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Joh 5:1-18 HNV
(1) After these things, there was a Jewish festival, and Yeshua went up to Yerushalayim.(2) Now in Yerushalayim by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, "Beit-Chesed," having five porches.(3) In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water;(4) for an angel of the Lord went down at certain times into the pool, and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was made whole of whatever disease he had.(5) A certain man was there, who had been sick for thirty-eight years.(6) When Yeshua saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to be made well?"(7) The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I'm coming, another steps down before me."(8) Yeshua said to him, "Arise, take up your mat, and walk."(9) Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked. Now it was the Shabbat on that day.(10) So the Judeans said to him who was cured, "It is the Shabbat. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat."(11) He answered them, "He who made me well, the same said to me, 'Take up your mat, and walk.'"(12) Then they asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up your mat, and walk'?"(13) But he who was healed didn't know who it was, for Yeshua had withdrawn, a crowd being in the place.(14) Afterward Yeshua found him in the temple, and said to him, "Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you."(15) The man went away, and told the Judeans that it was Yeshua who had made him well.(16) For this cause the Judeans persecuted Yeshua, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Shabbat.(17) But Yeshua answered them, "My Father is still working, so I am working, too."(18) For this cause therefore the Judeans sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Shabbat, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
Act 13:14-52 HNV
(14) But they, passing on from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia. They went into the synagogue on the day of Shabbat, and sat down.(15) After the reading of the Torah and the Prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, "Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak."(16) Sha'ul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, "Men of Yisra'el, and you who fear God, listen.(17) The God of this people chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they stayed as aliens in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm, he led them out of it.(18) For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.(19) When he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Kena`an, he gave them their land for an inheritance, for about four hundred fifty years.(20) After these things he gave them judges until Shemu'el the prophet.(21) Afterward they asked for a king, and God gave to them Sha'ul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Binyamin, for forty years.(22) When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, 'I have found David the son of Yishai, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.'(23) From this man's seed, God has brought salvation to Yisra'el according to his promise,(24) before his coming, when Yochanan had first preached the immersion of repentance to Yisra'el.(25) As Yochanan was fulfilling his course, he said, 'What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, one comes after me the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.'(26) Brothers, children of the stock of Avraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.(27) For those who dwell in Yerushalayim, and their rulers, because they didn't know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Shabbat, fulfilled them by condemning him.(28) Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed.(29) When they had fulfilled all things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.(30) But God raised him from the dead,(31) and he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from the Galil to Yerushalayim, who are his witnesses to the people.(32) We bring you good news of the promise made to the fathers,(33) that God has fulfilled the same to us, their children, in that he raised up Yeshua. As it is also written in the second psalm, 'You are my Son. Today I have become your father.'(34) "Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: 'I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.'(35) Therefore he says also in another psalm, 'You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.'(36) For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.(37) But he whom God raised up saw no decay.(38) Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins,(39) and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the Torah of Moshe.(40) Beware therefore, lest that come on you which is spoken in the prophets:(41) 'Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and perish; for I work a work in your days, a work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.'"(42) So when the Judeans went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Shabbat.(43) Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Judeans and of the devout proselytes followed Sha'ul and Bar-Nabba; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.(44) The next Shabbat almost the whole city was gathered together to hear the word of God.(45) But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Sha'ul, and blasphemed.(46) Sha'ul and Bar-Nabba spoke out boldly, and said, "It was necessary that God's word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.(47) For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, 'I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.'"(48) As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.(49) The Lord's word was spread abroad throughout all the region.(50) But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Sha'ul and Bar-Nabba, and threw them out of their borders.(51) But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came to Iconium.(52) The talmidim were filled with joy with the Holy Spirit.
Heb 4:1-16 HNV
(1) Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.(2) For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn't profit them, because it wasn't mixed with faith by those who heard.(3) For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest;" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.(4) For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, "God rested on the seventh day from all his works;"(5) and in this place again, "They will not enter into my rest."(6) Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter therein, and they to whom the good news was before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience,(7) he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), "Today if you will hear his voice, don't harden your hearts."(8) For if Yehoshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day.(9) There remains therefore a Shabbat rest for the people of God.(10) For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.(11) Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.(12) For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.(13) There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.(14) Having then a great Kohen Gadol, who has passed through the heavens, Yeshua, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession.(15) For we don't have a Kohen Gadol who can't be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.(16) Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.
Shalom,
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