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The scriptures below are from the WEB Bible.

James 1:27
27) Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.




1 Kings 17
1) Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the sojourners of Gilead, said to Ahab, As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
2) The word of Yahweh came to him, saying,
3) Get you hence, and turn you eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.
4) It shall be, that you shall drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.
5) So he went and did according to the word of Yahweh; for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.
6) The ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
7) It happened after a while, that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
8) The word of Yahweh came to him, saying,
9) Arise, get you to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.
10) So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks: and he called to her, and said, Please get me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
11) As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.
12) She said, As Yahweh your God lives, I aren‘t they a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the jar: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
13) Elijah said to her, Don‘t be afraid; go and do as you have said; but make me of it a little cake first, and bring it forth to me, and afterward make for you and for your son.
14) For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, The jar of meal shall not empty, neither shall the jar of oil fail, until the day that Yahweh sends rain on the earth.
15) She went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, ate [many] days.
16) The jar of meal didn‘t empty, neither did the jar of oil fail, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by Elijah.
17) It happened after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.
18) She said to Elijah, What have I to do with you, you man of God? you are come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!
19) He said to her, Give me your son. He took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the chamber, where he abode, and laid him on his own bed.
20) He cried to Yahweh, and said, Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I sojourn, by killing her son?
21) He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to Yahweh, and said, Yahweh my God, please let this child‘s soul come into him again.
22) Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
23) Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, Behold, your son lives.
24) The woman said to Elijah, Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of Yahweh in your mouth is truth.




2 Kings 4
1) Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant did fear Yahweh: and the creditor is come to take to him my two children to be bondservants.
2) Elisha said to her, What shall I do for you? tell me; what have you in the house? She said, Your handmaid has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil.
3) Then he said, Go, borrow you vessels abroad of all your neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
4) You shall go in, and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour out into all those vessels; and you shall set aside that which is full.
5) So she went from him, and shut the door on her and on her sons; they brought [the vessels] to her, and she poured out.
6) It happened, when the vessels were full, that she said to her son, Bring me yet a vessel. He said to her, There isn‘t another vessel. The oil stayed.
7) Then she came and told the man of God. He said, Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt, and live you and your sons of the rest.
8) It fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.
9) She said to her husband, See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, that passes by us continually.
10) Let us make, Please, a little chamber on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a seat, and a lamp stand: and it shall be, when he comes to us, that he shall turn in there.
11) It fell on a day, that he came there, and he turned into the chamber and lay there.
12) He said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. When he had called her, she stood before him.
13) He said to him, Say now to her, Behold, you have been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for you? would you be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? She answered, I dwell among my own people.
14) He said, What then is to be done for her? Gehazi answered, Most assuredly she has no son, and her husband is old.
15) He said, Call her. When he had called her, she stood in the door.
16) He said, At this season, when the time comes round, you shall embrace a son. She said, No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your handmaid.
17) The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came round, as Elisha had said to her.
18) When the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.
19) He said to his father, My head, my head. He said to his servant, Carry him to his mother.
20) When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.
21) She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut [the door] on him, and went out.
22) She called to her husband, and said, Please send me one of the servants, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.
23) He said, Why will you go to him today? it is neither new moon nor Sabbath. She said, It shall be well.
24) Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, Drive, and go forward; don‘t slacken me the riding, except I bid you.
25) So she went, and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel. It happened, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, yonder is the Shunammite:
26) please run now to meet her, and ask her, Is it well with you? is it well with your husband? is it well with the child? She answered, It is well.
27) When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, Let her alone: for her soul is vexed within her; and Yahweh has hid it from me, and has not told me.
28) Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? Didn‘t I say, Do not deceive me?
29) Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up your loins, and take my staff in your hand, and go your way: if you meet any man, Don‘t greet him; and if anyone greets you, don‘t answer him again: and lay my staff on the face of the child.
30) The mother of the child said, As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. He arose, and followed her.
31) Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff on the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Why he returned to meet him, and told him, saying, The child has not awakened.
32) When Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid on his bed.
33) He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, and prayed to Yahweh.
34) He went up, and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, and his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands: and he stretched himself on him; and the flesh of the child grew warm.
35) Then he returned, and walked in the house once back and forth; and went up, and stretched himself on him: and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
36) He called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. When she was come in to him, he said, Take up your son.
37) Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground; and she took up her son, and went out.
38) Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, Set on the great pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.
39) One went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered of it wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of stew; for they didn‘t recognize them.
40) So they poured out for the men to eat. It happened, as they were eating of the stew, that they cried out, and said, man of God, there is death in the pot. They could not eat of it.
41) But he said, Then bring meal. He cast it into the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. There was no harm in the pot.
42) There came a man from Baal-shalishah, and brought the man of God bread of the first-fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of grain in his sack. He said, Give to the people, that they may eat.
43) His servant said, What, should I set this before a hundred men? But he said, Give the people, that they may eat; for thus says Yahweh, They shall eat, and shall leave of it.
44) So he set it before them, and they ate, and left of it, according to the word of Yahweh.




