Then, as they had been divinely warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they set out to their own country by another route.

Then He proceeded to say to the man who invited Him: "When you give a luncheon or a dinner, stop the social custom of inviting your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your rich neighbors, for they may invite you in return and so you will be repaid.

Were none found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?"

who will not receive in return many times more in this world, and in the next eternal life."

So He said: "Once upon a time a man of noble birth went off to a distant country to get for himself a kingdom and then return.

Now as a proof that He has raised Him from the dead, no more to return to decay, He has spoken this, 'I will fulfill to you the holy promises made to David.'

'After this I will return and rebuild David's fallen dwelling; I will rebuild its ruins and set it up again,

Yes, brother, I would like some return myself from you in the Lord's work. Through Christ refresh my heart.