here am I, come in the name of my Father, and you will not accept me: let someone else come in his own name, and you will accept him!

(though I accept no testimony from man ??I only speak of this testimony, that you may be saved);

I accept no credit from men,

How can you believe, you who accept credit from one another instead of aiming at the credit which comes from the only God?

So those who accepted what he said were baptized; about three thousand souls were brought in, that day.

I tell you, he went home accepted by God rather than the other man; for everyone who uplifts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be uplifted."

Similarly those who are sown 'on stony soil' are the people who on hearing the word accept it with enthusiasm;

When the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they despatched Peter and John,

they are proclaiming customs which as Romans we are not allowed to accept or observe!"

and saw Him saying to me, 'Make haste, leave Jerusalem quickly, for they will not accept your evidence about me.'

On those who have accepted him, however, he has conferred the right of being children of God, that is, on those who believe in his Name,

and I cherish the same hope in God as they accept, namely that there is to be a resurrection of the just and the unjust.

He] is testifying to what he has seen and heard, and yet no one accepts his testimony.

Whoever does accept it, certifies to the truth of God.

As for him who is sown 'on stony soil,' that is the man who hears the word and accepts it at once with enthusiasm;

Some were given back to their womankind, raised from the very dead; others were broken on the wheel, refusing to accept release, that they might obtain a better resurrection;

for it is not the self-praiser with his own recommendations who is accepted, it is the man whom the Lord recommends.

If we accept human testimony, God's testimony is greater; for God's testimony consists in his testimony to his Son.