Four tables were on each side of the gate, eight tables on which the sacrifices were to be slaughtered.

Then he measured the temple as 175 feet long, the courtyard of the temple and the building and its walls as 175 feet long,

He measured it on all four sides. It had a wall around it, 875 feet long and 875 feet wide, to separate the holy and common places.

The tree that you saw that grew large and strong, whose top reached to the sky, and which could be seen in all the land,

“Come on! Let’s return to the Lord! He himself has torn us to pieces, but he will heal us! He has injured us, but he will bandage our wounds!

Even if they raise their children, I will take away every last one of them. Woe to them! For I will turn away from them.

As a result they will conquer those left in Edom and all the nations subject to my rule.” The Lord, who is about to do this, is speaking!

They confiscate the fields they desire, and seize the houses they want. They defraud people of their homes, and deprive people of the land they have inherited.

‘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.’

I will remove your idols and sacred pillars from your midst; you will no longer worship what your own hands made.

Know for sure that I will then enable the nations to give me acceptable praise. All of them will invoke the Lord’s name when they pray, and will worship him in unison.

“As for those who grieve because they cannot attend the festivals – I took them away from you; they became tribute and were a source of shame to you.

Go up to the hill country and bring back timber to build the temple. Then I will be pleased and honored,’ says the Lord.

I will also shake up all the nations, and they will offer their treasures; then I will fill this temple with glory,’ says the Lord who rules over all.

I asked, “Where are you going?” He replied, “To measure Jerusalem in order to determine its width and its length.”

“I am about to punish them in such a way,” he says, “that they will be looted by their own slaves.” Then you will know that the Lord who rules over all has sent me.

After being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back by another route to their own country.

He stayed there until Herod died. In this way what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet was fulfilled: “I called my Son out of Egypt.”

But he said to them, “Why are you cowardly, you people of little faith?” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was dead calm.

After the demon was cast out, the man who had been mute spoke. The crowds were amazed and said, “Never has anything like this been seen in Israel!”