The Word Made Flesh:

Letting the Biblical Story Come Alive A Reader for Drive Thru History

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Episode 1, "Egypt, Lachish & Beersheba" ................................................................................ p. 1. Luke 24:13-32. Episode 2, "Arad, Dead Sea, Sodom & Gomorrah, and Masada" ........................................... p. 2. Genesis 14; Genesis 18:16-33; Ezekiel 47:1-12 Episode 3, "Valley of Elah, Ein Gedi & Qumran" ...................................................................... p. 4. 1 Samuel 17; 1 Samuel 24; Matthew 3 Episode 4, "History of Israel, Jericho & Hazor" ........................................................................ p. 7. Deuteronomy 8; Exodus 2; Joshua 2 Episode 5, "Samaria, Shechem & Shiloh" ................................................................................. p. 9. John 4:1-26; Genesis 12:1-9; 1 Samuel 1:1-29 Episode 6, "Tel Dan, Jezreel & Megiddo" ................................................................................... p. 11. Psalm 96; 1 Kings 12:25-33; 2 Kings 10:28-36 Episode 7, "Christmas, Prophecies & Bethlehem" .................................................................... p. 12. Ruth 4; 1 Samuel 16:1-13; Luke 2:1-20 Episode 8, "Sea of Galilee, Nazareth & the House of Peter" ..................................................... p. 14. Luke 4; Matthew 8:5-15; Matthew 11:16-24; John 6:1-20 Episode 9, "Caesarea Philippi & Caesarea Maritima" ................................................................ p. 17. Psalm 146; Mark 8:27-30; Acts 10; Acts 23:23-35 Episode 10, "Mount Moriah, Temple Mount & Western Wall" ................................................... p. 19. Genesis 22:1-19; John 2; John 8:1-20 Episode 11, City of David, Hezekiah's Tunnel & Kidron Valley" ............................................... p. 21. John 9; John 5:1-15 Episode 12, "Prophecies, Crucifixion, Resurrection & Church of the Holy Sepulcher" ......... p. 23.

Luke 22:39-53; Luke 23:26-24:12; John 20:19-29

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Episode 1 "Egypt, Lachish & Beersheba"

Luke 24:13-32

13 Now that same day two of them were going to a

village called Emmaus, about seven miles[from

Jerusalem. 14 They were talking with each other about

everything that had happened. 15 As they walked and

discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself

came up and walked along with them; 16 but they were

kept from recognizing him.

17 He asked them, “What are you discussing together as

you walk along?”

They stood still, their faces downcast. 18 One of them,

named Cleopas, asked him, “Are you the only one

visiting Jerusalem who does not know the things that

have happened there in these days?”

19 “What things?” he asked.

“About Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied. “He was a

prophet, powerful in word and deed before God and all

the people. 20 The chief priests and our rulers handed

him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified

him; 21 but we had hoped that he was the one who was

going to redeem Israel. And what is more, it is the third

day since all this took place. 22 In addition, some of our

women amazed us. They went to the tomb early this

morning 23 but didn’t find his body. They came and told

us that they had seen a vision of angels, who said he

was alive. 24 Then some of our companions went to the

tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they

did not see Jesus.”

25 He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow

to believe all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Did not

the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter

his glory?” 27 And beginning with Moses and all the

Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the

Scriptures concerning himself.

28 As they approached the village to which they were

going, Jesus continued on as if he were going farther. 29 But they urged him strongly, “Stay with us, for it is

nearly evening; the day is almost over.” So he went in

to stay with them.

30 When he was at the table with them, he took bread,

gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. 31 Then their eyes were opened and they recognized

him, and he disappeared from their sight. 32 They asked

each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us

while he talked with us on the road and opened the

Scriptures to us?”

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Episode 2 "Arad, Dead Sea, Sodom & Gomorrah, and Masada"

Genesis 14

1 At the time when Amraphel was king of Shinar,

Arioch king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer king of Elam and

Tidal king of Goyim, 2 these kings went to war against

Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab

king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboyim, and the

king of Bela (that is, Zoar). 3 All these latter kings

joined forces in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Dead

Sea Valley). 4 For twelve years they had been subject to

Kedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

5 In the fourteenth year, Kedorlaomer and the kings

allied with him went out and defeated the Rephaites in

Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in

Shaveh Kiriathaim 6 and the Horites in the hill country

of Seir, as far as El Paran near the desert. 7 Then they

turned back and went to En Mishpat (that is, Kadesh),

and they conquered the whole territory of the

Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who were living in

Hazezon Tamar.

8 Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the

king of Admah, the king of Zeboyim and the king of

Bela (that is, Zoar) marched out and drew up their

battle lines in the Valley of Siddim 9 against

Kedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goyim,

Amraphel king of Shinar and Arioch king of Ellasar—

four kings against five. 10 Now the Valley of Siddim

was full of tar pits, and when the kings of Sodom and

Gomorrah fled, some of the men fell into them and the

rest fled to the hills. 11 The four kings seized all the

goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food; then

they went away. 12 They also carried off Abram’s

nephew Lot and his possessions, since he was living in

Sodom.

13 A man who had escaped came and reported this to

Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living near the

great trees of Mamre the Amorite, a brother of Eshkol

and Aner, all of whom were allied with Abram. 14 When Abram heard that his relative had been taken

captive, he called out the 318 trained men born in his

household and went in pursuit as far as Dan. 15 During

the night Abram divided his men to attack them and he

routed them, pursuing them as far as Hobah, north of

Damascus. 16 He recovered all the goods and brought

back his relative Lot and his possessions, together with

the women and the other people.

17 After Abram returned from defeating Kedorlaomer

and the kings allied with him, the king of Sodom came

out to meet him in the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the

King’s Valley).

18 Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread

and wine. He was priest of God Most High, 19 and he

blessed Abram, saying,

“Blessed be Abram by God Most High,

Creator of heaven and earth. 20 And praise be to God Most High,

who delivered your enemies into your hand.”

Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

21 The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the

people and keep the goods for yourself.”

22 But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “With raised

hand I have sworn an oath to the LORD, God Most

High, Creator of heaven and earth, 23 that I will accept

nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the strap

of a sandal, so that you will never be able to say, ‘I

made Abram rich.’ 24 I will accept nothing but what my

men have eaten and the share that belongs to the men

who went with me—to Aner, Eshkol and Mamre. Let

them have their share.”

Genesis 18:16-33

16 When the men got up to leave, they looked down

toward Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them

to see them on their way. 17 Then the LORD said, “Shall

I hide from Abraham what I am about to do? 18 Abraham will surely become a great and powerful

nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through

him. 19 For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his

children and his household after him to keep the way of

the LORD by doing what is right and just, so that the

LORD will bring about for Abraham what he has

promised him.”

20 Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and

Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous 21 that I

will go down and see if what they have done is as bad

as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know.”

22 The men turned away and went toward Sodom, but

Abraham remained standing before the LORD. 23 Then

Abraham approached him and said: “Will you sweep

away the righteous with the wicked? 24 What if there

are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really

sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of

the fifty righteous people in it? 25 Far be it from you to

do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked,

treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it

from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?”

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26 The LORD said, “If I find fifty righteous people in the

city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their

sake.”

27 Then Abraham spoke up again: “Now that I have

been so bold as to speak to the Lord, though I am

nothing but dust and ashes, 28 what if the number of the

righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the

whole city for lack of five people?”

“If I find forty-five there,” he said, “I will not destroy

it.”

29 Once again he spoke to him, “What if only forty are

found there?”

He said, “For the sake of forty, I will not do it.”

30 Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me

speak. What if only thirty can be found there?”

He answered, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”

31 Abraham said, “Now that I have been so bold as to

speak to the Lord, what if only twenty can be found

there?”

He said, “For the sake of twenty, I will not destroy it.”

32 Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me

speak just once more. What if only ten can be found

there?”

He answered, “For the sake of ten, I will not destroy

it.”

33 When the LORD had finished speaking with

Abraham, he left, and Abraham returned home.

Ezekiel 47:1-12

1 The man brought me back to the entrance to the

temple, and I saw water coming out from under the

threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple

faced east). The water was coming down from under

the south side of the temple, south of the altar. 2 He

then brought me out through the north gate and led me

around the outside to the outer gate facing east, and the

water was trickling from the south side.

