<p class="bodytext">Honor<n id="1" /> widows who are truly in need.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;If you love me, you will obey<n id="1" /> my commandments.<n id="2" />

But when they bring you before the synagogues,<n id="1" /> the<n id="2" /> rulers, and the authorities, do not worry about how you should make your defense<n id="3" /> or what you should say,

And he placed his hands on them and went on his way.<n id="1" />p>

In this way<n id="1" /> they will train<n id="2" /> the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Disarming<n id="1" /> the rulers and authorities, he has made a public disgrace of them, triumphing over them by the cross.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> Jesus entered the temple area<n id="2" /> and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple courts,<n id="3" /> and turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> they came to Jerusalem.<n id="2" /> Jesus<n id="3" /> entered the temple area<n id="4" /> and began to drive out those who were selling and buying in the temple courts.<n id="5" /> He turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves,

In this way what was spoken by Isaiah the prophet was fulfilled:<n id="1" />p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8220;<i><b>He took our weaknesses and carried our diseasesb>.i>&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

For his hands and feet had often been bound with chains and shackles,<n id="1" /> but<n id="2" /> he had torn the chains apart and broken the shackles in pieces. No one was strong enough to subdue him.

And if the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would be saved. But because of the elect, whom he chose, he has cut them<n id="1" /> short.

<p class="bodytext">So<n id="1" /> every day Jesus<n id="2" /> was teaching in the temple courts,<n id="3" /> but at night he went and stayed<n id="4" /> on the Mount of Olives.<n id="5" />

I punished<n id="1" /> them often in all the synagogues<n id="2" /> and tried to force<n id="3" /> them to blaspheme. Because I was so furiously enraged<n id="4" /> at them, I went to persecute<n id="5" /> them even in foreign cities.p>

But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous,<n id="1" /> forgiving<n id="2" /> us our sins and cleansing<n id="3" /> us from all unrighteousness.

<p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> one of the elders asked<n id="2" /> me, &#8220;These dressed in long white robes &#8211; who are they and where have they come from?&#8221;

and he was baptizing them<n id="1" /> in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.p>

Do not take gold, silver, or copper in your belts,

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now when<n id="1" /> Jesus finished these parables, he moved on from there.

They<n id="1" /> love the place of honor at banquets and the best seats in the synagogues<n id="2" />

When<n id="1" /> the foolish ones took their lamps, they did not take extra<n id="2" /> olive oil<n id="3" /> with them.