tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24786850218095140502024-03-08T11:52:05.673-08:00180 Bible Reading Group180 Blogshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10970154094121443641noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2478685021809514050.post-42351630392073384682012-01-12T08:03:00.001-08:002012-01-12T08:03:40.588-08:00<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/audio/mclean/niv/Acts.3">http://www.biblegateway.com/audio/mclean/niv/Acts.3</a>180 Blogshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10970154094121443641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2478685021809514050.post-4113258071090244022011-09-14T17:17:00.000-07:002011-12-09T08:13:36.959-08:00John 10<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><b>Jesus Anointed at Bethany</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span"> <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26585" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">4</sup> But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him, objected, <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26586" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">5</sup> “Why wasn’t this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year’s wages.” <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26587" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">6</sup> He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to what was put into it.</span><br />
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<span class="woj"><sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26588" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">7</sup> “Leave her alone,”</span> Jesus replied. <span class="woj">“It was intended that she should save this perfume for the day of my burial.</span> <span class="woj"><sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26589" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">8</sup> You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me.”</span></div>
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<sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26590" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">9</sup> Meanwhile a large crowd of Jews found out that Jesus was there and came, not only because of him but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26591" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">10</sup> So the chief priests made plans to kill Lazarus as well, <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26592" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">11</sup> for on account of him many of the Jews were going over to Jesus and believing in him.</div>
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Jesus Comes to Jerusalem as King</h5>
<span class="Apple-style-span"><sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26593" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">12</sup> The next day the great crowd that had come for the festival heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem. <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26594" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">13</sup> They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting,</span><br />
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“Hosanna!”</div>
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“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”</div>
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“Blessed is the king of Israel!”</div>
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<sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26595" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">14</sup> Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, as it is written:</div>
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<sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26596" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">15</sup> “Do not be afraid, Daughter Zion;<br />
see, your king is coming,<br />
seated on a donkey’s colt.”</div>
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<sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26597" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">16</sup> At first his disciples did not understand all this. Only after Jesus was glorified did they realize that these things had been written about him and that these things had been done to him.</div>
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<sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26598" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">17</sup> Now the crowd that was with him when he called Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to spread the word. <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26599" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">18</sup>Many people, because they had heard that he had performed this sign, went out to meet him. <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26600" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">19</sup> So the Pharisees said to one another, “See, this is getting us nowhere. Look how the whole world has gone after him!”</div>
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Jesus Predicts His Death</h5>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26601" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">20</sup> Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the festival. <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26602" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">21</sup> They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, with a request. “Sir,” they said, “we would like to see Jesus.” <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26603" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">22</sup> Philip went to tell Andrew; Andrew and Philip in turn told Jesus.</span><br />
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<sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26604" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">23</sup> Jesus replied, <span class="woj">“The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.</span><span class="woj"><sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26605" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">24</sup> Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.</span> <span class="woj"><sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26606" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">25</sup> Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.</span> <span class="woj"><sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26607" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">26</sup> Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.</span></div>
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<span class="woj"><sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26608" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">27</sup> “Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour.</span> <span class="woj"><sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26609" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">28</sup>Father, glorify your name!”</span></div>
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Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and will glorify it again.” <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26610" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">29</sup> The crowd that was there and heard it said it had thundered; others said an angel had spoken to him.</div>
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<sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26611" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">30</sup> Jesus said, <span class="woj">“This voice was for your benefit, not mine.</span> <span class="woj"><sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26612" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">31</sup> Now is the time for judgment on this world; now the prince of this world will be driven out.</span> <span class="woj"><sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26613" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">32</sup> And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”</span> <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26614" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">33</sup> He said this to show the kind of death he was going to die.</div>
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<sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26615" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">34</sup> The crowd spoke up, “We have heard from the Law that the Messiah will remain forever, so how can you say, <span class="woj">‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’</span>? Who is this ‘Son of Man’?”</div>
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<sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26616" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">35</sup> Then Jesus told them, <span class="woj">“You are going to have the light just a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, before darkness overtakes you. Whoever walks in the dark does not know where they are going.</span> <span class="woj"><sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26617" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">36</sup>Believe in the light while you have the light, so that you may become children of light.”</span> When he had finished speaking, Jesus left and hid himself from them.</div>
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Belief and Unbelief Among the Jews</h5>
<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26618" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">37</sup> Even after Jesus had performed so many signs in their presence, they still would not believe in him. <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26619" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">38</sup> This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet:</span></span><br />
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“Lord, who has believed our message<br />
and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”</div>
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<sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26620" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">39</sup> For this reason they could not believe, because, as Isaiah says elsewhere:</div>
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<sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26621" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">40</sup> “He has blinded their eyes<br />
and hardened their hearts,<br />
so they can neither see with their eyes,<br />
nor understand with their hearts,<br />
nor turn—and I would heal them.”</div>
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<sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26622" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">41</sup> Isaiah said this because he saw Jesus’ glory and spoke about him.</div>
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<sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26623" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">42</sup> Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him. But because of the Pharisees they would not openly acknowledge their faith for fear they would be put out of the synagogue; <sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26624" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">43</sup> for they loved human praise more than praise from God.</div>
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<sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26625" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">44</sup> Then Jesus cried out, <span class="woj">“Whoever believes in me does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me.</span> <span class="woj"><sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26626" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">45</sup> The one who looks at me is seeing the one who sent me.</span> <span class="woj"><sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26627" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">46</sup> I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.</span></div>
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<span class="woj"><sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26628" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">47</sup> “If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that person. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.</span> <span class="woj"><sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26629" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">48</sup> There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; the very words I have spoken will condemn them at the last day.</span> <span class="woj"><sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26630" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">49</sup> For I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me to say all that I have spoken.</span> <span class="woj"><sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-26631" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: text-top;">50</sup> I know that his command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say.”</span></div>180 Blogshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10970154094121443641noreply@blogger.com0