"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!

"For the Son of man is come to seek and to save the lost."

"and that repentance unto remission of sins should be preached in his name unto all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

Supposing some of them have proved faithless?

Brothers, the longing of my heart and my prayer to God is for my countrymen, that they may be saved.

Do not be overcome by evil, but be overcoming evil with good.

I am become weak to the weak, to win the weak. I am become all these things to all men that, by any and by all means, I may save some.

For this is good and pleasing in the eyes of our Saviour God,

Give heed to yourself and to your teaching. Persevere in these things, for by doing this you will save both yourself and your hearers.

General references

"I am not receiving honor from men, but I know you,

"before whose coming John had already preached a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.