I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like a lily, he will send down his roots like a cedar of Lebanon.

This is the kind of plague that will devastate horses, mules, camels, donkeys, and all the other animals in those camps.

After they arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the temple tax came to Peter and said, “Your teacher pays the double drachma tax, doesn’t he?”

At the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was named Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

because this son of mine was dead, and is alive again – he was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.

But Jesus looked straight at them and said, “Then what is the meaning of that which is written: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’?

They answered him, “Abraham is our father!” Jesus replied, “If you are Abraham’s children, you would be doing the deeds of Abraham.

Now when they heard this, they were acutely distressed and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “What should we do, brothers?”

praising God and having the good will of all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number every day those who were being saved.

A crowd of people from the towns around Jerusalem also came together, bringing the sick and those troubled by unclean spirits. They were all being healed.

And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Also greet the church in their house. Greet my dear friend Epenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in the province of Asia.

For we are the circumcision, the ones who worship by the Spirit of God, exult in Christ Jesus, and do not rely on human credentials

However, without your consent I did not want to do anything, so that your good deed would not be out of compulsion, but from your own willingness.

Think of him who endured such opposition against himself by sinners, so that you may not grow weary in your souls and give up.

You know that from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors you were ransomed – not by perishable things like silver or gold,

The beast that was, and is not, is himself an eighth king and yet is one of the seven, and is going to destruction.

Now the firstling of a donkey you may redeem with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, then break its neck. You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons. “No one will appear before me empty-handed.

Then Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar his other two sons, “Do not dishevel the hair of your heads and do not tear your garments, so that you do not die and so that wrath does not come on the whole congregation. Your brothers, all the house of Israel, are to mourn the burning which the Lord has caused,

you must bring the two of them to the gate of that city and stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry out though in the city and the man because he violated his neighbor’s fiancée; in this way you will purge evil from among you.