He is a guest in the home of Simon the tanner, who lives by the sea.’ 33 So I sent for you immediately, and it was good of you to come. Now we are all here in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has commanded you to tell us.” 34 Then Peter began to ...
44It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon,45for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the templewas torn in two.46Jesus called out with a loud voice,“Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.”[e]When he had said this, he...
The speeches continued. A surprising number of the groom’s friends wanted to put in a word, but it seemed they had nothing to say. They stumbled for the most part towards the facetious, a sort of boastful inarticulacy. Why, I wondered, did the white New Zealanders, well educated and ...