^12 (A)And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.

^29 (A)Or how can one enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he will plunder his house.

¹⁹ When anyone hears the word ^(A)of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the wayside.

Jesus Walks on the Sea^(A)

¹⁵ Therefore when Jesus perceived that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him ^(B)king, He departed again to the mountain by Himself alone.

¹² But a ^[a]hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and ^(A)leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them.

²⁸ And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. ^29 (A)My Father, ^(B)who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand.

¹⁰ Now when there arose a great dissension, the commander, fearing lest Paul might be pulled to pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.

²³ but ^(A)others save ^[a]with fear, ^(B)pulling them out of the ^[b]fire, hating even ^(C)the garment defiled by the flesh.