Then it goes and brings along with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they come in and live there; and the last condition of that person becomes worse than the first. That is the way it will also be with this evil generation.”

But many who are first will be last; and the last, first.

“Now when evening came, the owner of the vineyard *said to his foreman, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, starting with the last group to the first.’

So the last shall be first, and the first, last.”

Therefore, give orders for the tomb to be made secure until the third day; otherwise, His disciples may come and steal Him, and say to the people, ‘He has risen from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”

And sitting down, He called the twelve and *said to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all.”

But many who are first will be last, and the last, first.”

The Last Passover

On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was being sacrificed, His disciples *said to Him, “Where do You want us to go and prepare for You to eat the Passover?”

Then it goes and brings along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they come in and live there; and the last condition of that person becomes worse than the first.”

And behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. And He placed His right hand on me, saying, “Do not be afraid; I am the first and the last,

Message to Smyrna

“And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life, says this:

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”