When some of the bystanders heard it they said, “Listen, he is calling for Elijah!”

At that the high priest Ananias ordered those standing near Paul to strike him on the mouth.

Those standing near him said, “Do you dare insult God’s high priest?”

and provide mounts for Paul to ride so that he may be brought safely to Felix the governor.”

nor can they prove to you the things they are accusing me of doing.

and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness.

(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

And when the grain is ripe, he sends in the sickle because the harvest has come.”

When the slave girl saw him, she began again to say to the bystanders, “This man is one of them.”

When the horsemen came to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him.

For last night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve came to me

We do so because we know that the one who raised up Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus and will bring us with you into his presence.

For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy, because I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

but now he has reconciled you by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him –

Make every effort to present yourself before God as a proven worker who does not need to be ashamed, teaching the message of truth accurately.

Or do you think that I cannot call on my Father, and that he would send me more than twelve legions of angels right now?

One of the bystanders drew his sword and struck the high priest’s slave, cutting off his ear.

But he denied it again. A short time later the bystanders again said to Peter, “You must be one of them, because you are also a Galilean.”

Now when the centurion, who stood in front of him, saw how he died, he said, “Truly this man was God’s Son!”

Now when the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, Joseph and Mary brought Jesus up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord