Isaiah 30:10-11
30:10 They say to the visionaries, “See no more visions!”
and to the seers, “Don’t relate messages to us about what is right!
Tell us nice things,
relate deceptive messages.
30:11 Turn aside from the way,
stray off the path.
Remove from our presence the Holy One of Israel.”
Micah 2:6
2:6 ‘Don’t preach with such impassioned rhetoric,’ they say excitedly.
‘These prophets should not preach of such things;
we will not be overtaken by humiliation.’
Micah 2:11
2:11 If a lying windbag should come and say,
‘I’ll promise you blessings of wine and beer,’
he would be just the right preacher for these people!
John 3:19-21
3:19 Now this is the basis for judging:
that the light has come into the world and people
loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.
3:20 For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.
3:21 But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly evident that his deeds have been done in God.
John 3:2
3:2 came to Jesus
at night
and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs
that you do unless God is with him.”
John 2:9-11
2:9 When
the head steward tasted the water that had been turned to wine, not knowing where it came from
(though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he
called the bridegroom
2:10 and said to him, “Everyone
serves the good wine first, and then the cheaper
wine when the guests
are drunk. You have kept the good wine until now!”
2:11 Jesus did this as the first of his miraculous signs,
in Cana
of Galilee. In this way he revealed
his glory, and his disciples believed in him.
John 2:2
2:2 and Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding.
John 4:3-4
4:3 he left Judea and set out once more for Galilee.
Conversation With a Samaritan Woman
4:4 But he had to pass through Samaria.