Bible Reading for April 21 and 22
World English Bible
Apr.
21
Numbers
33, 34
Num
33:1 These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they
went forth out of the land of Egypt by their armies under the hand of
Moses and Aaron.
Num
33:2 Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the
commandment of Yahweh: and these are their journeys according to
their goings out.
Num
33:3 They traveled from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth
day of the first month; on the next day after the Passover the
children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the
Egyptians,
Num
33:4 while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom
Yahweh had struck among them: on their gods also Yahweh executed
judgments.
Num
33:5 The children of Israel traveled from Rameses, and encamped in
Succoth.
Num
33:6 They traveled from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, which is in
the edge of the wilderness.
Num
33:7 They traveled from Etham, and turned back to Pihahiroth, which
is before Baal Zephon: and they encamped before Migdol.
Num
33:8 They traveled from before Hahiroth, and passed through the
midst of the sea into the wilderness: and they went three days'
journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah.
Num
33:9 They traveled from Marah, and came to Elim: and in Elim were
twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees; and they encamped
there.
Num
33:10 They traveled from Elim, and encamped by the Red Sea.
Num
33:11 They traveled from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness
of Sin.
Num
33:12 They traveled from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in
Dophkah.
Num
33:13 They traveled from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
Num
33:14 They traveled from Alush, and encamped in Rephidim, where
there was no water for the people to drink.
Num
33:15 They traveled from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of
Sinai.
Num
33:16 They traveled from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped in
Kibroth Hattaavah.
Num
33:17 They traveled from Kibroth Hattaavah, and encamped in
Hazeroth.
Num
33:18 They traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped in Rithmah.
Num
33:19 They traveled from Rithmah, and encamped in Rimmon Perez.
Num
33:20 They traveled from Rimmon Perez, and encamped in Libnah.
Num
33:21 They traveled from Libnah, and encamped in Rissah.
Num
33:22 They traveled from Rissah, and encamped in Kehelathah.
Num
33:23 They traveled from Kehelathah, and encamped in Mount Shepher.
Num
33:24 They traveled from Mount Shepher, and encamped in Haradah.
Num
33:25 They traveled from Haradah, and encamped in Makheloth.
Num
33:26 They traveled from Makheloth, and encamped in Tahath.
Num
33:27 They traveled from Tahath, and encamped in Terah.
Num
33:28 They traveled from Terah, and encamped in Mithkah.
Num
33:29 They traveled from Mithkah, and encamped in Hashmonah.
Num
33:30 They traveled from Hashmonah, and encamped in Moseroth.
Num
33:31 They traveled from Moseroth, and encamped in Bene Jaakan.
Num
33:32 They traveled from Bene Jaakan, and encamped in Hor Haggidgad.
Num
33:33 They traveled from Hor Haggidgad, and encamped in Jotbathah.
Num
33:34 They traveled from Jotbathah, and encamped in Abronah.
Num
33:35 They traveled from Abronah, and encamped in Ezion Geber.
Num
33:36 They traveled from Ezion Geber, and encamped in the wilderness
of Zin (the same is Kadesh).
Num
33:37 They traveled from Kadesh, and encamped in Mount Hor, in the
edge of the land of Edom.
Num
33:38 Aaron the priest went up into Mount Hor at the commandment of
Yahweh, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of
Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the
first day of the month.
Num
33:39 Aaron was one hundred twenty-three years old when he died in
Mount Hor.
Num
33:40 The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South in the
land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
Num
33:41 They traveled from Mount Hor, and encamped in Zalmonah.
Num
33:42 They traveled from Zalmonah, and encamped in Punon.
Num
33:43 They traveled from Punon, and encamped in Oboth.
Num
33:44 They traveled from Oboth, and encamped in Iye Abarim, in the
border of Moab.
Num
33:45 They traveled from Iyim, and encamped in Dibon Gad.
Num
33:46 They traveled from Dibon Gad, and encamped in Almon
Diblathaim.
