The Vigil

from Leviticus 7:12

Today’s scroll, one verse at a time — each linked to the last by the cross-references rather than by any model of you. The same vigil for everyone, and a different one tomorrow.

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Leviticus 7:12

If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried.

Leviticus 2:4

And if you bring an offering of a grain offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.

from Leviticus 7:12 · a strong link

Matthew 26:38

Then he said to them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even to death: stay you here, and watch with me.

from Leviticus 2:4

John 12:27

Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I to this hour.

from Matthew 26:38

John 18:37

Pilate therefore said to him, Are you a king then? Jesus answered, You say that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, so that I should bear witness to the truth. Every one that is of the truth hears my voice.

from John 12:27

Matthew 27:11

And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, Are you the King of the Jews? And Jesus said to him, You say.

from John 18:37


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I Corinthians 8:4

As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.

Ephesians 4:13

Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:

from Ephesians 2:21


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I John 3:16

By this we perceive the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Romans 5:8

But God commends his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

from I John 3:16 · a strong link

Romans 4:25

Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification.

from Romans 5:8 · a strong link


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I John 2:27

But the anointing which you have received of him remains in you, and you need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it has taught you, you shall remain in him.

I John 2:20

But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.

from I John 2:27 · a strong link

Acts 10:38

How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

from I John 2:20

John 3:2

The same came to Jesus by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that you do, except God be with him.

from Acts 10:38 · a strong link

John 5:36

But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father has given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father has sent me.

from John 3:2

John 5:32

There is another that bears witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesses of me is true.

from John 5:36

Mark 1:11

And there came a voice from heaven, saying, You are my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

from John 5:32


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I Corinthians 12:28

And God has set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, varieties of tongues.

Matthew 16:18

And I say also to you, That you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

from Ephesians 2:20 · a strong link

Isaiah 38:10

I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

from Matthew 16:18

II Corinthians 1:9

But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raises the dead:

from Isaiah 38:10


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I Chronicles 29:17

I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy your people, who are present here, to offer willingly to you.

Luke 1:6

And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

from Psalms 119:1 · a strong link

Philippians 2:15

That you may be blameless and innocent, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom you shine as lights in the world;

from Luke 1:6


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I Corinthians 5:7

Clean out therefore the old leaven, so that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us:

Isaiah 65:1

I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Here am I, here am I, to a nation that was not called by my name.

from John 1:36

That is the whole thread.

Every verse the cross-references reach from Leviticus 7:12 along this chain. Today’s own vigil is laid separately.

Each verse follows the one before it along the chain a study Bible draws — a century old, public, and compiled by people arguing about Scripture rather than about how long you stay. Every card says which verse it came from and opens the chapter it belongs to. Today’s vigil is the same for every reader and is worked out from the date alone, so there is no account, no counter, and nothing stored in your browser or ours.

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