Bible Reading for May 28 - 30
World English Bible
May
28
Judges
13, 14
Jdg
13:1 The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the
sight of Yahweh; and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of the
Philistines forty years.
Jdg
13:2 There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites,
whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and didn't bear.
Jdg
13:3 The angel of Yahweh appeared to the woman, and said to her, See
now, you are barren, and don't bear; but you shall conceive, and bear
a son.
Jdg
13:4 Now therefore please beware and drink no wine nor strong drink,
and don't eat any unclean thing:
Jdg
13:5 for, behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and no razor
shall come on his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from
the womb: and he shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the
Philistines.
Jdg
13:6 Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God
came to me, and his face was like the face of the angel of God, very
awesome; and I didn't ask him whence he was, neither did he tell me
his name:
Jdg
13:7 but he said to me, Behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son;
and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean
thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the
day of his death.
Jdg
13:8 Then Manoah entreated Yahweh, and said, Oh, Lord, please let
the man of God whom you did send come again to us, and teach us what
we shall do to the child who shall be born.
Jdg
13:9 God listened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came
again to the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah, her husband,
wasn't with her.
Jdg
13:10 The woman made haste, and ran, and told her husband, and said
to him, Behold, the man has appeared to me, who came to me the other
day.
Jdg
13:11 Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man,
and said to him, Are you the man who spoke to the woman? He said, I
am.
Jdg
13:12 Manoah said, Now let your words happen: what shall be the
ordering of the child, and how
shall we do to him?
Jdg
13:13 The angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, Of all that I said to the
woman let her beware.
Jdg
13:14 She may not eat of anything that comes of the vine, neither
let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; all
that I commanded her let her observe.
Jdg
13:15 Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, I pray you, let us detain
you, that we may make ready a kid for you.
Jdg
13:16 The angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, Though you detain me, I
won't eat of your bread; and if you will make ready a burnt offering,
you must offer it to Yahweh. For Manoah didn't know that he was the
angel of Yahweh.
Jdg
13:17 Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, What is your name, that
when your words happen, we may honor you?
Jdg
13:18 The angel of Yahweh said to him, Why do you ask after my name,
seeing it is wonderful?
Jdg
13:19 So Manoah took the kid with the meal offering, and offered it
on the rock to Yahweh: and the angel
did wondrously, and Manoah and his wife looked on.
Jdg
13:20 For it happened, when the flame went up toward the sky from
off the altar, that the angel of Yahweh ascended in the flame of the
altar: and Manoah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their
faces to the ground.
Jdg
13:21 But the angel of Yahweh did no more appear to Manoah or to his
wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of Yahweh.
Jdg
13:22 Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have
seen God.
Jdg
13:23 But his wife said to him, If Yahweh were pleased to kill us,
he wouldn't have received a burnt offering and a meal offering at our
hand, neither would he have shown us all these things, nor would at
this time have told such things as these.
Jdg
13:24 The woman bore a son, and named him Samson: and the child
grew, and Yahweh blessed him.
Jdg
13:25 The Spirit of Yahweh began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between
Zorah and Eshtaol.
Jdg
14:1 Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the
daughters of the Philistines.
Jdg
14:2 He came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I
have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines: now
therefore get her for me as wife.
Jdg
14:3 Then his father and his mother said to him, Is there never a
woman among the daughters of your brothers, or among all my people,
that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? Samson
said to his father, Get her for me; for she pleases me well.
Jdg
14:4 But his father and his mother didn't know that it was of
Yahweh; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at
that time the Philistines had rule over Israel.
Jdg
14:5 Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to
Timnah, and came to the vineyards of Timnah: and behold, a young lion
roared against him.
Jdg
14:6 The Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and he tore him as
he would have torn a kid; and he had nothing in his hand: but he
didn't tell his father or his mother what he had done.
Jdg
14:7 He went down, and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson
well.
Jdg
14:8 After a while he returned to take her; and he turned aside to
see the carcass of the lion: and behold, there was a swarm of bees in
the body of the lion, and honey.
