Then Herod summoned the magicians in secret and ascertained from them the time of the star's appearance.

Then Herod saw the magicians had trifled with him, and he was furiously angry; he sent and slew all the male children in Bethlehem and in all the neighbourhood who were two years old or under, calculating by the time he had ascertained from the magicians.

They shrieked, "Son of God, what business have you with us? Have you come here to torture us before it is time?"

Jesus said to them, "Can friends at a wedding mourn so long as the bride groom is beside them? A time will come when the bridegroom is taken from them, and then they will fast.

At that time Jesus spoke and said, "I praise thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding all this from the wise and learned and revealing it to the simpleminded;

At that time Jesus walked one sabbath through the cornfields, and as his disciples were hungry they started to pull some ears of corn and eat them.

Let them both grow side by side till harvest; and at harvest-time I will tell the reapers to gather the weeds first and tie them in bundles to be burnt, but to collect the wheat in my granary.'"

At that time Herod the tetrarch heard about the fame of Jesus.

From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he had to leave for Jerusalem and endure great suffering at the hands of the elders and high priests and scribes, and be killed and raised on the third day.

If anyone tells you at that time, 'Here is the Christ!' or, 'there he is!' do not believe it;

Now where is the trusty and thoughtful servant, whom his lord and master has set over his household to assign them their supplies at the proper time?

Now a long time afterwards the master of those servants came back and settled accounts with them.

He said, "Go into the city to so-and-so; tell him that the Teacher says, 'My time is near, I will celebrate the passover at your house with my disciples.' "

Again he went away for the second time and prayed, "My Father, if this cup cannot pass unless I drink it, thy will be done."

So he left them and went back for the third time, praying in the same words as before.

At festival time the governor was in the habit of releasing any one prisoner whom the crowd chose.

At that time they had a notorious prisoner called Jesus Bar-Abbas;

Two robbers were also crucified with him at that time, one on the right hand and one on the left.

and teach them to obey all the commands I have laid on you. And I will be with you all the time, to the very end of the world."