He goes to sleep and gets up, night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.

Each night and every day among the tombs and in the mountains, he would cry out and cut himself with stones.

“I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days, and they have nothing to eat.

“But as for that day or hour no one knows it – neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son – except the Father.

Now that very day two of them were on their way to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.

After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there a few days.

The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

but Saul learned of their plot against him. They were also watching the city gates day and night so that they could kill him.

So he gave orders to have them baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay for several days.

On a day determined in advance, Herod put on his royal robes, sat down on the judgment seat, and made a speech to them.

As it is written, “For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

And let us not be immoral, as some of them were, and twenty-three thousand died in a single day.

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and get information from him, and I stayed with him fifteen days.

We pray earnestly night and day to see you in person and make up what may be lacking in your faith.

For you know quite well that the day of the Lord will come in the same way as a thief in the night.

For you all are sons of the light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of the darkness.

You have kept your word to your servant, my father David; this very day you have fulfilled what you promised.

The Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have taken away the disgrace of Egypt from you.” So that place is called Gilgal even to this day.

They observed the Festival of Temporary Shelters as required and offered the proper number of daily burnt offerings according to the requirement for each day.

Surely your goodness and faithfulness will pursue me all my days, and I will live in the Lord’s house for the rest of my life.