All this ¹  monotony ²  is tiresome; no one can bear ³  to describe it: ⁴  The eye is never satisfied with seeing, nor is the ear ever content ⁵  with hearing.

Is there anything about which someone can say, “Look at this! It is new!”? ¹  It was already ²  done long ago, ³  before our time. ⁴ 

Even when a fool walks along the road he lacks sense, ¹  and shows ²  everyone what a fool he is. ³ 

Certainly you have heard how the kings of Assyria have annihilated all lands. ¹  Do you really think you will be rescued? ² 

The living person, the living person, he gives you thanks, as I do today. A father tells his sons about your faithfulness.

Though I scatter ¹  them among the nations, they will remember in far-off places – they and their children will sprout forth and return.

The ¹  herdsmen ran off, went into the town, ²  and told everything that had happened to the demon-possessed men.

“What ¹  do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’

“At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

“For it is like a man going on a journey, who summoned his slaves ¹  and entrusted his property to them.

Now ¹  the herdsmen ran off and spread the news in the town and countryside, and the people went out to see what had happened.

Then the woman, with fear and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before him and told him the whole truth.

They came to the house of the synagogue ruler where ¹  he saw noisy confusion and people weeping and wailing loudly. ² 

So ¹  it seemed good to me as well, ²  because I have followed ³  all things carefully from the beginning, to write an orderly account ⁴  for you, most excellent Theophilus,

He also told them a parable: “Someone who is blind cannot lead another who is blind, can he? ¹  Won’t they both fall ²  into a pit?

When ¹  the herdsmen saw what had happened, they ran off and spread the news ²  in the town ³  and countryside.

and when they did not find his body, they came back and said they had seen a vision of angels, ¹  who said he was alive.

Then they told what had happened on the road, ¹  and how they recognized him ²  when he broke the bread.

The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (the one called Christ); ¹  “whenever he ²  comes, he will tell ³  us everything.” ⁴ 

But they said to her, “You’ve lost your mind!” ¹  But she kept insisting that it was Peter, ²  and they kept saying, ³  “It is his angel!” ⁴