And they will put them out before the sun and the moon and all the stars of heaven, whose lovers and servants they have been, after whom they have gone, to whom they have made prayers, and to whom they have given worship: they will not be put together or placed in the earth; they will be waste on the face of the earth.
And this one was still talking when another came, and said, The fire of God came down from heaven, burning up the sheep and the goats and the young men completely, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.
They are higher than heaven; what is there for you to do? deeper than the underworld, and outside your knowledge;
But put now a question to the beasts, and get teaching from them; or to the birds of the heaven, and they will make it clear to you;
Even now my witness is in heaven, and the supporter of my cause is on high.
Is not God as high as heaven? and see the stars, how high they are!
Thick clouds are covering him, so that he is unable to see; and he is walking on the arch of heaven.
The pillars of heaven are shaking, and are overcome by his sharp words.
For his eyes go to the ends of the earth, and he sees everything under heaven.
For what is God's reward from on high, or the heritage given by the Ruler of all from heaven?
Who gives us more knowledge than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heaven?
He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth.
Out of whose body came the ice? and who gave birth to the cold mist of heaven?
Who ever went against me, and got the better of me? There is no one under heaven!
So they took away the stone. And Jesus, looking up to heaven, said, Father, I give praise to you for hearing me.
Father, give glory to your name. Then there came a voice out of heaven, saying, I have given it glory, and I will give it glory again.
And John gave this witness, saying, I saw the Spirit coming down from heaven like a dove and resting on him.
And he said to him, Truly I say to you all, You will see heaven opening and God's angels going up and coming down on the Son of man.
Jesus said these things; then, lifting his eyes to heaven, he said, Father, the time has now come; give glory to your Son, so that the Son may give glory to you:
If you have no belief when my words are about the things of earth, how will you have belief if my words are about the things of heaven?
And no one has ever gone up to heaven but he who came down from heaven, the Son of man.
And this was John's answer: A man is unable to have anything if it is not given to him from heaven.
He who comes from heaven is greater than all others: he who comes from earth is of the earth, and of the earth are his words: he who comes from heaven is over all.
Our fathers had the manna in the waste land, as the Writings say, He gave them bread from heaven.
Jesus then said to them, Truly I say to you, What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.
The bread of God is the bread which comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.
For I have come down from heaven, not to do my pleasure, but the pleasure of him who sent me.
Now the Jews said bitter things about Jesus because of his words, I am the bread which came down from heaven.
And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we have seen? How is it then that he now says, I have come down from heaven?
The bread which comes from heaven is such bread that a man may take it for food and never see death.
I am the living bread which has come from heaven: if any man takes this bread for food he will have life for ever: and more than this, the bread which I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world.
This is the bread which has come down from heaven. It is not like the food which your fathers had: they took of the manna, and are dead; but he who takes this bread for food will have life for ever.
And he said to them, You are of the earth; I am from heaven: you are of this world; I am not of this world.
And he said to them, I am a Hebrew, a worshipper of the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.
And in their flight before Israel, on the way down from Beth-horon, the Lord sent down great stones from heaven on them all the way to Azekah, causing their death: those whose death was caused by the stones were more than those whom the children of Israel put to death with the sword.
And because of this news, our hearts became like water, and there was no more spirit in any of us because of you; for the Lord your God is God in heaven on high and here on earth.
Then the men of Ai, looking back, saw the smoke of the town going up to heaven, and were unable to go this way or that: and the people who had gone in flight to the waste land were turned back on those who were coming after them.
And when the flame went up to heaven from the altar, the angel of the Lord went up in the flame of the altar, while Manoah and his wife were looking on; and they went down on their faces to the earth.
Then the sign went up out of the town in the pillar of smoke, and the Benjamites, turning back, saw all the town going up in smoke to heaven.
The stars from heaven were fighting; from their highways they were fighting against Sisera.
How has the daughter of Zion been covered with a cloud by the Lord in his wrath! he has sent down from heaven to earth the glory of Israel, and has not kept in memory the resting-place of his feet in the day of his wrath.
Till the Lord's eye is turned on me, till he sees my trouble from heaven.
Those who went after us were quicker than the eagles of the heaven, driving us before them on the mountains, waiting secretly for us in the waste land.
And the pride of your strength will be broken, and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as brass;
And you, Capernaum, were you not lifted up to heaven? you will go down to hell.
And he said, I was watching for Satan, falling from heaven like a star.
Do not be glad, however, because you have power over spirits, but because your names are recorded in heaven.
In that same hour he was full of joy in the Holy Spirit and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children: for so, O Father, it was pleasing in your eyes.
If, then, you who are evil are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who make request to him?
And others, testing him, were looking for a sign from heaven from him.
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