So they left the town and began coming to him.
Who are these who float along like a cloud, who fly like doves to their shelters?
So the last will be first, and the first last.”
“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Surely he can’t be the Messiah, can he?”
Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, “Rabbi, eat something.”
Now many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the report of the woman who testified, “He told me everything I ever did.”
Therefore I sent for you at once, and you were kind enough to come. So now we are all here in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has commanded you to say to us.”
As Paul and Barnabas were going out, the people were urging them to speak about these things on the next Sabbath.
“Therefore be advised that this salvation from God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen!”
Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,