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He began to tell the people this parable. “A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time.

Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad, for he had wanted to see him for a long time, because he had heard many things about him. He hoped to see some miracle done by him.

When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to be made well?”

Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.

Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’

Therefore when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?”

He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.

“Of the men therefore who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets.

“But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.

They listened to him, because for a long time he had amazed them with his sorceries.

For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

They stayed there with the disciples for a long time.

After they had spent some time there, they were sent back with greetings from the brothers to the apostles.

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

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

Having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples.

Having sent into Macedonia two of those who served him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.

When they had come to him, he said to them, “You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time,

When much time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, because the Fast had now already gone by, Paul admonished them

Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?

{14.24} To Him now being able you to strengthen according to the gospel of mine and the preaching of Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery in times of the ages kept secret,

A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.

For I do not wish to see you now in passing, but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits.

But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all,

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,

But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you.

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts.”

For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets,

If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,

who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

They said to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”