I will not speak with you much longer, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me,

The Jewish leaders replied, “We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, because he claimed to be the Son of God!”

Nicodemus, the man who had previously come to Jesus at night, accompanied Joseph, carrying a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about seventy-five pounds.

“Come, have breakfast,” Jesus said. But none of the disciples dared to ask him, “Who are you?” because they knew it was the Lord.

But God raised him up, having released him from the pains of death, because it was not possible for him to be held in its power.

For unclean spirits, crying with loud shrieks, were coming out of many who were possessed, and many paralyzed and lame people were healed.

Now in that city was a man named Simon, who had been practicing magic and amazing the people of Samaria, claiming to be someone great.

Therefore send to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter. This man is staying as a guest in the house of Simon the tanner, by the sea.’

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.’

When he saw that this pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter too. (This took place during the feast of Unleavened Bread.)

The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands,

For in him we live and move about and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’

The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple courts, and immediately the doors were shut.

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

“And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”

But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we preach),

God has revealed these to us by the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

For the wisdom of this age is foolishness with God. As it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”

and after he had given thanks he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”