Thus whenever you do charitable giving,<n id="1" /> do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in synagogues<n id="2" /> and on streets so that people will praise them. I tell you the truth,<n id="3" /> they have their reward.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;Whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray while standing in synagogues<n id="1" /> and on street corners so that people can see them. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.

For in those days before the flood, people<n id="1" /> were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark.

&#8220;Beware<n id="1" /> of the experts in the law.<n id="2" /> They<n id="3" /> like walking around in long robes, and they love elaborate greetings<n id="4" /> in the marketplaces and the best seats<n id="5" /> in the synagogues<n id="6" /> and the places of honor at banquets.

As a result we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions you are enduring.p>

<p class="bodytext">From John,<n id="1" /> to the seven churches that are in the province of Asia:<n id="2" /> Grace and peace to you<n id="3" /> from &#8220;he who is,&#8221;<n id="4" /> and who was, and who is still to come,<n id="5" /> and from the seven spirits who are before his throne,

<t /><p class="bodytext">In those days John the Baptist came into the wilderness<n id="1" /> of Judea proclaiming,

When Jesus saw their reaction he said, &#8220;Why do you respond with evil in your hearts?

Beware<n id="1" /> of people, because they will hand you over to councils<n id="2" /> and flog<n id="3" /> you in their synagogues.<n id="4" />

<p class="otpoetry"><b><i>He will not quarrel or cry out,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><i><b>nor will anyone hear his voice in the streetsb>.i>p>

They<n id="1" /> were both righteous in the sight of God, following<n id="2" /> all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blamelessly.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">In those days<n id="1" /> Mary got up and went hurriedly into the hill country, to a town of Judah,<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> in those days a decree<n id="2" /> went out from Caesar<n id="3" /> Augustus<n id="4" /> to register<n id="5" /> all the empire<n id="6" /> for taxes.

But those days are coming, and when the bridegroom is taken from them,<n id="1" /> at that time<n id="2" /> they will fast.&#8221;

Then you will begin to say, &#8216;We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.&#8217;<n id="1" />

Likewise, just as it was<n id="1" /> in the days of Lot, people<n id="2" /> were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;

Then<n id="1" /> beginning with Moses and all the prophets,<n id="2" /> he interpreted to them the things written about<n id="3" /> himself in all the scriptures.p>

both Jews and proselytes,<n id="1" /> Cretans and Arabs &#8211; we hear them speaking in our own languages about the great deeds God has done!&#8221;<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">When they heard these things, they became furious<n id="1" /> and ground their teeth<n id="2" /> at him.

and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues,<n id="1" /> saying, &#8220;This man is the Son of God.&#8221;<n id="2" />