-----------------------------------------
Sat 05-21-2022 Exodus26 John5 Proverbs2 Galatians1
Exodus 26.
26:1 "Make the tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen and blue, purple and scarlet yarn, with cherubim worked into them by a skilled craftsman.
26:2 All the curtains are to be the same size--twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide.
26:3 Join five of the curtains together, and do the same with the other five.
26:4 Make loops of blue material along the edge of the end curtain in one set, and do the same with the end curtain in the other set.
26:5 Make fifty loops on one curtain and fifty loops on the end curtain of the other set, with the loops opposite each other.
26:6 Then make fifty gold clasps and use them to fasten the curtains together so that the tabernacle is a unit.
26:7 "Make curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle--eleven altogether.
26:8 All eleven curtains are to be the same size--thirty cubits long and four cubits wide.
26:9 Join five of the curtains together into one set and the other six into another set. Fold the sixth curtain double at the front of the tent.
26:10 Make fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in one set and also along the edge of the end curtain in the other set.
26:11 Then make fifty bronze clasps and put them in the loops to fasten the tent together as a unit.
26:12 As for the additional length of the tent curtains, the half curtain that is left over is to hang down at the rear of the tabernacle.
26:13 The tent curtains will be a cubit longer on both sides; what is left will hang over the sides of the tabernacle so as to cover it.
26:14 Make for the tent a covering of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of hides of sea cows.
26:15 "Make upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle.
26:16 Each frame is to be ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide,
26:17 with two projections set parallel to each other. Make all the frames of the tabernacle in this way.
26:18 Make twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle
26:19 and make forty silver bases to go under them--two bases for each frame, one under each projection.
26:20 For the other side, the north side of the tabernacle, make twenty frames
26:21 and forty silver bases--two under each frame.
26:22 Make six frames for the far end, that is, the west end of the tabernacle,
26:23 and make two frames for the corners at the far end.
26:24 At these two corners they must be double from the bottom all the way to the top, and fitted into a single ring; both shall be like that.
26:25 So there will be eight frames and sixteen silver bases--two under each frame.
26:26 "Also make crossbars of acacia wood: five for the frames on one side of the tabernacle,
26:27 five for those on the other side, and five for the frames on the west, at the far end of the tabernacle.
26:28 The center crossbar is to extend from end to end at the middle of the frames.
26:29 Overlay the frames with gold and make gold rings to hold the crossbars. Also overlay the crossbars with gold.
26:30 "Set up the tabernacle according to the plan shown you on the mountain.
26:31 "Make a curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen, with cherubim worked into it by a skilled craftsman.
26:32 Hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold and standing on four silver bases.
26:33 Hang the curtain from the clasps and place the ark of the Testimony behind the curtain. The curtain will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.
26:34 Put the atonement cover on the ark of the Testimony in the Most Holy Place.
26:35 Place the table outside the curtain on the north side of the tabernacle and put the lampstand opposite it on the south side.
26:36 "For the entrance to the tent make a curtain of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen--the work of an embroiderer.
26:37 Make gold hooks for this curtain and five posts of acacia wood overlaid with gold. And cast five bronze bases for them.
John 5.
5:1 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews.
5:2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.
5:3 Here a great number of disabled people used to lie--the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.
5:4
5:5 One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
5:6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"
5:7 "Sir," the invalid replied, "I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me."
5:8 Then Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk."
5:9 At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath,
5:10 and so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat."
5:11 But he replied, "The man who made me well said to me, 'Pick up your mat and walk.'"
5:12 So they asked him, "Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?"
5:13 The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.
5:14 Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you."
5:15 The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
5:16 So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews persecuted him.
5:17 Jesus said to them, "My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am working."
5:18 For this reason the Jews tried all the harder to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
5:19 Jesus gave them this answer: "I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.
5:20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, to your amazement he will show him even greater things than these.
5:21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it.
5:22 Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son,
5:23 that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him.
5:24 "I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life.
5:25 I tell you the truth, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live.
5:26 For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself.
5:27 And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man.
5:28 "Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice
5:29 and come out--those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned.
5:30 By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.
5:31 "If I testify about myself, my testimony is not valid.
5:32 There is another who testifies in my favor, and I know that his testimony about me is valid.
5:33 "You have sent to John and he has testified to the truth.
5:34 Not that I accept human testimony; but I mention it that you may be saved.
5:35 John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you chose for a time to enjoy his light.
5:36 "I have testimony weightier than that of John. For the very work that the Father has given me to finish, and which I am doing, testifies that the Father has sent me.
5:37 And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You have never heard his voice nor seen his form,
5:38 nor does his word dwell in you, for you do not believe the one he sent.
5:39 You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me,
5:40 yet you refuse to come to me to have life.
5:41 "I do not accept praise from men,
5:42 but I know you. I know that you do not have the love of God in your hearts.
5:43 I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.
5:44 How can you believe if you accept praise from one another, yet make no effort to obtain the praise that comes from the only God?
5:45 "But do not think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes are set.
5:46 If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.
5:47 But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?"
Proverbs 2.
2:1 My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you,
2:2 turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding,
2:3 and if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding,
2:4 and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure,
2:5 then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.
2:6 For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
2:7 He holds victory in store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,
2:8 for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones.
2:9 Then you will understand what is right and just and fair--every good path.
2:10 For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
2:11 Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.
2:12 Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse,
2:13 who leave the straight paths to walk in dark ways,
2:14 who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,
2:15 whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.
2:16 It will save you also from the adulteress, from the wayward wife with her seductive words,
2:17 who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God.
2:18 For her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead.
2:19 None who go to her return or attain the paths of life.
2:20 Thus you will walk in the ways of good men and keep to the paths of the righteous.
2:21 For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it;
2:22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it.
Galatians 1.
1:1 Paul, an apostle--sent not from men nor by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead--
1:2 and all the brothers with me, To the churches in Galatia:
1:3 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,
1:4 who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
1:5 to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
1:6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel--
1:7 which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ.
1:8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned!
1:9 As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!
1:10 Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
1:11 I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel I preached is not something that man made up.
1:12 I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ.
1:13 For you have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism, how intensely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it.
1:14 I was advancing in Judaism beyond many Jews of my own age and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
1:15 But when God, who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace, was pleased
1:16 to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not consult any man,
1:17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I was, but I went immediately into Arabia and later returned to Damascus.
1:18 Then after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Peter and stayed with him fifteen days.
1:19 I saw none of the other apostles--only James, the Lord's brother.
1:20 I assure you before God that what I am writing you is no lie.
1:21 Later I went to Syria and Cilicia.
1:22 I was personally unknown to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.
1:23 They only heard the report: "The man who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy."
1:24 And they praised God because of me.