When Zechariah saw him he was troubled, and fear fell on him;

When he did come out he could not speak to them, so they realized that he had seen a vision in the sanctuary; he made signs to them and remained dumb.

and when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leapt in her womb. Then Elizabeth was filled with the holy Spirit;

When her neighbours and kinsfolk heard of the Lord's great mercy to her they rejoiced with her,

And the child grew, he became strong in the Spirit and remained in the desert till the day when he made his appearance before Israel.

(This was the first census, and it took place when Quirinius was governor of Syria.)

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;

When the eight days had passed for his circumcision, he was named Jesus ??the name given by the angel before he had been conceived in the womb.

When the days for their purification in terms of the Mosaic law had elapsed, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord

By an inspiration of the Spirit he came to the temple, and when the parents of the child Jesus carried him in to perform the customary regulations of the law for him,

When they had finished all the regulations of the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazaret.

and when he was twelve years old they went up as usual to the festival.

When his parents saw him they were astounded, and his mother said to him, "My son, why have you behaved like this to us? Here have your father and I been looking for you anxiously!"

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judaea, Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, Philip his brother tetrarch of the country of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysias tetrarch of Abilene,

Now when all the people had been baptized and when Jesus had been baptized and was praying, heaven opened

and for forty days he was led by the Spirit in the desert, while the devil tempted him. During these days he ate nothing, and when they were over he felt hungry.

I tell you for a fact, In Israel there were many widows during the days of Elijah, when the sky was closed for three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land:

When they heard this, all in the synagogue were filled with rage;

When he got up to leave the synagogue he went to the house of Simon. Simon's mother-in-law was laid up with a severe attack of fever, so they asked him about her;

When day broke he went away out to a lonely spot, but the crowds made inquiries about him, came to where he was, and tried to keep him from leaving them.

When he stopped speaking, he said to Simon, "Push out to the deep water and lower your nets for a take."

And when they did so, they enclosed a huge shoal of fish, so that their nets began to break.

But when Simon Peter saw it he fell at the knees of Jesus, crying, "Lord, leave me; I am a sinful man."

When he was in one of their towns, there was a man full of leprosy who, on seeing Jesus, fell on his face and besought him, "If you only choose, sir, you can cleanse me."

but when they could not find any means of getting him in, on account of the crowd, they climbed to the top of the house and let him down through the tiles, mattress and all among the people in front of Jesus.

When he saw their faith he said, "Man, your sins are forgiven you."

A time will come when the bridegroom is taken from them, and then they will fast at that time."

But Jesus answered them, "And have you never read what David did when he and his men were hungry?

and when day broke he summoned his disciples, choosing twelve of them, to whom he gave the name of 'apostles':

Blessed are you when men will hate you, when they will excommunicate you and denounce you and defame you as wicked on account of the Son of man;

Woe to you when all men speak well of you! that is just what their fathers did to the false prophets.

He is like a man engaged in building a house, who dug deep down and laid his foundation on the rock; when a flood came, the river dashed against that house but could not shake it, for it had been well built.

When he had finished what he had to say in the hearing of the people, he went into Capharnahum.

so, when the captain heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, asking him to come and make his servant well.

When they reached Jesus they asked him earnestly to do this. "He deserves to have this favour from you," they said,

So Jesus went with them. But he was not far from the house when the captain sent some friends to tell him, "Do not trouble yourself, sir, I am not fit to have you under my roof,

When Jesus heard this he marvelled at him, and turning to the crowd that followed he said, "I tell you, I have never met faith like this anywhere even in Israel."

And when the Lord saw her, he felt pity for her and said to her, "Do not weep."

When the men reached Jesus they said, "John the Baptist has sent us to you to ask if you are the Coming One or if we are to look out for someone else?"

When John's messengers had gone, he proceeded to speak to the crowds about John: "What did you go out to the desert to see? A reed swayed by the wind?

Now there was a woman in the town who was a sinner, and when she found out that Jesus was at table in the house of the Pharisee, she brought an alabaster flask of perfume

When his host the Pharisee noticed this, he said to himself, "If he was a prophet he would know what sort of a woman this is who is touching him; for she is a sinner."

Then turning to the woman he said to Simon, "You see this woman? When I came into your house, you never gave me water for my feet, while she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair;

some other seed dropped on the rock, but it withered away when it sprang up because it had no moisture;

some other seed fell on sound soil, and springing up bore a crop, a hundredfold." When he said this he called out, "He who has an ear, let him listen to this."

During the voyage he fell asleep. But when a gale of wind came down on the lake and they were being swamped and in peril,

(For he had charged the unclean spirit to come out of the man. Many a time when it had seized hold of him, he had been fastened secure in fetters and chains, but he would snap his bonds and be driven by the daemon into the desert.)

