like the accounts passed on to us by those who were eyewitnesses and servants of the word from the beginning.

So Mary said, "Yes, I am a servant of the Lord; let this happen to me according to your word." Then the angel departed from her.

"Now, according to your word, Sovereign Lord, permit your servant to depart in peace.

during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness.

Now Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, and the crowd was pressing around him to hear the word of God.

Simon answered, "Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing! But at your word I will lower the nets."

That is why I did not presume to come to you. Instead, say the word, and my servant must be healed.

"Now the parable means this: The seed is the word of God.

Those along the path are the ones who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.

Those on the rock are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while, but in a time of testing fall away.

But as for the seed that landed on good soil, these are the ones who, after hearing the word, cling to it with an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with steadfast endurance.

But he replied to them, "My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it."

But he replied, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it!"

And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the person who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

Then the Lord turned and looked straight at Peter, and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, "Before a rooster crows today, you will deny me three times."