Yes, Father, for this was your gracious will.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Whoever, then, acknowledges<n id="1" /> me before people, I will acknowledge<n id="2" /> before my Father in heaven.

But whoever denies me before people, I will deny him also before my Father in heaven.p>

But he denied it in front of them all:<n id="1" /> &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;re talking about!&#8221;

There<n id="1" /> right<n id="2" /> in front of him was a man suffering from dropsy.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">After Jesus<n id="1" /> had said this, he continued on ahead,<n id="2" /> going up to Jerusalem.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Although Jesus<n id="1" /> had performed<n id="2" /> so many miraculous signs before them, they still refused to believe in him,

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;I<n id="1" /> tell you, whoever acknowledges<n id="2" /> me before men,<n id="3" /> the Son of Man will also acknowledge<n id="4" /> before God&#8217;s angels.

In the same way, your Father in heaven is not willing that one of these little ones be lost.p>

So<n id="1" /> he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree<n id="2" /> to see him, because Jesus<n id="3" /> was going to pass that way.

So they all seized Sosthenes, the president of the synagogue,<n id="1" /> and began to beat<n id="2" /> him in front of the judgment seat.<n id="3" /> Yet none of these things were of any concern<n id="4" /> to Gallio.p>

Brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> I do not consider myself to have attained this. Instead I am single-minded:<n id="2" /> Forgetting the things that are behind and reaching out for the things that are ahead,

And by this<n id="1" /> we will know that we are of the truth and will convince<n id="2" /> our conscience<n id="3" /> in his presence,<n id="4" />

leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother and then come and present your gift.

And he was transfigured before them.<n id="1" /> His<n id="2" /> face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light.

All<n id="1" /> the nations will be assembled before him, and he will separate people one from another like a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

And immediately the man<n id="1" /> stood up, took his stretcher, and went out in front of them all. They were all amazed and glorified God, saying, &#8220;We have never seen anything like this!&#8221;p>

This is the one about whom it is written, &#8216;<b><i>Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you,i>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>who will prepare your way before youi>b>.&#8217;<n id="2" />

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>

But stay alert at all times,<n id="1" /> praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that must<n id="2" /> happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.&#8221;p>