For with mocking lips and a foreign tongue he will speak to these people.

When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and bowed down before him.

A man named Barabbas was imprisoned with rebels who had committed murder during an insurrection.

For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

Before Jesus arrived, John had proclaimed a baptism for repentance to all the people of Israel.

Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

That is why many of you are weak and sick, and quite a few are dead.

A curse on anyone who is lax in doing the Lord’s work! A curse on anyone who keeps from carrying out his destruction!

Now a wind went out from the Lord and brought quail from the sea, and let them fall near the camp, about a day’s journey on this side, and about a day’s journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about three feet high on the surface of the ground.

Elisha replied, “Hear the word of the Lord! This is what the Lord says, ‘About this time tomorrow a seah of finely milled flour will sell for a shekel and two seahs of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria.’”

that sends messengers by sea, who glide over the water’s surface in boats made of papyrus. Go, you swift messengers, to a nation of tall, smooth-skinned people, to a people that are feared far and wide, to a nation strong and victorious, whose land rivers divide.

“Son of man, sing a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him: “‘You were like a lion among the nations, but you are a monster in the seas; you thrash about in your streams, stir up the water with your feet, and muddy your streams.

Now a river flows from Eden to water the orchard, and from there it divides into four headstreams.

But as for you, you will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.

The child grew and was weaned. Abraham prepared a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

You must go instead to my country and to my relatives to find a wife for my son Isaac.”

Abraham’s servant ran to meet her and said, “Please give me a sip of water from your jug.”

(Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban.) Laban rushed out to meet the man at the spring.

When Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well with fresh flowing water there,

She became pregnant and gave birth to a son. Then she said, “God has taken away my shame.”