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

(For the Spirit had not yet come upon any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)

When Jesus heard this he was amazed and said to those who followed him, “I tell you the truth, I have not found such faith in anyone in Israel!

Then they went out and ran from the tomb, for terror and bewilderment had seized them. And they said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid.

After the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. So they kept silent and told no one at that time anything of what they had seen.

“We are descendants of Abraham,” they replied, “and have never been anyone’s slaves! How can you say, ‘You will become free’?”

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved.”

But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing these things so that something will be done for me. In fact, it would be better for me to die than – no one will deprive me of my reason for boasting!

My confident hope is that I will in no way be ashamed but that with complete boldness, even now as always, Christ will be exalted in my body, whether I live or die.