Ruth




Luke 2
1) Now it happened in those days, that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled.
2) This was the first enrollment made when Quirinius was governor of Syria.
3) All went to enroll themselves, everyone to his own city.
4) Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David;
5) to enroll himself with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him as wife, being great with child.
6) It happened, while they were there, that the day had come that she should give birth.
7) She brought forth her firstborn son, and she wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no room for them in the inn.
8) There were shepherds in the same country staying in the field, and keeping watch by night over their flock.
9) Behold, an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.
10) The angel said to them, "Don‘t be afraid, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be to all the people.
11) For there is born to you, this day, in the city of David, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
12) This is the sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth, lying in a feeding trough."
13) Suddenly, there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
14) "Glory to God in the highest, On earth peace, good will toward men."
15) It happened, when the angels went away from them into the sky, that the shepherds said one to another, "Let‘s go to Bethlehem, now, and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us."
16) They came with haste, and found both Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in the feeding trough.
17) When they saw it, they publicized widely the saying which was spoken to them about this child.
18) All who heard it wondered at the things which were spoken to them by the shepherds.
19) But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.
20) The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, even as it was spoken to them.
21) When eight days were fulfilled for the circumcision of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
22) When the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord
23) (as it is written in the law of the Lord, "Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord"),
24) and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, "A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons."
25) Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon; and this man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.
26) It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord‘s Christ.
27) He came in the Spirit into the temple. When the parents brought in the child, Jesus, that they might do concerning him according to the custom of the law,
28) then he received him into his arms, and blessed God, and said,
29) "Now let you your servant depart, Lord, According to your word, in peace;
30) For my eyes have seen your salvation,
31) Which you have prepared before the face of all peoples;
32) A light for revelation to the Gentiles, The glory of your people Israel."
33) Joseph and his mother were marveling at the things which were spoken concerning him,
34) and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, "Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.
35) Yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul, that thoughts out of many hearts may be revealed."
36) There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity,
37) and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn‘t depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions night and day.
38) Coming up at that very hour, she gave thanks to the Lord, and spoke of him to all those who were looking for redemption in Jerusalem.
39) When they had accomplished all things that were according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth.
40) The child grew, and grew strong in spirit, filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was on him.
41) His parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover.
42) When he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem according to the custom of the feast,
43) and when they had fulfilled the days, as they were returning, the boy, Jesus, stayed behind in Jerusalem. Joseph and his mother didn‘t know it,
44) but supposing him to be in the company, they went a day‘s journey, and they looked for him among their relatives and acquaintances.
45) When they didn‘t find him, they returned to Jerusalem, looking for him.
46) It happened, after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions.
47) All who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers.
48) When they saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, "Son, why have you treated us this way? Behold, your father and I were anxiously looking for you."
49) He said to them, "Why were you looking for me? Didn‘t you know that I must be in my Father‘s house?"
50) They didn‘t understand the saying which he spoke to them.
51) He went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
52) Jesus advanced in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.




Luke 7
1) After he had finished speaking in the hearing of the people, he entered into Capernaum.
2) A certain centurion‘s servant, who was dear to him, was sick and at the point of death.
3) When he heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and save his servant.
4) When they came to Jesus, they begged him earnestly, saying, "He is worthy for you to do this for him,
5) for he loves our nation, and he built our synagogue for us."
6) Jesus went with them. When he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, "Lord, don‘t trouble yourself, for I am not worthy for you to come under my roof.
7) Therefore I didn‘t even think myself worthy to come to you; but say the word, and my servant will be healed.
8) For I also am a man placed under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, ‘Go!‘ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come!‘ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this,‘ and he does it."
9) When Jesus heard these things, he marveled at him, and turned and said to the multitude who followed him, "I tell you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel."
10) Those who were sent, returning to the house, found that the servant who had been sick was well.
11) It happened soon afterwards, that he went to a city called Nain. Many of his disciples went with him, along with a great multitude.
12) Now when he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her.
13) When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said to her, "Don‘t cry."
14) He came near and touched the coffin, and the bearers stood still. He said, "Young man, I tell you, arise!"
15) He who was dead sat up, and began to speak. He gave him to his mother.
16) Fear took hold on all, and they glorified God, saying, "A great prophet has arisen among us," and, "God has visited his people."
17) This report went out concerning him in the whole of Judea, and in all the surrounding region.
18) The disciples of John told him about all these things.
19) John, calling to himself two of his disciples, sent them to Jesus, saying, "Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?"
20) When the men had come to him, they said, "John the Baptizer has sent us to you, saying, ‘Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?‘"
21) In that hour he cured many of diseases and plagues and evil spirits; and to many who were blind he gave sight.
22) Jesus answered them, "Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
23) Blessed is he who is not offended by me."
24) When John‘s messengers had departed, he began to tell the multitudes about John, "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?
25) But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft clothing? Behold, those who are gorgeously dressed, and live delicately, are in kings‘ courts.
26) But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet.
27) This is he of whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, Who will prepare your way before you.‘
28) "For I tell you, among those who are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptizer, yet he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he."
29) When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they justified God, being baptized with John‘s baptism.
30) But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.
31) The Lord said, "To what then will I liken the men of this generation? What are they like?
32) They are like children who sit in the marketplace, and call one to another, saying, ‘We piped to you, and you didn‘t dance. We mourned, and you didn‘t weep.‘
33) For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.‘
34) The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!‘
35) Wisdom is justified by all her children."
36) One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee‘s house, and sat at the table.
37) Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee‘s house, she brought an alabaster jar of ointment.
38) Standing behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
39) Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, "This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner."
40) Jesus answered him, "Simon, I have something to tell you." He said, "Teacher, say on."
41) "A certain lender had two debtors. The one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.
42) When they couldn‘t pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?"
43) Simon answered, "He, I suppose, to whom he forgave the most." He said to him, "You have judged correctly."
44) Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I entered into your house, and you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head.
45) You gave me no kiss, but she, since the time I came in, has not ceased to kiss my feet.
46) You didn‘t anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment.
47) Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little."
48) He said to her, "Your sins are forgiven."
49) Those who sat at the table with him began to say to themselves, "Who is this who even forgives sins?"
50) He said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you. Go in peace."




