Bible Reading January 25 (World English Bible)
Jan.
25
Genesis
25
Gen
25:1 Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.
Gen
25:2 She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
Gen
25:3 Jokshan became the father of Sheba, and Dedan. The sons of
Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.
Gen
25:4 The sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah.
All these were the children of Keturah.
Gen
25:5 Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac,
Gen
25:6 but to the sons of Abraham's concubines, Abraham gave gifts. He
sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to
the east country.
Gen
25:7 These are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he
lived: one hundred seventy-five years.
Gen
25:8 Abraham gave up the spirit, and died in a good old age, an old
man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
Gen
25:9 Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of
Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite,
which is before Mamre,
Gen
25:10 the field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth.
Abraham was buried there with Sarah, his wife.
Gen
25:11 It happened after the death of Abraham that God blessed Isaac,
his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi.
Gen
25:12 Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael,
Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore to
Abraham.
Gen
25:13 These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names,
according to the order of their birth: the firstborn of Ishmael,
Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
Gen
25:14 Mishma, Dumah, Massa,
Gen
25:15 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
Gen
25:16 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by
their villages, and by their encampments: twelve princes, according
to their nations.
Gen
25:17 These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred
thirty-seven years. He gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered
to his people.
Gen
25:18 They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you
go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.
Gen
25:19 This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham's
son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.
Gen
25:20 Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter
of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian,
to be his wife.
Gen
25:21 Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren.
Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
Gen
25:22 The children struggled together within her. She said, "If
it be so, why do I live?" She went to inquire of Yahweh.
Gen
25:23 Yahweh said to her, Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples
will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger
than the other people. The elder will serve the younger.
Gen
25:24 When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there
were twins in her womb.
Gen
25:25 The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They
named him Esau.
Gen
25:26 After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on
Esau's heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she
bore them.
Gen
25:27 The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field.
Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.
Gen
25:28 Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah
loved Jacob.
Gen
25:29 Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was
famished.
Gen
25:30 Esau said to Jacob, "Please feed me with that same red
stew, for I am famished." Therefore his name was called Edom.
Gen
25:31 Jacob said, "First, sell me your birthright."
Gen
25:32 Esau said, "Behold, I am about to die. What good is the
birthright to me?"
Gen
25:33 Jacob said, "Swear to me first." He swore to him. He
sold his birthright to Jacob.
Gen
25:34 Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils. He ate and drank,
rose up, and went his way. So Esau despised his birthright.
Matthew 13
Mat 13:1
On that day Jesus went out of the house, and sat by the seaside.
Mat 13:2
Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat, and
sat, and all the multitude stood on the beach.
Mat 13:3
He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, "Behold, a
farmer went out to sow.
Mat 13:4
As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and
devoured them.
Mat 13:5
Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn't have much soil, and
immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.
Mat 13:6
When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root,
they withered away.
Mat 13:7
Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.
Mat 13:8
Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times
as much, some sixty, and some thirty.
Mat 13:9
He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
Mat 13:10
The disciples came, and said to him, "Why do you speak to them
in parables?"
Mat 13:11
He answered them, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of
the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
Mat 13:12
For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance,
but whoever doesn't have, from him will be taken away even that which
he has.
Mat 13:13
Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see,
and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand.
Mat 13:14
In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, 'By hearing
you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see,
and will in no way perceive:
Mat 13:15
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 should turn again; and I would heal them.'
Mat 13:16
"But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for
they hear.
Mat 13:17
For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men
desired to see the things which you see, and didn't see them; and to
hear the things which you hear, and didn't hear them.
Mat 13:18
"Hear, then, the parable of the farmer.
Mat 13:19
When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn't understand it,
the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his
heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.
Mat 13:20
What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and
immediately with joy receives it;
Mat 13:21
yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When
oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he
stumbles.
Mat 13:22
What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but
the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word,
and he becomes unfruitful.
Mat 13:23
What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and
understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and brings forth,
some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty."
Mat 13:24
He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of
Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,
Mat 13:25
but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also
among the wheat, and went away.
Mat 13:26
But when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, then the darnel
weeds appeared also.
Mat 13:27
The servants of the householder came and said to him, 'Sir, didn't
you sow good seed in your field? Where did this darnel come from?'
