"I tell you that even if he will not rise and give him the loaves because he is his friend, at any rate because of his persistency he will rouse himself and give him as many as he requires.

Those who were caring for Paul's safety went with him as far as Athens, and then left him, taking a message from him to Silas and Timothy, asking them to join him as speedily as possible.

So Paul was sent for, and Tertullus began to impeach him as follows: "Indebted as we are," he said, "to you, most noble Felix, for the perfect peace which we enjoy, and for reforms which your wisdom has introduced to this nation,

Never administer a sharp reprimand to a man older than yourself; but entreat him as if he were your father, and the younger men as brothers;

If therefore you regard me as a comrade, receive him as if he were I myself.

all of whom in the Galilaean days had habitually been with Him and cared for Him, as well as many other women who had come up to Jerusalem with Him.

And yet do not regard him as an enemy, but caution him as a brother.

But go and tell His disciples and Peter that He is going before you into Galilee: and that there you will see Him, as He told you."

So they immediately left their nets and followed Him. As He went further on,

And they told the Lord's Message to him as well as to all who were in his house.

But I tell you that he has already come, and they did not recognize him, but dealt with him as they chose. And before long the Son of Man will be treated by them in a similar way."

So they got away from the crowd, and took Him--as He was--in the boat; and other boats accompanied Him.

Upon His saying this, one of the officers standing by struck Him with his open hand, asking Him as he did so, "Is that the way you answer the High Priest?"

Through faith he came and made his home for a time in a land which had been promised to him, as if in a foreign country, living in tents together with Isaac and Jacob, sharers with him in the same promise;

Dear friends, we are now God's children, but what we are to be in the future has not yet been fully revealed. We know that if Christ reappears we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is.

And day after day He taught in the Temple, while the High Priests and the Scribes were devising some means of destroying Him, as were also the leading men of the people.

He who believes in me, from within him--as the Scripture has said--rivers of living water shall flow."

"Come this way and have breakfast," said Jesus. But not one of the disciples ventured to question Him as to who He was, for they felt sure that it was the Master.

Not long after this, Felix came with Drusilla his wife, a Jewess, and sending for Paul, listened to him as he spoke about faith in Christ Jesus.

"Listen, Israelites, to what I say. Jesus, the Nazarene, a man accredited to you from God by miracles and marvels and signs which God did among you through Him, as you yourselves know, Him--

and recognizing him as the man who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple asking for alms, they were filled with awe and amazement at what had happened to him.

But I tell you not to resist a wicked man, but if any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other to him as well.

I plead with you therefore, brethren, by the compassionsof God, to present all your faculties to Him as a living and holy sacrifice acceptable to Him. This with you will be an act of reasonable worship.

and one of them, an expounder of the Law, asked Him as a test question,

And Jesus rose and followed him, as did also His disciples.

You all heard his impious words. What is your judgement?" Then with one voice they condemned Him as deserving of death.

She went and brought the tidings to those who had been with Him, as they were mourning and weeping.

Jesus therefore said to those of the Jews who had now believed in Him, "As for you, if you hold fast to my teaching, then you are truly my disciples;

Peter fixing his eyes on him, as John did also, said, "Look at us."

For I determined to be utterly ignorant, when among you, of everything except of Jesus Christ, and of Him as having been crucified.

And tell Archippus to discharge carefully the duties devolving upon him as a servant of the Lord.

For God Himself addresses Him as a High Priest for ever, belonging to the order of Melchizedek.