As<n id="1" /> he rode along, they<n id="2" /> spread their cloaks on the road.

Then<n id="1" /> he said to me, &#8216;Go, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles.&#8217;&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;While doing this very thing,<n id="1" /> as I was going<n id="2" /> to Damascus with authority and complete power<n id="3" /> from the chief priests,

<p class="poetry">In it<n id="1" /> he went and preached to the spirits in prison,<n id="2" />p>

For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me.<n id="1" /> I say to this one, &#8216;Go&#8217; and he goes,<n id="2" /> and to another &#8216;Come&#8217; and he comes, and to my slave<n id="3" /> &#8216;Do this&#8217; and he does it.&#8221;<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">The next morning<n id="1" /> Jesus<n id="2" /> departed and went to a deserted place. Yet<n id="3" /> the crowds were seeking him, and they came to him and tried to keep him from leaving them.

For I too am a man set under authority, with soldiers under me.<n id="1" /> I say to this one, &#8216;Go,&#8217; and he goes,<n id="2" /> and to another, &#8216;Come,&#8217; and he comes, and to my slave, &#8216;Do this,&#8217; and he does it.&#8221;<n id="3" />

Jesus told him, &#8220;Go home;<n id="1" /> your son will live.&#8221; The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and set off for home.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Then the Jewish leaders<n id="1" /> said to one another, &#8220;Where is he<n id="2" /> going to go that we cannot find him?<n id="3" /> He is not going to go to the Jewish people dispersed<n id="4" /> among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?<n id="5" />

Jesus answered them,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Go tell John what you hear and see:<n id="2" />

So go into the main streets and invite everyone you find to the wedding banquet.&#8217;

The one who had received five talents went off right away and put his money to work<n id="1" /> and gained five more.

<t /><p class="bodytext">So<n id="1" /> the eleven disciples went to Galilee to the mountain Jesus had designated.

<t /><p class="bodytext">They went out from there and passed through Galilee. But<n id="1" /> Jesus<n id="2" /> did not want anyone to know,

<p class="bodytext">After this he appeared in a different form to two of them while they were on their way to the country.

He said to them, &#8220;Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.

They<n id="1" /> were both righteous in the sight of God, following<n id="2" /> all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blamelessly.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">In those days<n id="1" /> Mary got up and went hurriedly into the hill country, to a town of Judah,<n id="2" />

He<n id="1" /> said to the woman, &#8220;Your faith<n id="2" /> has saved you;<n id="3" /> go in peace.&#8221;p>

Then<n id="1" /> he said to her, &#8220;Daughter, your faith has made you well.<n id="2" /> Go in peace.&#8221;p>