Won&#8217;t<n id="1" /> God give justice to his chosen ones, who cry out<n id="2" /> to him day and night?<n id="3" /> Will he delay<n id="4" /> long to help them?

But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be their king,<n id="1" /> bring them here and slaughter<n id="2" /> them<n id="3" /> in front of me!&#8217;&#8221;p>

Then<n id="1" /> Jesus said to the chief priests, the officers of the temple guard,<n id="2" /> and the elders who had come out to get him, &#8220;Have you come out with swords and clubs like you would against an outlaw?<n id="3" />

And after about an hour still another insisted,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Certainly this man was with him, because he too is a Galilean.&#8221;<n id="2" />

But Jesus turned to them and said, &#8220;Daughters of Jerusalem,<n id="1" /> do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves<n id="2" /> and for your children.

<p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> John testified,<n id="2" /> &#8220;I saw the Spirit descending like a dove<n id="3" /> from heaven,<n id="4" /> and it remained on him.<n id="5" />

<p class="bodytext">So then they tried to seize Jesus,<n id="1" /> but no one laid a hand on him, because his time<n id="2" /> had not yet come.

When they persisted in asking him, he stood up straight<n id="1" /> and replied,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Whoever among you is guiltless<n id="3" /> may be the first to throw a stone at her.&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Jesus, intensely moved<n id="1" /> again, came to the tomb. (Now it was a cave, and a stone was placed across it.)<n id="2" />

<p class="otpoetry"><b><i>Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced;i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>my bodyi>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>also will live in hope,i>b>p>

But Simon replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;You pray to the Lord for me so that nothing of what you have said may happen to<n id="2" /> me.&#8221;p>

Then as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on<n id="1" /> them just as he did<n id="2" /> on us at the beginning.<n id="3" />

and when Paul placed<n id="1" /> his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came<n id="2" /> upon them, and they began to speak<n id="3" /> in tongues and to prophesy.<n id="4" />

He<n id="1" /> immediately took<n id="2" /> soldiers and centurions<n id="3" /> and ran down to the crowd.<n id="4" /> When they saw<n id="5" /> the commanding officer<n id="6" /> and the soldiers, they stopped beating<n id="7" /> Paul.

Against hope Abraham<n id="1" /> believed<n id="2" /> in hope with the result that he became <b><i>thei> <i>father of many nationsi>b><n id="3" /> according to the pronouncement,<n id="4" /> &#8220;<b><i>so will your descendants bei>b>.&#8221;<n id="5" />

through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice<n id="1" /> in the hope of God&#8217;s glory.

just as it is written,p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8220;<i><b>Lookb>, <b>I am laying in Zion a stone that will cause people to stumbleb>i>p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>and a rock that will make them fall,i>b><n id="1" />p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>yet the one who believes in him will not be put to shame.i>b>&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

For even Christ did not please himself, but just as it is written, &#8220;<b><i>The insults of those who insult you have fallen on mei>b>.&#8221;<n id="1" />

And again Isaiah says, &#8220;<i><b>The root of Jesse will comeb>, <b>and the one who rises to rule over the Gentilesb>, <b>in him will the Gentiles hopeb>i>.&#8221;<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters;<n id="1" /> only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your flesh,<n id="2" /> but through love serve one another.<n id="3" />