When the blade sprouted and formed the kernel, then the weeds appeared as well.

Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and omit the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faithfulness; these latter you ought to have practised ??without omit ting the former.

and he said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman is an adulterer to the former,

But woe to you Pharisees! you tithe mint and rue and every vegetable, but justice and the love of God you disregard; these latter you ought to have practised ??without omitting the former.

IN my former volume, Theophilus, I treated all that Jesus began by doing and teaching

When day broke, the Jews formed a conspiracy, taking a solemn oath neither to eat nor to drink till they had killed Paul.

they merely heard that 'our former persecutor is now preaching the faith he once harried,'

no, although it was because of an illness (you know) that I preached the gospel to you on my former visit,

O my dear children, you with whom I am in travail over again till Christ be formed within you,

you must lay aside the old nature which belonged to your former course of life, that nature which crumbles to ruin under the passions of moral deceit,

but the former proclaim Christ for their own ends, with mixed motives, intending to annoy me as I lie in prison.

But for Christ's sake I have learned to count my former gains a loss;

Recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle of suffering,

They wilfully ignore the fact that heavens existed long ago, and an earth which the word of God formed of water and by water.