Study Desk

They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service.

for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me, and have believed that I came forth from God.

Now we are sure that You know all things, and have no need that anyone should question You. By this we believe that You came forth from God."

And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and according to our [fn] law He ought to die, because He made Himself the Son of God."

Jesus said to her, "Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, "I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God."'

And Thomas answered and said to Him, "My Lord and my God!"

but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.

This He spoke, signifying by what death he would glorify God. And when He had spoken this, He said to him, "Follow Me."

to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.

Cretans and Arabs--we hear them speaking in our own tongues the wonderful works of God."

"And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams.

"Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man attested by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs which God did through Him in your midst, as you yourselves also know--

Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken [fn] by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death;

whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it.

Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, He would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne, [fn]

This Jesus God has raised up, of which we are all witnesses.

Therefore being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear.

"Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ."

For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call."