The Dove

Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him. — read the full passage →

Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened, — read the full passage →

Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him.

and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form as a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying “You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.”

John testified, saying, “I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.

“Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens parting, and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.

and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, “A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.”

Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

Jesus entered into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables and the seats of those who sold the doves.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;

But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.

But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.

For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel”; which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me. — read the full passage →

He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

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

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

I and the Father are one.”

The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! — read the full passage →

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

A voice came out of the sky, “You are my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letteror one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.

who testified to God’s word, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, about everything that he saw.

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

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.

When he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he was in the house. — read the full passage →

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him;

one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling;

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie.

namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’

You do the works of your father.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”

Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down, and taught them.

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. — read the full passage →

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.