Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, because it is impossible that a prophet should be killed outside Jerusalem.’

Won’t God give justice to his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he delay long to help them?

that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again.”

and said to them, “Thus it stands written that the Christ would suffer and would rise from the dead on the third day,

On the next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.

The one who rejects me and does not accept my words has a judge; the word I have spoken will judge him at the last day.

until the day he was taken up to heaven, after he had given orders by the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen.

and for many days he appeared to those who had accompanied him from Galilee to Jerusalem. These are now his witnesses to the people.

and from there to Philippi, which is a leading city of that district of Macedonia, a Roman colony. We stayed in this city for some days.

Therefore be alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with tears.

We continued the voyage from Tyre and arrived at Ptolemais, and when we had greeted the brothers, we stayed with them for one day.

After five days the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and an attorney named Tertullus, and they brought formal charges against Paul to the governor.

Some days later, when Felix arrived with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, he sent for Paul and heard him speak about faith in Christ Jesus.

as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, to this very day.”

The night has advanced toward dawn; the day is near. So then we must lay aside the works of darkness, and put on the weapons of light.

He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

just as also you have partly understood us, that we are your source of pride just as you also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

For I am sure of this very thing, that the one who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.

not abandoning our own meetings, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, and even more so because you see the day drawing near.