<p class="otpoetry">&#8220;<b><i>Here isi>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>my servant whom I have chosen,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><i><b>the one I love, in whom I take great delightb>.i><n id="2" />p> <p class="otpoetry"><i><b>I will put my Spirit on him, and he will proclaim justice to the nationsb>.i>p>

&#8220;Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and experts in the law.<n id="1" /> They will condemn him to death and will turn him over to the Gentiles.

Then he began to teach<n id="1" /> them and said, &#8220;Is it not written: &#8216;<b><i>My house will be called a house of prayer for all nationsi>b>&#8217;?<n id="2" /> But you have turned it into <b><i>a deni>b><n id="3" /> <b><i>of robbersi>b>!&#8221;<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;For indeed both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, assembled together in this city against<n id="1" /> your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed,<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">The whole group kept quiet<n id="1" /> and listened to Barnabas and Paul while they explained all the miraculous signs<n id="2" /> and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them.

but I declared to those in Damascus first, and then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea,<n id="1" /> and to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God,<n id="2" /> performing deeds consistent with<n id="3" /> repentance.

I do not want you to be unaware,<n id="1" /> brothers and sisters,<n id="2" /> that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I may have some fruit even among you, just as I already have among the rest of the Gentiles.<n id="3" />

I went there<n id="1" /> because of<n id="2" /> a revelation and presented<n id="3" /> to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I did so<n id="4" /> only in a private meeting with the influential people,<n id="5" /> to make sure that I was not running &#8211; or had not run<n id="6" /> &#8211; in vain.

God wanted to make known to them the glorious<n id="1" /> riches of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

And we all agree,<n id="1" /> our religion contains amazing revelation:<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">He<n id="3" /> was revealed in the flesh,p> <p class="poetry">vindicated by the Spirit,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">seen by angels,p> <p class="poetry">proclaimed among Gentiles,p> <p class="poetry">believed on in the world,p> <p class="poetry">taken up in glory.p>

and maintain good conduct<n id="1" /> among the non-Christians,<n id="2" /> so that though<n id="3" /> they now malign you as wrongdoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God when he appears.<n id="4" />p>

But<n id="1" /> do not measure the outer courtyard<n id="2" /> of the temple; leave it out,<n id="3" /> because it has been given to the Gentiles,<n id="4" /> and they will trample on the holy city<n id="5" /> for forty-two months.