¹⁵ “You’re out of your mind!” they said. When she insisted, they decided, “It must be his angel.”

¹⁰ “Beware that you don’t look down on any of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels are always in the presence of my heavenly Father.^[a]

²⁴ Suddenly, Festus shouted, “Paul, you are insane. Too much study has made you crazy!”

³⁷ But the whole group was startled and frightened, thinking they were seeing a ghost!

³⁸ “Why are you frightened?” he asked. “Why are your hearts filled with doubt?

¹¹ But the story sounded like nonsense to the men, so they didn’t believe it.

¹⁴ Still later he appeared to the eleven disciples as they were eating together. He rebuked them for their stubborn unbelief because they refused to believe those who had seen him after he had been raised from the dead.^[a]

¹¹ But when she told them that Jesus was alive and she had seen him, they didn’t believe her.