Jdg
14:9 He took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went; and
he came to his father and mother, and gave to them, and they ate: but
he didn't tell them that he had taken the honey out of the body of
the lion.
Jdg
14:10 His father went down to the woman: and Samson made there a
feast; for so used the young men to do.
Jdg
14:11 It happened, when they saw him, that they brought thirty
companions to be with him.
Jdg
14:12 Samson said to them, Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can
declare it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out,
then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of
clothing;
Jdg
14:13 but if you can't declare it to me, then you shall give me
thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing. They said to
him, Put forth your riddle, that we may hear it.
Jdg
14:14 He said to them, Out of the eater came forth food. Out of the
strong came forth sweetness. They couldn't in three days declare the
riddle.
Jdg
14:15 It happened on the seventh day, that they said to Samson's
wife, Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest
we burn you and your father's house with fire: have you called us to
impoverish us? is it not so?
Jdg
14:16 Samson's wife wept before him, and said, You just hate me, and
don't love me: you have put forth a riddle to the children of my
people, and haven't told it me. He said to her, Behold, I haven't
told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?
Jdg
14:17 She wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted:
and it happened on the seventh day, that he told her, because she
pressed him sore; and she told the riddle to the children of her
people.
Jdg
14:18 The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the
sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than
a lion? He said to them, If you hadn't plowed with my heifer, you
wouldn't have found out my riddle.
Jdg
14:19 The Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and he went down to
Ashkelon, and struck thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and
gave the changes of clothing
to those who declared the riddle. His anger was kindled, and he went
up to his father's house.
Jdg
14:20 But Samson's wife was given
to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.
May
29
Judges
15, 16
Jdg
15:1 But it happened after a while, in the time of wheat harvest,
that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to
my wife into the chamber. But her father wouldn't allow him to go in.
Jdg
15:2 Her father said, I most certainly thought that you had utterly
hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion: isn't her younger
sister more beautiful than she? Please take her, instead.
Jdg
15:3 Samson said to them, This time shall I be blameless in regard
of the Philistines, when I do them a mischief.
Jdg
15:4 Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took
firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst
between every two tails.
Jdg
15:5 When he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the
standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and
the standing grain, and also the olive groves.
Jdg
15:6 Then the Philistines said, Who has done this? They said,
Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife,
and given her to his companion. The Philistines came up, and burnt
her and her father with fire.
Jdg
15:7 Samson said to them, If you behave like this, surely I will be
avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
Jdg
15:8 He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he
went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
Jdg
15:9 Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread
themselves in Lehi.
Jdg
15:10 The men of Judah said, Why have you come up against us? They
said, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he has done to
us.
Jdg
15:11 Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the
rock of Etam, and said to Samson, "Don't you know that the
Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done
to us?" He said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to
them.
Jdg
15:12 They said to him, We have come down to bind you, that we may
deliver you into the hand of the Philistines. Samson said to them,
Swear to me that you will not fall on me yourselves.
Jdg
15:13 They spoke to him, saying, No; but we will bind you fast, and
deliver you into their hand: but surely we will not kill you. They
bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.
Jdg
15:14 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him:
and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and the ropes that
were on his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his
bands dropped from off his hands.
Jdg
15:15 He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put forth his hand,
and took it, and struck a thousand men therewith.
Jdg
15:16 Samson said, With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps,
With the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men.
Jdg
15:17 It happened, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast
away the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath
Lehi.
Jdg
15:18 He was very thirsty, and called on Yahweh, and said, You have
given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now
shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised.
Jdg
15:19 But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came
out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived:
therefore its name was called En Hakkore, which is in Lehi, to this
day.
Jdg
15:20 He judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
Jdg
16:1 Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to
her.
Jdg
16:2 It was told
the Gazites, saying, Samson is come here. They surrounded him, and
laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet
all the night, saying, Let be
until morning light, then we will kill him.
