So a report about him spread throughout Syria. People brought to him all who suffered with various illnesses and afflictions, those who had seizures, paralytics, and those possessed by demons, and he healed them.

Now when Jesus saw a large crowd around him, he gave orders to go to the other side of the lake.

As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax booth. "Follow me," he said to him. And he got up and followed him.

While they were going away, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John: "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

What did you go out to see? A man dressed in fancy clothes? Look, those who wear fancy clothes are in the homes of kings!

What did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.

Then some of the experts in the law along with some Pharisees answered him, "Teacher, we want to see a sign from you."

When the disciples saw him walking on the water they were terrified and said, "It's a ghost!" and cried out with fear.

But when the king came in to see the wedding guests, he saw a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.

When they came to the disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and experts in the law arguing with them.

Then as they went into the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side; and they were alarmed.

After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax booth. "Follow me," he said to him.

When John's messengers had gone, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

What did you go out to see? A man dressed in fancy clothes? Look, those who wear fancy clothes and live in luxury are in kings' courts!

What did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.

Jesus also said to the crowds, "When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once, 'A rainstorm is coming,' and it does.

He also saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins.

But they were startled and terrified, thinking they saw a ghost.

Look at my hands and my feet; it's me! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones like you see I have."

"Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Surely he can't be the Messiah, can he?"

Now as Jesus was passing by, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.

When they got out on the beach, they saw a charcoal fire ready with a fish placed on it, and bread.

"I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, an object something like a large sheet descending, being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came to me.

For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus so as not to spend time in the province of Asia, for he was hurrying to arrive in Jerusalem, if possible, by the day of Pentecost.

about noon along the road, Your Majesty, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining everywhere around me and those traveling with me.

So they slipped the anchors and left them in the sea, at the same time loosening the linkage that bound the steering oars together. Then they hoisted the foresail to the wind and steered toward the beach.

But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.

But I have written more boldly to you on some points so as to remind you, because of the grace given to me by God

And in this way I desire to preach where Christ has not been named, so as not to build on another person's foundation,

For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to advise him? But we have the mind of Christ.

Instead, does a Christian sue a Christian, and do this before unbelievers?

Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.

What I am saying is this: The law that came four hundred thirty years later does not cancel a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to invalidate the promise.

For you recall, brothers and sisters, our toil and drudgery: By working night and day so as not to impose a burden on any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

and with every kind of evil deception directed against those who are perishing, because they found no place in their hearts for the truth so as to be saved.

For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love you have demonstrated for his name, in having served and continuing to serve the saints.

By faith they crossed the Red Sea as if on dry ground, but when the Egyptians tried it, they were swallowed up.

So as you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but chosen and priceless in God's sight,

So as your fellow elder and a witness of Christ's sufferings and as one who shares in the glory that will be revealed, I urge the elders among you:

And I saw a powerful angel proclaiming in a loud voice: "Who is worthy to open the scroll and to break its seals?"

Then the second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain of burning fire was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea became blood,

(Now the name of the star is Wormwood.) So a third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from these waters because they were poisoned.

Then the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the abyss.

Then I saw a beast coming up out of the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads, and on its horns were ten diadem crowns, and on its heads a blasphemous name.

So he carried me away in the Spirit to a wilderness, and there I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.

Then I saw an angel descending from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the abyss and a huge chain.

Then I saw a large white throne and the one who was seated on it; the earth and the heaven fled from his presence, and no place was found for them.

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had ceased to exist, and the sea existed no more.