Numbers 22:1-20 and John 18:12-14 (New Living Translation)

NUMBERS 22:1-20
THE KING OF MOAB SENDS FOR BALAAM

1    Then the people of Israel traveled to the plains of Moab and camped east of the Jordan River, across from Jericho. 

2    Balak son of Zippor, the Moabite king, had seen everything the Israelites did to the Amorites. 

3    And when the people of Moab saw how many Israelites there were, they were terrified. 

4    The king of Moab said to the elders of Midian, “This mob will devour everything in sight, like an ox devours grass in the field!”  So Balak, king of Moab, 

5    sent messengers to call Balaam son of Beor, who was living in his native land of Pethor near the Euphrates River.  His message said:  “Look, a vast horde of people has arrived from Egypt. They cover the face of the earth and are threatening me. 

6    Please come and curse these people for me because they are too powerful for me. Then perhaps I will be able to conquer them and drive them from the land. I know that blessings fall on any people you bless, and curses fall on people you curse.”

7    Balak’s messengers, who were elders of Moab and Midian, set out with money to pay Balaam to place a curse upon Israel. They went to Balaam and delivered Balak’s message to him. 

8    “Stay here overnight,” Balaam said. “In the morning I will tell you whatever the Lord directs me to say.” So the officials from Moab stayed there with Balaam.

9    That night God came to Balaam and asked him, “Who are these men visiting you?”

10  Balaam said to God, “Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent me this message: 

11  ‘Look, a vast horde of people has arrived from Egypt, and they cover the face of the earth. Come and curse these people for me. Then perhaps I will be able to stand up to them and drive them from the land.’”

12  But God told Balaam, “Do not go with them. You are not to curse these people, for they have been blessed!”

13  The next morning Balaam got up and told Balak’s officials, “Go on home! The Lord will not let me go with you.”

14  So the Moabite officials returned to King Balak and reported, “Balaam refused to come with us.” 

15  Then Balak tried again. This time he sent a larger number of even more distinguished officials than those he had sent the first time. 

16  They went to Balaam and delivered this message to him:  “This is what Balak son of Zippor says: Please don’t let anything stop you from coming to help me. 

17  I will pay you very well and do whatever you tell me. Just come and curse these people for me!”

18  But Balaam responded to Balak’s messengers, “Even if Balak were to give me his palace filled with silver and gold, I would be powerless to do anything against the will of the Lord my God. 

19  But stay here one more night, and I will see if the Lord has anything else to say to me.”

20  That night God came to Balaam and told him, “Since these men have come for you, get up and go with them. But do only what I tell you to do.”

JOHN 18:12-14

JESUS BEFORE ANNAS

12  So the soldiers, their commanding officer, and the Temple guards arrested Jesus and tied him up. 

13  First they took him to Annas, the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest at that time.

14  Caiaphas was the one who had told the other Jewish leaders, “It’s better that one man should die for the people.”

Numbers 21:21-35 and John 18:1-11 (New Living Translation)

NUMBERS 21:21-35
VICTORY OVER KING SIHON AND KING OG

21  The Israelites sent ambassadors to King Sihon of the Amorites with this message:

22  “Let us travel through your land. We will be careful not to go through your fields and vineyards. We won’t even drink water from your wells. We will stay on the king’s road until we have passed through your territory.”

23  But King Sihon refused to let them cross his territory. Instead, he mobilized his entire army and attacked Israel in the wilderness, engaging them in battle at Jahaz. 

24  But the Israelites slaughtered them with their swords and occupied their land from the Arnon River to the Jabbok River. They went only as far as the Ammonite border because the boundary of the Ammonites was fortified.

25  So Israel captured all the towns of the Amorites and settled in them, including the city of Heshbon and its surrounding villages. 

26  Heshbon had been the capital of King Sihon of the Amorites. He had defeated a former Moabite king and seized all his land as far as the Arnon River. 

27  Therefore, the ancient poets wrote this about him:  “Come to Heshbon and let it be rebuilt!  Let the city of Sihon be restored.

28  A fire flamed forth from Heshbon, a blaze from the city of Sihon.  It burned the city of Ar in Moab; it destroyed the rulers of the Arnon heights.

29  What sorrow awaits you, O people of Moab! You are finished, O worshipers of Chemosh! Chemosh has left his sons as refugees, his daughters as captives of Sihon, the Amorite king.

30  We have utterly destroyed them, from Heshbon to Dibon.  We have completely wiped them out

    as far away as Nophah and Medeba.”

