Very early in the morning (prōi | πρωΐ | adverb), while it was still dark, Very Jesus arose, left the house and went out to a deserted place; and there he spent time in prayer.

In the morning (prōi | πρωΐ | adverb), as he was returning to the city, he became hungry.

“For the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of an estate who went out early in the morning to hire men to work in his vineyard.

and in the morning (prōi | πρωΐ | adverb), ‘It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot evaluate the signs of the times?

But caught in some crosscurrents, they ran the ship aground; the bow stuck and remained immovable, but the stern (prymna | πρύμνα | nom sg fem) began to break up by the force of the waves.

Fearing that we might run aground on the rocky coast, they dropped four anchors from the stern (prymnēs | πρύμνης | gen sg fem) and prayed for day to come.

But Jesus was in the stern (prymnē | πρύμνῃ | dat sg fem), sleeping on a cushion. sleeping They woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care you that we are perishing?”

And the proposal pleased the entire group, so they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit; also Philip and Prochorus (Prochoron | Πρόχορον | acc sg masc) and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch.

not to all the people but to witnesses who had been previously chosen (prokecheirotonēmenois | προκεχειροτονημένοις | perf pass ptcp dat pl masc) by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

But get up and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint (procheirisasthai | προχειρίσασθαι | aor mid inf ) you a servant and witness both to the things in which you have seen and to those in which I will appear to you.