But I have nothing definite<n id="1" /> to write to my lord<n id="2" /> about him.<n id="3" /> Therefore I have brought him before you all, and especially before you, King Agrippa,<n id="4" /> so that after this preliminary hearing<n id="5" /> I may have something to write.

But get up and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this reason, to designate you in advance<n id="1" /> as a servant and witness<n id="2" /> to the things<n id="3" /> you have seen<n id="4" /> and to the things in which I will appear to you.

Absolutely not! Let God be proven true, and every human being<n id="1" /> shown up as a liar,<n id="2" /> just as it is written: &#8220;<b><i>so that you will be justifiedi>b><n id="3" /> <b><i>in your words and will prevail when you are judgedi>b>.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

Rather, <i><b>if your enemy is hungryb>, <b>feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing this you will be heaping burning coals on his headb>i>.<n id="1" />

For the commandments,<n id="1" /> &#8220;<i><b>Do not commit adulteryb>, <b>do not murderb>, <b>do not stealb>, <b>do not covetb>,i>&#8221;<n id="2" /> (and if there is any other commandment) are summed up in this, &#8220;<b><i>Love your neighbor as yourselfi>b>.&#8221;<n id="3" />

The eye cannot say to the hand, &#8220;I do not need you,&#8221; nor in turn can the head say to the foot, &#8220;I do not need you.&#8221;

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his descendant.<n id="1" /> Scripture<n id="2" /> does not say, &#8220;and to the descendants<sc>,&#8221;sc><n id="3" /> referring to many, but &#8220;<b><i>and to your descendanti>b><sc>,&#8221;sc><n id="4" /> referring to one, who is Christ.

<t /><p class="bodytext">I am thankful to God, whom I have served with a clear conscience as my ancestors did,<n id="1" /> when I remember you in my prayers as I do constantly night and day.<n id="2" />

But someone will say, &#8220;You have faith and I have works.&#8221;<n id="1" /> Show me your faith without works and I will show you faith by<n id="2" /> my works.

Therefore, remember from what high state<n id="1" /> you have fallen and repent! Do<n id="2" /> the deeds you did at the first;<n id="3" /> if not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place &#8211; that is, if you do not repent.<n id="4" />

&#8216;I know the distress you are suffering<n id="1" /> and your poverty (but you are rich). I also know<n id="2" /> the slander against you<n id="3" /> by those who call themselves Jews and really are not, but are a synagogue<n id="4" /> of Satan.

But I have a few things against you: You have some people there who follow the teaching of Balaam,<n id="1" /> who instructed Balak to put a stumbling block<n id="2" /> before the people<n id="3" /> of Israel so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality.<n id="4" />

But I have this against you: You tolerate that<n id="1" /> woman<n id="2" /> Jezebel,<n id="3" /> who calls herself a prophetess, and by her teaching deceives<n id="4" /> my servants<n id="5" /> to commit sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.<n id="6" />

<p class="poetry">&#8220;You are worthy, our Lord and God,p> <p class="poetry">to receive glory and honor and power,p> <p class="poetry">since you created all things,p> <p class="poetry">and because of your will they existed and were created!&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

with these words:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;We give you thanks, Lord God, the All-Powerful,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the one who is and who was,p> <p class="poetry">because you have taken your great powerp> <p class="poetry">and begun to reign.<n id="3" />p>

They will stand a long way off because they are afraid of her torment, and will say,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Woe, woe, O great city,p> <p class="poetry">Babylon the powerful city!p> <p class="poetry">For in a single hour your doom<n id="1" /> has come!&#8221;p>

When he had contemplated this, an<n id="1" /> angel of the Lord<n id="2" /> appeared to him in a dream and said, &#8220;Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, because the child conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.

But so that we don&#8217;t offend them, go to the lake and throw out a hook. Take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth, you will find a four drachma coin.<n id="1" /> Take that and give it to them for me and you.&#8221;p>

After noticing a fig tree<n id="1" /> by the road he went to it, but found nothing on it except leaves. He said to it, &#8220;Never again will there be fruit from you!&#8221; And the fig tree withered at once.

Then,<n id="1" /> turning toward the woman, he said to Simon, &#8220;Do you see this woman? I entered your house. You gave me no water for my feet,<n id="2" /> but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.