We plan on bringing in a band that played during the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin on Feb. 24.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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1 Corinthians 5:8:
Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
(NIV)
Therefore, let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of vice and malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened [bread] of purity (nobility, honor) and sincerity and [unadulterated] truth. [Exod. 12:19; 13:7; Deut. 16:3.](AMP)
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
(KJV)
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Colossians 2:16:
Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day.
(NIV)
Therefore let no one sit in judgment on you in matters of food and drink, or with regard to a feast day or a New Moon or a Sabbath.
(AMP)
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
(KJV)
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Malachi 2:3:
'Because of you I will rebuke your descendants; I will smear on your faces the dung from your festival sacrifices, and you will be carried off with it.'
(NIV)
Behold, I will rebuke your seed [grain--which will prevent due harvest], and I will spread the dung from the festival offerings upon your faces, and you shall be taken away with it.
(AMP)
Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.
(KJV)
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Mark 14:12:
On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, when it was customary to sacrifice the Passover lamb, Jesus' disciples asked him, 'Where do you want us to go and make preparations for you to eat the Passover?'
(NIV)
On the first day [of the Feast] of Unleavened Bread, when [as was customary] they killed the Passover lamb, [Jesus'] disciples said to Him, Where do You wish us to go [and] prepare the Passover [supper] for You to eat?
(AMP)
And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?
(KJV)
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Mark 14:1:
Now the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread were only two days away, and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were looking for some sly way to arrest Jesus and kill him.
(NIV)
IT WAS now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and the chief priests and the scribes were all the while seeking to arrest [Jesus] by secrecy and deceit and put [Him] to death
(AMP)
After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
(KJV)
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You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought of. Even thought of! The idea, that here's this vital energy, and that element doesn't even know it exists!
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Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that.
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The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
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Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
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John 12:12:
The next day the great crowd that had come for the festival heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem.
(NIV)
The next day a vast crowd of those who had come to the Passover Feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.
(AMP)
On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
(KJV)
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Luke 2:41:
Every year Jesus' parents went to Jerusalem for the Festival of the Passover.
(NIV)
Now His parents went to Jerusalem every year to the Passover Feast. [Deut. 16:1-8; Exod. 23:15.](AMP)
Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.
(KJV)
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Exodus 5:1:
'Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, 'This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'Let my people go, so that they may hold a festival to me in the wilderness.''
(NIV)
AFTERWARD MOSES and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, Let My people go, that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.
(AMP)
And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
(KJV)
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I feel like I am being put on notice that the number of shows with artistic excellence is going to be far greater than when we started in 1989. And that means the festival has done its job.
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Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front.
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The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American.
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John 13:1:
It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
(NIV)
[NOW] BEFORE the Passover Feast began, Jesus knew (was fully aware) that the time had come for Him to leave this world and return to the Father. And as He had loved those who were His own in the world, He loved them to the last and to the highest degree.
(AMP)
Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
(KJV)
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We work hard to have the festival back every year.
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John 7:10:
However, after his brothers had left for the festival, he went also, not publicly, but in secret.
(NIV)
But afterward, when His brothers had gone up to the Feast, He went up also, not publicly [not with a caravan], but by Himself quietly and as if He did not wish to be observed.
(AMP)
But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.
(KJV)
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John 2:23:
Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, many people saw the signs he was performing and believed in his name.
(NIV)
But when He was in Jerusalem during the Passover Feast, many believed in His name [identified themselves with His party] after seeing His signs (wonders, miracles) which He was doing.
(AMP)
Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did.
(KJV)
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Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year. And yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority
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John 7:37:
On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, 'Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink.'
(NIV)
Now on the final and most important day of the Feast, Jesus stood, and He cried in a loud voice, If any man is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink!
(AMP)
In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
(KJV)
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So where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year? by
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John 10:22:
Then came the Festival of Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter
(NIV)
After this the Feast of Dedication [of the reconsecration of the temple] was taking place at Jerusalem. It was winter
(AMP)
And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.
(KJV)
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Life is a festival only to the wise.
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John 5:1:
Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals.
(NIV)
LATER ON there was a Jewish festival (feast) for which Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
(AMP)
After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
(KJV)
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John 12:20:
Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the festival.
(NIV)
Now among those who went up to worship at the Feast were some Greeks.
(AMP)
And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:
(KJV)
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