Now there had been a great earthquake. For an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and went and rolled the boulder back and remained sitting upon it.

She was very old; from girlhood she had lived seven years with a husband, and now had been a widow eighty years. She never left the temple, but continued to worship all day and all night with fastings and prayers.

So Herod and Pilate became personal friends that very day; they had been at enmity before.

And there was one man there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

Remember me to Rufus, that choicest Christian, and to his mother, who has been a mother to me too.

As certainly as God is to be trusted, my message to you has not been a "Yes" that might mean "No."

for He who had been at work in Peter for his apostleship to the Jews had been at work in me too for the apostleship to the heathen --

to hold up the message of life. That will give me ground for boasting on the day of Christ, because neither my career nor my labor has been a failure.