Kunnen 7, 2023

6:1	In die dagen, naarmate het aantal discipelen toenam, kwam er een gemompel van de Grieken tegen de Hebreeën, omdat hun weduwen met minachting werden behandeld in de dagelijkse bediening.
6:2	En dus de twaalf, riep de menigte van de discipelen bijeen, gezegd: “Het is niet eerlijk voor ons om het Woord van God achter te laten om ook aan tafel te dienen.
6:3	Daarom, broers, zoek onder elkaar naar zeven mannen met een goed getuigenis, vervuld met de Heilige Geest en met wijsheid, die we over dit werk kunnen aanstellen.
6:4	Toch echt, we zullen voortdurend in gebed zijn en in de bediening van het Woord.”
6:5	En het plan beviel de hele menigte. En ze kozen voor Stephen, een man vol geloof en met de Heilige Geest, en Philip en Prochorus en Nicanor en Timon en Parmenas en Nicolas, een nieuwe aankomst uit Antiochië.
6:6	Deze zetten ze voor de ogen van de apostelen, en tijdens het bidden, ze legden hen de handen op.
6:7	En het Woord van de Heer nam toe, en het aantal discipelen in Jeruzalem werd buitengewoon vermenigvuldigd. En zelfs een grote groep priesters was gehoorzaam aan het geloof.

2:4	And approaching him as if he were a living stone, rejected by men, zeker, but elect and honored by God,
2:5	be also yourselves like living stones, built upon him, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, so as to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
2:6	Daarom, Scripture asserts: “Zie, I am setting in Zion a chief cornerstone, elect, precious. And whoever will have believed in him will not be confounded.”
2:7	Daarom, to you who believe, he is honor. But to those who do not believe, the stone which the builders have rejected, the same has been made into the head of the corner,
2:8	and a stone of offense, and a rock of scandal, to those who are offended by the Word; neither do they believe, though they also have been built upon him.
2:9	But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, an acquired people, so that you may announce the virtues of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

14:1	“Do not let your heart be troubled. You believe in God. Believe in me also.
14:2	In my Father’s house, there are many dwelling places. If there were not, I would have told you. For I go to prepare a place for you.
14:3	And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will return again, and then I will take you to myself, so that where I am, you also may be.
14:4	And you know where I am going. And you know the way.”
14:5	Thomas said to him, "Heer, we do not know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”
14:6	zei Jezus tegen hem: “I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
14:7	If you had known me, certainly you would also have known my Father. And from now on, you shall know him, and you have seen him.”
14:8	Philip said to him, "Heer, reveal the Father to us, and it is enough for us.”
14:9	zei Jezus tegen hem: “Have I been with you for so long, and you have not known me? Philip, whoever sees me, also sees the Father. How can you say, ‘Reveal the Father to us?'
14:10	Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I am speaking to you, I do not speak from myself. But the Father abiding in me, he does these works.
14:11	Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me?
14:12	Or else, believe because of these same works. Amen, amen, ik zeg je, whoever believes in me shall also do the works that I do. And greater things than these shall he do, for I go to the Father.