Being, however, unable to get him near to Jesus, owing to the crowd, they removed the roofing below which Jesus was; and, when they had made an opening, they let down the mat on which the paralyzed man was lying.

While they had found the goal barred securely and the guards posted at the doors, yet, on opening them, they had not found any one inside.

The passage of Scripture which he was reading was this--'Like a sheep, he was led away to slaughter, and as a lamb is dumb in the hands of its shearer, so he refrains from opening his lips.

But his disciples let him down by night through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a basket.

And at the same time pray for us, that God may give us an opening for our Message, so that we may speak of the truths hidden in the Christ--the truths for which I am in chains!

For a great opening for active work has presented itself, and there are many opponents.

When I went to the district round Troas to tell the Good News of the Christ, even though there was an opening for serving the Master,

And a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, was gradually overcome with great drowsiness, as Paul continued his address. At last, quite overpowered by his drowsiness, he fell from the third story to the ground, and was picked up for dead.

But I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and so escaped his hands.

But now there are no further openings for me in these parts, and I have for several years been longing to come to you whenever I may be going to Spain.

And I saw the dead, high and low, standing before the throne; and books were opened. Then another book was opened, the Book of Life; and the dead were judged, according to their actions, by what was written in the books.

To the Angel of the Church in Philadelphia write:-- "These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds 'the Key of David, who opens and no one shall shut, and shuts and no one opens':--