And God has placed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, gifts of healing, helps, gifts of leadership, different kinds of tongues.

It was he who gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers,

Witnesses

Then I saw thrones and seated on them were those who had been given authority to judge. I also saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of the testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. These had not worshiped the beast or his image and had refused to receive his mark on their forehead or hand. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

You are witnesses of these things.

and you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the farthest parts of the earth."

This Jesus God raised up, and we are all witnesses of it.

You killed the Originator of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this fact we are witnesses!

and for many days he appeared to those who had accompanied him from Galilee to Jerusalem. These are now his witnesses to the people.

They shall

So I threw myself down at his feet to worship him, but he said, "Do not do this! I am only a fellow servant with you and your brothers who hold to the testimony about Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony about Jesus is the spirit of prophecy."

A thousand

But do not measure the outer courtyard of the temple; leave it out, because it has been given to the Gentiles, and they will trample on the holy city for forty-two months.

and she fled into the wilderness where a place had been prepared for her by God, so she could be taken care of for 1,260 days.

Clothed

Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourned for his son many days.

David looked up and saw the Lord's messenger standing between the earth and sky with his sword drawn and in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem. David and the leaders, covered with sackcloth, threw themselves down with their faces to the ground.

Now when Mordecai became aware of all that had been done, he tore his garments and put on sackcloth and ashes. He went out into the city, crying out in a loud and bitter voice.

I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and buried my horn in the dust;

At that time the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, called for weeping and mourning, for shaved heads and sackcloth.

(Yod) The elders of Daughter Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dirt on their heads; They have dressed in sackcloth. Jerusalem's young women stare down at the ground.

Jesus answered, "I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born of water and spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

General references

Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourned for his son many days.

"Whoever kills any person, the murderer must be put to death by the testimony of witnesses; but one witness cannot testify against any person to cause him to be put to death.

I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.