Simeon himself took the child in his arms, and blessed God, and said:

However he went down with them to Nazareth, and submitted himself to their control; and his mother treasured all that was said in her heart.

When Simon Peter saw this, he threw himself down at Jesus' knees, exclaiming: "Master, leave me, for I am a sinful man!"

On one occasion Jesus was staying in a town, when he saw a man who was covered with leprosy. When the leper saw Jesus, he threw himself on his face and implored his help: "Master, if only you are willing, you are able to make me clean."

"For he is devoted to our nation, and himself built our Synagogue for us."

When the Pharisee who had invited Jesus saw this, he said to himself: "Had this man been 'The Prophet,' he would have known who, and what sort of woman, this is who is touching him, and that she is an outcast."

Catching sight of Jesus, he shrieked out and threw himself down before him, and in a loud voice exclaimed: "What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beseech you not to torment me."

And a man named Jaeirus, who was a President of the Synagogue, came to Jesus, and threw himself at Jesus' feet, with entreaties that he would come to his house,

But Herod himself said: "John I beheaded; but who is this of whom I hear such things?" And he endeavored to see him.

What good does it do a man if, when he has gained the whole world, he has lost or forfeited himself?

After this, the Master appointed seventy-two other disciples, and sent them on as his Messengers, two and two, in advance, to every town and place that he was himself intending to visit.

But the man, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus: "And who is my neighbor?"

Now which, do you think, of these three men," asked Jesus, "proved himself a neighbor to the man who fell into the robbers' hands?"

I tell you that, even though he will not get up and give him anything because he is a friend, yet because of his persistence he will rouse himself and give him what he wants.

Jesus himself, however, was aware of what they were thinking, and said to them: "Any kingdom wholly divided against itself becomes a desolation; and a divided house falls.

So, too, if Satan is wholly divided against himself, how can his kingdom last? Yet you say that I drive out demons by the help of Baal-zebub.

Meanwhile the people had gathered in thousands, so that they trod upon one another, when Jesus, addressing himself to his disciples, began by saying to them: "Be on your guard against the leaven--that is, the hypocrisy--of the Pharisees.

And he began to ask himself 'What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?

Happy are those servants whom, on his return, the Master will find watching. I tell you that he will make himself ready, and bid them take their places at table, and will come and wait upon them.

But should that servant say to himself 'My master is a long time coming,' and begin to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

For every one who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."

So he went and engaged himself to one of the people of that country, who sent him into his fields to tend pigs.

But, when he came to himself, he said 'How many of my father's hired servants have more bread than they can eat, while here am I starving to death!

'What am I to do,' the steward asked himself, 'now that my master is taking the steward's place away from me? I have not strength to dig, and I am ashamed to beg.

No servant can serve two masters, for, either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will attach himself to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money."

And threw himself on his face at Jesus' feet, thanking him for what he had done; and this man was a Samaritan.

It will be the same on the day on which the Son of Man reveals himself.

For a time the judge refused, but afterwards he said to himself 'Although I am without fear of God or regard for man,

The Pharisee stood forward and began praying to himself in this way--'O God, I thank thee that I am not like other men-- thieves, rogues, adulterers--or even like this tax-gatherer.

This man, I tell you, went home pardoned, rather than the other; for every one who exalts himself will be humbled, while every one who humbles himself shall be exalted."

For David, in the Book of Psalms, says himself--'The Lord said to my lord: "Sit at my right hand,

But, when they had lit a fire in the center of the court-yard and had all sat down there, Peter seated himself in the middle of them.

And they began to accuse him: "This is a man whom we found misleading our people, preventing them from paying taxes to the Emperor, and giving out that he himself is 'Christ, a King.'"

And, having satisfied himself that Jesus came under Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who also was at Jerusalem at the time.

Meanwhile the people stood looking on. Even the leading men said with a sneer: "He saved others, let him save himself, if he is God's Christ, his Chosen One."

[But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. Stooping down he saw nothing but the linen wrappings, and he went away, wondering to himself at what had taken place.]

While they were talking about these things and discussing them, Jesus himself came up and went on their way with them;

Then, beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them all through the Scriptures the passages that referred to himself.

While they were still talking about these things, Jesus himself stood among them, [and said "Peace be with you."]