“No, but I will buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God that cost me nothing” (2 Samuel 24:24 ESV). The book of 2 Samuel recorded David’s response to Araunah’s generous offer of a threshing floor and sacrificial animals after God’s judgment on Israel had
“Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants on his throne…” (Acts 2:30 ESV). When Peter preached to the crowd on the Day of Pentecost, he explained that David’s words in the Psalms pointed beyond himself to the coming Messiah.
“And David grew weary” (2 Samuel 21:15 ESV). The author of 2 Samuel recorded a battle between Israel and the Philistines during the later years of David’s reign. The king who had once courageously faced Goliath as a young shepherd now found himself exhausted in combat. David’s weariness was not a sign of fear or
“This was now the third time that Jesus was revealed to the disciples after he was raised from the dead” (John 21:14 ESV). The Apostle John gave reliable testimony about Jesus Christ that hearing it, we might believe. In this verse, John noted that this was the third appearance of the risen Christ to the
“Jesus said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.’” (John 20:21 ESV) The Apostle John recorded that on the evening of His resurrection, Jesus appeared to His disciples while they were gathered behind locked doors in fear. Before commissioning them, Jesus spoke peace
“After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus… Nicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds in weight” (John 19:38-39
“Pilate said to him, ‘What is truth?’ After he had said this, he went back outside to the Jews and told them, ‘I find no guilt in him.’” (John 18:38 ESV). The apostle John recorded Pilate’s interrogation of Jesus before His crucifixion. John highlighted one of the greatest ironies in Scripture. After Jesus declared that
“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path” (Psalm 119:105 ESV). The psalmist composed Psalm 119 as an acrostic poem based on the Hebrew alphabet, celebrating the beauty, authority, wisdom, and sufficiency of God’s Word. In this verse, the writer declared that God’s Word functioned like a lamp in
“Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world” (John 17:24 ESV). In this deep, high priestly prayer, Jesus spoke to the Father on behalf of His
“Look, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you” (John 16:7 ESV). Jesus spoke these words to His sorrowful disciples on the night before His