for it is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.”

For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the sake of the truth.

For we have brought nothing into this world and so we cannot take a single thing out either.

So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are proclaiming?

For how can we thank God enough for you, for all the joy we feel because of you before our God?

Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup I am about to drink?” They said to him, “We are able.”

They said to him, “We are able.” Then Jesus said to them, “You will drink the cup I drink, and you will be baptized with the baptism I experience,

saying, “What should we do with these men? For it is plain to all who live in Jerusalem that a notable miraculous sign has come about through them, and we cannot deny it.