"Cease to be afraid! You are of greater value than many sparrows.

"Look! We are on the way up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man will be betrayed to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death,

"Now there were of our number seven brothers; and the first married and died. As he had no children, he left his wife to his brother;

Now while they were on their way, some of the guard went into the city and told the high priest all that had happened.

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip, tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias, tetrarch of Abilene;

To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.

But now the day began to decline, and the twelve came to him and said: "Send away the crowd so that they may go into the villages and surrounding the country to lodge and buy provisions; for here we are on a solitary place."

"But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not! You are of more value than many sparrow!

Then he took the twelve aside and told them. "See, we are on our way to Jerusalem, and all prophets regarding the son of Man will be fulfilled.

"Has any one of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees?

And he said to them. "You are from below. I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world.

"You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a man-slayer from the very beginning; and he has no standing place in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he utters a lie, he speaks from his nature, for he is a liar and the father of lying.

Jesus answered him. "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants have fought hard that I should not be handed the Jews; but in reality my kingdom is not of such origins."

This aroused bitter indignation among the high priest and his followers who were of the sect of the Sadducees,

"Pray," asked the eunuch of Philip, "of whom is the prophet speaking? Of himself, or of some one else?"

and begged of him letters addressed to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any that were of the Way, either men or women, he could bind them and bring them to Jerusalem.

and exchanged the majesty of the imperishable God for an idol, graven in the likeness of perishable man, or of birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.

for if you go on living according to the flesh, you are on the road to die; but if by the Spirit you keep putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

For the message of the Cross is indeed for those on their way to destruction, foolishness; but for us who are on our way to salvation it is the power of God.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all mankind most pitiable.

But even if my gospel, too, is "veiled," it is among those who are on the way to perish that it is "veiled."

So then, even if I did write to you, it was not for the sake of the wrong-doer, or of him who had been wronged, but to make clear to yourselves in the sight of God your earnest care for me.

So then, as we have opportunity, let is do good to all men, but especially to those who are of the household of faith.

For these precepts, although they have a show of wisdom with their self-imposed devotions and fastings and bodily austerities, are of no real value against the indulgence of the carnal appetites.

For my preaching was not grounded on a delusion, or on impure motives, on in deceit.

But let us who are of the day be self-controlled, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

Do not believe every spirit, beloved, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God; for many false prophets are gone out into the world.

My little children, you are of God and have conquered them; because he that is within you is greater than he that is in the world.

They are of the world, and for this reason they speak as of the world, and the world listens to them.

But you are of God. He who is beginning to know God listens to us; he who is not of God does not listen to us. By this we may distinguish the spirit of truth from the spirit of error.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world is lying in the Evil One.

Call to mind, then, what you have received and heard, and hold to it, and repent. Unless you are on the watch, I will come as a thief, and you will never know at what hour I am coming upon you.

And no one in the heavens or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book, or to look into it.

And I heard every created thing that is in heaven, or on earth, or beneath the earth, or on the sea, and all things that are in them, saying, "To him who sits on the throne, And to the Lamb, Be the blessing and the honor, And the glory and the power, Forever and ever!"

After this I saw four angels, standing at the four corners of the earth, restraining the four winds from blowing on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree.

And another angel, a third, followed them, crying with a mighty voice. "Whoever worships the beast and his image, And receives a brand on his forehead or on his hand,

And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war on him who sat on the horse and on his army.