Acts 20:22

Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.

saying, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.

He said, “Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.” ’ ”

The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Don’t be afraid, but speak and don’t be silent;

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

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, “Cheer up! It is I! Don’t be afraid.”

But Jesus said to them, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”

So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

Jesus answered them, “The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus answered, “Where I am going, you can’t follow now, but you will follow afterwards.”

I came from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.”

After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty.”

Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.”

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

For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard.

For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve,

But I will come to you when I have passed through Macedonia, for I am passing through Macedonia.

But I will stay at Ephesus until Pentecost,

For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

For the Lord Yahweh will help me. Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I won’t be disappointed.

Then he came to his disciples, and said to them, “Sleep on now, and take your rest. Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.

Jesus turned and saw them following, and said to them, “What are you looking for?” They said to him, “Rabbi” (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), “where are you staying?”

Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come.”

Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God, and was going to God,

You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

A vision appeared to Paul in the night. There was a man of Macedonia standing, begging him, and saying, “Come over into Macedonia and help us.”

But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

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

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.

After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia.

but now, no longer having any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come to you,

But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed. Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you.”

From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

What do you think?” They answered, “He is worthy of death!”

He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going in front of them, and they were amazed; and those who followed were afraid. He again took the twelve, and began to tell them the things that were going to happen to him.

He went on his way through cities and villages, teaching, and traveling on to Jerusalem.

As he was on his way to Jerusalem, he was passing along the borders of Samaria and Galilee.

He took the twelve aside, and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed.

Having said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.

The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.

They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.

Again therefore he asked them, “Who are you looking for?” They said, “Jesus of Nazareth.”

When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished.” He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.

Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

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

If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be cursed. Come, Lord!

Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

We love him, because he first loved us.

“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will deliver him to the Gentiles.

It came to pass, when the days were near that he should be taken up, he intently set his face to go to Jerusalem

But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!

Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were happening to him, went out, and said to them, “Who are you looking for?”

Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.

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.”

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.

When we heard these things, both we and the people of that place begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.

The following night, the Lord stood by him and said, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome.”

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.