“Learn ¹  this parable from the fig tree: Whenever its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near.

“I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days, and they have nothing to eat.

“Learn this parable from the fig tree: Whenever its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near.

Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, ¹  and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be ²  cut down and thrown into the fire.”

But a time ¹  is coming – and now is here ²  – when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks ³  such people to be ⁴  his worshipers. ⁵ 

Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, ¹  “I have glorified it, ²  and I will glorify it ³  again.”

not by all the people, but by us, the witnesses God had already chosen, ¹  who ate and drank ²  with him after he rose from the dead.

just as also you have partly understood us, that we are your source of pride just as you also are ours ¹  in the day of the Lord Jesus. ² 

In him you also were circumcised – not, however, ¹  with a circumcision performed by human hands, but by the removal ²  of the fleshly body, ³  that is, ⁴  through the circumcision done by Christ.

Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, just as you are in fact doing.

One of his advisers replied, “Pick some men and have them take five of the horses that are left in the city. (Even if they are killed, their fate will be no different than that of all the Israelite people – we’re all going to die!) ¹  Let’s send them out so we can know for sure what’s going on.” ² 

Abraham and Sarah were old and advancing in years; ¹  Sarah had long since passed menopause.) ² 

But Esau said, “I have plenty, my brother. Keep what belongs to you.”

Now the Israelites had done ¹  as Moses told them – they had requested from the Egyptians ²  silver and gold items and clothing.

Everyone who crosses over to those numbered, from twenty years old and up, is to pay an offering to the Lord.

And the Kohathites set out, carrying the articles for the sanctuary; ¹  the tabernacle was to be set up ²  before they arrived. ³ 

If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets ¹  her in the city and has sexual relations with ²  her,

(Now the city’s fields and surrounding towns they had assigned to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his property.)

Now look, I realize that you will in fact be king and that the kingdom of Israel will be established in your hand.

Drink from the stream; I have already told ¹  the ravens to bring you food ²  there.”