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Pamela Goodman
highlighted Mark 5:1-43 ESV
And he begged him earnestly not to send them out of the country.Now a great herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside,and they begged him, saying, "Send us to the pigs; let us enter them."So he gave them permission. And the unclean spirits came out and entered the pigs; and the herd, numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the sea.The herdsmen fled and told it in the city and in the country. And people came to see what it was that had happened.And they came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed man, the one who had had the legion, sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid.And those who had seen it described to them what had happened to the demon-possessed man and to the pigs.And they began to beg Jesus to depart from their region.As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed with demons begged him that he might be with him.And he did not permit him but said to him, "Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you." They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes.And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone marveled.And when Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him, and he was beside the sea.Then came one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, and seeing him, he fell at his feetand implored him earnestly, saying, "My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well and live."And he went with him. And a great crowd followed him and thronged about him. And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years,and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse.She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment.For she said, "If I touch even his garments, I will be made well."And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease.And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit.And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned about in the crowd and said, "Who touched my garments?"And his disciples said to him, "You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you say, 'Who touched me?'"And he looked around to see who had done it.But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling and fell down before him and told him the whole truth.And he said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease."While he was still speaking, there came from the ruler's house some who said, "Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?"But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, "Do not fear, only believe."And he allowed no one to follow him except Peter and James and John the brother of James.They came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and Jesus saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly.And when he had entered, he said to them, "Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but sleeping."He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain,And they laughed at him. But he put them all outside and took the child's father and mother and those who were with him and went in where the child was.Taking her by the hand he said to her, "Talitha cumi," which means, "Little girl, I say to you, arise."And immediately the girl got up and began walking (for she was twelve years of age), and they were immediately overcome with amazement.And he strictly charged them that no one should know this, and told them to give her something to eat. for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him.Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones.And when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and fell down before him.And crying out with a loud voice, he said, "What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me."For he was saying to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!"And Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He replied, "My name is Legion, for we are many."
Oct 6
Pamela Goodman
highlighted Mark 4:1-41 ESV
And when he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.And he said to them, "To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables,so that "they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand, lest they should turn and be forgiven." And he said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?The sower sows the word.And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown: when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them.And these are the ones sown on rocky ground: the ones who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy.And they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away.And others are the ones sown among thorns. They are those who hear the word,but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land.But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold."And he said to them, "Is a lamp brought in to be put under a basket, or under a bed, and not on a stand?For nothing is hidden except to be made manifest; nor is anything secret except to come to light.If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."And he said to them, "Pay attention to what you hear: with the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and still more will be added to you.For to the one who has, more will be given, and from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away."And he said, "The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground.He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how.The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come."And he was teaching them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them:And he said, "With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it?It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth,yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and puts out large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade."With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.He did not speak to them without a parable, but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let us go across to the other side."And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him.And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling.But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, "Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?"And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, "Peace! Be still!" And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm."Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow.He said to them, "Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?"And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?" And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil.And when the sun rose, it was scorched, and since it had no root, it withered away.Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain.And other seeds fell into good soil and produced grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold."And he said, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
Oct 6
Pamela Goodman
highlighted Genesis 37:1-36 ESV
But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you?"And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind.Now his brothers went to pasture their father's flock near Shechem.And Israel said to Joseph, "Are not your brothers pasturing the flock at Shechem? Come, I will send you to them." And he said to him, "Here I am."So he said to him, "Go now, see if it is well with your brothers and with the flock, and bring me word." So he sent him from the Valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.And a man found him wandering in the fields. And the man asked him, "What are you seeking?""I am seeking my brothers," he said. "Tell me, please, where they are pasturing the flock."And the man said, "They have gone away, for I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan.'" So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.They saw him from afar, and before he came near to them they conspired against him to kill him.They said to one another, "Here comes this dreamer. Jacob lived in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of Canaan.Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. Then we will say that a fierce animal has devoured him, and we will see what will become of his dreams."But when Reuben heard it, he rescued him out of their hands, saying, "Let us not take his life."And Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood; throw him into this pit here in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him"—that he might rescue him out of their hand to restore him to his father.So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe, the robe of many colors that he wore.And they took him and threw him into a pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it.Then they sat down to eat. And looking up they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing gum, balm, and myrrh, on their way to carry it down to Egypt.Then Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our own flesh." And his brothers listened to him.Then Midianite traders passed by. And they drew Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. They took Joseph to Egypt.When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not in the pit, he tore his clothesThese are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father. and returned to his brothers and said, "The boy is gone, and I, where shall I go?"Then they took Joseph's robe and slaughtered a goat and dipped the robe in the blood.And they sent the robe of many colors and brought it to their father and said, "This we have found; please identify whether it is your son's robe or not."And he identified it and said, "It is my son's robe. A fierce animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn to pieces."Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, "No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning." Thus his father wept for him.Meanwhile the Midianites had sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard. Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors.But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him.Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they hated him even more.He said to them, "Hear this dream that I have dreamed:Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and stood upright. And behold, your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf."His brothers said to him, "Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to rule over us?" So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.Then he dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and said, "Behold, I have dreamed another dream. Behold, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me."
