that you may better know the certainty of those things that you have been taught.

Now in those days Mary got up and hurried off to the hill country, to a town in Judah,

He shows His mercy from age to age to those who fear him.

He has done mighty deeds with His arm. He has scattered those that are proud in the purpose of their hearts.

to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace."

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

Now it was in those days that He went up on the mountain to pray, and He spent the whole night in prayer to God.

Even those who were troubled by foul spirits were being cured.

But I say to you who listen now to me, practice loving your enemies, practice doing good to those who hate you,

continue to bless those who curse you, and continue to pray for those who abuse you.

Now if you practice loving only those who love you, what credit do you get for that? Why, even notorious sinners practice loving those who love them.

And if you practice doing good only to those who do good to you, what credit do you get for that? Even notorious sinners practice the same.

Those along the path illustrate those who hear it, but then the devil comes and carries off the message from their hearts, so that they may not believe it and be saved.

The portion of them on the rock illustrates those who accept the message, bubbling over with joy when they first hear it, but it takes no real root. They believe for awhile, but in the time of testing they fall away.

And the portion of them falling among the thorns illustrates those who hear it, but as soon as they pass on they are choked out by the worries and wealth and pleasures of life, and thus yield no mature fruit.

But the portion in rich soil illustrates those who listen to the message, keep it in good and honest hearts, and in patience yield fruit.

"Nobody lights a lamp and then covers it with a pot or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a lampstand, so that those who come in may see the light.

Then He answered them, "My mother and my brothers are those who listen to God's message and practice it."

Now there was a large drove of hogs feeding there on the hillside. So they begged Him to let them go into those hogs. And He let them do so.

So if you, in spite of your being bad, know how to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who continue to ask Him?"

But He said, "Yes, but better still, blessed are those who listen to God's message and practice it!"

A curse on you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to the door of knowledge! You did not go in yourselves, and you kept out those who tried to get in."

So I tell you, my friends, never be afraid of those who kill the body but after that have nothing more that they can do.

Happy are those slaves whom the master, when he comes, will find on the watch for him. I solemnly say to you, he will tighten his belt and have them sit at table, and he will go around and wait on them.

Or those eighteen people at Siloam on whom the tower fell and whom it crushed to death, do you think that they were offenders worse than all the rest of the people who live in Jerusalem?

And so there are those now last who will be first then, and there are those now first who will then be last."

"O Jerusalem! Jerusalem! The city that continues to murder the prophets, and to stone those who are sent to her, how often I have yearned to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings. But you refused!

For I tell you, not one of those people who were invited shall get a taste of my dinner!'"

Besides all this, between you and us there stands fixed a great chasm, so that those who want to cross from this side to you cannot, nor can they cross from your side to us.'

So when Jesus saw it, He said, "How hard it is for those who have money to get into the kingdom of God!

But those who heard it said, "Then who can be saved?"

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!"

Then after he had gotten the appointment as king, he returned and ordered those slaves to whom he had given his money to be called in, that he might find out what business they had done.

But bring those enemies of mine here who did not want me to become king over them and slay them in my presence!'"

Then He went into the temple and began to drive out those who were selling things in it,

He will come and put those tenants to death and give the vineyard to others." When they heard this, they said, "May it never be so!"

but those who are considered worthy to attain that other world and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are married.

Then let those in Judea begin to fly to the mountains, and those within the city begin to get out of it,

Alas for the women who are pregnant and those who have nursing babies in those days! For there will be great misery in the land and wrath on this people.

But He said to them, "The kings of the heathen lord it over them and those who exercise authority over them are given the title of 'Benefactor.'

Those who were about Him saw what was about to take place, and said, "Lord, shall we use our swords now?"