When the harvest time was near, he sent his slaves to the tenants to collect his portion of the crop.

By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

At harvest time he sent a slave to the tenants to collect from them his portion of the crop.

but (because they assumed that he was in their group of travelers) they went a day's journey. Then they began to look for him among their relatives and acquaintances.

He then told them a parable: "The land of a certain rich man produced an abundant crop,

He was longing to eat the carob pods the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.

When harvest time came, he sent a slave to the tenants so that they would give him his portion of the crop. However, the tenants beat his slave and sent him away empty-handed.

Then the whole group of them rose up and brought Jesus before Pilate.

Furthermore, some women of our group amazed us. They were at the tomb early this morning,

The group of those who believed were of one heart and mind, and no one said that any of his possessions was his own, but everything was held in common.

So the twelve called the whole group of the disciples together and said, "It is not right for us to neglect the word of God to wait on tables.

The proposal pleased the entire group, so they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, with Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas, a Gentile convert to Judaism from Antioch.

The word of God continued to spread, the number of disciples in Jerusalem increased greatly, and a large group of priests became obedient to the faith.

The same thing happened in Iconium when Paul and Barnabas went into the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a large group of both Jews and Greeks believed.

The whole group kept quiet and listened to Barnabas and Paul while they explained all the miraculous signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them.

So when they were dismissed, they went down to Antioch, and after gathering the entire group together, they delivered the letter.

Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large group of God-fearing Greeks and quite a few prominent women.

so that they would search for God and perhaps grope around for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

Even from among your own group men will arise, teaching perversions of the truth to draw the disciples away after them.

and their message will spread its infection like gangrene. Hymenaeus and Philetus are in this group.