Jdg
16:3 Samson lay until midnight, and arose at midnight, and laid hold
of the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and plucked
them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders, and carried them
up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron.
Jdg
16:4 It came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley
of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
Jdg
16:5 The lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her,
Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what
means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict
him: and we will each give you of us eleven hundred pieces
of silver.
Jdg
16:6 Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, Please, in which your great
strength lies, and with which you might be bound to afflict you.
Jdg
16:7 Samson said to her, If they bind me with seven green cords that
were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.
Jdg
16:8 Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green
cords which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
Jdg
16:9 Now she had an ambush waiting in the inner chamber. She said to
him, "The Philistines are on you, Samson!" He broke the
cords, as a string of tow is broken when it touches the fire. So his
strength was not known.
Jdg
16:10 Delilah said to Samson, Behold, you have mocked me, and told
me lies: now tell me, Please, with which you might be bound.
Jdg
16:11 He said to her, If they only bind me with new ropes with which
no work has been done, then shall I become weak, and be as another
man.
Jdg
16:12 So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said
to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. The ambush was waiting in
the inner chamber. He broke them off his arms like a thread.
Jdg
16:13 Delilah said to Samson, Until now, you have mocked me and told
me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound. He said to her, If you
weave the seven locks of my head with the web.
Jdg
16:14 She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, The Philistines
are on you, Samson. He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away
the pin of the beam, and the web.
Jdg
16:15 She said to him, How can you say, I love you, when your heart
is not with me? you have mocked me these three times, and have not
told me in which your great strength lies.
Jdg
16:16 It happened, when she pressed him daily with her words, and
urged him, that his soul was troubled to death.
Jdg
16:17 He told her all his heart, and said to her, "No razor has
ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my
mother's womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me, and
I will become weak, and be like any other man."
Jdg
16:18 When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent
and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this
once, for he has told me all his heart. Then the lords of the
Philistines came up to her, and brought the money in their hand.
Jdg
16:19 She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man, and
shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him,
and his strength went from him.
Jdg
16:20 She said, The Philistines are on you, Samson. He awoke out of
his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times, and shake
myself free. But he didn't know that Yahweh had departed from him.
Jdg
16:21 The Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and
they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass;
and he ground at the mill in the prison.
Jdg
16:22 However the hair of his head began to grow again after he was
shaved.
Jdg
16:23 The lords of the Philistines gathered them together to offer a
great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said,
Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
Jdg
16:24 When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they
said, Our god has delivered into our hand our enemy, and the
destroyer of our country, who has slain many of us.
Jdg
16:25 It happened, when their hearts were merry, that they said,
Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. They called for Samson
out of the prison; and he made sport before them. They set him
between the pillars:
Jdg
16:26 and Samson said to the boy who held him by the hand, Allow me
that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house rests, that I may
lean on them.
Jdg
16:27 Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of
the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about three
thousand men and women, who saw while Samson made sport.
Jdg
16:28 Samson called to Yahweh, and said, Lord Yahweh, remember me,
Please, and strengthen me, Please, only this once, God, that I may be
at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
Jdg
16:29 Samson took hold of the two middle pillars on which the house
rested, and leaned on them, the one with his right hand, and the
other with his left.
Jdg
16:30 Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. He bowed himself
with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the
people who were therein. So the dead that he killed at his death were
more than those who he killed in his life.
Jdg
16:31 Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down,
and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and
Eshtaol in the burial site of Manoah his father. He judged Israel
twenty years.
May
30
Judges
17, 18
Jdg
17:1 There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was
Micah.
Jdg
17:2 He said to his mother, The eleven hundred pieces
of silver that were taken from you, about which you did utter a
curse, and did also speak it in my ears, behold, the silver is with
me; I took it. His mother said, Blessed be my son of Yahweh.
Jdg
17:3 He restored the eleven hundred pieces
of silver to his mother; and his mother said, I most certainly
dedicate the silver to Yahweh from my hand for my son, to make an
engraved image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it to
you.
