(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they perform a ritual washing, holding fast to the tradition of the elders.

A member of the crowd said to him, “Teacher, I brought you my son, who is possessed by a spirit that makes him mute.

And if the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would be saved. But because of the elect, whom he chose, he has cut them short.

Wherever he enters, tell the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher says, “Where is my guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?”’

Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him.

This is the one about whom it is written, ‘Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.’

Look, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions and on the full force of the enemy, and nothing will hurt you.

Consider how the flowers grow; they do not work or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these!

And he summoned ten of his slaves, gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Do business with these until I come back.’

Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What should I do? I will send my one dear son; perhaps they will respect him.’

and tell the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher says to you, “Where is the guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?”’

Now on the first day of the week, at early dawn, the women went to the tomb, taking the aromatic spices they had prepared.

and when they did not find his body, they came back and said they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive.

The experts in the law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught committing adultery. They made her stand in front of them

Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me, but if you do not believe me, believe because of the miraculous deeds themselves.

So he replied, “Brothers and fathers, listen to me. The God of glory appeared to our forefather Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,

Now in Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (which in translation means Dorcas). She was continually doing good deeds and acts of charity.

and by this one everyone who believes is justified from everything from which the law of Moses could not justify you.

When the Gentiles heard this, they began to rejoice and praise the word of the Lord, and all who had been appointed for eternal life believed.

But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and after winning the crowds over, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, presuming him to be dead.