31  So the people of Israel occupied the territory of the Amorites. 

32  After Moses sent men to explore the Jazer area, they captured all the towns in the region and drove out the Amorites who lived there. 

33  Then they turned and marched up the road to Bashan, but King Og of Bashan and all his people attacked them at Edrei. 

34  The Lord said to Moses, “Do not be afraid of him, for I have handed him over to you, along with all his people and his land. Do the same to him as you did to King Sihon of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon.”

35  And Israel killed King Og, his sons, and all his subjects; not a single survivor remained. Then Israel occupied their land.

JOHN 18:1-11

THE ARREST OF JESUS

1    After saying these things, Jesus crossed the Kidron Valley with his disciples and entered a grove of olive trees. 

2    Judas, the betrayer, knew this place, because Jesus had often gone there with his disciples. 

3    The leading priests and Pharisees had given Judas a contingent of Roman soldiers and Temple guards to accompany him. Now with blazing torches, lanterns, and weapons, they arrived at the olive grove.

4    Jesus fully realized all that was going to happen to him, so he stepped forward to meet them. “Who are you looking for?” he asked.

5    “Jesus the Nazarene,” they replied.  “I Am he,” Jesus said. (Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them.) 

6    As Jesus said “I Am he,” they all drew back and fell to the ground! 

7    Once more he asked them, “Who are you looking for?”  And again they replied, “Jesus the Nazarene.”

8    “I told you that I Am he,” Jesus said. “And since I am the one you want, let these others go.” 

9    He did this to fulfill his own statement: “I did not lose a single one of those you have given me.”

10  Then Simon Peter drew a sword and slashed off the right ear of Malchus, the high priest’s slave. 

11  But Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword back into its sheath. Shall I not drink from the cup of suffering the Father has given me?”

Numbers 21:10-20 and John 17:1-26 (New Living Translation)

NUMBERS 21:10-20
ISRAEL'S JOURNEY TO MOAB

10  The Israelites traveled next to Oboth and camped there. 

11  Then they went on to Iye-abarim, in the wilderness on the eastern border of Moab. 

12  From there they traveled to the valley of Zered Brook and set up camp. 

13  Then they moved out and camped on the far side of the Arnon River, in the wilderness adjacent to the territory of the Amorites. The Arnon is the boundary line between the Moabites and the Amorites. 

14  For this reason The Book of the Wars of the Lord speaks of “the town of Waheb in the area of Suphah, and the ravines of the Arnon River, 

15  and the ravines that extend as far as the settlement of Ar on the border of Moab.”

16  From there the Israelites traveled to Beer, which is the well where the Lord said to Moses, “Assemble the people, and I will give them water.” 

17  There the Israelites sang this song:  “Spring up, O well!  Yes, sing its praises!

18  Sing of this well, which princes dug, which great leaders hollowed out with their scepters and staffs.”

Then the Israelites left the wilderness and proceeded on through Mattanah, 

19  Nahaliel, and Bamoth. 

20  After that they went to the valley in Moab where Pisgah Peak overlooks the wasteland.

JOHN 17:1-26

JESUS PRAYS FOR HIS DISCIPLES

1    After saying all these things, Jesus looked up to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son so he can give glory back to you. 

2    For you have given him authority over everyone. He gives eternal life to each one you have given him.

3    And this is the way to have eternal life—to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the one you sent to earth. 

4    I brought glory to you here on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. 

5    Now, Father, bring me into the glory we shared before the world began.

6    “I have revealed you to the ones you gave me from this world. They were always yours. You gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 

7    Now they know that everything I have is a gift from you, 

8    for I have passed on to them the message you gave me. They accepted it and know that I came from you, and they believe you sent me.

9    “My prayer is not for the world, but for those you have given me, because they belong to you. 

10  All who are mine belong to you, and you have given them to me, so they bring me glory. 

11  Now I am departing from the world; they are staying in this world, but I am coming to you. Holy Father, you have given me your name; now protect them by the power of your name so that they will be united just as we are. 

12  During my time here, I protected them by the power of the name you gave me.  I guarded them so that not one was lost, except the one headed for destruction, as the Scriptures foretold.

13  “Now I am coming to you. I told them many things while I was with them in this world so they would be filled with my joy. 

