“Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, the way by the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles –

After he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave his people their land as an inheritance.

After they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret.

After instructing the crowd to sit down on the ground,

Then he bent over again and wrote on the ground.

Keep thinking about things above, not things on the earth,

The one who comes from above is superior to all. The one who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly things. The one who comes from heaven is superior to all.

After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth so no wind could blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any tree.

Other seeds fell on rocky ground where they did not have much soil. They sprang up quickly because the soil was not deep.

Other seed fell on rocky ground where it did not have much soil. It sprang up at once because the soil was not deep.

It is like a mustard seed that when sown in the ground, even though it is the smallest of all the seeds in the ground –

and said to him, ‘Go out from your country and from your relatives, and come to the land I will show you.’

Then his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “I will once more shake not only the earth but heaven too.”

But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or look into it.

Then out of the smoke came locusts onto the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth.

So the one seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was reaped.

with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality and the earth’s inhabitants got drunk with the wine of her immorality.”

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had ceased to exist, and the sea existed no more.

“Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

And the news of this spread throughout that region.