when he said that the Son of Man must be handed over to wicked men and be crucified and rise again on the third day."

but they urged him not to, and said, "Stay with us, for it is getting toward evening, and the day is nearly over." So he went in to stay with them.

Jesus answered him, "I tell you, no one can see the Kingdom of God unless he is born over again from above!"

Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother's womb over again and be born?"

Do not wonder at my telling you that you must be born over again from above.

When the two days were over, Jesus went on to Galilee,

You pore over the Scriptures, for you think that you will find eternal life in them, and these very Scriptures testify to me,

But when the festival was half over, Jesus went up to the Temple and began to teach.

"I tell you, any man who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs over at some other place, is a thief and robber.

Jesus answered, "You will lay down your life for me? I tell you, before a cock crows, you will disown me thrice over!

just as you have done in giving him power over all mankind, so that he may give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

So Annas sent him over still bound to Caiaphas the high priest.

They answered, "If he were not a criminal, we would not have turned him over to you."

Pilate answered, "Do you take me for a Jew? Your own people and the high priests handed you over to me. What offense have you committed?"

Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not a kingdom of this world. If my kingdom were a kingdom of this world, my men would have fought to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom has no such origin."

Jesus answered him, "You would have no power at all over me, if it were not given to you from above. So you are less guilty than the man who betrayed me to you."

Then Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus,

As it was the day of Preparation for the Passover, in order that the bodies might not be left on the crosses over the Sabbath, for that Sabbath was an especially important one, the Jews asked Pilate to have the men's legs broken and the bodies removed.

and the handkerchief that had been over Jesus' face not on the ground with the bandages, but folded up by itself.

but you will be given power when the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be witnesses for me in Jerusalem and all over Judea and Samaria and to the very ends of the earth."

But you, by the fixed purpose and intention of God, handed him over to wicked men, and had him crucified.

So he has been exalted to God's right hand, and has received from his Father and poured over us the holy Spirit that had been promised, as you see and hear.

And they obeyed, and about daybreak went into the Temple and began to teach. The high priest and his party came over and called together the council and indeed the whole senate of the Israelites, and sent to the prison to have the apostles brought in.

Someone came over and reported to them, "The men that you put in jail are standing right here in the Temple, teaching the people!"

Then a famine spread all over Egypt and Canaan, and there was great suffering, and our forefathers could not find any food.

They even made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to their idol, and held a celebration over what their own hands had made.

And Saul entirely approved of his being put to death. A great persecution of the church in Jerusalem broke out that day, and they were all scattered over Judea and Samaria except the apostles.

but his disciples took him one night and let him down over the wall, lowering him in a basket.

So the church all over Judea, Galilee, and Samaria was at peace and became established. It lived in reverence for the Lord and, stimulated by the holy Spirit, it grew steadily in numbers.

As Joppa was near Lydda, the disciples heard that Peter was there, and they sent two men to him, urging him to come over without delay.

This became known all over Joppa, and many came to believe in the Lord.

As Peter was pondering over his vision, the Spirit said to him, "There are two men looking for you.

You know the story that has gone all over Judea, starting from Galilee after the baptism that John proclaimed,

The apostles and brothers all over Judea heard that the heathen had also accepted God's message,

The fugitives from the persecution that had broken out over Stephen went all the way to Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, but they told the message to none but Jews.

for he was an excellent man, full of the holy Spirit and faith. So a considerable number of people came over to the Lord.

Then Barnabas went over to Tarsus to seek out Saul,

and one of them named Agabus got up and under the influence of the Spirit revealed the fact that there was going to be a great famine all over the world. This was the famine that occurred in the reign of Claudius.

Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they came before him in a body, and after winning over Blastus, the king's chamberlain, they asked for a reconciliation, because their country depended upon the king's dominions for its food supply.

and the Lord's message spread all over the country.

But some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and won the people over, and they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the town, thinking that he was dead.

There Paul had a vision one night; a Macedonian was standing appealing to him and saying, "Come over to Macedonia and help us."

Then he took them up to his house and offered them food, and he and all his household were very happy over their new faith in God.

As they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the town magistrates, shouting, "The men who have made trouble all over the world have come here too,

From one forefather he has created every nation of mankind, and made them live all over the face of the earth, fixing their appointed times and the limits of their lands,

This came to be known to everyone who lived in Ephesus, Greeks as well as Jews, and great awe came over them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus came to be held in high honor.

and you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but almost all over Asia, this man Paul has persuaded and drawn away numbers of people, telling them that gods made by human hands are not gods at all.

So the commotion spread all over the city, and by a common impulse the people rushed to the theater, dragging with them two Macedonians, Gaius and Aristarchus, Paul's traveling companions.

When the confusion was over, Paul sent for the disciples and encouraged them. Then he bade them goodbye and started for Macedonia.

When the parting was over and we had sailed, we made a straight run to Cos and the next day to Rhodes and from there to Patara.

He came to see us and took Paul's belt and bound his own feet and hands with it, and said, "This is what the holy Spirit says: 'The Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt like this, and will hand him over to the heathen!' "

Then Paul joined the men and went through the rites of purification with them and the next day went to the Temple to give notice of the time when, upon the offering of the sacrifice for each one of them, their days of purification would be over.

