and inasmuch as I have gone carefully over them all myself from the very beginning, I have decided, O Theophilus, to write them out in order for your excellency,

At this she was startled; she thought to herself, whatever can this greeting mean?

"How can this be?" said Mary to the angel, "I have no husband."

she gave birth to her firstborn son, and as there was no room for them inside the khan she wrapped him up and laid him in a stall for cattle.

Now when the angels had left them and gone away to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let us be off to Bethlehem to see this thing that the Lord has told us of."

Now, produce fruits that answer to your repentance, instead of beginning to say to yourselves, 'We have a father in Abraham.' I tell you, God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

Now as people's expectations were roused and as everybody thought to himself about John, "Can he be the Christ,"

and the devil said to him, "I will give you all their power and grandeur, for it has been made over to me and I can give it to anyone I choose.

When he was in one of their towns, there was a man full of leprosy who, on seeing Jesus, fell on his face and besought him, "If you only choose, sir, you can cleanse me."

Then the scribes and Pharisees began to argue, "Who is this blasphemer? Who can forgive sins, who but God alone?"

Jesus said to them, "Can you make friends at a wedding fast while the bride groom is beside them?

He also told them a parabolic word: "Can one blind man lead another? will they not both fall into a pit?

When John's messengers had gone, he proceeded to speak to the crowds about John: "What did you go out to the desert to see? A reed swayed by the wind?

No one lights a lamp and hides it under a vessel or puts it below the bed: he puts it on a stand so that those who come in can see the light.

Then he said to them, "Where is your faith?" They marvelled in awe, saying to one another, "Whatever can he be? He gives orders to the very winds and water, and they obey him!"

What profit will it be for a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

And suppose he answers from the inside, 'Don't bother me; the door is locked by this time, and my children are in bed with me. I can't get up and give you anything.'

He was casting out a dumb daemon, and when the daemon had gone out the dumb man spoke. The crowds marvelled,

and if Satan is divided against himself, how can his realm stand? You say I am casting out daemons by Beelzebul?

The queen of the South will rise at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them; for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon, and here is One greater than Solomon.

No one lights a lamp to put it in a cellar or under a bowl, but on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light.

After he had gone away, the scribes and Pharisees commenced to follow him up closely and cross-question him on many points,

I tell you, my friends, have no fear of those who kill the body but after that can do no more;

And he said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my granaries and build larger ones, where I can store all my produce and my goods.

Which of you can add an ell to his height by troubling about it?

Sell what you possess and give it away in alms, make purses for yourselves that never wear out: get treasure in heaven that never fails, that no thief can get at, no moth destroy.

Then it may bear fruit next year. If not, you can have it cut down.'"

Or what king sets out to fight against another king without first sitting down to deliberate whether with ten thousand men he can encounter the king who is attacking him with twenty thousand?

So, if you are not faithful with dishonest mammon, how can you ever be trusted with true Riches?

And if you are not faithful with what belongs to another, how can you ever be given what is your own?

No servant can serve two masters: either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will stand by the one and despise the other, you cannot serve both God and Mammon."

'They have got Moses and the prophets,' said Abraham, 'they can listen to them.'

Will the man not rather say to him, 'Get some thing ready for my supper; gird yourself and wait on me till I eat and drink; then you can eat and drink yourself'?

His hearers said, "Then whoever can be saved?"

But when they saw this, everyone began to mutter that he had gone to be the guest of a sinner.

But he said to them, "How can people say that the Christ is David's son?

David then calls him Lord. So how can he be his son?"

as soon as they put out their leaves, you can see for yourselves that summer is at hand.

and tell the owner of the house, 'The Teacher asks you, Where is the room in which I can eat the passover with my disciples?'