Num
33:47 They traveled from Almon Diblathaim, and encamped in the
mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
Num
33:48 They traveled from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped in
the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
Num
33:49 They encamped by the Jordan, from Beth Jeshimoth even to Abel
Shittim in the plains of Moab.
Num
33:50 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at
Jericho, saying,
Num
33:51 Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, When you pass
over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
Num
33:52 then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from
before you, and destroy all their figured stones,
and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high
places:
Num
33:53 and you shall take possession of the land, and dwell therein;
for I have given given the land to you to possess it.
Num
33:54 You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families;
to the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you
shall give the less inheritance: wherever the lot falls to any man,
that shall be his. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your
fathers.
Num
33:55 But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from
before you, then those you let remain of them will be as pricks in
your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they will harass you in
the land in which you dwell.
Num
33:56 It shall happen that as I thought to do to them, so will I do
to you.
Num
34:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Num
34:2 Command the children of Israel, and tell them, When you come
into the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for
an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to its borders),
Num
34:3 then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin
along by the side of Edom, and your south border shall be from the
end of the Salt Sea eastward;
Num
34:4 and your border shall turn about southward of the ascent of
Akrabbim, and pass along to Zin; and the goings out of it shall be
southward of Kadesh Barnea; and it shall go forth to Hazar Addar, and
pass along to Azmon;
Num
34:5 and the border shall turn about from Azmon to the brook of
Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea.
Num
34:6 For the western border, you shall have the great sea and the
border of it:
this shall be your west border.
Num
34:7 This shall be your north border: from the great sea you shall
mark out for you Mount Hor;
Num
34:8 from Mount Hor you shall mark out to the entrance of Hamath;
and the goings out of the border shall be at Zedad;
Num
34:9 and the border shall go forth to Ziphron, and the goings out of
it shall be at Hazar Enan: this shall be your north border.
Num
34:10 You shall mark out your east border from Hazar Enan to
Shepham;
Num
34:11 and the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the
east side of Ain; and the border shall go down, and shall reach to
the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward;
Num
34:12 and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and the goings out
of it shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to
its borders around it.
Num
34:13 Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the
land which you shall inherit by lot, which Yahweh has commanded to
give to the nine tribes, and to the half-tribe;
Num
34:14 for the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their
fathers' houses, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to
their fathers' houses, have received, and the half-tribe of Manasseh
have received, their inheritance:
Num
34:15 the two tribes and the half-tribe have received their
inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the
sunrise.
Num
34:16 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Num
34:17 These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to
you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Num
34:18 You shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land
for inheritance.
Num
34:19 These are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb
the son of Jephunneh.
Num
34:20 Of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of
Ammihud.
Num
34:21 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.
Num
34:22 Of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki the son of
Jogli.
Num
34:23 Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children of
Manasseh a prince, Hanniel the son of Ephod.
Num
34:24 Of the tribe of the children of Ephraim a prince, Kemuel the
son of Shiphtan.
Num
34:25 Of the tribe of the children of Zebulun a prince, Elizaphan
the son of Parnach.
Num
34:26 Of the tribe of the children of Issachar a prince, Paltiel the
son of Azzan.
Num
34:27 Of the tribe of the children of Asher a prince, Ahihud the son
of Shelomi.
Num
34:28 Of the tribe of the children of Naphtali a prince, Pedahel the
son of Ammihud.
Num
34:29 These are they whom Yahweh commanded to divide the inheritance
to the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.
Apr.
22
Numbers
35, 36
Num
35:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at
Jericho, saying,
Num
35:2 Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites of
the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and You shall
give suburbs for the cities around them to the Levites.
Num
35:3 The cities shall they have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall
be for their livestock, and for their substance, and for all their
animals.
Num
35:4 The suburbs of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites,
shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand cubits
around it.
Num
35:5 You shall measure outside of the city for the east side two
thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for
the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two
thousand cubits, the city being in the midst. This shall be to them
the suburbs of the cities.
