7. 21 Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As
the Father has sent me, I am sending
you.” 22 And with that he breathed on them and
said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive
anyone’s sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do
not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”
8.
9. “Commissioned officers derive authority directly
from a sovereign power and, as such, hold
a commission charging them with the duties and
responsibilities of a specific office or position.
Commissioned officers are typically the only
persons, in a military environment, able to act as
the commanding officer of a military unit.”
10. 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All
authority in heaven and on earth has been
given to me. 19 Therefore go and make
disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the
name of the Father and of the Son and of
the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey
everything I have commanded you. And
surely I am with you always, to the very end
of the age.”
21. 14 The Word became flesh and made his
dwelling among us. We have seen his
glory, the glory of the one and only Son,
who came from the Father, full of
grace and truth.
23. 9 As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man
named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s
booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew
got up and followed him. 10 While Jesus was
having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax
collectors and sinners came and ate with him
and his disciples. 11 When the Pharisees saw
this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your
teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
24. 2 At dawn he appeared again in the temple
courts, where all the people gathered around
him, and he sat down to teach them. 3 The
teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in
a woman caught in adultery. They made her
stand before the group 4 and said to Jesus,
“Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of
adultery. 5 In the Law Moses commanded us to
stone such women. Now what do you
say?” 6 They were using this question as a
trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.
25.
26.
27. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the
ground with his finger. 7 When they kept on
questioning him, he straightened up and said to
them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be
the first to throw a stone at her.” 8 Again he
stooped down and wrote on the ground.
9 At this, those who heard began to go away one
at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus
was left, with the woman still standing there.
28. 10 Jesus straightened up and asked her,
“Woman, where are they? Has no one
condemned you?”
11 “No one, sir,” she said.
“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus
declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”
29.
30.
31. 7 Butwe were gentle among you. We were
like a mother caring for her little
children. 8 We loved you so much that we
were happy to share with you God’s good
news. We were also happy to share our
lives with you. You had become very
special to us.
32.
33.
34.
35. Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a
great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off
everything that hinders and the sin that so easily
entangles. And let us run with perseverance the
race marked out for us, 2 fixing our eyes on
Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the
joy set before him he endured the
cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the
right hand of the throne of God. 3 Consider him
who endured such opposition from sinners, so
that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
