Bible Reading June 5 - 7
World English Bible
June
5
1
Samuel 3, 4
1Sa
3:1 The child Samuel ministered to Yahweh before Eli. The word of
Yahweh was precious in those days; there was no frequent vision.
1Sa
3:2 It happened at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place
(now his eyes had begun to grow dim, so that he could not see),
1Sa
3:3 and the lamp of God hadn't yet gone out, and Samuel had laid
down to sleep,
in the temple of Yahweh, where the ark of God was;
1Sa
3:4 that Yahweh called Samuel; and he said, Here am I.
1Sa
3:5 He ran to Eli, and said, Here am I; for you called me. He said,
I didn't call; lie down again. He went and lay down.
1Sa
3:6 Yahweh called yet again, Samuel. Samuel arose and went to Eli,
and said, Here am I; for you called me. He answered, I didn't call,
my son; lie down again.
1Sa
3:7 Now Samuel didn't yet know Yahweh, neither was the word of
Yahweh yet revealed to him.
1Sa
3:8 Yahweh called Samuel again the third time. He arose and went to
Eli, and said, Here am I; for you called me. Eli perceived that
Yahweh had called the child.
1Sa
3:9 Therefore Eli said to Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if
he calls you, that you shall say, Speak, Yahweh; for your servant
hears. So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
1Sa
3:10 Yahweh came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel,
Samuel. Then Samuel said, Speak; for your servant hears.
1Sa
3:11 Yahweh said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at
which both the ears of everyone who hears it shall tingle.
1Sa
3:12 In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken
concerning his house, from the beginning even to the end.
1Sa
3:13 For I have told him that I will judge his house forever, for
the iniquity which he knew, because his sons did bring a curse on
themselves, and he didn't restrain them.
1Sa
3:14 Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli, that the iniquity
of Eli's house shall not be expiated with sacrifice nor offering
forever.
1Sa
3:15 Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house
of Yahweh. Samuel feared to show Eli the vision.
1Sa
3:16 Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. He said, Here
am I.
1Sa
3:17 He said, "What is the thing that Yahweh
has spoken to you? Please don't hide it from me. God do so to you,
and more also, if you hide anything from me of all the things that he
spoke to you."
1Sa
3:18 Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. He said,
It is Yahweh: let him do what seems him good.
1Sa
3:19 Samuel grew, and Yahweh was with him, and did let none of his
words fall to the ground.
1Sa
3:20 All Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was
established to be a prophet of Yahweh.
1Sa
3:21 Yahweh appeared again in Shiloh; for Yahweh revealed himself to
Samuel in Shiloh by the word of Yahweh.
1Sa
4:1 The word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out
against the Philistines to battle, and encamped beside Ebenezer: and
the Philistines encamped in Aphek.
1Sa
4:2 The Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when
they joined battle, Israel was struck before the Philistines; and
they killed of the army in the field about four thousand men.
1Sa
4:3 When the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel
said, Why has Yahweh struck us today before the Philistines? Let us
get the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of Shiloh to us, that it
may come among us, and save us out of the hand of our enemies.
1Sa
4:4 So the people sent to Shiloh; and they brought from there the
ark of the covenant of Yahweh of Armies, who sits above
the cherubim: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were
there with the ark of the covenant of God.
1Sa
4:5 When the ark of the covenant of Yahweh came into the camp, all
Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again.
1Sa
4:6 When the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said,
What means the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews?
They understood that the ark of Yahweh was come into the camp.
1Sa
4:7 The Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the
camp. They said, Woe to us! for there has not been such a thing
heretofore.
1Sa
4:8 Woe to us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty
gods? these are the gods that struck the Egyptians with all manner of
plagues in the wilderness.
1Sa
4:9 Be strong, and behave like men, O you Philistines, that you not
be servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you. Strengthen
yourselves like men, and fight!
1Sa
4:10 The Philistines fought, and Israel was struck, and they fled
every man to his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for
there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.
1Sa
4:11 The ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and
Phinehas, were slain.
1Sa
4:12 There ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh
the same day, with his clothes torn, and with earth on his head.
1Sa
4:13 When he came, behold, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road
watching; for his heart trembled for the ark of God. When the man
came into the city, and told it, all the city cried out.
1Sa
4:14 When Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What means the
noise of this tumult? The man hurried, and came and told Eli.
1Sa
4:15 Now Eli was ninety-eight years old; and his eyes were set, so
that he could not see.
