Then Herod secretly sent for the astrologers, and found out from them the exact time when the star appeared.

Then, as they had been divinely warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their own country by another way.

Then he awoke and took the child and his mother by night and took refuge in Egypt,

Then Herod saw that he had been tricked by the astrologers, and he was very angry, and he sent and made away with all the boys in Bethlehem and in all that neighborhood who were two years old or under, for that was the tune he had learned from the astrologers by his inquiries.

Then the saying was fulfilled which was uttered by the prophet Jeremiah,

Then he awoke, and took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel.

Then Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole Jordan valley went out to him,

Then produce fruit that will be consistent with your professed repentance!

I am baptizing you in water in token of your repentance, but he who is coming after me is stronger than I am, and I am not fit to carry his shoes. He will baptize you in the holy Spirit and in fire.

Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan, to John, to be baptized by him.

But Jesus answered, "Let it be so this time, for it is right for us to do everything that God requires." Then John consented.

Then Jesus was guided by the Spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the devil.

Then the devil took him to the holy city, and made him stand on the summit of the Temple,

Then Jesus said to him, "Begone, Satan! For the Scripture says, 'You must do homage to the Lord your God, and worship him alone!' "

Then the devil left him, and angels came and waited on him.

Then he went all over Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and curing any disease or sickness among the people.

leave your gift right there before the altar and go and make up with your brother; then come back and present your gift.

But if your right eye makes you fall, tear it out and throw it away, for you might better lose one part of your body than have it all thrown into the pit!

If your right hand makes you fall, cut it off and throw it away, for you might better lose one part of your body than have it all go down to the pit!

The eye is the lamp of the body. If then your eye is sound, your whole body will be light,

Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about life, wondering what you will have to eat or drink, or about your body, wondering what you will have to wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body than clothes?

Look at the wild birds. They do not sow or reap, or store their food in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more account than they?

You hypocrite! First get the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see to get the speck out of your brother's eye.

Then I will say to them plainly, 'I never knew you! Go away from me, you who do wrong!'

Then Jesus said to him, "See that you tell nobody, but go! Show yourself to the priest, and in proof of your cure, offer the gift that Moses prescribed."

Then Jesus said to the captain, "Go! You shall find it just as you believe!" And the servant was immediately cured.

Then Jesus, seeing a crowd about him, gave orders to cross to the other side.

And he said to them, "Why are you afraid? You have so little faith!" Then he got up and reproved the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.

But I would have you know that the Son of Man has authority to forgive sins on earth." Then he said to the paralytic, "Get up, pick up your bed and go home!"

Then the disciples of John came up to him and said, "Why is it that we and the Pharisees are keeping the fast, while your disciples are not keeping it?"

Jesus said to them, "Can wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But a time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them, and they will fast then.

But no one sews a patch of unshrunken cloth on an old coat, for the patch will tear away from the coat, and make the hole worse than ever.

Then he touched their eyes and said, "You shall have what your faith expects."

Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is abundant enough, but the reapers are few.

Then he called his twelve disciples to him, and gave them power over the foul spirits so that they could drive them out, and so that they could heal any disease or illness.

I tell you, the land of Sodom and Gomorrah will fare better on the Day of Judgment than that town.

A pupil is not better than his teacher, nor a slave better than his master.

You must not be afraid; you are worth more than a great many sparrows!

No one who loves father or mother more than he loves me is worthy of me, and no one who loves son or daughter more than he loves me is worthy of me,

Then what did you go out there to see? A man luxuriously dressed? Men who dress in that way you find in the palaces of kings.

Then why did you go out there? Was it to see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and far more than a prophet!

"I tell you, among men born of women no one greater than John the Baptist has ever appeared. And yet those who are of little importance in the Kingdom of Heaven are greater than he.

Then he began to reproach the towns in which his numerous wonders had been done, because they did not repent.

But I tell you, Tyre and Sidon will fare better on the Day of Judgment than you will!

But I tell you that the land of Sodom will fare better on the Day of Judgment than you will!"

But I tell you, there is something greater than the Temple here!

And how much more a man is worth than a sheep! Therefore, it is right to do people good on the Sabbath."

Then he said to the man, "Hold out your hand!" And he held it out, and it was restored and became as well as the other.

But if I am driving the demons out by the aid of God's Spirit, then the Kingdom of God has overtaken you.

Then some of the scribes and Pharisees addressed him, saying, "Master, we would like to have you show us some sign."

Men of Nineveh will rise with this age at the judgment and condemn it, for when Jonah preached they repented, and there is more than Jonah here!

