However, no one spoke openly about him for fear of the Jewish leaders.

but I know him, because I have come from him and he sent me.”

For this reason his parents said, “He is a mature adult, ask him.”)

Although Jesus had performed so many miraculous signs before them, they still refused to believe in him,

There they crucified him along with two others, one on each side, with Jesus in the middle.

For these things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled, “Not a bone of his will be broken.”

Now a man named Ananias, together with Sapphira his wife, sold a piece of property.

When he knocked at the door of the outer gate, a slave girl named Rhoda answered.

When he had said these things, he knelt down with them all and prayed.

Because he could not be persuaded, we said no more except, “The Lord’s will be done.”

At that the high priest Ananias ordered those standing near Paul to strike him on the mouth.

This gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures,

concerning his Son who was a descendant of David with reference to the flesh,

But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

We know that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die again; death no longer has mastery over him.

You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who has ever resisted his will?”

For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?

And again it says: “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people.”

Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother who was also a mother to me.

But if someone loves God, he is known by God.