When the herdsmen saw what had occurred they fled and reported it to the town and the hamlets.

The people came out to see what had occurred and when they reached Jesus they discovered the man whom the daemons had left, seated at the feet of Jesus, clothed and sane. That frightened them.

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.

He was still speaking when someone came from the house of the synagogue-president to say, "Your daughter is dead. Do not trouble the teacher any further."

But when Jesus heard it he said to him, "Have no fear, only believe and she shall get well."

When he reached the house he would not allow anyone to come in with him except Peter and James and John, and the child's father and mother.

When Herod the tetrarch heard all that was going on, he was quite at a loss; for some said that John had risen from the dead,

For whoever is ashamed of me and my words, of him will the Son of man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.

It was about eight days after he said this, when he took Peter, John, and James, and went up the hillside to pray.

When they were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is a good thing we are here; let us put up three tents, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah" (not knowing what he was saying).

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.

Next day, when they came down the hill, a large crowd met him.

So when the disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, will you have us bid fire come down from heaven and consume them?"

However a Samaritan traveller came to where he was and felt pity when he saw him;

He was praying at a certain place, and when he stopped one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples."

He said to them, "When you pray, say, Father, thy name be revered, thy Reign begin;

He was casting out a dumb daemon, and when the daemon had gone out the dumb man spoke. The crowds marvelled,

When the strong man in armour guards his homestead, his property is undisturbed;

but when a stronger man attacks and conquers him, he seizes the panoply on which he relied and divides up the spoil.

When an unclean spirit leaves a man, it roams through dry places in search of refreshment. As it finds none, then it says, 'I will go back to the house I left,'

and when it comes it finds the house clean and in order.

The men of Ninive will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for when Jonah preached they did repent, and here is One greater than Jonah.

Your eye is the lamp of the body: when your eye is sound, then the whole of your body has light, but if your eye is diseased, then your body is darkened.

So if your whole body has light, without any corner of it in darkness, it will be lit up entirely, as when a lamp lights you with its rays."

When he finished speaking, a Pharisee asked him to take a meal in his house; so he went in and lay down at table.

One of the jurists said to him, "Teacher, when you say this you are insulting us as well."

When they bring you before synagogues and the magistrates and authorities, do not trouble yourselves about how to defend yourselves or what to say,

and be like men who are expecting their lord and master on his return from a marriage-banquet, so as to open the door for him at once when he comes and knocks.

Blessed are those servants whom the lord and master finds awake when he comes! I tell you truly, he will gird himself, make them recline at table, and come forward to wait on them.

Blessed is that servant if his lord and master finds him so doing when he arrives!

that servant's lord and master will arrive on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour which he does not know; he will cut him in two and assign him the fate of unbelievers.

And to the crowds he said, "When you see a cloud rise in the west, you say, 'There is a shower coming,' and so it is:

when you feel the south wind blow, you say, 'There will be heat,' and so it is.

Thus, when you go before the magistrate with your opponent, do your utmost to get quit of him on the way there, in case he hales you before the judge; then the judge will hand you over to the jailer and the jailer will throw you in prison.

When he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath,

See, your House is left to yourselves. I tell you, you will never see me till the day comes when you say, Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name."

Now when he entered the house of a ruler who belonged to the Pharisees to take a meal, they watched him closely.

"Which of you," he said to them, "when an ass or an ox has fallen into a well, will not pull him out at once upon the sabbath day?"

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

"When anyone invites you to a marriage-banquet," he said, "never lie down in the best place, in case a more distinguished guest than yourself has been invited;

No, when you are invited, go and recline in the lowest place, so that when your host comes in he will tell you, 'Move higher up, my friend.' Then you will be honoured before your fellow guests.

He also said to his host, "When you give a dinner or supper, do not ask your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your rich neighbours, in case they invite you back again and you get repaid.

No, when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind.

When the servant announced, 'Your order has been carried out, sir, but there is still room,'

If he cannot, when the other is still at a distance he will send an embassy to do homage to him.

When he finds it he puts it on his shoulders with joy,

and when he gets home he gathers his friends and neighbours: 'Rejoice with me,' he says to them, 'for I have found the sheep I lost.'

And when she finds it she gathers her women-friends and neighbours, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the shilling I lost.'

But when he came to his senses he said, 'How many hired men of my father have more than enough to eat, and here am I perishing of hunger!

So he got up and went off to his father. But when he was still far away his father saw him and felt pity for him and ran to fall upon his neck and kiss him.

Ah, I know what I will do, so that people will welcome me to their houses when I am deposed from the factorship.'

And I tell you, use mammon, dishonest as it is, to make friends for yourselves, so that when you die they may welcome you to the eternal abodes.