As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, “Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way,

Each night and every day among the tombs and in the mountains, he would cry out and cut himself with stones.

“But as for that day or hour no one knows it – neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son – except the Father.

After this he appeared in a different form to two of them while they were on their way to the country.

Now in the synagogue there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,

that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

When they had made a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat down among them.

let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says, ‘From within him will flow rivers of living water.’”

“I am not praying only on their behalf, but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their testimony,

both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs – we hear them speaking in our own languages about the great deeds God has done!”

All who were sitting in the council looked intently at Stephen and saw his face was like the face of an angel.

So he gave orders to have them baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay for several days.

So after sending two of his assistants, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia, he himself stayed on for a while in the province of Asia.

an educator of the senseless, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the essential features of knowledge and of the truth –

For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

but emptied himself by taking on the form of a slave, by looking like other men, and by sharing in human nature.

Do not be anxious about anything. Instead, in every situation, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, tell your requests to God.

From Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

And we are confident about you in the Lord that you are both doing – and will do – what we are commanding.

And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?