Now in those days Mary got up and hurried off to the hill country, to a town in Judah,

And Joseph too went up from Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to the town of David in Judea called Bethlehem, because he was a descendant of the house and family of David,

and she bore her firstborn son; and she wrapped Him up and laid Him in a manger, for there was no room for them at the inn.

And this is proof for you: You will find a baby wrapped up and lying in a manger."

but Mary continued to treasure it all up and to ponder it in her heart.

Now when the period of their purification ended, in accordance with the law of Moses, they took Him up to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord, to do as it is written in the law of the Lord,

Just at that time she came up and began to give thanks to God and to speak about the child to all who were expecting the deliverance of Jerusalem.

And when He was twelve years old, they went up as usual to the feast

So He went back to Nazareth with them and continued to obey them. But His mother continued to treasure up all these sayings in her heart.

Every ravine must be filled up, and every mountain and hill leveled down; the crooked places must become straight roads, and the rough roads must be made smooth,

Produce, then, fruit that is consistent with the repentance that you profess, and do not even begin to say within yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our forefather,' for I tell you, God can raise up descendants for Abraham even out of these stones.

His winnowing-fork is in His hand, and He will clean out His threshing-floor, and store His wheat in His barn; but He will burn up the chaff with fire inextinguishable."

Then he took Him up and in a second of time he showed Him all the kingdoms of the world.

and, 'They will bear you up on their hands, so that you will never strike your foot against a stone.'"

So He came to Nazareth where He had been brought up, and as His habit was on the Sabbath, He went to the synagogue and stood up to read.

Then He rolled up the roll and gave it back to the attendant and took His seat. Now the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were gazing at Him.

and they rose up and drove Him out of town and took Him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, to hurl Him down the cliff.

Then He took His stand by her and reproved the fever, and it left her. She got up at once and began to wait on them.

Then He saw two boats lying up on the shore of the lake, but the fishermen had left them and were washing their nets.

And as they could not find a way because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down with his pallet through the tiles, among the people right in front of Jesus.

Which is easier, to say 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say 'Get up and start walking'?

But to show you that the Son of Man has authority to forgive sins on earth" -- turning to the man who was paralyzed, He said to him, "Get up, pick up your pallet, and go home."

Then at once he got up before them all, picked up the pallet on which he had been lying, and went off home, giving praise to God.

So he left everything behind, got up and followed Him.

After that they said to Him, "John's disciples rigidly practice fasting and offering up prayers; so do the Pharisees, but your disciples keep right on eating and drinking."

But He knew what they were thinking, and He said to the man with the withered hand, "Get up and stand at the front." So he got up and stood there.

Now it was in those days that He went up on the mountain to pray, and He spent the whole night in prayer to God.

A curse on you who live in luxury now, for you will be hungry. A curse on you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

Then He went up and touched the hearse and the bearers stopped; and He said, "Young man, I tell you, arise."

Then the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him back to his mother.

and took her stand behind Him at His feet, continually weeping. Then she began to wet His feet with her tears, but she continued to wipe them off with the hair of her head, and she kept right on kissing His feet with affection and anointing them with the perfume.

"A sower went out to sow his seed. As he was sowing, some of the seed fell along the path, and were trodden down, and the wild birds ate them up.

Another portion of them fell upon the rock, and as soon as they sprang up, they withered, because they had no moisture.

Still another portion fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up with them and choked them out.

Now as they were sailing along, He fell off to sleep. But a furious squall of wind rushed down upon the lake, and they were filling up and were in impending peril.

So they came to Him and woke Him up, and said, "Master, Master, we are perishing? Then He aroused Himself and reproved the wind and the surge of the water, and they stopped at once and instantly there came a calm.

Then He said to them, "Where is your faith?" But they were frightened and astounded, and continued to say to one another, "Who can He be? For He gives orders even to the winds and the water, and they obey Him."

Just then a man named Jairus came up, who had long been leader of the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus' feet and persisted in begging Him to come to his house,

came up behind Him and touched the tassel on His coat, and the hemorrhage stopped at once.

But He grasped her hand and called out, "My child, get up!"

So her spirit returned and she got up at once, and He directed that something be given her to eat.

As the day began to decline, the Twelve came up and said to Him, "Send the crowd off to the villages and farms around, to get lodging and to find food there, for we are in a destitute place here."

Then He took the five loaves and two fish and looked up to heaven and blessed them, and He broke them in pieces and gave them to the disciples to pass on to the people.

And they all ate and had aplenty, and what they had left over was taken up, twelve baskets of broken pieces.

For whoever chooses to save his lower life will lose his higher life, but whoever gives up his lower life for my sake will save his higher life.

Now about eight days after Jesus said this, He took Peter, John, and James, and went up on the mountain to pray.

And just as they were starting to leave Him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three tents, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah" -- although he did not know what he was saying.

Then Jesus answered, "O you unbelieving, stubborn people of the times! How long must I be with you and put up with you? Bring him here to me."

