he said to take back this answer to Esther:

So for this reason I have asked to see you and speak with you, for I am bound with this chain because of the hope of Israel.”

Say, ‘This is what the king says, “Put this man in prison. Give him only a little bread and water until I safely return.”’”

Say, ‘This is what the king says: “Put this man in prison. Give him only a little bread and water until I return safely.”’”

This is what the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, says: “Go visit this administrator, Shebna, who supervises the palace, and tell him:

Say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: The prince will raise this burden in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel within it.’

Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who and what kind of woman this is who is touching him, that she is a sinner.”

But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also and did not release the people.

You must observe this event as an ordinance for you and for your children forever.

This is the offering you are to accept from them: gold, silver, bronze,

“‘This is the law of the guilt offering. It is most holy.

However, through all this you did not have confidence in the Lord your God,

Jesus said to them, “Whose image is this, and whose inscription?”

But he forcefully commanded them not to tell this to anyone,

When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.

So they said to him, “Sir, give us this bread all the time!”

But this rabble who do not know the law are accursed!”

for he was counted as one of us and received a share in this ministry.”

(Now seven sons of a man named Sceva, a Jewish high priest, were doing this.)

I asked the Lord three times about this, that it would depart from me.