And those who were in front scolded him to get him to be quiet, but he shouted even more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”

Then Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this household, because he too is a son of Abraham!

So he said to them, “You foolish people – how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

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

He did not need anyone to testify about man, for he knew what was in man.

Then Jesus, because he knew they were going to come and seize him by force to make him king, withdrew again up the mountainside alone.

For no one who seeks to make a reputation for himself does anything in secret. If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.”

For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak.

For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

For David did not ascend into heaven, but he himself says, ‘The Lord said to my lord, “Sit at my right hand

Even Simon himself believed, and after he was baptized, he stayed close to Philip constantly, and when he saw the signs and great miracles that were occurring, he was amazed.

At that hour of the night he took them and washed their wounds; then he and all his family were baptized right away.

So after sending two of his assistants, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia, he himself stayed on for a while in the province of Asia.

For I could wish that I myself were accursed – cut off from Christ – for the sake of my people, my fellow countrymen,

For there is no distinction between the Jew and the Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all, who richly blesses all who call on him.

You are looking at outward appearances. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should reflect on this again: Just as he himself belongs to Christ, so too do we.

For he is our peace, the one who made both groups into one and who destroyed the middle wall of partition, the hostility,

so that he may present the church to himself as glorious – not having a stain or wrinkle, or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.

Now may God our Father himself and our Lord Jesus direct our way to you.

For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a shout of command, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.