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highlighted Psalms 69:1-18 ESV
When I wept and humbled my soul with fasting, it became my reproach. When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them. I am the talk of those who sit in the gate, and the drunkards make songs about me. But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Lord. At an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness. Deliver me from sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters. Let not the flood sweep over me, or the deep swallow me up, or the pit close its mouth over me. Answer me, O Lord, for your steadfast love is good; according to your abundant mercy, turn to me. Hide not your face from your servant; for I am in distress; make haste to answer me. Draw near to my soul, redeem me; ransom me because of my enemies! To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. Of David. Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck. I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me. I am weary with my crying out; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God. More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. What I did not steal must I now restore? O God, you know my folly; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you. Let not those who hope in you be put to shame through me, O Lord God of hosts; let not those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel. For it is for your sake that I have borne reproach, that dishonor has covered my face. I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's sons. For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
Mar 31
Tc Moore1
highlighted John 9:1-41 ESV
So they said to him, "Then how were your eyes opened?"He answered, "The man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash.' So I went and washed and received my sight."They said to him, "Where is he?" He said, "I do not know."They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind.Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.So the Pharisees again asked him how he had received his sight. And he said to them, "He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see."Some of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" And there was a division among them.So they said again to the blind man, "What do you say about him, since he has opened your eyes?" He said, "He is a prophet."The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sightand asked them, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?" As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.His parents answered, "We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.But how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself."(His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should confess Jesus to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.)Therefore his parents said, "He is of age; ask him."So for the second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him, "Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner."He answered, "Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see."They said to him, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?"He answered them, "I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?"And they reviled him, saying, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he comes from."And his disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"The man answered, "Why, this is an amazing thing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes.We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind.If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."They answered him, "You were born in utter sin, and would you teach us?" And they cast him out.Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"He answered, "And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?"Jesus said to him, "You have seen him, and it is he who is speaking to you."He said, "Lord, I believe," and he worshiped him.Jesus said, "For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind."Jesus answered, "It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, "Are we also blind?"Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, 'We see,' your guilt remains. We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."Having said these things, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man's eyes with the mudand said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing.The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?"Some said, "It is he." Others said, "No, but he is like him." He kept saying, "I am the man."
Mar 30
Tc Moore1
highlighted John 8:1-59 ESV
Jesus stood up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"She said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more."]]Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."So the Pharisees said to him, "You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true."Jesus answered, "Even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.In your Law it is written that the testimony of two people is true.I am the one who bears witness about myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness about me."They said to him therefore, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also." but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.These words he spoke in the treasury, as he taught in the temple; but no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.So he said to them again, "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come."So the Jews said, "Will he kill himself, since he says, 'Where I am going, you cannot come'?"He said to them, "You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins."So they said to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "Just what I have been telling you from the beginning.I have much to say about you and much to judge, but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him."They did not understand that he had been speaking to them about the Father.So Jesus said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me.And he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him."Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them.As he was saying these things, many believed in him.So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, "If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."They answered him, "We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, 'You will become free'?"Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin.The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever.So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet you seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you.I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard from your father."They answered him, "Abraham is our father." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing the works Abraham did,The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midstbut now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.You are doing the works your father did." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father—even God."Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God."The Jews answered him, "Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?"Jesus answered, "I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.they said to him, "Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery.Yet I do not seek my own glory; there is One who seeks it, and he is the judge.Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death."The Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet you say, 'If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.'Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died! Who do you make yourself out to be?"Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, 'He is our God.'But you have not known him. I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and I keep his word.Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad."So the Jews said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?"Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am."So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple. Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?"This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, "Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her."And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground.But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.
