<t /><p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> after some days, when he returned to Capernaum,<n id="2" /> the news spread<n id="3" /> that he was at home.

<t /><p class="bodytext">After several days had passed, King Agrippa<n id="1" /> and Bernice arrived at Caesarea<n id="2" /> to pay their respects<n id="3" /> to Festus.<n id="4" />

From<n id="1" /> the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and forceful people lay hold of it.<n id="2" />

and declared, &#8220;This man<n id="1" /> said, &#8216;I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.&#8217;&#8221;

&#8220;We heard him say, &#8216;I will destroy this temple made with hands and in three days build another not made with hands.&#8217;&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> he said to the disciples, &#8220;The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days<n id="2" /> of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom he<n id="1" /> had raised from the dead.

We<n id="1" /> sailed away from Philippi<n id="2" /> after the days of Unleavened Bread,<n id="3" /> and within five days<n id="4" /> we came to the others<n id="5" /> in Troas,<n id="6" /> where we stayed for seven days.

Then you&#8217;re not that Egyptian who started a rebellion<n id="1" /> and led the four thousand men of the &#8216;Assassins&#8217;<n id="2" /> into the wilderness<n id="3" /> some time ago?&#8221;<n id="4" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">After God spoke long ago<n id="1" /> in various portions<n id="2" /> and in various ways<n id="3" /> to our ancestors<n id="4" /> through the prophets,

Without father, without mother, without genealogy, he has neither beginning of days nor end of life but is like the son of God, and he remains a priest for all time.

Above all, understand this:<n id="1" /> In the last days blatant scoffers<n id="2" /> will come, being propelled by their own evil urges<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;Immediately<n id="1" /> after the suffering<n id="2" /> of those days, <i>the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven will be shakeni>.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">One<n id="1" /> day Jesus<n id="2" /> got into a boat<n id="3" /> with his disciples and said to them, &#8220;Let&#8217;s go across to the other side of the lake.&#8221; So<n id="4" /> they set out,

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now one<n id="1" /> day, as Jesus<n id="2" /> was teaching the people in the temple courts<n id="3" /> and proclaiming<n id="4" /> the gospel, the chief priests and the experts in the law<n id="5" /> with the elders came up<n id="6" />

To the same apostles<n id="1" /> also, after his suffering,<n id="2" /> he presented himself alive with many convincing proofs. He was seen by them over a forty-day period<n id="3" /> and spoke about matters concerning the kingdom of God.

For some time ago<n id="1" /> Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and about four hundred men joined him. He<n id="2" /> was killed, and all who followed him were dispersed and nothing came of it.<n id="3" />

Our<n id="1" /> ancestors<n id="2" /> received possession of it and brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our ancestors,<n id="3" /> until the time<n id="4" /> of David.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now on<n id="1" /> one of those days, while he was teaching, there were Pharisees<n id="2" /> and teachers of the law<n id="3" /> sitting nearby (who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem),<n id="4" /> and the power of the Lord was with him<n id="5" /> to heal.

After there had been much debate,<n id="1" /> Peter stood up and said to them, &#8220;Brothers, you know that some time ago<n id="2" /> God chose<n id="3" /> me to preach to the Gentiles so they would hear the message<n id="4" /> of the gospel<n id="5" /> and believe.<n id="6" />