And he gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers,

But other seed fell on good soil and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

But the one who received seed on the good soil is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty."

In a large house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and earthenware, and some for noble use, some for ignoble.

Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from town to town,

And he sent another, and him they killed; and so with many others, some they beat and some they killed.

And behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last."

But the people of the city were divided; some sided with the Jews, and some with the apostles.

And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him. Some said, "What would this idle babbler wish to say?" Others, "He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities,"because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.

Now some were shouting one thing, some another; for the assembly was in confusion, and most of the people did not know why they had come together.

Some in the crowd shouted one thing, and some another; and as he could not learn the facts because of the uproar, he ordered him to be brought into the barracks.