Now His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover.

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip was tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene,

To proclaim the favorable year of the Lord.”

And he answered and said to him, ‘Let it alone, sir, for this year too, until I dig around it and put in fertilizer;

and if it bears fruit next year, fine; but if not, cut it down.’”

But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,

Now he did not say this on his own initiative, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,

and led Him to Annas first; for he was father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. And for an entire year they met with the church and taught considerable numbers; and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

And he settled there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

I give my opinion in this matter, for this is to your advantage, who were the first to begin a year ago not only to do this, but also to desire to do it.

for I know your readiness, of which I boast about you to the Macedonians, namely, that Achaia has been prepared since last year, and your zeal has stirred up most of them.

but into the second, only the high priest enters once a year, not without taking blood, which he offers for himself and for the sins of the people committed in ignorance.

nor was it that He would offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the holy place year by year with blood that is not his own.

For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near.

But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year.

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.”

And the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released, so that they would kill a third of mankind.