Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above, and is ever coming down to us from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom is no variation nor shadow of eclipse.

Our land

But some fell on good soil, and bore a crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

Then those who welcomed his message were baptized, and in that day about three thousand souls were added to them;

And they, when they heard it, glorified God, and said to him. "You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews, of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the Law.