But you will be silent and unable to speak till the day this happens, because you have not believed what I told you; it will be accomplished, for all that, in due time."

but the mother told them, "No, the child is to be called John."

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."

When they saw this they told people about the word which had been spoken to them about the child;

Then the shepherds went away back, glorifying and extolling God for all they had heard and seen as they had been told they would.

Then he went down along with them to Nazaret, and did as they told him. His mother treasured up everything in her heart.

To the crowds who came out to get baptized by him John said, "You brood of vipers, who told you to flee from the coming Wrath?

He also told them a parable: "No one tears a piece from a new cloak and sews it on an old cloak; otherwise he will tear the new cloak, and the new piece will not match with the old.

He knew what was in their minds; so he told the man with the withered hand, "Rise and stand forward." He rose and stood before them.

give, and you will have ample measure given you ??they will pour into your lap measure pressed down, shaken together, and running over; for the measure you deal out to others will be dealt back to yourselves."

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

So when the woman saw she had not escaped notice, she came trembling, and falling down before him she told before all the people why she had touched him and how she had been instantly cured.

And he told them, "Take nothing for the journey, neither stick nor wallet nor bread nor silver, and do not carry two shirts.

When the voice ceased, they found themselves alone with Jesus. And in those days they kept silence and told nobody anything of what they had seen.

And he told them a parable. "A rich man's estate bore heavy crops.

And he told this parable. "A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; he came in search of fruit on it but he found none.

He also told a parable to the guests, when he observed how they picked out the best places.

So he told them this parable,

The servant told him, 'Your brother has arrived, and your father has killed the fatted calf because he has got him back safe and sound.'

'A hundred barrels of oil,' he said. The factor told him, 'Here is your bill; sit down at once and enter fifty barrels.'

So he told them, "You are the people who get men to think you are good, but God knows what your hearts are! What is lofty in the view of man is loathsome in the eyes of God.

He also told them a parable about the need of always praying and never losing heart.

He also told the following parable to certain persons who were sure of their own goodness and looked down upon everybody else.

Then he took the twelve aside and told them, "We are going up to Jerusalem, and all the predictions of the prophets regarding the Son of man will be fulfilled;

and they told him that Jesus the Nazarene was going by.

The people in front checked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, "Son of David, have pity on me!"

The messengers went off and found the colt exactly as he had told them.

"It is written," he told them, "my house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of robbers."

And he told them a parable. "Look at the fig tree and indeed all the trees;

They went off and found it was as he had told them. So they prepared the passover,

the Lord turned round and looked at Peter, and then Peter remembered what the Lord had told him, that 'Before cock-crow to-day you will disown me three times.'

He is not here, he has risen. Remember how he told you when he was still in Galilee

(It was Mary of Magdala, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James who with the rest of the women told this to the apostles.)

who told them that the Lord had really risen and that he had appeared to Simon.

Then he said to them, "When I was still with you, this is what I told you, that whatever is written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled."