18 Then the king answered the woman, “Do not hide from me anything I ask you.” And the woman said, “Let my lord the king speak.” 19 The king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” The woman answered and said, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, oneContinue reading “2Samuel 14: 18-22….Why was Joab so delighted?”
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2Samuel 14: 12-17….Plain speaking!
Then the woman said, “Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king.” He said, “Speak.” And the woman said, “Why then have you planned such a thing against the people of God? For in giving this decision the king convicts himself, inasmuch as the king does not bring his banished oneContinue reading “2Samuel 14: 12-17….Plain speaking!”
2 Samuel 14: 1-11….A concocted story!
Now Joab the son of Zeruiah knew that the king’s heart went out to Absalom. And Joab sent to Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman and said to her, “Pretend to be a mourner and put on mourning garments. Do not anoint yourself with oil, but behave like a woman who has beenContinue reading “2 Samuel 14: 1-11….A concocted story!”
John 17: 20-26….The High Priestly Prayer concluded.
“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. TheContinue reading “John 17: 20-26….The High Priestly Prayer concluded.”
John 17: 11-19…..The prayer continues.
And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which youContinue reading “John 17: 11-19…..The prayer continues.”
John 17: 1-10….Jesus Prayer begins.
When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, thatContinue reading “John 17: 1-10….Jesus Prayer begins.”
John 16: 25-33… Coming and Going!
“I have said these things to you in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech but will tell you plainly about the Father. In that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will askContinue reading “John 16: 25-33… Coming and Going!”
John 16: 16-23…. For them it was difficult.
A little while, and you will see me no longer; and again a little while, and you will see me.” So some of his disciples said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will seeContinue reading “John 16: 16-23…. For them it was difficult.”
John 16: 4b -15….A New Companion!
I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you. But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. Nevertheless, I tell you theContinue reading “John 16: 4b -15….A New Companion!”
John 15: 18-16: 4a….Hated because you are His!
“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that IContinue reading “John 15: 18-16: 4a….Hated because you are His!”
As I read it! 