Now during the days He continued to teach in the temple, but He would go out and spend the nights on the hill called the Mount of Olives;

The God of this people Israel chose our forefathers, and made this people important during their stay in Egypt, and then with an uplifted arm He led them out of it.

For during His human life He offered up prayers and entreaties, crying aloud with tears to Him who was always able to save Him out of death, and because of His beautiful spirit of worship His prayer was heard.

while He was being tempted by the devil. During that time He ate nothing, and so at the end of it He felt hungry.

As it was the day of Preparation for the Passover, that the bodies might not remain on the crosses during the Sabbath, for that Sabbath was a very important one, the Jews requested Pilate to have their legs broken and their bodies taken down.

He shows His mercy from age to age to those who fear him.

So where is your philosopher? Where is your man of letters? Where is your logician of this age? Has not God shown up the nonsense of the world's wisdom?

and how I outstripped many of my own age among my people in my devotion to the Jewish religion, because I surpassed all others in my zeal for the traditions handed down by my forefathers.

I mean this: As long as the heir is under age he is not a whit better off than a slave, although he is heir of all the property,

So when we were spiritually under age, we were slaves to the world's crude notions,