And Moses
answered
and said,
But,
behold,
they will not believe me,
nor hearken
unto my voice:
for they
will say,
The LORD
hath not appeared
unto thee.
And Moses said,
The people,
among whom
I am,
are six hundred thousand footmen;
and
thou hast said,
I will give them flesh,
that they
may eat
a whole month.
Shall
the flocks
and the herds
be slain for them,
to suffice them?
or shall all
the fish
of the sea
be gathered together for them,
to suffice them?
And the LORD
said
unto Moses,
Is the LORD's hand
waxed short?
thou shalt see now
whether my word
shall come
to pass
unto thee or not.
And the LORD
spake unto Moses
and Aaron,
Because
ye believed me not,
to sanctify me
in the eyes
of the children
of Israel,
therefore ye
shall not bring
this congregation
into the land
which I
have given them.
This is the water
of Meribah;
because the children
of Israel
strove
with the LORD,
and
he was sanctified in them.
Yea,
they spake against God;
they said,
Can God
furnish a table
in the wilderness?
Therefore the LORD
heard this,
and was wroth:
so a fire
was kindled
against Jacob,
and anger
also came up
against Israel;
Because
they believed not
in God,
and trusted not
in his salvation:
For all
this
they sinned still,
and believed not
for his wondrous works.
Harden not
your heart,
as in the provocation,
and
as in the day
of temptation
in the wilderness:
When your fathers
tempted me,
proved me,
and saw
my work.
Forty years long
was I
grieved
with this generation,
and said,
It is
a people that
do err
in their heart,
and
they have not known
my ways:
Unto whom
I sware in my wrath
that they
should not enter
into my rest.
Our fathers
understood not thy
wonders in Egypt;
they remembered not the multitude
of thy mercies;
but provoked him
at the sea,
even at the Red sea.
Yea,
they despised
the pleasant land,
they believed not
his word:
And
the head
of Ephraim
is Samaria,
and
the head
of Samaria
is Remaliah's son.
If ye
will not believe,
surely
ye shall not be established.
Who hath believed
our report?
and to whom
is the arm
of the LORD revealed?
For he
shall grow up
before him
as a tender plant,
and
as a root
out of a dry ground:
he hath
no form
nor comeliness;
and
when
we shall see him,
there is
no beauty that
we should desire him.
He is despised
and rejected
of men;
a man
of sorrows,
and acquainted
with grief:
and we
hid as it
were our faces
from him;
he was despised,
and
we esteemed him not.
Wherefore have
we fasted,
say they,
and
thou seest not?
wherefore have
we afflicted
our soul,
and
thou takest no knowledge?
Behold,
in the day
of your fast
ye find pleasure,
and exact all
your labours.
They have belied
the LORD,
and said,
It is not he;
neither shall
evil come upon us;
neither shall
we see sword
nor famine:
And the prophets
shall become wind,
and the word
is not in them:
thus
shall
it be done unto them.
Wherefore thus
saith the LORD God
of hosts,
Because
ye speak
this word,
behold,
I will make
my words
in thy mouth fire,
and this people wood,
and it
shall devour them.
I have loved you,
saith the LORD.
Yet ye say,
Wherein
hast thou loved us?
Was not
Esau Jacob's brother?
saith the LORD:
yet
I loved Jacob,
Ye offer
polluted bread
upon mine altar;
and ye say,
Wherein
have
we polluted thee?
In that
ye say,
The table
of the LORD
is contemptible.
And whosoever
shall not receive you,
nor hear
your words,
when ye
depart
out of that house
or city,
shake
off the dust
of your feet.
But whereunto shall
I liken
this generation?
It is like
unto children
sitting in the markets,
and calling
unto their fellows,
And saying,
We have piped
unto you,
and
ye have not danced;
we have mourned
unto you,
and
ye have not lamented.
For John
came neither eating
nor drinking,
and they say,
He hath
a devil.
Therefore speak
I to them
in parables:
because
they seeing
see not;
and hearing
they hear not,
neither do
they understand.
And
in them is fulfilled
the prophecy
of Esaias,
which saith,
By hearing
ye shall hear,
and shall not understand;
and seeing
ye shall see,
and shall not perceive:
For this
people's heart
is waxed gross,
and their ears
are dull
of hearing,
and their eyes
they have closed;
lest at any time
they should see
with their eyes
and hear
with their ears,
and should understand
with their heart,
and should be converted,
and
I should heal them.
