Then you could know how reliable the information is that you have been told.

But the angel told him, "Stop being afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to name him John.

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 the angel told her:

Do not be afraid, Mary,
for you have found favor with God.

And blessed art thou that believedst: For those things shall be performed which were told thee from the Lord."

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

Their friends told her, "None of your relatives has that name."

And all their neighbors were overcome with fear, and all over the hill-country of Judea all these stories were told,

Then the angel told them, "Stop being afraid! Listen! I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people.

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."

And [when they] saw [it], they made known the statement that had been told to them about this child.

And all that heard it wondered, at those things which were told them of the shepherds.

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

and it hath been divinely told him by the Holy Spirit -- not to see death before he may see the Christ of the Lord.

Then Simeon blessed them and told His mother Mary: “Indeed, this child is destined to cause the fall and rise of many in Israel and to be a sign that will be opposed—

But they did not understand what he told them.

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 told them, “Don’t collect any more than what you have been authorized.”

Then some soldiers also asked him, "And as for us -- what should we do?" He told them, "Take money from no one by violence or by false accusation, and be content with your pay."

And so with many different exhortations John told his Good News to the people.

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,

The Devil told him, "Since you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become a loaf of bread."

He told Jesus, "I will give you all this authority, along with their glory, because it has been given to me, and I give it to anyone I please.

The Devil also took him into Jerusalem and had him stand on the highest point of the Temple. He told Jesus, "Since you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here,

Jesus answered, "We have been told, 'You shall not try the Lord your God.' "

So he told them, "You will probably quote this proverb to me, "Doctor, heal yourself! Do everything here in your hometown that we hear you did in Capernaum.'"

But He told them, "I must go to other towns also to preach the good news of God's [coming] kingdom, for this is why I was sent [by God]."

When he had finished speaking, he told Simon, "Push out into deep water, and lower your nets for a catch."

and so were James and John, Zebedee’s sons, who were Simon’s partners.

“Don’t be afraid,” Jesus told Simon. “From now on you will be catching people!”

Then Jesus told Simon, "Stop being afraid. From now on you will be catching people." So when they brought the boats to shore, they left everything and followed Jesus.

But so you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—He told the paralyzed man, “I tell you: Get up, pick up your mat, and go home.”

And after these things he went forth, and beheld a publican, named Levi, sitting at the place of toll, and said unto him, Follow me.

Then they told him, "John's disciples frequently fast and pray, and so do those of the Pharisees. But your disciples keep right on eating and drinking."

But Jesus told them, "You can't force the wedding guests to fast while the groom is still with them, can you?

And he also told a parable to them: "No one tears a patch from a new garment [and] puts [it] on an old garment. Otherwise, he will have torn the new also, and the old will not match the patch [that is] from the new.

Then He told them, “The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

But He knew their thoughts and told the man with the paralyzed hand, “Get up and stand here.” So he got up and stood there.

After looking around at them all, He told him, “Stretch out your hand.” He did so, and his hand was restored.

And he also told them a parable: "Surely a blind person cannot lead the blind, [can he]? Will they not both fall into a pit?

When the Lord saw her, he felt compassion for her. He told her, "You can stop crying."

And the disciples of John told him of all these things.

And, answering, he said unto them - Go and bear tidings unto John, as to what ye have seen and heard: The blind, are receiving sight, the lame, walk, lepers, are cleansed, and, the deaf, hear, the dead, are raised, the destitute, are told the glad-message;

Now the Pharisee who had invited Jesus saw this and told himself, "If this man were a prophet, he would have known who is touching him and what kind of woman she is. She's a sinner!"

Jesus told him, "Simon, I have something to ask you." "Teacher," he replied, "ask it."

Simon answered, “I suppose the one he forgave more.”

“You have judged correctly,” He told him.

Then, turning to the woman, he told Simon, "Do you see this woman? I came into your house. You didn't give me any water for my feet, but this woman has washed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair.

Then Jesus told her, "Your sins are forgiven!"

But Jesus told the woman, "Your faith has saved you. Go in peace."

Then when a large crowd assembled and people from every town were coming to Jesus, He told them this parable [i.e., a brief story to illustrate His teaching]:

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.

And it was told him, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee.

