Monday, June 1, 2015
Chronological New Testament Study Day 18
John 6 (New International
Version)
1 Some time after this, Jesus crossed to the far
shore of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias), 2 and
a great crowd of people followed him because they saw the miraculous signs he had performed on the sick. 3 Then Jesus
went up on a mountainside and sat down with his
disciples. 4The Jewish Passover Feast was
near. 5 When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming
toward him, he said to Philip, "Where shall we buy
bread for these people to eat?" 6 He asked this only to
test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do. 7 Philip
answered him, "Eight months' wages would not buy enough
bread for each one to have a bite!" 8 Another of his
disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, spoke up, 9 "Here
is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will
they go among so many?" 10 Jesus
said, "Have the people sit down."There was plenty of grass in
that place, and the men sat down, about five thousand of them. 11Jesus
then took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to those
who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish. 12 When
they had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples, "Gather the
pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted." 13 So
they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley
loaves left over by those who had eaten.14 After the people saw the
miraculous sign that Jesus did, they began to say,
"Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world." 15 Jesus,
knowing that they intended to come and make him king by
force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself.
16 When evening came, his disciples went down to
the lake, 17 where they got into a boat and set off across the
lake for Capernaum. By now it was dark, and Jesus had not yet joined
them. 18 A strong wind was blowing and the waters grew rough. 19 When
they had rowed three or three and a half miles, they saw
Jesus approaching the boat, walking on the water; and they
were terrified. 20But he said to them, "It is I; don't be
afraid." 21 Then they were willing to take
him into the boat, and immediately the boat reached the shore where they were
heading. 22 The next day the crowd that had stayed on the
opposite shore of the lake realized that only one boat had
been there, and that Jesus had not entered it with his disciples, but that they
had gone away alone. 23 Then some boats from
Tiberias landed near the place where the people had eaten
the bread after the Lord had given thanks. 24 Once
the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got
into the boats and went to Capernaum in search of Jesus.
25 When they found him on the other side of the
lake, they asked him, "Rabbi, when did you get
here?" 26 Jesus answered, "I tell you the
truth, you are looking for me, not because you saw
miraculous signs but because you ate the loaves and had
your fill. 27 Do not work for food that spoils, but for food
that endures to eternal life, which the
Son of Man will give you. On him God the Father has placed
his seal of approval." 28 Then they
asked him, "What must we do to do the works God requires?" 29 Jesus
answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in
the one he has sent." 30So they asked him,
"What miraculous sign then will you give that we may
see it and believe you?What will you do? 31 Our
forefathers ate the manna in the desert; as it is written:
'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.' " 32 Jesus
said to them, "I tell you the truth, it is not Moses who has given
you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread
from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is he who comes down from
heaven and gives life to the world." 34 "Sir,"
they said, "from now on give us this bread." 35 Then
Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty. 36 But
as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. 37 All
that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes
to me I will never drive away. 38 For I have come down from
heaven not to do my will but to do the will of
him who sent me. 39 And this is the will of him
who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he has given me, but
raise them up at the last day. 40 For my
Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and
believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise
him up at the last day." 41 At this the Jews began to
grumble about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down
from heaven." 42 They said, "Is this not Jesus, the
son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How
can he now say, 'I came down from heaven'?" 43 "Stop
grumbling among yourselves," Jesus answered. 44 "No
one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and
I will raise him up at the last day. 45 It is written in the
Prophets: 'They will all be taught by God.' Everyone
who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me. 46 No
one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only
he has seen the Father. 47 I tell you the truth, he who
believes has everlasting life. 48 I am the
bread of life. 49 Your forefathers ate the
manna in the desert, yet they died. 50 But here
is the bread that comes down from heaven, which a man may
eat and not die. 51 I am the living bread that
came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he
will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of
the world." 52 Then the Jewsbegan
to argue sharply among themselves, "How can this man
give us his flesh to eat?" 53 Jesus said to
them, "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of
the Son of Man and drink his blood, you
have no life in you. 54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my
blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. 55 For
my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. 56 Whoever
eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. 57 Just
as the living Father sent me and I live because of the
Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. 58 This
is the bread that came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate manna and died,
but he who feeds on this bread will live forever." 59 He
said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
60 On hearing it, many of his disciples said, "This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?" 61 Aware that his disciples were grumbling about
this, Jesus said to them, "Does this offend you? 62 What
if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before! 63 The Spirit gives life; the
flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and
they are life. 64 Yet there are some of you who do not
believe." For Jesus had known from the beginning
which of them did not believe and who would betray him. 65 He
went on to say, "This is why I told you that no one can come to me
unless the Father has enabled him." 66 From
this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer
followed him. 67 "You do not want to leave too, do
you?" Jesus asked the Twelve. 68 Simon
Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You
have the words of eternal life. 69 We believe
and know that you are the Holy One of God." 70 Then
Jesus replied, "Have I not chosen you, the
Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!" 71 (He
meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, who, though one of
the Twelve, was later to betray him.)