And
he did not many mighty
works there
because
of their unbelief.
Then Jesus
answered
and said,
O faithless
and perverse generation,
how long
shall
I be with you?
how long
shall
I suffer you?
bring him hither to me.
Then came
the disciples
to Jesus apart,
and said,
Why could not
we cast him out?
And Jesus
said unto them,
Because
of your unbelief:
for verily
I say unto you,
If ye
have
faith as a grain
of mustard seed,
ye shall say
unto this mountain,
Remove
hence to yonder place;
and it
shall remove;
and nothing
shall be impossible
unto you.
For John
came unto you
in the way
of righteousness,
and
ye believed him not:
but the publicans
and the harlots
believed him:
and ye,
when
ye had seen it,
repented
not afterward,
that ye
might believe him.
And
when the sabbath day
was come,
he began
to teach
in the synagogue:
and many hearing him
were astonished,
saying,
From
whence hath
this man
these things?
and
what wisdom
is this
which is given unto him,
that even such mighty works
are wrought
by his hands?
Is not
this the carpenter,
the son of Mary,
the brother
of James,
and Joses,
and of Juda,
and Simon?
and are not
his sisters here
with us?
And
they
were offended at him.
But Jesus,
said unto them,
A prophet
is not
without honour,
but in his own country,
and
among his own kin,
and
in his own house.
And
he could there do
no mighty work,
save that
he laid
his hands
upon a few sick folk,
and healed them.
And straightway
the father
of the child cried out,
and said
with tears,
Lord,
I believe;
help
thou mine unbelief.
Afterward
he appeared
unto the eleven
as they
sat
at meat,
and upbraided them
with their unbelief
and hardness
of heart,
because
they believed not them
which had seen him
after he
was risen.
He that believeth
and is baptized
shall be saved;
but
he that believeth
not shall be damned.
Those by the way side
are they that
hear;
then cometh the devil,
and taketh away
the word
out of their hearts,
lest
they should believe
and be saved.
Take
heed therefore how
ye hear:
for whosoever hath,
to him
shall be given;
and whosoever
hath not,
from him shall be taken even
that
which he
seemeth
to have.
He that heareth
you heareth me;
and he
that despiseth you
despiseth me;
and he
that despiseth me
despiseth him
that sent me.
The lord
of that servant
will come in a day
when
he looketh
not for him,
and at an hour
when
he is not aware,
and will cut him
in sunder,
and will appoint him
his portion
with the unbelievers.
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
which killest the prophets,
and stonest them
that
are sent
unto thee;
how often would
I have gathered
thy children
together,
as a hen
doth gather
her brood
under her wings,
and ye would not!
Then said
he unto him,
A certain man
made a great supper,
and bade many:
And sent
his servant
at supper
time to say
to them
that were bidden,
Come;
for all things
are now ready.
And
they
all with one consent
began to make excuse.
The first said
unto him,
I have bought
a piece
of ground,
and
I must needs go
and see it:
I pray thee
have me excused.
And another said,
I have bought five yoke
of oxen,
and
I go
to prove them:
I pray thee
have me excused.
And another said,
I have married
a wife,
and
therefore I
cannot come.
So that servant came,
and shewed
his lord these things.
Then
the master
of the house
being angry said
to his servant,
Go out
quickly into the streets
and lanes
of the city,
and bring in hither
the poor,
and the maimed,
and the halt,
and the blind.
And the servant said,
Lord,
it is done
as thou
hast commanded,
and yet there is room.
And the lord
said
unto the servant,
Go out
into the highways
and hedges,
and compel them
to come in,
that my house
may be filled.
For I
say unto you,
That none of those men
which were bidden
shall taste
of my supper.
And
he said unto him,
If they
hear not Moses
and the prophets,
neither will
they be persuaded,
though one rose
from the dead.
I tell you
that
he will avenge them speedily.
Nevertheless
when the Son
of man cometh,
shall
he find faith
on the earth?
And
when
he was come near,
he beheld
the city,
and wept
over it,
Saying,
If thou
hadst known,
even thou,
at least
in this thy day,
the things which
belong unto thy peace!
but now
they are
hid
from thine eyes.
