He sent messengers on ahead of him. As they went along, they entered a Samaritan village to make things ready in advance for him,

As they were walking along the road, someone said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.”

Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, because it is impossible that a prophet should be killed outside Jerusalem.’

Then the rich man said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’

Now on the way to Jerusalem, Jesus was passing along between Samaria and Galilee.

Therefore he said, “A nobleman went to a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return.

Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover for us to eat.”

But Peter said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!”

“Go and stand in the temple courts and proclaim to the people all the words of this life.”

So they left the council rejoicing because they had been considered worthy to suffer dishonor for the sake of the name.

As he was going along, approaching Damascus, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him.

But get up, go down, and accompany them without hesitation, because I have sent them.”

In past generations he allowed all the nations to go their own ways,

Then, after conferring with his council, Festus replied, “You have appealed to Caesar; to Caesar you will go!”

and perhaps I will stay with you, or even spend the winter, so that you can send me on my journey, wherever I go.

As I urged you when I was leaving for Macedonia, stay on in Ephesus to instruct certain people not to spread false teachings,

who went into heaven and is at the right hand of God with angels and authorities and powers subject to him.

For they said to you, “In the end time there will come scoffers, propelled by their own ungodly desires.”

Go and learn what this saying means: ‘I want mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

While they were going away, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?