He told them, “This kind can come out only by prayer.”

On their second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers again, and Joseph’s family became known to Pharaoh.

This was the one who exploited our people and was cruel to our ancestors, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.

For in him we live and move about and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’

So since we are God’s offspring, we should not think the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image made by human skill and imagination.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

“I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star!”