Judean Hills

Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah, — read the full passage →

I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily,

But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all; — read the full passage →

What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens. — read the full passage →

For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

He is ‘the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.’ — read the full passage →

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

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.

Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here.”

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. — read the full passage →

When they had accomplished all things that were according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth.

There were shepherds in the same country staying in the field, and keeping watch by night over their flock.

Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member who also himself was looking for the Kingdom of God, came. He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body.

When evening had come, a rich man from Arimathaea, named Joseph, who himself was also Jesus’ disciple came.

She shall give birth to a son. You shall call his name Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”