After this, Abram had a vision and heard the LORD say to him, "Do not be afraid, Abram. I will shield you from danger and give you a great reward."

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

I will send them a prophet like you from among their own people; I will tell him what to say, and he will tell the people everything I command.

But if any prophet dares to speak a message in my name when I did not command him to do so, he must die for it, and so must any prophet who speaks in the name of other gods.'

Saul said to his men, "Let's go down and attack the Philistines in the night, plunder them until dawn, and kill them all." "Do whatever you think best," they answered. But the priest said, "Let's consult God first."

So Saul asked God, "Shall I attack the Philistines? Will you give us victory?" But God did not answer that day.

Samuel said to Saul, "I am the one whom the LORD sent to anoint you king of his people Israel. Now listen to what the LORD Almighty says.

When David heard that Saul was planning to attack him, he said to the priest Abiathar, "Bring the ephod here."

Will the citizens of Keilah hand me over to Saul? Will Saul really come, as I have heard? LORD, God of Israel, I beg you to answer me!" The LORD answered, "Saul will come."

and so he asked the LORD what to do. But the LORD did not answer him at all, either by dreams or by the use of Urim and Thummim or by prophets.

David asked the LORD, "Shall I go after those raiders? And will I catch them?" He answered, "Go after them; you will catch them and rescue the captives."

"Go and tell my servant David that I say to him, 'You are not the one to build a temple for me to live in.

But the LORD told me that I had killed too many people and fought too many wars. And so, because of all the bloodshed I have caused, he would not let me build a temple for him.

But the LORD told the prophet Shemaiah

to give this message to King Rehoboam and to all the people of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin:

A prophet, Jehu son of Hanani, went to meet the king and said to him, "Do you think it is right to help those who are wicked and to take the side of those who hate the LORD? What you have done has brought the LORD's anger on you.

Everyone must obey state authorities, because no authority exists without God's permission, and the existing authorities have been put there by God.

so that what the prophet Isaiah had said might come true: "Lord, who believed the message we told? To whom did the Lord reveal his power?"

And so they were not able to believe, because Isaiah also said,

Jesus knew that by now everything had been completed; and in order to make the scripture come true, he said, "I am thirsty."

This was done to make the scripture come true: "Not one of his bones will be broken."

And there is another scripture that says, "People will look at him whom they pierced."

Remember that as long as heaven and earth last, not the least point nor the smallest detail of the Law will be done away with---not until the end of all things.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

Don't you know that I could call on my Father for help, and at once he would send me more than twelve armies of angels?

Then Jesus spoke to the crowd, "Did you have to come with swords and clubs to capture me, as though I were an outlaw? Every day I sat down and taught in the Temple, and you did not arrest me.

They crucified him and then divided his clothes among them by throwing dice.

But it is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the smallest detail of the Law to be done away with.

Was it not necessary for the Messiah to suffer these things and then to enter his glory?"

And Jesus explained to them what was said about himself in all the Scriptures, beginning with the books of Moses and the writings of all the prophets.

Then he said to them, "These are the very things I told you about while I was still with you: everything written about me in the Law of Moses, the writings of the prophets, and the Psalms had to come true."

and said to them, "This is what is written: the Messiah must suffer and must rise from death three days later,

"My friends," he said, "the scripture had to come true in which the Holy Spirit, speaking through David, made a prediction about Judas, who was the guide for those who arrested Jesus.