Wisdom of Solomon 2:1,12-22
Psalms 34:16-20,22
John 7:1-2,10,25-30
Wisdom of Solomon 2:1,12-22
(1) For they said within themselves, reasoning not aright, Short and sorrowful is our life; And there is no healing when a man comes to his end, And none was ever known that gave release from Hades. (12) But let us lie in wait for the righteous man, Because he is of disservice to us, And is contrary to our works, And upbraids us with sins against the law, And lays to our charge sins against our discipline. (13) He professes to have knowledge of God, And names himself servant of the Lord. (14) He became to us a reproof of our thoughts. (15) He is grievous to us even to behold, Because his life is unlike other men’s, And his paths are of strange fashion. (16) We were accounted of him as worthless metal, And he abstains from our ways as from uncleannesses. The latter end of the righteous he calls happy; And he vaunts that God is his father. (17) Let us see if his words be true, And let us try what shall befall in the ending of his life. (18) For if the righteous man is God’s son, he will uphold him, And he will deliver him out of the hand of his adversaries. (19) With outrage and torture let us put him to the test, That we may learn his gentleness, And may prove his patience under wrong. (20) Let us condemn him to a shameful death; For he will be visited according to his words. (21) Thus reasoned they, and they were led astray; For their wickedness blinded them, (22) And they knew not the mysteries of God, Neither hoped they for wages of holiness, Nor did they judge that there is a prize for blameless souls.
Psalms 34:16-20,22
(16) Yahweh’s face is against those who do evil, to cut off their memory from the earth. (17) The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles. (18) Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit. (19) Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all. (20) He protects all of his bones. Not one of them is broken. (22) Yahweh redeems the soul of his servants. None of those who take refuge in him shall be condemned.
John 7:1-2,10,25-30
(1) After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. (2) Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand. (10) But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret. (25) Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, “Isn’t this he whom they seek to kill? (26) Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ? (27) However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.” (28) Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know. (29) I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.” (30) They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