14  I have given them your word. And the world hates them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. 

15  I’m not asking you to take them out of the world, but to keep them safe from the evil one. 

16  They do not belong to this world any more than I do. 

17  Make them holy by your truth; teach them your word, which is truth. 

18  Just as you sent me into the world, I am sending them into the world. 

19  And I give myself as a holy sacrifice for them so they can be made holy by your truth.

20  “I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in me through their message. 

21  I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me.

22  “I have given them the glory you gave me, so they may be one as we are one. 

23  I am in them and you are in me. May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me. 

24  Father, I want these whom you have given me to be with me where I am. Then they can see all the glory you gave me because you loved me even before the world began!

25  “O righteous Father, the world doesn’t know you, but I do; and these disciples know you sent me. 

26  I have revealed you to them, and I will continue to do so. Then your love for me will be in them, and I will be in them.”

Numbers 21:4-9 and John 16:25-33 (New Living Translation)

NUMBERS 21:4-9
THE SNAKE MADE OF BRONZE

4  Then the people of Israel set out from Mount Hor, taking the road to the Red Sea to go around the land of Edom. But the people grew impatient with the long journey, 

5  and they began to speak against God and Moses. “Why have you brought us out of Egypt to die here in the wilderness?” they complained. “There is nothing to eat here and nothing to drink. And we hate this horrible manna!”

6  So the Lord sent poisonous snakes among the people, and many were bitten and died. 

7  Then the people came to Moses and cried out, “We have sinned by speaking against the Lord and against you. Pray that the Lord will take away the snakes.” So Moses prayed for the people.

8  Then the Lord told him, “Make a replica of a poisonous snake and attach it to a pole. All who are bitten will live if they simply look at it!” 

9  So Moses made a snake out of bronze and attached it to a pole. Then anyone who was bitten by a snake could look at the bronze snake and be healed!

JOHN 16:25-33

VICTORY OVER THE WORLD

25  “I have spoken of these matters in figures of speech, but soon I will stop speaking figuratively and will tell you plainly all about the Father. 
26  Then you will ask in my name. I’m not saying I will ask the Father on your behalf, 
27  for the Father himself loves you dearly because you love me and believe that I came from God.
28  Yes, I came from the Father into the world, and now I will leave the world and return to the Father.”
29  Then his disciples said, “At last you are speaking plainly and not figuratively.
30  Now we understand that you know everything, and there’s no need to question you. From this we believe that you came from God.”
31  Jesus asked, “Do you finally believe? 
32  But the time is coming—indeed it’s here now—when you will be scattered, each one going his own way, leaving me alone. Yet I am not alone because the Father is with me. 
33  I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world.”

Numbers 21:1-3 and John 16:16-24 (New Living Translation)

NUMBERS 21:1-3
VICTORY OVER THE CANAANITES
1  The Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev, heard that the Israelites were approaching on the road through Atharim. So he attacked the Israelites and took some of them as prisoners.
2  Then the people of Israel made this vow to the Lord: “If you will hand these people over to us, we will completely destroy all their towns.”
3  The Lord heard the Israelites’ request and gave them victory over the Canaanites. The Israelites completely destroyed them and their towns, and the place has been called Hormah ever since.

JOHN 16:16-24
SADNESS WILL BE TURNED TO JOY

16  “In a little while you won’t see me anymore. But a little while after that, you will see me again.”

17  Some of the disciples asked each other, “What does he mean when he says, ‘In a little while you won’t see me, but then you will see me,’ and ‘I am going to the Father’? 

18  And what does he mean by ‘a little while’? We don’t understand.”

19  Jesus realized they wanted to ask him about it, so he said, “Are you asking yourselves what I meant? I said in a little while you won’t see me, but a little while after that you will see me again. 

20  I tell you the truth, you will weep and mourn over what is going to happen to me, but the world will rejoice. You will grieve, but your grief will suddenly turn to wonderful joy. 

21  It will be like a woman suffering the pains of labor. When her child is born, her anguish gives way to joy because she has brought a new baby into the world. 

22  So you have sorrow now, but I will see you again; then you will rejoice, and no one can rob you of that joy. 

23  At that time you won’t need to ask me for anything. I tell you the truth, you will ask the Father directly, and he will grant your request because you use my name. 

24  You haven’t done this before. Ask, using my name, and you will receive, and you will have abundant joy.

Numbers 20:22-29 and John 16:5-15 (New Living Translation)

NUMBERS 20:22-29
THE DEATH OF AARON

22  The whole community of Israel left Kadesh and arrived at Mount Hor. 

23  There, on the border of the land of Edom, the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 

24  “The time has come for Aaron to join his ancestors in death. He will not enter the land I am giving the people of Israel, because the two of you rebelled against my instructions concerning the water at Meribah. 

