Monday, September 21, 2015
Chronological New Testament Study Day 6
John 2:1-25; John 3:1-36; John 4:1-54
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John 2:1-25
1 On the third day a wedding took place at Cana
in Galilee. Jesus' mother was there, 2 and Jesus and his
disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 3 When the
wine was gone, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no more
wine." 4 "Dear woman, why do you involve
me?" Jesus replied. "My time has not yet come." 5 His
mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you." 6 Nearby
stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing,
each holding from twenty to thirty gallons. 7 Jesus said to
the servants, "Fill the jars with water"; so they filled them to
the brim. 8 Then he told them, "Now draw some out
and take it to the master of the banquet." They did so, 9 and
the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He
did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the
water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside 10 and said,
"Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after
the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till
now." 11 This, the first of his miraculous signs, Jesus
performed at Cana in Galilee. He thus revealed his glory, and his disciples put
their faith in him.
12 After this he went down to Capernaum with his
mother and brothers and his disciples. There they stayed for a few days. 13 When
it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In
the temple courts he found men selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others
sitting at tables exchanging money. 15 So he made a whip out
of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; he
scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 16To
those who sold doves he said, "Get these out of here! How dare you
turn my Father's house into a market!" 17 His disciples
remembered that it is written: "Zeal for your house will consume
me." 18Then the Jews demanded of him, "What miraculous
sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?" 19 Jesus
answered them, "Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in
three days." 20The Jews replied, "It has taken forty-six
years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three
days?" 21 But the temple he had spoken of was his
body. 22 After he was raised from the dead, his disciples
recalled what he had said. Then they believed the Scripture and the words that
Jesus had spoken. 23 Now while he was in Jerusalem at the
Passover Feast, many people saw the miraculous signs he was doing and believed
in his name. 24 But Jesus would not entrust himself to them,
for he knew all men. 25 He did not need man's testimony about
man, for he knew what was in a man.
1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named
Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council.2 He came to Jesus
at night and said, "Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from
God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were
not with him." 3 In reply Jesus declared, "I
tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born
again." 4"How can a man be born when he is old?"
Nicodemus asked. "Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother's
womb to be born!" 5 Jesus answered, "I tell you
the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and
the Spirit. 6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives
birth to spirit. 7 You should not be surprised at my saying,
'You must be born again.' 8 The wind blows wherever it
pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where
it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit." 9 "How
can this be?" Nicodemus asked. 10 "You are Israel's
teacher," said Jesus, "and do you not understand these
things? 11 I tell you the truth, we speak of what we know, and
we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our
testimony. 12 I have spoken to you of earthly things and you
do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? 13 No
one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven--the Son of
Man. 14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so
the Son of Man must be lifted up, 15 that everyone who
believes in him may have eternal life. 16 "For God so
loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him
shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not
send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through
him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever
does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the
name of God's one and only Son. 19This is the verdict: Light has
come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their
deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light,
and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21 But
whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly
that what he has done has been done through God."
22 After this, Jesus and his disciples went out
into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and
baptized. 23 Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim,
because there was plenty of water, and people were constantly coming to be
baptized. 24 (This was before John was put in prison.) 25 An
argument developed between some of John's disciples and a certain Jew over the
matter of ceremonial washing. 26 They came to John and said to
him, "Rabbi, that man who was with you on the other side of the
Jordan--the one you testified about--well, he is baptizing, and everyone is
going to him." 27 To this John replied, "A man can
receive only what is given him from heaven. 28 You yourselves
can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ but am sent ahead of him.' 29The
bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits
and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice.
That joy is mine, and it is now complete.30 He must become greater;
I must become less. 31 "The one who comes from above is
above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as
one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all. 32 He
testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his
testimony. 33 The man who has accepted it has certified that
God is truthful. 34 For the one whom God has sent speaks the
words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit. 35 The
Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. 36 Whoever
believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see
life, for God's wrath remains on him."
1 The Pharisees heard that Jesus was gaining and
baptizing more disciples than John, 2 although in fact it was
not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. 3 When the Lord
learned of this, he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee. 4 Now
he had to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town in
Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son
Joseph. 6 Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was
from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. 7 When
a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you
give me a drink?"8 (His disciples had gone into the town to
buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a
Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (For Jews
do not associate with Samaritans. ) 10 Jesus answered
her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a
drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living
water." 11 "Sir," the woman said, "you
have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living
water? 12Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the
well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and
herds?" 13 Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks
this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the
water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in
him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." 15 The
woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty
and have to keep coming here to draw water." 16 He told
her,"Go, call your husband and come back." 17 "I
have no husband," she replied. Jesus said to her, "You are right
when you say you have no husband. 18 The fact is, you have had
five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just
said is quite true." 19 "Sir," the woman said,
"I can see that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers
worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must
worship is in Jerusalem." 21 Jesus
declared, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship
the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.22 You
Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for
salvation is from the Jews. 23 Yet a time is coming and has
now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth,
for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God
is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth." 25 The
woman said, "I know that Messiah" (called Christ) "is coming.
When he comes, he will explain everything to us." 26 Then
Jesus declared, "I who speak to you am he."
