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But the angel said to him, "Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son; you will name him John.

Verse ConceptsBarren WomenAnswered PrayerChildbirthHeraldAngel, AnnouncementsBirths ForetoldGod Naming PeopleGod Answered Prayer

But she was greatly troubled by his words and began to wonder about the meaning of this greeting.

Verse ConceptsTrouble, Causes OfPuzzlementSpoken Greetings

But his mother replied, "No! He must be named John."

Verse ConceptsDissentGod Naming Peopleluck

They said to her, "But none of your relatives bears this name."

Verse ConceptsPeople Naming PeopleRelativesFamily And Friends

But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid! Listen carefully, for I proclaim to you good news that brings great joy to all the people:

Verse ConceptsChristmasevangelism, nature ofHeraldPromised JoyGood TidingsRejoicing In God's WordJoyNativity of Jesus ChristJesus BirthPeace And Comfortgabrielreassurance

But Mary treasured up all these words, pondering in her heart what they might mean.

Verse ConceptsHeart, HumanMothers, Examples OfHuman IntellectMeditation

But when the feast was over, as they were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it,

Verse ConceptsStaying PutNot Knowing About Christparenthood

but (because they assumed that he was in their group of travelers) they went a day's journey. Then they began to look for him among their relatives and acquaintances.

Verse ConceptsCaravans

John answered them all, "I baptize you with water, but one more powerful than I am is coming -- I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Verse ConceptsBaptism Of The Holy SpiritBaptism, in the GospelsSending Of The Holy SpiritThe Outpouring Of The Holy Spirit,ShoesThe Holy Spirit, And SanctificationPromises Of The Holy SpiritWater For BaptismUndoing FasteningsSymbols of the Holy Spirit

His winnowing fork is in his hand to clean out his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire."

Verse ConceptsEternal DeathExhortation, Objects OfThreshing FloorToolsWinnowingGathering FoodReapingBurning PlantsGod's Storehousesgirlfriends

But when John rebuked Herod the tetrarch because of Herodias, his brother's wife, and because of all the evil deeds that he had done,

Verse ConceptsRebukeWivesRulers Of A FourthNamed Gentile Rulers

But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in Elijah's days, when the sky was shut up three and a half years, and there was a great famine over all the land.

Verse ConceptsFamine, Examples OfSkyThree And A Half YearsSealing ThingsLack Of RainActual WidowsIndividual ProphetsMany In IsraelThe Universe AffectedTimes Of People

Yet Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to a woman who was a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.

Verse ConceptsRelations With ForeignersOnly One PersonActual Widows

But he passed through the crowd and went on his way.

Verse ConceptsCrowdsPassing ThroughAnonymity

But Jesus rebuked him: "Silence! Come out of him!" Then, after the demon threw the man down in their midst, he came out of him without hurting him.

Verse ConceptsExorcismsSilenceJesus Casting Out DemonsThose Jesus HealedDemonic Influence

Demons also came out of many, crying out, "You are the Son of God!" But he rebuked them, and would not allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.

Verse ConceptsExorcismsDemons, Exorcism OfRebukeShoutingJesus Recognised As The ChristEvil Spirits DiscernmentJesus Casting Out DemonsChrist Concealing ThingsSaid To Be The Christ

He saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gotten out of them and were washing their nets.

Verse ConceptsFishermenFishingClean ObjectsTwo Other Things

Simon answered, "Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing! But at your word I will lower the nets."

Verse ConceptsNothingFishingActing All NightFishSuccess And Hard Work

Then he ordered the man to tell no one, but commanded him, "Go and show yourself to a priest, and bring the offering for your cleansing, as Moses commanded, as a testimony to them."

Verse ConceptsPriesthood, In NtPriests, Tasks In Nt TimesWitness To The GospelChrist Concealing ThingsPeople Made Known

But the news about him spread even more, and large crowds were gathering together to hear him and to be healed of their illnesses.

Verse ConceptsHealingFameInfirmitiesSecret PrayerHearing ChristJesus HealingTelling Of JesusComing Together

But since they found no way to carry him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down on the stretcher through the roof tiles right in front of Jesus.

Verse ConceptsRooftopCrowdsHousesRoofHousetopsBedsLowering PeopleDisadvantages Of Crowds

Then the experts in the law and the Pharisees began to think to themselves, "Who is this man who is uttering blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

Verse ConceptsCriticism, against believersFaultsClaimsDisputesBlasphemy, Falsely AccusedGod AloneWho Is Jesus?BlasphemyPharisees Concerned About ChristWho Can Forgive Sins?Finding Fault With Jesus

But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins" -- he said to the paralyzed man -- "I tell you, stand up, take your stretcher and go home."

Verse ConceptsSon Of ManParalyticsBedsChrist ForgivingGet Up!Who Can Forgive Sins?

But the Pharisees and their experts in the law complained to his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?"

