because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. As Jesus was on his way, the crowds pressed around him.

But when a stronger man attacks and conquers him, he takes away the first man’s armor on which the man relied and divides up his plunder.

saying, “If you had only known on this day, even you, the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

“As for these things that you are gazing at, the days will come when not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!”

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.

This went on for two years, so that all who lived in the province of Asia, both Jews and Greeks, heard the word of the Lord.

For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth to confirm the promises made to the fathers,

He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now I want to make clear for you, brothers and sisters, the gospel that I preached to you, that you received and on which you stand,

Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.

“The man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly to us and treated us as if we were spying on the land.

Then Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to the Lord because of the frogs that he had brought on Pharaoh.

You are to make two cherubim of gold; you are to make them of hammered metal on the two ends of the atonement lid.

“This is the law of the diseased person on the day of his purification, when he is brought to the priest.

Let me please cross over to see the good land on the other side of the Jordan River – this good hill country and the Lebanon!”

Now Naomi had a relative on her husband’s side of the family named Boaz. He was a wealthy, prominent man from the clan of Elimelech.

When the messengers came, they found only the idol on the bed and the quilt made of goat’s hair at its head.

He went on to say, “Why is my lord chasing his servant? What have I done? What wrong have I done?

I have been dependent on you since birth; from the time I came out of my mother’s womb you have been my God.

My enemies will turn back when I cry out to you for help; I know that God is on my side.