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         <div class="label">38</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Judah and Tamar</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.38.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">At that time, Judah left his brothers and went down to stay with a man of Adullam named Hirah. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.38.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">There Judah met the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua. He married her and made love to her; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.38.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">she became pregnant and gave birth to a son, who was named Er. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.38.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">She conceived again and gave birth to a son and named him Onan. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.38.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">She gave birth to still another son and named him Shelah. It was at Kezib that she gave birth to him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.38.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.38.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Judah got a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.38.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But Er, Judah&#8217;s firstborn, was wicked in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s sight; so the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> put him to death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.38.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.38.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then Judah said to Onan, &#8220;Sleep with your brother&#8217;s wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to raise up offspring for your brother.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.38.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But Onan knew that the child would not be his; so whenever he slept with his brother&#8217;s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from providing offspring for his brother. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.38.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">What he did was wicked in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s sight; so the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> put him to death also.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.38.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.38.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Judah then said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, &#8220;Live as a widow in your father&#8217;s household until my son Shelah grows up.&#8221; For he thought, &#8220;He may die too, just like his brothers.&#8221; So Tamar went to live in her father&#8217;s household.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.38.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.38.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">After a long time Judah&#8217;s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had recovered from his grief, he went up to Timnah, to the men who were shearing his sheep, and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went with him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.38.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.38.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When Tamar was told, &#8220;Your father-in-law is on his way to Timnah to shear his sheep,&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.38.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">she took off her widow&#8217;s clothes, covered herself with a veil to disguise herself, and then sat down at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that, though Shelah had now grown up, she had not been given to him as his wife.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.38.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.38.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.38.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said, &#8220;Come now, let me sleep with you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.38.16"><span class="content">&#8220;And what will you give me to sleep with you?&#8221; she asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.38.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.38.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;I&#8217;ll send you a young goat from my flock,&#8221; he said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.38.17"><span class="content">&#8220;Will you give me something as a pledge until you send it?&#8221; she asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.38.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.38.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He said, &#8220;What pledge should I give you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.38.18"><span class="content">&#8220;Your seal and its cord, and the staff in your hand,&#8221; she answered. So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.38.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">After she left, she took off her veil and put on her widow&#8217;s clothes again.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.38.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.38.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Meanwhile Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite in order to get his pledge back from the woman, but he did not find her. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.38.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He asked the men who lived there, &#8220;Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.38.21"><span class="content">&#8220;There hasn&#8217;t been any shrine prostitute here,&#8221; they said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.38.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.38.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">So he went back to Judah and said, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t find her. Besides, the men who lived there said, &#8216;There hasn&#8217;t been any shrine prostitute here.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.38.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.38.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Then Judah said, &#8220;Let her keep what she has, or we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send her this young goat, but you didn&#8217;t find her.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.38.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.38.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">About three months later Judah was told, &#8220;Your daughter-in-law Tamar is guilty of prostitution, and as a result she is now pregnant.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.38.24"><span class="content">Judah said, &#8220;Bring her out and have her burned to death!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.38.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.38.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">As she was being brought out, she sent a message to her father-in-law. &#8220;I am pregnant by the man who owns these,&#8221; she said. And she added, &#8220;See if you recognize whose seal and cord and staff these are.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.38.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.38.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Judah recognized them and said, &#8220;She is more righteous than I, since I wouldn&#8217;t give her to my son Shelah.&#8221; And he did not sleep with her again.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.38.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.38.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.38.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">As she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand; so the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his wrist and said, &#8220;This one came out first.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.38.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">But when he drew back his hand, his brother came out, and she said, &#8220;So this is how you have broken out!&#8221; And he was named Perez.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">38:29 </span><span class="fq">Perez </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">breaking out.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.38.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Then his brother, who had the scarlet thread on his wrist, came out. And he was named Zerah.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">38:30 </span><span class="fq">Zerah </span><span class="ft">can mean </span><span class="fq">scarlet </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">brightness.</span></span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.39.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. Potiphar, an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh&#8217;s officials, the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.39.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.39.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was with Joseph so that he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.39.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When his master saw that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was with him and that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave him success in everything he did, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.39.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Joseph found favor in his eyes and became his attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household, and he entrusted to his care everything he owned. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.39.