Now when Jesus was born at Bethlehem in Judea in the days of King Herod, stargazers came from the East to Jerusalem

After listening to the king, they started on their journey, and the star which they had seen rise led them on until it came and stopped over the place where the child was.

This very John had his clothing made of camel's hair, and wore a leather belt around his waist; his food was dried locusts and wild honey.

Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John to be baptized by him.

And the tempter came up and said to Him, "If you are God's Son, order these stones to turn to bread."

Then the devil left Him, and angels came and continued to wait upon Him.

When He saw the crowds, He went up on the mountain. After He had taken His seat, His disciples came up to Him.

When he came down from the mountain, great crowds followed Him.

And a leper came up to Him, and prostrated himself before Him, and said, "Lord, if you choose to, you can cure me."

When He got back to Capernaum, a Roman military captain came up to Him and kept begging Him,

And a scribe came up and said to Him, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you may go."

And suddenly a furious storm came up, so that the boat was being covered over by the bursting billows, but He kept on sleeping.

While He was at table in the house many tax-collectors and notorious sinners came in and took their seats at table with Jesus and His disciples.

And just as He was saying these things to them, an official came up and fell on his knees before Him, and said, "My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand upon her and she will come to life."

And a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years came up and touched the tassel on His coat.

For John came neither eating nor drinking with others, and yet they said, 'He has a demon.'

The Son of Man came eating and drinking with others, and they say, 'Just look at Him! A glutton and a wine-drinker, a chum of tax-collectors and notorious sinners!' And yet wisdom is vindicated by her doings!"

The queen of the south will rise with the leaders of this age at the judgment and condemn them, for she came from the farthest limits of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom, and there is more than Solomon here!

and as he was sowing, some of the seed fell along the path, and the birds came and ate them up,

Then His disciples came up to Him and asked, "Why do you speak to them in stories?"

But while the world was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed wild wheat seed in the midst of the good seed, and went away.

And the farmer's slaves came up to him and said, 'Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Then where did the wild wheat plants come from?'

Then He left the crowds and went into His house. And His disciples came up to Him and said, "Explain to us the story of the wild wheat in the field."

But when Herod's birthday came, Herodias' daughter danced before the guests. Herod was fascinated by her,

Then John's disciples came and carried off his corpse, and buried him, and went and reported it to Jesus.

But when it was evening, His disciples came to Him and said, "This is a destitute place, and the day is over; send the crowds off to the villages to buy themselves food."

After He had dismissed the crowds, He went up the hill alone to pray. And after the evening came on, He was there alone,

And they crossed over to the other side and came to Gennesaret.

Then some Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem came to Jesus, and asked Him,

Then His disciples came up to Him and asked, "Do you know that the Pharisees were knocked breathless to hear what you have just said?"

And a Canaanite woman of that district came out and pleaded, saying, "Do pity me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is suffering horrors from a demon."

But He did not answer her a word. And His disciples came up and kept begging Him, "Send her away, for she keeps on screaming after us."

But she came and bowed to Him, and kept praying, "Lord, help me!"

and great crowds came up to Him bringing with them the lame, the crippled, the blind, the deaf, and many others. They laid them at His feet, and He cured them,

The Pharisees and the Sadducees came up, and to test Him asked Him to show them a spectacular sign from heaven.

Then Jesus came and touched them, and said, "Get up and do not be so afraid."

When they reached the crowd, a man came up to Him, kneeling before Him and saying,

And Jesus reproved the demon, and it came out of him, and the boy was cured that very moment.

After that the disciples came to Jesus and privately asked, "Why is it we could not drive it out?"

When they reached Capernaum, the collectors of the temple tax came to Peter and asked, "Does your Teacher pay the temple tax?"

Just at that moment the disciples came up and asked Jesus, "Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?"

Then Peter came up to Him and asked, "Lord, how many times may my brother wrong me and I have to forgive him? As many as seven?"

And some Pharisees came up to Him, to try Him out with the question, "Is it right for a man to divorce his wife for any cause?"

And a man came up to Him and asked, "What is there good that I can do to possess eternal life?"

Again, I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich man to get into the kingdom of heaven."

"When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last and ending with the first.'

And they who had been hired at five o'clock came and received twenty cents each.

And those who were hired first, when they came, supposed that they would receive more, but they too received twenty cents each.

Then the mother of Zebedee's sons came up to Him with her sons, kneeling to Him and asking a favor of Him.

When He came into Jerusalem, the whole city was trembling with excitement, and asking, "Who is He?"

Then blind and crippled people came to Him, and He cured them.

