Book of Common Prayer

Write To Thyatira: You Are Tolerating a False Teacher. Repent From Her Works

¹⁸ “And to the angel of the church in Thyatira, write— These things says the Son of God, the One having His eyes like a flame of fire and His feet resembling brass^[a]. ¹⁹ I know your works and^[b] love and faith^[c] and service and your endurance. And your last works are greater^[d] than the first. ²⁰ But I have against you that you are tolerating the woman Jezebel— the one calling herself a prophet. And she is teaching and misleading My slaves to commit-sexual-immorality and eat foods-sacrificed-to-idols. ²¹ And I gave her time in order that she might repent. And she is not willing to repent from her sexual-immorality. ²² Behold— I am throwing^[e] her into a bed^[f], and the ones committing-adultery with her into a great affliction, unless they repent from her works. ²³ And I will kill her children^[g] with a death^[h]. And all the churches will know^[i] that I am the One searching^[j] minds and hearts, and I will give to you, to each one, according to your works. ²⁴ But I say to you, to the rest in Thyatira— all-who are not holding this teaching, who did not know the deep things of Satan (as they say): I am not putting^[k] another burden upon you. ²⁵ However, hold-on-to what you have until whenever I come. ²⁶ And the one overcoming and^[l] the one keeping My works^[m] until the end— I will give him authority over the nations. ²⁷ And he will shepherd^[n] them with an iron rod like clay vessels are broken-to-pieces, ²⁸ as I also^[o] have received from My Father. And I will give him the morning^[p] star. ²⁹ Let the one having an ear hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches.

Jesus Goes To Jerusalem For a Feast, And Heals a Man On The Sabbath

5 After these things there was a Feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ² Now in Jerusalem near the Sheep gate, there is a pool— the one being called Bethzatha in Hebrew, having five porticos^[a]. ³ In these porticos, a multitude of the ones being sick were lying-down— blind ones, lame ones, withered ones. ^{4 [b] 5} And there was a certain man there having thirty and eight years in his sickness. ⁶ Jesus— having seen this one lying down, and having known^[c] that he already had a long time [in his sickness]— says to him, “Do you want to become healthy?” ⁷ The one being sick answered Him, “Sir, I do not have a man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred-up. But while I am going, another goes down before me”. ⁸ Jesus says to him, “Arise, pick up your cot and walk!” ⁹ And immediately the man became healthy, and picked up his cot and was walking.

They Want To Kill Jesus Because He Breaks The Sabbath And Makes Himself Equal To God

Now it was a Sabbath on that day. ¹⁰ So the Jews were saying to the one having been cured, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to pick up your cot”. ¹¹ But the one answered them, “The One having made me healthy, that One said to me, ‘Pick up your cot and walk’”. ¹² They asked him, “Who is the man having said to you, ‘Pick up and walk’?” ¹³ But the one having been healed did not know who He was. For Jesus withdrew, a crowd being in the place. ¹⁴ After these things, Jesus finds him in the temple. And He said to him, “See— you have become healthy! Do not be sinning any longer in order that something worse may not happen to you”. ¹⁵ The man went away and reported to the Jews that Jesus was the One having made him healthy.