Num
35:6 The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be
the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to
flee to: and besides them you shall give forty-two cities.
Num
35:7 All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be
forty-eight cities together with their suburbs.
Num
35:8 Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of
the children of Israel, from the many you shall take many; and from
the few you shall take few: everyone according to his inheritance
which he inherits shall give of his cities to the Levites.
Num
35:9 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
Num
35:10 Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, When you pass
over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
Num
35:11 then you shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for
you, that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee
there.
Num
35:12 The cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that
the manslayer not die, until he stands before the congregation for
judgment.
Num
35:13 The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of
refuge.
Num
35:14 You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall
give three cities in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of
refuge.
Num
35:15 For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the
foreigner living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge;
that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
Num
35:16 But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he
died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
Num
35:17 If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may
die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put
to death.
Num
35:18 Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by
which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer
shall surely be put to death.
Num
35:19 The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death:
when he meets him, he shall put him to death.
Num
35:20 If he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait,
so that he died,
Num
35:21 or in enmity struck him with his hand, so that he died; he who
struck him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the
avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him.
Num
35:22 But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled on him
anything without lying in wait,
Num
35:23 or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and
cast it on him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither
sought his harm;
Num
35:24 then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the
avenger of blood according to these ordinances;
Num
35:25 and the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the
hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him
to his city of refuge, where he was fled: and he shall dwell therein
until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy
oil.
Num
35:26 But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of
his city of refuge, where he flees,
Num
35:27 and the avenger of blood find him outside of the border of his
city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the manslayer; he shall
not be guilty of blood,
Num
35:28 because he should have remained in his city of refuge until
the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest
the manslayer shall return into the land of his possession.
Num
35:29 These things shall be for a statute and
ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Num
35:30 Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the
mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any
person that he die.
Num
35:31 Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer
who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.
Num
35:32 You shall take no ransom for him who is fled to his city of
refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death
of the priest.
Num
35:33 So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for blood,
it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for
the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who shed it.
Num
35:34 You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, in the midst
of which I dwell: for I, Yahweh, dwell in the midst of the children
of Israel.
Num
36:1 The heads of the fathers' houses
of the family of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son
of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and
spoke before Moses, and before the princes, the heads of the fathers'
houses of
the children of Israel:
Num
36:2 and they said, Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land for
inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was
commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother
to his daughters.
Num
36:3 If they be married to any of the sons of the other
tribes of the children of Israel, then will their inheritance be
taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be added to
the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong: so will it
be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.
Num
36:4 When the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then will
their inheritance be added to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto
they shall belong: so will their inheritance be taken away from the
inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
Num
36:5 Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of
Yahweh, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks right.
Num
36:6 This is the thing which Yahweh does command concerning the
daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them be married to whom they
think best; only into the family of the tribe of their father shall
they be married.
Num
36:7 So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel remove from
tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall cleave everyone to
the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
Num
36:8 Every daughter, who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of
the children of Israel, shall be wife to one of the family of the
tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may possess every
man the inheritance of his fathers.
Num
36:9 So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe;
for the tribes of the children of Israel shall cleave everyone to his
own inheritance.
Num
36:10 Even as Yahweh commanded Moses, so did the daughters of
Zelophehad:
Num
36:11 for Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the
daughters of Zelophehad, were married to their father's brothers'
sons.
Num
36:12 They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh
the son of Joseph; and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the
family of their father.
Num
36:13 These are the commandments and the ordinances which Yahweh
commanded by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by
the Jordan at Jericho.
Apr. 21
Luke 12
Luk
12:1 Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered
together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to
tell his disciples first of all, "Beware of the yeast of the
Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Luk
12:2 But there is nothing covered up, that will not be revealed, nor
hidden, that will not be known.
Luk
12:3 Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard
in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner chambers
will be proclaimed on the housetops.
Luk
12:4 "I tell you, my friends, don't be afraid of those who kill
the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
Luk
12:5 But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him, who after
he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear
him.