25  Now take Aaron and his son Eleazar up Mount Hor. 

26  There you will remove Aaron’s priestly garments and put them on Eleazar, his son. Aaron will die there and join his ancestors.”

27  So Moses did as the Lord commanded. The three of them went up Mount Hor together as the whole community watched. 

28  At the summit, Moses removed the priestly garments from Aaron and put them on Eleazar, Aaron’s son. Then Aaron died there on top of the mountain, and Moses and Eleazar went back down. 

29  When the people realized that Aaron had died, all Israel mourned for him thirty days.

JOHN 16:5-15

THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

5    “But now I am going away to the one who sent me, and not one of you is asking where I am going. 

6    Instead, you grieve because of what I’ve told you. 

7    But in fact, it is best for you that I go away, because if I don’t, the Advocate won’t come. If I do go away, then I will send him to you. 

8    And when he comes, he will convict the world of its sin, and of God’s righteousness, and of the coming judgment. 

9    The world’s sin is that it refuses to believe in me. 

10  Righteousness is available because I go to the Father, and you will see me no more. 

11  Judgment will come because the ruler of this world has already been judged.

12  “There is so much more I want to tell you, but you can’t bear it now. 

13  When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own but will tell you what he has heard. He will tell you about the future. 

14  He will bring me glory by telling you whatever he receives from me. 

15  All that belongs to the Father is mine; this is why I said, ‘The Spirit will tell you whatever he receives from me.’

Numbers 20:14-21 and John 16:1-4 (New Living Translation)

NUMBERS 20:14-21
THE KING OF EDOM REFUSES TO LET ISRAEL PASS
14  While Moses was at Kadesh, he sent ambassadors to the king of Edom with this message:

“This is what your relatives, the people of Israel, say: You know all the hardships we have been through.

15  Our ancestors went down to Egypt, and we lived there a long time, and we and our ancestors were brutally mistreated by the Egyptians. 

16  But when we cried out to the Lord, he heard us and sent an angel who brought us out of Egypt. Now we are camped at Kadesh, a town on the border of your land. 

17  Please let us travel through your land. We will be careful not to go through your fields and vineyards. We won’t even drink water from your wells. We will stay on the king’s road and never leave it until we have passed through your territory.”

18  But the king of Edom said, “Stay out of my land, or I will meet you with an army!”

19  The Israelites answered, “We will stay on the main road. If our livestock drink your water, we will pay for it. Just let us pass through your country. That’s all we ask.”

20  But the king of Edom replied, “Stay out! You may not pass through our land.” With that he mobilized his army and marched out against them with an imposing force. 

21  Because Edom refused to allow Israel to pass through their country, Israel was forced to turn around.

JOHN 16:1-4

THE WORLD'S HATRED (continued)

1  “I have told you these things so that you won’t abandon your faith. 

2  For you will be expelled from the synagogues, and the time is coming when those who kill you will think they are doing a holy service for God. 

3  This is because they have never known the Father or me. 

4  Yes, I’m telling you these things now, so that when they happen, you will remember my warning. I didn’t tell you earlier because I was going to be with you for a while longer.

Numbers 20:1-13 and John 15:18-27 (New Living Translation)

NUMBERS 20:1-13
EVENTS AT KADESH

1    In the first month of the year, the whole community of Israel arrived in the wilderness of Zin and camped at Kadesh. While they were there, Miriam died and was buried.

2    There was no water for the people to drink at that place, so they rebelled against Moses and Aaron.

3    The people blamed Moses and said, “If only we had died in the Lord’s presence with our brothers!

4    Why have you brought the congregation of the Lord’s people into this wilderness to die, along with all our livestock? 

5    Why did you make us leave Egypt and bring us here to this terrible place? This land has no grain, no figs, no grapes, no pomegranates, and no water to drink!”

6    Moses and Aaron turned away from the people and went to the entrance of the Tabernacle, where they fell face down on the ground. Then the glorious presence of the Lord appeared to them, 

7    and the Lord said to Moses, 

8    “You and Aaron must take the staff and assemble the entire community. As the people watch, speak to the rock over there, and it will pour out its water. You will provide enough water from the rock to satisfy the whole community and their livestock.”

