But remember the former days when you endured a harsh conflict of suffering after you were enlightened.

Then Jesus began to criticize openly the cities in which he had done many of his miracles, because they did not repent.

“This is what the Lord has done for me at the time when he has been gracious to me, to take away my disgrace among people.”

Dear friends, this is already the second letter I have written you, in which I am trying to stir up your pure mind by way of reminder:

Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

There were also women, watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome.

“As for these things that you are gazing at, the days will come when not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!”

For this is certain: The days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!’

which I was doing when they found me in the temple, ritually purified, without a crowd or a disturbance.

After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s return and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord to see how they are doing.”

in which you formerly lived according to this world’s present path, according to the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience,

As a result we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions you are enduring.

speaking of these things in all his letters. Some things in these letters are hard to understand, things the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they also do to the rest of the scriptures.

But the president of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the crowd, “There are six days on which work should be done! So come and be healed on those days, and not on the Sabbath day.”