Jdg
17:4 When he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two
hundred pieces
of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made of it an engraved
image and a molten image: and it was in the house of Micah.
Jdg
17:5 The man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and
teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
Jdg
17:6 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that
which was right in his own eyes.
Jdg
17:7 There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of
Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.
Jdg
17:8 The man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem Judah, to
sojourn where he could find a place,
and he came to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah, as
he traveled.
Jdg
17:9 Micah said to him, Where did you come from? He said to him, I
am a Levite of Bethlehem Judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find
a place.
Jdg
17:10 Micah said to him, Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a
priest, and I will give you ten pieces
of silver by the year, and a suit of clothing, and your food. So the
Levite went in.
Jdg
17:11 The Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young
man was to him as one of his sons.
Jdg
17:12 Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his
priest, and was in the house of Micah.
Jdg
17:13 Then said Micah, Now know I that Yahweh will do me good,
seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
Jdg
18:1 In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days
the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for
to that day their
inheritance had not fallen to them among the tribes of Israel.
Jdg
18:2 The children of Dan sent of their family five men from their
whole number, men of valor, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out
the land, and to search it; and they said to them, Go, search the
land. They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of
Micah, and lodged there.
Jdg
18:3 When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of
the young man the Levite; and they turned aside there, and said to
him, Who brought you here? and what do you in this place? and what do
you have here?
Jdg
18:4 He said to them, Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, and he
has hired me, and I am become his priest.
Jdg
18:5 They said to him, Ask counsel, please, of God, that we may know
whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.
Jdg
18:6 The priest said to them, Go in peace: before Yahweh is your way
wherein you go.
Jdg
18:7 Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the
people who were therein, how they lived in security, after the manner
of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was none in the land,
possessing authority, that might put them
to shame in anything, and they were far from the Sidonians, and had
no dealings with any man.
Jdg
18:8 They came to their brothers to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their
brothers said to them, What do you say?
Jdg
18:9 They said, Arise, and let us go up against them; for we have
seen the land, and behold, it is very good: and are you still? don't
be slothful to go and to enter in to possess the land.
Jdg
18:10 When you go, you shall come to a people secure, and the land
is large; for God has given it into your hand, a place where there is
no want of anything that is in the earth.
Jdg
18:11 There set forth from there of the family of the Danites, out
of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men girt with weapons of
war.
Jdg
18:12 They went up, and encamped in Kiriath Jearim, in Judah:
therefore they called that place Mahaneh Dan, to this day; behold, it
is behind Kiriath Jearim.
Jdg
18:13 They passed there to the hill country of Ephraim, and came to
the house of Micah.
Jdg
18:14 Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish
answered, and said to their brothers, Do you know that there is in
these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and an engraved image, and a
molten image? now therefore consider what you have to do.
Jdg
18:15 They turned aside there, and came to the house of the young
man the Levite, even to the house of Micah, and asked him of his
welfare.
Jdg
18:16 The six hundred men girt with their weapons of war, who were
of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.
Jdg
18:17 The five men who went to spy out the land went up, and came in
there, and took the engraved image, and the ephod, and the teraphim,
and the molten image: and the priest stood by the entrance of the
gate with the six hundred men girt with weapons of war.
Jdg
18:18 When these went into Micah's house, and fetched the engraved
image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest
said to them, What do you?
Jdg
18:19 They said to him, Hold your peace, put your hand on your
mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it
better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest
to a tribe and a family in Israel?
Jdg
18:20 The priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the
teraphim, and the engraved image, and went in the midst of the
people.
Jdg
18:21 So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the
livestock and the goods before them.
Jdg
18:22 When they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men who
were in the houses near to Micah's house were gathered together, and
overtook the children of Dan.
Jdg
18:23 They cried to the children of Dan. They turned their faces,
and said to Micah, What ails you, that you come with such a company?
Jdg
18:24 He said, you have taken away my gods which I made, and the
priest, and have gone away, and what have I more? and how then do you
say to me, What ails you?