Mar 29
Tc Moore1
highlighted Psalms 68:1-35 ESV
your flock found a dwelling in it; in your goodness, O God, you provided for the needy. The Lord gives the word; the women who announce the news are a great host: "The kings of the armies—they flee, they flee!" The women at home divide the spoil— though you men lie among the sheepfolds— the wings of a dove covered with silver, its pinions with shimmering gold. When the Almighty scatters kings there, let snow fall on Zalmon. O mountain of God, mountain of Bashan; O many-peaked mountain, mountain of Bashan! Why do you look with hatred, O many-peaked mountain, at the mount that God desired for his abode, yes, where the Lord will dwell forever? The chariots of God are twice ten thousand, thousands upon thousands; the Lord is among them; Sinai is now in the sanctuary. You ascended on high, leading a host of captives in your train and receiving gifts among men, even among the rebellious, that the Lord God may dwell there. Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears us up; God is our salvation. Selah To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A Song. God shall arise, his enemies shall be scattered; and those who hate him shall flee before him! Our God is a God of salvation, and to God, the Lord, belong deliverances from death. But God will strike the heads of his enemies, the hairy crown of him who walks in his guilty ways. The Lord said, "I will bring them back from Bashan, I will bring them back from the depths of the sea, that you may strike your feet in their blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from the foe." Your procession is seen, O God, the procession of my God, my King, into the sanctuary— the singers in front, the musicians last, between them virgins playing tambourines: "Bless God in the great congregation, the Lord, O you who are of Israel's fountain!" There is Benjamin, the least of them, in the lead, the princes of Judah in their throng, the princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali. Summon your power, O God, the power, O God, by which you have worked for us. Because of your temple at Jerusalem kings shall bear gifts to you. As smoke is driven away, so you shall drive them away; as wax melts before fire, so the wicked shall perish before God! Rebuke the beasts that dwell among the reeds, the herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples. Trample underfoot those who lust after tribute; scatter the peoples who delight in war. Nobles shall come from Egypt; Cush shall hasten to stretch out her hands to God. O kingdoms of the earth, sing to God; sing praises to the Lord, Selah to him who rides in the heavens, the ancient heavens; behold, he sends out his voice, his mighty voice. Ascribe power to God, whose majesty is over Israel, and whose power is in the skies. Awesome is God from his sanctuary; the God of Israel—he is the one who gives power and strength to his people. Blessed be God! But the righteous shall be glad; they shall exult before God; they shall be jubilant with joy! Sing to God, sing praises to his name; lift up a song to him who rides through the deserts; his name is the Lord; exult before him! Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation. God settles the solitary in a home; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land. O God, when you went out before your people, when you marched through the wilderness, Selah the earth quaked, the heavens poured down rain, before God, the One of Sinai, before God, the God of Israel. Rain in abundance, O God, you shed abroad; you restored your inheritance as it languished;
Mar 29
Tc Moore1
highlighted John 7:1-53 ESV
But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in private.The Jews were looking for him at the feast, and saying, "Where is he?"And there was much muttering about him among the people. While some said, "He is a good man," others said, "No, he is leading the people astray."Yet for fear of the Jews no one spoke openly of him.About the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and began teaching.The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied?"So Jesus answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.If anyone's will is to do God's will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority.The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?" After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.The crowd answered, "You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?"Jesus answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel at it.Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man's whole body well?Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment."Some of the people of Jerusalem therefore said, "Is not this the man whom they seek to kill?And here he is, speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Christ?But we know where this man comes from, and when the Christ appears, no one will know where he comes from."So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, "You know me, and you know where I come from. But I have not come of my own accord. He who sent me is true, and him you do not know.I know him, for I come from him, and he sent me."Now the Jews' Feast of Booths was at hand.So they were seeking to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.Yet many of the people believed in him. They said, "When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?"The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.Jesus then said, "I will be with you a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me.You will seek me and you will not find me. Where I am you cannot come."The Jews said to one another, "Where does this man intend to go that we will not find him? Does he intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?What does he mean by saying, 'You will seek me and you will not find me,' and, 'Where I am you cannot come'?"On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, 'Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.'"Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.So his brothers said to him, "Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing.When they heard these words, some of the people said, "This really is the Prophet."Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "Is the Christ to come from Galilee?Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"So there was a division among the people over him.Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, "Why did you not bring him?"The officers answered, "No one ever spoke like this man!"The Pharisees answered them, "Have you also been deceived?Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him?But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed."For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world."Nicodemus, who had gone to him before, and who was one of them, said to them,"Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?"They replied, "Are you from Galilee too? Search and see that no prophet arises from Galilee."[[They went each to his own house, For not even his brothers believed in him.Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.You go up to the feast. I am not going up to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come."After saying this, he remained in Galilee.
Mar 28
Tc Moore1
highlighted Psalms 67:1-7 ESV
To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm. A Song. May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, Selah that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations. Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you! Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. Selah Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you! The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, shall bless us. God shall bless us; let all the ends of the earth fear him!
Mar 28
Tc Moore1
highlighted John 6:1-71 ESV
Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, about five thousand in number.Jesus then took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated. So also the fish, as much as they wanted.And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, "Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost."So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves left by those who had eaten.When the people saw the sign that he had done, they said, "This is indeed the Prophet who is to come into the world!"Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself.When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea,got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.The sea became rough because a strong wind was blowing.When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were frightened. After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias.But he said to them, "It is I; do not be afraid."Then they were glad to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going.On the next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone.Other boats from Tiberias came near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, "Rabbi, when did you come here?"Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves.Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal."Then they said to him, "What must we do, to be doing the works of God?"Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent."And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick.So they said to him, "Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform?Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"Jesus then said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."They said to him, "Sir, give us this bread always."Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe.All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples.For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day."So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven."They said, "Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, 'I have come down from heaven'?"Jesus answered them, "Do not grumble among yourselves.No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.It is written in the Prophets, 'And they will all be taught by God.' Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me—not that anyone has seen the Father except he who is from God; he has seen the Father.Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.I am the bread of life.Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me.This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever."Jesus said these things in the synagogue, as he taught at Capernaum.Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?"When many of his disciples heard it, they said, "This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?"But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, "Do you take offense at this?Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.But there are some of you who do not believe." (For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)And he said, "This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father."After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him.So Jesus said to the Twelve, "Do you want to go away as well?"Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life,and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God."He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.Jesus answered them, "Did I not choose you, the Twelve? And yet one of you is a devil."He spoke of Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, one of the Twelve, was going to betray him. Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to get a little."One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him,"There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?"