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">From the time he put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> blessed the household of the Egyptian because of Joseph. The blessing of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was on everything Potiphar had, both in the house and in the field. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.39.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph&#8217;s care; with Joseph in charge, he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.39.6"><span class="content">Now Joseph was well-built and handsome, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.39.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">and after a while his master&#8217;s wife took notice of Joseph and said, &#8220;Come to bed with me!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.39.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.39.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But he refused. &#8220;With me in charge,&#8221; he told her, &#8220;my master does not concern himself with anything in the house; everything he owns he has entrusted to my care. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.39.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">No one is greater in this house than I am. My master has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?&#8221; </span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">23</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Tyre</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A prophecy against Tyre:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.23.1"><span class="content">Wail, you ships of Tarshish!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.23.1"><span class="content">For Tyre is destroyed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.23.1"><span class="content">and left without house or harbor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.23.1"><span class="content">From the land of Cyprus</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.23.1"><span class="content">word has come to them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.23.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Be silent, you people of the island</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.23.2"><span class="content">and you merchants of Sidon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.23.2"><span class="content">whom the seafarers have enriched.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.23.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">On the great waters</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.23.3"><span class="content">came the grain of the Shihor;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.23.3"><span class="content">the harvest of the Nile</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:2,3 </span><span class="ft">Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls </span><span class="fqa">Sidon, / who cross over the sea; / your envoys </span><span class="fv">3 </span><span class="fqa">are on the great waters. / The grain of the Shihor, / the harvest of the Nile,</span></span></span><span class="content"> was the revenue of Tyre,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.23.3"><span class="content">and she became the marketplace of the nations.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.23.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Be ashamed, Sidon, and you fortress of the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.23.4"><span class="content">for the sea has spoken:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.23.4"><span class="content">&#8220;I have neither been in labor nor given birth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.23.4"><span class="content">I have neither reared sons nor brought up daughters.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.23.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When word comes to Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.23.5"><span class="content">they will be in anguish at the report from Tyre.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.23.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Cross over to Tarshish;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.23.6"><span class="content">wail, you people of the island.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.23.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.23.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Is this your city of revelry,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.23.7"><span class="content">the old, old city,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.23.7"><span class="content">whose feet have taken her</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.23.7"><span class="content">to settle in far-off lands?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.23.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.23.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Who planned this against Tyre,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.23.8"><span class="content">the bestower of crowns,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.23.8"><span class="content">whose merchants are princes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.23.8"><span class="content">whose traders are renowned in the earth?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.23.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.23.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty planned it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.23.9"><span class="content">to bring down her pride in all her splendor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.23.9"><span class="content">and to humble all who are renowned on the earth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.23.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.23.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Till</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:10 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls and some Septuagint manuscripts; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">Go through</span></span></span><span class="content"> your land as they do along the Nile,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.23.10"><span class="content">Daughter Tarshish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.23.10"><span class="content">for you no longer have a harbor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.23.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.23.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has stretched out his hand over the sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.23.11"><span class="content">and made its kingdoms tremble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.23.11"><span class="content">He has given an order concerning Phoenicia</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.23.11"><span class="content">that her fortresses be destroyed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.23.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.23.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He said, &#8220;No more of your reveling,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.23.12"><span class="content">Virgin Daughter Sidon, now crushed!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.23.12"><span class="content">&#8220;Up, cross over to Cyprus;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.23.12"><span class="content">even there you will find no rest.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.23.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.23.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Look at the land of the Babylonians,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:13 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldeans</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.23.13"><span class="content">this people that is now of no account!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.23.13"><span class="content">The Assyrians have made it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.23.13"><span class="content">a place for desert creatures;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.23.13"><span class="content">they raised up their siege towers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.23.13"><span class="content">they stripped its fortresses bare</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.23.13"><span class="content">and turned it into a ruin.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.23.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.23.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Wail, you ships of Tarshish;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.23.14"><span class="content">your fortress is destroyed!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.23.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.23.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the span of a king&#8217;s life. But at the end of these seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.23.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.23.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;Take up a harp, walk through the city,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.23.16"><span class="content">you forgotten prostitute;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.23.16"><span class="content">play the harp well, sing many a song,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.23.16"><span class="content">so that you will be remembered.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.23.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.23.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">At the end of seventy years, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will deal with Tyre. She will return to her lucrative prostitution and will ply her trade with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.23.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Yet her profit and her earnings will be set apart for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">; they will not be stored up or hoarded. Her profits will go to those who live before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, for abundant food and fine clothes.