Art
thou the Christ?
tell us.
And
he said unto them,
If I
tell you,
ye will not believe:
And their words
seemed
to them
as idle tales,
and
they believed them not.
But
we trusted
that it
had been
he which
should have redeemed
Israel:
and
beside all this,
to day
is the third day
since these things
were done.
Then
he said unto them,
O fools,
and slow
of heart
to believe all
that the prophets
have spoken:
Ought not Christ
to have suffered these things,
and
to enter
into his glory?
But
they were terrified
and affrighted,
and supposed
that they
had seen
a spirit.
And
he said unto them,
Why are
ye troubled?
and
why do
thoughts
arise
in your hearts?
Behold my hands
and my feet,
that it
is
I myself:
handle me,
and see;
for a spirit
hath not flesh
and bones,
as ye see me have.
And
when
he had thus spoken,
he shewed them
his hands
and his feet.
And
while they
yet believed not
for joy,
and wondered,
he said unto them,
Have
ye here any meat?
And they
gave him
a piece
of a broiled fish,
and
of an honeycomb.
And he
took it,
and did eat
before them.
And
he said unto them,
These are the words
which I
spake unto you,
while I
was yet with you,
that all things
must be fulfilled,
which were written in the law
of Moses,
and
in the prophets,
and
in the psalms,
concerning me.
Then opened
he their understanding,
that they
might understand
the scriptures,
He was in the world,
and the world
was made by him,
and the world
knew him not.
He came
unto his own,
and his own
received him not.
Marvel
not
that I
said
unto thee,
Ye must be born again.
Verily,
verily,
I say unto thee,
We speak that
we do know,
and testify that
we have seen;
and
ye receive not
our witness.
If I
have told
you earthly things,
and
ye believe not,
how shall
ye believe,
if I
tell you
of heavenly things?
He that believeth
on him is not condemned:
but
he that believeth
not is condemned already,
because
he hath not believed
in the name
of the only begotten Son
of God.
And
what he
hath seen
and heard,
that he testifieth;
and no man
receiveth his testimony.
He that believeth
on the Son
hath everlasting life:
and
he that believeth
not the Son
shall not see life;
but the wrath
of God abideth
on him.
Then said
Jesus unto him, Except
ye see
signs
and wonders,
ye will not believe.
And ye
have not
his word
abiding in you:
for whom
he hath sent,
him
ye believe not.
And
ye will not come to me,
that ye
might have life.
I am come in
my Father's name,
and
ye receive me not:
if another
shall come in
his own name,
him
ye will receive.
How can
ye believe,
which receive
honour one
of another,
and seek not
the honour
that cometh from God only?
For had
ye believed Moses,
ye would have believed me;
for he wrote of me.
But
if ye
believe not
his writings,
how shall
ye believe
my words?
But I
said
unto you,
That ye
also have seen me,
and believe not.
Many therefore of his disciples,
when
they had heard this,
said,
This is an hard saying;
who can hear it?
When Jesus
knew in himself
that his disciples
murmured at it,
he said unto them,
Doth this offend you?
What and
if ye
shall see
the Son of man
ascend up where
he was before?
But there are
some of you that
believe not.
For Jesus
knew from the beginning
who they
were
that believed not,
and
who should betray him.
From that time
many of his disciples went back,
and walked no more
with him.
Jesus answered them,
Have not
I chosen
you twelve,
and one of you
is a devil?
He spake of Judas Iscariot
the son
of Simon:
for he it
was that
should betray him,
being one
of the twelve.
I said therefore
unto you,
that ye
shall die
in your sins:
for if
ye believe not that
I am he,
ye shall die
in your sins.
And
because
I tell
you the truth,
ye believe me not.
Which of you
convinceth me
of sin?
And
if I
say the truth,
why do
ye not believe me?
He that is
of God heareth God's words:
ye therefore hear them not,
because
ye are not
of God.
Then said
the Jews
unto him, Now
we know that
thou hast a devil.
Abraham is dead,
and the prophets;
and thou sayest,
If a man
keep my saying,
he shall never taste
of death.
Art
thou greater than our father
Abraham,
which is dead?
and the prophets
are dead:
whom makest thou thyself?
