But be sure of this, that if the householder had known at what watch in the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the watch, he would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

for he had often been bound with fetters and chains and had snapped the chains and broken the fetters ??nobody could tame him.

Be sure that if the householder had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

If the Law said they were gods, to whom the word of God came ??and scripture cannot be broken ??36 do you mean to tell me, whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am God's Son'?

Now, as it was the day of Preparation, in order to prevent the bodies remaining on the cross during the sabbath (for that sabbath-day was a great day), the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies removed.

For this took place that the scripture might be fulfilled, Not a bone of him will be broken.

Supposing some of the branches have been broken off, while you have been grafted in like a shoot of wild olive to share the rich growth of the olive-stem,

You will say, "But branches were broken off to let me be grafted in!"

Granted. They were broken off ??for their lack of faith. And you owe your position to your faith. You should feel awed instead of being uplifted.

and after thanking God he broke it, saying, 'This means my body broken for you; do this in memory of me.'

Some were given back to their womankind, raised from the very dead; others were broken on the wheel, refusing to accept release, that they might obtain a better resurrection;