like the accounts passed on to us by those who were eyewitnesses and servants of the word from the beginning.

When his parents saw him, they were overwhelmed. His mother said to him, "Child, why have you treated us like this? Look, your father and I have been looking for you anxiously."

and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, "You are my one dear Son; in you I take great delight."

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

"Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and puts them into practice -- I will show you what he is like:

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.

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!"

"To what then should I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like?

They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to one another, 'We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance; we wailed in mourning, yet you did not weep.'

Go! I am sending you out like lambs surrounded by wolves.

So he said to them, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

Woe to you! You are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without realizing it!"

Consider how the flowers grow; they do not work or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these!

be like people waiting for their master to come back from the wedding celebration, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.

Thus Jesus asked, "What is the kingdom of God like? To what should I compare it?

It is like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the wild birds nested in its branches."

It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of flour until all the dough had risen."

I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired workers."'

but he answered his father, 'Look! These many years I have worked like a slave for you, and I never disobeyed your commands. Yet you never gave me even a goat so that I could celebrate with my friends!

For just like the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.

The Pharisee stood and prayed about himself like this: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other people: extortionists, unrighteous people, adulterers -- or even like this tax collector.

I tell you the truth, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will never enter it."

"Beware of the experts in the law. They like walking around in long robes, and they love elaborate greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets.

"But be on your guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life, and that day close down upon you suddenly like a trap.

Not so with you; instead the one who is greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the leader like the one who serves.

"Simon, Simon, pay attention! Satan has demanded to have you all, to sift you like wheat,

And in his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.]

Then Jesus said to the chief priests, the officers of the temple guard, and the elders who had come out to get him, "Have you come out with swords and clubs like you would against an outlaw?

But these words seemed like pure nonsense to them, and they did not believe them.

Look at my hands and my feet; it's me! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones like you see I have."