Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Genesis 25:19-34 and Matthew 16:13-20 (NIV)

Genesis 25:19-34
Jacob and Esau
19  This is the account of the family line of Abraham’s son Isaac.
Abraham became the father of Isaac,
20  and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.
21  Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was childless. The LORD answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.
22  The babies jostled each other within her, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the LORD.
23  The LORD said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”
24  When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb.
25  The first to come out was red, and his whole body was like a hairy garment; so they named him Esau.
26  After this, his brother came out, with his hand grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them.
27  The boys grew up, and Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the open country, while Jacob was content to stay at home among the tents.
28  Isaac, who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
29  Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished.
30  He said to Jacob, “Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I’m famished!” (That is why he was also called Edom.)
31  Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.”
32  “Look, I am about to die,” Esau said. “What good is the birthright to me?”
33  But Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob.
34  Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left.
So Esau despised his birthright.

Matthew 16:13-20
Peter Declares that Jesus is the Messiah
13  When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?”
14  They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”
15  “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?”
16  Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”
17  Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven. 
18  And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. 
19  I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” 
20  Then he ordered his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Messiah. 





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