" 'And you, Bethlehem in Judah's land, You are by no means least important among the leading places of Judah, For from you will come a leader Who will be the shepherd of my people Israel.' "

The crowd told them to be still, but they called all the louder, "You Son of David! Take pity on us, sir!"

He said, "Why, what has he done that is wrong?" But they shouted all the louder, "Have him crucified!"

Some days later he came back to Capernaum, and people heard that he was at home,

And a man named Jairus, the leader of a synagogue, came up and seeing him threw himself at his feet,

Even as he spoke people came from the house of the leader of the synagogue and said, "Your daughter is dead. Why should you trouble the Master any further?"

But Jesus paid no attention to what they said, but said to the leader of the synagogue, "Do not be afraid, just have faith."

They came to the house of the leader of the synagogue, and there he found everything in confusion, and people weeping and wailing.

Many of the people rebuked him and told him to be still. But he cried out all the louder, "You son of David, take pity on me!"

And Pilate said to them, "Why, what has he done that is wrong?" But they shouted all the louder, "Crucify him!"

Still later he appeared to the Eleven themselves when they were at table, and reproached them for their obstinacy and want of faith, because they had not believed those who had seen him after he had been raised from the dead.

And a man named Jairus came up??e was leader of the synagogue??nd he fell down at Jesus' feet and begged him to come to his house,

Even as he spoke someone came from the house of the leader of the synagogue and said, "Your daughter is dead. Do not trouble the Master any more."

But the leader of the synagogue, in his vexation because Jesus had cured her on the Sabbath, spoke out and said to the crowd, "There are six days on which it is right to work. Come on them and be cured, but not on the Sabbath day."

Not many days later, the younger son gathered up all he had, and went away to a distant country, and there he squandered his property by fast living.

And those who were in front reproved him and told him to be quiet, but he cried out all the louder, "You Son of David, take pity on me!"

But you are not to do so, but whoever is greatest among you must be like the youngest, and the leader like a servant.

About an hour later, another man insisted, "This man was certainly with him too, for he is a Galilean!"

Two days later there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and Jesus' mother was present.

Among the Pharisees there was a man named Nicodemus, a leader among the Jews.

Simon Peter said to him, "Master, where are you going?" Jesus answered, "I am going where you cannot follow me now, but you will follow me later."

About three hours later, his wife came in, without having learned what had happened.

God took him up to his right hand as our leader and savior, in order to give repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.

They were the bearers of this letter: "The apostles and the brothers who are elders send greeting to the brothers of heathen birth in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia.

So the delegates went down to Antioch and gathered the congregation together and delivered the letter;

But Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, and so did all his household, and many of the people of Corinth heard Paul and believed and were baptized.

Then they all seized Sosthenes, the leader of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the court. But Gallio paid no attention to it.

while we sailed from Philippi after the festival of Unleavened Bread, and joined them at Troas five days later. There we stayed a week.

to whom he wrote a letter to this effect:

and they on reaching Caesarea delivered the letter to the governor and handed Paul over to him.

After reading the letter, he asked Paul what province he belonged to, and when he learned that he was from Cilicia,

Five days later, the high priest Ananias came down with some of the elders and an attorney named Tertullus, and they presented their case against Paul before the governor.

Some days later Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, and sent for Paul and heard what he had to say about faith in Christ Jesus.

But as he talked of uprightness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became alarmed, and said, "You may go for the present. I will find time later to send for you."

On taking soundings, they found a depth of twenty fathoms, and a little later, taking soundings again, they found a depth of fifteen.

Three months later, we sailed on an Alexandrian ship named the Dioscuri, which had wintered at the island.

then we weighed anchor and reached Rhegium. A day later, a south wind sprang up and the following day we arrived at Puteoli.

Three days later, he invited the leading Jews to come to see him, and when they came he said to them, "Brothers, I have done nothing against our people, or the customs of our forefathers, yet I was turned over to the Romans as a prisoner at Jerusalem.

But now the Law no longer applies to us; we have died to what once controlled us, so that we can now serve in the new Spirit, not under the old letter.

I, Tertius, who write this letter, wish to be remembered to you as a fellow-Christian.

Now, brothers, for your benefit I have applied all this only to Apollos and myself, by using us as illustrations to teach you the old lesson, "Never go beyond the letter," and to keep any of you from boasting of one teacher at the expense of another.

I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people??10 not that you are to have nothing whatever to do with the immoral people of the world, any more than with its greedy and grasping people or idolaters, for then you would have to leave the world altogether.

This is what I said in my letter, so that I might avoid coming and having my feelings hurt by the very people who might have been expected to make me happy, for I felt sure about you all, that what made me happy would make you all happy.

You show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by me, written not in ink, but in the Spirit of the living God, and not on tablets of stone, but on the human heart.

For even if I did hurt your feelings with that letter, I cannot regret it; even if I did regret it, when I saw that the letter had hurt your feelings perhaps for a while,

Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem, to become acquainted with Cephas, and I spent two weeks with him;

Then, fourteen years later, I went up to Jerusalem again, with Barnabas, and took Titus also with me.

My point is this: An agreement already ratified by God cannot be annulled and its promise canceled by the Law, which arose four hundred and thirty years later.

Then what about the Law? It was a later addition, designed to produce transgressions, until the descendant to which the promise was made should come, and it was enacted by means of angels, through an intermediary;

These latter do it from love for me, for they know that God has put me where I am to defend our right to preach the good news.

When this letter has been read to you, have it read to the church at Laodicea also, and see that you read the letter that is coming from there.

I charge you in the Lord's name to have this letter read to all the brothers.

not to let your minds be too easily unsettled or wrought up, by any message of the Spirit or any utterance or letter purporting to be from me, to the effect that the Day of the Lord has already come.

So stand firm, brothers, and hold fast to the instructions you have received from us, whether by letter or by word of mouth.

If anyone refuses to obey what we have said in this letter, mark the man and do not have anything to do with him, to make him feel ashamed.

This greeting is in my own hand, Paul's; it is the mark in every letter of mine. This is the way I write.

but God had mercy on me in order that in my case as the foremost, Christ Jesus might display his perfect patience, as an example to those who would later believe in him and find eternal life.

The Spirit distinctly says that in later times some will turn away from the faith, and devote their attention to deceitful spirits and the things that demons teach

but in these latter days he has spoken to us in a Son, whom he had destined to possess everything, and through whom he had made the world.

For it was appropriate that he who is the great First Cause of the universe should, in guiding his many children to his glorious salvation, make their leader in it fully qualified through what he suffered.

'For this is the agreement that I will make with the house of Israel, In those later days,' says the Lord; 'I will put my laws into their minds, And write them on their hearts, And they will have me for their God, And I will have them for my people.

" 'This is the agreement that I will make with them In those later days,' says the Lord, 'I will put my laws into their minds, And write them upon their hearts,' " he goes on,

fixing our eyes upon Jesus, our leader and example in faith, who in place of the happiness that belonged to him, submitted to a cross, caring nothing for its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

By Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I think him, I have written you this short letter to encourage you and bear my testimony that this is what the true mercy of God means. Stand fast in it.

This is the second letter, dear friends, that I have now written to you, in the effort to arouse your unsullied minds

I have written briefly to the church, but Diotrephes who likes to be their leader will not accept what I say.