That we should be delivered from the hands of our enemies,

And should serve him in holiness and uprightness, unafraid, In his own presence all our lives.

In those days an edict was issued by the Emperor Augustus that a census of the whole world should be taken.

It had been revealed to him by the holy Spirit that he should not die without seeing the Lord's Messiah.

and he called two of them to him, and sent them to the Master to ask him, "Are you the one who was to come, or should we look for someone else?"

And the men went to him and said, "John the Baptist sent us to you to ask, 'Are you the one who was to come, or should we look for someone else?' "

But alas for you Pharisees! For you pay tithes on mint, rue, and every tiny herb, and disregard justice and the love of God. But you should have observed these, without neglecting the others.

So if you cannot do the least good, why should you worry about the rest?

And he said to the gardener, 'Here I have come three years to look for fruit on this fig tree, without finding any. Cut it down. Why should it waste the ground?'

And he said to his disciples, "It is inevitable that hindrances should arise, but alas for the man who causes them!

"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.

And Pilate pronounced sentence that what they asked for should be done.

and said to them, "The Scriptures said that Christ should suffer as he has done, and rise from the dead on the third day,

and that repentance leading to the forgiveness of sins should be preached to all the heathen in his name.