If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house and do not give him any greeting,<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;I am the Alpha and the Omega,&#8221;<n id="1" /> says the Lord God &#8211; the one who is, and who was, and who is still to come &#8211; the All-Powerful!<n id="2" />p>

Therefore,<n id="1" /> repent! If not, I will come against you quickly and make war against those people<n id="2" /> with the sword of my mouth.

<p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> one of the elders asked<n id="2" /> me, &#8220;These dressed in long white robes &#8211; who are they and where have they come from?&#8221;

<p class="poetry">(Look! I will come like a thief!p> <p class="poetry">Blessed is the one who stays alert and does not lose<n id="1" /> his clothes so that he will not have to walk around naked and his shameful condition<n id="2" /> be seen.)<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Let us rejoice<n id="1" /> and exultp> <p class="poetry">and give him glory,p> <p class="poetry">because the wedding celebration of the Lamb has come,p> <p class="poetry">and his bride has made herself ready.p>

He came a third time and said to them, &#8220;Are you still sleeping and resting?<n id="1" /> Enough of that!<n id="2" /> The hour has come. Look, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

came to Jesus<n id="1" /> at night<n id="2" /> and said to him, &#8220;Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs<n id="3" /> that you do unless God is with him.&#8221;

Jesus answered,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you people<n id="2" /> do not know where I came from or where I am going.<n id="3" />

He<n id="1" /> sent them to Bethlehem and said, &#8220;Go and look carefully for the child. When you find him, inform me so that I can go and worship him as well.&#8221;

After listening to the king they left, and once again<n id="1" /> the star they saw when it rose<n id="2" /> led them until it stopped above the place where the child was.

As they came into the house and saw the child with Mary his mother, they bowed down<n id="1" /> and worshiped him. They opened their treasure boxes and gave him gifts of gold, frankincense,<n id="2" /> and myrrh.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">But when he saw many Pharisees<n id="1" /> and Sadducees<n id="2" /> coming to his baptism, he said to them, &#8220;You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;I baptize you with water, for repentance, but the one coming after me is more powerful than I am &#8211; I am not worthy<n id="1" /> to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.<n id="2" />

After<n id="1" /> Jesus was baptized, just as he was coming up out of the water, the<n id="2" /> heavens<n id="3" /> opened<n id="4" /> and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove<n id="5" /> and coming on him.

The rain fell, the flood<n id="1" /> came, and the winds beat against that house, but it did not collapse because it had been founded on rock.

The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed; it was utterly destroyed!&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">When he came to the other side, to the region of the Gadarenes,<n id="1" /> two demon-possessed men coming from the tombs met him. They were extremely violent, so that no one was able to pass by that way.

Jesus said to them, &#8220;The wedding guests<n id="1" /> cannot mourn while the bridegroom<n id="2" /> is with them, can they? But the days<n id="3" /> are coming when the bridegroom will be taken from them,<n id="4" /> and then they will fast.

<t /><p class="bodytext">As he was saying these things, a ruler came, bowed low before him, and said, &#8220;My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her and she will live.&#8221;