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Today's Bible Reading
April 3
26
While they were eating, Jesus took some bread, and after a blessing, He
broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is My
body."
27 And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you;
28 for this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for forgiveness of sins.
29
"But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now
on until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father's kingdom."
30 After singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
31
Then Jesus said to them, "You will all fall away because of Me this
night, for it is written, 'I WILL STRIKE DOWN THE SHEPHERD, AND THE
SHEEP OF THE FLOCK SHALL BE SCATTERED.'
32 "But after I have been raised, I will go ahead of you to Galilee."
33 But Peter said to Him, "Even though all may fall away because of You, I will never fall away."
34 Jesus said to him, "Truly I say to you that this very night, before a rooster crows, you will deny Me three times."
35 Peter said to Him, "Even if I have to die with You, I will not deny You." All the disciples said the same thing too.
36 Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to His disciples, "Sit here while I go over there and pray."
37 And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be grieved and distressed.
38 Then He said to them, "My soul is deeply grieved, to the point of death; remain here and keep watch with Me."
39
And He went a little beyond them, and fell on His face and prayed,
saying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; yet
not as I will, but as You will."
40 And He came to the disciples
and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "So, you men could not keep
watch with Me for one hour?
41 "Keep watching and praying that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."
42
He went away again a second time and prayed, saying, "My Father, if
this cannot pass away unless I drink it, Your will be done."
43 Again He came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.
44 And He left them again, and went away and prayed a third time, saying the same thing once more.
45
Then He came to the disciples and said to them, "Are you still sleeping
and resting? Behold, the hour is at hand and the Son of Man is being
betrayed into the hands of sinners.
46 "Get up, let us be going; behold, the one who betrays Me is at hand!"
47
While He was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came up
accompanied by a large crowd with swords and clubs, who came from the
chief priests and elders of the people.
48 Now he who was betraying Him gave them a sign, saying, "Whomever I kiss, He is the one; seize Him."
49 Immediately Judas went to Jesus and said, "Hail, Rabbi!" and kissed Him.
50 And Jesus said to him, "Friend, do what you have come for." Then they came and laid hands on Jesus and seized Him.
51
And behold, one of those who were with Jesus reached and drew out his
sword, and struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his ear.
52 Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place; for all those who take up the sword shall perish by the sword.
53 "Or do you think that I cannot appeal to My Father, and He will at once put at My disposal more than twelve legions of angels?
54 "How then will the Scriptures be fulfilled, which say that it must happen this way?"
55 At that time Jesus said to the
crowds, "Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest Me as you
would against a robber? Every day I used to sit in the temple teaching
and you did not seize Me.
56 "But all this has taken place to fulfill the Scriptures of the prophets." Then all the disciples left Him and fled.
57 Those who had seized Jesus led Him away to Caiaphas, the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.
58
But Peter was following Him at a distance as far as the courtyard of
the high priest, and entered in, and sat down with the officers to see
the outcome.
59
Now the chief priests and the whole Council kept trying to obtain false
testimony against Jesus, so that they might put Him to death.
60 They did not find any, even though many false witnesses came forward. But later on two came forward,
61 and said, "This man stated, 'I am able to destroy the temple of God and to rebuild it in three days.' "
62 The high priest stood up and said to Him, "Do You not answer? What is it that these men are testifying against You?"
63 But Jesus kept silent. And the
high priest said to Him, "I adjure You by the living God, that You tell
us whether You are the Christ, the Son of God."
64
Jesus said to him, "You have said it yourself; nevertheless I tell you,
hereafter you will see THE SON OF MAN SITTING AT THE RIGHT HAND OF
POWER, and COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN."
65
Then the high priest tore his robes and said, "He has blasphemed! What
further need do we have of witnesses? Behold, you have now heard the
blasphemy;
66 what do you think?" They answered, "He deserves death!"
67 Then they spat in His face and beat Him with their fists; and others slapped Him,
68 and said, "Prophesy to us, You Christ; who is the one who hit You?"
69
Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard, and a servant-girl came
to him and said, "You too were with Jesus the Galilean."
70 But he denied it before them all, saying, "I do not know what you are talking about."
71
When he had gone out to the gateway, another servant-girl saw him and
said to those who were there, "This man was with Jesus of Nazareth."
1 These are the words which Moses
spoke to all Israel across the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah
opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel and Laban and Hazeroth and
Dizahab.
2 It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.
3
In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses
spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that the LORD had
commanded him to give to them,
4
after he had defeated Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in
Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth and Edrei.
5 Across the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses undertook to expound this law, saying,
6 "The LORD our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying, 'You have stayed long enough at this mountain.
7 'Turn and set your journey, and
go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all their neighbors in
the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland and in the Negev and
by the seacoast , the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the
great river, the river Euphrates.
