(Now there were about twelve men in all.)

(Now about five thousand men were there.) Then he said to his disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”

Not counting women and children, there were about five thousand men who ate.

But these words seemed like pure nonsense to them, and they did not believe them.

It shrieked, threw him into terrible convulsions, and came out. The boy looked so much like a corpse that many said, “He is dead!”

So Jesus, when he began his ministry, was about thirty years old. He was the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,

He went away from them about a stone’s throw, knelt down, and prayed,

It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon,

And tongues spreading out like a fire appeared to them and came to rest on each one of them.

So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand people were added.

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were bewildered and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

Now about eight days after these sayings, Jesus took with him Peter, John, and James, and went up the mountain to pray.

And in his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.]

And after about an hour still another insisted, “Certainly this man was with him, because he too is a Galilean.”

All who were sitting in the council looked intently at Stephen and saw his face was like the face of an angel.

About three o’clock one afternoon he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God who came in and said to him, “Cornelius.”

But when they recognized that he was a Jew, they all shouted in unison, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!” for about two hours.

and like a robe you will fold them up and like a garment they will be changed, but you are the same and your years will never run out.”

After Jesus was baptized, just as he was coming up out of the water, the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming on him.

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.