Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Genesis 46:1-7 and Matthew 27:32-44 (NIV)

Genesis 46:1-7
Jacob Goes to Egypt

1    So Israel set out with all that was his, and when he reached Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
2    And God spoke to Israel in a vision at night and said, “Jacob! Jacob!”  “Here I am,” he replied.
3    “I am God, the God of your father,” he said. “Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there. 
4    I will go down to Egypt with you, and I will surely bring you back again. And Joseph’s own hand will close your eyes.
5    Then Jacob left Beersheba, and Israel’s sons took their father Jacob and their children and their wives in the carts that Pharaoh had sent to transport him.
6    So Jacob and all his offspring went to Egypt, taking with them their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in Canaan.
7    Jacob brought with him to Egypt his sons and grandsons and his daughters and granddaughters—all his offspring. 

Matthew 27:32-44
The Crucifixion

32  As they were going out, they met a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross. 
33  They came to a place called Golgotha (which means “the place of the skull”). 
34  There they offered Jesus wine to drink, mixed with gall; but after tasting it, he refused to drink it.
35  When they had crucified him, they divided up his clothes by casting lots. 
36  And sitting down, they kept watch over him there.
37  Above his head they placed the written charge against him: this is jesus, the king of the jews.
38  Two rebels were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left.
39  Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads 
40  and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!” 
41  In the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders mocked him.
42  “He saved others,” they said, “but he can’t save himself! He’s the king of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him.
43  He trusts in God. Let God rescue him now if he wants him, for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”
44  In the same way the rebels who were crucified with him also heaped insults on him.

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