So if you, in spite of your being bad, know how to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your heavenly Father give what is good to those who keep on asking Him?

Then it says, 'I will go back to my house which I left,' and it finds it unoccupied, swept, and ready for use.

and knew nothing about it until the Flood came and swept them all away, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

Do you suppose that I am unable to appeal to my Father and have Him furnish me on the spot one hundred thousand angels?

After that they spit in His face and hit Him with their fists, and others boxed His ears,

And they spit on Him, and took the stick and kept hitting Him on the head.

Early in the morning, long before daybreak, He got up and went out to a lonely spot, and stayed praying there.

And as they could not get him near to Jesus, on account of the crowd, they dug through the roof over the spot where He was standing and let the pallet down that the paralyzed man was lying on.

He took him by the hand and led him outside the village, then spit in his eyes, laid His hands upon him, and asked him, "Do you see anything?"

and they will make sport of Him, and spit on Him, and flog Him, and kill Him, but three days after He will rise again."

Then the high priests and the scribes heard of this, and they kept looking for some way to destroy Him, for they were afraid of Him, for everybody was swept off his feet at what He said.

And some of them started to spit on Him and to blindfold Him and to hit Him with their fists, and say to Him, "Now play the prophet!" Even the attendants took charge of Him with slaps at Him.

But he said to them, "You must not be so astounded; you are looking for Jesus of Nazareth who was crucified. He has risen; He is not here. See! Here is the spot where they laid Him.

As day broke He left the house and went to a lonely spot, and the crowds continued to look for Him; they overtook Him, and tried to keep Him from leaving them.

So if you, in spite of your being bad, know how to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who continue to ask Him?"

And it goes and finds it unoccupied, swept, and ready for use.

For He will be turned over to the heathen and sport made of Him, He will be insulted and spit upon,

Now when He reached the spot, He said to them, "Continue to pray that you may not be subjected to temptation."

Jesus said, "Make the people sit down." Now there was plenty of grass at the spot; so the men, about five thousand, threw themselves down.

Then the Pharisees answered, "You are not swept off your feet too, are you?

On saying this He spit on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes,

And yet in spite of all this, even among the leading men many came to believe in Him, but because of the Pharisees they did not own it, for fear of being turned out of the synagogue,

Now Judas, too, who betrayed Him, knew the spot, because Jesus had often met with His disciples there.

and He went out carrying the cross by Himself to a spot called The Place of the Skull, or in Hebrew, Golgotha.

After saying this, He was taken up while they were looking at Him, and a cloud swept under Him and carried Him out of their sight.

But God further promised: 'I will pass sentence on the nation that enslaves them, and after that they will leave that country and worship me on this very spot.'

In spite of this, however, they stayed there a considerable time and continued to speak with courage from the Lord, who continued to bear testimony to His gracious message and kept on granting signs and wonders to be done by them.

But it was not long before a violent wind, which is called a Northeaster, swept down from it.

Abraham, building on hope in spite of hopeless circumstances, had faith, and so he actually became the father of many nations, just as it had been told him, "So numberless shall your descendants be."

because in spite of a terrible test of trouble, the mighty flood of their gladness mingling with the depths of their poverty has overflowed and resulted in the abundance of their liberality.

And you followed the example set by us and by the Lord, because you welcomed our message with a joy inspired by the Holy Spirit, in spite of the painful persecutions it brought you,

But, although we had just suffered and been insulted, as you remember, at Philippi, we again summoned courage by the help of God, in spite of the terrific strain, to tell you God's good news.

this is the very reason, namely, through your faith, brothers, that I have been encouraged about you, in spite of all my distresses and crushing difficulties,

so that we are always boasting of you among the churches of God for your patient endurance and faith, in spite of your persecutions and crushing sorrows which you are enduring.

By faith Abraham, on being called, obeyed in starting off for a country which he was to receive as his own, and he did it in spite of the fact that he did not know where he was going.

They are blots on your love feasts while they feast with you, daringly caring for no one but themselves; rainless clouds swept along by winds; leafless trees that bear no fruit, doubly dead, uprooted;

The sky was swept away just like a scroll that is rolled up; and every mountain and island was moved out of its place.

Then the serpent made water, like a river, spout from his mouth after the woman, to sweep her away with its torrent.

But the earth helped the woman, for it opened its mouth and swallowed the river which the dragon made to spout from his mouth.