Acts 7
Acts 7 New International Version (NIV)
Stephen’s Speech to the Sanhedrin
7 Then the high priest asked Stephen, “Are these charges true?”
2 To this he replied: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Harran. 3 ‘Leave your country and your people,’ God said, ‘and go to the land I will show you.’[a]
4 “So he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Harran. After the death of his father, God sent him to this land where you are now living. 5 He gave him no inheritance here, not even enough ground to set his foot on. But God promised him that he and his descendants after him would possess the land, even though at that time Abraham had no child. 6 God spoke to him in this way: ‘For four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated. 7 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves,’ God said, ‘and afterward they will come out of that country and worship me in this place.’[b] 8 Then he gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision. And Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him eight days after his birth. Later Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.
9 “Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him 10 and rescued him from all his troubles. He gave Joseph wisdom and enabled him to gain the goodwill of Pharaoh king of Egypt. So Pharaoh made him ruler over Egypt and all his palace.
11 “Then a famine struck all Egypt and Canaan, bringing great suffering, and our ancestors could not find food.12 When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our forefathers on their first visit. 13 On their second visit, Joseph told his brothers who he was, and Pharaoh learned about Joseph’s family. 14 After this, Joseph sent for his father Jacob and his whole family, seventy-five in all. 15 Then Jacob went down to Egypt, where he and our ancestors died. 16 Their bodies were brought back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a certain sum of money.
17 “As the time drew near for God to fulfill his promise to Abraham, the number of our people in Egypt had greatly increased. 18 Then ‘a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt.’[c] 19 He dealt treacherously with our people and oppressed our ancestors by forcing them to throw out their newborn babies so that they would die.
20 “At that time Moses was born, and he was no ordinary child.[d] For three months he was cared for by his family.21 When he was placed outside, Pharaoh’s daughter took him and brought him up as her own son. 22 Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action.
23 “When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his own people, the Israelites. 24 He saw one of them being mistreated by an Egyptian, so he went to his defense and avenged him by killing the Egyptian. 25 Moses thought that his own people would realize that God was using him to rescue them, but they did not. 26 The next day Moses came upon two Israelites who were fighting. He tried to reconcile them by saying, ‘Men, you are brothers; why do you want to hurt each other?’
27 “But the man who was mistreating the other pushed Moses aside and said, ‘Who made you ruler and judge over us? 28 Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’[e] 29 When Moses heard this, he fled to Midian, where he settled as a foreigner and had two sons.
30 “After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai. 31 When he saw this, he was amazed at the sight. As he went over to get a closer look, he heard the Lord say: 32 ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.’[f] Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look.
33 “Then the Lord said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground. 34 I have indeed seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to set them free. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.’[g]
35 “This is the same Moses they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ He was sent to be their ruler and deliverer by God himself, through the angel who appeared to him in the bush. 36 He led them out of Egypt and performed wonders and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea and for forty years in the wilderness.
37 “This is the Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your own people.’[h]38 He was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors; and he received living words to pass on to us.
39 “But our ancestors refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.40 They told Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who led us out of Egypt—we don’t know what has happened to him!’[i] 41 That was the time they made an idol in the form of a calf. They brought sacrifices to it and reveled in what their own hands had made. 42 But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the sun, moon and stars. This agrees with what is written in the book of the prophets:
“‘Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings
forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel?
43 You have taken up the tabernacle of Molek
and the star of your god Rephan,
the idols you made to worship.
Therefore I will send you into exile’[j] beyond Babylon.
forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel?
43 You have taken up the tabernacle of Molek
and the star of your god Rephan,
the idols you made to worship.
Therefore I will send you into exile’[j] beyond Babylon.
44 “Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the covenant law with them in the wilderness. It had been made as God directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen. 45 After receiving the tabernacle, our ancestors under Joshua brought it with them when they took the land from the nations God drove out before them. It remained in the land until the time of David, 46 who enjoyed God’s favor and asked that he might provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.[k] 47 But it was Solomon who built a house for him.
