“And why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?

When they sprout leaves, you see for yourselves and know that summer is now near.

Did the word of God begin with you, or did it come to you alone?

Although he was a son, he learned obedience through the things he suffered.

In fact, if they had been thinking of the land that they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.

So submit to God. But resist the devil and he will flee from you.

You gave me no kiss of greeting, but from the time I entered she has not stopped kissing my feet.

So do what we tell you: We have four men who have taken a vow;

Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as if it were coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,

The only thing I want to learn from you is this: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law or by believing what you heard?

You must put away every kind of bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and evil, slanderous talk.

nor to seek glory from people, either from you or from others,

Yet the one these things are spoken about belongs to a different tribe, and no one from that tribe has ever officiated at the altar.

For this reason I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.

and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and disabilities: Mary (called Magdalene), from whom seven demons had gone out,

The man from whom the demons had gone out begged to go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,

(Now he did not say this on his own, but because he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish nation,

beginning from his baptism by John until the day he was taken up from us – one of these must become a witness of his resurrection together with us.”

to assume the task of this service and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”

As you can verify for yourself, not more than twelve days ago I went up to Jerusalem to worship.