³⁵ If he said they were gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Writings may not be broken),

¹ After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Have no fear, Abram: I will keep you safe, and great will be your reward.

³⁵ Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.

⁵³ Does it not seem possible to you that if I make request to my Father he will even now send me an army of angels?

⁵⁴ But how then would the Writings come true, which say that so it has to be?

⁵⁵ In that hour Jesus said to the people, Have you come out as against a thief with swords and sticks to take me? I was teaching every day in the Temple and you took me not.

⁵⁶ But all this has taken place so that the writings of the prophets might come true. Then all his disciples went from him in flight.

³⁵ And when they had put him on the cross, they made division of his clothing among them by the decision of chance.

¹⁷ But heaven and earth will come to an end before the smallest letter of the law may be dropped out.

²⁶ Was it not necessary for the Christ to go through these things, and to come into his glory?

²⁷ And he made clear to them all the things in the Writings, from Moses and from all the prophets, which had to do with himself.

⁴⁴ And he said to them, These are the words which I said to you when I was still with you, how it was necessary for all the things which are in the writings of Moses and the prophets and in the Psalms about me, to be put into effect.

⁴⁵ Then he made the holy Writings clear to their minds.

⁴⁶ And he said to them, So it is in the Writings that the Christ would undergo death, and come back to life again on the third day;

³⁸ So that the words of the prophet Isaiah might come true, when he said, Lord, who has any belief in our preaching? and the arm of the Lord, to whom has it been unveiled?

³⁹ For this reason they were unable to have belief, because Isaiah said again,

²⁸ After this, being conscious that all things had now been done so that the Writings might come true, Jesus said, Give me water.

³⁶ These things came about so that the Writings might be true, No bone of his body will be broken.

³⁷ And again another verse says, They will see him who was wounded by their spears.

¹⁶ My brothers, the word of God had to be put into effect, which the Holy Spirit had said before, by the mouth of David, about Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus,

¹⁸ Truly I say to you, Till heaven and earth come to an end, not the smallest letter or part of a letter will in any way be taken from the law, till all things are done.

² And Jehu, the son of Hanani the seer, went to King Jehoshaphat and said to him, Is it right for you to go to the help of evil-doers, loving the haters of the Lord? because of this, the wrath of the Lord has come on you.

¹⁵ The Lord your God will give you a prophet from among your people, like me; you will give ear to him;

¹⁸ I will give them a prophet from among themselves, like you, and I will put my words in his mouth, and he will say to them whatever I give him orders to say.

¹⁹ And whoever does not give ear to my words which he will say in my name, will be responsible to me.

²⁰ But the prophet who takes it on himself to say words in my name which I have not given him orders to say, or who says anything in the name of other gods, will come to his death.

³⁶ And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, attacking them till the morning, till there is not a man of them living. And they said, Do whatever seems right to you. Then the priest said, Let us come near to God.

³⁷ And Saul, desiring directions from God, said, Am I to go down after the Philistines? will you give them up into the hands of Israel? But he gave him no answer that day.

¹ And Samuel said to Saul, The Lord sent me to put the holy oil on you and to make you king over his people, over Israel: so give ear now to the words of the Lord.

⁹ And it was clear to David that Saul had evil designs against him, and he said to Abiathar the priest, Come here with the ephod.

¹⁰ Then David said, O Lord, the God of Israel, news has been given to your servant that it is Saul's purpose to come to Keilah and send destruction on the town because of me.

¹¹ And now, is it true, as they have said to me, that Saul is coming? O Lord, the God of Israel, give ear to your servant, and say if these things are so. And the Lord said, He is coming down.

⁶ And when Saul went for directions to the Lord, the Lord gave him no answer, by a dream or by the Urim or by the prophets.

⁸ Then David, questioning the Lord, said, Am I to go after this band? will I be able to overtake them? And in answer he said, Go after them, for you will certainly overtake them, and get back everything.

⁵ Go and say to my servant David, The Lord says, Are you to be the builder of a house, a living-place for me?

⁸ But the word of the Lord came to me saying, You have taken lives without number and made great wars; I will not let you be the builder of a house for my name, because of the lives you have taken on the earth before my eyes.

² But the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah, the man of God, saying,

³ Say to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin,

¹ Let everyone put himself under the authority of the higher powers, because there is no power which is not of God, and all powers are ordered by God.