As He saw a fig tree by the roadside, He came to it but found on it nothing but leaves, and said to it, "Never again shall a fig grow on you!" And the fig tree at once withered up.

And when He had come into the temple, the high priests and elders of the people came up to Him while He was teaching, and asked, "What sort of authority have you for doing these things, and who gave you this authority?"

"But what do you think? There was a man who had two sons, He came to the first and said, 'Son, go and work in my vineyard today.'

Then he came to the second and said the same thing. And he answered, 'I will not.' But afterward he changed his mind and went.

For John came to you walking in the way of uprightness, and yet you did not believe him. The tax-collectors and prostitutes did believe him, but you, even though you saw that, would not change your minds afterward and believe him.

But when the king came in to take a look at the guests, he saw there a man who did not have on a wedding suit.

So he said to him, 'My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding suit on?' But his lips were sealed.

On the same day some Sadducees, who claim that there is no resurrection, came up to Him, and asked this question:

And when the Pharisees came together, Jesus asked them,

You blind leaders, who are straining out the gnat but gulping down the camel!

And Jesus left the temple, and was going away, when His disciples came up to Him, to show Him the temple buildings.

While He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came up to Him by themselves, and said, "Tell us when this is to take place, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age."

and knew nothing about it until the Flood came and swept them all away, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

And while they were going to buy it, the bridegroom came, and the bridesmaids that were ready went in with him to the wedding reception; and the door was closed.

At last the rest of the bridesmaids came, and kept begging, 'Master, master, open the door for us!'

After a long time the master of those slaves came back and settled accounts with them.

The man who had received the five thousand dollars came up and brought him five thousand more, saying, 'You turned over to me five thousand dollars; here are five thousand more I made.'

Then the man who had received the two thousand came up and said, 'Master, you turned over to me two thousand dollars; here are two thousand more I made.'

Then the man who had received the one thousand came up and said, 'Master, I knew you were a hard man, who reaped where you had not sown, who gathered where you had not threshed.

So you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, so that when I came back I could have collected my principal with interest.

when I needed clothes you put them on me, when I was sick you looked after me, when I was in prison you came to see me.'

When Jesus came back to Bethany, to the home of Simon the leper,

a woman with an alabaster bottle of very costly perfume came up to Him while He was at table and poured it upon His head.

On the first day of the Passover Feast the disciples came to Jesus and said, "Where do you want us to get the Passover supper ready for you to eat?"

When evening came, He was sitting at the table with the Twelve.

Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and He said to the disciples, "Sit down here while I go over yonder and pray."

Then He came back to the disciples and found them asleep. He said to Peter, "Could you not then watch with me a single hour?

He came back again and found them still sleeping, for their eyes were so heavy they could hardly hold them open.

After that He came back to the disciples and said to them: "Still sleeping! Still resting! See! The time has come for the Son of Man to be betrayed into the hands of sinful men!

Even while He was still speaking, here came Judas, one of the Twelve, and with him a crowd, with swords and clubs, from the high priests and the elders of the people.

Jesus said to him, "My friend, do what you came for." Then they came up, laid hands on Jesus, and arrested Him.

but they could not, although many false witnesses came forward to testify. At last two men came forward

Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard, and a waiting girl came up to him, and said, "You, too, were with Jesus the Galilean."

A few minutes afterward the bystanders came up to Peter and said, "You are surely one of them, too, for your accent gives you away."

When they came to a place called Golgotha, which means the Place of the Skull,

came to Pilate and asked for Jesus' body. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him.

Now there had been a great earthquake. For an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and went and rolled the boulder back and remained sitting upon it.

and said to them, "Tell the people that His disciples came by night, while we were sleeping, and stole Him away.

Then Jesus came up to them, and said, "Full authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Now John wore clothing made of camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist, and he used to live on dried locusts and wild honey.

Now in those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

And out of the heavens came a voice, "You are my Son, my Beloved! In you I am delighted!"

They went into Capernaum, and as soon as the first Sabbath came, He went into the synagogue and began to teach.

And He said to them, "Let us go somewhere else, to the neighboring towns, to preach in them, too, for that is why I came out here."

There came to Him a leper, begging Him on his knees, saying to Him, "If you want to, you can cure me."

After some days He came back to Capernaum, and it was reported that He was at home,

Then four men came bringing to Him a paralyzed man.

Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were keeping a fast. So some people came and asked Him, "Why do John's disciples and the Pharisees' disciples practice fasting, but yours never do?"

and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and from the other side of the Jordan, and from the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon -- yes, a vast throng of people, as they kept hearing of the great things that He was doing, came to Him.