So when it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and *said to them, “

Peace be with you.”

In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, and I with you in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

Paul and Silvanus and Timothy,

To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.

and to Apphia

our sister, and to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church in your house:

There

teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

You shall make an altar of earth for Me, and you shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen; in every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.

For I,’ declares the Lord, ‘will be a wall of fire around her, and I will be the glory in her midst.’”

Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.”

saying, “Write in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”

“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write:The One who holds the seven stars in His right hand, the One who walks

among the seven golden lampstands, says this:

And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will

dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them,

General references

So Moses declared to the sons of Israel the appointed times of the Lord.

When they go in, the prince shall go in among them; and when they go out, he shall go out.

The apostles and the elders came together to look into this matter.