Oct 5
Pamela Goodman
highlighted Genesis 36:1-43 ESV
These are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Basemath the wife of Esau.The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz.(Timna was a concubine of Eliphaz, Esau's son; she bore Amalek to Eliphaz.) These are the sons of Adah, Esau's wife.These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These are the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife.These are the sons of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: she bore to Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau. The sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: the chiefs Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,Korah, Gatam, and Amalek; these are the chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Adah.These are the sons of Reuel, Esau's son: the chiefs Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah; these are the chiefs of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife.These are the sons of Oholibamah, Esau's wife: the chiefs Jeush, Jalam, and Korah; these are the chiefs born of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.These are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these are their chiefs. These are the generations of Esau (that is, Edom).These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan; these are the chiefs of the Horites, the sons of Seir in the land of Edom.The sons of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan's sister was Timna.These are the sons of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.These are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah; he is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he pastured the donkeys of Zibeon his father.These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah.These are the sons of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.These are the sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.These are the sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.These are the chiefs of the Horites: the chiefs Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,Esau took his wives from the Canaanites: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite,Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan; these are the chiefs of the Horites, chief by chief in the land of Seir.These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the Israelites.Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom, the name of his city being Dinhabah.Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his place.Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, reigned in his place, the name of his city being Avith.Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth on the Euphrates reigned in his place.Shaul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his place.Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place, the name of his city being Pau; his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, daughter of Mezahab.and Basemath, Ishmael's daughter, the sister of Nebaioth.These are the names of the chiefs of Esau, according to their clans and their dwelling places, by their names: the chiefs Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon,Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,Magdiel, and Iram; these are the chiefs of Edom (that is, Esau, the father of Edom), according to their dwelling places in the land of their possession. And Adah bore to Esau, Eliphaz; Basemath bore Reuel;and Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan.Then Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, his livestock, all his beasts, and all his property that he had acquired in the land of Canaan. He went into a land away from his brother Jacob.For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together. The land of their sojournings could not support them because of their livestock.So Esau settled in the hill country of Seir. (Esau is Edom.)These are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir.
Oct 5
Pamela Goodman
highlighted Genesis 35:1-29 ESV
And God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; no longer shall your name be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name." So he called his name Israel.And God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your offspring after you."Then God went up from him in the place where he had spoken with him.And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had spoken with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it and poured oil on it.So Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.Then they journeyed from Bethel. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor, and she had hard labor.And when her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her, "Do not fear, for you have another son."And as her soul was departing (for she was dying), she called his name Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin.So Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem), God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau."and Jacob set up a pillar over her tomb. It is the pillar of Rachel's tomb, which is there to this day.Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder.While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine. And Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve. The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's servant: Dan and Naphtali.The sons of Zilpah, Leah's servant: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.Now the days of Isaac were 180 years.And Isaac breathed his last, and he died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him. So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you and purify yourselves and change your garments.Then let us arise and go up to Bethel, so that I may make there an altar to the God who answers me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone."So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had, and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob hid them under the terebinth tree that was near Shechem.And as they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities that were around them, so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.And Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him,and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.And Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel. So he called its name Allon-bacuth.God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.
