Now the birth of Christ Jesus occurred under these conditions: After His mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, but before they had lived together, she was found to be an expectant mother through the influence of the Holy Spirit.

and do not presume to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our forefather? For I tell you, God can raise up descendants for Abraham even out of these stones.

And the tempter came up and said to Him, "If you are God's Son, order these stones to turn to bread."

Whoever, therefore, breaks one of the least of these commands and teaches others so to do, will be ranked as least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices them and teaches others so to do, will be ranked as great in the kingdom of heaven.

but I tell you, not even Solomon, in all his gorgeous splendor, was ever dressed up like a single one of these.

But as your first duty keep on looking for His standard of doing right, and for His will, and then all these things will be yours besides.

And just as He was saying these things to them, an official came up and fell on his knees before Him, and said, "My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand upon her and she will come to life."

Jesus sent these twelve out, after giving them the following charge: "Do not go to the heathen, or to any Samaritan town,

At that time Jesus said, "I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for concealing these matters from wise and learned men, and for revealing them to little children.

"Do you understand all these stories?" They answered Him, "Yes."

When Jesus had finished these stories, He left there.

And are not His sisters all living here with us? Where then did He get all these things?"

These are the things that make a man foul, but eating with unwashed hands does not make a man foul."

But whoever leads one of these little ones, who believe in me, to do wrong, had better have a great millstone hung around his neck to sink him to the bottom of the sea.

A curse on the world for such influences to do wrong! For they must come, but a curse on the man from whom these influences come!

"Be careful not to look with scorn on a single one of these little children, for I tell you that in heaven their angels have uninterrupted access to my Father in heaven.

Just so it is not the will of my Father in heaven that a single one of these little ones be lost.

But Jesus said, "Let the little children alone, and stop preventing them from coming to me, for to such as these the kingdom of heaven belongs."

The young man said, "I have kept all these commandments; what more do I lack?"

and say, 'These last worked only one hour, and yet you have put them on the same footing with us who have borne the heavy burdens and scorching heat of the day.'

And He asked her, "What do you want?" She answered Him, "Give orders that these two sons of mine may sit one at your right and one at your left in your kingdom."

And when He had come into the temple, the high priests and elders of the people came up to Him while He was teaching, and asked, "What sort of authority have you for doing these things, and who gave you this authority?"

Now when the owner of the estate comes back, what will he do to these tenants?"

The essence of the whole law and the prophets is packed into these two commands."

"A curse on you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees! For you pay tithes on mint and dill and cummin, and yet leave out the more vital matters of the law, justice, love and fidelity. These latter especially you ought to have done, but ought not to have left out the former.

But He answered them, "Do you see all these things? I solemnly say to you, there shall not be left here one stone upon another that shall not be torn down."

So when you see all these things, you will know that He is right at your door.

And the King will answer them, 'I solemnly say to you, every time you did a good deed to one of these most insignificant brothers of mine, you did a good deed to me.'

Then He will answer, 'I solemnly say to you, every time you failed to do a good deed to one of these most insignificant people, you failed to do a good deed to me.'

Then these will go away to everlasting punishment, but the upright to everlasting life."