48 “However, the Most High does not live in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says:
49 “‘Heaven is my throne,
and the earth is my footstool.
What kind of house will you build for me?
says the Lord.
Or where will my resting place be?
50 Has not my hand made all these things?’[l]
and the earth is my footstool.
What kind of house will you build for me?
says the Lord.
Or where will my resting place be?
50 Has not my hand made all these things?’[l]
51 “You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors: You always resist the Holy Spirit! 52 Was there ever a prophet your ancestors did not persecute? They even killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One. And now you have betrayed and murdered him— 53 you who have received the law that was given through angels but have not obeyed it.”
The Stoning of Stephen
54 When the members of the Sanhedrin heard this, they were furious and gnashed their teeth at him. 55 But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. 56 “Look,” he said, “I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”
57 At this they covered their ears and, yelling at the top of their voices, they all rushed at him, 58 dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile, the witnesses laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul.
59 While they were stoning him, Stephen prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” 60 Then he fell on his knees and cried out, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” When he had said this, he fell asleep.
Footnotes:
- Acts 7:3 Gen. 12:1
- Acts 7:7 Gen. 15:13,14
- Acts 7:18 Exodus 1:8
- Acts 7:20 Or was fair in the sight of God
- Acts 7:28 Exodus 2:14
- Acts 7:32 Exodus 3:6
- Acts 7:34 Exodus 3:5,7,8,10
- Acts 7:37 Deut. 18:15
- Acts 7:40 Exodus 32:1
- Acts 7:43 Amos 5:25-27 (see Septuagint)
- Acts 7:46 Some early manuscripts the house of Jacob
- Acts 7:50 Isaiah 66:1,2
Revelation 17
Revelation 17 (New International Version, ©2010)
Revelation 17
Babylon, the Prostitute on the Beast
1 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, "Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits by many waters. 2 With her the kings of the earth committed adultery, and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries."
3 Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries. 5 The name written on her forehead was a mystery: BABYLON THE GREAT THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
6 I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of God's holy people, the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus. When I saw her, I was greatly astonished. 7 Then the angel said to me: "Why are you astonished? I will explain to you the mystery of the woman and of the beast she rides, which has the seven heads and ten horns. 8 The beast, which you saw, once was, now is not, and yet will come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. The inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the creation of the world will be astonished when they see the beast, because it once was, now is not, and yet will come.
9 "This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sits. 10 They are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; but when he does come, he must remain for only a little while. 11 The beast who once was, and now is not, is an eighth king. He belongs to the seven and is going to his destruction.
12 "The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but who for one hour will receive authority as kings along with the beast. 13 They have one purpose and will give their power and authority to the beast. 14 They will wage war against the Lamb, but the Lamb will triumph over them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings—and with him will be his called, chosen and faithful followers."
15 Then the angel said to me, "The waters you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations and languages. 16 The beast and the ten horns you saw will hate the prostitute. They will bring her to ruin and leave her naked; they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire. 17 For God has put it into their hearts to accomplish his purpose by agreeing to hand over to the beast their royal authority, until God's words are fulfilled. 18 The woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth."
Revelation 17
Babylon, the Prostitute on the Beast
1 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, "Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits by many waters. 2 With her the kings of the earth committed adultery, and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries."
3 Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries. 5 The name written on her forehead was a mystery: BABYLON THE GREAT THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
6 I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of God's holy people, the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus. When I saw her, I was greatly astonished. 7 Then the angel said to me: "Why are you astonished? I will explain to you the mystery of the woman and of the beast she rides, which has the seven heads and ten horns. 8 The beast, which you saw, once was, now is not, and yet will come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. The inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the creation of the world will be astonished when they see the beast, because it once was, now is not, and yet will come.
9 "This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sits. 10 They are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; but when he does come, he must remain for only a little while. 11 The beast who once was, and now is not, is an eighth king. He belongs to the seven and is going to his destruction.
12 "The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but who for one hour will receive authority as kings along with the beast. 13 They have one purpose and will give their power and authority to the beast. 14 They will wage war against the Lamb, but the Lamb will triumph over them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings—and with him will be his called, chosen and faithful followers."
15 Then the angel said to me, "The waters you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations and languages. 16 The beast and the ten horns you saw will hate the prostitute. They will bring her to ruin and leave her naked; they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire. 17 For God has put it into their hearts to accomplish his purpose by agreeing to hand over to the beast their royal authority, until God's words are fulfilled. 18 The woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth."
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