3 As the man went eastward with a measuring line in

his hand, he measured off a thousand cubits and then

led me through water that was ankle-deep. 4 He

measured off another thousand cubits and led me

through water that was knee-deep. He measured off

another thousand and led me through water that was up

to the waist. 5 He measured off another thousand, but

now it was a river that I could not cross, because the

water had risen and was deep enough to swim in—a

river that no one could cross. 6 He asked me, “Son of

man, do you see this?”

Then he led me back to the bank of the river. 7 When I

arrived there, I saw a great number of trees on each

side of the river. 8 He said to me, “This water flows

toward the eastern region and goes down into the

Arabah, where it enters the Dead Sea. When it empties

into the sea, the salty water there becomes fresh. 9 Swarms of living creatures will live wherever the

river flows. There will be large numbers of fish,

because this water flows there and makes the salt water

fresh; so where the river flows everything will live. 10 Fishermen will stand along the shore; from En Gedi

to En Eglaim there will be places for spreading nets.

The fish will be of many kinds—like the fish of the

Mediterranean Sea. 11 But the swamps and marshes will

not become fresh; they will be left for salt. 12 Fruit trees

of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their

leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail. Every

month they will bear fruit, because the water from the

sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food

and their leaves for healing.”

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Episode 3 "Valley of Elah, Ein Gedi & Qumran"

1 Samuel 17

1 Now the Philistines gathered their forces for war and

assembled at Sokoh in Judah. They pitched camp at

Ephes Dammim, between Sokoh and Azekah. 2 Saul

and the Israelites assembled and camped in the Valley

of Elah and drew up their battle line to meet the

Philistines. 3 The Philistines occupied one hill and the

Israelites another, with the valley between them.

4 A champion named Goliath, who was from Gath,

came out of the Philistine camp. His height was six

cubits and a span. 5 He had a bronze helmet on his head

and wore a coat of scale armour of bronze weighing

five thousand shekels; 6 on his legs he wore bronze

greaves, and a bronze javelin was slung on his back. 7 His spear shaft was like a weaver’s rod, and its iron

point weighed six hundred shekels. His shield bearer

went ahead of him.

8 Goliath stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, “Why

do you come out and line up for battle? Am I not a

Philistine, and are you not the servants of Saul? Choose

a man and have him come down to me. 9 If he is able to

fight and kill me, we will become your subjects; but if I

overcome him and kill him, you will become our

subjects and serve us.” 10 Then the Philistine said, “This

day I defy the armies of Israel! Give me a man and let

us fight each other.” 11 On hearing the Philistine’s

words, Saul and all the Israelites were dismayed and

terrified.

12 Now David was the son of an Ephrathite named

Jesse, who was from Bethlehem in Judah. Jesse had

eight sons, and in Saul’s time he was very old. 13 Jesse’s three oldest sons had followed Saul to the

war: The firstborn was Eliab; the second, Abinadab;

and the third, Shammah. 14 David was the youngest.

The three oldest followed Saul, 15 but David went back

and forth from Saul to tend his father’s sheep at

Bethlehem.

16 For forty days the Philistine came forward every

morning and evening and took his stand.

17 Now Jesse said to his son David, “Take this ephah of

roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your

brothers and hurry to their camp. 18 Take along these

ten cheeses to the commander of their unit. See how

your brothers are and bring back some assurance from

them. 19 They are with Saul and all the men of Israel in

the Valley of Elah, fighting against the Philistines.”

20 Early in the morning David left the flock in the care

of a shepherd, loaded up and set out, as Jesse had

directed. He reached the camp as the army was going

out to its battle positions, shouting the war cry. 21 Israel

and the Philistines were drawing up their lines facing

each other. 22 David left his things with the keeper of

supplies, ran to the battle lines and asked his brothers

how they were. 23 As he was talking with them,

Goliath, the Philistine champion from Gath, stepped

out from his lines and shouted his usual defiance, and

David heard it. 24 Whenever the Israelites saw the man,

they all fled from him in great fear.

25 Now the Israelites had been saying, “Do you see how

this man keeps coming out? He comes out to defy

Israel. The king will give great wealth to the man who

kills him. He will also give him his daughter in

marriage and will exempt his family from taxes in

Israel.”

26 David asked the men standing near him, “What will

be done for the man who kills this Philistine and

removes this disgrace from Israel? Who is this

uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies

of the living God?”

27 They repeated to him what they had been saying and

told him, “This is what will be done for the man who

kills him.”

28 When Eliab, David’s oldest brother, heard him

speaking with the men, he burned with anger at him

and asked, “Why have you come down here? And with

whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness?

I know how conceited you are and how wicked your

heart is; you came down only to watch the battle.”

29 “Now what have I done?” said David. “Can’t I even

speak?” 30 He then turned away to someone else and

brought up the same matter, and the men answered him

as before. 31 What David said was overheard and

reported to Saul, and Saul sent for him.

32 David said to Saul, “Let no one lose heart on account

of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him.”

33 Saul replied, “You are not able to go out against this

Philistine and fight him; you are only a young man, and

he has been a warrior from his youth.”

34 But David said to Saul, “Your servant has been

keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came

and carried off a sheep from the flock, 35 I went after it,

struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it

turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed

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it. 36 Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear;

this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them,

because he has defied the armies of the living God. 37 The LORD who rescued me from the paw of the lion

and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand

of this Philistine.”

Saul said to David, “Go, and the LORD be with you.”

38 Then Saul dressed David in his own tunic. He put a

coat of armour on him and a bronze helmet on his

head. 39 David fastened on his sword over the tunic and

tried walking around, because he was not used to them.

“I cannot go in these,” he said to Saul, “because I am

not used to them.” So he took them off. 40 Then he took

his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the

stream, put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag

and, with his sling in his hand, approached the

Philistine.

41 Meanwhile, the Philistine, with his shield bearer in

front of him, kept coming closer to David. 42 He looked

David over and saw that he was little more than a boy,

glowing with health and handsome, and he despised

him. 43 He said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come at

me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by

his gods. 44 “Come here,” he said, “and I’ll give your

flesh to the birds and the wild animals!”

45 David said to the Philistine, “You come against me

with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against

you in the name of the LORD Almighty, the God of the

armies of Israel, whom you have defied. 46 This day the

LORD will deliver you into my hands, and I’ll strike

you down and cut off your head. This very day I will

give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds

and the wild animals, and the whole world will know

that there is a God in Israel. 47 All those gathered here

will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD

saves; for the battle is the LORD’s, and he will give all

of you into our hands.”

48 As the Philistine moved closer to attack him, David

ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him. 49 Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone, he

slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead. The

stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on

the ground.

50 So David triumphed over the Philistine with a sling

and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck

down the Philistine and killed him.

51 David ran and stood over him. He took hold of the

Philistine’s sword and drew it from the sheath. After he

killed him, he cut off his head with the sword.

When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they

turned and ran. 52 Then the men of Israel and Judah

surged forward with a shout and pursued the Philistines

to the entrance of Gath and to the gates of Ekron. Their

dead were strewn along the Shaaraim road to Gath and

Ekron. 53 When the Israelites returned from chasing the

Philistines, they plundered their camp.

54 David took the Philistine’s head and brought it to

Jerusalem; he put the Philistine’s weapons in his own

tent.

55 As Saul watched David going out to meet the

Philistine, he said to Abner, commander of the army,

“Abner, whose son is that young man?”

Abner replied, “As surely as you live, Your Majesty, I

don’t know.”

56 The king said, “Find out whose son this young man

is.”

57 As soon as David returned from killing the Philistine,

Abner took him and brought him before Saul, with

David still holding the Philistine’s head.

58 “Whose son are you, young man?” Saul asked him.

David said, “I am the son of your servant Jesse of

Bethlehem.”

1 Samuel 24

1 After Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, he

was told, “David is in the Desert of En Gedi.” 2 So Saul

took three thousand able young men from all Israel and

set out to look for David and his men near the Crags of

the Wild Goats.

3 He came to the sheep pens along the way; a cave was

there, and Saul went in to relieve himself. David and

his men were far back in the cave. 4 The men said,

“This is the day the LORD spoke of when he said to

you, ‘I will give your enemy into your hands for you to

deal with as you wish.’” Then David crept up

unnoticed and cut off a corner of Saul’s robe.

5 Afterward, David was conscience-stricken for having

cut off a corner of his robe. 6 He said to his men, “The

LORD forbid that I should do such a thing to my master,

the LORD’s anointed, or lay my hand on him; for he is

the anointed of the LORD.” 7 With these words David

sharply rebuked his men and did not allow them to

attack Saul. And Saul left the cave and went his way.

