2. But I’m young and inexperienced. I know next to nothing. But I’m here, your servant, in the middle of the people you have chosen... Please give your servant a discerning mind in order to govern your people and to distinguish good from evil, because no one is able to govern this important people of yours without your help.” 1 Kings 3:7-9 (CEB)

4. John 1:15 (CEB) John testified about him, crying out, “This is the one of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me is greater than me because he existed before me.’” John 8: 56-58 (CEB) Your father Abraham was overjoyed that he would see my day. He saw it and was happy.” “You aren’t even 50 years old!” the Jewish opposition replied. “How can you say that you have seen Abraham?” “I assure you,” Jesus replied, “before Abraham was, I Am.”

5. Psalm 90:1-4 Lord, you have been our help, generation after generation. generation after generation. Before the mountains were born, before you birthed the earth and the inhabited world— before you birthed the earth and the inhabited world— from forever in the past from forever in the past to forever in the future, you are God. to forever in the future, you are God. You return people to dust, saying, “Go back, humans,” saying, “Go back, humans,” because in your perspective a thousand years because in your perspective a thousand years are like yesterday past, are like yesterday past, like a short period during the night watch. like a short period during the night watch.

6. It was about four o’clock in the afternoon. On the third day, there was a wedding Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple and in three days I’ll raise it up.” The Jewish leaders replied, “It took forty- six years to build this temple, and you will raise it up in three days?” he stayed there two days he stayed there two days A certain man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years. Jesus answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours in the day?

7. John 2:3-4 When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They don’t have any wine.” Jesus replied, “Woman, what does that have to do with me? My time hasn’t come yet.”

8. After this Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He didn’t want to travel in Judea, because the Jewish authorities wanted to kill him. When it was almost time for the Jewish Festival of Booths, Jesus’ brothers said to him, “Leave Galilee. Go to Judea so that your disciples can see the amazing works that you do. Those who want to be known publicly don’t do things secretly. Since you can do these things, show yourself to the world.” His brothers said this because even they didn’t believe in him. Jesus replied, “For you, anytime is fine. But my time hasn’t come yet. John 7:1-6

9. John 4:49-53 The royal official said to him, “Lord, come before my son dies.” Jesus replied, “Go home. Your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and set out for his home. While he was on his way, his servants were already coming to meet him. They said, “Your son lives!” So he asked them at what time his son had started to get better. And they said, “The fever left him yesterday at about one o’clock in the afternoon.” Then the father realized that this was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son lives.” And he and his entire household believed in Jesus.

10. John 11:1-7 A certain man, Lazarus, was ill. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. (This was the Mary who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped his feet with her hair. Her brother Lazarus was ill.) So the sisters sent word to Jesus, saying, “Lord, the one whom you love is ill.” When he heard this, Jesus said, “This illness isn’t fatal. It’s for the glory of God so that God’s Son can be glorified through it.” Jesus loved Martha, her sister, and Lazarus. When he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed where he was. After two days, he said to his disciples, “Let’s return to Judea again.”

12. Matthew 5:17 NIV “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

13. Judaism is a religion of time aiming at the sanctification of time. Unlike the space-minded man to whom time is unvaried, iterative, homogeneous, to whom all hours are alike, quality-less, empty shells, the Bible senses the diversified character of time. There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious. Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time, to be attached to sacred events, to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year. Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time, to be attached to sacred events, to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel