and in the midst of the lampstands was one like a son of man. He was dressed in a robe extending down to his feet and he wore a wide golden belt around his chest.

“I am sending you out like sheep surrounded by wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

But while everyone was sleeping, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.

It will be this way at the end of the age. Angels will come and separate the evil from the righteous

But on Herod’s birthday, the daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased Herod,

Then Jesus went out again from the region of Tyre and came through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee in the region of the Decapolis.

Then the high priest stood up before them and asked Jesus, “Have you no answer? What is this that they are testifying against you?”

After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

Then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains. Those who are inside the city must depart. Those who are out in the country must not enter it,

For who is greater, the one who is seated at the table, or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is seated at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.

John answered them, “I baptize with water. Among you stands one whom you do not recognize,

Now when they heard this, they began to drift away one at a time, starting with the older ones, until Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

In those days Peter stood up among the believers (a gathering of about one hundred and twenty people) and said,

(Now this man Judas acquired a field with the reward of his unjust deed, and falling headfirst he burst open in the middle and all his intestines gushed out.

So Paul stood before the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that you are very religious in all respects.

about noon along the road, Your Majesty, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining everywhere around me and those traveling with me.

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.

And you are proud! Shouldn’t you have been deeply sorrowful instead and removed the one who did this from among you?

I say this to your shame! Is there no one among you wise enough to settle disputes between fellow Christians?

Therefore “come out from their midst, and be separate,” says the Lord, “and touch no unclean thing, and I will welcome you,