(Now he said this to indicate clearly what kind of death he was going to die.)

A centurion there had a slave who was highly regarded, but who was sick and at the point of death.

They appeared in glorious splendor and spoke about his departure that he was about to carry out at Jerusalem.

So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, because Jesus was going to pass that way.

(This happened to fulfill the word Jesus had spoken when he indicated what kind of death he was going to die.)

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place he would later receive as an inheritance, and he went out without understanding where he was going.

After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him two by two into every town and place where he himself was about to go.

When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and begged him to come down and heal his son, who was about to die.

On that very night before Herod was going to bring him out for trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, while guards in front of the door were keeping watch over the prison.

When the jailer woke up and saw the doors of the prison standing open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, because he assumed the prisoners had escaped.

As day was about to dawn, Paul urged them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day you have been in suspense and have gone without food; you have eaten nothing.