Jesus answered them,
I told you,
and
ye believed not:
the works that
I do
in my Father's name,
they bear
witness of me.
But
ye believe not,
because
ye are not
of my sheep,
as I said
unto you.
If I
do not the works
of my Father,
believe me not.
But if I do,
though ye
believe not me,
believe the works:
that ye
may know,
and believe,
that the Father
is in me,
and I in him.
But
though he
had done so many miracles
before them,
yet
they
believed not on him:
Therefore they
could not believe,
because
that Esaias
said again,
He hath blinded
their eyes,
and hardened
their heart;
that they
should not see
with their eyes,
nor understand
with their heart,
and be converted,
and
I should heal them.
And
if any man
hear my words,
and believe not,
I judge him not:
for I came not
to judge
the world,
but to save
the world.
He that
rejecteth me,
and receiveth not
my words,
hath
one that
judgeth him:
the word that
I have spoken,
the same
shall judge him
in the last day.
Even the Spirit
of truth;
whom
the world
cannot receive,
because
it seeth him not,
neither knoweth him:
but ye
know him;
for he
dwelleth with you,
and shall be
in you.
And
when he
is come,
he will reprove
the world
of sin,
and
of righteousness,
and
of judgment:
Then saith
he to Thomas,
Reach hither
thy finger,
and behold
my hands;
and reach hither
thy hand,
and thrust it
into my side:
and be not faithless,
but believing.
Beware therefore,
lest
that come upon you,
which is spoken of
in the prophets;
Behold,
ye despisers,
and wonder,
and perish:
for I
work a work
in your days,
a work
which ye
shall in no wise believe,
though a man
declare it
unto you.
But
when divers
were hardened,
and believed not,
but spake evil
of that way
before the multitude,
he departed from them,
and separated
the disciples,
disputing daily
in the school
of one Tyrannus.
And saw him
saying unto me,
Make haste,
and get thee
quickly out of Jerusalem:
for they
will not receive
thy testimony
concerning me.
And some
believed
the things which
were spoken,
and some believed not.
For the wrath
of God
is revealed
from heaven
against all ungodliness
and unrighteousness
of men,
who hold
the truth
in unrighteousness;
For what
if some
did not believe?
shall
their unbelief
make the faith
of God
without effect?
He staggered not
at the promise
of God
through unbelief;
but was strong
in faith,
giving glory
to God;
But Israel,
which followed
after the law
of righteousness,
hath not attained
to the law
of righteousness.
But the righteousness
which is of faith
speaketh on this wise,
Say not in thine heart,
Who shall ascend
into heaven?
(that is,
to bring Christ down
from above:)
Or,
Who shall descend
into the deep?
(that is,
to bring
up Christ
again from the dead.)
How then
shall
they call on him
in whom
they have not believed?
and how shall
they believe
in him of whom
they have not heard?
and how shall
they hear
without a preacher?
But
they have not all obeyed
the gospel.
For Esaias saith,
Lord,
who hath believed
our report?
But to Israel
he saith,
All day long
I have stretched
forth my hands
unto a disobedient
and gainsaying people.
Well;
because
of unbelief
they were broken off,
and
thou standest by faith.
Be not highminded,
but fear:
For as ye
in times past have not believed
God,
yet have now obtained mercy
through their unbelief:
Even so
have
these also now not believed,
that through your mercy
they also may obtain mercy.
For God
hath concluded them all
in unbelief,
that he
might have mercy
upon all.
And
he that doubteth
is damned
if he eat,
because
he eateth not
of faith:
for whatsoever is not
of faith is sin.
For the preaching
of the cross
is
to them
that perish foolishness;
but unto us which
are saved
it is the power
of God.
For the Jews
require a sign,
and the Greeks
seek
after wisdom:
But we
preach Christ crucified,
unto the Jews
a stumblingblock,
and
unto the Greeks foolishness;
But the natural man
receiveth not
the things
of the Spirit
of God:
for they
are foolishness
unto him:
neither can
he know them,
because
they are spiritually discerned.
Wherefore
tongues
are for a sign,
not to them that believe,
but to them
that believe not:
but prophesying
serveth not
for them that
believe not,
but for them
which believe.
Be ye
not unequally yoked
together
with unbelievers:
for what fellowship
hath righteousness
with unrighteousness?
and
what communion
hath light
with darkness?
