Then the cloud covered the Tent and the dazzling light of the LORD's presence filled it.

As the priests were leaving the Temple, it was suddenly filled with a cloud

Then Solomon prayed: "You, LORD, have placed the sun in the sky, yet you have chosen to live in clouds and darkness.

Clouds and darkness surround him; he rules with righteousness and justice.

During this vision in the night, I saw what looked like a human being. He was approaching me, surrounded by clouds, and he went to the one who had been living forever and was presented to him.

While he was talking, a shining cloud came over them, and a voice from the cloud said, "This is my own dear Son, with whom I am pleased---listen to him!"

Jesus came to them and touched them. "Get up," he said. "Don't be afraid!"

Jesus answered him, "So you say. But I tell all of you: from this time on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right side of the Almighty and coming on the clouds of heaven!"

While he was still speaking, a cloud appeared and covered them with its shadow; and the disciples were afraid as the cloud came over them.

When the voice stopped, there was Jesus all alone. The disciples kept quiet about all this and told no one at that time anything they had seen.

After saying this, he was taken up to heaven as they watched him, and a cloud hid him from their sight.

Look, he is coming on the clouds! Everyone will see him, including those who pierced him. All peoples on earth will mourn over him. So shall it be!

And a voice came from heaven, "You are my own dear Son. I am pleased with you."

"I will announce," says the king, "what the LORD has declared. He said to me: 'You are my son; today I have become your father.

Then a voice said from heaven, "This is my own dear Son, with whom I am pleased."

But Jesus kept quiet. Again the High Priest spoke to him, "In the name of the living God I now put you under oath: tell us if you are the Messiah, the Son of God."

He trusts in God and claims to be God's Son. Well, then, let us see if God wants to save him now!"

When the army officer and the soldiers with him who were watching Jesus saw the earthquake and everything else that happened, they were terrified and said, "He really was the Son of God!"

I have seen it," said John, "and I tell you that he is the Son of God."

"Teacher," answered Nathanael, "you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!"

For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life.

Those who believe in the Son are not judged; but those who do not believe have already been judged, because they have not believed in God's only Son.

This saying made the Jewish authorities all the more determined to kill him; not only had he broken the Sabbath law, but he had said that God was his own Father and in this way had made himself equal with God.

Nor does the Father himself judge anyone. He has given his Son the full right to judge,

"I am telling you the truth: those who hear my words and believe in him who sent me have eternal life. They will not be judged, but have already passed from death to life.

And now we believe and know that you are the Holy One who has come from God."

When Jesus heard what had happened, he found the man and asked him, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"

The crowd answered back, "We have a law that says he ought to die, because he claimed to be the Son of God."

But these have been written in order that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through your faith in him you may have life.

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as to his divine holiness, he was shown with great power to be the Son of God by being raised from death.

We were there when he was given honor and glory by God the Father, when the voice came to him from the Supreme Glory, saying, "This is my own dear Son, with whom I am pleased!"

And God showed his love for us by sending his only Son into the world, so that we might have life through him.

This is what love is: it is not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the means by which our sins are forgiven.

The testimony is this: God has given us eternal life, and this life has its source in his Son.

Whoever has the Son has this life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

We know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we know the true God. We live in union with the true God---in union with his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and this is eternal life.

Pay attention to him and obey him. Do not rebel against him, for I have sent him, and he will not pardon such rebellion.

But if you obey him and do everything I command, I will fight against all your enemies.

Instead, he will send you a prophet like me from among your own people, and you are to obey him.

So the LORD said to me, 'They have made a wise request.

He will speak in my name, and I will punish anyone who refuses to obey him.

For Moses said, 'The Lord your God will send you a prophet, just as he sent me, and he will be one of your own people. You are to obey everything that he tells you to do.

Anyone who does not obey that prophet shall be separated from God's people and destroyed.'

Moses is the one who said to the people of Israel, 'God will send you a prophet, just as he sent me, and he will be one of your own people.'

That is why we must hold on all the more firmly to the truths we have heard, so that we will not be carried away.

Be careful, then, and do not refuse to hear him who speaks. Those who refused to hear the one who gave the divine message on earth did not escape. How much less shall we escape, then, if we turn away from the one who speaks from heaven!

His voice shook the earth at that time, but now he has promised, "I will once more shake not only the earth but heaven as well."