And the temple curtain<n id="1" /> was torn in two, from top to bottom.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> while Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the high priest&#8217;s slave girls<n id="2" /> came by.

<p class="otpoetry"><b><i>And I will perform wonders in the skyi>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>abovei>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>and miraculous signsi>b><n id="2" /> <b><i>on the earth below,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><i><b>blood and fire and clouds of smokeb>.i>p>

Just then<n id="1" /> the temple curtain<n id="2" /> was torn in two, from top to bottom. The<n id="3" /> earth shook and the rocks were split apart.

(Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against<n id="1" /> him.)<n id="2" /> Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.<n id="3" />

and said to him, &#8220;If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down. For it is written, &#8216;<b><i>He will command his angels concerning youi>b>&#8217;<n id="1" /> and &#8216;<b><i>with their hands they will lift you up, so that you will not strike your foot against a stonei>b>.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> the devil<n id="2" /> brought him to Jerusalem,<n id="3" /> had him stand<n id="4" /> on the highest point of the temple,<n id="5" /> and said to him, &#8220;If<n id="6" /> you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here,

Jesus replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;You people<n id="2" /> are from below; I am from above. You people are from this world; I am not from this world.

A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in the window,<n id="1" /> was sinking<n id="2" /> into a deep sleep while Paul continued to speak<n id="3" /> for a long time. Fast asleep,<n id="4" /> he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead.