GENESIS 3 : 9
Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?"
GENESIS 3 : 13
Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?"
Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, "This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don't you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?"
Who can count the dust of Jacob, Or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, Let my last end be like his!
For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been [any such thing] as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?
Gideon said to him, Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? and where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not Yahweh bring us up from Egypt? but now Yahweh has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.
He said to him, Oh, Lord, with which shall I save Israel? behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.
They said to her, No, but we will return with you to your people.
would you therefore wait until they were grown? would you therefore stay from having husbands? nay, my daughters, for it grieves me much for your sakes, for the hand of Yahweh is gone forth against me.
So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. It happened, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and [the women] said, Is this Naomi?
Then said Boaz to his servant who was set over the reapers, Whose young lady is this?
He said, Who are you? She answered, I am Ruth your handmaid: spread therefore your skirt over your handmaid; for you are a near kinsman.
But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
She said to Elijah, What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!
He cried to Yahweh, and said, Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I sojourn, by killing her son?
Elisha said to her, What shall I do for you? tell me; what have you in the house? She said, Your handmaid has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil.
Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What shall be the sign that Yahweh will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of Yahweh the third day?
But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house which I have built!
Yahweh said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? One spoke saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner.
Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil."
"Oh that I might have my request; That God would grant the thing that I long for!
What is man, that you should magnify him, That you should set your mind on him,
If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, So that I am a burden to myself?
Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."
Then Job answered,
How much less shall I answer him, Choose my words to argue with him?
For what does he care for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off?
"Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.
Why do the nations rage, And the peoples plot a vain thing?
Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
What will I give to Yahweh for all his benefits toward me?
Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?
Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name, if you know?
What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?
What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will you flee for help? and where will you leave your glory?
Woe to him who strives with his Maker--a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, "What are you making?" or your work, "He has no hands?"
Woe to him who says to a father, "What have you become the father of?" or to a woman, "With what do you travail?"
Who has believed our message? and to whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?
The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or tell him, What do you?
So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, "What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your gods! Maybe the gods will notice us, so that we won't perish."
Then they asked him, "Tell us, please, for whose cause this evil is on us. What is your occupation? Where do you come from? What is your country? Of what people are you?"
Then said they to him, "What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us?" For the sea grew more and more tempestuous.
How shall I come before Yahweh, And bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, With calves a year old?
Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.
You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,
Don't we all have one father? Hasn't one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?
"Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him."
Gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ would be born.
But John would have hindered him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and you come to me?"
The tempter came and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread."
He said to them, "Why are you fearful, oh you of little faith?" Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.
The men marveled, saying, "What kind of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"
The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.
Jesus, perceiving it, said, "Why do you reason among yourselves, you of little faith, 'because you have brought no bread?'
Don't you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?
Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, "Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?"
He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"
For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
His disciples asked him, saying, "Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"
Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven;' or to say, 'Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?'
The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, "Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?"
Jesus said to them, "Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can't fast.
He said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath day to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?" But they were silent.
He summoned them, and said to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan?
He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, "Teacher, don't you care that we are dying?"
They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"
Isn't this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?" They were offended at him.
The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why don't your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?"
His disciples answered him, "From where could one satisfy these people with bread here in a deserted place?"
He asked them, "How many loaves do you have?" They said, "Seven."
He sighed deeply in his spirit, and said, "Why does this generation{The word translated "generation" here (genea) could also be translated "people," "race," or "family."} seek a sign? Most assuredly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation."
Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, "Why do you reason that it's because you have no bread? Don't you perceive yet, neither understand? Is your heart still hardened?
Jesus went out, with his disciples, into the villages of Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples, "Who do men say that I am?"
For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?
For what will a man give in exchange for his life?
They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the "rising from the dead" meant.
They asked him, saying, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"
He asked the scribes, "What are you asking them?"
He asked his father, "How long has it been since this has come to him?" He said, "From childhood.
When he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, "Why couldn't we cast it out?"
He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, "What were you arguing among yourselves on the way?"
Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"
He answered, "What did Moses command you?"
As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?"
They were exceedingly astonished, saying to him, "Then who can be saved?"
