“For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer for His sake” (Philippians 1:29).

“The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach” (Acts 1:1).

“I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times” (Psalm 77:5).

“And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights” (Genesis 7:12).

“And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them” (Deuteronomy 17:19).