What is your verdict?” They answered, “He is guilty and deserves death.”

So it seemed good to me as well, because I have followed all things carefully from the beginning, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,

A dispute also started among them over which of them was to be regarded as the greatest.

But they were startled and terrified, thinking they saw a ghost.

If someone thinks he knows something, he does not yet know to the degree that he needs to know.

So let the one who thinks he is standing be careful that he does not fall.

On the contrary, those members that seem to be weaker are essential,

I do not want to seem as though I am trying to terrify you with my letters,

For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

But from those who were influential (whatever they were makes no difference to me; God shows no favoritism between people) – those influential leaders added nothing to my message.

When you pray, do not babble repetitiously like the Gentiles, because they think that by their many words they will be heard.

Tell us then, what do you think? Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”

“What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said, “The son of David.”

Therefore you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

When they saw him walking on the water they thought he was a ghost. They cried out,

Which of these three do you think became a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?”

You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”

Do you think I have come to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division!

we have unanimously decided to choose men to send to you along with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul,

For it seemed best to the Holy Spirit and to us not to place any greater burden on you than these necessary rules: