For I have come to set <i>a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,i>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> when they approached Jerusalem<n id="2" /> and came to Bethphage,<n id="3" /> at the Mount of Olives,<n id="4" /> Jesus sent two disciples,

Jerusalem,<n id="1" /> Idumea, beyond the Jordan River,<n id="2" /> and around Tyre<n id="3" /> and Sidon<n id="4" /> a great multitude came to him when they heard about the things he had done.

<p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> the herdsmen ran off and spread the news in the town and countryside, and the people went out to see what had happened.

So<n id="1" /> the disciples left, went<n id="2" /> into the city, and found things just as he had told them,<n id="3" /> and they prepared the Passover.p>

<p class="bodytext">On<n id="1" /> the eighth day<n id="2" /> they came to circumcise the child, and they wanted to name<n id="3" /> him Zechariah after his father.

but (because they assumed that he was in their group of travelers)<n id="1" /> they went a day&#8217;s journey. Then<n id="2" /> they began to look for him among their relatives and acquaintances.<n id="3" />

So<n id="1" /> when they came to the place that is called &#8220;The Skull,&#8221;<n id="2" /> they crucified<n id="3" /> him there, along with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left.

and when they did not find his body, they came back and said they had seen a vision of angels,<n id="1" /> who said he was alive.

I did not recognize<n id="1" /> him, but I came baptizing with water so that he could be revealed to Israel.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then the officers<n id="1" /> returned<n id="2" /> to the chief priests and Pharisees,<n id="3" /> who said to them, &#8220;Why didn&#8217;t you bring him back with you?&#8221;<n id="4" />

The thief comes only to steal and kill<n id="1" /> and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.<n id="2" />p>

Many<n id="1" /> came to him and began to say, &#8220;John<n id="2" /> performed<n id="3" /> no miraculous sign, but everything John said about this man<n id="4" /> was true!&#8221;

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin.<n id="1" /> But they no longer have any excuse for their sin.

So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the two men who had been crucified<n id="1" /> with Jesus,<n id="2" /> first the one and then the other.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">When they were released, Peter and John<n id="1" /> went to their fellow believers<n id="2" /> and reported everything the high priests and the elders had said to them.

Now as they were going along the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, &#8220;Look, there is water! What is to stop me<n id="1" /> from being baptized?&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then Paul and his companions put out to sea<n id="1" /> from Paphos<n id="2" /> and came to Perga<n id="3" /> in Pamphylia,<n id="4" /> but John<n id="5" /> left them and returned to Jerusalem.<n id="6" />

Since I could not see because of<n id="1" /> the brilliance<n id="2" /> of that light, I came to Damascus led by the hand of<n id="3" /> those who were with me.

<p class="bodytext">When I came<n id="1" /> to you, brothers and sisters,<n id="2" /> I did not come with superior eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed the testimony<n id="3" /> of God.