But before all this,<n id="1" /> they will seize<n id="2" /> you and persecute you, handing you over to the synagogues<n id="3" /> and prisons. You<n id="4" /> will be brought before kings and governors because of my name.

Day after day when I was with you in the temple courts,<n id="1" /> you did not arrest me.<n id="2" /> But this is your hour,<n id="3" /> and that of the power<n id="4" /> of darkness!&#8221;p>

The people also stood there watching, but the rulers ridiculed<n id="1" /> him, saying, &#8220;He saved others. Let him save<n id="2" /> himself if<n id="3" /> he is the Christ<n id="4" /> of God, his chosen one!&#8221;

And look, I am sending you<n id="1" /> what my Father promised.<n id="2" /> But stay in the city<n id="3" /> until you have been clothed with power<n id="4" /> from on high.&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar,<n id="1" /> when Pontius Pilate<n id="2" /> was governor of Judea, and Herod<n id="3" /> was tetrarch<n id="4" /> of Galilee, and his brother Philip<n id="5" /> was tetrarch of the region of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias<n id="6" /> was tetrarch of Abilene,

But so that you may know<n id="1" /> that the Son of Man<n id="2" /> has authority on earth to forgive sins&#8221; &#8211; he said to the paralyzed man<n id="3" /> &#8211; &#8220;I tell you, stand up, take your stretcher<n id="4" /> and go home.&#8221;<n id="5" />

He also told them a parable:<n id="1" /> &#8220;No one tears a patch from a new garment and sews<n id="2" /> it on an old garment. If he does, he will have torn<n id="3" /> the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old.<n id="4" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> he came down with them and stood on a level place.<n id="2" /> And a large number<n id="3" /> of his disciples had gathered<n id="4" /> along with<n id="5" /> a vast multitude from all over Judea, from<n id="6" /> Jerusalem,<n id="7" /> and from the seacoast of Tyre<n id="8" /> and Sidon.<n id="9" /> They came to hear him and to be healed<n id="10" /> of their diseases,

<p class="bodytext">On that same occasion<n id="1" /> Jesus<n id="2" /> rejoiced<n id="3" /> in the Holy Spirit and said, &#8220;I praise<n id="4" /> you, Father, Lord<n id="5" /> of heaven and earth, because<n id="6" /> you have hidden these things from the wise<n id="7" /> and intelligent, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your gracious will.<n id="8" />

All things have been given to me by my Father.<n id="1" /> No one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides<n id="2" /> to reveal him.&#8221;p>

As you are going with your accuser before the magistrate,<n id="1" /> make an effort to settle with him on the way, so that he will not drag you before the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer,<n id="2" /> and the officer throw you into prison.

But the president of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the crowd, &#8220;There are six days on which work<n id="1" /> should be done!<n id="2" /> So come<n id="3" /> and be healed on those days, and not on the Sabbath day.&#8221;