Seeing that many have taken it in hand to draw up an account of those matters which have been fully established among us,

All the story laid it up in their hearts, saying "What, then, will this child be?" For the Lord's hands was with him.

"And has raised up a mighty Deliverer for us In the house of his servant David,

And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city if Nazareth, into Judea, to David's town of Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David.

But Mary treasured up all those words, Often pondering on them in her heart.

And when the days for purification according to the law of Moses had passed, they took him up to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord,

he took him up in his arms and blessed God and said,

"Behold this child is set for the falling and rising up of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

She came up at that very hour, and gave thanks to God, and spoke of the child to all who were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem.

Now his parents were accustomed to go up to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover.

And when he was twelve years old they went up, as was customary, at the time of the feast

Then he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and he was always obedient to them. But his mother kept treasuring up all these incidents in her hearts.

Every ravine shall be filled up, Every hill and mountain shall be laid low, The crooked shall be made straight, And the rough roads smooth;

Then bring forth fruit befitting your penitence, and do not begin to say to yourselves, "We have Abraham as our father." I tell you that God is able to raise up sons to Abraham out of these stones.

added yet this above them all that he shut up John in prison.

And the devil led him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the inhabited earth in an instant of time, and the devil said to him.

"They will bear thee up in their hands, Lest thou dash thy food against a stone."

Then he came to Nazareth where he had been brought up. and, as was his custom, he entered into the synagogue on the Sabbath Day, and stood up to read.

Then rolling up the papyrus, he gave it back to the attendant and sat down.

So they went up on the roof, and let him down through the tiling, with his bed, into the crowd, before Jesus.

But that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins (he said to the paralytic), "I bid you rise, take up your bed, and go to your house."

And instantly he arose up before them, took up what he had been lying on, and went away to his house, glorifying God.

"Woe unto you who are full now! For you shall suffer hunger. "Woe to you who are laughing now! For you shall wail and weep.

A great crowd accompanied her. And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, "Do not weep."

And he who was dead sat up and began to speak; and he gave him to his mother.

and standing behind, at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and to wipe them with her hair, while she tenderly kissed his feet, and poured the perfume over them.

"A sower went out to sow his seed, and as he sowed some fell by the wayside, and was trodden under foot, and the wild birds ate it up.

"But some fell on good soil, and grew up, and brought forth fruit, a hundredfold." When he said this, he called out, "Whoever has ears to hear with, let him listen."

"My mother and brothers," he answered, "are those who listen to the word of God and obey it."

"Where is your faith?" he asked them, In their terror they were filled with amazement, and said to one another, "Who is this who commands even the winds and the sea, and they obey him?"

And her spirit returned and instantly she stood up.

Then he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up in heaven, he blessed them, broke them in pieces, and began to giving to his disciples to apportion among the crowd.

So they ate and were filled, all of them. And there was picked up that which remained over to them, of broken pieces, twelve basketfuls.

And he said to all. "If any man wills to follow me, Let him renounce self and take up his cross daily and follow me.

About eight days after this it happened that Jesus took Peter, James, and John, and went up on the mountain to pray.

When now when the time drew near for him to be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem,

"'The very dust of your town which clings to your feet we wipe off as protest; but know this, that the kingdom of God is drawing near to you.'

Then a certain lawyer stood up and tempted him. "Master," he said "what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"

"He went to him bound up his wounds, pouring on them oil and wine. He set him on his own beast, and took him to an inn, and took care of him.

But Martha meanwhile was growing distracted about much serving. She came up to him and said: "Lord do you not care that my sister has left me alone to do the serving? Come tell her to take hold of her end of the work along with me."

"but when the stronger man attacks him, he takes away from the strong armor in which he was trusting and divides up the spoil.

"The queen of the South shall rise up in Judgment with the men of this generation, and shall condemn them; because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon, and lo, one greater than Solomon is here!

"The men of the Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with his generation and shall condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and lo! one greater than Jonah is here!

"'And I will say to my soul, "'Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years! Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.'

"So is he that lays up treasures for himself and is not rich toward God."

a woman was present who had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen years. she was bent double, and could not lift herself up at all.

"when once the master of the house is risen up and has shut the door. You will begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, crying, "'Lord, open to us.' "'I do not know were you came from,' he will reply.

"But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest place, so that when your host arrives he may say to you, 'My friend, come up higher.' Then you will be honored before the other guest.

"The rich man also died, and was buried. And as he was tormented in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom.

"If your faith," answered Jesus, "were like a grain of mustard-seed, you would say to this tree, 'Tear yourself up and be planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.

They stood at a distance and lifted up their voices, saying, "Jesus, Master, take pity on us."

"Two men are going up to the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, the other a tax-gatherer.

"But the tax-gatherer, standing far back, would not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven, but kept beating his breast and saying, "'O God be merciful to me, the sinner!'

"All of these," he replied, "I have kept from my youth up."

So he ran on before him and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him; for he was about to pass that way.

As soon as Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, "Come down quickly, Zaccheus, for today I must stay at your house."

But Zaccheus stood up and said to the Lord, "I give half my property to the poor, Lord, and if I have defrauded any man of anything I am restoring it to him fourfold."

"He said to him, "'By your own words I will Judge you, you wicked slave. You knew, did you, that I was a hard man taking up what I did not lay down, reaping what I did not sow.

When he had so spoken he went on before, going up to Jerusalem.

On one of the days while he was teaching the people in the Temple and preaching the gospel, there came up the priest and the Scribes with the elders.

So they watched him, and sent spies who pretended to be honest men, in order to seize on his speech, and to deliver him up to authority and jurisdiction of the governor.

"Teacher, Moses wrote a law for us that if a man's brother should die, but leave no children, his brother should take up his wife and raise up his children for his brother.

And he looked up and saw people casting their offerings into the treasury, and they were rich.

"But when these things begin to come to pass, look up, lift your heads! for your redemption is drawing near."

and said to them. "Why are you asleep? Get up, and pray that you enter not into temptation."

Then the whole company rose up and brought him to Pilate,

But they repeatedly insisted, "He is stirring up the people throughout all Judea with his teaching which started from Galilee."

But Jesus turned and said: "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me;

"but weep for yourselves and for your children. For behold, the days are coming when they shall say, 'Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that have never bore children, and the breasts that never suckled.'

Even the soldiers made sport of him by coming up and offering him sour wine,

Then with a loud cry, Jesus said, "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit!" And after uttering these words, he yielded up his spirit.

Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb, but when he stooped and looked in he saw the linen wrappings by themselves, and he departed to his home, wondering at that which was come to pass.

And he led them out until they were over against Bethany; and he lifted up his hands and blessed them.