Acts 12:13

While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut.

Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.

Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”

But I will stay at Ephesus until Pentecost,

Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?

All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the local governors, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong decree, that whoever asks a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?

and he from within will answer and say, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I can’t get up and give it to you’?

You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.

Then Sarah denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh,” for she was afraid. He said, “No, but you did laugh.”

“You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year’s end.

They rose up early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, “Behold, we are here, and will go up to the place which Yahweh has promised; for we have sinned.”

You will cry out in that day because of your king whom you will have chosen for yourselves; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”

When Saul saw David go out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the captain of the army, “Abner, whose son is this youth?” Abner said, “As your soul lives, O king, I can’t tell.”

They cried, but there was no one to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.

For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him.

“The harvest is past. The summer has ended, and we are not saved.”

Therefore I will also deal in wrath. My eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity. Though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.”

If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste. He spoke and said to his counselors, “Didn’t we cast three men bound into the middle of the fire?” They answered the king, “True, O king.”

it is you, O king, that have grown and become strong; for your greatness has grown, and reaches to the sky, and your dominion to the end of the earth.

Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”

Then the king’s face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.

“You, king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty.

My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”

They cry to me, ‘My God, we Israel acknowledge you!’

They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn’t approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off.

Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”

It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen,” said Yahweh of Armies;

But Peter answered him, “Even if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to stumble.”

Jesus said to him, “Most certainly I tell you, that you today, even this night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.”

The maid saw him, and began again to tell those who stood by, “This is one of them.”

When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’

They seized him, and led him away, and brought him into the high priest’s house. But Peter followed from a distance.

A certain servant girl saw him as he sat in the light, and looking intently at him, said, “This man also was with him.”

They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus said to them, “I am he.” Judas also, who betrayed him, was standing with them.

Jesus answered, “I told you that I am he. If therefore you seek me, let these go their way,”

but Peter was standing at the door outside. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to her who kept the door, and brought in Peter.

Then the maid who kept the door said to Peter, “Are you also one of this man’s disciples?” He said, “I am not.”

Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him, “You aren’t also one of his disciples, are you?” He denied it and said, “I am not.”

Then Simon Peter came, following him, and entered into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying,

So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”

He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”

When they had come in, they went up into the upper room where they were staying; that is Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and people from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia,

But rise up and enter into the city, then you will be told what you must do.”

But Peter continued knocking. When they had opened, they saw him, and were amazed.

When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.

He came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.

When they asked him to stay with them a longer time, he declined;

but taking his leave of them, he said, “I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if God wills.” Then he set sail from Ephesus.

We sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and came to them at Troas in five days, where we stayed seven days.

But we, going ahead to the ship, set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there; for he had so arranged, intending himself to go by land.

For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.

Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;

Having found disciples, we stayed there seven days. These said to Paul through the Spirit that he should not go up to Jerusalem.

As we stayed there some days, a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

Now after some years, I came to bring gifts for the needy to my nation, and offerings;

at noon, O king, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who traveled with me.

King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe.”

But now, I say, I am going to Jerusalem, serving the saints.

This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

Those who went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; then Yahweh shut him in.

For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

for he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you. In a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.