There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest, by name Zacharias, of the course of Abia, and his wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name Elizabeth.

But the angel said to him, Fear not, Zacharias, because thy supplication has been heard, and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.

And it came to pass, as Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit,

He has wrought strength with his arm; he has scattered haughty ones in the thought of their heart.

And her neighbours and kinsfolk heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy with her, and they rejoiced with her.

And all who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, What then will this child be? And the Lord's hand was with him.

And all who heard it wondered at the things said to them by the shepherds.

But Mary kept all these things in her mind, pondering them in her heart.

And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all things which they had heard and seen, as it had been said to them.

And all who heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.

And he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and he was in subjection to them. And his mother kept all these things in her heart.

Now in the fifteenth year of the government of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother tetrarch of Ituraea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him as to Herodias, the wife of his brother, and as to all the wicked things which Herod had done,

And he said to them, Ye will surely say to me this parable, Physician, heal thyself; whatsoever we have heard has taken place in Capernaum do here also in thine own country.

The good man, out of the good treasure of his heart, brings forth good; and the wicked man out of the wicked, brings forth what is wicked: for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

And he that has heard and not done, is like a man who has built a house on the ground without a foundation, on which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the breach of that house was great.

and having heard of Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, begging him that he might come and save his bondman.

And Jesus answering said to them, Go, bring back word to John of what ye have seen and heard: that blind see, lame walk, lepers are cleansed, deaf hear, dead are raised, poor are evangelized;

(And all the people who heard it, and the tax-gatherers, justified God, having been baptised with the baptism of John;

and Joanna, wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, who ministered to him of their substance.

But those by the wayside are those who hear; then comes the devil and takes away the word from their heart that they may not believe and be saved.

But that that fell where the thorns were, these are they who having heard go away and are choked under cares and riches and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to perfection.

But that in the good ground, these are they who in an honest and good heart, having heard the word keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

And there was there a herd of many swine feeding on the mountain, and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into those; and he suffered them.

And the demons, going out from the man, entered into the swine, and the herd rushed down the precipice into the lake, and were choked.

And Herod the tetrarch heard of all the things which were done by him, and was in perplexity, because it was said by some that John was risen from among the dead,

And Herod said, John I have beheaded, but who is this of whom I hear such things? and he sought to see him.

And as the voice was heard Jesus was found alone: and they kept silence, and told no one in those days any of the things they had seen.

And Jesus, seeing the reasoning of their heart, having taken a little child set it by him,

But he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thine understanding; and thy neighbour as thyself.

therefore whatever ye have said in the darkness shall be heard in the light, and what ye have spoken in the ear in chambers shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.

But if that bondman should say in his heart, My lord delays to come, and begin to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and to drink and to be drunken,

The same hour certain Pharisees came up, saying to him, Get out, and go hence, for Herod is desirous to kill thee.

And his elder son was in the field; and as, coming up, he drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing.

And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things, and mocked him.

And when Jesus had heard this, he said to him, One thing is lacking to thee yet: Sell all that thou hast and distribute to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in the heavens, and come, follow me.

But when he heard this he became very sorrowful, for he was very rich.

And those who heard it said, And who can be saved?

And when he heard the crowd passing, he inquired what this might be.

He will come and destroy those husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it they said, May it never be!

And they said, What need have we any more of witness, for we have heard ourselves out of his mouth?

But Pilate, having heard Galilee named, demanded if the man were a Galilaean;

and having learned that he was of Herod's jurisdiction, remitted him to Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem in those days.

And when Herod saw Jesus he greatly rejoiced, for he had been a long while desirous of seeing him, because of hearing many things concerning him, and he hoped to see some sign done by him;

And Herod with his troops having set him at nought and mocked him, having put a splendid robe upon him, sent him back to Pilate.

And Pilate and Herod became friends with one another the same day, for they had been at enmity before between themselves.

nor Herod either, for I remitted you to him, and behold, nothing worthy of death is done by him.

And he said to them, O senseless and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

And they said to one another, Was not our heart burning in us as he spoke to us on the way, and as he opened the scriptures to us?