"A sob was heard in Ramah, weeping and great wailing, Rachel weeping for her children, and she refused to be comforted, because they were gone."

The people that were living in darkness have seen a great light, and on those that were living in the land of the shadow of death; a light has dawned."

So great crowds followed Him, from Galilee and Decapolis, from Jerusalem and Judea, and from the other side of Jordan.

Whoever, therefore, breaks one of the least of these commands and teaches others so to do, will be ranked as least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices them and teaches others so to do, will be ranked as great in the kingdom of heaven.

"You have heard that it was said to the men of old, 'You must not murder,' and 'Whoever murders will have to answer to the court.'

But I say to you: "Everyone who harbors malice against his brother, will have to answer to the court, and whoever speaks contemptuously to his brother, will have to answer to the supreme court; and whoever says to his brother, 'You cursed fool? will have to pay the penalty in the pit of torture.

leave your grit right there at the altar, and first go and make peace with your brother, and then come back and present your gift.

Be quick to come to terms with your opponent while you are on the road to court with him, so that he may not turn you over to the judge and the judge turn you over to the officer, and you be put in prison.

or by the earth, for it is His footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King.

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

When Jesus heard it, He was astounded, and said to His followers, "I solemnly say to you, I have not found, in a single case among the Jews, so great faith as this.

Now Jesus, because He saw a crowd about Him, gave orders to cross to the other side.

And He said to them, "Why are you afraid, O you with little faith?" Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.

And Jesus, on coming to the house of the official, and on seeing the flute-players and the wailing crowd,

But when the crowd had been driven out, He went in and took hold of her hand, and the girl got up.

Be on your guard against men, for they will turn you over to the courts and will flog you in their synagogues,

And the crowds that gathered about Him were so great that He got into a boat and remained sitting in it, while all the crowd stood on the seashore.

So when He got out of the boat and saw a great crowd, His heart was moved with pity for them, and He cured their sick people.

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,

so that the crowd was astonished to see the dumb talking, the lame walking, and the blind seeing. So they praised the God of Israel.

Then Jesus called His disciples to Him, and said, "My heart is moved with pity for the crowd, for it is now three days they have been staying with me, and they have nothing at all left to eat, and I fear they might give out on the way home."

The disciples said to Him, "Where in this destitute place can we get bread enough to satisfy such a crowd?"

Then He ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground,

Then they understood that He meant, guard yourselves not against yeast for bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.

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

But whoever leads one of these little ones, who believe in me, to do wrong, had better have a great millstone hung around his neck to sink him to the bottom of the sea.

And great crowds thronged after Him, and He cured them there.

And when the young man heard that, he went away in deep distress, for he owned a great deal of property.

But Jesus called them to Him and said, "You know that the rulers of the heathen lord it over them, and their great men rule as despots over them.

It is not to be so among you, but whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant,

As they were leaving Jericho, a great crowd followed Him.

The crowd reproved them and urged them to keep quiet, but they cried out all the louder, "Do pity us, Lord, you Son of David!"

And most of the crowd spread their coats along the road, but some were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them along the road.

A curse on you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of your greed and self-indulgence.

for false Christs and false prophets will announce themselves, and they will show great signs and wonders to mislead, if possible, God's chosen people.

But be sure of this, that if the master of the house had known in exactly what part of the night the thief would come, he would have been on guard and would not have let his house be broken into.

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.

For he knew that they had turned Him over to the court out of envy.

So Pilate, since he saw that he was making no headway with them, but that a riot was about to break out instead, took some water and washed his hands before the crowd, and said, "I am not responsible for this man's death; you must see to it yourselves."

And the army captain and his men, who were keeping guard over Jesus, who felt the earthquake and saw all that was taking place, were terribly frightened, and said, "Surely this was God's Son."

Pilate said to them, "Take the military guard and go and make it as secure as you can."

So off they went and made the tomb secure by sealing the boulder and setting a guard.

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.

The men on guard trembled in awe of him, and became like dead men.

While they were on their way, some members of the guard went into the city and told the high priests everything that had taken place.

And as they could not get him near to Jesus, on account of the crowd, they dug through the roof over the spot where He was standing and let the pallet down that the paralyzed man was lying on.

But He said to the man with the withered hand, "Get up in the crowd."

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.

And a crowd was sitting around Him when they told Him, "Your mother and your brothers are outside asking for you."

Then He began again to teach by the seashore. And a crowd gathered around Him so great that He got into a boat and was sitting in it, just off the shore, while all the people were on the land close to the sea.

So they left the crowd and took Him in the boat in which he was sitting. And there were other boats with Him.

Then He aroused Himself and reproved the wind, and said to the sea, "Hush! Be still." And the wind lulled, and there was a great calm.

When Jesus again had crossed in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about Him, as He was standing on the seashore.

