that we may not be over-reached by the Adversary, for of his devices we are not ignorant.

this one, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, being given out, having taken by lawless hands, having crucified -- ye did slay;

and Lysias the chief captain having come near, with much violence, out of our hands did take away,

and on the third day with our own hands the tackling of the ship we cast out,

and unto Israel He saith, 'All the day I did stretch out My hands unto a people unbelieving and gainsaying.'

and through a window in a rope basket I was let down, through the wall, and fled out of his hands.

After these things I saw, and lo, a great multitude, which to number no one was able, out of all nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands,