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Unto the Most High YHVH -- Blessed is He -- be all glory and honor.
John 1:40-51
40 One of the two who had heard Yochanan and had followed Yeshua was Andrew the brother of Shim‛on Kefa.
41 The first thing he did was to find his brother Shim‛on and tell him, “We’ve found the Mashiach!” (The word means “one who has been anointed.”)
42 He took him to Yeshua. Looking at him, Yeshua said, “You are Shim‛on Bar-Yochanan; you will be known as Kefa.” (The name means “small or modest rock.”)
43 The next day, having decided to leave for the Galil, Yeshua found Philip and said, “Follow me!”
44 Philip was from Beit-Tzaidah, the town where Andrew and Kefa lived.
45 Philip found Natan’el and told him, “We’ve found the one that Moshe wrote about in the Torah, also the Prophets — it’s Yeshua Ben-Yosef from Natzeret!”
46 Natan’el answered him, “Natzeret? Can anything good come from there?” “Come and see,” Philip said to him.
47 Yeshua saw Natan’el coming toward him and remarked about him, “Here’s a true son of Isra’el — nothing false in him!”
48 Natan’el said to him, “How do you know me?” Yeshua answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”
49 Natan’el said, “Rabbi [Teacher], you are the Son of God! You are the King of Isra’el!”
50 Yeshua answered him, “you believe all this just because I told you I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than that!”
51 Then he said to him, “Yes indeed! I tell you that you will see heaven opened and the angels of God going up and coming downb on the Son of Man!”
John 2:1-5
1 On Tuesday* there was a wedding at Kanah in the Galil; and the mother of Yeshua was there.
2 Yeshua too was invited to the wedding, along with his talmidim.
3 The wine ran out, and Yeshua’s mother said to him, “They have no more wine.”
4 Yeshua replied, “Mother, why should that concern me? — or you? My time hasn’t come yet.” ema [woman]?
5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”
6 Now six stone water-jars were standing there for the Jewish ceremonial washings, each with a capacity of twenty or thirty gallons.
7 Yeshua told them, “Fill the jars with water,” and they filled them to the brim.
8 He said, “Now draw some out, and take it to the man in charge of the banquet”; and they took it.
9 The man in charge tasted the water; it had now turned into wine! He did not know where it had come from, but the servants who had drawn the water knew. So he called the bridegroom
10 and said to him, “Everyone else serves the good wine first and the poorer wine after people have drunk freely. But you have kept the good wine until now!”
11 This, the first of Yeshua’s miraculous signs, he did at Kanah in the Galil; he manifested his glory, and his talmidim came to trust in him.
12 Afterwards, he, his mother and brothers, and his talmidim went down to K’far-Nachum and stayed there a few days.
FIRST CLEANSING OF THE MIKDASH
John 2:13-25
13 It was almost time for the festival of Pesach in Y’hudah, so Yeshua went up to Yerushalayim.
14 In the Temple grounds {the courtyard of the Mikdash} he found those who were selling cattle, sheep and pigeons, and others who were sitting at tables exchanging money. {At that time the people were not permitted to sacrifice an animal, unless the corrupt religious leaders had put their seal on it. They raised the price of these specially approved animals so much, that it became a burden on the people to sacrifice as they had been commanded in the Torah. Thus, these unlawful Kohanim were desecrating the Mikdash by extorting money from the worshipers. As mentioned, the rightful Kohenim, the sons of Tzadok, had been exiled from serving the Holy Altar.}
15 { Yeshua was enraged with indignation at the monopolistic merchandising of worship, which transgressed the holy purpose of the House of YHVH}. He made a whip from cords and drove them all out of the Temple grounds, the sheep and cattle as well. He knocked over the money–changers’ tables, scattering their coins;
16 and to the pigeon–sellers he said, “Get these things out of here! How dare you turn my Father’s {Avi’s} house into a market?”
17 (His talmidim later recalled that the Tanakh says, “Zeal for your house will devour me.”) {#Ps 69:9}
18 So the Judeans confronted him by asking him, “What miraculous sign can you show us to prove you have the right to do all this?”
19 Yeshua answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”
20 The Judeans said, “It took 46 years to build this Temple, and you’re going to raise it in three days?”
21 But the “temple” he had spoken of was his body.
22 Therefore, when he was raised from the dead, his talmidim remembered that he had said this, and they trusted in the Tanakh and in what Yeshua had said.
23 ¶ Now while Yeshua was in Yerushalayim at the Pesach festival, there were many people who “believed in his name” when they saw the miracles he performed.
24 But he did not commit himself to them, for he knew what people are like––
25 that is, he didn’t need anyone to inform him about a person, because he knew what was in the person’s heart.
John 3:1 - 21
1 ¶ There was a man among the P’rushim, named Nakdimon, who was a ruler of the Judeans.
2 This man came to Yeshua by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know it is from God that you have come as a teacher; for no one can do these miracles you perform unless God is with him.”
3 “Yes, indeed, ”Yeshua answered him, “I tell you that unless a person is born again from above, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.”
4 Nakdimon said to him, “How can a grown man be ‘born’? Can he go back into his mother’s womb and be born a second time?”
5 Yeshua answered, “Yes, indeed, I tell you that unless a person is born from water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.
6 What is born from the flesh is flesh, and what is born from the Spirit is spirit.
7 Stop being amazed at my telling you that you must be born again from above!
8 The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it’s going. That’s how it is with everyone who has been born from the Spirit.” {For the Ruach of YHVH blows where it is appointed, and you can shema its voice, but not know how or where it came from, or even where it is going. This is what will happen to everyone who is born of the Ruach of YHVH."}
9 Nakdimon replied, “How can this happen?”
10 Yeshua answered him, “You hold the office of teacher in Isra’el, and you don’t know this?
11 Yes, indeed! I tell you that what we speak about, we know; and what we give evidence of, we have seen; but you people don’t accept our evidence!
12 If you people don’t believe me when I tell you about the things of the world, how will you believe me when I tell you about the things of heaven?
13 No one has gone up into heaven; there is only the one who has come down from heaven, the Son of Man.
14 {So, I will illustrate the heavenly with the earthly:} Just as Moshe lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up;
15 so that everyone who trusts in him may have eternal life.
16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his only and unique Son, so that everyone who trusts in him may have eternal life, instead of being utterly destroyed.
17 For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but rather so that through him, the world might be saved.
18 Those who trust in him are not judged; those who do not trust have been judged already, in that they have not trusted in the one who is God’s only and unique Son.
19 “Now this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, but people loved the darkness rather than the light. Why? Because their actions were wicked.
20 For everyone who does evil things hates the light and avoids it, so that his actions won’t be exposed.
21 But everyone who does what is true {remember} comes to the light, so that all may see that his actions are accomplished through God.”
But the person who does remember righteousness comes to the Light, that His works may be seen to have originated with Elohim."
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