After these days Elizabeth his wife became pregnant, and she kept herself in seclusion for five months, saying,

“And His mercy is upon generation after generation
Toward those who fear Him.

And it happened that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to call him Zacharias, after his father.

And there was a prophetess, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years and had lived with her husband seven years after her marriage,

and as they were returning, after spending the full number of days, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. But His parents were unaware of it,

Then, after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions.

After that He went out and noticed a tax collector named Levi sitting in the tax booth, and He said to him, “Follow Me.”

And no one, after drinking old wine wishes for new; for he says, ‘The old is good enough.’”

After looking around at them all, He said to him, “Stretch out your hand!” And he did so; and his hand was restored.

A pupil is not above his teacher; but everyone, after he has been fully trained, will be like his teacher.

“Now no one after lighting a lamp covers it over with a container, or puts it under a bed; but he puts it on a lampstand, so that those who come in may see the light.

And He was saying to them all, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me.

Some eight days after these sayings, He took along Peter and John and James, and went up on the mountain to pray.

But Jesus said to him, “No one, after putting his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”

Now after this the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them in pairs ahead of Him to every city and place where He Himself was going to come.

It happened that while Jesus was praying in a certain place, after He had finished, one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray just as John also taught his disciples.”

“No one, after lighting a lamp, puts it away in a cellar nor under a basket, but on the lampstand, so that those who enter may see the light.

Under these circumstances, after so many thousands of people had gathered together that they were stepping on one another, He began saying to His disciples first of all, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

“I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that have no more that they can do.

But I will warn you whom to fear: fear the One who, after He has killed, has authority to cast into hell; yes, I tell you, fear Him!

Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.

“What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go after the one which is lost until he finds it?

They will say to you, ‘Look there! Look here!’ Do not go away, and do not run after them.

and after they have scourged Him, they will kill Him; and the third day He will rise again.”

But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’

When he returned, after receiving the kingdom, he ordered that these slaves, to whom he had given the money, be called to him so that he might know what business they had done.

After He had said these things, He was going on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.

And He said, “See to it that you are not misled; for many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am He,’ and, ‘The time is near.’ Do not go after them.

And in the same way He took the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood.

After they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and had sat down together, Peter was sitting among them.

After about an hour had passed, another man began to insist, saying, “Certainly this man also was with Him, for he is a Galilean too.”

And Herod with his soldiers, after treating Him with contempt and mocking Him, dressed Him in a gorgeous robe and sent Him back to Pilate.

And they, after worshiping Him, returned to Jerusalem with great joy,