Mark 5:19 Cross References - NSB

¹⁹ Jesus told him: »Go to your house and to your friends and tell them about the great things God did for you and how he had mercy on you.«

¹⁶ Come and listen, all who reverence God, and I will tell you what he has done for me.

⁹ King Hezekiah of Judah wrote this after he was sick and became well again: ¹⁰ »I thought that in the prime of my life I would go down to the gates of the grave and be robbed of the rest of my life. ¹¹ »I thought that I would not see Jehovah in this world. Even with all the people in the world, I thought I would never see another person. ¹² »My life was over. You rolled it up like a shepherd's tent. You rolled up my life like a weaver. You cut me off from the loom. You ended my life in one day. ¹³ »Until morning came, I thought you would crush my bones just like a hungry lion; both night and day you make an end of me. ¹⁴ »I cry like a swallow (swift). I mourn like a dove. My eyes are red from looking to you, Jehovah. I am terribly abused. Please come and help me. ¹⁵ »There is nothing I can say in answer to you. For you are the one who has done this to me. My life has turned sour. I will limp until I die. ¹⁶ »Your words and your deeds bring life to everyone, including me. Please make me healthy and strong again. ¹⁷ »Yes, it was for my benefit that I suffered such distress. In your love you kept me from the pit of destruction. You have put (thrown) (hurled) all my sins behind your back. ¹⁸ »For the grave cannot praise you, death cannot sing your praise. Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for your faithfulness. ¹⁹ »The living, yes the living praise you, as I am doing today! Fathers tell their children about your faithfulness. ²⁰ »Jehovah will save me! We will sing with stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the Temple of Jehovah.«

¹ »Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all the peoples, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you. ² »It seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has done for me. ³ »How great are his signs! How mighty are his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.

³⁷ »Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, extol and honor the King of heaven. All his works are truth, and his ways justice. He is able to abase (humble) (subdue) those who walk in pride.«

²⁵ Then king Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and languages that dwell in all the earth: »Peace is multiplied to you. ²⁶ »I make a decree, that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble with respect before the God of Daniel. He is the living God, and steadfast forever! His kingdom will not be destroyed. His dominion will be even unto the end. ²⁷ »He delivers and rescues, and he works signs and wonders in heaven and on earth, which has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.«

¹ Then Jonah prayed to Jehovah his God from inside the fish's belly. ² He said: »I called to Jehovah because of my affliction. And he answered me! Out of the belly of the grave I cried and you heard my voice. ³ »For you threw me into the deep, in the heart of the seas. The current was all around me. All your waves, your huge breakers passed over me! ⁴ »And I said: I have been cast out of your sight. Yet I will look again toward your Holy Temple. ⁵ »The waters encompassed me and threatened my life. The deep sea surrounded me. The sea weeds were wrapped about my head. ⁶ »I went down to the bottom of the mountains! The earth with its bars closed upon me for a very long time. Yet you have brought my life up from the pit, O Jehovah my God? ⁷ »My life was leaving me and I remembered Jehovah! My prayer came to you, into your Holy Temple. ⁸ »They that regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy. ⁹ »But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving! I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation is from Jehovah!« ¹⁰ Jehovah spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land.

²⁹ »Come see a man who told me everything I have ever done. Could this be the Christ?«

