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Chapter study
…and rival courts would have caught the audacity immediately. Anyone can feast in safety. This is a feast in front of the people who want you gone. Anointing and the overflowing cup 'You anoint my head with oil' names…
Dig Deeper
…singular. Every line is my and me. Israel had a national faith, held in feasts and sacrifices and a temple, and David does not set that aside. He simply insists that the God of the whole nation attends to one man in one…
Reading plan
…John helps you see who Jesus is. In the same way, when he brings in a feast, a well, a shepherd or a vine, he is reaching back into Israel's Scriptures, where those images already carried meaning, and showing you that…
52 Week Journey
…came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut. WEB
52 Week Journey
…WEB The Wedding Supper of the Lamb The final hope is pictured as a feast, not an ending. Revelation 19:9 He said to me, “Write, ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb.’” He said to me,…
Verse study
…and rival courts would have caught the audacity immediately. Anyone can feast in safety. This is a feast in front of the people who want you gone. Anointing and the overflowing cup 'You anoint my head with oil' names…
Devotional
…dwelling with His people, and every tear wiped away. Isaiah 25:6-9 The feast on this mountain, death swallowed up forever, and tears wiped from all faces. 1 Corinthians 15:54-57 Death swallowed up in victory, and thanks…
Devotional
…came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut. WEB Ten virgins wait for a bridegroom who is delayed, and five bring extra oil for their lamps while five do not. When the…
Devotional
…15:22-24 The father's commands: the best robe, a ring, sandals, and a feast, given before the son finishes speaking. Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on…
Devotional
…WEB Revelation pictures the culmination of redemption as a wedding feast, a celebration with an invited guest list, not a solemn dissolution of history. The image is deliberately joyful, echoing weddings throughout…
Devotional
…Testament for the tabernacle. It returns in Revelation 21:3, where God tabernacles with humanity forever. John 1:14 and Revelation 21:3 are the two ends of one promise.
Devotional
…hearing their own language at once. The timing was not incidental; a feast that already gathered the scattered nations became the setting for the Spirit's outpouring toward those same nations. Peter's sermon that…
Devotional
…in Acts 2 with the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, a Jewish feast already on the calendar, fifty days after Passover. The timing of the promise's fulfillment was tied to an appointed festival, not to how ready…
Devotional
…recording signs like this one. Isaiah 25:6 Yahweh of Armies will make a feast of choice wine for all peoples, an image of abundance the sign echoes. Where in your life do you need Jesus to act quietly, without an…
Biblical concept
…Jewish sources describe large lamps set up in the temple court during the feast of tabernacles, lighting the courts at night. Mishnah, Sukkah 5:2-4 Describes the lamps in the court of the women during the feast, and the…
Biblical concept
…welling up to eternal life. John does not leave the image floating. At the feast of tabernacles, when Jesus cries out that rivers of living water will flow from within whoever believes, John stops to explain: this he…
Place in Scripture
…with nothing to fall back on. It became the nation's memory. Every Feast of Tabernacles put families in temporary shelters again so the next generation would know what it was like to depend entirely on God (Leviticus…
Biblical concept
…on the night before the exodus itself, before it becomes an annual feast, when the blood on the doorframes protects Israel's households from the final plague. Exodus 12:13 The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses…
Place in Scripture
…Going up a mountain was work. A pilgrim heading to Jerusalem for a feast climbed for hours, singing the Songs of Ascents on the way, so worship began with effort and anticipation. The summit was set apart. At Sinai the…
Biblical concept
…My servant David. In John 10 a man stands in Jerusalem, at the feast, and says I am the good shepherd. Both promises are kept in the same person. He also takes the place of the sheep. Isaiah 53:6 has the flock straying…
Christian Living
…8 The people wept when the Law was read, and Nehemiah sent them home to feast. Joy here is not the absence of tears but a strength given by God to a people who had just heard the truth about themselves. Joy in Scripture…
Bible question
…and the Father are one. WEB Jesus makes this claim in the temple at the Feast of Dedication, to a crowd that had just demanded he tell them plainly whether he was the Christ. Read what he actually says about his sheep…
Bible question
…believers confident about their liberty, particularly around idol feasts, 1 Corinthians 8 to 10 a warning drawn from Israel's failures in the wilderness, 1 Corinthians 10:1-11 1 Corinthians 10:13 is not a standalone…
Bible question
…2:36-41 They were Jews and proselytes gathered in Jerusalem for the feast, many of whom had been present when Jesus was handed over and crucified weeks earlier. Peter's sermon told them plainly that the man they…
The Sunday Study
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