By now a strong wind was blowing and the sea was getting rough.

While this was happening, ¹  the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching. ² 

But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”

So ¹  Peter ²  stayed many days in Joppa with a man named ³  Simon, a tanner. ⁴ 

But the word of God ¹  kept on increasing ²  and multiplying.

For through the Spirit, by faith, we wait expectantly for the hope of righteousness.

Now Sisera ran away on foot to the tent of Jael, wife of Heber the Kenite, for King Jabin of Hazor ¹  and the family of Heber the Kenite had made a peace treaty. ² 

So they left and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the desert of Maon, in the Arabah to the south of Jeshimon.

But one of the servants told Nabal’s wife Abigail, “David sent messengers from the desert to greet ¹  our lord, but he screamed at them.

Now the advisers ¹  of the king of Syria said to him: “Their God is a god of the mountains. That’s why they overpowered us. But if we fight them in the plains, we will certainly overpower them.

Now those who had been scattered because of the persecution that took place over Stephen ¹  went as far as ²  Phoenicia, ³  Cyprus, ⁴  and Antioch, ⁵  speaking the message ⁶  to no one but Jews.

Now ¹  Isaac came from ²  Beer Lahai Roi, ³  for ⁴  he was living in the Negev. ⁵ 

Now Abimelech had come ¹  to him from Gerar along with ²  Ahuzzah his friend ³  and Phicol the commander of his army.

But Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, ¹  in the land of Canaan. ² 

Then Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages and called it Nobah after his own name.

Meanwhile the six hundred Danites, fully armed, stood at the entrance to the gate. ¹ 

Now the boy Samuel was growing up and finding favor both with the Lord and with people.

The Philistines assembled all their troops ¹  at Aphek, while Israel camped at the spring that is in Jezreel.

Meanwhile David had gone to Mahanaim, while Absalom and all the men of Israel had crossed the Jordan River.

So Elijah went to make an appearance before Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria. ¹