Or do you have contempt for the wealth of his kindness, forbearance, and patience, and yet do not know<n id="1" /> that God&#8217;s kindness leads you to repentance?

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also we believe that<n id="1" /> God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep as Christians.<n id="2" />

For some of these insinuate themselves<n id="1" /> into households and captivate weak women<n id="2" /> who are overwhelmed with sins and led along by various passions.

Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, because he is a great help<n id="1" /> to me in ministry.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Come now, you who say, &#8220;Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town<n id="1" /> and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.&#8221;

When they arrest you and hand you over for trial, do not worry about what to speak. But say whatever is given you at that time,<n id="1" /> for it is not you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

<p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> the devil<n id="2" /> brought him to Jerusalem,<n id="3" /> had him stand<n id="4" /> on the highest point of the temple,<n id="5" /> and said to him, &#8220;If<n id="6" /> you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here,

They got up, forced<n id="1" /> him out of the town,<n id="2" /> and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that<n id="3" /> they could throw him down the cliff.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">As the sun was setting, all those who had any relatives<n id="1" /> sick with various diseases brought them to Jesus.<n id="2" /> He placed<n id="3" /> his hands on every one of them and healed them.

He<n id="1" /> went up to him<n id="2" /> and bandaged his wounds, pouring oil<n id="3" /> and wine on them. Then<n id="4" /> he put him on<n id="5" /> his own animal,<n id="6" /> brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

telling them,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Go to the village ahead of you.<n id="2" /> When<n id="3" /> you enter it, you will find a colt tied there that has never been ridden.<n id="4" /> Untie it and bring it here.

But we had hoped<n id="1" /> that he was the one who was going to redeem<n id="2" /> Israel. Not only this, but it is now the third day since these things happened.

Andrew brought Simon<n id="1" /> to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, &#8220;You are Simon, the son of John.<n id="2" /> You will be called Cephas&#8221; (which is translated Peter).<n id="3" />p>

I have<n id="1" /> other sheep that do not come from<n id="2" /> this sheepfold.<n id="3" /> I must bring them too, and they will listen to my voice,<n id="4" /> so that<n id="5" /> there will be one flock and<n id="6" /> one shepherd.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then they brought Jesus from Caiaphas to the Roman governor&#8217;s residence.<n id="1" /> (Now it was very early morning.)<n id="2" /> They<n id="3" /> did not go into the governor&#8217;s residence<n id="4" /> so they would not be ceremonially defiled, but could eat the Passover meal.

Now the passage of scripture the man<n id="1" /> was reading was this:p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8220;<b><i>He was led like a sheep to slaughter,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>and like a lamb before its shearer is silent,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>so he didi>b><n id="2" /> <i><b>not open his mouthb>.i>p>

and requested letters from him to the synagogues<n id="1" /> in Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the Way,<n id="2" /> either men or women, he could bring them as prisoners<n id="3" /> to Jerusalem.<n id="4" />

All<n id="1" /> who heard him were amazed and were saying, &#8220;Is this not<n id="2" /> the man who in Jerusalem was ravaging<n id="3" /> those who call on this name, and who had come here to bring them as prisoners<n id="4" /> to the chief priests?&#8221;

But Barnabas took<n id="1" /> Saul,<n id="2" /> brought<n id="3" /> him to the apostles, and related to them how he had seen the Lord on the road, that<n id="4" /> the Lord had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken out boldly<n id="5" /> in the name of Jesus.

and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch.<n id="1" /> So<n id="2" /> for a whole year Barnabas and Saul<n id="3" /> met with the church and taught a significant number of people.<n id="4" /> Now it was in Antioch<n id="5" /> that the disciples were first called Christians.<n id="6" />p>