After the birth of Jesus, which took place at Bethlehem in Judea, during the reign of King Herod, lo! certain Magi arrived in Jerusalem, saying.

Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might ensnare him during conversation.

Now it was the Governor's custom, during the Passover, to release to the people any one prisoner whom they selected.

but said they, "Not during the feast, for fear of causing a riot among the people."

A man named Barabbas was there in prison, with some rioters who had committed murder during an uprising.

during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zachariah, in the Desert.

He ate nothing during these days, and at the close of them he was hungry.

But the ruler of the synagogue was indignant at Jesus for healing her on the Sabbath, and said to the crowd. "There are six days of the week on which men ought to work. Therefore come during those, and get cured, but not on the Sabbath Day."

and when he learned that he belonged to Herod's jurisdiction he sent him to Herod, who himself happened to be in Jerusalem during those days.

but if any one walks during the night he does stumble, because the light is not in him."

Now there were certain Greeks among those who had come up to worship during the Passover feast;

It was Preparation Day, so in order to prevent the bodies' hanging on the cross during the Sabbath (for the Sabbath was a great day) the Jews begged Pilate to have the legs broken, and the bodies taken away.

After his sufferings he had also shown himself alive to them in many convincing manifestations, revealing himself to them during forty days, and speaking of the kingdom of God.

It was during these days that Peter stood up among the brothers??he whole number of persons present was about one hundred and twenty??nd said:

"It is necessary then that, of the men who have been associated with us during the whole time in which the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors during the night, and let them out.

"So God turned from them, and gave them up to the worship of the heavenly host, as it is written in the book of the Prophets. "Did you offer unto me slain beasts as sacrifices during the forty years in the wilderness, O House of Israel?

And when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. (This was during the days of unleavened bread.)

Surely, brothers, you know (for I am speaking to those who know what law means) that law governs a person only during his lifetime?

For a married woman who has a husband is bound by law to her husband during his lifetime; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband.

So then, if during her husband lifetime, she unites herself with another man, she will be counted an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the Law, so that she is no adulteress, even if she unites herself with another man.

A wife is bound to her husband during his lifetime; but if her husband dies, she is free to marry whomever she will, provided it be in the Lord.

It is not to angels that God subjected the age to be, of which we are speaking.

and become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the Future Age,

By faith even Sarah herself received power to conceive seed, although she was past the age for child-bearing, because she counted Him faithful who had promised;

"And if any man say a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age or in that which is to come.

"And the seed sown among thorns is he who hears the word, but the anxieties of the age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

"The enemy who sows the weeds is the Devil. The harvest is the end of the age. The reapers are the angels.

"Just as the weeds are collected together and burnt with fire, so will it be at the end of the age.

"So will it be at the end of the age. The angels will go forth and separate the wicked from the righteous, and fling them into the furnace of fire.

When he had seated himself on the Mount of Olives, his disciples came to him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?"