Monday, December 14

5And Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which would be spoken afterward,

6but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.

7Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: 'Today, if you will hear His voice,

8Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, In the day of trial in the wilderness,

9Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, And saw My works forty years.

10Therefore I was angry with that generation, And said, 'They always go astray in their heart, And they have not known My ways.'

11So I swore in My wrath,

12Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;

13but exhort one another daily, while it is called 'Today,' lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

14For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end,

15while it is said: 'Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.'

16For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses?

17Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?

18And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey?

19So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

11Then the Pharisees came out and began to dispute with Him, seeking from Him a sign from heaven, testing Him.

12But He sighed deeply in His spirit, and said, 'Why does this generation seek a sign? Assuredly, I say to you, no sign shall be given to this generation.'

13And He left them, and getting into the boat again, departed to the other side.

14Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, and they did not have more than one loaf with them in the boat.

15Then He charged them, saying, 'Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.'

16And they reasoned among themselves, saying, 'It is because we have no bread.'

17But Jesus, being aware of it, said to them, 'Why do you reason because you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive nor understand? Is your heart still hardened?

18Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember?

19When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments did you take up?'

20They said to Him, 'Twelve.' 'Also, when I broke the seven for the four thousand, how many large baskets full of fragments did you take up?'

21And they said, 'Seven.' So He said to them, 'How is it you do not understand?'