An Orderly Account – The Beginning and the End
“Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”
“Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”
This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased…
If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me
And he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins
How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent?
But who do you say that I am? . . . “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world,[c] but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the Lord will arise upon you, and his glory will be seen upon you. And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
Behold, this child is appointed for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is opposed (and a sword will pierce through your own soul also), so that thoughts from many hearts may be revealed.