Lexicon :: Strong's G5616 - hōsei

When Jesus was baptized, he went up immediately from the water. The heavens suddenly opened for him,[fn] and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming down on him.

When he saw the crowds, he felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and dejected, like sheep without a shepherd.

Now those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.

Then it came out, shrieking and throwing him into terrible convulsions. The boy became like a corpse, so that many said, “He’s dead.”

As he began his ministry, Jesus was about thirty years old and was thought to be the

son of Joseph, son of Heli,

(For about five thousand men were there.)

Then he told his disciples, “Have them sit down[fn] in groups of about fifty each.”

About eight days after this conversation, he took along Peter, John, and James and went up on the mountain to pray.

Then he withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, knelt down, and began to pray,

Being in anguish, he prayed more fervently, and his sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.[fn]

About an hour later, another kept insisting, “This man was certainly with him, since he’s also a Galilean.”

It was now about noon,[fn] and darkness came over the whole land[fn] until three,[fn]

But these words seemed like nonsense to them, and they did not believe the women.

In those days Peter stood up among the brothers and sisters[fn] ​— ​the number of people who were together was about a hundred twenty ​— ​and said,

They saw tongues like flames of fire that separated and rested on each one of them.

So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand people were added to them.

And all who were sitting in the Sanhedrin looked intently at him and saw that his face was like the face of an angel.

About three in the afternoon[fn] he distinctly saw in a vision an angel of God who came in and said to him, “Cornelius.”

Now there were about twelve men in all.

And do not offer any parts[fn] of it to sin as weapons for unrighteousness. But as those who are alive from the dead, offer yourselves to God, and all the parts of yourselves to God as weapons for righteousness.

you will roll them up like a cloak,[fn]

and they will be changed like clothing.

But you are the same,

and your years will never end.