so he gathered all the high priests and scribes of the people and made inquiries of them about where the messiah was to be born.

Whoever gives you a cup of water because you belong to Christ, I tell you truly, he shall not miss his reward.

David here calls him Lord. Then how can he be his son?" Now the mass of the people listened with delight to him.

the mass of the people all remaining in prayer outside at the hour of incense.

To-day you have a saviour born in the town of David, the Lord messiah.

indeed it had been revealed to him by the holy Spirit that he was not to see death before he had seen the Lord messiah.

Outside his door lay a poor man called Lazarus; he was a mass of ulcers,

They proceeded to accuse him, saying, "We have discovered this fellow perverting our nation, forbidding tribute being paid to Caesar, and alleging he is king messiah."

In the morning he met his brother Simon and told him, "We have found the messiah" (which may be translated, 'Christ').

The woman said to him, "Well, I know messiah (which means Christ) is coming. When he arrives, he will explain it all to us."

"I am messiah," said Jesus, "I who am talking to you."

Now the great mass of the Jews learned he was there, and they came not only on account of Jesus but to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead.

Next day the great mass of people who had come up for the festival heard that Jesus was entering Jerusalem,

So he told them, "Throw your net on the right of the boat, and you will have a take." At this they threw the net, and now they could not haul it in for the mass of fish.

when they got as far as Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them,

and so they passed Mysia by and went down to Troas.

explaining and quoting passages to prove that the messiah had to suffer and rise from the dead, and that "the Jesus I proclaim to you is the messiah."

By the time Silas and Timotheus came south from Macedonia, Paul was engrossed in this preaching of the word, arguing to the Jews that the messiah was Jesus.

for he publicly refuted the Jews with might and main, showing from the scriptures that the messiah was Jesus.

for the whole mass of the people followed shouting, "Away with him!"

Since you have had the messiah, even Jesus the Lord, brought to you, lead your life in him,

considering obloquy with the messiah to be richer wealth than all Egypt's treasures ??for he had an eye to the Reward.

You crave, and miss what you want: you envy and covet, but you cannot acquire: you wrangle and fight ??you miss what you want because you do not ask God for it;

the Spirit of messiah within them foretold all the suffering of messiah and his after-glory, and they pondered when or how this was to come;