So they signalled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them; they came, and they filled both the boats so that they almost sank.

On the next Sabbath almost the whole population of the city came together to hear the Lord's Message.

and you see and hear that, not in Ephesus only but throughout almost the whole province of Asia, this fellow Paul has led away a vast number of people by inducing them to believe that they are not gods at all that are made by men's hands.

Indeed we may almost say that in obedience to the Law everything is sprinkled with blood, and that apart from the outpouring of blood there is no remission of sins.