The seven days were almost over when the Jews from Asia caught sight of him in the Temple, and stirred up all the crowd and seized him,

and they on reaching Caesarea delivered the letter to the governor and handed Paul over to him.

For we have found this man a pest and a disturber of the peace among Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader of the Nazarene sect,

but first to the people of Damascus and Jerusalem and then all over Judea, and even to the heathen I preached that they must repent and turn to God and live as men who have repented should.

and after leaving the room, in talking the matter over together, they said, "This man has not done anything to deserve death or imprisonment."

When it was decided that we were to sail for Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were turned over to an officer of the Imperial regiment, named Julius.

As a great deal of time had now passed, and navigation had become dangerous, for the autumn fast was already over, Paul began to warn them.

Three days later, he invited the leading Jews to come to see him, and when they came he said to them, "Brothers, I have done nothing against our people, or the customs of our forefathers, yet I was turned over to the Romans as a prisoner at Jerusalem.

First I thank my God through Jesus Christ about you all, because the news of your faith is spreading all over the world.

For God showed him publicly dying as a sacrifice of reconciliation to be taken advantage of through faith. This was to vindicate his own justice (for in his forbearance, God passed over men's former sins)??26 to vindicate his justice at the present time, and show that he is upright himself, and that he makes those who have faith in Jesus upright also.

Still death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned as Adam had, in the face of an express command. So Adam foreshadowed the one who was to come.

So sin must not reign over your mortal bodies, and make you obey their cravings,

and the patriarchs, and from them physically Christ came??od who is over all be blessed forever! Amen.

The Scripture says to Pharaoh, "I have raised you to your position for the very purpose of displaying my power in dealing with you, and making my name known all over the world."

And why? Because they did not seek it through faith, but through doing certain things. They stumbled over that stone that makes people stumble,

as the Scripture says, "See, I will put a stone on Zion to make people stumble, and a rock to trip over, But no one who has faith in it will be disappointed."

But I ask, had they no opportunity to hear it? On the contrary, "Their voices have gone all over the earth, And their words to the ends of the world."

Everyone must obey the authorities that are over him, for no authority can exist without the permission of God; the existing authorities have been established by him,

The night is nearly over; the day is at hand. So let us throw aside the deeds of darkness, and put on the armor of light.

I have handed the man over to Satan, for his physical destruction, in order that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.

If others enjoy such rights over you, have we not a still better claim? But, you say, we have never availed ourselves of this right. No, we will stand anything rather than put any hindrance in the way of the good news of the Christ.

Though I am free from anyone's control, I have made myself everyone's slave, so as to win over all the more.

To the Jews I have become like a Jew, to win Jews over; to men under the Law I have become like a man under the Law, though I am not myself under the Law, so as to win over those who are under the Law.

To those who have no law I have become like a man without any law??hough I am not without the law of God, but under the law of Christ??o as to win over those who are without any law.

If I give thanks for what I eat, why should I be denounced for eating what I give thanks over?

It is not happy over injustice, it is only happy with truth.

After that will come the end, when he will turn over the kingdom to God his Father, bringing to an end all other government, authority, and power,

Paul, by God's will an apostle of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to the church of God that is at Corinth, and all God's people all over Greece;

not like Moses, who used to wear a veil over his face, to keep the Israelites from gazing at the fading of the splendor from it.

Why, to this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil hangs over their minds,

For I who am still in my tent sigh with anxiety, because I do not want to be stripped of it, but to put on the other over it, so that what is only mortal may be absorbed in life.

I do not indulge in extravagant boasts over work done by others, but I do hope that as your faith increases, my influence may be immensely enlarged through you,

and I may preach the gospel in the lands beyond you without having to boast over work already done in another's field.

and that when I come back my God may humiliate me before you, and I may have to mourn over many who have kept on in their old sins and have never repented of the impurity, immorality, and sensuality in which they have indulged.

So you must take God's armor, so that when the evil day comes you will be able to make a stand, and when it is all over to hold your ground.

over your co-operation in the good news from the day you first received it until now.

Now, my brothers, goodbye, and the Lord be with you. I do not mind writing the same thing over and over to you; it is necessary for your safety.

He will make our poor bodies over to resemble his glorious body, by exerting the power he has to subject everything to himself.

came among you, to thrive and bear its fruit among you, as it does all over the world, from the time when you first heard about the mercy of God,

through dying in his human body) in holiness, and free from reproach or blame, into God's presence??23 if at least you continue firm and steadfast in the exercise of faith, and never shift from the hope held out in the good news to which you listened, which has been preached all over the world, and for which I, Paul, became a worker.

He disarmed the principalities and dominions and displayed them openly, triumphing over them through him.

No one can put you in the wrong by persisting in studied humility and the worship of angels, being absorbed in the visions he has seen, and groundlessly conceited over his mere human mind.

And over all these put on love, which completes them and fastens them all together.

For the Lord's message has rung out from you not only over Macedonia and Greece, but the story of your belief in God has gone everywhere, so that we never need to mention it.

and you are doing it to all the brothers all over Macedonia. But we do entreat you, brothers, to surpass yourselves

For we can assure you, on the Lord's own authority, that those of us who will still be living when the Lord comes will have no advantage over those who have fallen asleep.

like Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I turned over to Satan, to be taught not to blaspheme.

I do not allow women to teach or to domineer over men; they must keep quiet.