The birth of Jesus Christ came about this way: After His mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, it was discovered before they came together that she was pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

After hearing the king, they went on their way. And there it was—the star they had seen in the east! It led them until it came and stopped above the place where the child was.

For he is the one spoken of through the prophet Isaiah, who said:

A voice of one crying out in the wilderness:
Prepare the way for the Lord;
make His paths straight!

Jesus answered him, “Allow it for now, because this is the way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed Him to be baptized.

In the same way, let your light shine before men, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.

Reach a settlement quickly with your adversary while you’re on the way with him, or your adversary will hand you over to the judge, the judge to the officer, and you will be thrown into prison.

In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a bad tree produces bad fruit.

When He had come to the other side, to the region of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men met Him as they came out of the tombs. They were so violent that no one could pass that way.

Now a long way off from them, a large herd of pigs was feeding.

This is the one it is written about:

Look, I am sending My messenger ahead of You;
he will prepare Your way before You.

he does not have to honor his father.’ In this way, you have revoked God’s word because of your tradition.

Now Jesus summoned His disciples and said, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they’ve already stayed with Me three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away hungry; otherwise they might collapse on the way.”

“But I tell you: Elijah has already come, and they didn’t recognize him. On the contrary, they did whatever they pleased to him. In the same way the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands.”

In the same way, it is not the will of your Father in heaven that one of these little ones perish.

Since he had no way to pay it back, his master commanded that he, his wife, his children, and everything he had be sold to pay the debt.

For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, there are eunuchs who were made by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves that way because of the kingdom of heaven. Let anyone accept this who can.”

While going up to Jerusalem, Jesus took the 12 disciples aside privately and said to them on the way:

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe him. Tax collectors and prostitutes did believe him, but you, when you saw it, didn’t even change your minds then and believe him.

Although they were looking for a way to arrest Him, they feared the crowds, because they regarded Him as a prophet.

They sent their disciples to Him, with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that You are truthful and teach truthfully the way of God. You defer to no one, for You don’t show partiality.

In the same way, on the outside you seem righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

In the same way, when you see all these things, recognize that He is near—at the door!

They didn’t know until the flood came and swept them all away. So this is the way the coming of the Son of Man will be:

In the same way the man with two earned two more.

and they conspired to arrest Jesus in a treacherous way and kill Him.

But I tell you, from this moment I will not drink of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it in a new way in My Father’s kingdom with you.”

How, then, would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen this way?”

In the same way the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, mocked Him and said,

In the same way even the criminals who were crucified with Him kept taunting Him.

As they were on their way, some of the guards came into the city and reported to the chief priests everything that had happened.