“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,
So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.
“I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you. For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.
But many of those who had heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand.
For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience—by word and deed, by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God—so that from Jerusalem and all the way around to Illyricum I have fulfilled the ministry of the gospel of Christ;
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,
but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith—
To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
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