"so that he may not appear to men to be fasting, but to his Father who is in secret; and his Father who sees in secret will reward him.

"Just so you also outwardly appear to men, just, but within you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

"Then the signs of the Son of man will appear in the sky; and then all the tribes of the earth will lament, when they see the Son of man coming upon the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory.

He will himself show you a large, upper room, furnished and ready. there make preparation for us."

son of Serug, son of Reu, son of Peleg, son of Eber, son of Shelah,

As they were listening to his words he added this parable, because he was near Jerusalem and they thought that the kingdom of God was immediately to appear.

"Then he will show you a large upper room furnished. There make your preparations."

and was now going to God, rose from supper, laid aside his upper garments, and took a towel and girded himself.

So after he had washed their feet, and had put on his upper garments again, and taken his place, he said to them.

On entering the city they went to the upper room where they were accustomed to meet. They were Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James, son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

She, as it happened, was taken ill just at that time, and died. After washing her body, they laid it in an upper room.

Now there were many lamps in the upper room where we were assembled,

"'But rise and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you in order to appoint you my minister and my witness both of what you have already seen and of those things in which I will appear to you.

Let love be without insincerity. Abhor what is evil; wed yourselves to what is good.

I am doing and will continue to do this in order to cut away the ground from under those who wish some cause for slander; and that the ground of their boasting may appear as does mine.

And my prayer to God is that you may do no evil; not in order that I may appear approved, but that you may do what is noble, though I should seem unable to abide the proof.

When Christ, who is our life, appears, then will you also appear with him in glory.

For it was not into a Sanctuary made by hands, a mere type of the reality, that Christ entered, but he entered into heaven itself, now to appear in the very presence of God on our behalf.

so also the Christ, after being once for all offered to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who wait for him for salvation.

If the righteous man is scarcely saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

Then, when the Chief Shepherd shall appear, you too will receive the fadeless wreath of glory.

And now continue to abide in him, my children, so that when he shall appear we may have cheerful confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming.