Now while he was officiating before God in the due course of his division,

Now the people were waiting for Zechariah and wondering that he stayed so long inside the sanctuary.

"The Lord has done this for me," she said, "he has now deigned to remove my reproach among men."

Look, there is your kinswoman Elizabeth! Even she has conceived a son in her old age, and she who was called barren is now in her sixth month;

Now the time for Elizabeth's delivery had elapsed, and she gave birth to a son.

Now in those days an edict was issued by Caesar Augustus for a census of the whole world.

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 there was a man in Jerusalem called Symeon, an upright and devout man, who was on the outlook for the Consolation of Israel. The holy Spirit was upon him;

"Now, Master, thou canst let thy servant go, and go in peace, as thou didst promise;

Now at that very hour she came up, and she offered praise to God and spoke of him to all who were on the outlook for the redemption of Jerusalem.

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judaea, Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, Philip his brother tetrarch of the country of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysias tetrarch of Abilene,

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,"

Now when all the people had been baptized and when Jesus had been baptized and was praying, heaven opened

Now in the synagogue there was a man possessed by the spirit of an unclean daemon, who shrieked aloud,

Now as the crowd were pressing on him to listen to the word of God, he saw, as he stood beside the lake of Gennesaret,

as was the case with James and John, the sons of Zebedaeus, who were partners of Simon. Then said Jesus to Simon, "Have no fear; from now your catch will be men."

One day he was teaching, and near him sat Pharisees and doctors of the Law who had come from every village of Galilee and Judaea as well as from Jerusalem. Now the power of the Lord was present for the work of healing.

Another sabbath he happened to go into the synagogue and teach. Now a man was there who had his right hand withered,

Now there was an army-captain who had a servant ill whom he valued very highly. This man was at the point of death;

Now there was a woman in the town who was a sinner, and when she found out that Jesus was at table in the house of the Pharisee, she brought an alabaster flask of perfume

As they were unable to pay, he freely forgave them both. Tell me, now, which of them will love him most?"

Now a considerable drove of swine was grazing there on the hillside, so the daemons begged him for leave to enter them. He gave them leave,

Now as the day began to decline the twelve came up to him and said, "Send the crowd off to lodge in the villages and farms around and get provisions there, for here we are in a desert place."

Now it happened that while he was praying by himself his disciples were beside him. So he inquired of them, "Who do the crowds say I am?"

Now Peter and his companions had been overpowered with sleep, but on waking up they saw his glory and the two men who were standing beside him.

As the time for his assumption was now due, he set his face for the journey to Jerusalem.

Now a jurist got up to tempt him. "Teacher," he said, "what am I to do to inherit life eternal?"

Now it so chanced that a priest was going down the same road, but on seeing him he went past on the opposite side.

Now Martha was so busy attending to them that she grew worried; she came up and said, "Lord, is it all one to you that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Come, tell her to lend me a hand."

Now if God so clothes grass which blooms to-day in the field and is thrown to-morrow into the furnace, will he not much more clothe you? O men, how little you trust him!

Now when he entered the house of a ruler who belonged to the Pharisees to take a meal, they watched him closely.

Now the tax gatherers and sinners were all approaching him to listen to him,

Now his elder son was out in the field, and as he came near the house he heard music and dancing;

The factor said to himself, 'What am I to do, now that my master is taking the factorship away from me? I am too weak to dig, I am ashamed to beg.

Now the Pharisees who were fond of money heard all this, and they sneered at him.

Now it happened that the poor man died, and he was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man died too, and was buried.

But Abraham said, 'Remember, my son, you got all the bliss when you were alive, just as Lazarus got the ills of life; he is in comfort now, and you are in anguish.

Now it happened in the course of his journey to Jerusalem that he passed between Samaria and Galilee.

Now one of them turned back when he saw he was cured, glorifying God with a loud voice;

no one will say, 'Here it is' or 'There it is,' for the Reign of God is now in your midst."

Now people even brought their infants for him to touch them; when the disciples noticed it they checked them,

Now his people hated him and sent envoys after him to say, 'We object to him having royal power over us.'

And now for these enemies of mine who objected to me reigning over them ??bring them here and slay them in my presence.' "

and as he was now close to the descent from the Hill of Olives, all the multitude of the disciples started joyfully to praise God with a loud voice for all they had seen,

Now they reasoned to themselves, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask, 'Why did you not believe him?'

And they threw him outside the vineyard and killed him. Now what will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

But he looked at them and said, "Then what does this scripture mean? ??The stone that the builders rejected is the chief stone now of the corner.

Now at the resurrection whose wife will she be? She was wife to the seven of them."

Now the feast of unleavened bread which is called the passover was near.

Then he said to them, "But he who has a purse must take it now, and the same with a wallet; and he who has no sword must sell his coat and buy one.

Now when the supporters of Jesus saw what was going to happen, they said, "Lord, shall we strike with our swords?"

But they insisted, "He stirs up the people by teaching all over Judaea. He started from Galilee and now he is here."

Now there was a man called Joseph, a member of council but a good and just man

Now they approached the village to which they were going. He pretended to be going further on,

but they pressed him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is getting towards evening and the day has now declined." So he went in to stay with them.