Now when it was noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

This report about Jesus circulated throughout Judea and all the surrounding country.

For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself?

It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of flour until all the dough had risen.”

It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon,

Great fear gripped the whole church and all who heard about these things.

When they had crossed over the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a magician, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus,

While they were trying to kill him, a report was sent up to the commanding officer of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.

Paul lived there two whole years in his own rented quarters and welcomed all who came to him,

As it is written, “For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast affects the whole batch of dough?

And I testify again to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.

The whole imperial guard and everyone else knows that I am in prison for the sake of Christ,

who must be silenced because they mislead whole families by teaching for dishonest gain what ought not to be taught.

Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken.

For the one who obeys the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.

We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

“The eye is the lamp of the body. If then your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.

When the people there recognized him, they sent word into all the surrounding area, and they brought all their sick to him.

And about five o’clock that afternoon he went out and found others standing around, and said to them, ‘Why are you standing here all day without work?’