For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple courts and were trying to kill me.

Agrippa said to Paul, “In such a short time are you persuading me to become a Christian?”

Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

However, it is good to be sought eagerly for a good purpose at all times, and not only when I am present with you.

But when he arrived in Rome, he eagerly searched for me and found me.

Therefore if you regard me as a partner, accept him as you would me.

At that moment Jesus said to the crowd, “Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest me like you would an outlaw? Day after day I sat teaching in the temple courts, yet you did not arrest me.

What did he mean by saying, ‘You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come’?”

The person who has my commandments and obeys them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him.”

The person who does not love me does not obey my words. And the word you hear is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me.

Then some of his disciples said to one another, “What is the meaning of what he is saying, ‘In a little while you will not see me; again after a little while, you will see me,’ and, ‘because I am going to the Father’?”

Jesus could see that they wanted to ask him about these things, so he said to them, “Are you asking each other about this – that I said, ‘In a little while you will not see me; again after a little while, you will see me’?

Now after all these things had taken place, Paul resolved to go to Jerusalem, passing through Macedonia and Achaia. He said, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”

Then Paul said to him, “God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit there judging me according to the law, and in violation of the law you order me to be struck?”

When we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? You are hurting yourself by kicking against the goads.’

And a leper approached, and bowed low before him, saying, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”

“Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.

But when he saw the strong wind he became afraid. And starting to sink, he cried out, “Lord, save me!”

‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me,

But Jesus realized their evil intentions and said, “Hypocrites! Why are you testing me?