Now, dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your notice, that a single day is like a thousand years with the Lord and a thousand years are like a single day.

he will rule them with an iron rod and like clay jars he will break them to pieces,

They had breastplates like iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings was like the noise of many horse-drawn chariots charging into battle.

So then, be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Although Herod wanted to kill John, he feared the crowd because they accepted John as a prophet.

honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.”

The second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

Pilate said to them, “Take a guard of soldiers. Go and make it as secure as you can.”

The guards were shaken and became like dead men because they were so afraid of him.

Regaining his sight he said, “I see people, but they look like trees walking.”

Go! I am sending you out like lambs surrounded by wolves.

So he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

Now when Jesus approached and saw the city, he wept over it,

For it will overtake all who live on the face of the whole earth.

Now when evening came, his disciples went down to the lake,

(Now Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem,

So when Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him.

Now after some days had passed, the Jews plotted together to kill him,

For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

All this took about four hundred fifty years. After this he gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.