Those<n id="1" /> on the rock are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while,<n id="2" /> but<n id="3" /> in a time of testing<n id="4" /> fall away.<n id="5" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">About that time King Herod<n id="1" /> laid hands on<n id="2" /> some from the church to harm them.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">For I consider that our present sufferings cannot even be compared<n id="1" /> to the glory that will be revealed to us.

For this is what the promise declared:<n id="1" /> &#8220;<b><i>About a year from nowi>b><n id="2" /> <b><i>I will return and Sarah will have a soni>b>.&#8221;<n id="3" />

So we must not grow weary<n id="1" /> in doing good, for in due time we will reap, if we do not give up.<n id="2" />

So then,<n id="1" /> whenever we have an opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who belong to the family of faith.<n id="2" />p>

who by God&#8217;s power are protected through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

They<n id="1" /> cried out, &#8220;Son of God, leave us alone!<n id="2" /> Have you come here to torment us before the time?&#8221;<n id="3" />

When the harvest time was near, he sent his slaves<n id="1" /> to the tenants to collect his portion of the crop.<n id="2" />

They said to him, &#8220;He will utterly destroy those evil men! Then he will lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his portion at the harvest.&#8221;p>

He<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God<n id="2" /> is near. Repent and believe the gospel!&#8221;

At harvest time he sent a slave<n id="1" /> to the tenants to collect from them<n id="2" /> his portion of the crop.<n id="3" />

You hypocrites!<n id="1" /> You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how can you not know how<n id="2" /> to interpret the present time?p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> there were some present on that occasion who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.<n id="2" />

who will not receive many times more<n id="1" /> in this age<n id="2" /> &#8211; and in the age to come, eternal life.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

When harvest time came, he sent a slave<n id="1" /> to the tenants so that they would give<n id="2" /> him his portion of the crop.<n id="3" /> However, the tenants beat his slave<n id="4" /> and sent him away empty-handed.

But stay alert at all times,<n id="1" /> praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that must<n id="2" /> happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.&#8221;p>

You go up<n id="1" /> to the feast yourselves. I am not going up to this feast<n id="2" /> because my time<n id="3" /> has not yet fully arrived.&#8221;<n id="4" />

He told them, &#8220;You are not permitted to know<n id="1" /> the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.

Therefore repent and turn back so that your sins may be wiped out,