He came to what was his own, but his own people did not accept him.
He said in reply, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
His fellow citizens, however, despised him and sent a delegation after him to announce, ‘We do not want this man to be our king.’
He was in the world, and the world came to be through him, but the world did not know him.
But to those who did accept him he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name,
Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.
He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony.
“My brothers, children of the family of Abraham, and those others among you who are God-fearing, to us this word of salvation has been sent.
Both Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and said, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken to you first, but since you reject it and condemn yourselves as unworthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.
we bade farewell to one another. Then we boarded the ship, and they returned home. Arrival at Ptolemais and Caesarea.
For I say that Christ became a minister of the circumcised to show God’s truthfulness, to confirm the promises to the patriarchs,
I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie; my conscience joins with the holy Spirit in bearing me witness
theirs the patriarchs, and from them, according to the flesh, is the Messiah. God who is over all be blessed forever. Amen. God’s Free Choice.
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,