he will go in front of Him with the spirit and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of fathers to their children, turning the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make a people ready and prepared for the Lord."

And you, my child, shall be called a prophet of the Most High; for you shall go in front of the Lord to make his ways ready,

by the tender mercy of our God, who will make the Dawn visit us from on high,

and he went into all the Jordan-district preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins ??4 as it is written in the book of the sayings of the prophet Isaiah, The voice of one who cries in the desert, 'Make the way ready for the Lord, level the paths for him.

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

so, when the captain heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, asking him to come and make his servant well.

(There were about five thousand men of them.) He said to his disciples, "Make them lie down in rows of about fifty."

He sent messengers in front of him. They went and entered a Samaritan village to make preparations for him,

Anxious to make an excuse for himself, however, he said to Jesus, "But who is my neighbour?"

Foolish men! did not He who made the outside make the inside of things too?

pagans make food and drink their aim in life, but your Father knows quite well you need that;

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.

Blessed are those servants whom the lord and master finds awake when he comes! I tell you truly, he will gird himself, make them recline at table, and come forward to wait on them.

You think I am here to make peace on earth? No, I tell you, it is dissension.

then the host will tell you, 'Make room for him,' and you will proceed in shame to take the lowest place.

the master said to the servant, 'Go out to the roads and hedges and make people come in, to fill up my house.

For which of you wants to build a tower and does not first sit down to calculate the expense, to see if he has enough money to complete it? ??29 in case, after he has laid the foundation and then is unable to finish the building, all the spectators start to make fun of him,

I don't deserve to be called your son any more; only make me like one of your hired men."'

for my son here was dead and he has come to life, he was lost and he is found.' So they began to make merry.

but he replied, 'Look at all the years I have been serving you! I have never neglected any of your orders, and yet you have never given me so much as a kid, to let me make merry with my friends.

We could not but make merry and rejoice, for your brother here was dead and has come to life again, he was lost but he has been found.' "

And I tell you, use mammon, dishonest as it is, to make friends for yourselves, so that when you die they may welcome you to the eternal abodes.

till I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.'

Then he will show you a large room upstairs with couches spread; make your preparations there."