Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign: Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bring forth a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel.

For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government shall be upon His shoulder; and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The Strong and Mighty God, The Eternal Father, The Prince of Peace.

And I will shake all the nations; and the desire of all nations shall come. And I will fill this house with glory, says Jehovah of Hosts.

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous and having salvation, lowly, and riding on an ass, even on a colt, the foal of an ass.

Behold, I send My messenger, and He will prepare the way before Me. And the Lord whom you seek shall suddenly come to His temple, even the Messenger of the Covenant, in whom you delight. Behold, He comes, says Jehovah of Hosts.

But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear;

for truly I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.

And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ.

he took Him up in his arms and blessed God and said:

for my eyes have seen Your Salvation

a Light to bring revelation to the Gentiles, and the Glory of Your people Israel.

Then He turned to His disciples and said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things you see;

for I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see what you see, and have not seen it, and to hear what you hear, and have not heard it.

And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up in glory.

For both He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren,

saying: I will declare Your name to My brethren; in the midst of the assembly I will sing praise to You.

that you may suckle and be satisfied with her comforting breasts; that you may suck milk and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.

For thus says Jehovah, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like a flowing stream. Then you shall suckle, you shall be carried on her sides and be dandled upon her knees.

but the Jerusalem from above is free, which is the mother of us all.

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.

No one has ascended to Heaven but He who came down from Heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in Heaven.

Jesus said to them, If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come from Myself, but He sent Me.

Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He was come from God and was going to God,

I came forth from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the Father.

But we see Jesus, who was made a little less than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone.

For both He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren,

And again: I will put My trust in Him. And again: Here am I and the children whom God has given Me.

He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once for all, at the end of the ages, He has been manifested to put away sin through the sacrifice of Himself.

so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, without sin, unto salvation.

Shulamite: Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine.

Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and you perish from the way, when His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.

Listen, O daughter, consider and extend your ear; forget your own people also, and your father's house.

Thus the King shall greatly long for your beauty, for He is your Lord; bow down before Him.

You gave Me no kiss, but this woman has not ceased to kiss My feet since the time I came in.

Therefore I say to you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.

For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His glory, and that of His Father, and of the holy angels.

Also I say to you, whoever confesses Me before men, the Son of Man will also confess him before the angels of God.

The officers answered, No man ever spoke like this Man.

Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed into Him?

Nicodemus (he who came to Jesus by night, being one of them) said to them,

They answered and said to him, Are you also from Galilee? Search and look, for no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.

He answered and said, Whether He is a sinner or not I do not know. One thing I know: that though I was blind, now I see.

He answered them, I told you already, and you did not hear. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you not also want to become His disciples?

We know that God spoke to Moses; as for this fellow, we do not know where He is from.

Now we know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone reveres God and does His will, He hears him.

If this Man were not from God, He would not be able to do anything.

Jesus heard that they had driven him out; and when He had found him, He said to him, Do you believe into the Son of God?

And Jesus said to him, You have both seen Him and it is He who is talking with you.

But may it never be that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

For we are the circumcision, who serve God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and do not trust in the flesh,

But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss because of Christ.

But no, rather, I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as refuse, that I may gain Christ

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.

For Jehovah shall build up Zion; He shall appear in His glory.

He shall turn toward the prayer of the destitute, and shall not despise their prayer.

Then one poor widow came and threw in two mites, which make a quadrans.

for they all threw in out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty threw in all that she had, her whole livelihood.

But Jesus said, Let her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work toward Me.

She has done what she was in a position to do. She has come beforehand to anoint My body for burial.

Also the sons of those who afflicted you shall come bowing to you; and all those who despised you shall prostrate themselves at the soles of your feet. And they shall call you, The City of Jehovah, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

He who hears you hears Me, he who rejects you rejects Me, and he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me.

Also He spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:

and the low-born of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are,