¹ »Men, brothers and fathers, hear my defense to you now.« ² They heard him speak in the Hebrew tongue and became quiet. ³ »I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up here in Jerusalem as a student of Gamaliel. I received instruction in the Law of our ancestors and was just as zealous for God as are all of you. ⁴ »I persecuted the people who followed this Way to the point of death. I arrested men and women and threw them into prison. ⁵ »The High Priest and the whole Council can prove that I am telling the truth. I received letters from them written to fellow Jews in Damascus, so I went there to arrest these people and bring them back in chains to Jerusalem to be punished. ⁶ »While I was traveling I came near Damascus about midday. Suddenly a bright light from the sky flashed around me. ⁷ »I fell to the ground and heard a voice say to me: ‘Saul, Saul! Why do you persecute me?’ ⁸ »Who are you, Lord?« I asked. »I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you persecute,« he said to me. ⁹ »Everyone with me saw the light. They did not hear the voice of the one speaking to me. ¹⁰ »I asked: What shall I do, Lord? He said: ‘Go to Damascus. There you will be told what God wants you to do.’ ¹¹ »I was blind because of the bright light. So my companions took me by the hand and led me to Damascus. ¹² »A man named Ananias was in that city. He is a religious man who obeyed our Law and was highly respected by all the Jews living there. ¹³ »He came and stood by me, and said: ‘Brother Saul, see again!’ At that very moment I saw again and looked at him. ¹⁴ »He said: ‘The God of our ancestors has chosen you to know his will. You are to see his righteous servant, and to hear him speak with his own voice. ¹⁵ ‘You will be a witness for him to tell everyone what you have seen and heard. ¹⁶ ‘Wait no longer! Get up and be baptized and have your sins washed away by praying to him.’ ¹⁷ »I went back to Jerusalem. Then I have a vision while I prayed in the temple. ¹⁸ »I saw the Lord. He said to me: ‘Hurry and leave Jerusalem because the people here will not accept your witness about me.’ ¹⁹ »I answered, ‘Lord they know very well that I went to the synagogues and arrested and beat those who believe in you. ²⁰ ‘»When your witness Stephen was put to death, I was there, approving of his murder and taking care of the coats of his murderers.’« ²¹ »The Lord said: ‘Go! I will send you far away to the people of the nations.’

⁴ »All the Jews know the way I first lived as a youth among my own nation at Jerusalem. ⁵ »They knew me from the beginning. They could testify that I was from the strictest sect of our religion and I lived as a Pharisee. ⁶ »Now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers. ⁷ »Our twelve tribes served God day and night with the promise and hope of what was to come. It is because of this hope that the Jews accuse me, King Agrippa. ⁸ »Why should it be an incredible thought to you that God should raise the dead? ⁹ »I was convinced that I should oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth. ¹⁰ »That I did in Jerusalem. I locked up many of the holy ones in prison. I received authority from the chief priests and gave the command to put them to death. ¹¹ »I punished them in every synagogue and tried to force them to recant their beliefs. I was exceedingly mad against them. I persecuted them even in strange cities. ¹² »I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests. ¹³ »At midday, O king, I saw on the way a light from heaven. It was brighter than the sun and shinned all around me. It also shinned around those who journeyed with me. ¹⁴ »We all fell to the ground. I heard a voice speaking to me. It said in the Hebrew tongue: ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’ (You only hurt yourself.) ¹⁵ »I said: ‘Who are you, Lord?’ And he answered: ‘I am Jesus whom you persecute. ¹⁶ »Stand up on your feet. I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a minister and a witness both of these things that you have seen, and of those things I will show to you. ¹⁷ »I will rescue you from the people and the nations. I am sending you to them. ¹⁸ »To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God. They may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’ ¹⁹ »You see, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision. ²⁰ »I preached first to Damascus, and to Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the people of the nations, that they should repent and turn to God, and prove their repentance by deeds. ²¹ »For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me. ²² »Having obtained help from God, I continue to this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other things than those that the prophets and Moses said should come. ²³ »That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first to rise from the dead, and should show light to the people, and to the nations.« ²⁴ While he was defending himself, Festus said with a loud voice: »Paul, you are beside yourself. Much learning has made you mad.« ²⁵ But he answered back: »I am not mad, most noble Festus. I speak the words of truth and soberness! ²⁶ »For the king knows about these things. I speak freely to him for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him. For this was not done in a corner. ²⁷ »King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe.« ²⁸ Then Agrippa said to Paul: »In a short time you would persuade (convince) me to become a Christian.« ²⁹ Paul replied, »I pray to God, that you and also all that hear me this day were altogether such as I am, except for these bonds.«