1Sa
4:16 The man said to Eli, I am he who came out of the army, and I
fled today out of the army. He said, How went the matter, my son?
1Sa
4:17 He who brought the news answered, Israel is fled before the
Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the
people, and your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and
the ark of God is taken.
1Sa
4:18 It happened, when he made mention of the ark of God, that Eli
fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck
broke, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. He had judged
Israel forty years.
1Sa
4:19 His daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be
delivered: and when she heard the news that the ark of God was taken,
and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed
herself and brought forth; for her pains came on her.
1Sa
4:20 About the time of her death the women who stood by her said to
her, Don't be afraid; for you have brought forth a son. But she
didn't answer, neither did she regard it.
1Sa
4:21 She named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from
Israel; because the ark of God was taken, and because of her
father-in-law and her husband.
1Sa
4:22 She said, The glory is departed from Israel; for the ark of God
is taken.
June
6
1
Samuel 5, 6
1Sa
5:1 Now the Philistines had taken the ark of God, and they brought
it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.
1Sa
5:2 The Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it into the
house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
1Sa
5:3 When they of Ashdod arose early on the next day, behold, Dagon
was fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh. They
took Dagon, and set him in his place again.
1Sa
5:4 When they arose early on the next day morning, behold, Dagon was
fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh; and the
head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands lay
cut off on the threshold; only the stump
of Dagon was left to him.
1Sa
5:5 Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any who come into
Dagon's house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod, to this
day.
1Sa
5:6 But the hand of Yahweh was heavy on them of Ashdod, and he
destroyed them, and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod and its
borders.
1Sa
5:7 When the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of
the God of Israel shall not abide with us; for his hand is sore on
us, and on Dagon our god.
1Sa
5:8 They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the
Philistines to them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the
God of Israel? They answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be
carried about to Gath. They carried the ark of the God of Israel
there.
1Sa
5:9 It was so, that after they had carried it about, the hand of
Yahweh was against the city with a very great confusion: and he
struck the men of the city, both small and great; and tumors broke
out on them.
1Sa
5:10 So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. It happened, as the ark
of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have
brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to kill us and our
people.
1Sa
5:11 They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the
Philistines, and they said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel,
and let it go again to its own place, that it not kill us and our
people. For there was a deadly confusion throughout all the city; the
hand of God was very heavy there.
1Sa
5:12 The men who didn't die were struck with the tumors; and the cry
of the city went up to heaven.
1Sa
6:1 The ark of Yahweh was in the country of the Philistines seven
months.
1Sa
6:2 The Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying,
"What shall we do with the ark of Yahweh? Show us with which we
shall send it to its place."
1Sa
6:3 They said, "If you send away the ark of the God of Israel,
don't send it empty; but by all means return him a trespass offering:
then you shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand
is not removed from you."
1Sa
6:4 Then they said, "What shall be the trespass offering which
we shall return to him?" They said, "Five golden tumors,
and five golden mice, according to
the number of the lords of the Philistines; for one plague was on you
all, and on your lords.
1Sa
6:5 Therefore you shall make images of your tumors, and images of
your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of
Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from
off your gods, and from off your land.
1Sa
6:6 Why then do you harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh
hardened their hearts? When he had worked wonderfully among them,
didn't they let the people go, and they departed?
1Sa
6:7 Now therefore take and prepare yourselves a new cart, and two
milk cows, on which there has come no yoke; and tie the cows to the
cart, and bring their calves home from them;
1Sa
6:8 and take the ark of Yahweh, and lay it on the cart; and put the
jewels of gold, which you return him for a trespass offering, in a
coffer by its side; and send it away, that it may go.
1Sa
6:9 Behold; if it goes up by the way of its own border to Beth
Shemesh, then he has done us this great evil: but if not, then we
shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; it was a chance
that happened to us."
1Sa
6:10 The men did so, and took two milk cows, and tied them to the
cart, and shut up their calves at home;
1Sa
6:11 and they put the ark of Yahweh on the cart, and the coffer with
the mice of gold and the images of their tumors.
1Sa
6:12 The cows took the straight way by the way to Beth Shemesh; they
went along the highway, lowing as they went, and didn't turn aside to
the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went
after them to the border of Beth Shemesh.
1Sa
6:13 They of Beth Shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the
valley; and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced
to see it.