James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came near to him, saying, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask."
He said to them, "What do you want me to do for you?"
Jesus asked him, "What do you want me to do for you?" The blind man said to him, "Rhabboni,{Rhabboni is a transliteration of the Hebrew word for "great teacher."} that I may see again."
He taught, saying to them, "Isn't it written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?' But you have made it a den of robbers!"
The baptism of John -- was it from heaven, or from men? Answer me."
What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.
When they had come, they asked him, "Teacher, we know that you are honest, and don't defer to anyone; for you aren't partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?
They brought it. He said to them, "Whose is this image and inscription?" They said to him, "Caesar's."
There came to him Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection. They asked him, saying,
In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be of them? For the seven had her as a wife."
Jesus responded, as he taught in the temple, "How is it that the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?
Therefore David himself calls him Lord, so how can he be his son?" The common people heard him gladly.
"Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign that these things are all about to be fulfilled?"
Jesus answered them, "Have you come out, as against a robber, with swords and clubs to seize me?
The high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, "Have you no answer? What is it which these testify against you?"
But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?"
The high priest tore his clothes, and said, "What further need have we of witnesses?
Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered, "So you say."
Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"
Pilate again asked them, "What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?"
Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, "Crucify him!"
At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which is, being interpreted, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
Zacharias said to the angel, "How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years."
Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, seeing I am a virgin?"
Why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
All who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, "What then will this child be?" The hand of the Lord was with him.
When they saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, "Son, why have you treated us this way? Behold, your father and I were anxiously looking for you."
He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be baptized by him, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
The multitudes asked him, "What then must we do?"
Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, "Teacher, what must we do?"
Soldiers also asked him, saying, "What about us? What must we do?" He said to them, "Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages."
As the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he was the Christ,
saying, "Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!"
The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, "Who is this that speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?"
But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, "Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?
Which is easier to say, 'Your sins are forgiven you;' or to say, 'Arise and walk?'
Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?"
He said to them, "Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast, while the bridegroom is with them?
But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up to him, and said, "Lord, don't you care that my sister left me to serve alone? Ask her therefore to help me."
He called him, and said to him, 'What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.'
"The manager said within himself, 'What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don't have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.
Calling each one of his lord's debtors to him, he said to the first, 'How much do you owe to my lord?'
If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
If you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?
This is John's testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"
They asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No."
They said therefore to him, "Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"
Jesus turned, and saw them following, and said to them, "What are you looking for?" They said to him, "Rabbi" (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), "where are you staying?"
Nathanael said to him, "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."
The Jews therefore answered him, "What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?"
How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don't seek the glory that comes from the only God?
His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"
Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"
He answered, "Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?"
Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, "Are we also blind?"
Others said, "These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn't possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?"
The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, "How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."
Jesus answered, "Aren't there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn't stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"
Jesus said to her, "Didn't I tell you that if you believed, you would see God's glory?"
Pilate therefore said to him, "Are you a king then?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice."
Therefore, when they had come together, they asked him, "Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?"
who also said, "You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from you into the sky will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky."
They were all amazed, and were perplexed, saying one to another, "What does this mean?"
Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?"
saying, "What shall we do to these men? Because indeed a notable miracle has been done through them, as can be plainly seen by all who dwell in Jerusalem, and we can't deny it.
Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
and brought them out and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"
Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead?
When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.'
"I said, 'Who are you, Lord?' "He said, 'I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe."
What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
He who didn't spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?
Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.
Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?
"Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?"
For this cause I also, when I couldn't stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.
having become so much better than the angels, as he has inherited a more excellent name than they have.
But one has somewhere testified, saying, "What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him?
So that with good courage we say, "The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?"
haven't you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?
But you have dishonored the poor man. Don't the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?
and one of you tells them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled;" and yet you didn't give them the things the body needs, what good is it?
Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?
In like manner wasn't Rahab the prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way?
Now who is he who will harm you, if you become imitators of that which is good?
They cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"
for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?"
They worshiped the dragon, because he gave his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, "Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?"
Who wouldn't fear you, Lord, And glorify your name? For you only are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed."