For when I was hungry, you gave me food; when I was thirsty, you gave me drink; when I was homeless, you gave me a welcome;

Why, there is nothing hidden except with a view to its being ultimately disclosed, nor has anything been made a secret but that it may at last come to light.

"Whoever for my sake receives one such young child as this, receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not so much me as Him who sent me."

Presently a party of Pharisees come to Him with the question--seeking to entrap Him, "May a man divorce his wife?"

Shall we pay, or shall we refuse to pay?" But He, knowing their hypocrisy, replied, "Why try to ensnare me? Bring me a shilling for me to look at."

"Have you come out," said Jesus, "with swords and cudgels to arrest me, as if you had to fight with a robber?

Just then a man in the crowd appealed to Him. "Rabbi," he said, "tell my brother to give me a share of the inheritance."

"Man," He replied, "who has constituted me a judge or arbitrator over you?"

I no longer deserve to be called a son of yours: treat me as one of your hired men.'

I see what to do, in order that when I am discharged from the stewardship they may give me a home in their own houses.'

"Show me a shilling; whose likeness and inscription does it bear?" "Caesar's," they said.

and I covenant to give you, as my Father has covenanted to give me, a Kingdom--

Jesus therefore, while teaching in the Temple, cried aloud, and said, "Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. And yet I have not come of my own accord; but there is One who has sent me, an Authority indeed, of whom you have no knowledge.

But, in fact, you are longing to kill me, a man who has spoken to you the truth which I have heard from God. Abraham did not do that.

But if they are, then even if you do not believe me, at least believe the deeds, that you may know and see clearly that the Father is in me, and that I am in the Father."

But Jesus cried aloud, "He who believes in me, believes not so much in me, as in Him who sent me;

He who sets me at naught and does not receive my teachings is not left without a judge: the Message which I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

Because I have not spoken on my own authority; but the Father who sent me, Himself gave me a command what to say and in what words to speak.

If the world hates you, remember that it has first had me as the fixed object of its hatred.

Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?'

"I am standing before Caesar's tribunal," replied Paul, "where alone I ought to be tried. The Jews have no real ground of complaint against me, as in fact you yourself are beginning to see more clearly.

who are so familiar with all the customs and speculations that prevail among the Jews; and for this reason, I pray you, give me a patient hearing.

They, after they had sharply questioned me, were willing to set me at liberty, because they found no offence in me for which I deserve to die.

but I discover within me a different Law at war with the Law of my understanding, and leading me captive to the Law which is everywhere at work in my body--the Law of sin.

But as for me, as my soul shall answer for it, I appeal to God as my witness, that it was to spare you pain that I gave up my visit to Corinth.

Now if any one has caused sorrow, it has been caused not so much to me, as in some degree--for I have no wish to exaggerate--to all of you.

To return to what I was saying. Let no one suppose that I am foolish. Or if you must, at any rate make allowance for me as being foolish, in order that I, as well as they, may boast a little.

From those leaders I gained nothing new. Whether they were men of importance or not, matters nothing to me--God recognizes no external distinctions. To me, at any rate, the leaders imparted nothing new.

and yet the bodily infirmity which was such a trial to you, you did not regard with contempt or loathing, but you received me as if I had been an angel of God or Christ Jesus Himself!

and that by a revelation the truth hitherto kept secret was made known to me as I have already briefly explained it to you.

so that, as Christians, you may have additional reason for glorying about me as the result of my being with you again.

But mercy was shown me in order that in me as the foremost of sinners Christ Jesus might display the fulness of His long-suffering patience as an example to encourage those who would afterwards be resting their faith on Him with a view to the Life of the Ages.

Erastus stayed in Corinth; Trophimus I left behind me at Miletus, ill.

After I have sent Artemas or Tychicus to you, lose no time in joining me at Nicopolis; for I have decided to pass the winter there.

If therefore you regard me as a comrade, receive him as if he were I myself.

In the Spirit I found myself present on the day of the Lord, and I heard behind me a loud voice which resembled the blast of a trumpet.

Yet I have this against you--that you no longer love Me as you did at first.