Book of Common Prayer

Write To Philadelphia: You Have Kept My Word. I Am Giving You an Opened Door

⁷ “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia, write— These things says the Holy One, the True One, the One having the key^[a] of David, the One opening and no one will shut, and shutting and no one opens. ⁸ I know your works^[b]. Behold— I have given before you an opened door^[c] (which, no one is able to shut it). Because^[d] you have a little^[e] power^[f], and you kept My word, and you did not deny My name, ⁹ behold— I am giving some^[g] from the synagogue of Satan, the ones saying that they are Jews (and they are not), but they are lying. Behold— I will make them so that they will come and worship^[h] before your feet, and they may know that I loved you. ¹⁰ Because you kept the word of My^[i] endurance, I also will keep^[j] you from^[k] the hour of testing, the hour going-to come upon the whole world to test the ones dwelling upon the earth^[l]. ¹¹ I am coming quickly. Be holding-on-to what you have in order that no one may take your crown. ¹² The one overcoming— I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will never go outside again. And I will write upon him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God— the new Jerusalem, the one coming down out of heaven from My God— and My new name. ¹³ Let the one having an ear hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches.

¹⁵ Then Jesus, having known that they were about to come and take Him away-by-force in order that they might make Him king, withdrew again to the mountain, Himself alone.

Jesus Walks On Water To Capernaum

¹⁶ Now when it became evening, His disciples went down to the sea. ¹⁷ And having gotten into a boat, they were going to the other side of the sea, to Capernaum. And darkness already had come, and Jesus had not-yet come to them. ¹⁸ And the sea was becoming aroused from a great wind blowing. ¹⁹ So having rowed about twenty five or thirty stades^[a], they see Jesus walking on the sea and becoming near the boat. And they became afraid. ²⁰ But the One says to them, “I am^[b] the One. Do not be afraid”. ²¹ So they were willing to take Him into the boat. And immediately the boat came-to-be at the land to which they were going.

The Crowd Follows Him There

²² On the next day the crowd standing on the other side of the sea saw that there had not been another small boat there except [the] one, and that Jesus had not entered into the boat with His disciples, but His disciples had gone away alone. ²³ Other^[c] small-boats came from Tiberias near the place where they ate the bread, the Lord having given-thanks. ²⁴ So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor His disciples, they got into the small boats, and went to Capernaum seeking Jesus.

Jesus Says, Work For The Food Leading To Eternal Life, Which The Son Will Give You

²⁵ And having found Him on the other side of the sea, they said to Him, “Rabbi, when have You come here?” ²⁶ Jesus responded to them and said, “Truly, truly, I say to you— you are seeking Me not because you saw signs^[d], but because you ate of the loaves-of-bread and were filled-to-satisfaction. ²⁷ Do not be working for the food which is perishing, but for the food which is remaining to^[e] eternal life— which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father certified^[f] this One”.