"Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

Jesus said to him, "It is as you said. But I say to you, hereafter you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven."

Now Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" So Jesus said to him, "It is as you say."

And he said, "The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground,

Then Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" And he answered him, "It is as you say."

So Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered him, "It is as you say."

And when Peter saw this he addressed the people, "Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as if by our own power or piety we had made him walk?

saying to Aaron, 'Make for us gods who will go before us; as for this Moses who led us out from the land of Egyptwe do not know what has happened to him.'

This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

I beg you that when I am present I may not have to be bold with that confidence by which I intend to be bold against some, who think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

And pray for us as well, that God may open a door to us for the word, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains,

and to give relief to you who are afflicted and to us as well when the Lord Jesus will be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,

But as it is, he has obtained a ministry which is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.

The city is laid out as a square, and its length is as great as the width; and he measured the city with the rod, twelve thousand stadia; its length and width and height are equal.