You will be betrayed even by parents,<n id="1" /> brothers, relatives,<n id="2" /> and friends, and they will have some of you put to death.

Greet Herodion, my compatriot.<n id="1" /> Greet those in the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord.

<p class="bodytext">Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you; so do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my compatriots.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;And look,<n id="1" /> your relative<n id="2" /> Elizabeth has also become pregnant with<n id="3" /> a son in her old age &#8211; although she was called barren, she is now in her sixth month!<n id="4" />

Her<n id="1" /> neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown<n id="2" /> great mercy to her, and they rejoiced<n id="3" /> with her.p>

but (because they assumed that he was in their group of travelers)<n id="1" /> they went a day&#8217;s journey. Then<n id="2" /> they began to look for him among their relatives and acquaintances.<n id="3" />

The following day<n id="1" /> he entered Caesarea.<n id="2" /> Now Cornelius was waiting anxiously<n id="3" /> for them and had called together his relatives and close friends.

For I could wish<n id="1" /> that I myself were accursed &#8211; cut off from Christ &#8211; for the sake of my people,<n id="2" /> my fellow countrymen,<n id="3" />

Then<n id="1" /> Jesus said to them, &#8220;A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown, and among his relatives, and in his own house.&#8221;

One of the high priest&#8217;s slaves,<n id="1" /> a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off,<n id="2" /> said, &#8220;Did I not see you in the orchard<n id="3" /> with him?&#8221;<n id="4" />

Greet Andronicus and Junia,<n id="1" /> my compatriots<n id="2" /> and my fellow prisoners. They are well known<n id="3" /> to the apostles,<n id="4" /> and they were in Christ before me.

<p class="bodytext">He<n id="1" /> said also to the man<n id="2" /> who had invited him, &#8220;When you host a dinner or a banquet,<n id="3" /> don&#8217;t invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors so you can be invited by them in return and get repaid.