Now a controversy sprang up among them as to which of them might be the greatest.

Now as the time was coming to a head when He should be taken up to heaven, He firmly set His face to continue His journey to Jerusalem;

Just then an expert in the law got up to test Him by asking, "Teacher, what shall I do to get possession of eternal life?"

But Martha was getting worried about having to wait on them so much, so she came up suddenly and said, "Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to do all the housework alone? Then tell her to take hold and help me."

And suppose he answers from inside, 'Stop bothering me; the door is now locked, and my children are packed about me in bed; I cannot get up and give you any.'

I tell you, although he will not get up and give you any because he is your friend, yet because of your persistence he will get up and give you all your needs.

There is nothing covered up that will not be uncovered, nor secret that will not be made known;

Then I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Go on taking your ease; continue to eat, drink, and enjoy yourself."'

So it is with the man who continues to pile up possessions for himself, and is not rich in God."

Just at that time some people came up to tell Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate mingled with that of their sacrifices.

and there was a woman there who for eighteen years had had a disease caused by a spirit. She was bent double and could not straighten herself up at all.

Then He laid His hands on her, and at once she straightened herself up and burst into praising God.

when once the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand on the outside and to knock on the door again and again and say, 'Lord, open it for us'; but He will answer, 'I do not know where you come from.'

There you will weep and grind your teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves being driven away on the outside.

Just at that time some Pharisees came up and said to Him, "Get out at once! Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you!"

But when you are invited anywhere, go and take the lowest place, so that when your host comes in, he may say to you, 'My friend, come up to a better place.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all your fellow-guests.

I will get up and go to my father, and say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your opinion;

So he got up and went to his father. But, while he was still a long way off, his father saw him, and his heart was moved with pity for him, and he ran and fell on his neck, and kissed him affectionately.

But when this son of yours arrives, who has eaten up your property with immoral women, you have killed for him the fattening calf.'

And in Hades he looked up, in constant tortures as he was, and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus his bosom companion.

Then the Lord said to them, "If you had faith that grows like a mustard seed, you might have been saying to this mulberry tree, 'Pull yourself up by the roots and plant yourself in the sea,' and it would have obeyed you!

And as He was going into one village, ten lepers met Him, who got up at some distance from Him,

Then He said to him, "Get up and go on your way. Your faith has cured you."

People continued to eat, drink, marry, and be married, right up to the day when Noah went into the ark, and the Flood came and destroyed them all.

Now He told them the following story to show how necessary it is for people always to pray and never to give up:

"Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee, the other a tax-collector.

So He said to them, "I solemnly say to you, there is no one who has given up home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the kingdom of God,

Now He took the Twelve aside and said to them, "Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem, and everything written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled.

So he ran on ahead and climbed up in a mulberry tree, just to get a glimpse of Him, for Jesus was coming through on that street.

And as Jesus came to the place, He looked up and said to him, "Zaccheus, come down quickly! for today I must stop at your house."

Then Zaccheus got up and said to the Lord, "Listen, Lord! I now give to the poor half of my property, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will pay him back four times as much."

For I lived in constant dread of you, because you are a stern man, you pick up what you did not put down, you reap what you did not sow.'

He said to him, 'On the ground of what you say I will sentence you, you wicked slave! You knew that I was a stern man, that I picked up what I did not put down, and reaped what I did not sow.

For a time is coming upon you when your enemies will throw up earthworks around you and surround you and hem you in on all sides,

Then some of the Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection, came up and asked Him,

"Teacher, Moses wrote for us a law that, if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no child, the man should take the widow and raise up a family for his brother.

men who eat up widows' houses and to cover it up make long prayers! They will receive a much heavier sentence."

Now He looked up and saw the rich people dropping their gifts into the treasury.

When these things begin to take place, look up and lift your heads, for your deliverance is drawing near."

Then He went out of the city and up the Mount of Olives, as He was in the habit of doing; and His disciples, too, followed Him there.

Then He said to them, "Why are you sleeping? Get up and keep praying that you may not be subjected to temptation."

While He was still speaking, look! a crowd had come up, and Judas, one of the Twelve, was their guide; and he stepped up to Jesus to kiss Him.

So when he learned with certainty that he belonged to Herod's jurisdiction, He sent Him up to Herod, for he was in Jerusalem at that time.

But Jesus turned to the women and said, "Women of Jerusalem, stop weeping for me, but continue to weep for yourselves and for your children.

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

The soldiers also made sport of Him as they continued to come up and offer Him vinegar,

[Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb, and stooped down and saw the linen clothes but nothing else. Then he went home wondering at what had taken place.]

And as they were talking, and discussing these things, Jesus Himself came up near to them and continued to walk with them,

So at once they got up and went back to Jerusalem and found the Eleven and their company all together,

Then He led them out as far as Bethany, and lifted up His hands and blessed them.

And while He was blessing them, He parted from them, and was taken up to heaven.