Mat 13:28
"He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' "The servants
asked him, 'Do you want us to go and gather them up?'
Mat 13:29
"But he said, 'No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel
weeds, you root up the wheat with them.
Mat 13:30
Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I
will tell the reapers, "First, gather up the darnel weeds, and
bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my
barn." ' "
Mat 13:31
He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of
Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed
in his field;
Mat 13:32
which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is
greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the
air come and lodge in its branches."
Mat 13:33
He spoke another parable to them. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like
yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, until
it was all leavened."
Mat 13:34
Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and
without a parable, he didn't speak to them,
Mat 13:35
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet,
saying, "I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things
hidden from the foundation of the world."
Mat 13:36
Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His
disciples came to him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the
darnel weeds of the field."
Mat 13:37
He answered them, "He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,
Mat 13:38
the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of
the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.
Mat 13:39
The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the
age, and the reapers are angels.
Mat 13:40
As therefore the darnel weeds are gathered up and burned with fire;
so will it be at the end of this age.
Mat 13:41
The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of
his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and those who do
iniquity,
Mat 13:42
and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping
and the gnashing of teeth.
Mat 13:43
Then the righteous will shine forth like the sun in the Kingdom of
their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
Mat 13:44
"Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the
field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all
that he has, and buys that field.
Mat 13:45
"Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant
seeking fine pearls,
Mat 13:46
who having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that
he had, and bought it.
Mat 13:47
"Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet, that was cast
into the sea, and gathered some fish of every kind,
Mat 13:48
which, when it was filled, they drew up on the beach. They sat down,
and gathered the good into containers, but the bad they threw away.
Mat 13:49
So will it be in the end of the world. The angels will come forth,
and separate the wicked from among the righteous,
Mat 13:50
and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the
weeping and the gnashing of teeth."
Mat 13:51
Jesus said to them, "Have you understood all these things?"
They answered him, "Yes, Lord."
Mat 13:52
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."
Mat 13:53
It happened that when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed
from there.
Mat 13:54
Coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so
that they were astonished, and said, "Where did this man get
this wisdom, and these mighty works?
Mat 13:55
Isn't this the carpenter's son? Isn't his mother called Mary, and his
brothers, James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?
Mat 13:56
Aren't all of his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all of
these things?"
Mat 13:57
They were offended by him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is
not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house."
Mat 13:58
He didn't do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.
[EDITOR’S NOTE: We receive many questions at A.P. from inquirers all over the world. We are devoting this issue of R&R to a few of these questions that we think may be of interest to a wider audience.]
The
presence of antiquated dinosaur carvings, figurines, paintings, etc.
around the world leaves no doubt that the ancients knew what dinosaurs
looked like long before man began excavating dinosaur bones and
reconstructing their skeletons in modern times. Creationists believe
that the ancients’ illustrations of dinosaurs serve as one of the proofs
(along with the Bible and history; see 
sauropods with dermal spines
were depicted in the Ica stone collection. Modern man was unaware that
some (many?) sauropod dinosaurs possessed dermal spines, even though
scientists had been studying the dinosaur fossils around the world for
more than 150 years. This characteristic of sauropods was not learned
from the fossil record until 1992. The ancient Peruvians had it right
long before 1992: are we to believe they carefully examined, excavated,
and reconstructed fossilized sauropod bones and skin—intricate
scientific recreations that history simply does not record the ancients
performing? Is it not more reasonable to conclude that man once lived
with the animals that they illustrated? Modern-day paleontologists have
the luxury of researching dinosaur data from all over the world and as
far back as the 1820s. Our present knowledge and illustrations of
dinosaurs come from their composite research. The ancients had no such
comparable science, yet they still depicted dinosaurs accurately. The
only logical conclusion is that the ancients actually saw living
dinosaurs.
Jesus
was undoubtedly the Master Logician. He demonstrated unsurpassed
logical prowess on every occasion. One such incident occurred when He
was preaching to a group that had gathered in a house. So many people
were crammed into the house that four men were unable to bring a
paralytic into contact with Him, so they carried him onto the roof,
punched a hole through the ceiling, and lowered him down through the
hole into the presence of Jesus. The text then reads: