“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, and before you were born, I set you apart— I appointed you prophet to the nations.”
John 3:27 - Tree of Life Version John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition John answered, A man can receive nothing [he can claim nothing, he can take unto himself nothing] except as it has been granted to him from heaven. [A man must be content to receive the gift which is given him from heaven; there is no other source.] American Standard Version (1901) John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it have been given him from heaven. Common English Bible John replied, “No one can receive anything unless it is given from heaven. Catholic Public Domain Version John responded and said: "A man is not able to receive anything, unless it has been given to him from heaven. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version John answered, and said: A man cannot receive any thing, unless it be given him from heaven. |
“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, and before you were born, I set you apart— I appointed you prophet to the nations.”
As for me, I have not run away from being a shepherd after You, nor have I desired the woeful day. What came out of my lips You know—it was before You.
But Adonai took me from following the flock and Adonai said to me: ‘Go, prophesy to My people Israel.’
It will come about that the staff of the man I choose will sprout. I will then rid Myself of the grumblings of Bnei-Yisrael, who are grumbling against you.”
John’s immersion, where was it from? From heaven or from men?” They began to dialogue among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will say to us, ‘Then why didn’t you believe him?’
To one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey.
It is like a man away on a journey. After leaving his house and putting his servants in charge and giving each his task, he also commanded the doorkeeper to watch.
Many people came to Him and were saying, “John performed no sign, but all John said about this man was true.”
Then He told them, “For this reason I’ve told you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by the Father.”
Through Him we have received grace and the office of emissary, to bring about obedience of faith among all the nations on behalf of His name.
We have gifts that differ according to the grace that was given to us—if prophecy, in proportion to our faith;
Paul, called as an emissary of Messiah Yeshua by the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,
But one and the same Ruach activates all these things, distributing to each person individually as He wills.
But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace toward me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than them all—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you came to trust—and to each as the Lord gave.
For who makes you different? And what do you have that you did not receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
Paul, an emissary (sent not from men or by man, but by Yeshua the Messiah and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead),
Paul, an emissary of Messiah Yeshua by God’s will, To the kedoshim in Ephesus—those trusting in Messiah Yeshua:
For this I was appointed a herald and an emissary (I am telling the truth; I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faithfulness and truth.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.