that we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all who hate us.

John’s baptism – was it from heaven or from people?”

for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from brambles.

that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies, may serve him without fear,

The good person out of the good treasury of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasury produces evil, for his mouth speaks from what fills his heart.

“Would any one of you say to your slave who comes in from the field after plowing or shepherding sheep, ‘Come at once and sit down for a meal’?

So when they came to the place that is called “The Skull,” they crucified him there, along with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left.

An angel of the Lord, standing on the right side of the altar of incense, appeared to him.

Because of our God’s tender mercy the dawn will break upon us from on high

So he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

Others, to test him, began asking for a sign from heaven.

plotting against him, to catch him in something he might say.

And which of you by worrying can add an hour to his life?

The man replied, “I have wholeheartedly obeyed all these laws since my youth.”

Yet not a hair of your head will perish.

Furthermore, some women of our group amazed us. They were at the tomb early this morning,

During the reign of Herod king of Judea, there lived a priest named Zechariah who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah, and he had a wife named Elizabeth, who was a descendant of Aaron.

So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family line of David.

“Which one of you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go look for the one that is lost until he finds it?

For they all offered their gifts out of their wealth. But she, out of her poverty, put in everything she had to live on.”