9    So Moses did as he was told. He took the staff from the place where it was kept before the Lord. 

10  Then he and Aaron summoned the people to come and gather at the rock. “Listen, you rebels!” he shouted. “Must we bring you water from this rock?” 

11  Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with the staff, and water gushed out. So the entire community and their livestock drank their fill.

12  But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust me enough to demonstrate my holiness to the people of Israel, you will not lead them into the land I am giving them!” 

13  This place was known as the waters of Meribah (which means “arguing”) because there the people of Israel argued with the Lord, and there he demonstrated his holiness among them.

JOHN 15:18-27

THE WORLD'S HATRED

18  “If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first. 

19  The world would love you as one of its own if you belonged to it, but you are no longer part of the world. I chose you to come out of the world, so it hates you. 

20  Do you remember what I told you? ‘A slave is not greater than the master.’ Since they persecuted me, naturally they will persecute you. And if they had listened to me, they would listen to you. 

21  They will do all this to you because of me, for they have rejected the one who sent me. 

22  They would not be guilty if I had not come and spoken to them. But now they have no excuse for their sin. 

23  Anyone who hates me also hates my Father. 

24  If I hadn’t done such miraculous signs among them that no one else could do, they would not be guilty. But as it is, they have seen everything I did, yet they still hate me and my Father. 

25  This fulfills what is written in their Scriptures: ‘They hated me without cause.’

26  “But I will send you the Advocate—the Spirit of truth. He will come to you from the Father and will testify all about me. 

27  And you must also testify about me because you have been with me from the beginning of my ministry.

Numbers 19:11-22 and John 15:1-17 (New Living Translation)

NUMBERS 19:11-22
CONTACT WITH A CORPSE
11  “All those who touch a dead human body will be ceremonially unclean for seven days.
12  They must purify themselves on the third and seventh days with the water of purification; then they will be purified. But if they do not do this on the third and seventh days, they will continue to be unclean even after the seventh day.
13  All those who touch a dead body and do not purify themselves in the proper way defile the Lord’s Tabernacle, and they will be cut off from the community of Israel. Since the water of purification was not sprinkled on them, their defilement continues.
14  “This is the ritual law that applies when someone dies inside a tent: All those who enter that tent and those who were inside when the death occurred will be ceremonially unclean for seven days.
15  Any open container in the tent that was not covered with a lid is also defiled.
16  And if someone in an open field touches the corpse of someone who was killed with a sword or who died a natural death, or if someone touches a human bone or a grave, that person will be defiled for seven days.
17  “To remove the defilement, put some of the ashes from the burnt purification offering in a jar, and pour fresh water over them.
18  Then someone who is ceremonially clean must take a hyssop branch and dip it into the water. That person must sprinkle the water on the tent, on all the furnishings in the tent, and on the people who were in the tent; also on the person who touched a human bone, or touched someone who was killed or who died naturally, or touched a grave.
19  On the third and seventh days the person who is ceremonially clean must sprinkle the water on those who are defiled. Then on the seventh day the people being cleansed must wash their clothes and bathe themselves, and that evening they will be cleansed of their defilement.
20  “But those who become defiled and do not purify themselves will be cut off from the community, for they have defiled the sanctuary of the Lord. Since the water of purification has not been sprinkled on them, they remain defiled.
21  This is a permanent law for the people. Those who sprinkle the water of purification must afterward wash their clothes, and anyone who then touches the water used for purification will remain defiled until evening.
22  Anything and anyone that a defiled person touches will be ceremonially unclean until evening.”

JOHN 15:1-17
JESUS THE REAL VINE

1    “I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener. 

2    He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more. 

3    You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you. 

4    Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me.

5    “Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing. 

6    Anyone who does not remain in me is thrown away like a useless branch and withers. Such branches are gathered into a pile to be burned. 

7    But if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted! 

8    When you produce much fruit, you are my true disciples. This brings great glory to my Father.

9    “I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love. 

10  When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. 

11  I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow! 

12  This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. 

13  There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 

14  You are my friends if you do what I command. 

15  I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me. 

16  You didn’t choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name. 

17  This is my command: Love each other.

Numbers 19:1-10 and John 14:15-31 (New Living Translation)

NUMBERS 19:1-10
ASHES OF THE RED COW

1    The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 

2    “Here is another legal requirement commanded by the Lord: Tell the people of Israel to bring you a red heifer, a perfect animal that has no defects and has never been yoked to a plow. 

