Invitation to the Lord’s Salvation

55 “Is anyone thirsty?
    Come and drink—
    even if you have no money!
Come, take your choice of wine or milk—
    it’s all free!
Why spend your money on food that does not give you strength?
    Why pay for food that does you no good?
Listen to me, and you will eat what is good.
    You will enjoy the finest food.

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Your unfailing love is better than life itself;
    how I praise you!
I will praise you as long as I live,
    lifting up my hands to you in prayer.
You satisfy me more than the richest feast.
    I will praise you with songs of joy.

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    How precious is your unfailing love, O God!
All humanity finds shelter
    in the shadow of your wings.

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20 “So he returned home to his father. And while he was still a long way off, his father saw him coming. Filled with love and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him.

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26 As they were eating, Jesus took some bread and blessed it. Then he broke it in pieces and gave it to the disciples, saying, “Take this and eat it, for this is my body.”

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In Jerusalem,[a] the Lord of Heaven’s Armies
    will spread a wonderful feast
    for all the people of the world.
It will be a delicious banquet
    with clear, well-aged wine and choice meat.

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Footnotes

  1. 25:6 Hebrew On this mountain; also in 25:10.

12 Submit to God’s royal son,[a] or he will become angry,
    and you will be destroyed in the midst of all your activities—
for his anger flares up in an instant.
    But what joy for all who take refuge in him!

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Footnotes

  1. 2:12 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.

The next stop after leaving Tyre was Ptolemais, where we greeted the brothers and sisters[a] and stayed for one day.

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Footnotes

  1. 21:7 Greek brothers; also in 21:17.

14 Greet each other with a kiss of love.

Peace be with all of you who are in Christ.

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15 Then Joseph kissed each of his brothers and wept over them, and after that they began talking freely with him.

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11 Then Jacob kissed Rachel, and he wept aloud.

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26 Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come a little closer and kiss me, my son.”

27 So Jacob went over and kissed him. And when Isaac caught the smell of his clothes, he was finally convinced, and he blessed his son. He said, “Ah! The smell of my son is like the smell of the outdoors, which the Lord has blessed!

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