Mar 27
Tc Moore1
highlighted Psalms 66:1-20 ESV
For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us as silver is tried. You brought us into the net; you laid a crushing burden on our backs; you let men ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water; yet you have brought us out to a place of abundance. I will come into your house with burnt offerings; I will perform my vows to you, that which my lips uttered and my mouth promised when I was in trouble. I will offer to you burnt offerings of fattened animals, with the smoke of the sacrifice of rams; I will make an offering of bulls and goats. Selah Come and hear, all you who fear God, and I will tell what he has done for my soul. I cried to him with my mouth, and high praise was on my tongue. If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened. But truly God has listened; he has attended to the voice of my prayer. To the choirmaster. A Song. A Psalm. Shout for joy to God, all the earth; Blessed be God, because he has not rejected my prayer or removed his steadfast love from me! sing the glory of his name; give to him glorious praise! Say to God, "How awesome are your deeds! So great is your power that your enemies come cringing to you. All the earth worships you and sings praises to you; they sing praises to your name." Selah Come and see what God has done: he is awesome in his deeds toward the children of man. He turned the sea into dry land; they passed through the river on foot. There did we rejoice in him, who rules by his might forever, whose eyes keep watch on the nations— let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah Bless our God, O peoples; let the sound of his praise be heard, who has kept our soul among the living and has not let our feet slip.
Mar 27
Tc Moore1
highlighted John 5:1-47 ESV
So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed."But he answered them, "The man who healed me, that man said to me, 'Take up your bed, and walk.'"They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up your bed and walk'?"Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place.Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, "See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you."The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him.And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.But Jesus answered them, "My Father is working until now, and I am working."This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise. After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And greater works than these will he show him, so that you may marvel.For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,that all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life."Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voiceand come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades."I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.If I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not true.There is another who bears witness about me, and I know that the testimony that he bears about me is true.You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth.Not that the testimony that I receive is from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved.He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.But the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father has sent me.And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen,and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe the one whom he has sent.You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed.yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.I do not receive glory from people.But I know that you do not have the love of God within you.I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you: Moses, on whom you have set your hope.For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me.But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?" One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be healed?"The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me."Jesus said to him, "Get up, take up your bed, and walk."And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath.
Mar 26
Tc Moore1
highlighted Psalms 65:1-13 ESV
You water its furrows abundantly, settling its ridges, softening it with showers, and blessing its growth. You crown the year with your bounty; your wagon tracks overflow with abundance. The pastures of the wilderness overflow, the hills gird themselves with joy, the meadows clothe themselves with flocks, the valleys deck themselves with grain, they shout and sing together for joy. To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A Song. Praise is due to you, O God, in Zion, and to you shall vows be performed. O you who hear prayer, to you shall all flesh come. When iniquities prevail against me, you atone for our transgressions. Blessed is the one you choose and bring near, to dwell in your courts! We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, the holiness of your temple! By awesome deeds you answer us with righteousness, O God of our salvation, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas; the one who by his strength established the mountains, being girded with might; who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, the tumult of the peoples, so that those who dwell at the ends of the earth are in awe at your signs. You make the going out of the morning and the evening to shout for joy. You visit the earth and water it; you greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; you provide their grain, for so you have prepared it.
Mar 26
Tc Moore1
highlighted John 4:1 ESV
Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
Mar 25
Tc Moore1
highlighted John 4:54 ESV
This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.
Mar 25
Tc Moore1
highlighted John 4:20-21 ESV
Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship."Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.
Mar 25
Tc Moore1
highlighted Psalms 64:1-10 ESV
Let the righteous one rejoice in the Lord and take refuge in him! Let all the upright in heart exult! To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint; preserve my life from dread of the enemy. Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the throng of evildoers, who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows, shooting from ambush at the blameless, shooting at him suddenly and without fear. They hold fast to their evil purpose; they talk of laying snares secretly, thinking, "Who can see them?" They search out injustice, saying, "We have accomplished a diligent search." For the inward mind and heart of a man are deep. But God shoots his arrow at them; they are wounded suddenly. They are brought to ruin, with their own tongues turned against them; all who see them will wag their heads. Then all mankind fears; they tell what God has brought about and ponder what he has done.