So He went off with him, and a great crowd kept following Him, and jostling Him.

heard the reports about Jesus. So she came up in the crowd behind Him and touched His coat,

Jesus at once perceived that power had gone out of Him, and so He turned around in the crowd, and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"

But the disciples kept saying to Him, "You see the crowd jostling you, and yet you ask, 'Who touched me?'"

and so at once ordered a soldier of his guard to bring his head. The soldier went off and beheaded John in the prison

So when He got out of the boat, He saw a great crowd waiting, and His heart was moved with pity at the sight of them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd; and so He proceeded to teach them a number of things.

Then He insisted that the disciples at once get into their boat and cross ahead of Him toward Bethsaida, while He was sending the crowd away.

Now when He had left the crowd and gone home, His disciples were asking Him the meaning of this story.

adultery, greed, malice, deceit, licentiousness, envy, abusiveness, haughtiness, thoughtlessness.

So He took him off from the crowd by himself and put His fingers in his ears and touched his tongue with saliva.

In those days when a great crowd again had gathered and they had nothing to eat, He called His disciples to Him, and said,

So He ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then He took the seven loaves and gave thanks and broke them in pieces and gave them to His disciples to pass, and they passed them to the people.

Then He instructed them for the first time that the Son of Man had to endure great suffering and be disowned by the elders and the high priests and the scribes, and be killed but rise again after three days.

When they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around them and some scribes arguing with them.

A man from the crowd answered Him, "Teacher, I brought my son to you, for he has a dumb spirit.

Then Jesus, because He saw that a crowd was rushing up to Him, reproved the foul spirit and said to it, "You deaf and dumb spirit, get out of him, I charge you, and never get into him again."

But his countenance fell at that command, and he went away in deep distress, for he owned a great deal of property.

Then Jesus called them to Him, and said to them, "You know that those who are supposed to rule the heathen lord it over them, and their great men rule as despots over them;

but this is not to be the case among you. Whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant,

Then they came to Jericho. And as He was leaving Jericho, with His disciples and a great crowd, Timeus' son, Bartimeus, a blind beggar, was sitting on the roadside.

Jesus said to him, "Are you looking in wonder at these great buildings? Not one stone will be left here upon another that will not be torn down."

Now when they take you to court for trial, do not be worrying beforehand about what you should say, but say whatever is given you at that time, for it is not you that will be speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

So you must be on your guard. I have warned you about it all beforehand.

At that very moment, while He was still speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, came up, and with him a crowd of men with swords and clubs, from the high priests, scribes, and elders.

So a crowd of people came up and started to request of the governor the usual favor.

But the high priests stirred up the crowd to get him to set Barabbas free for them instead.

So, as Pilate wanted to satisfy the crowd, he set Barabbas free for them, but after having Jesus flogged, he turned Him over to be crucified.

Then the soldiers led Him away to a place inside the court yard, that is, of the governor's palace, and they called the whole battalion together.

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He must drink no wine nor strong drink, and so he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his birth.

He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give Him the throne of His forefather David,

And her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her great mercy, and so they were rejoicing with her.

But the angel said to them: "Stop being afraid, for now I bring you good tidings of great joy which is to be for all the people;

But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in Elijah's time, when the heaven was closed for three years and a half, and there was a great famine over all the land,

Once as the crowd was pressing against Him to hear the message of God, He found Himself standing on the shore of Lake Gennesaret.

But the news about Him continued to spread, and great crowds were gathering to hear Him and to be cured of their diseases.

And as they could not find a way because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down with his pallet through the tiles, among the people right in front of Jesus.

Then Levi gave a great reception for Him in his house, and there was a large crowd of tax-collectors and others who were at table with them.

Then He came down with them and took His stand on a level place, where there was a great throng of His disciples and a vast crowd of people from all over Judea and from Jerusalem and the seacoast district of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear Him and to be cured of their diseases.

But you must practice loving your enemies, doing good to them, and lending to them, despairing of nothing; so that your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

When Jesus heard this, He was astounded at him, and turning to the crowd that was following Him He said, "I tell you, I have not found, in a single case among the Jews, so great faith as this!"

Soon afterwards He chanced to go to a town called Nain, and His disciples and a great throng of people were going along with Him.

As He approached the gate of the town, look, there was being carried out a dead man, his mother's only son, and she was a widow! A considerable crowd of townspeople were with her.

So awe seized them all, and they began to praise God, saying, "A great prophet has appeared among us!" and, "God has visited His people!"

Now as a great crowd was coming together and people were coming to Him from one town after another, He said by way of a story:

His mother and His brothers came to see Him, but they could not get in touch with Him, on account of the crowd.

For He was commanding the foul spirit to get out of the man. For on many occasions it had seized him, and repeatedly he had been fastened with chains and fetters under constant guard, and yet he would snap his bonds, and the demon would drive him into desert places.

"Go back to your home, and continue to tell what great things God has done for you." But he went off and told all over the town what great things Jesus had done for him.