One day He and His disciples got into a boat, and He told them, “Let’s cross over to the other side of the lake.” So they set out,

And when they that fed them saw what had come to pass, they fled, and told it in the city and in the country.

And they that saw it told them how he that was possessed with demons was made whole.

"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.

And [when] the woman saw that she did not escape notice, she came trembling and falling down before him. In the presence of all the people, she told for what reason she had touched him, and that she was healed immediately.

Then he told her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace."

While he was still speaking, someone came from the synagogue leader's home and told him, "Your daughter is dead. Stop bothering the teacher anymore."

But when Jesus heard this, he told him, "Do not be afraid; just believe, and she will be healed."

Her spirit returned, and she got up immediately. Then he told them to give her something to eat.

“Take nothing for the road,” He told them, “no walking stick, no traveling bag, no bread, no money; and don’t take an extra shirt.

And the apostles returned, and told him what great things they had done. And he took them and went aside into a solitary place, nigh to a city called Bethsaida.

“You give them something to eat,” He told them.

“We have no more than five loaves and two fish,” they said, “unless we go and buy food for all these people.”

(For about 5,000 men were there.)

Then He told His disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about 50 each.”

He told them that the Son of Man must undergo much suffering, and be rejected by the Councillors, and Chief Priests, and Teachers of the Law, and be put to death, and rise on the third day.

Then he told all of them, "If anyone wants to come with me, he must deny himself, pick up his cross every day, and follow me continuously,

Just as Moses and Elijah were leaving, Peter told Jesus, "Master, it's good that we're here! Let's set up three shelters one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah." (Peter didn't know what he was saying.)

And when the voice came, Jesus was found alone. And they held their peace, and told no man in those days any of the things which they had seen.

And they were all astonished at the greatness of God.

While everyone was amazed at all the things He was doing, He told His disciples,

He told them, “Whoever welcomes this little child in My name welcomes Me. And whoever welcomes Me welcomes Him who sent Me. For whoever is least among you—this one is great.”

Then [the apostle] John answered and said, "Master, we saw someone driving out evil spirits by [using] your name, so we told him not to, because he was not following [you] with us."

“Don’t stop him,” Jesus told him, “because whoever is not against you is for you.”

While they were walking along the road, a man told him, "I will follow you wherever you go."

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

He told another man, "Follow me." But he said, "Lord, first let me go and bury my father."

But He told him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and spread the news of the kingdom of God.”

Jesus told him, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God."

He told them: “The harvest is abundant, but the workers are few. Therefore, pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.

He told them, "I watched Satan falling from heaven like lightning.

Then turning to his disciples in private, he told them, "How blessed are the eyes that see what you see!

“You’ve answered correctly,” He told him. “Do this and you will live.”

Then the next day he gave the lodge keeper two coins [Note: These coins amounted to two days of a farm laborer's pay, or about $140 in 1994] and told him, 'Take care of this [injured] man; and whatever more you have to spend on him I will repay you when I come back [this way] again.'

“The one who showed mercy to him,” he said.

Then Jesus told him, “Go and do the same.”

Once Jesus was praying in a certain place. After he had finished, one of his disciples told him, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples."

So he told them, "Whenever you pray you are to say, "Father, may your name be kept holy. May your kingdom come.

Then he told them, "Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, "Friend, let me borrow three loaves of bread.

Knowing their thoughts, He told them: “Every kingdom divided against itself is headed for destruction, and a house divided against itself falls.

As Jesus was saying this, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and told him, "How blessed is the womb that gave birth to you and the breasts that nursed you!"

But the Lord told him, "Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but on the inside you are full of greed and evil.

Then one of the experts in the Law told him, "Teacher, when you say these things, you insult us, too."

Then someone in the crowd told him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me."

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

He then told them, “Watch out and be on guard against all greed because one’s life is not in the abundance of his possessions.”

And he told a parable to them, saying, "The land of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest.

But God told him, "You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you. Now who will get the things you've accumulated?'

Then Jesus told his disciples, "That's why I'm telling you to stop worrying about your life what you will eat or about your body what you will wear,

And that servant who has been told his Master's will and yet made no preparation and did not obey His will, will receive many lashes.

But he who had not been told it and yet did what deserved the scourge, will receive but few lashes. To whomsoever much has been given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been entrusted, of him a larger amount will be demanded.

Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I toll you, No; but rather dissension.