But you refuse to believe because you are not my sheep.

Then they attempted again to seize him, but he escaped their clutches.

Now some Greeks were among those who had gone up to worship at the feast.

And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”

He will glorify me, because he will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you.

(For they did not yet understand the scripture that Jesus must rise from the dead.)

This was now the third time Jesus was revealed to the disciples after he was raised from the dead.

Now there was a man in Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort.

So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers took issue with him,

After this Paul departed from Athens and went to Corinth.

When the governor had read the letter, he asked what province he was from. When he learned that he was from Cilicia,

concerning his Son who was a descendant of David with reference to the flesh,

and know his will and approve the superior things because you receive instruction from the law,

For if Abraham was declared righteous by the works of the law, he has something to boast about – but not before God.

For if they become heirs by the law, faith is empty and the promise is nullified.

We know that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die again; death no longer has mastery over him.

Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

Not only that, but when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our ancestor Isaac –

or “Who will descend into the abyss?” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).

Consequently faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the preached word of Christ.