Jeremiah 33John 11.17-57Jeremiah 33
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Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still shut up in the place of the armed watchmen, saying,
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These are the words of the Lord, who is doing it, the Lord who is forming it, to make it certain the Lord is his name
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Let your cry come to me, and I will give you an answer, and let you see great things and secret things of which you had no knowledge.
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For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said about the houses of this town and the houses of the kings of Judah, which have been broken down to make earthworks and...
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...and to make them full of the dead bodies of men whom I have put to death in my wrath and in my passion, and because of whose evil-doing I have kept my face covered from this town.
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See, I will make it healthy and well again, I will even make them well I will let them see peace and good faith in full measure.
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And I will let the fate of Judah and of Israel be changed, building them up as at first.
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And I will make them clean from all their sin, with which they have been sinning against me I will have forgiveness for all their sins, with which they have been sinning against me, and with which they have done evil against me.
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And this town will be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth, who, hearing of all the good which I am doing for them, will be shaking with fear because of all the good and the peace which I am doing for it.
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This is what the Lord has said: There will again be sounding in this place, of which you say, It is a waste, without man and without beast even in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem which are waste and unpeopled, without man and without beast,
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Happy sounds, the voice of joy, the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who say, Give praise to the Lord of armies, for the Lord is good, for his mercy is unchanging for ever: the voices of those who go with praise into the house of the Lord. For I will let the land come back to its first condition, says the Lord.
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This is what the Lord of armies has said: Again there will be in this place, which is a waste, without man and without beast, and in all its towns, a resting-place where the keepers of sheep will make their flocks take rest.
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In the towns of the hill-country, in the towns of the lowland, and in the towns of the South and in the land of Benjamin and in the country round Jerusalem and in the towns of Judah, the flocks will again go under the hand of him who is numbering them, says the Lord.
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See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will give effect to the good word which I have said about the people of Israel and the people of Judah.
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In those days and at that time, I will let a Branch of righteousness come up for David and he will be a judge in righteousness in the land.
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In those days, Judah will have salvation and Jerusalem will be safe: and this is the name which will be given to her: The Lord is our righteousness.
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For the Lord has said, David will never be without a man to take his place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel
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And the priests and the Levites will never be without a man to come before me, offering burned offerings and perfumes and meal offerings and offerings of beasts at all times.
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And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,
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The Lord has said: If it is possible for my agreement of the day and the night to be broken, so that day and night no longer come at their fixed times,
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Then my agreement with my servant David may be broken, so that he no longer has a son to take his place on the seat of the kingdom and my agreement with the Levites, the priests, my servants.
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As it is not possible for the army of heaven to be numbered, or the sand of the sea measured, so will I make the seed of my servant David, and the Levites my servants.
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And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,
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Have you taken note of what these people have said, The two families, which the Lord took for himself, he has given up? This they say, looking down on my people as being, in their eyes, no longer a nation.
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The Lord has said, If I have not made day and night, and if the limits of heaven and earth have not been fixed by me,
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Then I will give up caring for the seed of Jacob and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will let their fate be changed and will have mercy on them.
John 11
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Now when Jesus came, he made the discovery that Lazarus had been put into the earth four days before.
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Now Bethany was near to Jerusalem, about two miles away
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And a number of Jews had come to Martha and Mary to give them comfort about their brother.
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When Martha had the news that Jesus was on the way, she went out to him, but Mary did not go from the house.
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Then Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if you had been here my brother would not be dead.
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But I am certain that, even now, whatever request you make to God, God will give it to you.
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Jesus said to her, Your brother will come to life again.
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Martha said to him, I am certain that he will come to life again when all come back from the dead at the last day.
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Jesus said to her, I am myself that day and that life he who has faith in me will have life even if he is dead
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And no one who is living and has faith in me will ever see death. Is this your faith?
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She said to him, Yes, Lord: my faith is that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.
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And having said this, she went away and said secretly to her sister Mary, The Master is here and has sent for you.
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And Mary, hearing this, got up quickly and went to him.
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Now Jesus had not at this time come into the town, but was still in the place where Martha had seen him.
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Then the Jews who were with her in the house, comforting her, when they saw Mary get up quickly and go out, went after her in the belief that she was going to the place of the dead and would be weeping there.
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When Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she went down at his feet, saying, Lord, if you had been here my brother would not be dead.
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And when Jesus saw her weeping, and saw the Jews weeping who came with her, his spirit was moved and he was troubled,
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And said, Where have you put him? They said, Come and see, Lord.
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And Jesus himself was weeping.
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So the Jews said, See how dear he was to him!
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But some of them said, This man, who made open the eyes of the blind man, was he not able to keep his friend from death?
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So Jesus, deeply troubled in heart, came to the place of the dead. It was a hole in the rock, and a stone was over the opening.
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Jesus said, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said, Lord, by this time the body will be smelling, for he has been dead four days.
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Jesus said to her, Did I not say to you that if you had faith you would see the glory of God?
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So they took away the stone. And Jesus, looking up to heaven, said, Father, I give praise to you for hearing me.
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I was certain that your ears are at all times open to me, but I said it because of these who are here, so that they may see that you sent me.
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Then he said in a loud voice, Lazarus, come out!
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And he who was dead came out, with linen bands folded tightly about his hands and feet, and a cloth about his face. Jesus said to them, Make him free and let him go.
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Then a number of the Jews who had come to Mary and had seen the things which Jesus did had belief in him.
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But some of them went to the Pharisees with the news of what Jesus had done.
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Then the high priests and the Pharisees had a meeting and said, What are we doing? This man is doing a number of signs.
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If we let him go on in this way, everybody will have belief in him and the Romans will come and take away our place and our nation.
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But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, You have no knowledge of anything
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You do not see that it is in your interest for one man to be put to death for the people, so that all the nation may not come to destruction.
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He did not say this of himself, but being the high priest that year he said, as a prophet, that Jesus would be put to death for the nation
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And not for that nation only, but for the purpose of uniting in one body the children of God all over the world.
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And from that day they took thought together how to put him to death.
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So Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but went from there into the country near to the waste land, to a town named Ephraim, where he was for some time with the disciples.
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Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and numbers of people went up from the country to Jerusalem to make themselves clean before the Passover.
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They were looking for Jesus and saying to one another while they were in the Temple, What is your opinion? Will he not come to the feast?
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Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone had knowledge where he was, he was to give them word, so that they might take him.
