Remember, I am sending you out as my Messengers like sheep among wolves. So be as wise as serpents, and as blameless as doves.

But Jesus answered: [ "In the evening you say 'It will be fine weather, for the sky is as red as fire.'

But in the morning you say 'To-day it will be stormy, for the sky is as red as fire and threatening.' You learn to read the sky; yet you are unable to read the signs of the times!]

For it is as though a man, going on his travels, called his servants, and gave his property into their charge.

From his baptism by John down to that day on which he was taken from us--some one must be found to join us as a witness of his resurrection."

On seeing this, Peter said to the people: "Men of Israel, why are you surprised at this? and why do you stare at us, as though we, by any power or piety of our own, had enabled this man to walk?

"They are Jews, and they are teaching customs which it is not right for us, as Romans, to sanction or adopt."

This, however, I do acknowledge to you, that it is as a believer in the Cause which they call heretical, that I worship the God of my ancestors. At the same time, I believe everything that is in accordance with the Law and that is written in the prophets;

It is as Isaiah foretold-'Had not the Lord of Hosts spared some few of our race to us, we should have become like Sodom and been made to resemble Gomorrah.'

Look at the facts of your Call, Brothers. There are not many among you who are wise, as men reckon wisdom, not many who are influential, not many who are high-born;

Let men look upon us as Christ's servants, and as stewards of the hidden truths of God.

And, indeed, you have already partly acknowledged it about us--that you have a right to be proud of us, as we shall be proud of you, on the Day of our Lord Jesus.

He appeared among us as a man, and still further humbled himself by submitting even to death--to death on a cross!

Further, Brothers, we beg and exhort you in the name of our Lord Jesus to carry out more fully than ever--as indeed you are already doing--all that you have heard from us as to what your daily life must be, if it is to please God.

There is no record of his father, or mother, or lineage, nor again of any beginning of his days, or end of his life. In this he resembles the Son of God, and stands before us as a priest whose priesthood is continuous.

You see, then, that it is as the result of his actions that a man is pronounced righteous, and not of his faith only.

Your sister-Church in 'Babylon' sends you greeting, and so does Mark, who is as a son to me.

Then he measured the wall; it was two hundred and eighty-eight feet, as men measure, that is as the angel measured.