But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away.

It is written in the prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who hears and learns from the Father comes to me.

Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes me will live because of me.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.

let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says, ‘From within him will flow rivers of living water.’”

Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many good deeds from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?”

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies,

I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in darkness.

For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’

But Simon replied, “You pray to the Lord for me so that nothing of what you have said may happen to me.”

As I was en route and near Damascus, about noon a very bright light from heaven suddenly flashed around me.

I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ He said to me, ‘I am Jesus the Nazarene, whom you are persecuting.’

came to me and stood beside me and said to me, ‘Brother Saul, regain your sight!’ And at that very moment I looked up and saw him.

For even Christ did not please himself, but just as it is written, “The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.”

As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia.

Tychicus, my dear brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will make everything known to you, so that you too may know about my circumstances, how I am doing.

In fact he became so ill that he nearly died. But God showed mercy to him – and not to him only, but also to me – so that I would not have grief on top of grief.

So do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me, a prisoner for his sake, but by God’s power accept your share of suffering for the gospel.