Once when he was acting as priest before God, when his division was on duty,

He will go before him with the spirit and the power of Elijah, to reconcile fathers to their children, and to bring the disobedient back to the wisdom of upright men, to make a people perfectly ready for the Lord."

"And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, For you will go before the Lord to make his way ready,

When he was eight days old and it was time to circumcise him, he was named Jesus, as the angel had named him, before his birth was first expected.

Which you have set before all the nations,

If you will do homage before me, it shall all be yours."

Jesus answered, "The Scripture says, 'You must do homage before the Lord your God, and worship him alone.' "

Some men came up carrying on a bed a man who was paralyzed, and they tried to get him in and lay him before Jesus.

And he got up at once before them all, and picked up what he had been lying on, and went home, praising God.

This is the man of whom the Scripture says, " 'Here I send my messenger on before you, He will prepare the road ahead of you!'

When he saw Jesus he cried out and threw himself down before him, and said in a loud voice, "What do you want of me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you not to torture me!"

When the woman saw that she had not escaped his notice, she came forward trembling, and fell down before him, and before all the people told why she had touched him, and how she had been cured at once.

and sent messengers before him. They started out and went into a Samaritan village, to make preparations for him.

After this the Master appointed seventy-two others, and sent them on before him, two by two, to every town or place to which he intended to come.

Then it goes and gets seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there, and in the end the man is worse off than he was before."

The Pharisee noticed that he did not wash before the meal, and he was surprised.

I tell you, everyone who will acknowledge me before men, the Son of Man will acknowledge before the angels of God,

but anyone who disowns me before men will be disowned before the angels of God.

When they bring you before the synagogues or the magistrates or the authorities, you must have no anxiety about how to defend yourselves or what to say,

For when you are going before the magistrate with your opponent, do your best on the way to get rid of him, or he may hurry you off to the judge and the judge hand you over to the constable and the constable throw you into prison.

But when you are invited anywhere, go and take the poorest place, so that when your host comes in, he will say to you, 'My friend, come to a better place.' So you will be shown consideration before all the other guests.

And he said to them, "You are the men who parade your uprightness before people, but God knows your hearts. For what men consider great is detestable in the sight of God.

So they could not fasten on what he said before the people, and they were amazed at his answer, and said nothing more.

But before all this, men will arrest you and persecute you, and hand you over to synagogues and prisons and have you brought before kings and governors on my account.

I tell you, it will all happen before the present generation passes away.

And he said to them, "I have greatly desired to eat this Passover supper with you before I suffer.

But he said, "I tell you, Peter, the cock will not crow today before you deny three times that you know me!"

And the Master turned and looked at Peter, and Peter remembered the words the Master had said to him??"Before the cock crows today, you will disown me three times."

As soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the high priests and scribes assembled, and brought him before their council, and said to him,

And Herod and Pilate became friends that day, for they had been at enmity before.

and said to them, "You brought this man before me charged with misleading the people, and here I have examined him before you and not found him guilty of any of the things that you accuse him of.

as the sun was in eclipse. And the curtain before the sanctuary was torn in two.

Did not the Christ have to suffer thus before entering upon his glory?"

and he took it and ate it before their eyes.