27 Just then his disciples returned and were
surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, "What do you
want?" or "Why are you talking with her?" 28 Then,
leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the
people, 29 "Come, see a man who told me everything I ever
did. Could this be the Christ ?" 30 They came out of the
town and made their way toward him.31 Meanwhile his disciples urged
him, "Rabbi, eat something." 32 But he said to
them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about." 33 Then
his disciples said to each other, "Could someone have brought him
food?" 34 "My food," said
Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his
work. 35 Do you not say, 'Four months more and then the
harvest'? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for
harvest. 36 Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he
harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be
glad together. 37 Thus the saying 'One sows and another reaps'
is true. 38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for.
Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their
labor."
39 Many of the Samaritans from that town
believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He told me everything I
ever did." 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they
urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. 41 And
because of his words many more became believers. 42 They said
to the woman, "We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we
have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the
world."
43 After the two days he left for Galilee. 44 (Now
Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own
country.) 45 When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans
welcomed him. They had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the Passover
Feast, for they also had been there. 46 Once more he visited
Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a
certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. 47 When
this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and
begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death. 48 "Unless
you people see miraculous signs and wonders," Jesus told
him, "you will never believe." 49 The royal
official said, "Sir, come down before my child dies." 50 Jesus
replied, "You may go. Your son will live." The man took
Jesus at his word and departed. 51 While he was still on the
way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living. 52 When
he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, "The
fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour." 53Then the
father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to
him, "Your son will live." So he and all his household
believed. 54 This was the second miraculous sign that Jesus
performed, having come from Judea to Galilee.
Galatians 5
Galatians 5 (New International Version, ©2010)
Galatians 5
Freedom in Christ
1 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
2 Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all. 3 Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. 4 You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. 5 For through the Spirit we eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
7 You were running a good race. Who cut in on you to keep you from obeying the truth? 8 That kind of persuasion does not come from the one who calls you. 9 "A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough." 10 I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is throwing you into confusion, whoever that may be, will have to pay the penalty. 11 Brothers and sisters, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished. 12 As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!
Life by the Spirit
13 You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh[a]; rather, serve one another humbly in love. 14 For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: "Love your neighbor as yourself."[b] 15 If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.
16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever[c] you want. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.
Galatians 5
Freedom in Christ
1 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
2 Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all. 3 Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. 4 You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. 5 For through the Spirit we eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
7 You were running a good race. Who cut in on you to keep you from obeying the truth? 8 That kind of persuasion does not come from the one who calls you. 9 "A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough." 10 I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is throwing you into confusion, whoever that may be, will have to pay the penalty. 11 Brothers and sisters, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished. 12 As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!
Life by the Spirit
13 You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh[a]; rather, serve one another humbly in love. 14 For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: "Love your neighbor as yourself."[b] 15 If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.
16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever[c] you want. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.
Revelation 14
Revelation 14 (New International Version, ©2010)
Revelation 14
The Lamb and the 144,000
1 Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads. 2 And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps. 3 And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. 4 These are those who did not defile themselves with women, for they remained virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were purchased from among mankind and offered as firstfruits to God and the Lamb. 5 No lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.
The Three Angels
6 Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth—to every nation, tribe, language and people. 7 He said in a loud voice, "Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and the springs of water."
8 A second angel followed and said, "'Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great,'[a] which made all the nations drink the maddening wine of her adulteries."
9 A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: "If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives its mark on their forehead or on their hand, 10 they, too, will drink the wine of God's fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. They will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. 11 And the smoke of their torment will rise for ever and ever. There will be no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name." 12 This calls for patient endurance on the part of the people of God who keep his commands and remain faithful to Jesus.
13 Then I heard a voice from heaven say, "Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on." "Yes," says the Spirit, "they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them."
Harvesting the Earth and Trampling the Winepress
14 I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one like a son of man[b] with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. 15 Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, "Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe." 16 So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.
17 Another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle. 18 Still another angel, who had charge of the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, "Take your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the earth's vine, because its grapes are ripe." 19 The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes and threw them into the great winepress of God's wrath. 20 They were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses' bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia.
Revelation 14
The Lamb and the 144,000
1 Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads. 2 And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps. 3 And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. 4 These are those who did not defile themselves with women, for they remained virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were purchased from among mankind and offered as firstfruits to God and the Lamb. 5 No lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.
The Three Angels
6 Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth—to every nation, tribe, language and people. 7 He said in a loud voice, "Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and the springs of water."
8 A second angel followed and said, "'Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great,'[a] which made all the nations drink the maddening wine of her adulteries."
9 A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: "If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives its mark on their forehead or on their hand, 10 they, too, will drink the wine of God's fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. They will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. 11 And the smoke of their torment will rise for ever and ever. There will be no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name." 12 This calls for patient endurance on the part of the people of God who keep his commands and remain faithful to Jesus.
13 Then I heard a voice from heaven say, "Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on." "Yes," says the Spirit, "they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them."
Harvesting the Earth and Trampling the Winepress
14 I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one like a son of man[b] with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. 15 Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, "Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe." 16 So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.
17 Another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle. 18 Still another angel, who had charge of the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, "Take your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the earth's vine, because its grapes are ripe." 19 The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes and threw them into the great winepress of God's wrath. 20 They were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses' bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia.
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