<t /><p class="bodytext">And do this<n id="1" /> because we know<n id="2" /> the time, that it is already the hour for us to awake from sleep, for our salvation is now nearer than when we became believers.

For even though I am absent physically,<n id="1" /> I am present in spirit. And I have already judged the one who did this, just as though I were present.<n id="2" />

The fact that you have lawsuits among yourselves demonstrates that you have already been defeated. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?

<t /><p class="bodytext">I have great joy in the Lord because now at last you have again expressed your concern for me. (Now I know you were concerned before but had no opportunity to do anything.)<n id="1" />

When evening arrived, his disciples came to him saying, &#8220;This is an isolated place<n id="1" /> and the hour is already late. Send the crowds away so that they can go into the villages and buy food for themselves.&#8221;

And I tell you that Elijah has already come. Yet they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted. In<n id="1" /> the same way, the Son of Man will suffer at their hands.&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;Learn this parable from the fig tree: Whenever its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near.

Then<n id="1" /> he will reply<n id="2" /> from inside, &#8216;Do not bother me. The door is already shut, and my children and I are in bed.<n id="3" /> I cannot get up and give you anything.&#8217;<n id="4" />

As he approached the road leading down from<n id="1" /> the Mount of Olives,<n id="2" /> the whole crowd of his<n id="3" /> disciples began to rejoice<n id="4" /> and praise<n id="5" /> God with a loud voice for all the mighty works<n id="6" /> they had seen:<n id="7" />

The one who believes in him is not condemned.<n id="1" /> The one who does not believe has been condemned<n id="2" /> already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only<n id="3" /> Son of God.

Don&#8217;t you say,<n id="1" /> &#8216;There are four more months and then comes the harvest?&#8217; I tell you, look up<n id="2" /> and see that the fields are already white<n id="3" /> for harvest!

(His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jewish religious leaders.<n id="1" /> For the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus<n id="2" /> to be the Christ<n id="3" /> would be put out<n id="4" /> of the synagogue.<n id="5" />

On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you which is true in him<n id="1" /> and in you, because<n id="2" /> the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.<n id="3" />

but<n id="1" /> every spirit that does not confess<n id="2" /> Jesus<n id="3" /> is not from God, and this is the spirit<n id="4" /> of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now is already in the world.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then Jesus called the<n id="1" /> disciples and said, &#8220;I have compassion on the crowd, because they have already been here with me three days and they have nothing to eat. I don&#8217;t want to send them away hungry since they may faint on the way.&#8221;

So<n id="1" /> Jesus went with them. When<n id="2" /> he was not far from the house, the centurion<n id="3" /> sent friends to say to him, &#8220;Lord, do not trouble yourself,<n id="4" /> for I am not worthy<n id="5" /> to have you come under my roof.