3    Give it to Eleazar the priest, and it will be taken outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.

4    Eleazar will take some of its blood on his finger and sprinkle it seven times toward the front of the Tabernacle.

5    As Eleazar watches, the heifer must be burned—its hide, meat, blood, and dung. 

6    Eleazar the priest must then take a stick of cedar, a hyssop branch, and some scarlet yarn and throw them into the fire where the heifer is burning.

7    “Then the priest must wash his clothes and bathe himself in water. Afterward he may return to the camp, though he will remain ceremonially unclean until evening. 

8    The man who burns the animal must also wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and he, too, will remain unclean until evening. 

9    Then someone who is ceremonially clean will gather up the ashes of the heifer and deposit them in a purified place outside the camp. They will be kept there for the community of Israel to use in the water for the purification ceremony. This ceremony is performed for the removal of sin. 

10  The man who gathers up the ashes of the heifer must also wash his clothes, and he will remain ceremonially unclean until evening. This is a permanent law for the people of Israel and any foreigners who live among them.

JOHN 14:15-31

THE PROMISE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

15  “If you love me, obey my commandments. 

16  And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, who will never leave you. 

17  He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive him, because it isn’t looking for him and doesn’t recognize him. But you know him, because he lives with you now and later will be in you.

18  No, I will not abandon you as orphans—I will come to you. 

19  Soon the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Since I live, you also will live. 

20  When I am raised to life again, you will know that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.

21  Those who accept my commandments and obey them are the ones who love me. And because they love me, my Father will love them. And I will love them and reveal myself to each of them.”

22  Judas (not Judas Iscariot, but the other disciple with that name) said to him, “Lord, why are you going to reveal yourself only to us and not to the world at large?”

23  Jesus replied, “All who love me will do what I say. My Father will love them, and we will come and make our home with each of them. 

24  Anyone who doesn’t love me will not obey me. And remember, my words are not my own. What I am telling you is from the Father who sent me. 

25  I am telling you these things now while I am still with you.

26  But when the Father sends the Advocate as my representative—that is, the Holy Spirit—he will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I have told you.

27  “I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid. 

28  Remember what I told you: I am going away, but I will come back to you again. If you really loved me, you would be happy that I am going to the Father, who is greater than I am. 

29  I have told you these things before they happen so that when they do happen, you will believe.

30  “I don’t have much more time to talk to you, because the ruler of this world approaches. He has no power over me, 

31  but I will do what the Father requires of me, so that the world will know that I love the Father. Come, let’s be going.

Numbers 18:25-32 and John 14:1-14 (New Living Translation)

NUMBERS 18:25-32
THE LEVITES' TITHE
25  The Lord also told Moses,
26  “Give these instructions to the Levites: When you receive from the people of Israel the tithes I have assigned as your allotment, give a tenth of the tithes you receive—a tithe of the tithe—to the Lord as a sacred offering.
27  The Lord will consider this offering to be your harvest offering, as though it were the first grain from your own threshing floor or wine from your own winepress.
28  You must present one-tenth of the tithe received from the Israelites as a sacred offering to the Lord. This is the Lord’s sacred portion, and you must present it to Aaron the priest.
29  Be sure to give to the Lord the best portions of the gifts given to you.
30  “Also, give these instructions to the Levites: When you present the best part as your offering, it will be considered as though it came from your own threshing floor or winepress.
31  You Levites and your families may eat this food anywhere you wish, for it is your compensation for serving in the Tabernacle.
32  You will not be considered guilty for accepting the Lord’s tithes if you give the best portion to the priests. But be careful not to treat the holy gifts of the people of Israel as though they were common. If you do, you will die.”

JOHN 14:1-14
JESUS THE WAY TO THE FATHER

1    “Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me. 

2    There is more than enough room in my Father’s home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you?

3    When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am. 

4    And you know the way to where I am going.”

5    “No, we don’t know, Lord,” Thomas said. “We have no idea where you are going, so how can we know the way?”

6    Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

7    If you had really known me, you would know who my Father is. From now on, you do know him and have seen him!”

8    Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied.”

9    Jesus replied, “Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and yet you still don’t know who I am? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father! So why are you asking me to show him to you? 

10  Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak are not my own, but my Father who lives in me does his work through me. 

11  Just believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Or at least believe because of the work you have seen me do.

12  “I tell you the truth, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father. 

13  You can ask for anything in my name, and I will do it, so that the Son can bring glory to the Father.

14  Yes, ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it!