This will bring you gladness and delight, and many will rejoice over his birth.

Now you will keep silent and be unable to talk until the day when this takes place, because you did not believe what I told you, for it will be fulfilled at the proper time."

Then when the angel left them and returned to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let us now go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, which the Lord has told us."

When they saw this, they informed them of the story that had been told about this child.

And all who heard it were astounded at what was told them by the shepherds,

Then the shepherds went back continuing to give glory and praise to God for all that they had heard and seen, just as it had been told them.

Then He told them a short story: "No one tears a piece from a new coat and puts it on an old one; or if he does, he will tear the new one too, and the patch from the new coat will not match the old one.

Then He told them a story: "Can one blind man lead another? Will they not both fall into the ditch?

Now John's disciples told him about all these things.

So He said, "You are granted the privilege of knowing the secrets of the kingdom of God, but to others they are told in stories, so that they may look and not see, may hear and not understand.

Then they who had seen it told them how the man who had been under the power of demons was cured.

"Go back to your home, and continue to tell what great things God has done for you." But he went off and told all over the town what great things Jesus had done for him.

When the woman saw that she had not escaped His notice, she came forward trembling, and falling down before Him she told in the presence of all the people why she had touched Him and how she had been cured at once.

Now the apostles returned and told Jesus all that they had done. Then He took them and privately retired to a town called Bethsaida.

When the voice had ceased, Jesus was found to be alone. And they kept silence and told no one anything that they had seen at that time.

Then He told them a story, as follows: "A certain rich man's lands yielded bountifully.

Then He told them this story: "A man had a fig tree planted by his vineyard, and he kept going and looking for figs on it, but did not find any.

When He noticed how the guests were picking out the best places, He told them the following story:

So He told them the following story:

Now He told them the following story to show how necessary it is for people always to pray and never to give up:

To some people who were confident that they themselves were upright, but who scorned everybody else, He told the following story:

They told him that Jesus of Nazareth was coming by.

But those who were marching in front reproved him and told him to keep quiet, but he cried out all the louder, "O Son of David, do pity me!"

As they were listening to these things, He told them another story, because He was near Jerusalem and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was going to appear at once.

He called in ten of his slaves and gave them twenty dollars apiece and told them to do business with his money while he was gone.

So off the two messengers went and found it just as He had told them.

Then He told them a story: "Look at the fig tree and all the trees.

[He is not here but has risen.] Remember what He told you while He was still in Galilee, when

and could not find His body, but came and told us that they had actually had a vision of angels who said He was alive.

who told them that the Lord had really risen and had been seen by Simon.

Then He said to them, "This is what I told you while I was still with you, that everything which is written about me in the law of Moses, in the prophets, and in the Psalms, had to be fulfilled."