Jdg
18:25 The children of Dan said to him, "Don't let your voice be
heard among us, lest angry fellows fall on you, and you lose your
life, with the lives of your household."
Jdg
18:26 The children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that
they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house.
Jdg
18:27 They took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he
had, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and secure, and struck them
with the edge of the sword; and they burnt the city with fire.
Jdg
18:28 There was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and
they had no dealings with any man; and it was in the valley that lies
by Beth Rehob. They built the city, and lived therein.
Jdg
18:29 They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan
their father, who was born to Israel: however the name of the city
was Laish at the first.
Jdg
18:30 The children of Dan set up for themselves the engraved image:
and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, he and his sons
were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the
captivity of the land.
Jdg
18:31 So they set them up Micah's engraved image which he made, all
the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
May 28,
29
John 7
Joh 7:1
After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn't
walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
Joh 7:2
Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.
Joh 7:3
His brothers therefore said to him, "Depart from here, and go
into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.
Joh 7:4
For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known
openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world."
Joh 7:5
For even his brothers didn't believe in him.
Joh 7:6
Jesus therefore said to them, "My time has not yet come, but
your time is always ready.
Joh 7:7
The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about
it, that its works are evil.
Joh 7:8
You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because
my time is not yet fulfilled."
Joh 7:9
Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.
Joh
7:10 But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also
went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.
Joh
7:11 The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, "Where
is he?"
Joh
7:12 There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him.
Some said, "He is a good man." Others said, "Not so,
but he leads the multitude astray."
Joh
7:13 Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.
Joh
7:14 But when it was now the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into
the temple and taught.
Joh
7:15 The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How does this man
know letters, having never been educated?"
Joh
7:16 Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine,
but his who sent me.
Joh
7:17 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.
Joh
7:18 He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who
seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness
is in him.
Joh
7:19 Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the
law? Why do you seek to kill me?"
Joh
7:20 The multitude answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to
kill you?"
Joh
7:21 Jesus answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel
because of it.
Joh
7:22 Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but
of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.
Joh
7:23 If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of
Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man
completely healthy on the Sabbath?
Joh
7:24 Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous
judgment."
Joh
7:25 Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, "Isn't this he
whom they seek to kill?
Joh
7:26 Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it
be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?
Joh
7:27 However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ
comes, no one will know where he comes from."
Joh
7:28 Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying,
"You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of
myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don't know.
Joh
7:29 I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."
Joh
7:30 They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on
him, because his hour had not yet come.
Joh
7:31 But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, "When
the Christ comes, he won't do more signs than those which this man
has done, will he?"
Joh
7:32 The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things
concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers
to arrest him.
Joh
7:33 Then Jesus said, "I will be with you a little while
longer, then I go to him who sent me.
Joh
7:34 You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't
come."
Joh
7:35 The Jews therefore said among themselves, "Where will this
man go that we won't find him? Will he go to the Dispersion among the
Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
Joh
7:36 What is this word that he said, 'You will seek me, and won't
find me; and where I am, you can't come'? "
Joh
7:37 Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and
cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!
Joh
7:38 He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within
him will flow rivers of living water."
Joh
7:39 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.
Joh
7:40 Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words,
said, "This is truly the prophet."
Joh
7:41 Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said,
"What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?
Joh
7:42 Hasn't the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of
David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"
Joh
7:43 So there arose a division in the multitude because of him.
Joh
7:44 Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on
him.
Joh
7:45 The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees,
and they said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?"
Joh
7:46 The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like this man!"
Joh
7:47 The Pharisees therefore answered them, "You aren't also
led astray, are you?
Joh
7:48 Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?
Joh
7:49 But this multitude that doesn't know the law is accursed."
Joh
7:50 Nicodemus (he who came to him by night, being one of them) said
to them,
Joh
7:51 "Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him
personally and knows what he does?"
Joh
7:52 They answered him, "Are you also from Galilee? Search, and
see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee."
