but they urged him, "Stay with us, because it is getting toward evening and the day is almost done." So he went in to stay with them.

On the next Sabbath almost the whole city assembled together to hear the word of the Lord.

When the seven days were almost over, the Jews from the province of Asia who had seen him in the temple area stirred up the whole crowd and seized him,

since it was because of the work of Christ that he almost died. He risked his life so that he could make up for your inability to serve me.

Indeed according to the law almost everything was purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

Then the winepress was stomped outside the city, and blood poured out of the winepress up to the height of horses' bridles for a distance of almost two hundred miles.