but did not live with her until she had given birth to a son. The child's name he called JESUS.

"Rise from sleep, and take the child and His mother, and go into the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child's life are dead."

"It is written," replied Jesus, "'It is not on bread alone that a man shall live, but on whatsoever God shall appoint.'"

"You have heard that it was said, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour and hate thine enemy.'

But I command you all, love your enemies, and pray for your persecutors;

For if you love only those who love you, what reward have you earned? Do not even the tax-gatherers do that?

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?

because narrow is the gate and contracted the road which leads to Life, and few are those who find it.

While He was thus speaking, a Ruler came up and profoundly bowing said, "My daughter is just dead; but come and put your hand upon her and she will return to life."

Cure the sick, raise the dead to life, cleanse lepers, drive out demons: you have received without payment, give without payment.

To save your life is to lose it, and to lose your life for my sake is to save it.

"blind eyes receive sight, and cripples walk; lepers are cleansed, and deaf ears hear; the dead are raised to life, and the poor have the Good News proclaimed to them;

and he said to his courtiers, "This is John the Baptist: he has come back to life--and that is why these miraculous Powers are working in him."

From this time Jesus began to explain to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer much cruelty from the Elders and the High Priests and the Scribes, and be put to death, and on the third day be raised to life again.

For whoever desires to save his life shall lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake shall find it.

Why, what benefit will it be to a man if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give to buy back his life?

they will put Him to death, but on the third day He will be raised to life again." And they were exceedingly distressed.

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.

And if your eye is causing you to fall into sin, tear it out and away with it; it is better for you to enter into Life with only one eye, than to remain in possession of two eyes but be thrown into the Gehenna of fire.

"Teacher," said one man, coming up to Him, "what that is good shall I do in order to win the Life of the Ages?"

"Why do you ask me," He replied, "about what is good? There is only One who is truly good. But if you desire to enter into Life, keep the Commandments."

Honour thy father and thy mother'; and 'Thou shalt love thy fellow man as much as thyself.'"

And whoever has forsaken houses, or brothers or sisters, or father or mother, or children or lands, for my sake, shall receive many times as much and shall have as his inheritance the Life of the Ages.

and hand Him over to the Gentiles to be made sport of and scourged and crucified; and on the third day He will be raised to life."

just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give His life as the redemption-price for many."

"'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God,'" He answered, "'with thy whole heart, thy whole soul, thy whole mind.'

And the second is similar to it: 'Thou shalt love thy fellow man as much as thyself.'

and love the best seats at a dinner party or in the synagogues,

and because of the prevalent disregard of God's law the love of the great majority will grow cold;

"Now learn from the fig-tree the lesson it teaches. As soon as its branches have now become soft and it is bursting into leaf, you all know that summer is near.

"And these shall go away into the Punishment of the Ages, but the righteous into the Life of the Ages."

But after I have risen to life again I will go before you into Galilee."

They twisted a wreath of thorny twigs and put it on His head, and they put a sceptre of cane in His right hand, and kneeling to Him they shouted in mockery, "Long live the King of the Jews!"

"Sir," they said, "we recollect that during his lifetime that impostor pretended that after two days he was to rise to life again.

So give orders for the sepulchre to be securely guarded till the third day, for fear his disciples should come by night and steal the body, and then tell the people that he has come back to life; and so the last imposture will be more serious than the first."

He is not here: He has come back to life, as He foretold. Come and see the place where He lay.