You will have great joy and delight, and many will rejoice over his birth,

Listen carefully, you will be continually silent and unable to speak until the day when these things take place, because you did not believe what I told you; but my words will be fulfilled at their proper time.”

“This is how the Lord has dealt with me in the days when He looked with favor on me, to take away my disgrace among men.”

And when they had seen this, they made known what had been told them about this Child,

and all who heard it were astounded and wondered at what the shepherds told them.

The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all that they had heard and seen, just as it had been told them.

But when Herod [Antipas] the tetrarch was repeatedly reprimanded [and convicted by John’s disapproval] for having Herodias, his brother’s wife [as his own], and for all the wicked things that Herod had done,

and the Holy Spirit descended on Him in bodily form like a dove, and a voice came from heaven, “You are My Son, My Beloved, in You I am well-pleased and delighted!”

He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and puts it on an old one; otherwise he will both tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old.

He also told them a parable: “Can a blind man guide [another] blind man? Will they not both fall into a hole in the ground?

And He was told, “Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside, asking to see You.”

When the herdsmen saw what had happened, they ran away and told it in the city and out in the country.

Those who had seen it told them how the man who had been demon-possessed had been healed.

When the voice had ceased, Jesus was found there alone. And they kept silent, and told no one at that time any of the things which they had seen [concerning the divine manifestation].

and He told them, “Whoever welcomes this child in My name welcomes Me; and whoever welcomes Me [also] welcomes Him who sent Me; for the one who is least among all of you [that is, the one who is genuinely humble—the one with a realistic self-view]—he is the one who is [truly] great.”

But Jesus told him, “Do not stop him; for he who is not against you is for you.”

And Jesus told him, “Foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.”

But He said to him, “Man, who appointed Me a judge or an arbitrator over [the two of] you?”

Then He told them a parable, saying, “There was a rich man whose land was very fertile and productive.

Or do you assume that those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed were worse sinners than all the others who live in Jerusalem?

Then He began telling them this parable: “A certain man had a fig tree that had been planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it, but did not find any;

Now Jesus began telling a parable to the invited guests when He noticed how they had been selecting the places of honor at the table, saying to them,

So He told them this parable:

Now Jesus was telling the disciples a parable to make the point that at all times they ought to pray and not give up and lose heart,

He also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves and were confident that they were righteous [posing outwardly as upright and in right standing with God], and who viewed others with contempt:

They told him, “Jesus of Nazareth is passing by.”

So those who were sent left and found the colt just as He had told them.

Then Jesus told them, “Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom.

Then He told them a parable: “Look at the fig tree and all the trees;

The Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had told him, “Before a rooster crows today, you will deny Me three times.”

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

Then He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you, everything which has been written about Me in the Law of Moses and the [writings of the] Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”