8 Then David went out of the cave and called out to

Saul, “My lord the king!” When Saul looked behind

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him, David bowed down and prostrated himself with

his face to the ground. 9 He said to Saul, “Why do you

listen when men say, ‘David is bent on harming you’? 10 This day you have seen with your own eyes how the

LORD delivered you into my hands in the cave. Some

urged me to kill you, but I spared you; I said, ‘I will not

lay my hand on my lord, because he is the LORD’s

anointed.’ 11 See, my father, look at this piece of your

robe in my hand! I cut off the corner of your robe but

did not kill you. See that there is nothing in my hand to

indicate that I am guilty of wrongdoing or rebellion. I

have not wronged you, but you are hunting me down to

take my life. 12 May the LORD judge between you and

me. And may the LORD avenge the wrongs you have

done to me, but my hand will not touch you. 13 As the

old saying goes, ‘From evildoers come evil deeds,’ so

my hand will not touch you.

14 “Against whom has the king of Israel come out?

Who are you pursuing? A dead dog? A flea? 15 May the

LORD be our judge and decide between us. May he

consider my cause and uphold it; may he vindicate me

by delivering me from your hand.”

16 When David finished saying this, Saul asked, “Is that

your voice, David my son?” And he wept aloud. 17 “You are more righteous than I,” he said. “You have

treated me well, but I have treated you badly. 18 You

have just now told me about the good you did to me;

the LORD delivered me into your hands, but you did not

kill me. 19 When a man finds his enemy, does he let

him get away unharmed? May the LORD reward you

well for the way you treated me today. 20 I know that

you will surely be king and that the kingdom of Israel

will be established in your hands. 21 Now swear to me

by the LORD that you will not kill off my descendants

or wipe out my name from my father’s family.”

22 So David gave his oath to Saul. Then Saul returned

home, but David and his men went up to the

stronghold.

Matthew 3

1 In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the

wilderness of Judea 2 and saying, “Repent, for the

kingdom of heaven has come near.” 3 This is he who

was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah:

“A voice of one calling in the wilderness,

‘Prepare the way for the Lord,

make straight paths for him.’”

4 John’s clothes were made of camel’s hair, and he had

a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts

and wild honey. 5 People went out to him from

Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region of the

Jordan. 6 Confessing their sins, they were baptized by

him in the Jordan River.

7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and

Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said

to them: “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to

flee from the coming wrath? 8 Produce fruit in keeping

with repentance. 9 And do not think you can say to

yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ I tell you

that out of these stones God can raise up children for

Abraham. 10 The axe is already at the root of the trees,

and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be

cut down and thrown into the fire.

11 “I baptize you with water for repentance. But after

me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose

sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you

with[c] the Holy Spirit and fire. 12 His winnowing fork is

in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor,

gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the

chaff with unquenchable fire.”

13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be

baptized by John. 14 But John tried to deter him, saying,

“I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to

me?”

15 Jesus replied, “Let it be so now; it is proper for us to

do this to fulfil all righteousness.” Then John

consented.

16 As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the

water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw

the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting

on him. 17 And a voice from heaven said, “This is my

Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”

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Episode 4 "History of Israel, Jericho & Hazor"

Deuteronomy 8

1 Be careful to follow every command I am giving you

today, so that you may live and increase and may enter

and possess the land the LORD promised on oath to

your ancestors. 2 Remember how the LORD your God

led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years,

to humble and test you in order to know what was in

your heart, whether or not you would keep his

commands. 3 He humbled you, causing you to hunger

and then feeding you with manna, which neither you

nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man

does not live on bread alone but on every word that

comes from the mouth of the LORD. 4 Your clothes did

not wear out and your feet did not swell during these

forty years. 5 Know then in your heart that as a man

disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines

you.

6 Observe the commands of the LORD your God,

walking in obedience to him and revering him. 7 For the

LORD your God is bringing you into a good land—a

land with brooks, streams, and deep springs gushing

out into the valleys and hills; 8 a land with wheat and

barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and

honey; 9 a land where bread will not be scarce and you

will lack nothing; a land where the rocks are iron and

you can dig copper out of the hills.

10 When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the

LORD your God for the good land he has given you. 11 Be careful that you do not forget the LORD your God,

failing to observe his commands, his laws and his

decrees that I am giving you this day. 12 Otherwise,

when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine

houses and settle down, 13 and when your herds and

flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and

all you have is multiplied, 14 then your heart will

become proud and you will forget the LORD your God,

who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of

slavery. 15 He led you through the vast and dreadful

wilderness, that thirsty and waterless land, with its

venomous snakes and scorpions. He brought you water

out of hard rock. 16 He gave you manna to eat in the

wilderness, something your ancestors had never

known, to humble and test you so that in the end it

might go well with you. 17 You may say to yourself,

“My power and the strength of my hands have

produced this wealth for me.” 18 But remember the

LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the ability

to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which

he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.

19 If you ever forget the LORD your God and follow

other gods and worship and bow down to them, I

testify against you today that you will surely be

destroyed. 20 Like the nations the LORD destroyed

before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying

the LORD your God.

Exodus 2

1 Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite

woman, 2 and she became pregnant and gave birth to a

son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid

him for three months. 3 But when she could hide him

no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated

it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and

put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. 4 His

sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to

him.

5 Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to

bathe, and her attendants were walking along the

riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent

her female slave to get it. 6 She opened it and saw the

baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This

is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said.

7 Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go

and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for

you?”

8 “Yes, go,” she answered. So the girl went and got the

baby’s mother. 9 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take

this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So

the woman took the baby and nursed him. 10 When the

child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter

and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying,

“I drew him out of the water.”

11 One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to

where his own people were and watched them at their

hard labour. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew,

one of his own people. 12 Looking this way and that and

seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in

the sand. 13 The next day he went out and saw two

Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong,

“Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?”

14 The man said, “Who made you ruler and judge over

us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the

Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “What

I did must have become known.”

15 When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses,

but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in

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Midian, where he sat down by a well. 16 Now a priest of

Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw

water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock. 17 Some shepherds came along and drove them away,

but Moses got up and came to their rescue and watered

their flock.

18 When the girls returned to Reuel their father, he

asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”

19 They answered, “An Egyptian rescued us from the

shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the

flock.”

20 “And where is he?” Reuel asked his daughters. “Why

did you leave him? Invite him to have something to

eat.”

21 Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave his

daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage. 22 Zipporah

gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom,

saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”

23 During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The

Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and

their cry for help because of their slavery went up to

God. 24 God heard their groaning and he remembered

his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. 25 So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned

about them.

Joshua 2

1 Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from

Shittim. “Go, look over the land,” he said, “especially

Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a

prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.

2 The king of Jericho was told, “Look, some of the

Israelites have come here tonight to spy out the land.” 3 So the king of Jericho sent this message to Rahab:

“Bring out the men who came to you and entered your

house, because they have come to spy out the whole

land.”

4 But the woman had taken the two men and hidden

them. She said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I did

not know where they had come from. 5 At dusk, when it

was time to close the city gate, they left. I don’t know

which way they went. Go after them quickly. You may

catch up with them.” 6 (But she had taken them up to

the roof and hidden them under the stalks of flax she

had laid out on the roof.) 7 So the men set out in pursuit

of the spies on the road that leads to the fords of the

Jordan, and as soon as the pursuers had gone out, the

gate was shut.

8 Before the spies lay down for the night, she went up

on the roof 9 and said to them, “I know that the LORD

has given you this land and that a great fear of you has

fallen on us, so that all who live in this country are

melting in fear because of you. 10 We have heard how

the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea for you

when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to

Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites east of the

Jordan, whom you completely destroyed. 11 When we

heard of it, our hearts melted in fear and everyone’s

courage failed because of you, for the LORD your God

is God in heaven above and on the earth below.

12 “Now then, please swear to me by the LORD that you

will show kindness to my family, because I have

shown kindness to you. Give me a sure sign 13 that you

will spare the lives of my father and mother, my

brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them—and

that you will save us from death.”

14 “Our lives for your lives!” the men assured her. “If

you don’t tell what we are doing, we will treat you

kindly and faithfully when the LORD gives us the land.”