Oct 5
Pamela Goodman
highlighted Mark 3:1-35 ESV
for he had healed many, so that all who had diseases pressed around him to touch him.And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, "You are the Son of God."And he strictly ordered them not to make him known.And he went up on the mountain and called to him those whom he desired, and they came to him.And he appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might be with him and he might send them out to preachand have authority to cast out demons.He appointed the twelve: Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter);James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder);Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot,and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there with a withered hand.Then he went home, and the crowd gathered again, so that they could not even eat.And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, "He is out of his mind."And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, "He is possessed by Beelzebul," and "by the prince of demons he casts out the demons."And he called them to him and said to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan?If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but is coming to an end.But no one can enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. Then indeed he may plunder his house."Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the children of man, and whatever blasphemies they utter,but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin"—And they watched Jesus, to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him.for they were saying, "He has an unclean spirit."And his mother and his brothers came, and standing outside they sent to him and called him.And a crowd was sitting around him, and they said to him, "Your mother and your brothers are outside, seeking you."And he answered them, "Who are my mother and my brothers?"And looking about at those who sat around him, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers!For whoever does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother." And he said to the man with the withered hand, "Come here."And he said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?" But they were silent.And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.The Pharisees went out and immediately held counsel with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judeaand Jerusalem and Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him.And he told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they crush him,
Oct 5
Pamela Goodman
highlighted Mark 2:1-28 ESV
But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"—he said to the paralytic—"I say to you, rise, pick up your bed, and go home."And he rose and immediately picked up his bed and went out before them all, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, "We never saw anything like this!"He went out again beside the sea, and all the crowd was coming to him, and he was teaching them.And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, "Follow me." And he rose and followed him.And as he reclined at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners were reclining with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who followed him.And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, "Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?"And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners."Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?"And Jesus said to them, "Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. And when he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home.The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made.And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins—and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins."One Sabbath he was going through the grainfields, and as they made their way, his disciples began to pluck heads of grain.And the Pharisees were saying to him, "Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?"And he said to them, "Have you never read what David did, when he was in need and was hungry, he and those who were with him:how he entered the house of God, in the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those who were with him?"And he said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath." And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door. And he was preaching the word to them.And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men.And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay.And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven."Now some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts,"Why does this man speak like that? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?"And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves, said to them, "Why do you question these things in your hearts?Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Rise, take up your bed and walk'?
Oct 5
Pamela Goodman
highlighted Mark 1:1-45 ESV
And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.And a voice came from heaven, "You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased."The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness.And he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. And he was with the wild animals, and the angels were ministering to him.Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God,and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel."Passing alongside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.And Jesus said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men."And immediately they left their nets and followed him.And going on a little farther, he saw James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, who were in their boat mending the nets. The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.And immediately he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants and followed him.And they went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath he entered the synagogue and was teaching.And they were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as the scribes.And immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit. And he cried out,"What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God."But Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be silent, and come out of him!"And the unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying out with a loud voice, came out of him.And they were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, "What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him."And at once his fame spread everywhere throughout all the surrounding region of Galilee.And immediately he left the synagogue and entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, "Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way, Now Simon's mother-in-law lay ill with a fever, and immediately they told him about her.And he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up, and the fever left her, and she began to serve them.That evening at sundown they brought to him all who were sick or oppressed by demons.And the whole city was gathered together at the door.And he healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons. And he would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him.And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed.And Simon and those who were with him searched for him,and they found him and said to him, "Everyone is looking for you."And he said to them, "Let us go on to the next towns, that I may preach there also, for that is why I came out."And he went throughout all Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and casting out demons. the voice of one crying in the wilderness: 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,'" And a leper came to him, imploring him, and kneeling said to him, "If you will, you can make me clean."Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, "I will; be clean."And immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean.And Jesus sternly charged him and sent him away at once,and said to him, "See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, for a proof to them."But he went out and began to talk freely about it, and to spread the news, so that Jesus could no longer openly enter a town, but was out in desolate places, and people were coming to him from every quarter. John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.Now John was clothed with camel's hair and wore a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey.And he preached, saying, "After me comes he who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie.I have baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit."In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.
