So they spent<n id="1" /> considerable<n id="2" /> time with the disciples.p>

For<n id="1" /> a period of about forty years he put up with<n id="2" /> them in the wilderness.<n id="3" />

After<n id="1" /> they had spent some time there,<n id="2" /> they were sent off in peace by the brothers to those who had sent them.

When they asked him to stay longer, he would not consent,<n id="1" />

in that he spends the rest of his time<n id="1" /> on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires.

<p class="bodytext">Then Herod<n id="1" /> privately summoned the wise men and determined from them when the star had appeared.

After<n id="1" /> a long time, the master of those slaves came and settled his accounts with them.

Then Jesus said, &#8220;I will be with you for only a little while longer,<n id="1" /> and then<n id="2" /> I am going to the one who sent me.

After he spent<n id="1" /> some time there, Paul left and went through the region of Galatia<n id="2" /> and Phrygia,<n id="3" /> strengthening all the disciples.p>

<p class="bodytext">Now I mean that the heir, as long as he is a minor,<n id="1" /> is no different from a slave, though he is the owner<n id="2" /> of everything.

I<n id="1" /> have given her time to repent, but<n id="2" /> she is not willing to repent of her sexual immorality.

For<n id="1" /> a while he refused, but later on<n id="2" /> he said to himself, &#8216;Though I neither fear God nor have regard for people,<n id="3" />

When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized<n id="1" /> that the man<n id="2" /> had been disabled a long time already, he said to him, &#8220;Do you want to become well?&#8221;

So after sending<n id="1" /> two of his assistants,<n id="2" /> Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia,<n id="3" /> he himself stayed on for a while in the province of Asia.<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Or do you not know, brothers and sisters<n id="1" /> (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is lord over a person<n id="2" /> as long as he lives?

For I do not want to see you now in passing, since I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord allows.

And if you address as Father the one who impartially judges according to each one&#8217;s work, live out the time of your temporary residence here<n id="1" /> in reverence.

Jesus<n id="1" /> said to them, &#8220;The wedding guests<n id="2" /> cannot fast while the bridegroom<n id="3" /> is with them, can they?<n id="4" /> As long as they have the bridegroom with them they do not fast.

Jesus replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Have I been with you for so long, and you have not known<n id="2" /> me, Philip? The person who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say, &#8216;Show us the Father&#8217;?

So they stayed there<n id="1" /> for a considerable time, speaking out courageously for the Lord, who testified<n id="2" /> to the message<n id="3" /> of his grace, granting miraculous signs<n id="4" /> and wonders to be performed through their hands.