Study Desk

And the third brother married the widow, and he died. The same thing happened with all seven brothers; they died and had no children.

In that life they are like angels and cannot die. They are children of God, because they have been raised from the dead.

But Jesus turned and said to them, "Women of Jerusalem, don't cry for me. Cry for yourselves and for your children.

The time is coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the women who cannot have children and who have no babies to nurse.'

But to all who did accept him and believe in him he gave the right to become children of God.

They did not become his children in any human way—by any human parents or human desire. They were born of God.

They answered, "We are Abraham's children, and we have never been anyone's slaves. So why do you say we will be free?"

I know you are Abraham's children, but you want to kill me because you don't accept my teaching.

They answered, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said, "If you were really Abraham's children, you would do the things Abraham did.

So you are doing the things your own father did." But they said, "We are not like children who never knew who their father was. God is our Father; he is the only Father we have."

and for God's scattered children to bring them all together and make them one.

Believe in the light while you still have it so that you will become children of light." When Jesus had said this, he left and hid himself from them.

Jesus said, "My children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and what I told the Jews, I tell you now: Where I am going you cannot come.

This promise is for you, for your children, and for all who are far away. It is for everyone the Lord our God calls to himself."

He was shamed and was treated unfairly. He died without children to continue his family. His life on earth has ended." Isaiah 53:7–8

God has made this promise come true for us, his children, by raising Jesus from the dead. We read about this also in Psalm 2: ‘You are my Son. Today I have become your Father.' Psalm 2:7

‘By his power we live and move and exist.' Some of your own poets have said: ‘For we are his children.'

Since we are God's children, you must not think that God is like something that people imagine or make from gold, silver, or rock.

When we finished our visit, we left and continued our trip. All the followers, even the women and children, came outside the city with us. After we all knelt on the beach and prayed,

They have heard about your teaching, that you tell our people who live among the nations to leave the law of Moses. They have heard that you tell them not to circumcise their children and not to obey customs.