But when he came out he could not speak to them, and they knew that he had seen a vision in the sanctuary. For his part, he kept making signs to them, and remained dumb.

Now the time came for Elizabeth's child to be born, and she gave birth to a son.

Her neighbors and relatives heard of the great mercy the Lord had shown her, and they came and congratulated her.

On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him Zechariah, after his father.

While they were there, the time came for her child to be born,

She came up just at that time and gave thanks to God and spoke about the child to all who were living in expectation of the liberation of Jerusalem.

in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, a message from God came to Zechariah's son John in the desert.

So he would say to the crowds that came out there to be baptized by him, "You brood of snakes! Who warned you to fly from the wrath that is coming?

Even tax-collectors came to be baptized, and they said to him, "Master, what ought we to do?"

and the holy Spirit came down upon him in the material shape of a dove, and there came a voice from heaven, "You are my Son, my Beloved! You are my Chosen!"

And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath he went to the synagogue, as he was accustomed to do, and stood up to read the Scriptures.

And he came down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee. And he taught them on the Sabbath,

Jesus reproved him and said, "Silence! Get out of him!" And the demon threw the man down in the midst of them, and came out of him, without doing him any harm.

And demons came out of many people, crying out, "You are the Son of God!" But he reproved them and forbade them to speak, because they knew he was the Christ.

And they signaled to their comrades in the other boat to come and help them. And they came, and they filled both boats so full that they began to sink.

When he was in one of the towns, he came upon a man covered with leprosy. And when he saw Jesus he fell down on his face, and begged him, saying, "If you only choose, sir, you can cure me!"

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.

When day came, he called his disciples to him, and chose twelve of them whom he named apostles:

And he came down with them and took his stand on a level place with a great throng of his disciples, and a large number of people from all over Judea and from Jerusalem and the seacoast district of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear him and to be cured of their diseases.

As he came up to the gate of the town, a dead man was being carried out; he was his mother's only son, and she was a widow. A crowd of the townspeople was with her.

"For when John the Baptist came, he did not eat any bread or drink any wine, and you said, 'He has a demon!'

and came and stood behind him at his feet, weeping, and began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with her hair, and kissed them, and put the perfume on them.

And turning to the woman, he said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I came to your house; you did not give me any water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with tears and wiped them with her hair.

You did not give me a kiss, but from the moment I came in she has not stopped kissing my feet.

His mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not get near him, on account of the crowd.

And the word came to him, "Your mother and your brothers are standing outside; they want to see you."

So they set sail. As they sailed along, he fell asleep. And a squall of wind came down upon the lake, and they were being swamped and were in peril.

Then the demons came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the drove rushed over the steep bank into the lake, and were drowned.

And the people came out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus and found the man out of whom the demons had gone sitting there, at Jesus' feet, with his clothes on and in his right mind, and they were frightened.

And a man named Jairus came up??e was leader of the synagogue??nd he fell down at Jesus' feet and begged him to come to his house,

came up behind him and touched the tassel of his cloak, and the hemorrhage stopped at once.

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.

Even as he spoke someone came from the house of the leader of the synagogue and said, "Your daughter is dead. Do not trouble the Master any more."

Then the apostles came back and told Jesus what they had done. And he took them and quietly retired to a town called Bethsaida.

When the day began to decline, the Twelve came up and said to him, "Send the crowd away to the villages and farms around to find food and shelter, for we are in a lonely place here."

But as he said it, a cloud came and overshadowed them, and they were frightened as they passed under the cloud.

And from the cloud came a voice that said, "This is my Son, my Chosen! Listen to him!"

The seventy-two came back delighted, and said, "Master, when we use your name the very demons submit to us!"

And a Levite also came to the place, and when he saw him, he went by on the other side.

But a Samaritan who was traveling that way came upon him, and when he saw him he pitied him,

As they continued their journey, he came to a certain village, and a woman named Martha welcomed him to her house.

But Martha was worried with all she had to do for them, and she came up and said, "Master, does it make no difference to you that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Tell her to help me."

The queen of the south will rise with the men of this generation at the Judgment and will condemn them, for she came from the very ends of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom, and there is more than Solomon here!

Just then some people came up to bring him word of the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with that of their sacrifices.

Just then some Pharisees came up and said to him, "Go! Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you!"

and when the dinner hour came, he sent around his slave, to say to those who were invited, 'Come! for it is now ready!'

When he came to himself he said, 'How many hired men my father has, who have more than enough to eat, and here I am, dying of hunger!

But his elder son was in the field. When he came in and approached the house, he heard music and dancing,

But he was angry and would not go into the house. And his father came out and urged him.

But when your son here came, who has eaten up your property with women of the street, for him you killed the calf you have been fattening!'

Until John came, it was the Law and the Prophets. From that time the Kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone has been crowding into it.

and eager to satisfy his hunger with what was thrown away from the rich man's table. Why, the very dogs came and licked his sores.

And it came about that the beggar died and was carried away by the angels to the companionship of Abraham, and the rich man too died and was buried.

But one of them, when he saw that he was cured, came back, loudly praising God,

People went on eating, drinking, marrying, and being married up to the very day that Noah got into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all.

There was a widow in the city and she came to him and said, 'Protect me from my opponent.'

And Jesus stopped and ordered the man to be brought to him. When he came up, Jesus asked him,

And he came down quickly and welcomed him gladly.

The first one came in and said, 'Your twenty dollars has made two hundred, sir!'

The second came in and said, 'Your twenty dollars has made a hundred, sir!'

And the other one came in and said, 'Here is your twenty dollars, sir. I have kept it put away in a handkerchief,

Then why did you not put my money in the bank, so that when I came back I could have gotten it with interest?'

One day as he was teaching the people in the Temple, and preaching the good news, the high priests and scribes came up with the elders

So they answered that they did not know where it came from.

Then some of the Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection, came up and asked him,

When the day of Unleavened Bread came, on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed,

When the time came, he took his place at the table, with the apostles about him.

While he was still speaking, a crowd of people came up, with the man called Judas, one of the Twelve, at their head, and he stepped up to Jesus to kiss him.

It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole country, and lasted until three in the afternoon,

who had not voted for the plan or action of the council. He came from the Jewish town of Arimathea and lived in expectation of the Kingdom of God.

And as they were talking and discussing them, Jesus himself came up and went with them,

and could not find his body, but came back and said that they had actually seen a vision of angels who said that he was alive.