he came to what was his own, yet his own folk did not welcome him.
Now his people hated him and sent envoys after him to say, 'We object to him having royal power over us.'
He] is testifying to what he has seen and heard, and yet no one accepts his testimony.
He replied, "It was only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel that I was sent."
Christ, I mean, became a servant to the circumcised in order to prove God's honesty by fulfilling His promises to the fathers,
So Paul and Barnabas spoke out fearlessly. "The word of God," they said, "had to be spoken to you in the first instance; but as you push it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, well, here we turn to the Gentiles!
the patriarchs are theirs, and theirs too (so far as natural descent goes) is the Christ. (Blessed for evermore be the God who is over all! Amen.)
but when the time had fully expired, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the Law,
Brothers, sons of Abraham's race and all among you who reverence God, the message of this salvation has been sent to us.
I am telling the truth in Christ — it is no lie, my conscience bears me out in the holy Spirit
he entered the world — the world which existed through him — yet the world did not recognize him;
On those who have accepted him, however, he has conferred the right of being children of God, that is, on those who believe in his Name,
Then he said to the disciple, "And, there is your mother!" And from that hour the disciple took her to his home.
and said goodbye to one another. We went on board and they went home.