and because of his word many more believed.

For he has come to deserve greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house deserves greater honor than the house itself!

Again he sent other slaves, more than the first, and they treated them the same way.

He told them, “Collect no more than you are required to.”

For there is more to life than food, and more to the body than clothing.

When they asked him to stay longer, he would not consent,

While we remained there for a number of days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

There were more than forty of them who formed this conspiracy.

After several years I came to bring to my people gifts for the poor and to present offerings,

For since I am free from all I can make myself a slave to all, in order to gain even more people.

This punishment on such an individual by the majority is enough for him,

But avoid profane chatter, because those occupied with it will stray further and further into ungodliness,

And the others who became priests were numerous, because death prevented them from continuing in office,

And when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more. But each one also received the standard wage.

When they could not pay, he canceled the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?”

When he went out from there, the experts in the law and the Pharisees began to oppose him bitterly, and to ask him hostile questions about many things,

He said, “I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put in more than all of them.

For the man, on whom this miraculous sign of healing had been performed, was over forty years old.

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

But so that I may not delay you any further, I beg you to hear us briefly with your customary graciousness.