The birth of Jesus Christ came about this way: After His mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, it was discovered before they came together that she was pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

Be glad and rejoice, because your reward is great in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

In the same way, let your light shine before men, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.

So whenever you give to the poor, don’t sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be applauded by people. I assure you: They’ve got their reward!

Don’t be like them, because your Father knows the things you need before you ask Him.

Don’t give what is holy to dogs or toss your pearls before pigs, or they will trample them with their feet, turn, and tear you to pieces.

Right away a man with a serious skin disease came up and knelt before Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.”

Suddenly they shouted, “What do You have to do with us, Son of God? Have You come here to torment us before the time?”

As He was telling them these things, suddenly one of the leaders came and knelt down before Him, saying, “My daughter is near death, but come and lay Your hand on her, and she will live.”

You will even be brought before governors and kings because of Me, to bear witness to them and to the nations.

When they persecute you in one town, escape to another. For I assure you: You will not have covered the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

“Therefore, everyone who will acknowledge Me before men, I will also acknowledge him before My Father in heaven.

But whoever denies Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father in heaven.

This is the one it is written about:

Look, I am sending My messenger ahead of You;
he will prepare Your way before You.

But when Herod’s birthday celebration came, Herodias’s daughter danced before them and pleased Herod.

But she came, knelt before Him, and said, “Lord, help me!”

When they reached the crowd, a man approached and knelt down before Him.

When he began to settle accounts, one who owed 10,000 talents was brought before him.

“At this, the slave fell facedown before him and said, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay you everything!’

“Which of the two did his father’s will?”

“The first,” they said.

Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you!

For in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah boarded the ark.

All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

“I assure you,” Jesus said to him, “tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times!”

and Peter remembered the words Jesus had spoken, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly.

Now Jesus stood before the governor. “Are You the King of the Jews?” the governor asked Him.

Jesus answered, “You have said it.”

They twisted together a crown of thorns, put it on His head, and placed a reed in His right hand. And they knelt down before Him and mocked Him: “Hail, King of the Jews!”

The next day, which followed the preparation day, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate