John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him because he was not following us.”

“We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple made with hands and in three days build another not made with hands.’”

Then Levi gave a great banquet in his house for Jesus, and there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others sitting at the table with them.

So the master said to his slave, ‘Go out to the highways and country roads and urge people to come in, so that my house will be filled.

Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times returns to you saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”

For just like the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.

but they urged him, “Stay with us, because it is getting toward evening and the day is almost done.” So he went in to stay with them.

And look, I am sending you what my Father promised. But stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”

But to all who have received him – those who believe in his name – he has given the right to become God’s children

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, so he found the man and said to him, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the people who had come with her weeping, he was intensely moved in spirit and greatly distressed.

Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive it, so that your joy may be complete.

And she saw two angels in white sitting where Jesus’ body had been lying, one at the head and one at the feet.

Simon Peter, Thomas (called Didymus), Nathanael (who was from Cana in Galilee), the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples of his were together.

All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak in other languages as the Spirit enabled them.

While the man was hanging on to Peter and John, all the people, completely astounded, ran together to them in the covered walkway called Solomon’s Portico.

“For indeed both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, assembled together in this city against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed,

Now in that city was a man named Simon, who had been practicing magic and amazing the people of Samaria, claiming to be someone great.

In humiliation justice was taken from him. Who can describe his posterity? For his life was taken away from the earth.”

Therefore send to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter. This man is staying as a guest in the house of Simon the tanner, by the sea.’