They come to you as the people comes, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don't do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
for Herod feared Yochanan, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he did many things, and he heard him gladly.
When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. It happened, that for a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly, and taught many people. The talmidim were first called Messianic in Antioch.
As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, *Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.*
Sha'ul said, *I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me this day, might become such as I am, except for these bonds.*
But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.