Oct 5
Pamela Goodman
highlighted Matthew 28:1-15 ESV
Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid; go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee, and there they will see me."While they were going, behold, some of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests all that had taken place.And when they had assembled with the elders and taken counsel, they gave a sufficient sum of money to the soldiersand said, "Tell people, 'His disciples came by night and stole him away while we were asleep.'And if this comes to the governor's ears, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble."So they took the money and did as they were directed. And this story has been spread among the Jews to this day. Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb.And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat on it.His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow.And for fear of him the guards trembled and became like dead men.But the angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified.He is not here, for he has risen, as he said. Come, see the place where he lay.Then go quickly and tell his disciples that he has risen from the dead, and behold, he is going before you to Galilee; there you will see him. See, I have told you."So they departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to tell his disciples.And behold, Jesus met them and said, "Greetings!" And they came up and took hold of his feet and worshiped him.
Oct 5
Pamela Goodman
highlighted Matthew 27:47-66 ESV
And some of the bystanders, hearing it, said, "This man is calling Elijah."And one of them at once ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour wine, and put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink.But the others said, "Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to save him."And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit.And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split.The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised,and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many.When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe and said, "Truly this was the Son of God!"There were also many women there, looking on from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him,among whom were Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Joseph and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also was a disciple of Jesus.He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him.And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen shroudand laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock. And he rolled a great stone to the entrance of the tomb and went away.Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there, sitting opposite the tomb.The next day, that is, after the day of Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilateand said, "Sir, we remember how that impostor said, while he was still alive, 'After three days I will rise.'Therefore order the tomb to be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples go and steal him away and tell the people, 'He has risen from the dead,' and the last fraud will be worse than the first."Pilate said to them, "You have a guard of soldiers. Go, make it as secure as you can."So they went and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone and setting a guard.
Oct 5
Pamela Goodman
highlighted Matthew 27:1-46 ESV
and they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord directed me."Now Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" Jesus said, "You have said so."But when he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he gave no answer.Then Pilate said to him, "Do you not hear how many things they testify against you?"But he gave him no answer, not even to a single charge, so that the governor was greatly amazed.Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release for the crowd any one prisoner whom they wanted.And they had then a notorious prisoner called Barabbas.So when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release for you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?"For he knew that it was out of envy that they had delivered him up.Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, "Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much because of him today in a dream." When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death.Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus.The governor again said to them, "Which of the two do you want me to release for you?" And they said, "Barabbas."Pilate said to them, "Then what shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?" They all said, "Let him be crucified!"And he said, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they shouted all the more, "Let him be crucified!"So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of this man's blood; see to it yourselves."And all the people answered, "His blood be on us and on our children!"Then he released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, delivered him to be crucified.Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor's headquarters, and they gathered the whole battalion before him.And they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him,and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on his head and put a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!"And they bound him and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate the governor.And they spit on him and took the reed and struck him on the head.And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes on him and led him away to crucify him.As they went out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name. They compelled this man to carry his cross.And when they came to a place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull),they offered him wine to drink, mixed with gall, but when he tasted it, he would not drink it.And when they had crucified him, they divided his garments among them by casting lots.Then they sat down and kept watch over him there.And over his head they put the charge against him, which read, "This is Jesus, the King of the Jews."Then two robbers were crucified with him, one on the right and one on the left.And those who passed by derided him, wagging their headsThen when Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he changed his mind and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders,and saying, "You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross."So also the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, mocked him, saying,"He saved others; he cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him.He trusts in God; let God deliver him now, if he desires him. For he said, 'I am the Son of God.'"And the robbers who were crucified with him also reviled him in the same way.Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?" that is, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"saying, "I have sinned by betraying innocent blood." They said, "What is that to us? See to it yourself."And throwing down the pieces of silver into the temple, he departed, and he went and hanged himself.But the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, "It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is blood money."So they took counsel and bought with them the potter's field as a burial place for strangers.Therefore that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.Then was fulfilled what had been spoken by the prophet Jeremiah, saying, "And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him on whom a price had been set by some of the sons of Israel,
