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Ask a QuestionBy myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.
Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written: 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"
He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation,
If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him."
"If I said something wrong," Jesus replied, "testify as to what is wrong. But if I spoke the truth, why did you strike me?"
When Pilate heard this, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge's seat at a place known as the Stone Pavement (which in Aramaic is Gabbatha).
They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them.
Heaven must receive him until the time comes for God to restore everything, as he promised long ago through his holy prophets.
When he saw this, he was amazed at the sight. As he went over to get a closer look, he heard the Lord say:
"Surely no one can stand in the way of their being baptized with water. They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have."
As they traveled from town to town, they delivered the decisions reached by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the people to obey.
As was his custom, Paul went into the synagogue, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.
'For in him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.'
Paul answered: "I am now standing before Caesar's court, where I ought to be tried. I have not done any wrong to the Jews, as you yourself know very well.
They have known me for a long time and can testify, if they are willing, that I conformed to the strictest sect of our religion, living as a Pharisee.
Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, you have become as though you had not been circumcised.
Someone might argue, "If my falsehood enhances God's truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?"
However, to the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness.
Is this blessedness only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? We have been saying that Abraham's faith was credited to him as righteousness.