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.26.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Jesus had finished saying all these things, he said to his disciples, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.26.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;As you know, the Passover is two days away&#8212;and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.26.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.26.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.26.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">and they schemed to arrest Jesus secretly and kill him. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.26.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;But not during the festival,&#8221; they said, &#8220;or there may be a riot among the people.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Anointed at Bethany</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.26.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.26.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of Simon the Leper, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.26.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as he was reclining at the table.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.26.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.26.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">When the disciples saw this, they were indignant. &#8220;Why this waste?&#8221; they asked. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.26.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;This perfume could have been sold at a high price and the money given to the poor.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.26.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.26.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Aware of this, Jesus said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful thing to me.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.26.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The poor you will always have with you,</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:11 </span><span class="ft">See Deut. 15:11.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">but you will not always have me.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.26.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">When she poured this perfume on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.26.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Truly I tell you, wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.26.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.26.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then one of the Twelve&#8212;the one called Judas Iscariot&#8212;went to the chief priests </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.26.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">and asked, &#8220;What are you willing to give me if I deliver him over to you?&#8221; So they counted out for him thirty pieces of silver. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.26.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">From then on Judas watched for an opportunity to hand him over.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Last Supper</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.26.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.26.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, &#8220;Where do you want us to make preparations for you to eat the Passover?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.26.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.26.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Go into the city to a certain man and tell him, &#8216;The Teacher says: My appointed time is near. I am going to celebrate the Passover with my disciples at your house.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.26.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them and prepared the Passover.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.26.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.26.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">When evening came, Jesus was reclining at the table with the Twelve. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.26.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">And while they were eating, he said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.26.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.26.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">They were very sad and began to say to him one after the other, &#8220;Surely you don&#8217;t mean me, Lord?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.26.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.26.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The one who has dipped his hand into the bowl with me will betray me.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.26.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him. But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.26.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.26.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Then Judas, the one who would betray him, said, &#8220;Surely you don&#8217;t mean me, Rabbi?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.26.25"><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You have said so.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.26.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.26.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Take and eat; this is my body.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.26.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.26.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Drink from it, all of you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.26.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">This is my blood of the</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:28 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">the new</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MAT.26.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I tell you, I will not drink from this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father&#8217;s kingdom.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MAT.26.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MAT.26.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Predicts Peter&#8217;s Denial</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MAT.26.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MAT.26.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Then Jesus told them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;This very night you will all fall away on account of me, for it is written:</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MAT.26.31"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;I will strike the shepherd,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MAT.26.31"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">26:31 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">  
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          </span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MAT.26.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MAT.26.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But after I have risen, I will go ahead of you into Galilee.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MAT.26.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MAT.26.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Peter replied, &#8220;Even if all fall away on account of you, I never will.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MAT.26.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MAT.26.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Truly I tell you,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;this very night, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MAT.26.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MAT.26.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">But Peter declared, &#8220;Even if I have to die with you, I will never disown you.&#8221; And all the other disciples said the same.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CO.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still worldly&#8212;mere infants in Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CO.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CO.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere humans? </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CO.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For when one says, &#8220;I follow Paul,&#8221; and another, &#8220;I follow Apollos,&#8221; are you not mere human beings?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CO.3.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe&#8212;as the Lord has assigned to each his task. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CO.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CO.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and they will each be rewarded according to their own labor. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For we are co-workers in God&#8217;s service; you are God&#8217;s field, God&#8217;s building.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CO.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as a wise builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should build with care. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CO.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CO.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person&#8217;s work. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CO.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CO.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved&#8212;even though only as one escaping through the flames.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CO.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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