This will bring gladness and delight to you, and many will rejoice over his birth.

And all their neighbors were overcome with fear, and all over the hill-country of Judea all these stories were told,

When the angels left them and returned to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Come! Let us go over to Bethlehem, and see this thing that has happened, that the Lord has told us of!"

When they saw this, they told what had been said to them about this child.

And all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds told them,

And the shepherds went back glorifying God and praising him for all that they had heard and seen in fulfilment of what they had been told.

But they did not understand what he told them.

Jesus answered, "We have been told, 'You shall not try the Lord your God.' "

John's disciples told him of all this,

And those who had seen it told them how the man who had been possessed was cured.

"Go back to your home, and tell all that God has done for you." And he went and told all over the town what Jesus had done for him.

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.

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

John answered, "Master, we saw a man driving out demons with your name, and we told him not to do so, for he does not go with us."

And he told them this story: "A certain rich man's lands yielded heavily.

They told him that Jesus of Nazareth was coming by.

And those who were in front reproved him and told him to be quiet, but he cried out all the louder, "You Son of David, take pity on me!"

And he called in ten of his slaves and gave them each twenty dollars and told them to trade with it while he was gone.

And the messengers went and found it just as he had told them.

As soon as they put out their leaves, you see them and you know without being told that summer is coming.

So they went and found everything just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover supper.

Remember what he told you while he was still in Galilee,

and they went back from the tomb and told all this to the eleven and all the rest.

They were Mary of Magdala and Joanna and Mary, James's mother; and the other women also told this to the apostles.

And they told what had happened on the road, and how they had known him when he broke the bread in pieces.

Then he said to them, "This is what I told you when I was still with you??hat everything that is written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must come true."