Oct 5
Pamela Goodman
highlighted Genesis 34:1-31 ESV
You shall dwell with us, and the land shall be open to you. Dwell and trade in it, and get property in it."Shechem also said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you say to me I will give.Ask me for as great a bride price and gift as you will, and I will give whatever you say to me. Only give me the young woman to be my wife."The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully, because he had defiled their sister Dinah.They said to them, "We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a disgrace to us.Only on this condition will we agree with you—that you will become as we are by every male among you being circumcised.Then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to ourselves, and we will dwell with you and become one people.But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter, and we will be gone."Their words pleased Hamor and Hamor's son Shechem.And the young man did not delay to do the thing, because he delighted in Jacob's daughter. Now he was the most honored of all his father's house. Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the women of the land.So Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying,"These men are at peace with us; let them dwell in the land and trade in it, for behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters as wives, and let us give them our daughters.Only on this condition will the men agree to dwell with us to become one people—when every male among us is circumcised as they are circumcised.Will not their livestock, their property and all their beasts be ours? Only let us agree with them, and they will dwell with us."And all who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.On the third day, when they were sore, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords and came against the city while it felt secure and killed all the males.They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword and took Dinah out of Shechem's house and went away.The sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.They took their flocks and their herds, their donkeys, and whatever was in the city and in the field.All their wealth, all their little ones and their wives, all that was in the houses, they captured and plundered.And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he seized her and lay with her and humiliated her.Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought trouble on me by making me stink to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. My numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household."But they said, "Should he treat our sister like a prostitute?" And his soul was drawn to Dinah the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her.So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, "Get me this girl for my wife."Now Jacob heard that he had defiled his daughter Dinah. But his sons were with his livestock in the field, so Jacob held his peace until they came.And Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him.The sons of Jacob had come in from the field as soon as they heard of it, and the men were indignant and very angry, because he had done an outrageous thing in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, for such a thing must not be done.But Hamor spoke with them, saying, "The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him to be his wife.Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
Oct 5
Pamela Goodman
highlighted Genesis 33:1-20 ESV
Jacob said, "No, please, if I have found favor in your sight, then accept my present from my hand. For I have seen your face, which is like seeing the face of God, and you have accepted me.Please accept my blessing that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." Thus he urged him, and he took it.Then Esau said, "Let us journey on our way, and I will go ahead of you."But Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are frail, and that the nursing flocks and herds are a care to me. If they are driven hard for one day, all the flocks will die.Let my lord pass on ahead of his servant, and I will lead on slowly, at the pace of the livestock that are ahead of me and at the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir."So Esau said, "Let me leave with you some of the people who are with me." But he said, "What need is there? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.But Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built himself a house and made booths for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.And Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, on his way from Paddan-aram, and he camped before the city.And from the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, he bought for a hundred pieces of money the piece of land on which he had pitched his tent. And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two female servants.There he erected an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel. And he put the servants with their children in front, then Leah with her children, and Rachel and Joseph last of all.He himself went on before them, bowing himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.But Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.And when Esau lifted up his eyes and saw the women and children, he said, "Who are these with you?" Jacob said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."Then the servants drew near, they and their children, and bowed down.Leah likewise and her children drew near and bowed down. And last Joseph and Rachel drew near, and they bowed down.Esau said, "What do you mean by all this company that I met?" Jacob answered, "To find favor in the sight of my lord."But Esau said, "I have enough, my brother; keep what you have for yourself."