8
'See, I have placed the land before you; go in and possess the land
which the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and
to Jacob, to them and their descendants after them.'
9 "I spoke to you at that time, saying, 'I am not able to bear the burden of you alone.
10 'The LORD your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day like the stars of heaven in number.
11 'May the LORD , the God of
your fathers, increase you a thousand-fold more than you are and bless
you, just as He has promised you!
12 'How can I alone bear the load and burden of you and your strife?
13 'Choose wise and discerning and experienced men from your tribes, and I will appoint them as your heads.'
14 "You answered me and said, 'The thing which you have said to do is good.'
15 "So I took the heads of your
tribes, wise and experienced men, and appointed them heads over you,
leaders of thousands and of hundreds, of fifties and of tens, and
officers for your tribes.
16 "Then I charged your judges at
that time, saying, 'Hear the cases between your fellow countrymen, and
judge righteously between a man and his fellow countryman, or the alien
who is with him.
17
'You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small
and the great alike. You shall not fear man, for the judgment is God's.
The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will
hear it.'
18 "I commanded you at that time all the things that you should do.
19 "Then we set out from Horeb,
and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw on
the way to the hill country of the Amorites, just as the LORD our God
had commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
20 "I said to you, 'You have come to the hill country of the Amorites which the LORD our God is about to give us.
21
'See, the LORD your God has placed the land before you; go up, take
possession, as the LORD , the God of your fathers, has spoken to you. Do
not fear or be dismayed.'
22
"Then all of you approached me and said, 'Let us send men before us,
that they may search out the land for us, and bring back to us word of
the way by which we should go up and the cities which we shall enter.'
23 "The thing pleased me and I took twelve of your men, one man for each tribe.
24 "They turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the valley of Eshcol and spied it out.
25 "Then they took some of the
fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us; and they
brought us back a report and said, 'It is a good land which the LORD
our God is about to give us.'
26 "Yet you were not willing to go up, but rebelled against the command of the LORD your God;
27 and you grumbled in your tents
and said, 'Because the LORD hates us, He has brought us out of the
land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.
28
'Where can we go up? Our brethren have made our hearts melt, saying,
"The people are bigger and taller than we; the cities are large and
fortified to heaven. And besides, we saw the sons of the Anakim there."'
29 "Then I said to you, 'Do not be shocked, nor fear them.
30 'The LORD your God who goes before you will Himself fight on your behalf, just as He did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
31
and in the wilderness where you saw how the LORD your God carried you,
just as a man carries his son, in all the way which you have walked
until you came to this place.'
32 "But for all this, you did not trust the LORD your God,
33
who goes before you on your way, to seek out a place for you to encamp,
in fire by night and cloud by day, to show you the way in which you
should go.
34 "Then the LORD heard the sound of your words, and He was angry and took an oath, saying,
35 'Not one of these men, this evil generation, shall see the good land which I swore to give your fathers,
36 except Caleb the son of
Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him and to his sons I will give the
land on which he has set foot, because he has followed the LORD
fully.'
37 "The LORD was angry with me also on your account, saying, 'Not even you shall enter there.
38 'Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall enter there; encourage him, for he will cause Israel to inherit it.
39 'Moreover, your little ones
who you said would become a prey, and your sons, who this day have no
knowledge of good or evil, shall enter there, and I will give it to them
and they shall possess it.
40 'But as for you, turn around and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.'
41
"Then you said to me, 'We have sinned against the LORD ; we will indeed
go up and fight, just as the LORD our God commanded us.' And every
man of you girded on his weapons of war, and regarded it as easy to go
up into the hill country.
42
"And the LORD said to me, 'Say to them, "Do not go up nor fight, for I
am not among you; otherwise you will be defeated before your enemies."'
43 "So I spoke to you, but you
would not listen. Instead you rebelled against the command of the LORD ,
and acted presumptuously and went up into the hill country.
44 "The Amorites who lived in
that hill country came out against you and chased you as bees do, and
crushed you from Seir to Hormah.
45 "Then you returned and wept before the LORD ; but the LORD did not listen to your voice nor give ear to you.
46 "So you remained in Kadesh many days, the days that you spent there.
1 "Then we turned and set out for
the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as the LORD spoke to me,
and circled Mount Seir for many days.
2 "And the LORD spoke to me, saying,
3 'You have circled this mountain long enough. Now turn north,
4 and command the people, saying,
"You will pass through the territory of your brothers the sons of Esau
who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. So be very careful;
5 do not provoke them, for I will
not give you any of their land, even as little as a footstep because I
have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.
6 "You shall buy food from them
with money so that you may eat, and you shall also purchase water from
them with money so that you may drink.
7
"For the LORD your God has blessed you in all that you have done; He
has known your wanderings through this great wilderness. These forty
years the LORD your God has been with you; you have not lacked a
thing."'
