⁵ They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months.^(A) And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion^(B) when it strikes.

⁶ During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.^(A)

³⁴ “A new command^(A) I give you: Love one another.^(B) As I have loved you, so you must love one another.^(C)

³⁵ By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”^(A)