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Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea and caught all kinds of fish.

Now she was a Greek woman of Syrophoenician origin, and she kept asking Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.

Jesus answered, “This kind cannot come out, except by prayer.”

…along with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and many others from the high priest’s family.

Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus, whom the apostles called Barnabas (meaning Son of Encouragement),

On their second visit, Joseph revealed his identity to his brothers, and his family became known to Pharaoh.

He exploited our people and oppressed our fathers, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.

Brothers, children of Abraham, and you Gentiles who fear God, it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent.

‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’

Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by man’s skill and imagination.

There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to visit them,

Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, well versed in the Scriptures.

…to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in various tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues.

And in the church God has appointed first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, and those with gifts of healing, helping, administration, and various tongues.

Assuredly, there are many different languages in the world, yet none of them is without meaning.

In my frequent journeys, I have been in danger from rivers and from bandits, in danger from my countrymen and from the Gentiles, in danger in the city and in the country, in danger on the sea and among false brothers,

I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

…circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

“I, Jesus, have sent My angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the bright Morning Star.”