Superstitions

But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.

Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day, — read the full passage →

But some of the itinerant Jews, exorcists, took on themselves to invoke over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, “We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.” — read the full passage →

When the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, “It’s a ghost!” and they cried out for fear.

Behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their borders.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

for they all saw him, and were troubled. But he immediately spoke with them, and said to them, “Cheer up! It is I! Don’t be afraid.”

But Herod, when he heard this, said, “This is John, whom I beheaded. He has risen from the dead.”

But they expected that he would have swollen or fallen down dead suddenly, but when they watched for a long time and saw nothing bad happen to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.

but had certain questions against him about their own religion, and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

They said to her, “You are crazy!” But she insisted that it was so. They said, “It is his angel.”

When she recognized Peter’s voice, she didn’t open the gate for joy, but ran in, and reported that Peter was standing in front of the gate.

but they, when they saw him walking on the sea, supposed that it was a ghost, and cried out;

King Herod heard this, for his name had become known, and he said, “John the Baptizer has risen from the dead, and therefore these powers are at work in him.”