Then after he had spent everything, a severe famine took place in that country, and he began to be in need.

So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, because Jesus was going to pass that way.

Everyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and the one on whom it falls will be crushed.”

No one has ever seen God. The only one, himself God, who is in closest fellowship with the Father, has made God known.

So the Jewish leaders were looking for him at the feast, asking, “Where is he?”

They heaped insults on him, saying, “You are his disciple! We are disciples of Moses!

Jesus told him, “You have seen him; he is the one speaking with you.”

Then the disciple whom Jesus loved leaned back against Jesus’ chest and asked him, “Lord, who is it?”

They brought him first to Annas, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to him in Aramaic, “Rabboni” (which means Teacher).

So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand people were added.

Every person who does not obey that prophet will be destroyed and thus removed from the people.’

At that time she became sick and died. When they had washed her body, they placed it in an upstairs room.

About that time King Herod laid hands on some from the church to harm them.

After they had proclaimed the good news in that city and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, to Iconium, and to Antioch.

At daybreak the magistrates sent their police officers, saying, “Release those men.”

After he had gone through those regions and spoken many words of encouragement to the believers there, he came to Greece,

we said farewell to one another. Then we went aboard the ship, and they returned to their own homes.

So what benefit did you then reap from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

Each competitor must exercise self-control in everything. They do it to receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one.