Maart 14, 2024

The Book of Exodus 32: 7-14

32:7	Toe het die Here met Moses gepraat, sê: "Gaan, neerdaal. Jou mense, wat jy uit Egipteland weggelei het, gesondig het.
32:8	Hulle het hulle vinnig onttrek van die weg wat U aan hulle geopenbaar het. En hulle het vir hulle 'n gegote kalf gemaak, en hulle het dit aanbid. En die slagoffers daarvan veredel, hulle het gesê: ‘Dit is jou gode, Israel, wat jou weggelei het uit Egipteland.”
32:9	En weer, het die Here vir Moses gesê: “Ek sien dat hierdie mense hardnekkig is.
32:10	Laat my gaan, sodat my grimmigheid teen hulle woedend kan word, en Ek kan hulle vernietig, en dan sal Ek van jou ’n groot nasie maak.”
32:11	Toe het Moses tot die Here sy God gebid, sê: “Hoekom, O Heer, is jou grimmigheid woedend teen jou volk, wat jy uit Egipteland weggelei het, met groot krag en met 'n magtige hand?
32:12	Ek smeek jou, laat die Egiptenaars nie sê nie, 'Hy het hulle slim weggelei, sodat Hy hulle op die berge kon doodmaak en hulle van die aarde af verdelg.’ Laat jou toorn stil word en bedaar oor die boosheid van jou volk.
32:13	Onthou Abraham, Isak, en Israel, jou dienaars, aan wie jy by jouself gesweer het, sê: ‘Ek sal jou nageslag vermeerder soos die sterre van die hemel. En hierdie hele land, waaroor ek gepraat het, Ek sal aan jou nageslag gee. En jy sal dit vir ewig besit.’ ”
32:14	En die Here het bedaard om die kwaad te doen wat Hy teen sy volk gespreek het.

Die Heilige Evangelie volgens Johannes 5: 31-47

5:31	If I offer testimony about myself, my testimony is not true.
5:32	There is another who offers testimony about me, and I know that the testimony which he offers about me is true.
5:33	You sent to John, and he offered testimony to the truth.
5:34	But I do not accept testimony from man. In plaas daarvan, I say these things, so that you may be saved.
5:35	He was a burning and shining light. So you were willing, at the time, to exult in his light.
5:36	But I hold a greater testimony than that of John. For the works which the Father has given to me, so that I may complete them, these works themselves that I do, offer testimony about me: that the Father has sent me.
5:37	And the Father who has sent me has himself offered testimony about me. And you have never heard his voice, nor have you beheld his appearance.
5:38	And you do not have his word abiding in you. For the one whom he sent, the same you would not believe.
5:39	Study the Scriptures. For you think that in them you have eternal life. And yet they also offer testimony about me.
5:40	And you are not willing to come to me, so that you may have life.
5:41	I do not accept glory from men.
5:42	But I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.
5:43	I have come in the name of my Father, and you do not accept me. If another will arrive in his own name, him you will accept.
5:44	How are you able to believe, you who accept glory from one another and yet do not seek the glory that is from God alone?
5:45	Do not consider that I might accuse you with the Father. There is one who accuses you, Moses, in whom you hope.
5:46	For if you were believing in Moses, perhaps you would believe in me also. For he wrote about me.
5:47	But if you do not believe by his writings, how will you believe by my words?”