Jesus Laments Over Jerusalem

Matthew 23:37-39 (NKJV)
37 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!
38 See! Your house is left to you desolate;
39 for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ”

Jesús Lamenta Sobre Jerusalén

Mateo 23:37-39 (NVI)
37 »¡Jerusalén, Jerusalén, que matas a los profetas y apedreas a los que se te envían! ¡Cuántas veces quise reunir a tus hijos, como reúne la gallina a sus pollitos debajo de sus alas, pero no quisiste!
38 Pues bien, vuestra casa va a quedar abandonada.
39 Y os advierto que ya no volveréis a verme hasta que digáis: “¡Bendito el que viene en el nombre del Señor!”»

Jesus Cleanses The Temple

Matthew 21:12-13 (NKJV)
12 Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.
13 And He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ ”

Jesús Limpia El Templo

Mateo 21:12-13 (NVI)
12 Jesús entró en el templo y echó de allí a todos los que compraban y vendían. Volcó las mesas de los que cambiaban dinero y los puestos de los que vendían palomas.
13 «Escrito está —les dijo—: “Mi casa será llamada casa de oración”; pero vosotros la estáis convirtiendo en “cueva de ladrones”».

Points to Ponder – The Great I Am

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“Then Moses said to God, ‘If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?’ God said to Moses, ‘I AM WHO I AM.’ And he said, ‘Say this to the people of Israel: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ‘” –Exodus 3:13-14 ESV

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The Chief Cornerstone

Matthew 21:42-44 (NKJV)
42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. This was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
43 “Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a nation bearing the fruits of it.
44 And whoever falls on this stone will be broken; but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder.”

La Piedra Angular Principal

Mateo 21:42-44 (NVI)
42 Les dijo Jesús: ―¿No habéis leído nunca en las Escrituras: »“La piedra que desecharon los constructores ha llegado a ser la piedra angular; esto es obra del Señor, y nos deja maravillados”?
43 »Por eso os digo que se os quitará el reino de Dios y se le entregará a un pueblo que produzca los frutos del reino.
44 El que caiga sobre esta piedra quedará despedazado y, si ella cae sobre alguien, lo hará polvo».

The Living Bread

John 6:47-51 (NKJV)
47 Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life.
48 I am the bread of life.
49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
50 This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die.
51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.

El Pan Vivo

Juan 6:47-51 (NVI)
47 Ciertamente os aseguro que el que cree tiene vida eterna.
48 Yo soy el pan de vida.
49 Vuestros antepasados comieron el maná en el desierto, y sin embargo murieron.
50 Pero este es el pan que baja del cielo; el que come de él no muere.
51 Yo soy el pan vivo que bajó del cielo. Si alguno come de este pan, vivirá para siempre. Este pan es mi carne, que daré para que el mundo viva.

There Is No Greater Love

John 15:11-16 ((NKJV)
11 “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.
12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.
14 You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.
15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.
16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.