Joh
7:53 Everyone went to his own house,
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Joh 8:1
but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
Joh 8:2
Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and
all the people came to him. He sat down, and taught them.
Joh 8:3
The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery.
Having set her in the midst,
Joh 8:4
they told him, "Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in
the very act.
Joh 8:5
Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such. What then do you
say about her?"
Joh 8:6
They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse
him of. But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his
finger.
Joh 8:7
But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them,
"He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone
at her."
Joh 8:8
Again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground.
Joh 8:9
They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went
out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus
was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.
Joh
8:10 Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, "Woman, where are
your accusers? Did no one condemn you?"
Joh
8:11 She said, "No one, Lord." Jesus said, "Neither
do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more."
Joh
8:12 Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the
light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness,
but will have the light of life."
Joh
8:13 The Pharisees therefore said to him, "You testify about
yourself. Your testimony is not valid."
Joh
8:14 Jesus answered them, "Even if I testify about myself, my
testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am
going; but you don't know where I came from, or where I am going.
Joh
8:15 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.
Joh
8:16 Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone,
but I am with the Father who sent me.
Joh
8:17 It's also written in your law that the testimony of two people
is valid.
Joh
8:18 I am one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me
testifies about me."
Joh
8:19 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."
Joh
8:20 Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the
temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.
Joh
8:21 Jesus said therefore again to them, "I am going away, and
you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you
can't come."
Joh
8:22 The Jews therefore said, "Will he kill himself, that he
says, 'Where I am going, you can't come?' "
Joh
8:23 He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above.
You are of this world. I am not of this world.
Joh
8:24 I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for
unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins."
Joh
8:25 They said therefore to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said
to them, "Just what I have been saying to you from the
beginning.
Joh
8:26 I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you.
However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from
him, these I say to the world."
Joh
8:27 They didn't understand that he spoke to them about the Father.
Joh
8:28 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.
Joh
8:29 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."
Joh
8:30 As he spoke these things, many believed in him.
Joh
8:31 Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, "If
you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.
Joh
8:32 You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."
Joh
8:33 They answered him, "We are Abraham's seed, and have never
been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, 'You will be made free?' "
Joh
8:34 Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, everyone
who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.
Joh
8:35 A bondservant doesn't live in the house forever. A son remains
forever.
Joh
8:36 If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.
Joh
8:37 I know that you are Abraham's seed, yet you seek to kill me,
because my word finds no place in you.
Joh
8:38 I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also
do the things which you have seen with your father."
Joh
8:39 They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus
said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would do the
works of Abraham.
Joh
8:40 But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth,
which I heard from God. Abraham didn't do this.
Joh
8:41 You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We
were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."
Joh
8:42 Therefore Jesus said to them, "If God were your father,
you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I
haven't come of myself, but he sent me.
Joh
8:43 Why don't you understand my speech? Because you can't hear my
word.
Joh
8:44 You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the
desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and
doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he
speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.
Joh
8:45 But because I tell the truth, you don't believe me.
Joh
8:46 Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do
you not believe me?
Joh
8:47 He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you
don't hear, because you are not of God."
Joh
8:48 Then the Jews answered him, "Don't we say well that you
are a Samaritan, and have a demon?"
Joh
8:49 Jesus answered, "I don't have a demon, but I honor my
Father, and you dishonor me.
Joh
8:50 But I don't seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and
judges.
Joh
8:51 Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will
never see death."
Joh
8:52 Then the Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a
demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and you say, 'If a man keeps
my word, he will never taste of death.'
Joh
8:53 Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The
prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?"
Joh
8:54 Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing.
It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.
Joh
8:55 You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, 'I don't
know him,' I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his
word.
Joh
8:56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was
glad."
Joh
8:57 The Jews therefore said to him, "You are not yet fifty
years old, and have you seen Abraham?"
Joh
8:58 Jesus said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, before
Abraham came into existence, I AM."
Joh
8:59 Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was
hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the midst of
them, and so passed by.
