"Why are you so timid?" he said. "O men of little faith!" Then Jesus rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and a great calm followed.

Go and learn what this means--'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice'; for I did not come to call the religious, but the outcast."

In the evening the owner of the vineyard said to his steward 'Call the laborers, and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, and ending with the first.

He sent his servants to call those who had been invited to the banquet, but they were unwilling to come.

And do not call any one Father, the heavenly Father.

Hearing this, Jesus said: "It is not those who are in health that need a doctor, but those who are ill. I did not come to call the religious, but the outcast."

Jesus rose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea: "Hush! Be still!" Then the wind dropped, and a great calm followed.

"Why do you call me good?" answered Jesus. "No one is good but God.

Hearing that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to call out: "Jesus, Son of David, take pity on me."

Many of the people kept telling him to be quiet; but the man continued to call out all the louder: "Son of David, take pity on me."

Then Jesus stopped. "Call him," he said. So they called the blind man. "Courage!" they exclaimed. "Get up; he is calling you."

Pilate, however, spoke to them again: "What shall I do then with the man whom you call the 'King of the Jews'?"

But the angel said to him: " Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth shall bear you a son, whom you shall call by the name John.

A week later they met to circumcise the child, and were about to call him 'Zechariah' after his father,

I have not come to call the religious, but the outcast, to repent."

Why do you call me 'Master! Master!' and yet fail to do what I tell you?

So the disciples came and roused him. "Sir, Sir," they cried, "we are lost!" Jesus rose and rebuked the wind and the rushing waves, and they fell, and a calm followed.

When James and John saw this, they said: "Master, do you wish us to call for fire to come down from the heavens and consume them?"

And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry;

'Your brother has come back,' the servant told him, 'and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has him back safe and sound.'

But, no sooner has this son of yours come, who has eaten up your property in the company of prostitutes, than you have killed the fattened calf for him.'

"Why do you call me good?" answered Jesus. "No one is good but God.

Those who were in front kept telling him to be quiet, but he continued to call out the louder: "Son of David, take pity on me!"

But Jesus answered: "I tell you that if these men are silent, the very stones will call out."

"Go and call your husband," said Jesus, "and then come back."

"The man whom they call Jesus," he answered, "made clay, and anointed my eyes, and said to me 'Go to Siloam and wash your eyes.' So I went and washed my eyes, and gained my sight."

"You yourselves call me 'the Teacher' and 'the Master', and you are right, for I am both.

I no longer call you 'servants,' because a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have given you the name of 'friends,' because I made known to you everything that I learned from my Father.

That was the time when they made the Calf and offered sacrifice to their idol, and held festivities in honor of their own handiwork!

Every one, high and low, paid attention to him. 'This man,' they used to say, 'must be that Power of God which men call "The Great Power."'

One afternoon, about three o'clock, he distinctly saw in a vision an angel from God come to him, and call him by name.

"You are doubtless aware that it is forbidden for a Jew to be intimate with a foreigner, or even to enter his house; and yet God has shown me that I ought not to call any man 'defiled' or 'unclean.'

Then a second time there came a voice from the heavens. "What God has pronounced 'clean'," it said, "you must not call 'defiled'."

As these are undeniable facts, you ought to keep calm and do nothing rash;

This, however, I do acknowledge to you, that it is as a believer in the Cause which they call heretical, that I worship the God of my ancestors. At the same time, I believe everything that is in accordance with the Law and that is written in the prophets;

But we do know that God causes all things to work together for the good of those who love him-those who have received the Call in accordance with his purpose.

For in order that the purpose of God, working through selection, might not fail-a selection depending, not on obedience, but on his Call-Rebecca was told, before her children were born and before they had done anything either right or wrong,

This, indeed, is what he says in the Book of Hosea-'I will call those my People who were not my People, and her my beloved who was not beloved.

For God never regrets his gifts or his Call.

But to those who have received the Call, whether Jews or Greeks, Christ, the Power of God and the Wisdom of God!

Look at the facts of your Call, Brothers. There are not many among you who are wise, as men reckon wisdom, not many who are influential, not many who are high-born;

Let every one remain in that condition of life in which he was when the Call came to him.

If the bugle sounds a doubtful call, who will prepare for battle?

At the last trumpet-call; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will rise immortal, and we, also, shall be transformed.

But, as my life shall answer for it, I call God to witness that it was to spare you that I deferred my visit to Corinth.

(As to what I am now writing to you, I call God to witness that I am speaking the truth).

Remember, Brothers, to you the Call came to give you freedom. Only do not make your freedom an opportunity for self-indulgence, but serve one another in a loving spirit.

That your minds may be so enlightened that you may realize the hope given by God's Call, the wealth of the glory of his heritage among Christ's People,

I urge you, then--I who am a prisoner in the Master's cause-- to live lives worthy of the Call that you have received;

There is but one Body and one Spirit, just as there was but one hope set before you when you received your Call.

I press on to the goal, to gain the prize of that heavenward Call which God gave me through Christ Jesus.

For God's Call to us does not permit of an impure life, but demands purity.

For, with a loud summons, with the shout of an archangel, and with the trumpet-call of God, the Lord himself will come down from Heaven.

With this in view, our constant prayer for you is that our God may count you worthy of the Call that you have received, and by his power make perfect your delight in all goodness and the efforts that have resulted from your faith.

The object of all instruction is to call forth that love which comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.

Those are the points on which you should dwell, that there may be no call for your censure.

Run the great race of the Faith, and win the Immortal Life. It was for this that you received the Call, and, in the presence of many witnesses, made the great profession of Faith.

It was God who saved us, and from him we received our solemn Call--not as a reward for anything that we had done, but in fulfillment of his own loving purpose. For that love was extended to us, through Christ Jesus, before time began,

For he who purifies, and those whom he purifies, all spring from One; and therefore he is not ashamed to call them 'Brothers.'

Therefore, Christian Brothers, you who, all alike, have received the Call from Heaven, fix your attention on Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our Religion.

And that is why he is the intermediary of a new Covenant; in order that, as a death has taken place to effect a deliverance from the offenses committed under the first Covenant, those who have received the Call may obtain the eternal inheritance promised to them.

Call to mind those early days in which, after you had received the Light, you patiently underwent a long and painful conflict.

It was faith that enabled Abraham to obey the Call that he received, and to set out for the place which he was afterwards to obtain as his own; and he set out not knowing where he was going.

but in your whole life show yourselves to be holy, after the pattern of the Holy One from whom you received your Call.

And since you call upon him as 'Father,' who judges every one impartially by what he has done, let reverence be the spirit of your lives during the time of your stay upon earth.

But the end of all things is near. Therefore exercise self-restraint and be calm, that you may be able to pray.

Therefore, Brothers, do your best to put God's Call and Selection of you beyond all doubt; for, if you do this, you will never fall.

So I will do my best to enable you, at any time after my departure, to call these truths to mind.

To those who, having received the Call, have been loved by God the Father and protected by Jesus Christ, From Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and the brother of James.

But I say to the rest of you at Thyatira--all who do not accept such teaching, whose who did not learn 'the secrets of Satan,' as men call them--I am not laying on you any further burden;

The first Creature is like a lion, the second Creature like a calf, the third Creature has a face like a man's, and the fourth Creature is like an eagle on the wing.

They will fight with the Lamb, but the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings; so, too, will those with him who have received the Call and are chosen and faithful.