Now the child continued to grow and to become spiritually strong. He lived in the wilderness until the day he appeared in Israel.

in order to register with Mary, who was betrothed to him, and was with child.

Meanwhile, the child continued to grow and to become strong. He was filled with wisdom, and God's favor rested upon him.

Every valley shall be filled, And every mountain and hill shall be brought low; And the crooked shall become straight, And the rough ways smooth;

And all mankind will see the salvation of God [i.e., become available to them]."

and the holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon him; and a voice came from heaven, "Thou art my son, the Beloved, to-day have I become thy father."

And the devil said unto him, if thou art the Son of God, command this stone that it become bread.

to proclaim the year of the Lord's acceptance [i.e., the time when people would become His obedient followers]."

Stretching out his hand, Jesus touched him, saying as he did so: "I am willing; become clean." Instantly the leprosy left the man;

Then after these things happened, Jesus went out [i.e., probably walking along a street] and saw a publican [Note: This was a person with a bad reputation for dishonest tax collecting activities] named Matthew [i.e., the same as Levi. See Mark 2:14] sitting at the toll booth [collecting taxes] and said, "Become my follower."

And no one puts freshly squeezed grape juice into previously used bottles made of animal skins. [If he does], the newly squeezed juice will [crack and] burst the [dried out] animal skins and [all the juice will] spill out, and the animal skin bottles will [also] become useless.

Then, looking round at them all, he said to the man: "Stretch out your hand." The man did so; and his hand had become sound.

Become ye compassionate, according as, your Father, is, compassionate;

The disciple is not more important than his teacher, but when every person becomes complete, [then] he will be like his teacher.

And those people [represented by the seed] that fell among thorns are the ones who have heard [the word], and as they go about their business, they become choked by worry, by money and by worldly pleasures, and produce no mature crop.

For there is nothing hid which shall not become manifest, nor secret which shall not be known and come to light.

Then he said to them all, "If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me.

Now, Peter, and they who were with him, had become heavy with sleep; but, waking up, they saw his glory, and the two men who were standing with him.

But, they, understood not this saying, and it had become veiled from them, that they might not grasp it, - and they were afraid to question him, concerning this saying.

He said to another, “Follow Me [accepting Me as Master and Teacher].” But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

Another also said, “I will follow You, Lord [as Your disciple]; but first let me say goodbye to those at my home.”

And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up [as high] as heaven? [Certainly not], you will be brought down to the unseen place of departed spirits [i.e., you will become obscure or obliterated as a city].

In the self-same hour, exulted he in the Holy Spirit, and said - I openly give praise unto thee, Father! Lord of heaven and earth! in that thou hast hid these things from the wise and discerning, and hast revealed them unto babes, - Yea, O Father! that, so, hath it become, a delight, before thee.

'Who, then, of these three, seemeth to thee to have become neighbour of him who fell among the robbers?'

Jesus himself, however, was aware of what they were thinking, and said to them: "Any kingdom wholly divided against itself becomes a desolation; and a divided house falls.

And, if, even Satan, against himself hath become divided, how shall his kingdom stand? because ye are saying that, in Beelzebul, am I casting out the demons.

Then he goes and takes seven other spirits worse than himself, and entering in, they dwell there; and the last condition of that man becomes worse than the first.

take care therefore, that the light which is in thee do not become darkness.

There is nothing that is covered up which will not be uncovered, nor hidden which will not become known.

sell your goods, and give alms, make to yourselves bags that become not old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where thief doth not come near, nor moth destroy;

and ye, then, become ye ready, because at the hour ye think not, the Son of Man doth come.'

But if that slave should think to himself, 'My master will not be back soon,' and then becomes physically abusive to his men and women servants, and eats and drinks and gets drunk,

And, answering, he said unto them - Suppose ye, that, these Galilaeans, had become, sinners beyond all the Galilaeans, because, these things, they have suffered?

Or, those eighteen, upon whom fell the tower in Siloam, and slew them, suppose ye that, they, had become, debtors, beyond all the men who were dwelling in Jerusalem?

It is like a mustard seed which a man drops into the soil in his garden, and it grows and becomes a tree in whose branches the birds roost."

then you will see those, who were last, become first: and those who were first, become last.

you will soon find your aboad become desolate. I declare unto you, you shall not see me till the time, when you will say, "blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord."

Moreover he went on to say, unto him also who had invited him, - Whensoever thou mayest be making a dinner or a supper, do not call thy friends, or thy brothers, or thy kinsfolk, or rich neighbours, - lest once, they also, invite thee in return, and it become a recompense unto thee.

And that bondman, having come, he informed his lord these things. Then the house-ruler having become angry, he said to his bondman, Go out quickly into the thoroughfares and lanes of the city, and bring here the poor and maimed and

Salt then is good, but if the salt also has become savourless, wherewith shall it be seasoned?

even so, I assure you, the angels in heaven rejoice, when any one sinner becomes a penitent.

If therefore ye did not become faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust to you what is true?

And if ye did not become faithful in the alien, who will give thine to you?

Yet it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for a single stroke of a letter of the Law to fail and become void.