And what concord
hath Christ
with Belial?
or what
part
hath
he that believeth
with an infidel?
And
what agreement
hath the temple
of God
with idols?
for ye are
the temple
of the living God;
as God
hath said,
I will dwell in them,
and walk in them;
and
I will be
their God,
and
they shall be
my people.
And
for this cause
God shall send them
strong delusion,
that they
should believe a lie:
That they
all might be damned
who believed not
the truth,
but had pleasure
in unrighteousness.
And that
we may be delivered
from unreasonable
and wicked men:
for all men
have not faith.
Who was before a blasphemer,
and a persecutor,
and injurious:
but
I obtained mercy,
because
I did it
ignorantly in unbelief.
If we
believe not,
yet
he abideth faithful:
he cannot deny himself.
Unto the pure all things
are pure:
but unto them that
are defiled
and unbelieving
is nothing pure;
but
even their mind
and conscience
is defiled.
Take heed,
brethren,
lest
there be
in any
of you an evil heart
of unbelief,
in departing
from the living God.
For some,
when
they had heard,
did provoke:
howbeit not all
that came out of Egypt
by Moses.
But
with whom
was
he grieved forty years?
was it
not with them
that had sinned,
whose carcases
fell in the wilderness?
And
to whom
sware
he that
they should not enter
into his rest,
but to them
that believed not?
So we
see that
they could not enter in
because
of unbelief.
Let us
therefore fear,
lest,
a promise
being left us
of entering
into his rest,
any of you
should seem to
come short of it.
For unto us was
the gospel preached,
as well as unto them:
but the word
preached
did not profit them,
not being mixed
with faith
in them that
heard it.
For we
which have believed
do enter
into rest,
as he said,
As I
have sworn
in my wrath,
if they
shall enter
into my rest:
although the works
were finished from the foundation
of the world.
Seeing therefore
it remaineth
that some must enter
therein,
and they
to whom it
was first preached
entered not in
because
of unbelief:
Let us
labour
therefore
to enter
into that rest,
lest any man fall
after the same example
of unbelief.
But without faith
it is impossible
to please him:
for he
that
cometh to God
must believe that
he is,
and that he
is a rewarder
of them that
diligently seek him.
By faith
the harlot Rahab
perished not
with them that
believed not,
when
she had received
the spies
with peace.
See that ye
refuse not him
that speaketh.
For if
they escaped not
who refused him
that
spake on earth,
much more
shall not
we escape,
if we
turn away
from him that
speaketh from heaven:
But let him
ask in faith,
nothing wavering.
For he that
wavereth
is like
a wave
of the sea
driven
with the wind
and tossed.
For let not
that man
think that
he shall receive any thing
of the Lord.
Unto you therefore which
believe
he is precious:
but unto them
which be disobedient,
the stone
which the builders disallowed,
the same
is made
the head
of the corner,
And a stone
of stumbling,
and a rock
of offence,
even to them
which stumble
at the word,
being disobedient:
whereunto also
they were appointed.
And saying,
Where is the promise
of his coming?
for since
the fathers fell asleep,
all things
continue
as they
were from the beginning
of the creation.
Who is a liar
but
he that
denieth
that Jesus is the Christ?
He is antichrist,
that denieth
the Father
and the Son.
Whosoever denieth the Son,
the same
hath not
the Father:
he that
acknowledgeth
the Son
hath
the Father also.
And every spirit
that
confesseth not
that Jesus Christ
is come in
the flesh
is not of God:
and this
is that spirit
of antichrist,
whereof
ye have heard
that it
should come;
and even now already is
it in the world.
He that believeth
on the Son
of God
hath the witness
in himself:
he that believeth
not God
hath made him
a liar;
because
he believeth
not the record
that God
gave of his Son.
He that
hath the Son
hath life;
and he that
hath not
the Son of God
hath not life.
I will therefore put you
in remembrance,
though ye
once knew this,
how that
the Lord,
having saved the people
out of the land
of Egypt,
afterward destroyed them
that believed not.
But the fearful,
and unbelieving,
and the abominable,
and murderers,
and whoremongers,
and sorcerers,
and idolaters,
and all liars,
shall have their part
in the lake
which burneth
with fire
and brimstone:
which is the second death.