15 So she let them down by a rope through the window,

for the house she lived in was part of the city wall. 16 She said to them, “Go to the hills so the pursuers will

not find you. Hide yourselves there three days until

they return, and then go on your way.”

17 Now the men had said to her, “This oath you made us

swear will not be binding on us 18 unless, when we

enter the land, you have tied this scarlet cord in the

window through which you let us down, and unless

you have brought your father and mother, your brothers

and all your family into your house. 19 If any of them

go outside your house into the street, their blood will

be on their own heads; we will not be responsible. As

for those who are in the house with you, their blood

will be on our head if a hand is laid on them. 20 But if

you tell what we are doing, we will be released from

the oath you made us swear.”

21 “Agreed,” she replied. “Let it be as you say.”

So she sent them away, and they departed. And she tied

the scarlet cord in the window.

22 When they left, they went into the hills and stayed

there three days, until the pursuers had searched all

along the road and returned without finding them. 23 Then the two men started back. They went down out

of the hills, forded the river and came to Joshua son of

Nun and told him everything that had happened to

them. 24 They said to Joshua, “The LORD has surely

given the whole land into our hands; all the people are

melting in fear because of us.”

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Episode 5 "Samaria, Shechem & Shiloh"

1 Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that

he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than

John— 2 although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized,

but his disciples. 3 So he left Judea and went back once

more to Galilee.

4 Now he had to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a

town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground

Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was

there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat

down by the well. It was about noon.

7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus

said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” 8 (His disciples

had gone into the town to buy food.)

9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew

and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for

a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and

who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have

asked him and he would have given you living water.”

11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw

with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living

water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who

gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also

his sons and his livestock?”

13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water

will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I

give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give

them will become in them a spring of water welling up

to eternal life.”

15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so

that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to

draw water.”

16 He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”

17 “I have no husband,” she replied.

Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you

have no husband. 18 The fact is, you have had five

husbands, and the man you now have is not your

husband. What you have just said is quite true.”

19 “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a

prophet. 20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain,

but you Jews claim that the place where we must

worship is in Jerusalem.”

21 “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is

coming when you will worship the Father neither on

this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans

worship what you do not know; we worship what we

do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 Yet a time is

coming and has now come when the true worshipers

will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for

they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God

is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit

and in truth.”

25 The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called

Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain

everything to us.”

26 Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I

am he.”

Genesis 12:1-9

1 The LORD had said to Abram, “Go from your country,

your people and your father’s household to the land I

will show you.

2 “I will make you into a great nation,

and I will bless you;

I will make your name great,

and you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you,

and whoever curses you I will curse;

and all peoples on earth

will be blessed through you.”

4 So Abram went, as the LORD had told him; and Lot

went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old

when he set out from Harran. 5 He took his wife Sarai,

his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had

accumulated and the people they had acquired in

Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and

they arrived there.

6 Abram travelled through the land as far as the site of

the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the

Canaanites were in the land. 7 The LORD appeared to

Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this

land.” So he built an altar there to the LORD, who had

appeared to him.

8 From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel

and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on

the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and called

on the name of the LORD.

9 Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.

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1 Samuel 1

1 There was a certain man from Ramathaim, a Zuphite

from the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was

Elkanah son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of

Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite. 2 He had two

wives; one was called Hannah and the other Peninnah.

Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none.

3 Year after year this man went up from his town to

worship and sacrifice to the LORD Almighty at Shiloh,

where Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were

priests of the LORD. 4 Whenever the day came for

Elkanah to sacrifice, he would give portions of the

meat to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and

daughters. 5 But to Hannah he gave a double portion

because he loved her, and the LORD had closed her

womb. 6 Because the LORD had closed Hannah’s

womb, her rival kept provoking her in order to irritate

her. 7 This went on year after year. Whenever Hannah

went up to the house of the LORD, her rival provoked

her till she wept and would not eat. 8 Her husband

Elkanah would say to her, “Hannah, why are you

weeping? Why don’t you eat? Why are you

downhearted? Don’t I mean more to you than ten

sons?”

9 Once when they had finished eating and drinking in

Shiloh, Hannah stood up. Now Eli the priest was sitting

on his chair by the doorpost of the LORD’s house. 10 In

her deep anguish Hannah prayed to the LORD, weeping

bitterly. 11 And she made a vow, saying, “LORD

Almighty, if you will only look on your servant’s

misery and remember me, and not forget your servant

but give her a son, then I will give him to the LORD for

all the days of his life, and no razor will ever be used

on his head.”

12 As she kept on praying to the LORD, Eli observed her

mouth. 13 Hannah was praying in her heart, and her lips

were moving but her voice was not heard. Eli thought

she was drunk 14 and said to her, “How long are you

going to stay drunk? Put away your wine.”

15 “Not so, my lord,” Hannah replied, “I am a woman

who is deeply troubled. I have not been drinking wine

or beer; I was pouring out my soul to the LORD. 16 Do

not take your servant for a wicked woman; I have been

praying here out of my great anguish and grief.”

17 Eli answered, “Go in peace, and may the God of

Israel grant you what you have asked of him.”

18 She said, “May your servant find favour in your

eyes.” Then she went her way and ate something, and

her face was no longer downcast.

19 Early the next morning they arose and worshiped

before the LORD and then went back to their home at

Ramah. Elkanah made love to his wife Hannah, and the

LORD remembered her. 20 So in the course of time

Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She

named him Samuel, saying, “Because I asked the LORD

for him.”

21 When her husband Elkanah went up with all his

family to offer the annual sacrifice to the LORD and to

fulfil his vow, 22 Hannah did not go. She said to her

husband, “After the boy is weaned, I will take him and

present him before the LORD, and he will live there

always.”

23 “Do what seems best to you,” her husband Elkanah

told her. “Stay here until you have weaned him; only

may the LORD make good his word.” So the woman

stayed at home and nursed her son until she had

weaned him.

24 After he was weaned, she took the boy with her,

young as he was, along with a three-year-old bull, an

ephah of flour and a skin of wine, and brought him to

the house of the LORD at Shiloh. 25 When the bull had

been sacrificed, they brought the boy to Eli, 26 and she

said to him, “Pardon me, my lord. As surely as you

live, I am the woman who stood here beside you

praying to the LORD. 27 I prayed for this child, and the

LORD has granted me what I asked of him. 28 So now I

give him to the LORD. For his whole life he will be

given over to the LORD.” And he worshiped the LORD

there.

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Episode 6 "Tel Dan, Jezreel & Megiddo"

Psalm 96

1 Sing to the LORD a new song;

sing to the LORD, all the earth. 2 Sing to the LORD, praise his name;

proclaim his salvation day after day. 3 Declare his glory among the nations,

his marvellous deeds among all peoples.

4 For great is the LORD and most worthy of praise;

he is to be feared above all gods. 5 For all the gods of the nations are idols,

but the LORD made the heavens. 6 Splendour and majesty are before him;

strength and glory are in his sanctuary.

7 Ascribe to the LORD, all you families of nations,

ascribe to the LORD glory and strength. 8 Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name;

bring an offering and come into his courts. 9 Worship the LORD in the splendour of his holiness;

tremble before him, all the earth. 10 Say among the nations, “The LORD reigns.”

The world is firmly established, it cannot be moved;

he will judge the peoples with equity.

11 Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad;

let the sea resound, and all that is in it. 12 Let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them;

let all the trees of the forest sing for joy. 13 Let all creation rejoice before the LORD, for he

comes,

he comes to judge the earth.

He will judge the world in righteousness

and the peoples in his faithfulness.

1 Kings 12:25-33

25 Then Jeroboam fortified Shechem in the hill country

of Ephraim and lived there. From there he went out and

built up Peniel.

26 Jeroboam thought to himself, “The kingdom will

now likely revert to the house of David. 27 If these

people go up to offer sacrifices at the temple of the

LORD in Jerusalem, they will again give their

allegiance to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah. They

will kill me and return to King Rehoboam.”

28 After seeking advice, the king made two golden

calves. He said to the people, “It is too much for you to

go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, Israel, who

brought you up out of Egypt.” 29 One he set up in

Bethel, and the other in Dan. 30 And this thing became a

sin; the people came to worship the one at Bethel and

went as far as Dan to worship the other.