Luk
12:6 "Aren't five sparrows sold for two assaria coins? Not one
of them is forgotten by God.
Luk
12:7 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore
don't be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.
Luk
12:8 "I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, him
will the Son of Man also confess before the angels of God;
Luk
12:9 but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in
the presence of the angels of God.
Luk
12:10 Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be
forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will not be
forgiven.
Luk
12:11 When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the
authorities, don't be anxious how or what you will answer, or what
you will say;
Luk
12:12 for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you
must say."
Luk
12:13 One of the multitude said to him, "Teacher, tell my
brother to divide the inheritance with me."
Luk
12:14 But he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or an
arbitrator over you?"
Luk
12:15 He said to them, "Beware! Keep yourselves from
covetousness, for a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of
the things which he possesses."
Luk
12:16 He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a
certain rich man brought forth abundantly.
Luk
12:17 He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I
don't have room to store my crops?'
Luk
12:18 He said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns,
and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my
goods.
Luk
12:19 I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up
for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry." '
Luk
12:20 "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul
is required of you. The things which you have prepared-whose will
they be?'
Luk
12:21 So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich
toward God."
Luk
12:22 He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, don't be
anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what
you will wear.
Luk
12:23 Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.
Luk
12:24 Consider the ravens: they don't sow, they don't reap, they
have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable
are you than birds!
Luk
12:25 Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height?
Luk
12:26 If then you aren't able to do even the least things, why are
you anxious about the rest?
Luk
12:27 Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don't toil, neither
do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not
arrayed like one of these.
Luk
12:28 But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which
today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will
he clothe you, O you of little faith?
Luk
12:29 Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither
be anxious.
Luk
12:30 For the nations of the world seek after all of these things,
but your Father knows that you need these things.
Luk
12:31 But seek God's Kingdom, and all these things will be added to
you.
Luk
12:32 Don't be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father's good
pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
Luk
12:33 Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make
for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a treasure in the heavens
that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.
Luk
12:34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Luk
12:35 "Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning.
Luk
12:36 Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the
marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately
open to him.
Luk
12:37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching
when he comes. Most certainly I tell you, that he will dress himself,
and make them recline, and will come and serve them.
Luk
12:38 They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch,
and finds them so.
Luk
12:39 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in
what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not
allowed his house to be broken into.
Luk
12:40 Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an
hour that you don't expect him."
Luk
12:41 Peter said to him, "Lord, are you telling this parable to
us, or to everybody?"
Luk
12:42 The Lord said, "Who then is the faithful and wise
steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them
their portion of food at the right times?
Luk
12:43 Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so when
he comes.
Luk
12:44 Truly I tell you, that he will set him over all that he has.
Luk
12:45 But if that servant says in his heart, 'My lord delays his
coming,' and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and
to eat and drink, and to be drunken,
Luk
12:46 then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn't
expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn't know, and will cut him
in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.
Luk
12:47 That servant, who knew his lord's will, and didn't prepare,
nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,
Luk
12:48 but he who didn't know, and did things worthy of stripes, will
be beaten with few stripes. To whoever much is given, of him will
much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be
asked.
Luk
12:49 "I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were
already kindled.
Luk
12:50 But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I
am until it is accomplished!
Luk
12:51 Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I
tell you, no, but rather division.
Luk
12:52 For from now on, there will be five in one house divided,
three against two, and two against three.
Luk
12:53 They will be divided, father against son, and son against
father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother;
mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law
against her mother-in-law."
Luk
12:54 He said to the multitudes also, "When you see a cloud
rising from the west, immediately you say, 'A shower is coming,' and
so it happens.
Luk
12:55 When a south wind blows, you say, 'There will be a scorching
heat,' and it happens.
Luk
12:56 You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of
the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don't interpret this
time?
Luk
12:57 Why don't you judge for yourselves what is right?
Luk
12:58 For when you are going with your adversary before the
magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest
perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the
officer, and the officer throw you into prison.