Luke 21
1) He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury.
2) He saw a certain poor widow casting in two lepta.
3) He said, "Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them,
4) for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her lack, put in all that she had to live on."
5) As some were talking about the temple and how it was decorated with beautiful stones and gifts, he said,
6) "As for these things which you see, the days will come, in which there will not be left here one stone on another that will not be thrown down."
7) They asked him, "Teacher, when therefore will these things be? What is the sign that these things are about to happen?"
8) He said, "Watch out that you don‘t get led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I AM,‘ and, ‘The time is at hand.‘ Therefore don‘t follow them.
9) When you hear of wars and disturbances, don‘t be terrified, for these things must happen first, but the end won‘t come immediately."
10) Then he said to them, "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.
11) There will be great earthquakes, famines, and plagues in various places. There will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
12) But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name‘s sake.
13) It will turn out as a testimony to you.
14) Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand how to answer,
15) for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.
16) But you will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. Some of you will they cause to be put to death.
17) You will be hated by all men for my name‘s sake.
18) Not a hair of your head will perish.
19) By your endurance you will win your souls.
20) "But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is at hand.
21) Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let them who are in the midst of her depart. Don‘t let those who are in the country enter therein.
22) For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
23) Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people.
24) They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
25) There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves;
26) men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
27) Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
28) But when these things begin to happen, look up, and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near."
29) He told them a parable. "See the fig tree, and all the trees.
30) When they are already budding, you see it and know by your own selves that the summer is already near.
31) Even so you also, when you see these things happening, know that the kingdom of God is near.
32) Most assuredly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all things are accomplished.
33) Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away.
34) "So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
35) For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the surface of all the earth.
36) Therefore be watchful all the time, asking that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man."
37) Every day Jesus was teaching in the temple, and every night he went out, and spent the night on the mountain that is called Olivet.
38) All the people came early in the morning to him in the temple, to hear him.




John 19
1) Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and flogged him.
2) The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown, and put it on his head, and dressed him in a purple garment.
3) They said, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and they struck him with their hands.
4) Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, "Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him."
5) Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, "Behold, the man!"
6) When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, saying, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him."
7) The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God."
8) When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.
9) He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, "Where are you from?" But Jesus gave him no answer.
10) Pilate therefore said to him, "Aren‘t you speaking to me? Don‘t you know that I have power to release you, and have power to crucify you?"
11) Jesus answered, "You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin."
12) At this, Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, "If you release this man, you aren‘t Caesar‘s friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!"
13) When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called "The Pavement," but in Hebrew, "Gabbatha."
14) Now it was the Preparation of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, "Behold, your King!"
15) They cried out, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar!"
16) Then therefore he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away.
17) He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called "The place of a skull," which is called in Hebrew, "Golgotha,"
18) where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Jesus in the middle.
19) Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, "JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS."
20) Therefore many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.
21) The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, "Don‘t write, ‘The King of the Jews,‘ but that, ‘he said, I am King of the Jews.‘"
22) Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written."
23) Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
24) Then they said to one another, "Let‘s not tear it, but cast lots for it, whose it will be," that the scripture might be fulfilled, which says, "They parted my garments among them, For my cloak they cast lots." Therefore the soldiers did these things.
25) But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother‘s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
26) Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold your son!"
27) Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.
28) After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, said, "I am thirsty."
29) Now a vessel full of vinegar was set there; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and brought it to his mouth.
30) When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, "It is finished." He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.
31) Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation, so that the bodies wouldn‘t remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
32) Therefore the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with him;
33) but when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead, they didn‘t break his legs.
34) However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.
35) He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you also may believe.
36) For these things happened, that the scripture might be fulfilled, "A bone of him will not be broken."
37) Again another scripture says, "They will look on him whom they pierced."
38) After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus‘ body. Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore, and took away his body.
39) Nicodemus also came, he who at first came to Jesus by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds.
40) So they took Jesus‘ body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.
41) Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden. In the garden a new tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid.
42) Then because of the Jews‘ Preparation (for the tomb was near at hand) they laid Jesus there.


Deuteronomy 14:29
29) and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

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