When their purification period under the Law of Moses was over, they took him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord,

in fulfilment of the requirement of the Law of the Lord, "Every first-born male shall be considered consecrated to the Lord,"

and to offer the sacrifice prescribed in the Law of the Lord, "A pair of turtle-doves or two young pigeons."

And under the Spirit's influence he went into the Temple, and when Jesus' parents brought him there to do for him what the Law required,

When they had done everything that the Law of the Lord required, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.

When he got up and left the synagogue, he went to Simon's house. And Simon's mother-in-law was suffering with a severe attack of fever, and they asked him about her.

One day as he was teaching, there were some Pharisees and experts in the Law sitting near by, who had come from every village in Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was there, so that he might cure people.

Some men came up carrying on a bed a man who was paralyzed, and they tried to get him in and lay him before Jesus.

And some of the Pharisees said, "Why do you do what it is against the Law to do on the Sabbath?"

How he went into the house of God and took the Presentation Loaves, which it was against the Law for anyone but the priests to eat, and ate them with his companions?"

but the Pharisees and experts in the Law thwarted God's purpose for themselves, by refusing to be baptized by him.

Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes, and wild birds have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head!"

Then an expert in the Law got up to test him and said, "Master, what must I do to make sure of eternal life?"

Jesus said to him, "What does the Law say? How does it read?"

At this, one of the experts in the Law said to him, "Master, when you say that, you affront us too."

But he said, "Yes, alas for you experts in the Law too! For you load men with burdens they can hardly carry, and you will not touch them yourselves with a single finger.

Alas for you experts in the Law! For you have taken the key to the door of knowledge, but you have not entered it yourselves, and you have kept out those who tried to enter."

Father will be against son, and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."

And Jesus said to the Pharisees and the experts in the Law, "Is it right to cure people on the Sabbath or not?"

Until John came, it was the Law and the Prophets. From that time the Kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone has been crowding into it.

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one dotting of an i in the Law to go unfulfilled.

for I was afraid of you, for you are a stern man. You pick up what you did not lay down, and reap what you did not sow.'

He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth I will convict you, you wretched slave! You knew, did you, that I was a stern man, and that I pick up what I did not lay down, and harvest what I did not sow?

"Master, Moses made us a law that if a man's brother die leaving a wife but no children, the man should marry the widow and raise up a family for his brother.

Then he said to them, "This is what I told you when I was still with you??hat everything that is written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must come true."