The queen of the south will rise with this age at the judgment and condemn it, for she came from the very ends of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom, and there is more than Solomon here!

Then it says, 'I will go back to my house that I left,' and it goes and finds it unoccupied, cleaned, and all in order.

Then it goes and gets seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there, and in the end the man is worse off than he was before. That is the way it will be with this present wicked age."

"You must listen closely then to the figure of the sower.

And what was sown among the thorns means the man who listens to the message, and then the worries of the time and the pleasure of being rich choke the message out, and it yields nothing.

Then he left the crowds and went into his house. And his disciples came up to him and said, "Explain to us the figure of the weeds in the field."

Then the upright will shine out like the sun, in their Father's kingdom. Let him who has ears listen!

He said to them, "Then remember that every scribe who has become a disciple of the Kingdom of Heaven must be like a householder who can supply from his storeroom new things as well as old."

And do not all his sisters live here among us? Then where did he get all this?"

John's disciples came and took his body away, and buried him, and then they went and reported it to Jesus.

Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass, and he took the five loaves and the two fish and looked up to heaven and blessed them, and he broke the loaves in pieces and gave them to the disciples and they gave them to the people.

Then some Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, and said to him,

Then his disciples came up to him and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were shocked to hear you say that?"

Can you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and then is disposed of?

Then Jesus answered, "You have great faith! You shall have what you want." And her daughter was cured from that time.

Then great crowds came to him bringing with them those who were lame, crippled, blind, or dumb, and many others. And they laid them down at his feet, and he cured them,

Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said to them, "I pity these people for they have been staying with me three days now and they have nothing left to eat, and I do not mean to send them away hungry, for they may give out on the way."

Then he ordered the people to take their places on the ground,

Then they understood that he was warning them not against yeast but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Then he warned the disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Christ.

It was then that Jesus Christ for the first time explained to his disciples that he had to go to Jerusalem and endure great suffering there at the hands of the elders, high priests, and scribes, and be killed, and be raised to life on the third day.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself and take his cross and follow me.

For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in his Father's glory, and then he will repay everyone for what he has done.

The disciples asked him, "Then why do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?"

Then the disciples understood that he was speaking to them of John the Baptist.

He said, "From aliens." Jesus said to him, "Then their own people are exempt.

But rather than give offense to them, go down to the sea and throw in a hook. Take the first fish that comes up, open its mouth and you will find in it a dollar. Take that and pay the tax for us both."

"But if your own hand or your own foot makes you fall, cut it off and throw it away. You might better enter upon life maimed or crippled than keep both hands and feet but be thrown into the everlasting fire.

And if your own eye makes you fall, dig it out and throw it away. You might better enter upon life with only one eye than be thrown with both eyes into the fiery pit.

And if he happens to find it, I tell you he rejoices more over it than he does over the ninety-nine that did not stray.

Then Peter came to him and said, "Master, how many times am I to forgive my brother when he wrongs me? Seven times over?"

Then his master called him in and said to him, 'You wicked slave! I canceled all that debt of yours when you entreated me.

They said to him, "Then why did Moses command us to draw up a written divorce-notice and give it to her?"

Then some children were brought up to him so that he might lay his hands on them and pray, but his disciples reproved the people for it.

Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go! Sell your property and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven. Then come back and be a follower of mine."

And again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to get through a needle's eye than for a rich man to get into the Kingdom of God!"

But when the disciples heard this, they were completely astounded and said, "Then who can be saved?"

Then Peter spoke and said to him, "Here we have left all we had and followed you. What are we to have?"

But many who are first now will be last then, and many who are now last will be first.

So those who are last now will be first then, and those who are first will be last."

Then the mother of Zebedee's sons came up to him with her sons, bowing low, to ask a favor of him.

He said to them, "Then what I drink you shall drink, but as for sitting at my right or my left, that is not mine to give, but belongs to those for whom it is destined by my Father."

If anyone says anything to you, you are to say, 'The Master needs them'; then he will send them at once."

Where did John's baptism come from? Was it from heaven, or from men?" And they argued with one another, "If we say, 'It was from heaven,' he will say to us, 'Then why did you not believe him?'

Then the man went to the second son, and told him the same thing. And he answered, 'I will not!' But afterward he changed his mind and went.

Again he sent other slaves and more of them than he had sent at first, and they treated them in the same way.

Then he said to his slaves, 'The banquet is ready, but those who were invited have proved unworthy of it.

Then the king said to his attendants, 'Bind him hand and foot and throw him out into the darkness, there to weep and grind his teeth.'

Then the Pharisees went and made a plot to entrap him in argument.