⁹ if we are being examined today ^(A)concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,

¹⁵ but ^(A)in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, ^(B)always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and ^(C)respect, ^16 (D)having a good conscience, so that, ^(E)when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame. ¹⁷ For ^(F)it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil.

⁷ And he took him by the right hand and raised him up, and immediately his feet and ankles were made strong.

^14 (A)If you are insulted ^(B)for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory^[a] and of God rests upon you.

³² Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?”

²³ If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, ^(A)are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man's whole body well?