Verse ConceptsFaultsComplaintsSectsStatusTax CollectorsMurmuringDisputesGrumbling At PeopleOpposition To Christ From ScribesFinding Fault With Jesus

Jesus answered them, "Those who are well don't need a physician, but those who are sick do.

Verse ConceptsCuresdoctorsTax CollectorsGod As DoctorHealth Achieved

Then they said to him, "John's disciples frequently fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours continue to eat and drink."

Verse ConceptsFasting, Practice OfAsceticism, People PracticingPharisees, Beliefs OfPrayer, Practicalities OfDisciples Of John The BaptistEating And DrinkingWho Will FastFastingFasting And Prayer

But those days are coming, and when the bridegroom is taken from them, at that time they will fast."

Verse ConceptsTaking ChristWho Will FastJesus As A BridegroomFasting

But some of the Pharisees said, "Why are you doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?"

Verse ConceptsComplaintsConfrontationRitualLegalismDisputesPharisees Concerned About ChristThe Sabbath And Christ

how he entered the house of God, took and ate the sacred bread, which is not lawful for any to eat but the priests alone, and gave it to his companions?"

Verse ConceptsEntering The Tabernacle

But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man who had the withered hand, "Get up and stand here." So he rose and stood there.

Verse ConceptsJesus Christ, Omniscience OfHow Jesus Knows The HeartMan's ThoughtsChrist Knowing About People

A disciple is not greater than his teacher, but everyone when fully trained will be like his teacher.

Verse ConceptsChristlikenessdiscipleship, nature ofTeachersInferiorityBecoming Like Peopletraining

Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own?

Verse ConceptsFools, In Teaching Of Jesus ChristEyesdust

He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep, and laid the foundation on bedrock. When a flood came, the river burst against that house but could not shake it, because it had been well built.

Verse ConceptsFoundations Of BuildingsStones For Protection

But the person who hears and does not put my words into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the river burst against that house, it collapsed immediately, and was utterly destroyed!"

Verse ConceptsFools, In Teaching Of Jesus ChristCarelessnessLossShallownessHearing ChristThings Falling

A centurion there had a slave who was highly regarded, but who was sick and at the point of death.

Verse ConceptsdiseasesMastersEmployers, Good ExamplesNearness Of DeathDeath Looms NearPrecious

Then, turning toward the woman, he said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I entered your house. You gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.

Verse ConceptsFoot washingFeetFeet WashingGuestsWaterMealsDiscourtesyMan Providing WaterMoist ThingsPeople Drying Things UpClean FeetCare Of FeetOther References To Hair

You gave me no kiss of greeting, but from the time I entered she has not stopped kissing my feet.

Verse ConceptsKissing ChristMealsKissesCare Of Feet

You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with perfumed oil.

Verse ConceptsAnointing With OilGuestsOintmentAnointed By PeopleCare Of FeetAnointing Oil

Therefore I tell you, her sins, which were many, are forgiven, thus she loved much; but the one who is forgiven little loves little."

Verse ConceptsLove Towards Christ, The Nature OfLove For GodReceived OutcastsGod Has ForgivenNot Loving GodForgivenessLove And Forgiveness

But those who were at the table with him began to say among themselves, "Who is this, who even forgives sins?"

Verse ConceptsReclining To EatWho Is Jesus?Christ ForgivingWho Can Forgive Sins?forgiving othersGod's ForgivenessLove And Forgivenessforgiving

But other seed fell on good soil and grew, and it produced a hundred times as much grain." As he said this, he called out, "The one who has ears to hear had better listen!"

Verse ConceptsHearingThe Cries Of ChristOne HundredFertile LandLand ProducingPlants Growing UpHundredfold Return

Those on the rock are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while, but in a time of testing fall away.

Verse ConceptsApostatesWarnings Against ApostasyHeart, Fallen And RedeemedTemptation, Universality OfEnticementHearing God's WordBeing TemptedBelief In GodRejoicing In God's Wordtrailsimpulsiveness

"No one lights a lamp and then covers it with a jar or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a lampstand so that those who come in can see the light.

Verse ConceptsDisclosuresLight Of Lamps

So listen carefully, for whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken from him."

Verse ConceptsPossessingAdding BlessingThoughts Of The WickedTaking HeedThose To Whom God GivesTaking God's Things

Now Jesus' mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not get near him because of the crowd.

Verse ConceptsPopularityPopularity Of ChristChrist's Earthly FamilyDisadvantages Of CrowdsHalf brothers

Then he said to them, "Where is your faith?" But they were afraid and amazed, saying to one another, "Who then is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him!"

Verse ConceptsConfusionFaith, Growth InLack Of FaithAmazement, Of Christ's MiraclesNot Believing In JesusWho Is Jesus?The Sea Stilled

As Jesus stepped ashore, a certain man from the town met him who was possessed by demons. For a long time this man had worn no clothes and had not lived in a house, but among the tombs.