31 Jeroboam built shrines on high places and appointed

priests from all sorts of people, even though they were

not Levites. 32 He instituted a festival on the fifteenth

day of the eighth month, like the festival held in Judah,

and offered sacrifices on the altar. This he did in

Bethel, sacrificing to the calves he had made. And at

Bethel he also installed priests at the high places he had

made. 33 On the fifteenth day of the eighth month, a

month of his own choosing, he offered sacrifices on the

altar he had built at Bethel. So he instituted the festival

for the Israelites and went up to the altar to make

offerings.

2 Kings 10:28-36

28 So Jehu destroyed Baal worship in Israel. 29 However, he did not turn away from the sins of

Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he had caused Israel to

commit—the worship of the golden calves at Bethel

and Dan.

30 The LORD said to Jehu, “Because you have done well

in accomplishing what is right in my eyes and have

done to the house of Ahab all I had in mind to do, your

descendants will sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth

generation.” 31 Yet Jehu was not careful to keep the law

of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He

did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam, which he

had caused Israel to commit.

32 In those days the LORD began to reduce the size of

Israel. Hazael overpowered the Israelites throughout

their territory 33 east of the Jordan in all the land of

Gilead (the region of Gad, Reuben and Manasseh),

from Aroer by the Arnon Gorge through Gilead to

Bashan.

34 As for the other events of Jehu’s reign, all he did, and

all his achievements, are they not written in the book of

the annals of the kings of Israel?

35 Jehu rested with his ancestors and was buried in

Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son succeeded him as king. 36 The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria

was twenty-eight years.

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Episode 7 "Christmas, Prophecies & Bethlehem"

Ruth 4

1 Meanwhile Boaz went up to the town gate and sat

down there just as the guardian-redeemer he had

mentioned came along. Boaz said, “Come over here,

my friend, and sit down.” So he went over and sat

down.

2 Boaz took ten of the elders of the town and said, “Sit

here,” and they did so. 3 Then he said to the guardian-

redeemer, “Naomi, who has come back from Moab, is

selling the piece of land that belonged to our relative

Elimelek. 4 I thought I should bring the matter to your

attention and suggest that you buy it in the presence of

these seated here and in the presence of the elders of

my people. If you will redeem it, do so. But if you will

not, tell me, so I will know. For no one has the right to

do it except you, and I am next in line.”

“I will redeem it,” he said.

5 Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the land from

Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the dead

man’s widow, in order to maintain the name of the

dead with his property.”

6 At this, the guardian-redeemer said, “Then I cannot

redeem it because I might endanger my own estate.

You redeem it yourself. I cannot do it.”

7 (Now in earlier times in Israel, for the redemption and

transfer of property to become final, one party took off

his sandal and gave it to the other. This was the method

of legalizing transactions in Israel.)

8 So the guardian-redeemer said to Boaz, “Buy it

yourself.” And he removed his sandal.

9 Then Boaz announced to the elders and all the people,

“Today you are witnesses that I have bought from

Naomi all the property of Elimelek, Kilion and

Mahlon. 10 I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite,

Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, in order to maintain the

name of the dead with his property, so that his name

will not disappear from among his family or from his

hometown. Today you are witnesses!”

11 Then the elders and all the people at the gate said,

“We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman

who is coming into your home like Rachel and Leah,

who together built up the family of Israel. May you

have standing in Ephrathah and be famous in

Bethlehem. 12 Through the offspring the LORD gives

you by this young woman, may your family be like that

of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah.”

13 So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. When

he made love to her, the LORD enabled her to conceive,

and she gave birth to a son. 14 The women said to

Naomi: “Praise be to the LORD, who this day has not

left you without a guardian-redeemer. May he become

famous throughout Israel! 15 He will renew your life

and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-

law, who loves you and who is better to you than seven

sons, has given him birth.”

16 Then Naomi took the child in her arms and cared for

him. 17 The women living there said, “Naomi has a

son!” And they named him Obed. He was the father of

Jesse, the father of David.

18 This, then, is the family line of Perez:

Perez was the father of Hezron, 19 Hezron the father of Ram,

Ram the father of Amminadab, 20 Amminadab the father of Nahshon,

Nahshon the father of Salmon, 21 Salmon the father of Boaz,

Boaz the father of Obed, 22 Obed the father of Jesse,

and Jesse the father of David.

1 Samuel 16:1-13

1 The LORD said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn

for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel?

Fill your horn with oil and be on your way; I am

sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem. I have chosen one

of his sons to be king.”

2 But Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears about

it, he will kill me.”

The LORD said, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I

have come to sacrifice to the LORD.’ 3 Invite Jesse to

the sacrifice, and I will show you what to do. You are

to anoint for me the one I indicate.”

4 Samuel did what the LORD said. When he arrived at

Bethlehem, the elders of the town trembled when they

met him. They asked, “Do you come in peace?”

5 Samuel replied, “Yes, in peace; I have come to

sacrifice to the LORD. Consecrate yourselves and come

to the sacrifice with me.” Then he consecrated Jesse

and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.

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6 When they arrived, Samuel saw Eliab and thought,

“Surely the LORD’s anointed stands here before the

LORD.”

7 But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his

appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The

LORD does not look at the things people look at. People

look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at

the heart.”

8 Then Jesse called Abinadab and had him pass in front

of Samuel. But Samuel said, “The LORD has not chosen

this one either.” 9 Jesse then had Shammah pass by, but

Samuel said, “Nor has the LORD chosen this one.” 10 Jesse had seven of his sons pass before Samuel, but

Samuel said to him, “The LORD has not chosen these.” 11 So he asked Jesse, “Are these all the sons you have?”

“There is still the youngest,” Jesse answered. “He is

tending the sheep.”

Samuel said, “Send for him; we will not sit down until

he arrives.”

12 So he sent for him and had him brought in. He was

glowing with health and had a fine appearance and

handsome features.

Then the LORD said, “Rise and anoint him; this is the

one.”

13 So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in

the presence of his brothers, and from that day on the

Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon David.

Samuel then went to Ramah.

Luke 2:1-20

1 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a

census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2 (This was the first census that took place while

Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3 And everyone went

to their own town to register.

4 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in

Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David,

because he belonged to the house and line of David. 5 He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged

to be married to him and was expecting a child. 6 While

they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, 7 and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped

him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because

there was no guest room available for them.

8 And there were shepherds living out in the fields

nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. 9 An

angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of

the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.

10 But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring

you good news that will cause great joy for all the

people. 11 Today in the town of David a Savoir has

been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. 12 This

will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in

cloths and lying in a manger.”

13 Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host

appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,

14 “Glory to God in the highest heaven,

and on earth peace to those on whom his favour

rests.”

15 When the angels had left them and gone into heaven,

the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to

Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which

the Lord has told us about.”

16 So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and

the baby, who was lying in the manger. 17 When they

had seen him, they spread the word concerning what

had been told them about this child, 18 and all who

heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to

them. 19 But Mary treasured up all these things and

pondered them in her heart. 20 The shepherds returned,

glorifying and praising God for all the things they had

heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.

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Episode 8 "Sea of Galilee, Nazareth & the House of Peter"

Luke 4

1 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was

led by the Spirit into the wilderness, 2 where for forty

days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing

during those days, and at the end of them he was

hungry.

3 The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell

this stone to become bread.”

4 Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on

bread alone.’”

5 The devil led him up to a high place and showed him

in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. 6 And he

said to him, “I will give you all their authority and

splendour; it has been given to me, and I can give it to

anyone I want to. 7 If you worship me, it will all be

yours.”

8 Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your

God and serve him only.’”

9 The devil led him to Jerusalem and had him stand on

the highest point of the temple. “If you are the Son of

God,” he said, “throw yourself down from here. 10 For

it is written:

“‘He will command his angels concerning you

to guard you carefully; 11 they will lift you up in their hands,

so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’”

12 Jesus answered, “It is said: ‘Do not put the Lord your

God to the test.’”

13 When the devil had finished all this tempting, he left

him until an opportune time.

14 Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit,

and news about him spread through the whole

countryside. 15 He was teaching in their synagogues,

and everyone praised him.

16 He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up,

and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as

was his custom. He stood up to read, 17 and the scroll of

the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he

found the place where it is written:

18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me,

because he has anointed me

to proclaim good news to the poor.

He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners

and recovery of sight for the blind,

to set the oppressed free, 19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour.”

20 Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the

attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the

synagogue were fastened on him. 21 He began by

saying to them, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in

your hearing.”

22 All spoke well of him and were amazed at the

gracious words that came from his lips. “Isn’t this

Joseph’s son?” they asked.

