and do not think to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire."

And when Jesus was baptized, he went up immediately from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and alighting on him.

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down. For it is written, 'He will give his angels charge of you,' and 'In their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.'"

Seeing the crowds, he went up on a mountain, and when he sat down his disciples came to him.

"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal,

but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.

This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: "He took up our infirmities and bore our diseases."

And the men marveled, saying, "What sort of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him?"

But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"he then said to the paralytic"Rise, take up your bed and go home."

And behold, a woman who had suffered from a hemorrhage for twelve years came up behind him and touched the fringe of his garment.

But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to councils and flog you in their synagogues.

But when they deliver you up, do not worry about how you are to speak or what you are to say; for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour;

Now brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death.

the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now one greater than Jonah is here.

Some fell on rocky places, where they did not have much soil, and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of soil.

But when the sun was up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away.

Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them.

He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' The servants said to him, 'Then do you want us to go and gather them up?'

But he said, 'No, lest while you gather up the weeds you also root up the wheat with them.

which, when it was full, they drew it up on the shore; and they sat down and gathered the good into vessels, but threw the bad away.

Then he commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass. And taking the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke and gave the loaves to the disciples; and the disciples gave them to the multitudes.

And they all ate and were satisfied. And they took up twelve baskets full of the broken pieces that were left over.

And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone,

He answered, "Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up.

And Jesus went on from there and passed along the Sea of Galilee. And he went up on the mountain, and sat down there.

And they all ate and were satisfied; and they took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces that were left over.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves.

And when they lifted up their eyes, they saw no one but Jesus only.

And when they came to the crowd, a man came up to him and kneeling before him said,

When they came to Capernaum, the collectors of the half-shekel tax went up to Peter and said, "Does not your teacher pay the temple tax?"

Nevertheless, so that we may not offend them, go to the sea, cast in a hook, and take the fish that comes up first. And when you open its mouth, you will find a piece of money; take that and give it to them for me and you."

Then Peter came to him and said, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?"

Now behold, one came up and said to him, "Teacher, what good thing must I do to have eternal life?"

And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his steward, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, up to the first.'

Now as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them,

"Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and to the scribes; and they will condemn him to death,

And Jesus answered them, "Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' it will be done.

And when he entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching, and said, "By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?"

saying, "Teacher, Moses said that if a man dies, having no children, his brother must marry the widow, and raise up children for his brother.

"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither enter yourselves, nor do you allow those who would enter to go in.

Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers' guilt.

Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came up to point out to him the buildings of the temple.

Then they will deliver you up to tribulation, and put you to death; and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.

And many false prophets will rise up and deceive many.

"You know that after two days is the Passover, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified."

a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive perfume, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table.

And at once he went up to Jesus and said, "Greetings, Rabbi!" and kissed him.

Jesus said to him, "Friend, why are you here?" Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and seized him.

But Peter followed him at a distance, right up to the courtyard of the high priest. He entered and sat down with the guards to see the end.

And the high priest stood up and said, "Have you no answer to make? What is it that these men testify against you?"

After a little while those who stood by came up and said to Peter, "Surely you are also one of them, for your accent betrays you."

And they put up over his head the charge written against him: THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.

And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit.