While they were saying these things, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”

After he had said this, while they were watching, he was lifted up and a cloud hid him from their sight.

and he made no distinction between them and us, cleansing their hearts by faith.

The crowd joined the attack against them, and the magistrates tore the clothes off Paul and Silas and ordered them to be beaten with rods.

let their eyes be darkened so that they may not see, and make their backs bend continually.”

A certain one of them, in fact, one of their own prophets, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

“For I will be merciful toward their evil deeds, and their sins I will remember no longer.”

Jesus called them and said to them, “You know that those who are recognized as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those in high positions use their authority over them.

For the power of the horses resides in their mouths and in their tails, because their tails are like snakes, having heads that inflict injuries.

But Jesus called them and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those in high positions use their authority over them.

They do all their deeds to be seen by people, for they make their phylacteries wide and their tassels long.

If I send them home hungry, they will faint on the way, and some of them have come from a great distance.”

So Jesus said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those in authority over them are called ‘benefactors.’

For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts were darkened.

Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.

For they were pleased to do this, and indeed they are indebted to the Jerusalem saints. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they are obligated also to minister to them in material things.

These people are grumblers and fault-finders who go wherever their desires lead them, and they give bombastic speeches, enchanting folks for their own gain.

They have tails and stingers like scorpions, and their ability to injure people for five months is in their tails.

Their corpses will lie in the street of the great city that is symbolically called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was also crucified.

Then the twenty-four elders who are seated on their thrones before God threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and worshiped God