He was the one the prophet Isaiah was referring to when he said, "He is a voice calling out in the wilderness: "Prepare the way for the Lord! Make his paths straight!'"

"Follow me," he told them, "and I will make you fishers of people!"

"How blessed are those who make peace, because it is they who will be called God's children!

Nor should you swear by your head, because you cannot make one hair white or black.

so that you will become children of your Father in heaven, because he makes his sun rise on both evil and good people, and he lets rain fall on the righteous and the unrighteous.

Suddenly, a leper came up to him, fell down before him, and said, "Sir, if you want to, you can make me clean."

As you go, make this announcement: "The kingdom from heaven is near!'

ordering them not to make him known.

"Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten, because a tree is known by its fruit.

It is not what goes into the mouth that makes a person unclean. It is what comes out of the mouth that makes a person unclean."

But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and it is those things that make a person unclean.

These are the things that make a person unclean. But eating with unwashed hands doesn't make a person unclean."

"How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to make a single convert, and when this happens you make him twice as fit for hell as you are.

You blind men! Which is more important, the gift or the altar that makes the gift holy?

On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the disciples approached Jesus and asked, "Where do you want us to make preparations for you to eat the Passover meal?"

Pilate told them, "You have a military guard. Go and make the tomb as secure as you know how."