MATTHEW 8:27
The men were amazed and asked, “What kind of man is this? Even the winds and waves obey him!”
View MoreThe men were amazed and asked, “What kind of man is this? Even the winds and waves obey him!”
View MoreThe eunuch asked Philip, “Tell me, please, who is the prophet talking about, himself, or someone else? Then Philip began with that very passage of scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.
View MoreSo I say to you, “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks will receive; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.”
View MoreLater, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jews. With Pilate’s permission he came and took the body away. He was accompanied by Nicodemus, the man who had earlier visited Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds. Taking Jesus’ body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen. This was accordance with Jewish burial custom.
View MoreNicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and was one of their number, asked, “Does our law condemn anyone without first hearing him to find out what he is doing?”
View MoreNow there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council. He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him.”
View MoreYou, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, persecutions, sufferings—what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.
View MoreThat is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
View MoreNow Stephen, a man full of God’s grace and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people. Opposition arose, however, from members of the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called)—Jews of Cyrene and Alexandria as well as the provinces of Cilicia and Asia—who began to argue with Stephen. But they could not stand up against the wisdom the Spirit gave him as he spoke.
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