No one can withstand his indignation! No one can resist his fierce anger! His wrath is poured out like volcanic fire, boulders are broken up as he approaches.

I am against you,” declares the Lord who commands armies. “I will strip off your clothes! I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms;

When the mountains see you, they shake. The torrential downpour sweeps through. The great deep shouts out; it lifts its hands high.

Now therefore reflect carefully on the recent past, before one stone was laid on another in the Lord’s temple.

He then said, “This woman represents wickedness,” and he pushed her down into the basket and placed the lead cover on top.

“‘It then came about that just as I cried out, but they would not obey, so they will cry out, but I will not listen,’ the Lord Lord who rules over all had said.

“I am about to make Jerusalem a cup that brings dizziness to all the surrounding nations; indeed, Judah will also be included when Jerusalem is besieged.

Instead he will say, ‘I am no prophet – indeed, I am a farmer, for a man has made me his indentured servant since my youth.’

Then you will know that I sent this commandment to you so that my covenant may continue to be with Levi,” says the Lord who rules over all.

“Be careful not to display your righteousness merely to be seen by people. Otherwise you have no reward with your Father in heaven.

But Peter was following him from a distance, all the way to the high priest’s courtyard. After going in, he sat with the guards to see the outcome.

When he went out to the gateway, another slave girl saw him and said to the people there, “This man was with Jesus the Nazarene.”

For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’

But if we say, ‘From people – ’” (they feared the crowd, for they all considered John to be truly a prophet).

And the child kept growing and becoming strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day he was revealed to Israel.

Now a woman was there who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years but could not be healed by anyone.

Now Herod the tetrarch heard about everything that was happening, and he was thoroughly perplexed, because some people were saying that John had been raised from the dead,

So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves left over by the people who had eaten.

It is written in the prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who hears and learns from the Father comes to me.

For we have heard him saying that Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”