It was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost and is found.’”

But those who are regarded as worthy to share in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.

And after about an hour still another insisted, “Certainly this man was with him, because he too is a Galilean.”

Even Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him. Then, dressing him in elegant clothes, Herod sent him back to Pilate.

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When he had taken his place at the table with them, he took the bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them.

You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but rather, ‘I have been sent before him.’

“Do not suppose that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope.

I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. But you want to kill me, because my teaching makes no progress among you.

After he said this, he added, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. But I am going there to awaken him.”

So the chief priests and the Pharisees called the council together and said, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many miraculous signs.

Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you.

Every day they continued to gather together by common consent in the temple courts, breaking bread from house to house, sharing their food with glad and humble hearts,

While the man was hanging on to Peter and John, all the people, completely astounded, ran together to them in the covered walkway called Solomon’s Portico.

and for many days he appeared to those who had accompanied him from Galilee to Jerusalem. These are now his witnesses to the people.

yet he did not leave himself without a witness by doing good, by giving you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying you with food and your hearts with joy.”

So Paul left the Areopagus.

but said farewell to them and added, “I will come back to you again if God wills.” Then he set sail from Ephesus,

When morning came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink anything until they had killed Paul.

When the fourteenth night had come, while we were being driven across the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors suspected they were approaching some land.