"Repent," he said, "for the Kingdom of the Heavens is now close at hand."

From that time Jesus began to preach. "Repent," He said, "for the Kingdom of the Heavens is now close at hand."

Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a close vessel, but on a candlestick: and it giveth light to all that are in the house.

But whenever you pray, go into your room, close the door, and pray to your Father who is hidden. And your Father who sees from the hidden place will reward you.

But the road that leads to life is both narrow and close, and there are few who find it.

(And lo, a woman who had had a flux of blood for twelve years, came close behind Him, and touched the hem of his garment:

And as you go, preach and say, 'The Kingdom of the Heavens is close at hand.'

Fear them not therefore: there is nothing so close, that shall not be opened; and nothing so secret, that shall not be known.

And large crowds gathered close around him, so that he got into a boat to sit down, and all the crowd was standing on the shore.

for made gross was the heart of this people, and with the ears they heard heavily, and their eyes they did close, lest they might see with the eyes, and with the ears might hear, and with the heart understand, and turn back, and I might heal them.

The servants then came to the householder, and said unto him, 'Sir, sowest not thou good seed in thy close, from whence then hath it tares?'

and the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is the end of the age; and the reapers are angels.

So just as the weeds are gathered up and burned in the fire, so will it be at the end of the age.

So it will be at the end of the age; the angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous

He said [Gen. 2:24], 'For this reason [i.e., since He made one woman for one man], a man will leave [the home of] his father and mother and will cling to his wife, [so that] the two of them will [then] become one flesh [i.e., united in such a close relationship as to constitute one body]?'

And when they [i.e., Jesus and the twelve apostles] approached Jerusalem and came close to Bethphage, near the Mount of Olives [Note: This was about three-fourths of a mile east of Jerusalem], Jesus sent two disciples on ahead,

Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye close up the kingdom of the heavens ahead of men. For ye enter not in, nor do ye allow those who are entering to enter in.

Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you close the kingdom of heaven in the face of men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you suffer those who are entering, to go in.

Afterwards He was on the Mount of Olives and was seated there when the disciples came to Him, apart from the others, and said, "Tell us when this will be; and what will be the sign of your Coming and of the Close of the Age?"

And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached through the whole world for a testimony to all the nations: and then shall come the final close.

"Go into the city," He replied, "to a certain man, and tell him, 'The Teacher says, My time is close at hand. It is at your house that I shall keep the Passover with my disciples.'"

Then He came to the disciples and said, "Sleep on and rest. See, the moment is close at hand when the Son of Man is to be betrayed into the hands of sinful men.

Rouse yourselves. Let us be going. My betrayer is close at hand."

At the close of the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary of Magdala and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.

teaching them to observe everything that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always [remaining with you perpetually—regardless of circumstance, and on every occasion], even to the end of the age.”