and said, "If you are God's Son, throw yourself down; for it is written, "'To His angels He will give orders concerning thee, and on their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any moment thou shouldst strike thy foot against a stone.'"

nor by the earth, for it is the footstool under His feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the City of the Great King.

For this reason I charge you not to be over-anxious about your lives, inquiring what you are to eat or what you are to drink, nor yet about your bodies, inquiring what clothes you are to put on. Is not the life more precious than its food, and the body than its clothing?

Which of you by being over-anxious can add a single foot to his height?

"Give not that which is holy to the dogs, nor throw your pearls to the swine; otherwise they will trample them under their feet and then turn and attack you.

And a leper came to Him, and throwing himself at His feet, said, "Sir, if only you are willing you are able to cleanse me."

"Sir," replied the Captain, "I am not a fit person to receive you under my roof: merely say the word, and my servant will be cured.

no bag for your journey, nor change of linen, nor shoes, nor stick; for the labourer deserves his food.

And whoever refuses to receive you or even to listen to your Message, as you leave that house or town, shake off the very dust from your feet.

Then she came and threw herself at His feet and entreated Him. "O Sir, help me," she said.

Soon great crowds came to Him, bringing with them those who were crippled in feet or hands, blind or dumb, and many besides, and they hastened to lay them at His feet. And He cured them,

If your hand or your foot is causing you to fall into sin, cut it off and away with it. It is better for you to enter into Life crippled in hand or foot than to remain in possession of two sound hands or feet but be thrown into the fire of the Ages.

The servant therefore falling down, prostrated himself at his feet and entreated him. "'Only give me time,' he said, 'and I will pay you the whole.'

"His fellow servant therefore fell at his feet and entreated him, "'Only give me time,' he said, 'and I will pay you.'

"Again he sent other servants with a message to those who were invited. "'My breakfast is now ready," he said, 'my bullocks and fat cattle are killed, and every preparation is made: come to the wedding.'

"The man stood speechless. Then the king said to the servants, "'Bind him hand and foot and fling him into the darkness outside: there will be the weeping aloud and the gnashing of teeth.'

"'The Lord said to my Lord, sit at My right hand until I have put thy foes beneath thy feet'?

For when I was hungry, you gave me food; when I was thirsty, you gave me drink; when I was homeless, you gave me a welcome;

"'When, Lord,' the righteous will reply, 'did we see Thee hungry, and feed Thee; or thirsty, and give Thee drink?

Then said Jesus to the crowds, "Have you come out as if to fight with a robber, with swords and bludgeons to apprehend me? Day after day I have been sitting teaching in the Temple, and you did not arrest me.

And then suddenly they saw Jesus coming to meet them. "Peace be to you," He said. And they came and clasped His feet, bowing to the ground before Him.

As for John, his garment was of camel's hair, and he wore a loincloth of leather; and his food was locusts and wild honey.

So He went to her, and taking her hand He raised her to her feet: the fever left her, and she began to wait upon them.

And the foul spirits, whenever they saw Him, threw themselves down at His feet, screaming out: "You are the Son of God."

And when he saw Jesus in the distance, he ran and threw himself at His feet,

when there came one of the Wardens of the Synagogue--he was called Jair--who, on beholding Him, threw himself at His feet,

until the woman, frightened and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and threw herself at His feet, and told Him all the truth.

Instantly the little girl rises to her feet and begins to walk (for she was twelve years old)

But wherever they will not receive you or listen to you, when you leave shake off the very dust from under your feet to bear witness concerning them."

"Give them food yourselves," He replied. "Are we," they asked, "to go and buy two hundred shillings' worth of bread and give them food?"

Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and lifting His eyes to Heaven He blessed the food. Then He broke the loaves into portions which He went on handing to the disciples to distribute; giving pieces also of the two fish to them all.

They had noticed that some of His disciples were eating their food with 'unclean' (that is to say, unwashed)

So the Pharisees and Scribes put the question to Him: "Why do your disciples transgress the traditions of the Elders, and eat their food with unclean hands?"

because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and passes away ejected from him?" By these words Jesus pronounced all kinds of food clean.

Forthwith a woman whose little daughter was possessed by a foul spirit heard of Him, and came and flung herself at His feet.

The number fed were about 4,000. Then He sent them away,

So with a loud cry he threw the boy into fit after fit, and came out. The boy looked as if he were dead, so that most of them said he was dead;

but Jesus took his hand and raised him up, and he stood on his feet.

Or if your foot should cause you to sin, cut it off: it would be better for you to enter into Life crippled, than remain in possession of both your feet and be thrown into Gehenna.

Soon on His feet once more, He enters the district of Judaea and crosses the Jordan: again the people flock to Him, and ere long, as was usual with Him, He was teaching them once more.

As He went out to resume His journey, there came a man running up to Him, who knelt at His feet and asked, "Good Rabbi, what am I to do in order to inherit the Life of the Ages?"

The man flung away his outer garment, sprang to his feet, and came to Jesus.

David himself said, taught by the Holy Spirit, "'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at My right hand, until I have made thy foes a footstool under thy feet.'

"Have you come out," said Jesus, "with swords and cudgels to arrest me, as if you had to fight with a robber?

Dawning on those who now dwell in the darkness and shadow of death--To direct our feet into the path of peace."

"Let the man who has two coats," he answered, "give one to the man who has none; and let the man who has food share it with others."

and 'On their hands they shall bear thee up, Lest at any moment thou shouldst strike thy foot against a stone.'"

