And David said to Gad, I am constrained on each side greatly; but it is better that I fall into the hands of the Lord, for his mercies be many, than into the hands of men.
And the man of whom the devils were gone out [or of whom the fiends went out], prayed him, that he should be with him. [Soothly] Jesus let him go, and said,
But before the feast day of pask, Jesus witting, that his hour is come, [or Jesus witting, for his hour cometh], that he pass from this world to the Father, when he had loved his that were in the world, into the end he loved them.
Father, they which thou hast given to me, I will that where I am, that they be with me, that they see my clearness, that thou hast given to me; for thou lovedest me before the making of the world.
Therefore we do thankings to God without ceasing. For when ye had taken of us the word of the hearing of God, ye took it not as the word of men, but as it is verily, the word of God, that worketh in you that have believed.
Afterward we that live, that be left, shall be ravished together with them in clouds, meeting Christ in the air; and so evermore we shall be with the Lord.
And I heard a voice from heaven, saying to me, Write thou, Blessed be dead men, that die in the Lord; from henceforth now the Spirit saith, that they rest of their travails; for the works of them pursue them.