I am the True Vine, and my Father is the Vine-grower.

But John, towards the end of his career, repeatedly asked the people, "'What do you suppose me to be? I am not the Christ. But there is One coming after me whose sandal I am not worthy to unfasten.'

How I lived from my youth up among my own nation and at Jerusalem, all that early career of mine, is known to all the Jews.

to the one a deadly fragrance that makes for death, to the other a vital fragrance that makes for life. And who is qualified for this career?

You have heard of my career and former manner of life in Judaism, how I used to hunt down and persecute the church of God extensively and [with fanatical zeal] tried [my best] to destroy it.

to hold up the message of life. That will give me ground for boasting on the day of Christ, because neither my career nor my labor has been a failure.

but they will be stop'd in their career; for they shall be expos'd to the world for impostors, as those magicians were.

I have struggled in a glorious cause: I have finish'd my career: I have stood to the faith:

Remember your leaders, the men who spoke the word of God to you; look back upon the close of their career, and copy their faith.

And there was given to it a mouth, speaking great things and blasphemies; and there was given to it authority to pursue its career forty-two months.