23 Jesus said to them, “Surely you will quote this

proverb to me: ‘Physician, heal yourself!’ And you will

tell me, ‘Do here in your hometown what we have

heard that you did in Capernaum.’”

24 “Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is

accepted in his hometown. 25 I assure you that there

were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the

sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a

severe famine throughout the land. 26 Yet Elijah was

not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in

the region of Sidon. 27 And there were many in Israel

with leprosy in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not

one of them was cleansed—only Naaman the Syrian.”

28 All the people in the synagogue were furious when

they heard this. 29 They got up, drove him out of the

town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the

town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff. 30 But he walked right through the crowd and went on

his way.

31 Then he went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee,

and on the Sabbath he taught the people. 32 They were

amazed at his teaching, because his words had

authority.

33 In the synagogue there was a man possessed by a

demon, an impure spirit. He cried out at the top of his

voice, 34 “Go away! What do you want with us, Jesus of

Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who

you are—the Holy One of God!”

35 “Be quiet!” Jesus said sternly. “Come out of him!”

Then the demon threw the man down before them all

and came out without injuring him.

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36 All the people were amazed and said to each other,

“What words these are! With authority and power he

gives orders to impure spirits and they come out!” 37 And the news about him spread throughout the

surrounding area.

38 Jesus left the synagogue and went to the home of

Simon. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering

from a high fever, and they asked Jesus to help her. 39 So he bent over her and rebuked the fever, and it left

her. She got up at once and began to wait on them.

40 At sunset, the people brought to Jesus all who had

various kinds of sickness, and laying his hands on each

one, he healed them. 41 Moreover, demons came out of

many people, shouting, “You are the Son of God!” But

he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak,

because they knew he was the Messiah.

42 At daybreak, Jesus went out to a solitary place. The

people were looking for him and when they came to

where he was, they tried to keep him from leaving

them. 43 But he said, “I must proclaim the good news of

the kingdom of God to the other towns also, because

that is why I was sent.” 44 And he kept on preaching in

the synagogues of Judea.

Matthew 8:5-17

5 When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came

to him, asking for help. 6 “Lord,” he said, “my servant

lies at home paralysed, suffering terribly.”

7 Jesus said to him, “Shall I come and heal him?”

8 The centurion replied, “Lord, I do not deserve to have

you come under my roof. But just say the word, and

my servant will be healed. 9 For I myself am a man

under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one,

‘Go,’ and he goes; and that one, ‘Come,’ and he comes.

I say to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”

10 When Jesus heard this, he was amazed and said to

those following him, “Truly I tell you, I have not found

anyone in Israel with such great faith. 11 I say to you

that many will come from the east and the west, and

will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac

and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. 12 But the subjects

of the kingdom will be thrown outside, into the

darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of

teeth.”

13 Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go! Let it be done

just as you believed it would.” And his servant was

healed at that moment.

14 When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw Peter’s

mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever. 15 He touched

her hand and the fever left her, and she got up and

began to wait on him.

16 When evening came, many who were demon-

possessed were brought to him, and he drove out the

spirits with a word and healed all the sick. 17 This was

to fulfil what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah:

“He took up our infirmities

and bore our diseases.”

Matthew 11:16-24

16 “To what can I compare this generation? They are

like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out

to others:

17 “‘We played the pipe for you,

and you did not dance;

we sang a dirge,

and you did not mourn.’

18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they

say, ‘He has a demon.’ 19 The Son of Man came eating

and drinking, and they say, ‘Here is a glutton and a

drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But

wisdom is proved right by her deeds.”

20 Then Jesus began to denounce the towns in which

most of his miracles had been performed, because they

did not repent. 21 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you,

Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in

you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would

have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22 But I

tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on

the day of judgment than for you. 23 And you,

Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you

will go down to Hades. For if the miracles that were

performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it

would have remained to this day. 24 But I tell you that it

will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of

judgment than for you.”

John 6:1-20

1 Some time after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore of

the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias), 2 and a

great crowd of people followed him because they saw

the signs he had performed by healing the sick. 3 Then

Jesus went up on a mountainside and sat down with his

disciples. 4 The Jewish Passover Festival was near.

5 When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming

toward him, he said to Philip, “Where shall we buy

bread for these people to eat?” 6 He asked this only to

test him, for he already had in mind what he was going

to do.

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7 Philip answered him, “It would take more than half a

year’s wages to buy enough bread for each one to have

a bite!”

8 Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s

brother, spoke up, 9 “Here is a boy with five small

barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they

go among so many?”

10 Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” There was

plenty of grass in that place, and they sat down (about

five thousand men were there). 11 Jesus then took the

loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were

seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with

the fish.

12 When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his

disciples, “Gather the pieces that are left over. Let

nothing be wasted.” 13 So they gathered them and filled

twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves

left over by those who had eaten.

14 After the people saw the sign Jesus performed, they

began to say, “Surely this is the Prophet who is to

come into the world.” 15 Jesus, knowing that they

intended to come and make him king by force,

withdrew again to a mountain by himself.

16 When evening came, his disciples went down to the

lake, 17 where they got into a boat and set off across the

lake for Capernaum. By now it was dark, and Jesus had

not yet joined them. 18 A strong wind was blowing and

the waters grew rough. 19 When they had rowed about

three or four miles, they saw Jesus approaching the

boat, walking on the water; and they were frightened. 20 But he said to them, “It is I; don’t be afraid.” 21 Then

they were willing to take him into the boat, and

immediately the boat reached the shore where they

were heading.

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Episode 9 "Caesarea Philippi & Caesarea Maritima"

Psalm 146

1 Praise the LORD.

Praise the LORD, my soul.

2 I will praise the LORD all my life;

I will sing praise to my God as long as I live. 3 Do not put your trust in princes,

in human beings, who cannot save. 4 When their spirit departs, they return to the ground;

on that very day their plans come to nothing. 5 Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob,

whose hope is in the LORD their God.

6 He is the Maker of heaven and earth,

the sea, and everything in them—

he remains faithful forever. 7 He upholds the cause of the oppressed

and gives food to the hungry.

The LORD sets prisoners free, 8 the LORD gives sight to the blind,

the LORD lifts up those who are bowed down,

the LORD loves the righteous. 9 The LORD watches over the foreigner

and sustains the fatherless and the widow,

but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.

10 The LORD reigns forever,

your God, O Zion, for all generations.

Praise the LORD.

Mark 8:27-30

27 Jesus and his disciples went on to the villages around

Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked them, “Who do

people say I am?”

28 They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say

Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.”

29 “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I

am?”

Peter answered, “You are the Messiah.”

30 Jesus warned them not to tell anyone about him.

Acts 10

1 At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a

centurion in what was known as the Italian Regiment. 2 He and all his family were devout and God-fearing;

he gave generously to those in need and prayed to God

regularly. 3 One day at about three in the afternoon he

had a vision. He distinctly saw an angel of God, who

came to him and said, “Cornelius!”

4 Cornelius stared at him in fear. “What is it, Lord?” he

asked.

The angel answered, “Your prayers and gifts to the

poor have come up as a memorial offering before God. 5 Now send men to Joppa to bring back a man named

Simon who is called Peter. 6 He is staying with Simon

the tanner, whose house is by the sea.”

7 When the angel who spoke to him had gone,

Cornelius called two of his servants and a devout

soldier who was one of his attendants. 8 He told them

everything that had happened and sent them to Joppa.

9 About noon the following day as they were on their

journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the

roof to pray. 10 He became hungry and wanted

something to eat, and while the meal was being

prepared, he fell into a trance. 11 He saw heaven opened

and something like a large sheet being let down to

earth by its four corners. 12 It contained all kinds of

four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds. 13 Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.”

14 “Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten

anything impure or unclean.”

15 The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call

anything impure that God has made clean.”

16 This happened three times, and immediately the sheet

was taken back to heaven.

17 While Peter was wondering about the meaning of the

vision, the men sent by Cornelius found out where

Simon’s house was and stopped at the gate. 18 They

called out, asking if Simon who was known as Peter

was staying there.

19 While Peter was still thinking about the vision, the

Spirit said to him, “Simon, three men are looking for

you. 20 So get up and go downstairs. Do not hesitate to

go with them, for I have sent them.”

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21 Peter went down and said to the men, “I’m the one

you’re looking for. Why have you come?”

