But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.

Now all this has happened that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,

This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

When you hear of wars and disturbances, don’t be terrified, for these things must happen first, but the end won’t come immediately.”

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

who by the mouth of your servant, David, said, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

that God has fulfilled this to us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm, ‘You are my Son. Today I have become your father.’

This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.

for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only,

Then I said, “Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.

I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

An end has come. The end has come! It awakes against you. Behold, it comes.

Yahweh my God says: “Feed the flock of slaughter.

He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,

But he who endures to the end will be saved.

While he was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and elders of the people.

He said to them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised?

He took the twelve aside, and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed.

For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he should die.

Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,

who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

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.”

Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog.

Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.

Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

“Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and tell them, ‘When I bring the sword on a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman;

I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be their shepherd.

“I had a vision in the night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in a ravine; and behind him there were red, brown, and white horses.

“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

But all this has happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.

I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me. But this is so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled.”

The Son of Man indeed goes, as it has been determined, but woe to that man through whom he is betrayed!”

He said to him, “Most certainly, I tell you all, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

“Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.

and was there until the death of Herod; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, “Out of Egypt I called my son.”

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,

You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren’t troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet.

For the Son of Man goes, even as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”

If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),

to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.