Verse ConceptsLonelinessSpiritsNaked In PovertyMeeting PeopleAction For A Long TimeThose DemonisedDemons

For Jesus had started commanding the evil spirit to come out of the man. (For it had seized him many times, so he would be bound with chains and shackles and kept under guard. But he would break the restraints and be driven by the demon into deserted places.)

Verse ConceptsChainsDemons, Nature OfRestlessnessSatan, Character OfIron ChainsLiving In The WildernessJesus Casting Out DemonsBreaking Chains

The man from whom the demons had gone out begged to go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,

Verse ConceptsChrist With People On Earth

But Jesus said, "Someone touched me, for I know that power has gone out from me."

Verse ConceptsGod, Power OfPower, God's SavingTouching For Healingenergy

Now they were all wailing and mourning for her, but he said, "Stop your weeping; she is not dead but asleep."

Verse ConceptsLamentingMourningSorrowDo Not MournMourning The Death Of Others

But Jesus gently took her by the hand and said, "Child, get up."

Verse ConceptsDead bodiesTaking By The HandGet Up!Raising Children

Her parents were astonished, but he ordered them to tell no one what had happened.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in NTAmazement, Of Christ's MiraclesChrist Concealing Things

Herod said, "I had John beheaded, but who is this about whom I hear such things?" So Herod wanted to learn about Jesus.

Verse ConceptsBeheadingMartyrdom, Methods OfRemoving HeadsKilling DisciplesThe First Sight Of ChristWho Is Jesus?

But when the crowds found out, they followed him. He welcomed them, spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and cured those who needed healing.

Verse ConceptsFollowing Jesus ChristdoctorsHealingCrowds Around JesusWelcomed By GodJesus Healing

But he said to them, "You give them something to eat." They replied, "We have no more than five loaves and two fish -- unless we go and buy food for all these people."

Verse ConceptsdoubtersFive ThingsBuying FoodFeeding GroupsTwo AnimalsFish

But he forcefully commanded them not to tell this to anyone,

Verse ConceptsChrist Concealing ThingsChrist's Orders

But I tell you most certainly, there are some standing here who will not experience death before they see the kingdom of God."

Verse ConceptsKingdom Of God, Coming OfProphecies Said By JesusTasteNot DyingDeath AvertedLooking At God's Works

Now Peter and those with him were quite sleepy, but as they became fully awake, they saw his glory and the two men standing with him.

Verse ConceptsGlory, Revelation OfSleep, PhysicalGod's Glory In Jesus ChristChrist's Own GloryTwo Other Men

As the boy was approaching, the demon threw him to the ground and shook him with convulsions. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.

Verse ConceptsRebukeSpiritsSatan, Work OfConvulsionsThose Jesus HealedSigns Of Possible Demon Possession

But they did not understand this statement; its meaning had been concealed from them, so that they could not grasp it. Yet they were afraid to ask him about this statement.

Verse ConceptsDullnessNot Asking OthersFear Of ChristNot Understanding SayingsGod's Things Concealed

But when Jesus discerned their innermost thoughts, he took a child, had him stand by his side,

Verse ConceptsThoughtChrist Knowing About PeopleDealing With Young PeopleSide Of People

But Jesus said to him, "Do not stop him, for whoever is not against you is for you."

Verse ConceptsPeople Opposed

but the villagers refused to welcome him, because he was determined to go to Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsInhospitalityRacial PrejudiceNot Welcoming Christwelcome

Jesus said to another, "Follow me." But he replied, "Lord, first let me go and bury my father."

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to Jesus ChristFirst ActionsInstructions About Following

But Jesus said to him, "Let the dead bury their own dead, but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God."

Verse ConceptsMinisters, Should Not BeGo And PreachSpiritually Deadgoodbyes

He said to them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest.

Verse ConceptsBinding cornHarvestMissionaries, Task OfOpportunities, And SalvationMissionary WorkFruitful LabourReapingReapersFew In The KingdomWorkers

And if a peace-loving person is there, your peace will remain on him, but if not, it will return to you.

Verse ConceptsReversion Of ThingsMen Of Peace

But whenever you enter a town and the people do not welcome you, go into its streets and say,

Verse ConceptsNot Welcoming PeopleUsing Roadswelcome

For I tell you that many prophets and kings longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it."

Verse ConceptsNot Seeing Spiritual ThingsNature Of KingsUnhearing

Now by chance a priest was going down that road, but when he saw the injured man he passed by on the other side.

Verse ConceptsPassing ByHeartlessnessluckpriestsstories

But a Samaritan who was traveling came to where the injured man was, and when he saw him, he felt compassion for him.

Verse ConceptsOpportunities, In LifeOutsidersTravelPeople Showing Mercy

But Martha was distracted with all the preparations she had to make, so she came up to him and said, "Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Tell her to help me."

Verse ConceptsBusynessCriticism, against believersImpatienceDiscourtesyActing AloneServing ChristComplaintsServingSiblingsWorryingServing GodDoing The Right ThingServing The Churchluckdistractionscookinghelping