22 The men replied, “We have come from Cornelius the

centurion. He is a righteous and God-fearing man, who

is respected by all the Jewish people. A holy angel told

him to ask you to come to his house so that he could

hear what you have to say.” 23 Then Peter invited the

men into the house to be his guests.

The next day Peter started out with them, and some of

the believers from Joppa went along. 24 The following

day he arrived in Caesarea. Cornelius was expecting

them and had called together his relatives and close

friends. 25 As Peter entered the house, Cornelius met

him and fell at his feet in reverence. 26 But Peter made

him get up. “Stand up,” he said, “I am only a man

myself.”

27 While talking with him, Peter went inside and found

a large gathering of people. 28 He said to them: “You

are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to

associate with or visit a Gentile. But God has shown

me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean. 29 So when I was sent for, I came without raising any

objection. May I ask why you sent for me?”

30 Cornelius answered: “Three days ago I was in my

house praying at this hour, at three in the afternoon.

Suddenly a man in shining clothes stood before me 31 and said, ‘Cornelius, God has heard your prayer and

remembered your gifts to the poor. 32 Send to Joppa for

Simon who is called Peter. He is a guest in the home of

Simon the tanner, who lives by the sea.’ 33 So I sent for

you immediately, and it was good of you to come. Now

we are all here in the presence of God to listen to

everything the Lord has commanded you to tell us.”

34 Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it

is that God does not show favoritism 35 but accepts

from every nation the one who fears him and does what

is right. 36 You know the message God sent to the

people of Israel, announcing the good news of peace

through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all. 37 You know

what has happened throughout the province of Judea,

beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John

preached— 38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth

with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went

around doing good and healing all who were under the

power of the devil, because God was with him.

39 “We are witnesses of everything he did in the

country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed him

by hanging him on a cross, 40 but God raised him from

the dead on the third day and caused him to be seen. 41 He was not seen by all the people, but by witnesses

whom God had already chosen—by us who ate and

drank with him after he rose from the dead. 42 He

commanded us to preach to the people and to testify

that he is the one whom God appointed as judge of the

living and the dead. 43 All the prophets testify about

him that everyone who believes in him receives

forgiveness of sins through his name.”

44 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy

Spirit came on all who heard the message. 45 The

circumcised believers who had come with Peter were

astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been

poured out even on Gentiles. 46 For they heard them

speaking in tongues and praising God.

Then Peter said, 47 “Surely no one can stand in the way

of their being baptized with water. They have received

the Holy Spirit just as we have.” 48 So he ordered that

they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they

asked Peter to stay with them for a few days.

Acts 23:23-35

23 Then he called two of his centurions and ordered

them, “Get ready a detachment of two hundred

soldiers, seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen

to go to Caesarea at nine tonight. 24 Provide horses for

Paul so that he may be taken safely to Governor Felix.”

25 He wrote a letter as follows:

26 Claudius Lysias,

To His Excellency, Governor Felix:

Greetings.

27 This man was seized by the Jews and they were

about to kill him, but I came with my troops and

rescued him, for I had learned that he is a Roman

citizen. 28 I wanted to know why they were accusing

him, so I brought him to their Sanhedrin. 29 I found that

the accusation had to do with questions about their law,

but there was no charge against him that deserved

death or imprisonment. 30 When I was informed of a

plot to be carried out against the man, I sent him to you

at once. I also ordered his accusers to present to you

their case against him.

31 So the soldiers, carrying out their orders, took Paul

with them during the night and brought him as far as

Antipatris. 32 The next day they let the cavalry go on

with him, while they returned to the barracks. 33 When

the cavalry arrived in Caesarea, they delivered the

letter to the governor and handed Paul over to him. 34 The governor read the letter and asked what province

he was from. Learning that he was from Cilicia, 35 he

said, “I will hear your case when your accusers get

here.” Then he ordered that Paul be kept under guard in

Herod’s palace.

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Episode 10 "Mount Moriah, Temple Mount & Western Wall"

Genesis 22:1-19

1 Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him,

“Abraham!”

“Here I am,” he replied.

2 Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom

you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah.

Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I

will show you.”

3 Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded

his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and

his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the

burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told

him about. 4 On the third day Abraham looked up and

saw the place in the distance. 5 He said to his servants,

“Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over

there. We will worship and then we will come back to

you.”

6 Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and

placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the

fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, 7 Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham,

“Father?”

“Yes, my son?” Abraham replied.

“The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is

the lamb for the burnt offering?”

8 Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the

lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of

them went on together.

9 When they reached the place God had told him about,

Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on

it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on

top of the wood. 10 Then he reached out his hand and

took the knife to slay his son. 11 But the angel of the

LORD called out to him from heaven, “Abraham!

Abraham!”

“Here I am,” he replied.

12 “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do

anything to him. Now I know that you fear God,

because you have not withheld from me your son, your

only son.”

13 Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a

ram caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram

and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 So Abraham called that place The LORD Will

Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of

the LORD it will be provided.”

15 The angel of the LORD called to Abraham from

heaven a second time 16 and said, “I swear by myself,

declares the LORD, that because you have done this and

have not withheld your son, your only son, 17 I will

surely bless you and make your descendants as

numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the

seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the

cities of their enemies, 18 and through your offspring all

nations on earth will be blessed, because you have

obeyed me.”

19 Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set

off together for Beersheba. And Abraham stayed in

Beersheba.

John 2

1 On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in

Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, 2 and Jesus and his

disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 3 When

the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They

have no more wine.”

4 “Woman, why do you involve me?” Jesus replied.

“My hour has not yet come.”

5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells

you.”

6 Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by

the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from

twenty to thirty gallons.

7 Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water”;

so they filled them to the brim.

8 Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to

the master of the banquet.”

They did so, 9 and the master of the banquet tasted the

water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize

where it had come from, though the servants who had

drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom

aside 10 and said, “Everyone brings out the choice wine

first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have

had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till

now.”

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11 What Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first

of the signs through which he revealed his glory; and

his disciples believed in him.

12 After this he went down to Capernaum with his

mother and brothers and his disciples. There they

stayed for a few days.

13 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover,

Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple courts he

found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others

sitting at tables exchanging money. 15 So he made a

whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple

courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of

the money changers and overturned their tables. 16 To

those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here!

Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!” 17 His

disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your

house will consume me.”

18 The Jews then responded to him, “What sign can you

show us to prove your authority to do all this?”

19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will

raise it again in three days.”

20 They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build

this temple, and you are going to raise it in three

days?” 21 But the temple he had spoken of was his

body. 22 After he was raised from the dead, his disciples

recalled what he had said. Then they believed the

scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.

23 Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover

Festival, many people saw the signs he was performing

and believed in his name. 24 But Jesus would not entrust

himself to them, for he knew all people. 25 He did not

need any testimony about mankind, for he knew what

was in each person.

John 8:1-20

8 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

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.

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. 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.”

12 When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am

the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never

walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

13 The Pharisees challenged him, “Here you are,

appearing as your own witness; your testimony is not

valid.”

14 Jesus answered, “Even if I testify on my own behalf,

my testimony is valid, for I know where I came from

and where I am going. But you have no idea where I

come from or where I am going. 15 You judge by

human standards; I pass judgment on no one. 16 But if I

do judge, my decisions are true, because I am not

alone. I stand with the Father, who sent me. 17 In your

own Law it is written that the testimony of two

witnesses is true. 18 I am one who testifies for myself;

my other witness is the Father, who sent me.”

19 Then they asked him, “Where is your father?”

“You do not know me or my Father,” Jesus replied. “If

you knew me, you would know my Father also.” 20 He

spoke these words while teaching in the temple courts

near the place where the offerings were put. Yet no one

seized him, because his hour had not yet come.

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Episode 11 "Hezekiah's Tunnel, Kidron Valley"

John 9

1 As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man

or his parents, that he was born blind?”

3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus,

“but this happened so that the works of God might be

displayed in him. 4 As long as it is day, we must do the

works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no

one can work. 5 While I am in the world, I am the light

of the world.”

6 After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some

mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes. 7 “Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam” (this

word means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and

came home seeing.

8 His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him

begging asked, “Isn’t this the same man who used to sit

and beg?” 9 Some claimed that he was.

Others said, “No, he only looks like him.”

But he himself insisted, “I am the man.”

10 “How then were your eyes opened?” they asked.

11 He replied, “The man they call Jesus made some mud

and put it on my eyes. He told me to go to Siloam and

wash. So I went and washed, and then I could see.”

12 “Where is this man?” they asked him.

