and said, "Wake up, tenderly take the child and His mother, and make the trip to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child's life are dead."

In those days John the Baptist appeared, and kept preaching in the desert of Judea,

The people that were living in darkness have seen a great light, and on those that were living in the land of the shadow of death; a light has dawned."

So the news about Him spread all over Syria, and people brought to Him all who were sick with various diseases, especially those who were suffering with torturing diseases; and he cured them.

"Blessed are those who feel poor in spiritual things, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them.

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for being and doing right, for they will be completely satisfied.

"Blessed are those who show mercy, for they will have mercy shown them.

"Blessed are those who suffer persecution for being and doing right, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them.

For if you practice loving only those who love you, what reward will you get? Do not even the tax-collectors practice that?

So if you, in spite of your being bad, know how to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your heavenly Father give what is good to those who keep on asking Him?

Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will get into the kingdom of heaven, but only those who practice doing the will of my Father in heaven.

You must never be afraid of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul. But rather you must keep on fearing Him who can destroy both soul and body in the pit.

And from the days of John the Baptist until the present moment the kingdom of heaven has been continuously taken by storm, and those who take it by storm are seizing it as a precious prize.

The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all those who cause wrongdoing, and the wrongdoers,

Those fed numbered four thousand men, besides women and children.

He said to them, "It is not every man who has the capacity to carry out this saying, but it is for those to whom the capacity has been given.

After that some little children were brought to Him, for Him to lay His hands on them and pray for them, but His disciples reproved those who brought them.

And those who were hired first, when they came, supposed that they would receive more, but they too received twenty cents each.

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

He said to them, "You will drink the cup that I am to drink, but seats at my right and at my left are not mine to give, but they will be given to those for whom they have been prepared by my Father."

And he sent his slaves to summon those who had been invited to the wedding reception, but they refused to come.

Then the king was enraged, and sent his soldiers to put those murderers to death and burned their city.

After that he said to his slaves, 'My wedding reception is ready, but those invited have proved unworthy.

And those slaves went out into the roads and gathered everybody they found, both good and bad, and the bridal-hall was packed with guests.

"A curse on you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees! For you bolt the doors of the kingdom of heaven in men's faces, for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you let those who are trying to do so go in.

So you are witnessing against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! The city that has kept on murdering the prophets, and stoning those who have been sent to her, how often I have yearned to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, but you refused!

"then let those who remain in Judea fly to the hills;

Alas for women who are expectant mothers and those who have nursing babies in those days!

And if those days had not been cut short, nobody would have escaped, but for the sake of God's chosen people those days will be cut short.

"And immediately after the misery of those days, the sun will turn dark, the moon will not shed its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the sky will be shaken.

and begins to beat his fellow-slaves, and keeps on eating and drinking with those who get drunk,

Then all those bridesmaids awoke and trimmed their lamp-wicks.

After a long time the master of those slaves came back and settled accounts with them.

Then the King will say to those at His right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father, take possession of the kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world.

"Then He will say to those at His left, 'Be gone from me, you who are now cursed, to the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

Then he went out into the gateway, and another waiting girl saw him, and said to those there, "This fellow was with Jesus the Nazarene."