After these days his wife Elizabeth conceived, and for five months she hid herself, saying,

On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they would have named him Zechariah after his father,

After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

After this he went out, and saw a tax collector, named Levi, sitting at the tax office; and he said to him, "Follow me."

And no one after drinking old wine desires the new; for he says, 'The old is better.'"

And when a great crowd came together and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable:

Then he said to them all, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.

Now about eight days after these sayings, he took with him Peter and John and James, and went up on the mountain to pray.

After this the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go.

"No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a secret place or under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may see the light.

"I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

But I will show you whom you should fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has power to cast into hell; yes, I tell you, fear him!

For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them.

And whoever does not bear his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

"What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost until he finds it?

Not many days after, the younger son gathered together all he had and took his journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in loose living.

And they will say to you, 'Look here!' or 'Look there!' Do not go after them or follow them.

But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, 'We do not want this man to reign over us.'

And he said: "Take heed that you not are deceived. For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am he,' and, 'The time is near.' Do not go after them.

Likewise he took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

When I was with you day after day in the temple, you did not lay hands on me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness."

Then after about an hour had passed, another insisted, saying, "Certainly this fellow also was with him, for he is a Galilean."