Six days later Jesus took with him Peter and James and his brother John, and led them up a high mountain, by themselves apart.

But the crowd checked them, to make them keep still. They cried out all the louder, saying, "Master, have pity on us, Son of David!"

"And call no one 'Leader,' because One is your leader, even the Christ.

"Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and anise and cummin, and neglect the weightier matters of the Law??ustice and mercy and good faith; these latter you ought to have done, and not to have left the former undone.

A little later the bystanders came up and said to Peter, "You also are certainly one of them, for your speech betrays you."

Some days later when Jesus entered Capernaum again the news spread, "He is in the house";

Later on Levi was sitting at table in his house, and together with Jesus and his disciples a number of tax-gatherers and sinners were guests, for there were many of them who used to follow him.

Six days later Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and brought them by themselves up a high mountain apart from the rest.

and many kept rebuking him and telling him to be quiet, but he only shouted much louder, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"

Now two days later was the feast of the Passover and of Unleavened Bread. Both the chief priests and the Scribes were continually seeking how they might arrest him by a stratagem and kill him;

Six months later the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee, called Nazareth,

"But you shall not be so. But he who is greater among you let him become like the younger; and he who is leader like him who serves.

A little later a man saw him, and said, "You too are one of them" But Peter declared, "Man, I am not."

Jesus answered him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will understand it later."

Simon Peter asked him, "Lord, where are you going?" "Where I am going," answered Jesus, "you cannot follow me now; but you shall follow me later."

A week later his disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, although the doors were locked, and stood there among and said: "Peace to you!"

About three hours later his wife came in, not knowing what had happened;

They took with them the following letter. "The apostles and older brothers send greeting to the Gentile Brotherhood throughout Antioch and Syria and Cilicia;

So they, when they had been dispatched, went down to Antioch, and after gathering the whole multitude together, they handed them the letter,

but we ourselves set sail from Philippi, after the days of unleavened bread, and joined them five days later at Troas. There we remained for a week.

He also wrote a letter in the following terms.

They reached Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, and also presented Paul before him.

After reading the letter, he asked to what province he belonged, and when he understood that he was of Cilicia, he said,

Five days later, Ananias the high priest came down to Caesarea with some of the elders, and with an orator, named Tertullus. They laid information before the governor against Paul.

Some days later Felix came, with his wife Drusilla, a Jewess; he sent for Paul, and listened to him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus.

Now three days later he called the leading Jews together, and when they were come together he said to them. "Brothers, I was delivered a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans, though I had done nothing against the people or the customs of your fathers.

I, Tertius, who write this letter, salute you in the Lord.

I told you in my letter not to associate with the immoral.

Now concerning the question in your letter. It is well for a man to have no intercourse with a woman,

On my arrival I will send those whom you may accredit by letter to carry your bounty to Jerusalem.

to these latter an odor of death to death, to the former, of life to life. For such service as this, who is sufficient?

You are my letter, written on my heart, known and read by all men.

Since all can see that you are a letter of Christ transcribed by men, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on human hearts as tablets.

It is he who has also made me sufficient as a minister of a new covenant; not of a letter but of a spirit; for the letter kills, but the spirit makes alive.

Even if I caused you pain by my letter, I do not regret; though I did regret it when I saw that my letter had caused you pain, even for a time.

Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Peter, and spent two weeks with him.

Fourteen years later I went up to Jerusalem again, with Barnabas, and took Titus also with me

I mean to say that the testament which God has already ratified could not be annulled by the Law which came four hundred and thirty years later, so as to make the Promise void.

To what purpose, then, was the Law? It was imposed later for the sake of transgressions, until the "Offspring" should come to whom the promise had been made. It was arranged through angels by the hand of a mediator.

These latter out of their love, because they know that I am set here for the defense of the gospel;

And when this letter has been read to you, see that it is read also in the church of Laodiceans, and that you also read the letter from Laodicea.

I adjure you, in the name of the Lord, to have this letter read to all the brothers.

So, brothers, stand fast, and hold fast the teachings which you have been taught by me, whether by word of mouth or by letter.

If any man does not give heed to what I have said in this letter, mark that man; do not associate with him, so as to make him feel ashamed;

I, Paul, add this greeting in my own handwriting, which is my token in every letter. Thus I write??18 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.

Yet for this very cause I obtained mercy, so that in me, the chief of sinners, Jesus Christ might display all his boundless patience as an illustration for those who should later believe in him, and so gain life eternal.

Now the Spirit distinctly declares that in latter days there will be some who will fall away from the faith, by listening to spirits of error, and to teachings of demons

If then a man keeps himself clear of these latter, he will be a vessel for honor, consecrated, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.

For the Law appoints human beings to be high priests, men with all their weakness; but the word of the oath, which was later than the Law, appoints a Son, perfected forevermore.

to Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant, and to his sprinkled Blood whose message cries louder than that of Abel.

Be patient, then, brothers, till the coming of the Lord. Behold the farmer who waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it gets the early and the latter rains.

This is now my second letter to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your pure minds by putting you in remembrance.

The Lord does not loiter over his promise, as some men esteem loitering; but he is longsuffering toward you, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should pass on to repentance.