Luk
12:59 I tell you, you will by no means get out of there, until you
have paid the very last penny."
Apr.
22
Luke 13
Luk
13:1 Now there were some present at the same time who told him about
the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.
Luk
13:2 Jesus answered them, "Do you think that these Galileans
were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they
suffered such things?
Luk
13:3 I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in
the same way.
Luk
13:4 Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed
them; do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men
who dwell in Jerusalem?
Luk
13:5 I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in
the same way."
Luk
13:6 He spoke this parable. "A certain man had a fig tree
planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found
none.
Luk
13:7 He said to the vine dresser, 'Behold, these three years I have
come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down.
Why does it waste the soil?'
Luk
13:8 He answered, 'Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I dig
around it, and fertilize it.
Luk
13:9 If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it
down.' "
Luk
13:10 He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day.
Luk
13:11 Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity
eighteen years, and she was bent over, and could in no way straighten
herself up.
Luk
13:12 When Jesus saw her, he called her, and said to her, "Woman,
you are freed from your infirmity."
Luk
13:13 He laid his hands on her, and immediately she stood up
straight, and glorified God.
Luk
13:14 The ruler of the synagogue, being indignant because Jesus had
healed on the Sabbath, said to the multitude, "There are six
days in which men ought to work. Therefore come on those days and be
healed, and not on the Sabbath day!"
Luk
13:15 Therefore the Lord answered him, "You hypocrites! Doesn't
each one of you free his ox or his donkey from the stall on the
Sabbath, and lead him away to water?
Luk
13:16 Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan
had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on the
Sabbath day?"
Luk
13:17 As he said these things, all his adversaries were
disappointed, and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious
things that were done by him.
Luk
13:18 He said, "What is the Kingdom of God like? To what shall
I compare it?
Luk
13:19 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and put
in his own garden. It grew, and became a large tree, and the birds of
the sky lodged in its branches."
Luk
13:20 Again he said, "To what shall I compare the Kingdom of
God?
Luk
13:21 It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures
of flour, until it was all leavened."
Luk
13:22 He went on his way through cities and villages, teaching, and
traveling on to Jerusalem.
Luk
13:23 One said to him, "Lord, are they few who are saved?"
He said to them,
Luk
13:24 "Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell
you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.
Luk
13:25 When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut
the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door,
saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!' then he will answer and tell you,
'I don't know you or where you come from.'
Luk
13:26 Then you will begin to say, 'We ate and drank in your
presence, and you taught in our streets.'
Luk
13:27 He will say, 'I tell you, I don't know where you come from.
Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.'
Luk
13:28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets, in the Kingdom of God,
and yourselves being thrown outside.
Luk
13:29 They will come from the east, west, north, and south, and will
sit down in the Kingdom of God.
Luk
13:30 Behold, there are some who are last who will be first, and
there are some who are first who will be last."
Luk
13:31 On that same day, some Pharisees came, saying to him, "Get
out of here, and go away, for Herod wants to kill you."
Luk
13:32 He said to them, "Go and tell that fox, 'Behold, I cast
out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I
complete my mission.
Luk
13:33 Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the
next day, for it can't be that a prophet perish outside of
Jerusalem.'
Luk
13:34 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and
stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your
children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings,
and you refused!
Luk
13:35 Behold, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you
will not see me, until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name
of the Lord!' "
As
it turns out, seals (as in the animal, not the trained U.S. military
personnel), sport a remarkably well-designed feature for sensing
underwater objects: their whiskers. These little appendages that
bristle from the sides of their faces might help seals to look cute, but
they also have a far more technical purpose. Seal whiskers have been
specially designed to sense activity underwater. Reporting on recent
research, Jennifer McDermott from the Associated Press
explained how the shape and design of seal whiskers helps seals survive.
She wrote: “When a fish swims by, a hungry seal senses the wake with
its whiskers. It can tell characteristics of the fish, such as shape and
size, and track the location even when it’s murky or dark.