1Sa
6:14 The cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh, and
stood there, where there was a great stone: and they split the wood
of the cart, and offered up the cows for a burnt offering to Yahweh.
1Sa
6:15 The Levites took down the ark of Yahweh, and the coffer that
was with it, in which the jewels of gold were, and put them on the
great stone: and the men of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings and
sacrificed sacrifices the same day to Yahweh.
1Sa
6:16 When the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they
returned to Ekron the same day.
1Sa
6:17 These are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for
a trespass offering to Yahweh: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for
Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
1Sa
6:18 and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities
of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fortified
cities and of country villages, even to the great stone, whereon they
set down the ark of Yahweh, which stone
remains to this day in the field of
Joshua of Beth Shemesh.
1Sa
6:19 He struck of the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked
into the ark of Yahweh, he struck of the people fifty thousand
seventy men; and the people mourned, because Yahweh had struck the
people with a great slaughter.
1Sa
6:20 The men of Beth Shemesh said, Who is able to stand before
Yahweh, this holy God? and to whom shall he go up from us?
1Sa
6:21 They sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath Jearim,
saying, The Philistines have brought back the ark of Yahweh; come
down, and bring it up to yourselves.
June
7
1
Samuel 7, 8
1Sa
7:1 The men of Kiriath Jearim came, and fetched up the ark of
Yahweh, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and
sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of Yahweh.
1Sa
7:2 It happened, from the day that the ark abode in Kiriath Jearim,
that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of
Israel lamented after Yahweh.
1Sa
7:3 Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If you do
return to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods
and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh,
and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the
Philistines.
1Sa
7:4 Then the children of Israel did put away the Baals and the
Ashtaroth, and served Yahweh only.
1Sa
7:5 Samuel said, "Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray
for you to Yahweh."
1Sa
7:6 They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it
out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, "We
have sinned against Yahweh." Samuel judged the children of
Israel in Mizpah.
1Sa
7:7 When the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were
gathered together at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up
against Israel. When the children of Israel heard it, they were
afraid of the Philistines.
1Sa
7:8 The children of Israel said to Samuel, "Don't cease to cry
to Yahweh our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the
Philistines."
1Sa
7:9 Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a whole burnt
offering to Yahweh: and Samuel cried to Yahweh for Israel; and Yahweh
answered him.
1Sa
7:10 As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines
drew near to battle against Israel; but Yahweh thundered with a great
thunder on that day on the Philistines, and confused them; and they
were struck down before Israel.
1Sa
7:11 The men of Israel went out of Mizpah, and pursued the
Philistines, and struck them, until they came under Beth Kar.
1Sa
7:12 Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen,
and called its name Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto has Yahweh helped us.
1Sa
7:13 So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more within
the border of Israel: and the hand of Yahweh was against the
Philistines all the days of Samuel.
1Sa
7:14 The cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were
restored to Israel, from Ekron even to Gath; and its border did
Israel deliver out of the hand of the Philistines. There was peace
between Israel and the Amorites.
1Sa
7:15 Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
1Sa
7:16 He went from year to year in circuit to Bethel and Gilgal, and
Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places.
1Sa
7:17 His return was to Ramah, for there was his house; and there he
judged Israel: and he built there an altar to Yahweh.
1Sa
8:1 It happened, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges
over Israel.
1Sa
8:2 Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his
second, Abijah: they were judges in Beersheba.
1Sa
8:3 His sons didn't walk in his ways, but turned aside after lucre,
and took bribes, and perverted justice.
1Sa
8:4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and
came to Samuel to Ramah;
1Sa
8:5 and they said to him, Behold, you are old, and your sons don't
walk in your ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the
nations.
1Sa
8:6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king
to judge us. Samuel prayed to Yahweh.
1Sa
8:7 Yahweh said to Samuel, Listen to the voice of the people in all
that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have
rejected me, that I should not be king over them.
1Sa
8:8 According to all the works which they have done since the day
that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, in that they
have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also to you.
1Sa
8:9 Now therefore listen to their voice: however you shall protest
solemnly to them, and shall show them the manner of the king who
shall reign over them.
1Sa
8:10 Samuel told all the words of Yahweh to the people who asked of
him a king.
1Sa
8:11 He said, This will be the manner of the king who shall reign
over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them to him, for his
chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his
chariots;
1Sa
8:12 and he will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and
captains of fifties; and he will set
some to plow his ground, and to reap his
harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of
his chariots.
