Bible Reading for June 4 - 6
World English Bible
June
4
1
Samuel 1, 2
1Sa
1:1 Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill
country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the
son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite:
1Sa
1:2 and he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the
name of other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no
children.
1Sa
1:3 This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship
and to sacrifice to Yahweh of Armies in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli,
Hophni and Phinehas, priests to Yahweh, were there.
1Sa
1:4 When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah
his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:
1Sa
1:5 but to Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but
Yahweh had shut up her womb.
1Sa
1:6 Her rival provoked her sore, to make her fret, because Yahweh
had shut up her womb.
1Sa
1:7 as he
did so year by year, when she went up to the house of Yahweh, so she
provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.
1Sa
1:8 Elkanah her husband said to her, Hannah, why do you weep? and
why don't you eat? and why is your heart grieved? am I not better to
you than ten sons?
1Sa
1:9 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they
had drunk. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost
of the temple of Yahweh.
1Sa
1:10 She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, and wept
sore.
1Sa
1:11 She vowed a vow, and said, Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed
look on the affliction of your handmaid, and remember me, and not
forget your handmaid, but will give to your handmaid a boy, then I
will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and there shall no
razor come on his head.
1Sa
1:12 It happened, as she continued praying before Yahweh, that Eli
marked her mouth.
1Sa
1:13 Now Hannah, she spoke in her heart; only her lips moved, but
her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.
1Sa
1:14 Eli said to her, How long will you be drunken? put away your
wine from you.
1Sa
1:15 Hannah answered, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful
spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I poured out
my soul before Yahweh.
1Sa
1:16 Don't count your handmaid for a wicked woman; for out of the
abundance of my complaint and my provocation have I spoken hitherto.
1Sa
1:17 Then Eli answered, Go in peace; and the God of Israel grant
your petition that you have asked of him.
1Sa
1:18 She said, Let your handmaid find favor in your sight. So the
woman went her way, and ate; and her facial expression wasn't sad any
more.
1Sa
1:19 They rose up in the morning early, and worshiped before Yahweh,
and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew
Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.
1Sa
1:20 It happened, when the time was come about, that Hannah
conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, saying,
Because I have asked him of Yahweh.
1Sa
1:21 The man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer to Yahweh
the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.
1Sa
1:22 But Hannah didn't go up; for she said to her husband, I
will not go up until the child be
weaned; and then I will bring him, that he may appear before Yahweh,
and there abide forever.
1Sa
1:23 Elkanah her husband said to her, Do what seems good to you;
wait until you have weaned him; only Yahweh establish his word. So
the woman waited and nursed her son, until she weaned him.
1Sa
1:24 When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three
bulls, and one ephah of meal, and a bottle of wine, and brought him
to the house of Yahweh in Shiloh: and the child was young.
1Sa
1:25 They killed the bull, and brought the child to Eli.
1Sa
1:26 She said, Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the
woman who stood by you here, praying to Yahweh.
1Sa
1:27 For this child I prayed; and Yahweh has given me my petition
which I asked of him:
1Sa
1:28 therefore also I have granted him to Yahweh; as long as he
lives he is granted to Yahweh. He worshiped Yahweh there.
1Sa
2:1 Hannah prayed, and said: My heart exults in Yahweh! My horn is
exalted in Yahweh. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I
rejoice in your salvation.
1Sa
2:2 There is no one as holy as Yahweh, For there is no one besides
you, nor is there any rock like our God.
1Sa
2:3 Talk no more so exceeding proudly. Don't let arrogance come out
of your mouth, For Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are
weighed.
1Sa
2:4 The bows of the mighty men are broken. Those who stumbled are
girded with strength.
1Sa
2:5 Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those
who were hungry have ceased to hunger.
Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children
languishes.
1Sa
2:6 Yahweh kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and
brings up.
1Sa
2:7 Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts
up.
1Sa
2:8 He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy
from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, and inherit the
throne of glory, for the pillars of the earth are Yahweh's. He has
set the world on them.
1Sa
2:9 He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be
put to silence in darkness; for no man shall prevail by strength.
1Sa
2:10 Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces. He will
thunder against them in the sky. Yahweh will judge the ends of the
earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his
anointed.
1Sa
2:11 Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child did minister to
Yahweh before Eli the priest.
1Sa
2:12 Now the sons of Eli were base men; they didn't know Yahweh.
1Sa
2:13 The custom of the priests with the people was that when any man
offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was
boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand;
1Sa
2:14 and he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot;
all that the fork brought up the priest took therewith. So they did
in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there.
1Sa
2:15 Yes, before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and
said to the man who sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest;
for he will not have boiled flesh of you, but raw.
1Sa
2:16 If the man said to him, They will surely burn the fat first,
and then take as much as your soul desires; then he would say, No,
but you shall give it to me now: and if not, I will take it by force.
