<p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> a woman was there who had been suffering from a hemorrhage<n id="2" /> for twelve years.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">Now, dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your notice,<n id="1" /> that a single day is like a thousand years with the Lord and a thousand years are like a single day.

But<n id="1" /> a woman who had been suffering from a hemorrhage<n id="2" /> for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge<n id="3" /> of his cloak.<n id="4" />

Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">Then the Judeans<n id="1" /> replied,<n id="2" /> &#8220;You are not yet fifty years old!<n id="3" /> Have<n id="4" /> you seen Abraham?&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem<n id="1" /> to visit Cephas<n id="2" /> and get information from him,<n id="3" /> and I stayed with him fifteen days.

<p class="otpoetry">&#8220;<i><b>There your fathers tested me and tried meb>,i><n id="1" /> <i><b>and they saw my works for forty yearsb>.i>p>

And against whom was God<n id="1" /> provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, <i>whose dead bodies fell in the wildernessi>?<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> when the thousand years are finished, Satan will be released from his prison

<t /><p class="bodytext">There was also a prophetess, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old,<n id="1" /> having been married to her husband for seven years until his death.

And I will say to myself,<n id="1" /> &#8220;You have plenty of goods stored up for many years; relax, eat, drink, celebrate!&#8221;&#8217;

and a woman was there<n id="1" /> who had been disabled by a spirit<n id="2" /> for eighteen years. She<n id="3" /> was bent over and could not straighten herself up completely.<n id="4" />

But God spoke as follows: &#8216;Your<n id="1" /> <b><i>descendants will be foreignersi>b><n id="2" /> <b><i>in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred yearsi>b>.<n id="3" />

This man led them out, performing wonders and miraculous signs<n id="1" /> in the land of Egypt,<n id="2" /> at<n id="3" /> the Red Sea, and in the wilderness<n id="4" /> for forty years.

Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled<n id="1" /> forty years.

This went on for two years, so that all who lived in the province of Asia,<n id="1" /> both Jews and Greeks, heard the word of the Lord.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="otpoetry"><b><i>and like a robe you will fold them upi>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>andi>b> like a garment<n id="1" /> <b><i>they will be changed,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><i><b>but you are the same and your years will never run outb>.i>&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

He<n id="1" /> seized the dragon &#8211; the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan &#8211; and tied him up for a thousand years.

(The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were finished.)<n id="1" /> This is the first resurrection.

But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in Elijah&#8217;s days,<n id="1" /> when the sky<n id="2" /> was shut up three and a half years, and<n id="3" /> there was a great famine over all the land.