1Sa
8:13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks,
and to be bakers.
1Sa
8:14 He will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive
groves, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
1Sa
8:15 He will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and
give to his officers, and to his servants.
1Sa
8:16 He will take your male servants, and your female servants, and
your best young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.
1Sa
8:17 He will take the tenth of your flocks: and you shall be his
servants.
1Sa
8:18 You shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you
shall have chosen you; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.
1Sa
8:19 But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and
they said, No: but we will have a king over us,
1Sa
8:20 that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may
judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
1Sa
8:21 Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them
in the ears of Yahweh.
1Sa
8:22 Yahweh said to Samuel, Listen to their voice, and make them a
king. Samuel said to the men of Israel, Every man go to his city.
Jun. 5,
6
John 11
Joh
11:1 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the
village of Mary and her sister, Martha.
Joh
11:2 It was that Mary who had anointed the Lord with ointment, and
wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.
Joh
11:3 The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, "Lord, behold,
he for whom you have great affection is sick."
Joh
11:4 But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This sickness is not to
death, but for the glory of God, that God's Son may be glorified by
it."
Joh
11:5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
Joh
11:6 When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in
the place where he was.
Joh
11:7 Then after this he said to the disciples, "Let's go into
Judea again."
Joh
11:8 The disciples told him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just trying
to stone you, and are you going there again?"
Joh
11:9 Jesus answered, "Aren't there twelve hours of daylight? If
a man walks in the day, he doesn't stumble, because he sees the light
of this world.
Joh
11:10 But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the
light isn't in him."
Joh
11:11 He said these things, and after that, he said to them, "Our
friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may
awake him out of sleep."
Joh
11:12 The disciples therefore said, "Lord, if he has fallen
asleep, he will recover."
Joh
11:13 Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he
spoke of taking rest in sleep.
Joh
11:14 So Jesus said to them plainly then, "Lazarus is dead.
Joh
11:15 I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may
believe. Nevertheless, let's go to him."
Joh
11:16 Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow
disciples, "Let's go also, that we may die with him."
Joh
11:17 So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four
days already.
Joh
11:18 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away.
Joh
11:19 Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary,
to console them concerning their brother.
Joh
11:20 Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met
him, but Mary stayed in the house.
Joh
11:21 Therefore Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you would have
been here, my brother wouldn't have died.
Joh
11:22 Even now I know that, whatever you ask of God, God will give
you."
Joh
11:23 Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."
Joh
11:24 Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in
the resurrection at the last day."
Joh
11:25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life.
He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.
Joh
11:26 Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you
believe this?"
Joh
11:27 She said to him, "Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that
you are the Christ, God's Son, he who comes into the world."
Joh
11:28 When she had said this, she went away, and called Mary, her
sister, secretly, saying, "The Teacher is here, and is calling
you."
Joh
11:29 When she heard this, she arose quickly, and went to him.
Joh
11:30 Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was in the
place where Martha met him.
Joh
11:31 Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and were
consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went
out, followed her, saying, "She is going to the tomb to weep
there."
Joh
11:32 Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was, and saw him, she
fell down at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you would have
been here, my brother wouldn't have died."
Joh
11:33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who
came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,
Joh
11:34 and said, "Where have you laid him?" They told him,
"Lord, come and see."
Joh
11:35 Jesus wept.
Joh
11:36 The Jews therefore said, "See how much affection he had
for him!"
Joh
11:37 Some of them said, "Couldn't this man, who opened the
eyes of him who was blind, have also kept this man from dying?"
Joh
11:38 Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb.
Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.
Joh
11:39 Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the
sister of him who was dead, said to him, "Lord, by this time
there is a stench, for he has been dead four days."
Joh
11:40 Jesus said to her, "Didn't I tell you that if you
believed, you would see God's glory?"
Joh
11:41 So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man
was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, "Father, I thank
you that you listened to me.
Joh
11:42 I know that you always listen to me, but because of the
multitude that stands around I said this, that they may believe that
you sent me."
Joh
11:43 When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus,
come out!"
Joh
11:44 He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings,
and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them,
"Free him, and let him go."
Joh
11:45 Therefore many of the Jews, who came to Mary and saw what
Jesus did, believed in him.
Joh
11:46 But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them the
things which Jesus had done.
Joh
11:47 The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a
council, and said, "What are we doing? For this man does many
signs.
Joh
11:48 If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him,
and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our
nation."