Oct 5
Pamela Goodman
highlighted Genesis 32:1-32 ESV
I am not worthy of the least of all the deeds of steadfast love and all the faithfulness that you have shown to your servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, that he may come and attack me, the mothers with the children.But you said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.'"So he stayed there that night, and from what he had with him he took a present for his brother Esau,two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,thirty milking camels and their calves, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.These he handed over to his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass on ahead of me and put a space between drove and drove."He instructed the first, "When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, 'To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose are these ahead of you?'then you shall say, 'They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a present sent to my lord Esau. And moreover, he is behind us.'"He likewise instructed the second and the third and all who followed the droves, "You shall say the same thing to Esau when you find him, Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.and you shall say, 'Moreover, your servant Jacob is behind us.'" For he thought, "I may appease him with the present that goes ahead of me, and afterward I shall see his face. Perhaps he will accept me."So the present passed on ahead of him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp.The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.He took them and sent them across the stream, and everything else that he had.And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day.When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob's hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him.Then he said, "Let me go, for the day has broken." But Jacob said, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."And he said to him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Jacob."Then he said, "Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed."Then Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." But he said, "Why is it that you ask my name?" And there he blessed him.And when Jacob saw them he said, "This is God's camp!" So he called the name of that place Mahanaim.So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered."The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, limping because of his hip.Therefore to this day the people of Israel do not eat the sinew of the thigh that is on the hip socket, because he touched the socket of Jacob's hip on the sinew of the thigh. And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of Seir, the country of Edom,instructing them, "Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: Thus says your servant Jacob, 'I have sojourned with Laban and stayed until now.I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, in order that I may find favor in your sight.'"And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau, and he is coming to meet you, and there are four hundred men with him."Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two camps,thinking, "If Esau comes to the one camp and attacks it, then the camp that is left will escape."And Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Lord who said to me, 'Return to your country and to your kindred, that I may do you good,'
Oct 5
Pamela Goodman
highlighted Matthew 26:36-75 ESV
Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, "Sit here, while I go over there and pray."And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled.Then he said to them, "My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me."And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will."And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. And he said to Peter, "So, could you not watch with me one hour?Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."Again, for the second time, he went away and prayed, "My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done."And again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.So, leaving them again, he went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same words again.Then he came to the disciples and said to them, "Sleep and take your rest later on. See, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.Rise, let us be going; see, my betrayer is at hand."While he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a great crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the elders of the people.Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, "The one I will kiss is the man; seize him."And he came up to Jesus at once and said, "Greetings, Rabbi!" And he kissed him.Jesus said to him, "Friend, do what you came to do." Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and seized him.And behold, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his ear.Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place. For all who take the sword will perish by the sword.Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?But how then should the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?"At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, "Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to capture me? Day after day I sat in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me.But all this has taken place that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples left him and fled.Then those who had seized Jesus led him to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had gathered.And Peter was following him at a distance, as far as the courtyard of the high priest, and going inside he sat with the guards to see the end.Now the chief priests and the whole council were seeking false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death,but they found none, though many false witnesses came forward. At last two came forwardand said, "This man said, 'I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to rebuild it in three days.'"And the high priest stood up and said, "Have you no answer to make? What is it that these men testify against you?"But Jesus remained silent. And the high priest said to him, "I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God."Jesus said to him, "You have said so. But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven."Then the high priest tore his robes and said, "He has uttered blasphemy. What further witnesses do we need? You have now heard his blasphemy.What is your judgment?" They answered, "He deserves death."Then they spit in his face and struck him. And some slapped him,saying, "Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who is it that struck you?"Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. And a servant girl came up to him and said, "You also were with Jesus the Galilean."But he denied it before them all, saying, "I do not know what you mean."And when he went out to the entrance, another servant girl saw him, and she said to the bystanders, "This man was with Jesus of Nazareth."And again he denied it with an oath: "I do not know the man."After a little while the bystanders came up and said to Peter, "Certainly you too are one of them, for your accent betrays you."Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, "I do not know the man." And immediately the rooster crowed.And Peter remembered the saying of Jesus, "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times." And he went out and wept bitterly.
Oct 4
Pamela Goodman
highlighted Matthew 26:1-25 ESV
But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, "Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me.For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial.Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her."Then one of the twelve, whose name was Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priestsand said, "What will you give me if I deliver him over to you?" And they paid him thirty pieces of silver.And from that moment he sought an opportunity to betray him.Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, "Where will you have us prepare for you to eat the Passover?"He said, "Go into the city to a certain man and say to him, 'The Teacher says, My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.'"And the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the Passover. When Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples,When it was evening, he reclined at table with the twelve.And as they were eating, he said, "Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me."And they were very sorrowful and began to say to him one after another, "Is it I, Lord?"He answered, "He who has dipped his hand in the dish with me will betray me.The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born."Judas, who would betray him, answered, "Is it I, Rabbi?" He said to him, "You have said so.""You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified."Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,and plotted together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.But they said, "Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar among the people."Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table.And when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, "Why this waste?For this could have been sold for a large sum and given to the poor."