1Sa
2:17 The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; for the
men despised the offering of Yahweh.
1Sa
2:18 But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, being a child, girded with
a linen ephod.
1Sa
2:19 Moreover his mother made him a little robe, and brought it to
him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the
yearly sacrifice.
1Sa
2:20 Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, Yahweh give you
seed of this woman for the petition which was asked of Yahweh. They
went to their own home.
1Sa
2:21 Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons
and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh.
1Sa
2:22 Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all
Israel, and how that they lay with the women who served at the door
of the Tent of Meeting.
1Sa
2:23 He said to them, Why do you do such things? for I hear of your
evil dealings from all this people.
1Sa
2:24 No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you make
Yahweh's people disobey.
1Sa
2:25 If one man sin against another, God shall judge him; but if a
man sin against Yahweh, who shall entreat for him? Notwithstanding,
they didn't listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh was
minded to kill them.
1Sa
2:26 The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with
Yahweh, and also with men.
1Sa
2:27 There came a man of God to Eli, and said to him, Thus says
Yahweh, Did I reveal myself to the house of your father, when they
were in Egypt in bondage
to Pharaoh's house?
1Sa
2:28 and did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my
priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod
before me? and did I give to the house of your father all the
offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?
1Sa
2:29 Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I
have commanded in my
habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with
the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?
1Sa
2:30 Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, I said indeed that
your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me
forever: but now Yahweh says, Be it far from me; for those who honor
me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
1Sa
2:31 Behold, the days come, that I will cut off your arm, and the
arm of your father's house, that there shall not be an old man in
your house.
1Sa
2:32 You shall see the affliction of my
habitation, in all the wealth which God
shall give Israel; and there shall not be an old man in your house
forever.
1Sa
2:33 The man of yours, whom
I shall not cut off from my altar, shall
be to consume your eyes, and to grieve
your heart; and all the increase of your house shall die in the
flower of their age.
1Sa
2:34 This shall be the sign to you, that shall come on your two
sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die both of them.
1Sa
2:35 I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according
to that which is in my heart and in my mind: and I will build him a
sure house; and he shall walk before my anointed forever.
1Sa
2:36 It shall happen, that everyone who is left in your house shall
come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread,
and shall say, Please put me into one of the priests' offices, that I
may eat a morsel of bread.
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.
Jun. 4
John 10
Joh
10:1 "Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn't enter by the
door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a
thief and a robber.
Joh
10:2 But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
Joh
10:3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to
his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.
Joh
10:4 Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and
the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
Joh
10:5 They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from
him; for they don't know the voice of strangers."
Joh
10:6 Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn't understand
what he was telling them.
Joh
10:7 Jesus therefore said to them again, "Most certainly, I
tell you, I am the sheep's door.
Joh
10:8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep
didn't listen to them.
Joh
10:9 I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and
will go in and go out, and will find pasture.
Joh
10:10 The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that
they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
Joh
10:11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life
for the sheep.
Joh
10:12 He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn't own
the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The
wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.
Joh
10:13 The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn't
care for the sheep.
Joh
10:14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I'm known by my
own;
Joh
10:15 even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down
my life for the sheep.
Joh
10:16 I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring
them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock
with one shepherd.
Joh
10:17 Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life,
that I may take it again.
Joh
10:18 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I
have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I
received this commandment from my Father."
Joh
10:19 Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of
these words.
Joh
10:20 Many of them said, "He has a demon, and is insane! Why do
you listen to him?"
Joh
10:21 Others said, "These are not the sayings of one possessed
by a demon. It isn't possible for a demon to open the eyes of the
blind, is it?"
Joh
10:22 It was the Feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem.
Joh
10:23 It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in
Solomon's porch.
Joh
10:24 The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, "How
long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us
plainly."
Joh
10:25 Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you don't believe.
The works that I do in my Father's name, these testify about me.
Joh
10:26 But you don't believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I
told you.
Joh
10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
Joh
10:28 I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no
one will snatch them out of my hand.
Joh
10:29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No
one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand.
Joh
10:30 I and the Father are one."
Joh
10:31 Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.
Joh
10:32 Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works
from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?"
Joh
10:33 The Jews answered him, "We don't stone you for a good
work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself
God."
Joh
10:34 Jesus answered them, "Isn't it written in your law, 'I
said, you are gods?'
Joh
10:35 If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the
Scripture can't be broken),
Joh
10:36 do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the
world, 'You blaspheme,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God?'
Joh
10:37 If I don't do the works of my Father, don't believe me.
Joh
10:38 But if I do them, though you don't believe me, believe the
works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I
in the Father."
Joh
10:39 They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.
Joh
10:40 He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John
was baptizing at first, and there he stayed.
Joh
10:41 Many came to him. They said, "John indeed did no sign,
but everything that John said about this man is true."
Joh
10:42 Many believed in him there.
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.