Mar 25
Tc Moore1
highlighted John 3:1-36 ESV
Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things?Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony.If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things?No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,that whoever believes in him may have eternal life."For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God."After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and he remained there with them and was baptizing.John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptized(for John had not yet been put in prison).Now a discussion arose between some of John's disciples and a Jew over purification.And they came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you across the Jordan, to whom you bore witness—look, he is baptizing, and all are going to him."John answered, "A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven.You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.'The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom's voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete.This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him."He must increase, but I must decrease."He who comes from above is above all. He who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks in an earthly way. He who comes from heaven is above all.He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, yet no one receives his testimony.Whoever receives his testimony sets his seal to this, that God is true.For he whom God has sent utters the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure.The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand.Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him. Jesus answered him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God."Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?"Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.'The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."Nicodemus said to him, "How can these things be?"
Mar 24
Tc Moore1
highlighted Psalms 63:1-11 ESV
they shall be given over to the power of the sword; they shall be a portion for jackals. But the king shall rejoice in God; all who swear by him shall exult, for the mouths of liars will be stopped. A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory. Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. So I will bless you as long as I live; in your name I will lift up my hands. My soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food, and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips, when I remember you upon my bed, and meditate on you in the watches of the night; for you have been my help, and in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy. My soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me. But those who seek to destroy my life shall go down into the depths of the earth;
Mar 24
Tc Moore1
highlighted John 2:1-25 ESV
and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now."This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother and his brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days.The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there.And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables.And he told those who sold the pigeons, "Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a house of trade."His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will consume me."So the Jews said to him, "What sign do you show us for doing these things?"Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.The Jews then said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?"But he was speaking about the temple of his body.When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing.But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all peopleand needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man. Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples.When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine."And Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come."His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.Jesus said to the servants, "Fill the jars with water." And they filled them up to the brim.And he said to them, "Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast." So they took it.When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom
Mar 23
Tc Moore1
highlighted Psalms 62:1-12 ESV
Put no trust in extortion; set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart on them. Once God has spoken; twice have I heard this: that power belongs to God, and that to you, O Lord, belongs steadfast love. For you will render to a man according to his work. To the choirmaster: according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation. He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken. How long will all of you attack a man to batter him, like a leaning wall, a tottering fence? They only plan to thrust him down from his high position. They take pleasure in falsehood. They bless with their mouths, but inwardly they curse. Selah For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him. He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken. On God rests my salvation and my glory; my mighty rock, my refuge is God. Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us. Selah Those of low estate are but a breath; those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.
Mar 23
Tc Moore1
highlighted John 1:1-51 ESV
He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.(John bore witness about him, and cried out, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.'")For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?" In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, "I am not the Christ."And they asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" And he answered, "No."So they said to him, "Who are you? We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"He said, "I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,' as the prophet Isaiah said."(Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.)They asked him, "Then why are you baptizing, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"John answered them, "I baptize with water, but among you stands one you do not know,even he who comes after me, the strap of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie."These things took place in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!He was in the beginning with God.This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes a man who ranks before me, because he was before me.'I myself did not know him, but for this purpose I came baptizing with water, that he might be revealed to Israel."And John bore witness: "I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him.I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, 'He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'And I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God."The next day again John was standing with two of his disciples,and he looked at Jesus as he walked by and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God!"The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus.Jesus turned and saw them following and said to them, "What are you seeking?" And they said to him, "Rabbi" (which means Teacher), "where are you staying?"He said to them, "Come and you will see." So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day, for it was about the tenth hour.All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.One of the two who heard John speak and followed Jesus was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (which means Christ).He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, "You are Simon the son of John. You shall be called Cephas" (which means Peter).The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, "Follow me."Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!"Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!"In him was life, and the life was the light of men.Jesus answered him, "Because I said to you, 'I saw you under the fig tree,' do you believe? You will see greater things than these."And he said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man." The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him.He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.
Mar 23
Tc Moore1
highlighted Psalms 61:1-8 ESV
To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. Of David. Hear my cry, O God, listen to my prayer; from the end of the earth I call to you when my heart is faint. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I, for you have been my refuge, a strong tower against the enemy. Let me dwell in your tent forever! Let me take refuge under the shelter of your wings! Selah For you, O God, have heard my vows; you have given me the heritage of those who fear your name. Prolong the life of the king; may his years endure to all generations! May he be enthroned forever before God; appoint steadfast love and faithfulness to watch over him! So will I ever sing praises to your name, as I perform my vows day after day.
Mar 23