The people who sat in darkness saw a great light, yea light dawned on those who sat in the land and the shadow of death.

When you pray, go into your room and shut the door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.

He will not wrangle or shout, no one will hear his voice in the streets.

Some other seeds fell on stony soil where they had not much earth, and shot up at once because they had no depth of soil;

Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you shut the Realm of heaven in men's faces; you neither enter yourselves, nor will you let those enter who are on the point of entering.

it is that on you may fall the punishment for all the just blood shed on earth from the blood of Abel the just down to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

Now while they were away buying oil, the bridegroom arrived; those maidens who were ready accompanied him to the marriage-banquet, and the door was shut.

this means my blood, the new covenant-blood, shed for many, to win the remission of their sins.

some other seed fell on stony soil where it had not much earth, and it shot up at once because it had no depth of earth,

but once sown it springs up to be larger than any plant, throwing out such big branches that the wild birds can roost under its shadow."

heard it was Jesus of Nazaret. So he started to shout, "Son of David! Jesus! have pity on me."

he said to them, "This means my covenant-blood which is shed for many;

one young man did follow him, with only a linen sheet thrown round his body, but when the [young] men seized him

he fled away naked, leaving the sheet behind him.

He, after buying a linen sheet, took him down and swathed him in the linen, laying him in a tomb which had been cut out of the rock and rolling a boulder up against the opening of the tomb.

to shine on those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our steps into the way of peace."

it was that the blood of all the prophets shed from the foundation of the world might be charged upon this generation,

But he replied, "I tell you, if they were to keep quiet, the very stones would shout."

So too he gave them the cup after supper, saying, "This cup means the new covenant ratified by my blood shed for your sake.

"Ananias," said Peter, "why has Satan filled your heart and made you cheat the holy Spirit by appropriating some of the money paid for the land?

In fact, invalids were actually carried into the streets and laid on beds and mattresses, so that, when Peter passed, his shadow at anyrate might fall on one or other of them.

With a loud shriek they shut their ears and rushed at him like one man.

He saw heaven open and a vessel coming down, like a huge sheet lowered by the four corners to the earth,

"I was in the town of Joppa at prayer," he said, "and in a trance I saw a vision ??a vessel coming down like a huge sheet lowered from heaven by the four corners. It came down to me,

The whole city was thrown into turmoil. The people rushed together, seized Paul and dragged him outside the temple; whereupon the doors were immediately shut.

and that I stood and approved when the blood of your martyr Stephen was being shed, taking charge of the clothes of his murderers!'

I did so in Jerusalem. I shut up many of the saints in prison, armed with authority from the high priests; when they were put to death, I voted against them;

Whatever the Law says, we know, it says to those who are inside the Law, that every mouth may be shut and all the world made answerable to God;

Supposing some of the branches have been broken off, while you have been grafted in like a shoot of wild olive to share the rich growth of the olive-stem,

in whom we enjoy our redemption, the forgiveness of our trespasses, by the blood he shed.

and have your feet shod with the stability of the gospel of peace;

All that is the mere shadow of what is to be; the substance belongs to Christ.

Shut your mind against these profane, drivelling myths; train for the religious life.

When I recall the tears you shed when we parted, I long by night and day to see you again. That would fill me with joy,

Shut your mind against foolish, popular controversy; be sure that only breeds strife.

(men who serve a mere outline and shadow of the heavenly ??as Moses was instructed, when he was about to execute the building of the tabernacle: see, God said, that you make everything on the pattern shown you upon the mountain).

In fact, one might almost say that by Law everything is cleansed with blood. No blood shed, no remission of sins!

For as the Law has a mere shadow of the bliss that is to be, instead of representing the reality of that bliss, it never can perfect those who draw near with the same annual sacrifices that are perpetually offered.

And what more shall I say? Time would fail me to tell of Gideon, of Barak and Samson and Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets ??33 men who by faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, obtained promises, shut the mouth of lions,

You have not had to shed blood yet in the struggle against sin.

all we are given is good, and all our endowments are faultless, descending from above, from the Father of the heavenly lights, who knows no change of rising and setting, who casts no shadow on the earth.

Then to the angel of the church at Philadelphia write thus: ??These are the words of the true Holy One, who holds the key of David, who opens and none shall shut, who shuts and none shall open.

Lo, I have set a door open before you which no one is able to shut; for though your strength is small, you have kept my word, you have not renounced my Name.

and shouted aloud like a lion roaring; and at his shout the seven thunders gave voice.

They have power to shut up the sky, so that no rain falls during the days when they are prophesying; and they have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and also to smite the earth with all manner of plagues as often as they choose.

After that I heard what was like the shout of a great host in heaven, crying, "Hallelujah! salvation and glory and power are our God's!

Then I heard a cry like the shout of a great host and the sound of many waves and the roar of heavy thunder ??"Hallelujah! now the Lord our God almighty reigns!

(the gates of it will never be shut by day, and night there shall be none),