And Jehu went out to the servants of his lord, which said to him, Whether all things be rightful? What came this mad man to thee? Which said to them, Ye know the man, and what he spake.
Days of visitation be come, days of yielding be come. Know ye, that Israel is a fool, a mad prophet, a spiritual man, for the multitude of thy wickedness is also the multitude of madness.
Ye shall be blessed, when men shall hate you, and separate you away, and put reproof to you [or shall put shame on you], and cast out your name as evil, for man’s Son.
And some Epicureans, and Stoics, and philosophers disputed with him. And some said, What will this sower of words say? And others said, He seemeth to be a teller of new fiends; for he told to them Jesus, and the again-rising.
When he spake these things, and yielded reason, Festus said with great voice, Paul, thou maddest [or thou waxest mad]; many letters turn thee to madness.
For the world, in wisdom of God, knew not God by wisdom, [or For why for in the wisdom of God, the world knew not God by wisdom], it pleased to God, by [the] folly of preaching, to make them safe that believed.
For a beastly man perceiveth not those things that be of the Spirit of God; for it is folly to him, and he may not understand, for it is examined, [or assayed], ghostly.
for they say, That epistles be grievous [or be heavy] and strong, but the presence of the body is feeble, and the word worthy to be despised [or it is contemptible].
If ye be despised for the name of Christ, ye shall be blessed; for that that is of the honour, and of the glory, and of the virtue of God, and the Spirit that is his, shall rest on you.