Now in those days an edict was issued by the Emperor Augustus that a census of the whole world should be taken.

It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not die without seeing the Lord's Messiah.

So John called two of them to him and sent them to the Lord, to ask, "Are you the One who was to come, or should we continue to look for someone else?"

So the men went to Him and said, "John the Baptist sent us to you to ask, 'Are you the One who was to come, or should we continue to look for someone else?'"

Now as the time was coming to a head when He should be taken up to heaven, He firmly set His face to continue His journey to Jerusalem;

So if you cannot do this very little thing, why should you worry about the rest?

Then the owner of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my dearly loved son. They will, I should think, respect him.'

"Teacher, Moses wrote for us a law that, if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no child, the man should take the widow and raise up a family for his brother.

There arose also among them a contention as to which one of them should rank as greatest.

and said to them, "The Scriptures said that the Christ should suffer as He has suffered, should rise from the dead on the third day,

and that in His name repentance as the condition for the forgiveness of sins should be preached to all the nations. Beginning at Jerusalem