⁵ So I went and hid it at Perath, as the Lord told me.^(A)

¹⁶ Moses did everything just as the Lord commanded^(A) him.

⁴² The Israelites had done all the work just as the Lord had commanded Moses.^{(A) 43} Moses inspected the work and saw that they had done it just as the Lord had commanded.^(B) So Moses blessed^(C) them.

¹⁷ By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice.^(A) He who had embraced the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, ¹⁸ even though God had said to him, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.”^{[a](B) 19} Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead,^(C) and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death.

⁸ By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance,^(A) obeyed and went,^(B) even though he did not know where he was going.

³ Join with me in suffering,^(A) like a good soldier^(B) of Christ Jesus.

¹⁹ “So then, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient^(A) to the vision from heaven. ²⁰ First to those in Damascus,^(B) then to those in Jerusalem^(C) and in all Judea, and then to the Gentiles,^(D) I preached that they should repent^(E) and turn to God and demonstrate their repentance by their deeds.^(F)

⁵ His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”^(A)

⁶ Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing,^(B) each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.^[a]

⁷ Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water”; so they filled them to the brim.

⁸ Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.”

They did so,

² “The kingdom of heaven is like^(A) a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. ³ He sent his servants^(B) to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.

⁴ “Then he sent some more servants^(C) and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’

⁵ “But they paid no attention and went off—one to his field, another to his business. ⁶ The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them.