it fell to his lot, according to the priests' practice, to go into the sanctuary of the Lord and burn the incense,

And he gave them his blessing, and said to Mary, the child's mother, "This child is destined to cause the fall and rise of many in Israel, and to be a portent that will be much debated??35 you yourself will be pierced to the heart??nd so the thoughts of many minds will be revealed."

And he went all through the Jordan Valley preaching repentance and baptism in order to obtain the forgiveness of sins,

Jesus returned from the Jordan full of the holy Spirit, and he was led about in the desert

And they all spoke well of him and were astonished at the winning words that fell from his lips, and they said, "Is he not Joseph's son?"

There was a man in the synagogue who was possessed by the spirit of a foul demon and he cried out loudly,

And they were all amazed and said to one another, "What is the meaning of this teaching? For he gives orders authoritatively and effectually to the foul spirits, and they come out."

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 Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' feet and said, "Leave me, Master, for I am a sinful man."

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!"

After this he went out, and he saw a tax-collector named Levi sitting at the tollhouse, and he said to him, "Follow me!"

And those who were troubled with foul spirits were cured.

And if you lend only to people from whom you expect to get something, what merit is there in that? Even godless people lend to godless people, meaning to get it back again in full.

And he used a figure saying, "Can one blind man lead another? Will they not both fall into a hole?

A good man, out of the good he has accumulated in his heart, produces good, and a bad man, out of what he has accumulated that is bad, produces what is bad. For his mouth says only what his heart is full of.

"A sower went out to sow his seed. As he was sowing, some of the seed fell by the path and was trodden on, and the wild birds ate it up.

And some of it fell upon the rock, and when it sprang up it withered, because it had no moisture.

And some fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it out.

And some fell on good soil, and grew up and yielded a hundred fold!" As he said this he called out, "Let him who has ears to hear with, listen!"

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.

For he was commanding the foul spirit to get out of the man. For it had often seized him, and though he had been fastened with chains and fetters, and was closely watched, he would snap his bonds and the demon would drive him away to the desert.

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,

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 he said to everyone, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself, and take his cross day after day and follow me.

Even while the boy was coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed him, but Jesus reproved the foul spirit and cured the boy and gave him back to his father.

And they were all amazed at the power of God. While everybody was full of wonder at all that he was doing, he said to his disciples,

As they were going along the road, a man said to him, "I will follow you wherever you go."

He said to another, "Follow me." But he said, "Let me first go and bury my father."

Yet another man said to him, "Master, I am going to follow you, but let me first say goodbye to my people at home."

He said to them, "I saw Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning!

Jesus replied, "A man was on his way down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers, and they stripped him and beat him and went off leaving him half dead.

Which of these three do you think proved himself a neighbor to the man who fell into the robbers' hands?"

When a foul spirit goes out of a man, it roams through deserts in search of rest, and when it finds none, it says, 'I will go back to my house that I left.'

But the Master said to him, "You Pharisees clean the outside of cups and dishes, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.

But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your soul will be demanded of you. Then who will have all you have prepared?'

Or those eighteen people at Siloam who were killed when the tower fell upon them??o you think they were worse offenders than all the other people who live in Jerusalem?

And the master said to the slave, 'Go out on the roads, and among the hedges, and make them come so that my house may be full.

And he was ready to fill himself with the pods the pigs were eating, and no one would give him anything.

And he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him, and pitied him, and ran and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

and fell on his face at Jesus' feet, and thanked him. He was a Samaritan.

And he said, "Take care not to be misled. For many will come under my name, and say, 'I am he,' and 'The time is at hand.' Do not follow them.

But when you hear of wars and outbreaks, do not be alarmed. These have to come first, but the end does not follow immediately."

They will fall by the edge of the sword, and be carried off as prisoners among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled under foot by the heathen, until the time of the heathen comes.

He said to them, "Just after you enter the city, you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him to the house to which he goes,

but I have prayed that your own faith may not fail. And afterward you yourself must turn and strengthen your brothers."

Then people will begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and to the hills, 'Cover us up!'

Look at my hands and feet, for it is I myself! Feel of me and see, for a ghost has not flesh and bones, as you see I have."