Today's Bible Study
Today's Bible Reading
August 25
22 The next day the crowd that
had stayed on the opposite shore of the lake realized that only one boat
had been there, and that Jesus had not entered it with his disciples,
but that they had gone away alone.
23 Then some boats from Tiberias landed near the place where the people had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.
24 Once the crowd realized that
neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and
went to Capernaum in search of Jesus.
25 When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?”
26 Jesus answered, “Very truly I
tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw the signs I
performed but because you ate the loaves and had your fill.
27 Do not work for food that
spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man
will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of
approval.”
28 Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?”
29 Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
30 So they asked him, “What sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? What will you do?
31 Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ ”
32 Jesus said to them, “Very
truly I tell you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from
heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.
33 For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
34 “Sir,” they said, “always give us this bread.”
35 Then Jesus declared, “I am the
bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever
believes in me will never be thirsty.
36 But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe.
37 All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.
38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me.
39 And this is the will of him
who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but
raise them up at the last day.
40 For my Father’s will is that
everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal
life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”
41 At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”
42 They said, “Is this not Jesus,
the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say,
‘I came down from heaven’?”
43 “Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered.
44 “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day.
45 It is written in the Prophets:
‘They will all be taught by God.’Everyone who has heard the Father and
learned from him comes to me.
46 No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father.
47 Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life.
48 I am the bread of life.
49 Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.
50 But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone may eat and not die.
51 I am the living bread that
came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This
bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”
52 Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
53 Jesus said to them, “Very
truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink
his blood, you have no life in you.
54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.
55 For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.
56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them.
57 Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.
58 This is the bread that came
down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds
on this bread will live forever.”
59 He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
60 On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?”
61 Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, “Does this offend you?
62 Then what if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before!
63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life.
64 Yet there are some of you who
do not believe.” For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them
did not believe and who would betray him.
65 He went on to say, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled them.”
66 From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.
67 “You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve.
68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.
69 We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.”
70 Then Jesus replied, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!”
71 (He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, who, though one of the Twelve, was later to betray him.)
1 These were the divisions of the descendants of Aaron: The sons of Aaron were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
2 But Nadab and Abihu died before their father did, and they had no sons; so Eleazar and Ithamar served as the priests.
3 With the help of Zadok a
descendant of Eleazar and Ahimelek a descendant of Ithamar, David
separated them into divisions for their appointed order of ministering.
4 A larger number of leaders were
found among Eleazar’s descendants than among Ithamar’s, and they were
divided accordingly: sixteen heads of families from Eleazar’s
descendants and eight heads of families from Ithamar’s descendants.
5 They divided them impartially
by casting lots, for there were officials of the sanctuary and officials
of God among the descendants of both Eleazar and Ithamar.
6 The scribe Shemaiah son of
Nethanel, a Levite, recorded their names in the presence of the king and
of the officials: Zadok the priest, Ahimelek son of Abiathar and the
heads of families of the priests and of the Levites—one family being
taken from Eleazar and then one from Ithamar.
7 The first lot fell to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,
8 the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,
9 the fifth to Malkijah, the sixth to Mijamin,
10 the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,
11 the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shekaniah,
12 the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim,
13 the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab,
14 the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer,
15 the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Happizzez,
16 the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezkel,
17 the twenty-first to Jakin, the twenty-second to Gamul,
18 the twenty-third to Delaiah and the twenty-fourth to Maaziah.
19 This was their appointed order
of ministering when they entered the temple of the LORD, according to
the regulations prescribed for them by their ancestor Aaron, as the
LORD, the God of Israel, had commanded him.
20 As for the rest of the descendants of Levi: from the sons of Amram: Shubael; from the sons of Shubael: Jehdeiah.
21 As for Rehabiah, from his sons: Ishiah was the first.
22 From the Izharites: Shelomoth; from the sons of Shelomoth: Jahath.
23 The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third and Jekameam the fourth.
24 The son of Uzziel: Micah; from the sons of Micah: Shamir.
25 The brother of Micah: Ishiah; from the sons of Ishiah: Zechariah.
26 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The son of Jaaziah: Beno.
27 The sons of Merari: from Jaaziah: Beno, Shoham, Zakkur and Ibri.
28 From Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.
29 From Kish: the son of Kish: Jerahmeel.
30 And the sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder and Jerimoth. These were the Levites, according to their families.
31 They also cast lots, just as
their relatives the descendants of Aaron did, in the presence of King
David and of Zadok, Ahimelek, and the heads of families of the priests
and of the Levites. The families of the oldest brother were treated the
same as those of the youngest.
1 Ask the LORD for rain in the
springtime; it is the LORD who sends the thunderstorms. He gives showers
of rain to all people, and plants of the field to everyone.
2 The idols speak deceitfully,
diviners see visions that lie; they tell dreams that are false, they
give comfort in vain. Therefore the people wander like sheep oppressed
for lack of a shepherd.
3 “My anger burns against the
shepherds, and I will punish the leaders; for the LORD Almighty will
care for his flock, the people of Judah, and make them like a proud
horse in battle.
4 From Judah will come the cornerstone, from him the tent peg, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler.
5 Together they will be like
warriors in battle trampling their enemy into the mud of the streets.
They will fight because the LORD is with them, and they will put the
enemy horsemen to shame.
6 “I will strengthen Judah and
save the tribes of Joseph. I will restore them because I have compassion
on them. They will be as though I had not rejected them, for I am the
LORD their God and I will answer them.
7 The Ephraimites will become
like warriors, and their hearts will be glad as with wine. Their
children will see it and be joyful; their hearts will rejoice in the
LORD.
8 I will signal for them and gather them in. Surely I will redeem them; they will be as numerous as before.
9 Though I scatter them among the
peoples, yet in distant lands they will remember me. They and their
children will survive, and they will return.
10 I will bring them back from
Egypt and gather them from Assyria. I will bring them to Gilead and
Lebanon, and there will not be room enough for them.
11 They will pass through the sea
of trouble; the surging sea will be subdued and all the depths of the
Nile will dry up. Assyria’s pride will be brought down and Egypt’s
scepter will pass away.
12 I will strengthen them in the LORDand in his name they will live securely,” declares the LORD.
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