"Every person who divorces his wife and marries another woman becomes sexually unfaithful to her [i.e., because he is still regarded by God as married to his first wife. See Matt. 19:9]. And the person who marries someone who has been divorced by her husband commits sexual sin with her [i.e., because she is still rightfully married to her first husband].

He then told them a parable on the need for them to pray always and not become discouraged:

When Jesus heard this, He said to him, “You still lack one thing; sell everything that you have and distribute the money to the poor, and you will have [abundant] treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me [becoming My disciple, believing and trusting in Me and walking the same path of life that I walk].”

And Jesus having seen him become very sorrowful, said, 'How hardly shall those having riches enter into the reign of God!

And Jesus said to the disciples, "Truly I tell you, there is no person who has left his house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children for the sake of the kingdom of God [i.e., to become a servant of the Lord],

And Jesus said to him, "This day is health come unto this house, forasmuch as he also is become the child of Abraham.

But his citizens [the residents of his new kingdom] hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to be a king over us.’

and he said to him, Well done, good servant, because in a very little thou didst become faithful, be having authority over ten cities.

and he said also to this one, And thou, become thou over five cities.

But as for those enemies of mine who were unwilling that I should become their king, bring them here, and cut them to pieces in my presence.'"

But Jesus answered, “I tell you, if these become silent, the stones will cry out!”

But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may become ours.

And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?

In the resurrection therefore of which of them does she become wife, for the seven had her as wife?

When you hear of wars and disturbances [civil unrest, revolts, uprisings], do not panic; for these things must take place first, but the end will not come immediately.”

and it shall become to you for a testimony.

Men will become despondent from fear, and from dreading the [terrible] things which will come upon the earth, for the forces of the heavens will be shaken.

But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:

But ye'shall not be'so: but he that is the greater among you, let him become as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.

And having become in agony he prayed more intensely, and his sweat became like drops of blood falling down to the ground.

and on their having become afraid, and having inclined the face to the earth, they said to them, 'Why do ye seek the living with the dead?

Then Peter rising up, ran off to the sepulchre, and leaning forward saw the linen clothes laid separately, and went away wondering in himself what was become of him.

But having seen startled, and having become frightened, they presumed to see a spirit.

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

John beareth witness of him, and crieth, saying, This was he of whom I said, He that cometh after me is become before me: for he was before me.

He is to become my successor, because He has been put before me, and I am not fit to untie His shoestrings."

This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man who is become before me: for he was before me.

And I would not have recognized Him, but I came immersing people in water so that He would become known to the Israelites."

"This I have seen, and I have become a witness that He is the Son of God."

One of the two men who had listened to John and had become a follower of Jesus was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.

[Then] on the next day He [i.e., Jesus, but some think it refers to Peter or Andrew] decided to travel into Galilee, [and there] He found Philip. Jesus said to Philip, "Become my follower."

And when the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and knew not whence it was (but the servants that had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast calleth the bridegroom,

and says to him, "Every man sets on the good wine first; and, when they become drunken, the worse. You have kept the good wine until now!"

Nicodemus said to him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he become an unborn infant of his mother a second time, and be born?

But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may become evident that his actions have God's approval."

He that hath the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegrooms voice. This my joy then hath become full.

'Him it behoveth to increase, and me to become less;

And Jacob's well was there, so Jesus, [because he] had become tired from the journey, simply sat down at the well. It was about the sixth hour.

Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks this water will become thirsty again.

but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up unto eternal life.

Under these porticos a large number of sick, blind, crippled and deformed people were placed {{A few ancient authorities add "to wait for the water [of the pool] to become choppy.

Jesus seeing this man lying there, and knowing that he was in that state now a great length of time, says to him, Wouldest thou become well?

After these things Jesus finds him in the temple, and said to him, Behold, thou art become well: sin no more, that something worse do not happen to thee.

and having gone on board ship, they went over the sea to Capernaum. And it had already become dark, and Jesus had not come to them,

And when they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, Rabbi, when did thou become here?

"What miracle then," they asked, "do you perform for us to see and become believers in you? What do you *do*?

Jesus told them, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never become hungry, and whoever believes in me will never become thirsty.

For no one does things secretly if he wants to become known publicly. Since you are doing such things, show yourself to the world."

The Jews then were astonished, saying, “How has this man become learned, having never been educated?”

So the Jews said among themselves, To what place is he going where we will not see him? will he go to the Jews living among the Greeks and become the teacher of the Greeks?

So, Jesus spoke to them again [i.e., to the Jewish authorities. See 7:45], saying, "I am the light of the world. The person who becomes my follower will never live in [spiritual] darkness, but have the light of [i.e., for his] life [i.e., followers of Jesus will not live in error and sin but in truth and righteousness]."

They answered him, We are Abraham's seed, and have never been under bondage to any one; how sayest thou, Ye shall become free?

So once more the Pharisees asked him how he had become able to see, and he said to them, "He put some clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and I can see."

Now the Jewish religious leaders refused to believe that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned the parents of the man who had become able to see.

His parents spoke these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man confessed him as Christ, he should become excommunicated from the synagogue.

He answered them, I told you even now, and ye did not hear; wherefore would ye hear it again? would ye also become his disciples?