Matthew 5: 17 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
Matthew 22:37-40 Jesus replied: 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
Luke 24: 44 He said to them, "This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.
John 1
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning.
3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.
6 There came a man who was sent from God; his name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all men might believe. 8 He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light. 9 The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world.
10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.
14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Sirach
Chapter 48
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Till like a fire there appeared the prophet whose words were as a flaming furnace.
2
Their staff of bread he shattered, in his zeal he reduced them to straits;
3
By God's word he shut up the heavens and three times brought down fire.
4
How awesome are you, Elijah! Whose glory is equal to yours?
5
You brought a dead man back to life from the nether world, by the will of the LORD.
6
You sent kings down to destruction, and nobles, from their beds of sickness.
7
You heard threats at Sinai, at Horeb avenging judgments.
8
You anointed kings who should inflict vengeance, and a prophet as your successor.
9
You were taken aloft in a whirlwind, in a chariot with fiery horses.
10
You are destined, it is written, in time to come to put an end to wrath before the day of the LORD, To turn back the hearts of fathers toward their sons, and to reestablish the tribes of Jacob.
11
Blessed is he who shall have seen you before he dies,
12
1 O Elijah, enveloped in the whirlwind! Then Elisha, filled with a twofold portion of his spirit, wrought many marvels by his mere word. During his lifetime he feared no one, nor was any man able to intimidate his will.
13
Nothing was beyond his power; beneath him flesh was brought back into life.
14
In life he performed wonders, and after death, marvelous deeds.
The book of Ecclesiasticus
Also known as "The Book of Sirach."
This Book called from a Greek word signifying a preacher: because, like an excellent preacher, it gives admirable lessons of all virtues. The author was Jesus, the son of Sirach of Jerusalem, who flourished about two hundred years before Jesus Christ. Ecclesiasticus, "The Book of Sirach”, was first written in the Hebrew, but afterwards translated into Greek.
Written after the time of Esdras, it is not in the Jewish canon; but is received as canonical and divine by the Nicene Council, instructed and directed by the Spirit of God. The Council was made up of uncounted number of Bishops, who risked their lives to follow Jesus, as outlaws, until the Nicene Council in the 4th century.
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Matthew 22:37-40 Jesus replied: 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
Luke 24: 44 He said to them, "This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.
John 1
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning.
3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.
6 There came a man who was sent from God; his name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all men might believe. 8 He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light. 9 The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world.
10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.
14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Sirach
Chapter 48
1
Till like a fire there appeared the prophet whose words were as a flaming furnace.
2
Their staff of bread he shattered, in his zeal he reduced them to straits;
3
By God's word he shut up the heavens and three times brought down fire.
4
How awesome are you, Elijah! Whose glory is equal to yours?
5
You brought a dead man back to life from the nether world, by the will of the LORD.
6
You sent kings down to destruction, and nobles, from their beds of sickness.
7
You heard threats at Sinai, at Horeb avenging judgments.
8
You anointed kings who should inflict vengeance, and a prophet as your successor.
9
You were taken aloft in a whirlwind, in a chariot with fiery horses.
10
You are destined, it is written, in time to come to put an end to wrath before the day of the LORD, To turn back the hearts of fathers toward their sons, and to reestablish the tribes of Jacob.
11
Blessed is he who shall have seen you before he dies,
12
1 O Elijah, enveloped in the whirlwind! Then Elisha, filled with a twofold portion of his spirit, wrought many marvels by his mere word. During his lifetime he feared no one, nor was any man able to intimidate his will.
13
Nothing was beyond his power; beneath him flesh was brought back into life.
14
In life he performed wonders, and after death, marvelous deeds.
The book of Ecclesiasticus
Also known as "The Book of Sirach."
This Book called from a Greek word signifying a preacher: because, like an excellent preacher, it gives admirable lessons of all virtues. The author was Jesus, the son of Sirach of Jerusalem, who flourished about two hundred years before Jesus Christ. Ecclesiasticus, "The Book of Sirach”, was first written in the Hebrew, but afterwards translated into Greek.
Written after the time of Esdras, it is not in the Jewish canon; but is received as canonical and divine by the Nicene Council, instructed and directed by the Spirit of God. The Council was made up of uncounted number of Bishops, who risked their lives to follow Jesus, as outlaws, until the Nicene Council in the 4th century.
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