She, too, came up at that very moment and began praising and giving thanks to God, and continued to speak of Him to all who were looking for the redemption and deliverance of Jerusalem.

And John replied, “The man who has two tunics is to share with him who has none; and he who has food is to do the same.”

If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Stay in that house, eating and drinking what they provide, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Do not move from house to house.

In that very hour He was overjoyed and rejoiced greatly in the Holy Spirit, and He said, “I praise You, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things [relating to salvation] from the wise and intelligent, and have revealed them to infants [the childlike and untaught]. Yes, Father, for this way was [Your gracious will and choice, and was] well-pleasing in Your sight.

It was the same as it was in the days of Lot. People were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building [carrying on business as usual, without regard for their sins];

But the other one rebuked him, saying, “Do you not even fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?