“I don’t know,” he said.

13 They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been

blind. 14 Now the day on which Jesus had made the

mud and opened the man’s eyes was a Sabbath. 15 Therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he had

received his sight. “He put mud on my eyes,” the man

replied, “and I washed, and now I see.”

16 Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from

God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.”

But others asked, “How can a sinner perform such

signs?” So they were divided.

17 Then they turned again to the blind man, “What have

you to say about him? It was your eyes he opened.”

The man replied, “He is a prophet.”

18 They still did not believe that he had been blind and

had received his sight until they sent for the man’s

parents. 19 “Is this your son?” they asked. “Is this the

one you say was born blind? How is it that now he can

see?”

20 “We know he is our son,” the parents answered, “and

we know he was born blind. 21 But how he can see

now, or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. Ask him.

He is of age; he will speak for himself.” 22 His parents

said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders,

who already had decided that anyone who

acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be put

out of the synagogue. 23 That was why his parents said,

“He is of age; ask him.”

24 A second time they summoned the man who had

been blind. “Give glory to God by telling the truth,”

they said. “We know this man is a sinner.”

25 He replied, “Whether he is a sinner or not, I don’t

know. One thing I do know. I was blind but now I

see!”

26 Then they asked him, “What did he do to you? How

did he open your eyes?”

27 He answered, “I have told you already and you did

not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you

want to become his disciples too?”

28 Then they hurled insults at him and said, “You are

this fellow’s disciple! We are disciples of Moses! 29 We

know that God spoke to Moses, but as for this fellow,

we don’t even know where he comes from.”

30 The man answered, “Now that is remarkable! You

don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my

eyes. 31 We know that God does not listen to sinners.

He listens to the godly person who does his will. 32 Nobody has ever heard of opening the eyes of a man

born blind. 33 If this man were not from God, he could

do nothing.”

34 To this they replied, “You were steeped in sin at

birth; how dare you lecture us!” And they threw him

out.

35 Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when

he found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of

Man?”

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36 “Who is he, sir?” the man asked. “Tell me so that I

may believe in him.”

37 Jesus said, “You have now seen him; in fact, he is the

one speaking with you.”

38 Then the man said, “Lord, I believe,” and he

worshiped him.

39 Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this

world, so that the blind will see and those who see will

become blind.”

40 Some Pharisees who were with him heard him say

this and asked, “What? Are we blind too?”

41 Jesus said, “If you were blind, you would not be

guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your

guilt remains.

John 5:1-15

1 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one

of the Jewish festivals. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near

the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called

Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered

colonnades. 3 Here a great number of disabled people

used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralysed. [4] 5 One

who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight

years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned

that he had been in this condition for a long time, he

asked him, “Do you want to get well?”

7 “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me

into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am

trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”

8 Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat

and walk.” 9 At once the man was cured; he picked up

his mat and walked.

The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, 10 and

so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been

healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry

your mat.”

11 But he replied, “The man who made me well said to

me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’ ”

12 So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you

to pick it up and walk?”

13 The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for

Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

14 Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him,

“See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something

worse may happen to you.” 15 The man went away and

told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made

him well.

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Episode 12 "Prophecies, Crucifixion, Resurrection & Church of the Holy Sepulcher"

Luke 22:39-53

39 Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives, and

his disciples followed him. 40 On reaching the place, he

said to them, “Pray that you will not fall into

temptation.” 41 He withdrew about a stone’s throw

beyond them, knelt down and prayed, 42 “Father, if you

are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but

yours be done.” 43 An angel from heaven appeared to

him and strengthened him. 44 And being in anguish, he

prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of

blood falling to the ground.

45 When he rose from prayer and went back to the

disciples, he found them asleep, exhausted from

sorrow. 46 “Why are you sleeping?” he asked them.

“Get up and pray so that you will not fall into

temptation.”

Jesus Arrested

47 While he was still speaking a crowd came up, and the

man who was called Judas, one of the Twelve, was

leading them. He approached Jesus to kiss him, 48 but

Jesus asked him, “Judas, are you betraying the Son of

Man with a kiss?”

49 When Jesus’ followers saw what was going to

happen, they said, “Lord, should we strike with our

swords?” 50 And one of them struck the servant of the

high priest, cutting off his right ear.

51 But Jesus answered, “No more of this!” And he

touched the man’s ear and healed him.

52 Then Jesus said to the chief priests, the officers of the

temple guard, and the elders, who had come for him,

“Am I leading a rebellion, that you have come with

swords and clubs? 53 Every day I was with you in the

temple courts, and you did not lay a hand on me. But

this is your hour—when darkness reigns.”

Luke 23:26-24:12

26 As the soldiers led him away, they seized Simon

from Cyrene, who was on his way in from the country,

and put the cross on him and made him carry it behind

Jesus. 27 A large number of people followed him,

including women who mourned and wailed for him. 28 Jesus turned and said to them, “Daughters of

Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves

and for your children. 29 For the time will come when

you will say, ‘Blessed are the childless women, the

wombs that never bore and the breasts that never

nursed!’ 30 Then

“‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!”

and to the hills, “Cover us!”’

31 For if people do these things when the tree is green,

what will happen when it is dry?”

32 Two other men, both criminals, were also led out

with him to be executed. 33 When they came to the

place called the Skull, they crucified him there, along

with the criminals—one on his right, the other on his

left. 34 Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not

know what they are doing.” And they divided up his

clothes by casting lots.

35 The people stood watching, and the rulers even

sneered at him. They said, “He saved others; let him

save himself if he is God’s Messiah, the Chosen One.”

36 The soldiers also came up and mocked him. They

offered him wine vinegar 37 and said, “If you are the

king of the Jews, save yourself.”

38 There was a written notice above him, which read:

THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.

39 One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at

him: “Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!”

40 But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear

God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence? 41 We are punished justly, for we are getting what our

deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.”

42 Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come

into your kingdom.”

43 Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will

be with me in paradise.”

44 It was now about noon, and darkness came over the

whole land until three in the afternoon, 45 for the sun

stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn

in two. 46 Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father,

into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said

this, he breathed his last.

47 The centurion, seeing what had happened, praised

God and said, “Surely this was a righteous man.” 48 When all the people who had gathered to witness this

sight saw what took place, they beat their breasts and

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went away. 49 But all those who knew him, including

the women who had followed him from Galilee, stood

at a distance, watching these things.

50 Now there was a man named Joseph, a member of

the Council, a good and upright man, 51 who had not

consented to their decision and action. He came from

the Judean town of Arimathea, and he himself was

waiting for the kingdom of God. 52 Going to Pilate, he

asked for Jesus’ body. 53 Then he took it down,

wrapped it in linen cloth and placed it in a tomb cut in

the rock, one in which no one had yet been laid. 54 It

was Preparation Day, and the Sabbath was about to

begin.

55 The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee

followed Joseph and saw the tomb and how his body

was laid in it. 56 Then they went home and prepared

spices and perfumes. But they rested on the Sabbath in

obedience to the commandment.

24 1 On the first day of the week, very early in the

morning, the women took the spices they had prepared

and went to the tomb. 2 They found the stone rolled

away from the tomb, 3 but when they entered, they did

not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 While they were

wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that

gleamed like lightning stood beside them. 5 In their

fright the women bowed down with their faces to the

ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look

for the living among the dead? 6 He is not here; he has

risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still

with you in Galilee: 7 ‘The Son of Man must be

delivered over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and

on the third day be raised again.’ ” 8 Then they

remembered his words.

9 When they came back from the tomb, they told all

these things to the Eleven and to all the others. 10 It was

Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James,

and the others with them who told this to the apostles. 11 But they did not believe the women, because their

words seemed to them like nonsense. 12 Peter, however,

got up and ran to the tomb. Bending over, he saw the

strips of linen lying by themselves, and he went away,

wondering to himself what had happened.

John 20:19-29

19 On the evening of that first day of the week, when

the disciples were together, with the doors locked for

fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among

them and said, “Peace be with you!” 20 After he said

this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples

were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.

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.”

24 Now Thomas (also known as Didymus), one of the

Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. 25 So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the

Lord!”

But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his

hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put

my hand into his side, I will not believe.”

26 A week later his disciples were in the house again,

and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were

locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said,

“Peace be with you!” 27 Then he said to Thomas, “Put

your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand

and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.”

28 Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!”

29 Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me,

you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen

and yet have believed.”

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