These all with one mind gave their constant attention to prayer, together with some women, and with Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.

"Go," answered the Lord, "this man is chosen instrument of mine to bear my name before the nations and their kings, and before the Children of Israel also;

The Jews of Berea were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they very readily received the message with all readiness of mind, and day after day searched the Scriptures to see whether these things were so.

"serving the Lord with all lowliness of mind, and with tears, and amid trials that befell me through the plots of the Jews.

"You yourselves know how these hands of mine provided for my needs, and those of my companions.

"The kind of life I have lived from my youth upward among my own nation and at Jerusalem, all that early life of mine, is well known to all the Jews.