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As soon as Jesus was baptized, He went up out of the water. Suddenly the heavens were opened, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and resting on Him.

When He saw the crowds, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

About five thousand men were fed, besides women and children.

After shrieking and convulsing him violently, the spirit came out. The boy became like a corpse, so that many said, “He is dead.”

Jesus Himself was about thirty years old when He began His ministry. He was regarded as the son of Joseph, the son of Heli,

(There were about five thousand men.) He told His disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”

About eight days after Jesus had said these things, He took with Him Peter, John, and James, and went up on a mountain to pray.

And He withdrew about a stone’s throw beyond them, where He knelt down and prayed,

And in His anguish, He prayed more earnestly, and His sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.

About an hour later, another man insisted, “Certainly this man was with Him, for he too is a Galilean.”

It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over all the land until the ninth hour.

But their words seemed like nonsense to them, and they did not believe the women.

In those days Peter stood up among the brothers (a gathering of about a hundred and twenty) and said,

They saw tongues like flames of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.

Those who embraced his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to the believers that day.

All who were sitting in the Sanhedrin looked intently at Stephen, and they saw that his face was like the face of an angel.

One day at about the ninth hour, he had a clear vision of an angel of God who came to him and said, “Cornelius!”

There were about twelve men in all.

Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and present the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness.

You will roll them up like a robe; like a garment they will be changed; but You remain the same, and Your years will never end.”