Later on Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. Now at the Sheep Pool in Jerusalem there is a place with five colonnades. Its name in the language of the Jews is Bethesda. In these colonnades there lay a crowd of sick people, blind, lame, and paralysed.
Among them was a man who had been crippled for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and was aware he had been ill a very long time, he asked him, "Do you want to recover?"
"Sir, he replied, "I have no one to put me in the pool when the water is disturbed, but while I am moving, someone else is in the pool before me."
Jesus answered, "Rise to your feet; take up your bed and walk."
The man recovered instantly, took up his bed and began to walk.
That day was a Sabbath. So the Judeans said to the man who had been cured, "It is the Sabbath. You are not allowed to carry your bed on the Sabbath."
He answered, "The man who cured me said, 'Take up your bed and walk.'"
They asked him, "Who is the man who told you to take up your bed and walk?"
But the cripple who had been cured did not know; for the place was crowded and Jesus had slipped away. A little later Jesus found him in the Temple and said to him, "Now that you are well again, leave your sinful ways, or you may suffer something worse." The man went away and told the Judeans that it was Jesus who had cured him.
September 04, 2009
Genesis 19.30->
Now Lot went up out of Zoar and settled in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar, so he lived in a cave with his two daughters.
And the firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man on Earth to come in to us after the manner of all the world. Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, so that we may preserve offspring through our father."
So they made their father drink wine that night, and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; he did not know when she lay down or when she rose.
On the next day, the firstborn said to the younger, "Look, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also; then you may go in and lie with him, so that we may preserve offspring through our father. So they made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger rose, and lay with him; and he did not know when she lay down or when she rose.
Thus both the daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father. The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab; he is the ancestor of the Moabites to this day. The younger also bore a son, and named him Benammi; he is the ancestor of the Ammonites to this day.
And the firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man on Earth to come in to us after the manner of all the world. Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, so that we may preserve offspring through our father."
So they made their father drink wine that night, and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; he did not know when she lay down or when she rose.
On the next day, the firstborn said to the younger, "Look, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also; then you may go in and lie with him, so that we may preserve offspring through our father. So they made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger rose, and lay with him; and he did not know when she lay down or when she rose.
Thus both the daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father. The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab; he is the ancestor of the Moabites to this day. The younger also bore a son, and named him Benammi; he is the ancestor of the Ammonites to this day.
July 30, 2009
John 4.46->
Then he came again to Cana in Galilee where he had changed the water into wine.
Now there was a royal official whose son lay ill in Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.
Then Jesus said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders, you will not believe."
The official said to him, "Sir, come down before my boy dies."
Jesus said to him, "Go, your son will live."
The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and started on his way. As he was going down, his slaves met him and told him that his child was alive. So he asked them the hour at which he started to recover, and they said to him, "Yesterday at one in the afternoon the fever left him."
The father realized that this was the hour when Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live." So he himself believed, together with his whole household.
Now this was the second sign that Jesus did after coming from Judea to Galilee.
Now there was a royal official whose son lay ill in Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.
Then Jesus said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders, you will not believe."
The official said to him, "Sir, come down before my boy dies."
Jesus said to him, "Go, your son will live."
The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and started on his way. As he was going down, his slaves met him and told him that his child was alive. So he asked them the hour at which he started to recover, and they said to him, "Yesterday at one in the afternoon the fever left him."
The father realized that this was the hour when Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live." So he himself believed, together with his whole household.
Now this was the second sign that Jesus did after coming from Judea to Galilee.
Genesis 19.12-29
Then the men said to Lot, "Have you anyone else here? Sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or anyone you have in the city--bring them out of the place. For we are about to destroy this place, because the outcry against its people has become great before the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it.
So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, "Up, get out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.
When morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, "Get up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or else you will be consumed in the punishment of this city."
But he lingered, so the two men seized him and his wife and two daughters by the hand (the Lord being merciful to him) and they brought him out and left him outside the city. When they had brought him outside, they said, "Flee for your life; do not look back or stop anywhere in the Plain;. Flee to the hills, or else you will be consumed."
And Lot said, "Oh no, my lords; your servant has found favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life, but I cannot flee to the hills, for fear the disaster will overtake me and I die. Look, that city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one. Let me escape there--Is it not a little one?--and my life will be saved."
He said to him, "Very well, I grant you this favor too, and will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken. Hurry, escape there, for I can do nothing until you arrive there." Therefore the city was called Zoar. The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of Heaven; and he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. But Lot's wife, behind him, looked back and she became a pillar of salt.
Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord, and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the Plain, and saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of a furnace.
So it was that, when God had destroyed the cities of the Plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot our of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had settled.
So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, "Up, get out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.
When morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, "Get up, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or else you will be consumed in the punishment of this city."
But he lingered, so the two men seized him and his wife and two daughters by the hand (the Lord being merciful to him) and they brought him out and left him outside the city. When they had brought him outside, they said, "Flee for your life; do not look back or stop anywhere in the Plain;. Flee to the hills, or else you will be consumed."
And Lot said, "Oh no, my lords; your servant has found favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life, but I cannot flee to the hills, for fear the disaster will overtake me and I die. Look, that city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one. Let me escape there--Is it not a little one?--and my life will be saved."
He said to him, "Very well, I grant you this favor too, and will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken. Hurry, escape there, for I can do nothing until you arrive there." Therefore the city was called Zoar. The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of Heaven; and he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. But Lot's wife, behind him, looked back and she became a pillar of salt.
Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord, and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the Plain, and saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of a furnace.
So it was that, when God had destroyed the cities of the Plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot our of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had settled.
July 20, 2009
John 4.43-45
When the two days were over he set out for Galilee; for Jesus himself declared that a prophet is without honor in his own country.
On his arrival in Galilee, the Galileans gave him a welcome, because they had seen all that he did at the festival in Jerusalem; they had been at the festival themselves.
On his arrival in Galilee, the Galileans gave him a welcome, because they had seen all that he did at the festival in Jerusalem; they had been at the festival themselves.
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