Wednesday, April 8

17Therefore the people, who were with Him when He called Lazarus out of his tomb and raised him from the dead, bore witness.

18For this reason the people also met Him, because they heard that He had done this sign.

19The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, 'You see that you are accomplishing nothing. Look, the world has gone after Him!'

20Now there were certain Greeks among those who came up to worship at the feast.

21Then they came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, 'Sir, we wish to see Jesus.'

22Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn Andrew and Philip told Jesus.

23But Jesus answered them, saying, 'The hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified.

24Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.

25He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

26If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor.

27'Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? 'Father, save Me from this hour'? But for this purpose I came to this hour.

28Father, glorify Your name.'

29Then a voice came from heaven, saying, 'I have both glorified it and will glorify it again.' Therefore the people who stood by and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said, 'An angel has spoken to Him.'

30Jesus answered and said, 'This voice did not come because of Me, but for your sake.

31Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out.

32And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself.'

33This He said, signifying by what death He would die.

34The people answered Him, 'We have heard from the law that the Christ remains forever; and how can You say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up'? Who is this Son of Man?'

35Then Jesus said to them, 'A little while longer the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going.

36While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.' These things Jesus spoke, and departed, and was hidden from them.

37But although He had done so many signs before them, they did not believe in Him,

38that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke: 'Lord, who has believed our report?

39And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?'

40'He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, Lest they should see with their eyes, Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn,

41These things Isaiah said when he saw His glory and spoke of Him.

42Nevertheless even among the rulers many believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue;

43for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

44Then Jesus cried out and said, 'He who believes in Me, believes not in Me but in Him who sent Me.

45And he who sees Me sees Him who sent Me.

46I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in Me should not abide in darkness.

47And if anyone hears My words and does not believe, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.

48He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him—the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day.

49For I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak.

50And I know that His command is everlasting life. Therefore, whatever I speak, just as the Father has told Me, so I speak.'

3So He said to me, 'Son of man, I am sending you to the house of Israel, to the ones provoking Me. They have provoked Me, they and their fathers, up to this very day.

4Then you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord.'

5Now then, if they listen or are put off—for they are a rebellious house—still they will know you are a prophet in their midst.

6'But you, Son of man, do not be afraid of them nor be dismayed by their looks, for they will swarm and sting you, and crowd against you on every side. You will live in the midst of scorpions. Do not be afraid of their words or dismayed by their looks, for they are a house of provocation.

7You shall speak My words to them, whether they hear or are put off, because they are a house of provocation.

8You, son of man, listen to the One who speaks to you. Do not be one who rebels like the house of provocation, but open your mouth wide, and eat what I give you.'

9Then I looked, and behold, there was a hand reaching out to me, and the roll of a book was in it.

10He unrolled it before me, and there written on the inside and the outside were words of lamentation and mourning and woe.

1Then He said to me, 'Son of man, eat this scroll, and go and speak to the children of Israel.'

2So I opened my mouth, and he fed me the scroll.

3Then He said to me, 'Son of man, your mouth shall eat and your stomach will be filled with this scroll that is given you.' So I ate it, and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey.

11Thus it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out to his brethren and saw their burdens. He also saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren of the sons of Israel.

12So he looked this way and that, and when he saw no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

13When he went out the second day, he saw two Hebrew men fighting, and he said to the one who did the wrong, 'Why are you hitting your neighbor?'

14He replied, 'Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?' So Moses was alarmed and said, 'Surely this thing is known.'

15Thus when Pharaoh heard this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian; and he sat down by a well.

16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, who fed the sheep of their father Jethro; and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

17Then the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

18When they came to Reuel their father, he said to them, 'How is it you came so soon today?'

19They replied, 'An Egyptian delivered us from the shepherds; and he also drew enough water for us and watered our sheep.'

20So he said to his daughters, 'And where is he? Why have you left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.'

21Then Moses dwelt with the man, and he gave Zipporah his daughter to Moses.

22So the woman conceived and bore Moses a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, 'I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.'

1Then again as it so happened another day, the angels of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and the devil also came among them to present himself before the Lord.

2The Lord said to the devil, 'Where did you come from?' Then the devil said before the Lord, 'I came here from walking around under heaven and going about all the earth.'

3Then the Lord said to the devil, 'Have you considered my servant Job, since there is none like him on the earth: an innocent, true, blameless, and God-fearing man, and one who abstains from every evil thing? Moreover he still holds fast to his integrity, though you told me to destroy his possessions without cause.'

4Then the devil answered the Lord and said, 'Skin for skin. Whatever a man has he will pay in full for his life.

5Yet truly, stretch out Your hand and touch his bones and his flesh, and see if he will bless You to Your face.'

6So the Lord said to the devil, 'Behold, I give him over to you; only spare his life.'

7Thus the devil went out from the Lord and struck Job with malignant sores from head to foot.

8So he took a potsherd to scrape away the discharge and sat on a dunghill outside the city.

9When a period of time passed, his wife said to him, 'How long will you hold out, saying,

10'Behold, I will wait a little longer, looking for the hope of my salvation'?

6And when Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper,

7a woman came to Him having an alabaster flask of very costly fragrant oil, and she poured it on His head as He sat at the table.

8But when His disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, 'Why this waste?

9For this fragrant oil might have been sold for much and given to the poor.'

10But when Jesus was aware of it, He said to them, 'Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a good work for Me.

11For you have the poor with you always, but Me you do not have always.

12For in pouring this fragrant oil on My body, she did it for My burial.

13Assuredly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to her.'

14Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests

15and said, 'What are you willing to give me if I deliver Him to you?' And they counted out to him thirty pieces of silver.

16So from that time he sought opportunity to betray Him.