One Year Bible Expressions - Flipbook - Page 118
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spread them on the road. 9 Jesus was
in the center of the procession, and the
people all around him were shouting,
“Praise God* for the Son of David!
Blessings on the one who comes
in the name of the Lord!
Praise God in highest heaven!”*
10The entire city of Jerusalem was in
an uproar as he entered. “Who is this?”
they asked.
11And the crowds replied, “It’s Jesus,
the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.”
12 Jesus entered the Temple and began to drive out all the people buying
and selling animals for sacrifice. He
knocked over the tables of the money
changers and the chairs of those selling
doves. 13He said to them, “The Scriptures declare, ‘My Temple will be called
a house of prayer,’ but you have turned it
into a den of thieves!”*
14The blind and the lame came to
him in the Temple, and he healed them.
15 The leading priests and the teachers
of religious law saw these wonderful
miracles and heard even the children in
the Temple shouting, “Praise God for
the Son of David.”
But the leaders were indignant.
16They asked Jesus, “Do you hear what
these children are saying?”
“Yes,” Jesus replied. “Haven’t you ever
read the Scriptures? For they say, ‘You
have taught children and infants to give
you praise.’* ” 17 Then he returned to
Bethany, where he stayed overnight.
18In the morning, as Jesus was returning to Jerusalem, he was hungry,
19 and he noticed a fig tree beside the
road. He went over to see if there were
any figs, but there were only leaves.
Then he said to it, “May you never bear
fruit again!” And immediately the fig
tree withered up.
20The disciples were amazed when
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they saw this and asked, “How did the
fig tree wither so quickly?”
21Then Jesus told them, “I tell you the
truth, if you have faith and don’t doubt,
you can do things like this and much
more. You can even say to this mountain, ‘May you be lifted up and thrown
into the sea,’ and it will happen. 22 You
can pray for anything, and if you have
faith, you will receive it.”
21:5a Greek Tell the daughter of Zion. Isa 62:11.
21:5b Zech 9:9. 21:7 Greek over them, and he sat on
them. 21:9a Greek Hosanna, an exclamation of praise that
literally means “save now”; also in 21:9b, 15. 21:9b Pss
118:25-26; 148:1. 21:13 Isa 56:7; Jer 7:11.
21:16 Ps 8:2 (Greek version).
PSALM 25:16-22
Turn to me and have mercy,
for I am alone and in deep
distress.
17 My problems go from bad to worse.
Oh, save me from them all!
18 Feel my pain and see my trouble.
Forgive all my sins.
19 See how many enemies I have
and how viciously they hate me!
20 Protect me! Rescue my life from
them!
Do not let me be disgraced,
for in you I take refuge.
21 May integrity and honesty
protect me,
for I put my hope in you.
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O God, ransom Israel
from all its troubles.
PROVERBS 6:12-15
What are worthless and wicked people
like? They are constant liars, signaling
their deceit with a wink of the eye, a
nudge of the foot, or the wiggle of fingers. Their perverted hearts plot evil,
and they constantly stir up trouble. But
they will be destroyed suddenly, broken in an instant beyond all hope of
healing.
