Quotes About History

They have known me for a long time and can testify, if they are willing, that I lived as a Pharisee, adhering to the strictest sect of our religion.

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”

For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.

Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow countrymen and fellow prisoners. They are outstanding among the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was.

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea.

Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.

Fourteen years later I went up again to Jerusalem, accompanied by Barnabas. I took Titus along also.

On many past occasions and in many different ways, God spoke to our fathers through the prophets.

where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.

For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?

And what more shall I say? Time will not allow me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets,

“Where is the promise of His coming?” they will ask. “Ever since our fathers fell asleep, everything continues as it has from the beginning of creation.”

through which the world of that time perished in the flood.

Although you are fully aware of this, I want to remind you that after Jesus had delivered His people out of the land of Egypt, He destroyed those who did not believe.

Therefore write down the things you have seen, and the things that are, and the things that will happen after this.

There are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, and the other has not yet come; but when he does come, he must remain for only a little while.