Oct 4
Pamela Goodman
highlighted Matthew 25:1-46 ESV
And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, 'Lord, lord, open to us.'But he answered, 'Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.'Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour."For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property.To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away.He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more.So also he who had the two talents made two talents more.But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money.Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. "Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom.And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, 'Master, you delivered to me five talents; here I have made five talents more.'His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.'And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, 'Master, you delivered to me two talents; here I have made two talents more.'His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.'He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, 'Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed,so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.'But his master answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed?Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest.So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents.For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'"When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left.Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.'Then the righteous will answer him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink?And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you?And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?'For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them,And the King will answer them, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.'"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink,I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.'Then they also will answer, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?'Then he will answer them, saying, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.'And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life." but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps.As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept.But at midnight there was a cry, 'Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.'Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps.And the foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.'But the wise answered, saying, 'Since there will not be enough for us and for you, go rather to the dealers and buy for yourselves.'
Oct 4
Pamela Goodman
highlighted Genesis 31:1-55 ESV
In the breeding season of the flock I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream that the goats that mated with the flock were striped, spotted, and mottled.Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, 'Here I am!'And he said, 'Lift up your eyes and see, all the goats that mate with the flock are striped, spotted, and mottled, for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now arise, go out from this land and return to the land of your kindred.'"Then Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, "Is there any portion or inheritance left to us in our father's house?Are we not regarded by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and he has indeed devoured our money.All the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do."So Jacob arose and set his sons and his wives on camels.He drove away all his livestock, all his property that he had gained, the livestock in his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to the land of Canaan to his father Isaac.Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's household gods. Now Jacob heard that the sons of Laban were saying, "Jacob has taken all that was our father's, and from what was our father's he has gained all this wealth."And Jacob tricked Laban the Aramean, by not telling him that he intended to flee.He fled with all that he had and arose and crossed the Euphrates, and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.When it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled,he took his kinsmen with him and pursued him for seven days and followed close after him into the hill country of Gilead.But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream by night and said to him, "Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad."And Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban with his kinsmen pitched tents in the hill country of Gilead.And Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have tricked me and driven away my daughters like captives of the sword?Why did you flee secretly and trick me, and did not tell me, so that I might have sent you away with mirth and songs, with tambourine and lyre?And why did you not permit me to kiss my sons and my daughters farewell? Now you have done foolishly.It is in my power to do you harm. But the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.'And Jacob saw that Laban did not regard him with favor as before.And now you have gone away because you longed greatly for your father's house, but why did you steal my gods?"Jacob answered and said to Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force.Anyone with whom you find your gods shall not live. In the presence of our kinsmen point out what I have that is yours, and take it." Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.So Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent and into the tent of the two female servants, but he did not find them. And he went out of Leah's tent and entered Rachel's.Now Rachel had taken the household gods and put them in the camel's saddle and sat on them. Laban felt all about the tent, but did not find them.And she said to her father, "Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the way of women is upon me." So he searched but did not find the household gods.Then Jacob became angry and berated Laban. Jacob said to Laban, "What is my offense? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?For you have felt through all my goods; what have you found of all your household goods? Set it here before my kinsmen and your kinsmen, that they may decide between us two.These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams of your flocks.What was torn by wild beasts I did not bring to you. I bore the loss of it myself. From my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.Then the Lord said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you."There I was: by day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my affliction and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night."Then Laban answered and said to Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day for these my daughters or for their children whom they have borne?Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I. And let it be a witness between you and me."So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.And Jacob said to his kinsmen, "Gather stones." And they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there by the heap.Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.Laban said, "This heap is a witness between you and me today." Therefore he named it Galeed,and Mizpah, for he said, "The Lord watch between you and me, when we are out of one another's sight.So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah into the field where his flock wasIf you oppress my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no one is with us, see, God is witness between you and me."Then Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap and the pillar, which I have set between you and me.This heap is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, to do harm.The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac,and Jacob offered a sacrifice in the hill country and called his kinsmen to eat bread. They ate bread and spent the night in the hill country. Early in the morning Laban arose and kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them. Then Laban departed and returned home. and said to them, "I see that your father does not regard me with favor as he did before. But the God of my father has been with me.You know that I have served your father with all my strength,yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times. But God did not permit him to harm me.If he said, 'The spotted shall be your wages,' then all the flock bore spotted; and if he said, 'The striped shall be your wages,' then all the flock bore striped.Thus God has taken away the livestock of your father and given them to me.
