He changes times and seasons, deposing some kings and establishing others. He gives wisdom to the wise; he imparts knowledge to those with understanding;

When the army is taken away, the king of the south will become arrogant. He will be responsible for the death of thousands and thousands of people, but he will not continue to prevail.

They approach him, all the while plotting against him. Their hearts are like an oven; their anger smolders all night long, but in the morning it bursts into a flaming fire.

Their heart is slipping; soon they will be punished for their guilt. The Lord will break their altars; he will completely destroy their fertility pillars.

But they do not know what the Lord is planning; they do not understand his strategy. He has gathered them like stalks of grain to be threshed at the threshing floor.

Know for sure that I will then enable the nations to give me acceptable praise. All of them will invoke the Lord’s name when they pray, and will worship him in unison.

Though I scatter them among the nations, they will remember in far-off places – they and their children will sprout forth and return.

If you had known what this means: ‘I want mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.

Do you still not understand? Don’t you remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

Then they understood that he had not told them to be on guard against the yeast in bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said: “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly.

and said, “Sir, we remember that while that deceiver was still alive he said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’

He said, “The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the gospel!”

But the twelve understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they did not grasp what Jesus meant.

When this sound occurred, a crowd gathered and was in confusion, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.

Every day they continued to gather together by common consent in the temple courts, breaking bread from house to house, sharing their food with glad and humble hearts,

But the man who was unfairly hurting his neighbor pushed Moses aside, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and judge over us?

He was a devout, God-fearing man, as was all his household; he did many acts of charity for the people and prayed to God regularly.

And I remembered the word of the Lord, as he used to say, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’

We went on ahead to the ship and put out to sea for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there, for he had arranged it this way. He himself was intending to go there by land.