I was with you in the Temple every day, and you did not try to arrest me. But this is your hour to act, when the power of darkness rules."

I cannot talk with you much longer, because the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me,

But the Lord stayed with me and gave me strength, so that I was able to proclaim the full message for all the Gentiles to hear; and I was rescued from being sentenced to death.

Be alert, be on watch! Your enemy, the Devil, roams around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.

God has brought them out of Egypt; He fights for them like a wild ox.

Joseph has the strength of a bull, The horns of a wild ox. His horns are Manasseh's thousands And Ephraim's ten thousands. With them he gores the nations And pushes them to the ends of the earth."

Will a wild ox work for you? Is he willing to spend the night in your stable?

Can you hold one with a rope and make him plow? Or make him pull a harrow in your fields?

The people will fall like wild oxen and young bulls, and the earth will be red with blood and covered with fat.

Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and left the Temple.

For indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together in this city with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Jesus, your holy Servant, whom you made Messiah.

The God of our ancestors raised Jesus from death, after you had killed him by nailing him to a cross.

We are witnesses to these things---we and the Holy Spirit, who is God's gift to those who obey him."