On another occasion, when He was in one of the towns, there was a man there covered with leprosy, who, seeing Jesus, threw himself at His feet and implored Him, saying, "Sir, if only you are willing, you are able to make me clean."

and, standing behind close to His feet, weeping, began to wet His feet with her tears; and with her hair she wiped the tears away again, while she lovingly kissed His feet and poured the perfume over them.

Then turning towards the woman He said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I came into your house: you gave me no water for my feet; but she has made my feet wet with her tears, and then wiped the tears away with her hair.

No kiss did you give me; but she from the moment I came in has not left off tenderly kissing my feet.

No oil did you pour even on my head; but she has poured perfume upon my feet.

whereupon the people came out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus, and they found the man from whom the demons had gone out sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind; and they were terrified.

Just then there came a man named Jair, a Warden of the Synagogue, who threw himself at the feet of Jesus, and entreated Him to come to his house;

Then the woman, perceiving that she had not escaped notice, came trembling, and throwing herself down at His feet she stated before all the people the reason why she had touched Him and how she was instantly cured.

And her spirit returned, and instantly she stood up; and He directed them to give her some food.

Wherever they refuse to receive you, as you leave that town shake off the very dust from your feet as a protest against them."

Now when the day began to decline, the Twelve came to Him and said, "Send the people away, that they may go to the villages and farms round about and find lodging and a supply of food; because here we are in an uninhabited district."

"You yourselves," He said, "must give them food." "We have nothing," they replied, "but five loaves and a couple of fish, unless indeed we were to go and buy provisions for all this host of people."

Jesus answered him, "No one who has put his hand to the plough, and then looks behind him, is fit for the Kingdom of God.

She had a sister called Mary, who seated herself at the Lord's feet and listened to His teaching.

Meanwhile the people had come streaming towards Him by tens of thousands, so that they were trampling one another under foot. And now He proceeded to say to His disciples first, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is to say, beware of hypocrisy.

For life is a greater gift than food, and the body is a greater gift than clothing.

"But the father said to his servants, "'Fetch a good coat quickly--the best one--and put it on him; and bring a ring for his finger and shoes for his feet.

Fetch the fat calf and kill it, and let us feast and enjoy ourselves;

"'Your brother has come,' he replied; 'and your father has had the fat calf killed, because he has got him home safe and sound.'

but now that this son of yours is come who has eaten up your property among his bad women, you have killed the fat calf for him.'

and he threw himself at the feet of Jesus, thanking Him. He was a Samaritan.

Until I have made thy foes a footstool under they feet.'

They will fall by the sword, or be carried off into slavery among all the Gentiles. And Jerusalem will be trampled under foot by the Gentiles, till the appointed times of the Gentiles have expired.

Then Jesus said to the High Priests and Commanders of the Temple and Elders, who had come to arrest Him, "Have you come out as if to fight with a robber, with swords and cudgels?

See my hands and my feet--it is my very self. Feel me and see, for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see I have."

And then He showed them His hands and His feet.

But, while they still could not believe it for joy and were full of astonishment, He asked them, "Have you any food here?"

"I have food to eat," He replied, "of which you do not know."

"My food," said Jesus, "is to be obedient to Him who sent me, and fully to accomplish His work.

Bestow your pains not on the food which perishes, but on the food that remains unto the Life of the Ages--that food which will be the Son of Man's gift to you; for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal."

For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.

"I believe, Sir," he said. And he threw himself at His feet.

(It was the Mary who poured the perfume over the Lord and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.)

Mary then, when she came to Jesus and saw Him, fell at His feet and exclaimed, "Master, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."

The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped in cloths, and his face wrapped round with a towel. "Untie him," said Jesus, "and let him go free."

Availing herself of the opportunity, Mary took a pound weight of pure spikenard, very costly, and poured it over His feet, and wiped His feet with her hair, so that the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

Then He poured water into a basin, and proceeded to wash the feet of the disciples and to wipe them with the towel which He had put round Him.

When He came to Simon Peter, Peter objected. "Master," he said, "are *you* going to wash my feet?"

"Never, while the world lasts," said Peter, "shall you wash my feet." "If I do not wash you," replied Jesus, "you have no share with me."

"Master," said Peter, "wash not only my feet, but also my hands and my head."

"Any one who has lately bathed," said Jesus, "does not need to wash more than his feet, but is clean all over. And you my disciples are clean, and yet this is not true of all of you."

So after He had washed their feet, put on His garments again, and returned to the table, He said to them, "Do you understand what I have done to you?

If I then, your Master and Rabbi, have washed your feet, it is also your duty to wash one another's feet.

and saw two angels clothed in white raiment, sitting one at the head and one at the feet where the body of Jesus had been.

He called to them. "Children," He said, "have you any food there?" "No," they answered.

When they had finished breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these others do?" "Yes, Master," was his answer; "you know that you are dear to me." "Then feed my lambs," replied Jesus.

A third time Jesus put the question: "Simon, son of John, am I dear to you?" It grieved Peter that Jesus asked him the third time, "Am I dear to you?" "Master," he replied, "you know everything, you can see that you are dear to me." "Then feed my much-loved sheep," said Jesus.

until I make thy foes a footstool under thy feet.'

Then taking his hand Peter lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankles were strengthened.

Instantly she fell down dead at his feet, and the young men came in and found her dead. So they carried her out and buried her by her husband's side.

But there came a famine throughout the whole of Egypt and Canaan--and great distress--so that our forefathers could find no food.

"'The sky is My throne, and earth is the footstool for My feet. What kind of house will you build for Me, says the Lord, or what resting place shall I have?

after which he took food and regained his strength. Then he remained some little time with the disciples in Damascus.