Joh
11:49 But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that
year, said to them, "You know nothing at all,
Joh
11:50 nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one
man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish."
Joh
11:51 Now he didn't say this of himself, but being high priest that
year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
Joh
11:52 and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather
together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
Joh
11:53 So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put
him to death.
Joh
11:54 Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but
departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city
called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.
Joh
11:55 Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from
the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.
Joh
11:56 Then they sought for Jesus and spoke one with another, as they
stood in the temple, "What do you think-that he isn't coming to
the feast at all?"
Joh
11:57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if
anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize
him.
Jun. 7
John 12
Joh
12:1 Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where
Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
Joh
12:2 So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was
one of those who sat at the table with him.
Joh
12:3 Mary, therefore, took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very
precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her
hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.
Joh
12:4 Then Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, one of his disciples, who
would betray him, said,
Joh
12:5 "Why wasn't this ointment sold for three hundred denarii,
and given to the poor?"
Joh
12:6 Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but
because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what
was put into it.
Joh
12:7 But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. She has kept this for
the day of my burial.
Joh
12:8 For you always have the poor with you, but you don't always
have me."
Joh
12:9 A large crowd therefore of the Jews learned that he was there,
and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see
Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
Joh
12:10 But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,
Joh
12:11 because on account of him many of the Jews went away and
believed in Jesus.
Joh
12:12 On the next day a great multitude had come to the feast. When
they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
Joh
12:13 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!"
Joh
12:14 Jesus, having found a young donkey, sat on it. As it is
written,
Joh
12:15 "Don't be afraid, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King
comes, sitting on a donkey's colt."
Joh
12:16 His disciples didn't understand these things at first, but
when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were
written about him, and that they had done these things to him.
Joh
12:17 The multitude therefore that was with him when he called
Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, was testifying
about it.
Joh
12:18 For this cause also the multitude went and met him, because
they heard that he had done this sign.
Joh
12:19 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, "See how
you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him."
Joh
12:20 Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to
worship at the feast.
Joh
12:21 These, therefore, came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of
Galilee, and asked him, saying, "Sir, we want to see Jesus."
Joh
12:22 Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn, Andrew came with
Philip, and they told Jesus.
Joh
12:23 Jesus answered them, "The time has come for the Son of
Man to be glorified.
Joh
12:24 Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into
the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it
bears much fruit.
Joh
12:25 He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in
this world will keep it to eternal life.
Joh
12:26 If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will
my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
Joh
12:27 "Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? 'Father, save
me from this time?' But for this cause I came to this time.
Joh
12:28 Father, glorify your name!" Then there came a voice out
of the sky, saying, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify
it again."
Joh
12:29 The multitude therefore, who stood by and heard it, said that
it had thundered. Others said, "An angel has spoken to him."
Joh
12:30 Jesus answered, "This voice hasn't come for my sake, but
for your sakes.
Joh
12:31 Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this
world will be cast out.
Joh
12:32 And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people
to myself."
Joh
12:33 But he said this, signifying by what kind of death he should
die.
Joh
12:34 The multitude answered him, "We have heard out of the law
that the Christ remains forever. How do you say, 'The Son of Man must
be lifted up?' Who is this Son of Man?"
Joh
12:35 Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the
light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness
doesn't overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn't know where
he is going.
Joh
12:36 While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may
become children of light." Jesus said these things, and he
departed and hid himself from them.
Joh
12:37 But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they
didn't believe in him,
Joh
12:38 that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which
he spoke, "Lord, who has believed our report? To whom has the
arm of the Lord been revealed?"
Joh
12:39 For this cause they couldn't believe, for Isaiah said again,
Joh
12:40 "He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart,
lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart,
and would turn, and I would heal them."
Joh
12:41 Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of
him.
Joh
12:42 Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him, but
because of the Pharisees they didn't confess it, so that they
wouldn't be put out of the synagogue,
Joh
12:43 for they loved men's praise more than God's praise.
Joh
12:44 Jesus cried out and said, "Whoever believes in me,
believes not in me, but in him who sent me.
Joh
12:45 He who sees me sees him who sent me.
Joh
12:46 I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes
in me may not remain in the darkness.
Joh
12:47 If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn't believe, I don't
judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
Joh
12:48 He who rejects me, and doesn't receive my sayings, has one who
judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the
last day.
Joh
12:49 For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he
gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
Joh
12:50 I know that his commandment is eternal life. The things
therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me, so I
speak."
