But when the grain is ripe, he immediately starts cutting with his sickle because the harvest time has come."

Another angel came out of the Temple, crying out in a loud voice to the one who sat on the cloud, "Swing your sickle, and gather the harvest, for the hour has come to gather it, because the harvest of the earth is fully ripe."

From the altar came another angel who had authority over fire. He called out in a loud voice to the angel who had the sharp sickle, "Swing your sharp sickle, and gather the bunches of grapes from the vine of the earth, because those grapes are ripe."

But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first."

"In the same way, the last will be first, and the first will be last, because many are called, but few are chosen."

It uses all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and it makes the earth and those living on it worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed.

But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first."

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, because the first heaven and the first earth had disappeared, and the sea was gone.

After Jesus had risen early on the first day of that week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had driven out seven demons.

You see, some who are last will be first, and some who are first will be last.

At first, his disciples didn't understand these things. However, when Jesus had been glorified, they remembered that these things had been written about him and that people had done these things to him.

First they brought him to Annas, because he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year.

So the soldiers went and broke the legs of the first man and then of the other man who had been crucified with him.

Nicodemus, the man who had first come to Jesus at night, also arrived, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about 100 litra.

On the first day of the week, early in the morning and while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and noticed that the stone had been removed from the tomb.

The two of them were running together, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and came to the tomb first.

Then the other disciple, who arrived at the tomb first, went inside, looked, and believed.

It was the evening of the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Jesus came and stood among them. He told them, "Peace be with you."

In my first book, Theophilus, I wrote about everything Jesus did and taught from the beginning,

When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you to bless you by turning every one of you from your evil ways."

But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors on their first trip.

"When I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as he was first given to us.

When he found him, he brought him to Antioch, and for a whole year they were guests of the church and taught many people. It was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians.

They passed the first guard, then the second, and came to the iron gate that led into the city. It opened by itself for them, and they went outside and proceeded one block when the angel suddenly left him.

Then Paul and Barnabas boldly declared, "We had to speak God's word to you first, but since you reject it and consider yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we are now going to turn to the gentiles.

Simeon has explained how God first showed his concern for the gentiles by taking from among them a people for his name.

On the first day of the week, when we had met to break bread, Paul began to address the people. Since he intended to leave the next day, he went on speaking until midnight.

When they came to him, he told them, "You know how I lived among you the entire time from the first day I set foot in Asia.