Oct 4
Pamela Goodman
highlighted Genesis 30:1-43 ESV
Then Leah's servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.And Leah said, "Good fortune has come!" so she called his name Gad.Leah's servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.And Leah said, "Happy am I! For women have called me happy." So she called his name Asher.In the days of wheat harvest Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."But she said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes also?" Rachel said, "Then he may lie with you tonight in exchange for your son's mandrakes."When Jacob came from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, "You must come in to me, for I have hired you with my son's mandrakes." So he lay with her that night.And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.Leah said, "God has given me my wages because I gave my servant to my husband." So she called his name Issachar.And Leah conceived again, and she bore Jacob a sixth son. When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I shall die!"Then Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good endowment; now my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons." So she called his name Zebulun.Afterward she bore a daughter and called her name Dinah.Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb.She conceived and bore a son and said, "God has taken away my reproach."And she called his name Joseph, saying, "May the Lord add to me another son!"As soon as Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own home and country.Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, that I may go, for you know the service that I have given you."But Laban said to him, "If I have found favor in your sight, I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you.Name your wages, and I will give it."Jacob said to him, "You yourself know how I have served you, and how your livestock has fared with me.Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"For you had little before I came, and it has increased abundantly, and the Lord has blessed you wherever I turned. But now when shall I provide for my own household also?"He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this for me, I will again pasture your flock and keep it:let me pass through all your flock today, removing from it every speckled and spotted sheep and every black lamb, and the spotted and speckled among the goats, and they shall be my wages.So my honesty will answer for me later, when you come to look into my wages with you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the lambs, if found with me, shall be counted stolen."Laban said, "Good! Let it be as you have said."But that day Laban removed the male goats that were striped and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white on it, and every lamb that was black, and put them in the charge of his sons.And he set a distance of three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob pastured the rest of Laban's flock.Then Jacob took fresh sticks of poplar and almond and plane trees, and peeled white streaks in them, exposing the white of the sticks.He set the sticks that he had peeled in front of the flocks in the troughs, that is, the watering places, where the flocks came to drink. And since they bred when they came to drink,the flocks bred in front of the sticks and so the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.Then she said, "Here is my servant Bilhah; go in to her, so that she may give birth on my behalf, that even I may have children through her."And Jacob separated the lambs and set the faces of the flocks toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban. He put his own droves apart and did not put them with Laban's flock.Whenever the stronger of the flock were breeding, Jacob would lay the sticks in the troughs before the eyes of the flock, that they might breed among the sticks,but for the feebler of the flock he would not lay them there. So the feebler would be Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.Thus the man increased greatly and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys. So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.Then Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice and given me a son." Therefore she called his name Dan.Rachel's servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.Then Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister and have prevailed." So she called his name Naphtali.When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
Oct 4
Pamela Goodman
highlighted Matthew 24:1-51 ESV
And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another.And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.But the one who endures to the end will be saved.And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come."So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.Let the one who is on the housetop not go down to take what is in his house,and let the one who is in the field not turn back to take his cloak.And alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple.Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath.For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.Then if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or 'There he is!' do not believe it.For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.See, I have told you beforehand.So, if they say to you, 'Look, he is in the wilderness,' do not go out. If they say, 'Look, he is in the inner rooms,' do not believe it.For as the lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather."Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.But he answered them, "You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down."Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other."From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near.So also, when you see all these things, you know that he is near, at the very gates.Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away."But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark,and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?"Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left.Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one left.Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into.Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect."Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time?Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes.Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions.But if that wicked servant says to himself, 'My master is delayed,'and begins to beat his fellow servants and eats and drinks with drunkards,And Jesus answered them, "See that no one leads you astray.the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not knowand will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and they will lead many astray.And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.All these are but the beginning of the birth pains."Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.
Oct 4