8
"So we passed beyond our brothers the sons of Esau, who live in Seir,
away from the Arabah road, away from Elath and from Ezion-geber. And we
turned and passed through by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
9 "Then the LORD said to me, 'Do
not harass Moab, nor provoke them to war, for I will not give you any
of their land as a possession, because I have given Ar to the sons of
Lot as a possession.
10 (The Emim lived there formerly, a people as great, numerous, and tall as the Anakim.
11 Like the Anakim, they are also regarded as Rephaim, but the Moabites call them Emim.
12
The Horites formerly lived in Seir, but the sons of Esau dispossessed
them and destroyed them from before them and settled in their place,
just as Israel did to the land of their possession which the LORD gave
to them.)
13 'Now arise and cross over the brook Zered yourselves.' So we crossed over the brook Zered.
14
"Now the time that it took for us to come from Kadesh-barnea until we
crossed over the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the
generation of the men of war perished from within the camp, as the LORD
had sworn to them.
15 "Moreover the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from within the camp until they all perished.
16 "So it came about when all the men of war had finally perished from among the people,
17 that the LORD spoke to me, saying,
18 'Today you shall cross over Ar, the border of Moab.
19
'When you come opposite the sons of Ammon, do not harass them nor
provoke them, for I will not give you any of the land of the sons of
Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the sons of Lot as a
possession.'
20 (It is also regarded as the land of the Rephaim, for Rephaim formerly lived in it, but the Ammonites call them Zamzummin,
21 a people as great, numerous,
and tall as the Anakim, but the LORD destroyed them before them. And
they dispossessed them and settled in their place,
22 just as He did for the sons of
Esau, who live in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites from before them;
they dispossessed them and settled in their place even to this day.
23 And the Avvim, who lived in
villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim who came from Caphtor, destroyed
them and lived in their place.)
24
'Arise, set out, and pass through the valley of Arnon. Look! I have
given Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land into your hand;
begin to take possession and contend with him in battle.
25 'This day I will begin to put
the dread and fear of you upon the peoples everywhere under the heavens,
who, when they hear the report of you, will tremble and be in anguish
because of you.'
26 "So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
27 'Let me pass through your land, I will travel only on the highway; I will not turn aside to the right or to the left.
28 'You will sell me food for
money so that I may eat, and give me water for money so that I may
drink, only let me pass through on foot,
29
just as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in
Ar did for me, until I cross over the Jordan into the land which the
LORD our God is giving to us.'
30
"But Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing for us to pass through his
land; for the LORD your God hardened his spirit and made his heart
obstinate, in order to deliver him into your hand, as he is today.
31 "The LORD said to me, 'See, I
have begun to deliver Sihon and his land over to you. Begin to occupy,
that you may possess his land.'
32 "Then Sihon with all his people came out to meet us in battle at Jahaz.
33 "The LORD our God delivered him over to us, and we defeated him with his sons and all his people.
34
"So we captured all his cities at that time and utterly destroyed the
men, women and children of every city. We left no survivor.
35 "We took only the animals as our booty and the spoil of the cities which we had captured.
36 "From Aroer which is on the
edge of the valley of Arnon and from the city which is in the valley,
even to Gilead, there was no city that was too high for us; the LORD
our God delivered all over to us.
37 "Only you did not go near to
the land of the sons of Ammon, all along the river Jabbok and the cities
of the hill country, and wherever the LORD our God had commanded us.
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
2 "If one ventures a word with you, will you become impatient? But who can refrain from speaking?
3 "Behold you have admonished many, And you have strengthened weak hands.
4 "Your words have helped the tottering to stand, And you have strengthened feeble knees.
5 "But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; It touches you, and you are dismayed.
6 "Is not your fear of God your confidence, And the integrity of your ways your hope?
7 "Remember now, who ever perished being innocent? Or where were the upright destroyed?
8 "According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity And those who sow trouble harvest it.
9 "By the breath of God they perish, And by the blast of His anger they come to an end.
10 "The roaring of the lion and the voice of the fierce lion, And the teeth of the young lions are broken.
11 "The lion perishes for lack of prey, And the whelps of the lioness are scattered.
12 "Now a word was brought to me stealthily, And my ear received a whisper of it.
13 "Amid disquieting thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falls on men,
14 Dread came upon me, and trembling, And made all my bones shake.
15 "Then a spirit passed by my face; The hair of my flesh bristled up.
16 "It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; A form was before my eyes; There was silence, then I heard a voice:
17 'Can mankind be just before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?
18 'He puts no trust even in His servants; And against His angels He charges error.
19 'How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!
20 'Between morning and evening they are broken in pieces; Unobserved , they perish forever.
21 'Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, yet without wisdom.'
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