When they gathered together in Galilee, Jesus told them, “The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men.

And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have participated with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’

You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. Make sure that you are not alarmed, for this must happen, but the end is still to come.

After he sat down, he called the twelve and said to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”

When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. These things must happen, but the end is still to come.

The soldiers forced a passerby to carry his cross, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country (he was the father of Alexander and Rufus).

For this reason also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,’

In fact, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”

In fact, they can no longer die, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, since they are sons of the resurrection.

People will be fainting from fear and from the expectation of what is coming on the world, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba, Father.”

just as also you have partly understood us, that we are your source of pride just as you also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

I became a servant of the church according to the stewardship from God – given to me for you – in order to complete the word of God,

Instead someone testified somewhere: “What is man that you think of him or the son of man that you care for him?

And above the ark were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Now is not the time to speak of these things in detail.

and the one who lives! I was dead, but look, now I am alive – forever and ever – and I hold the keys of death and of Hades!

There is to be an opening in its top in the center of it, with an edge all around the opening, the work of a weaver, like the opening of a collar, so that it cannot be torn.

For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and presumption is like the evil of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has rejected you as king.”

The rivers of Damascus, the Abana and Pharpar, are better than any of the waters of Israel! Could I not wash in them and be healed?” So he turned around and went away angry.

This is a copy of the letter that Tattenai governor of Trans-Euphrates, Shethar-Bozenai, and his colleagues who were the officials of Trans-Euphrates sent to King Darius.