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

And when his period of service was over, he went back to his home.

and he will reign over Jacob's house forever; his reign will have no end."

The angel answered, "The holy Spirit will come over you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. For that reason your child will be called holy, and the Son of God.

For nothing is ever impossible for God."

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

There were some shepherds in that neighborhood keeping watch through the night over their flock in the open fields.

When the angels left them and returned to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Come! Let us go over to Bethlehem, and see this thing that has happened, that the Lord has told us of!"

but Mary treasured up all they had said, and pondered over it.

When their purification period under the Law of Moses was over, they took him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord,

and to offer the sacrifice prescribed in the Law of the Lord, "A pair of turtle-doves or two young pigeons."

for forty days by the Spirit, and was tempted by the devil. In all those days he ate nothing, and when they were over he was famished.

And the devil said to him, "I will give you all this power and their splendor, for it has been turned over to me, and I can give it to anyone I please.

Under the power of the Spirit Jesus returned to Galilee, and news of him went all over that region.

But, I tell you, there were plenty of widows in Israel in Elijah's time, when the sky was closed for three years and a half, and there was a great famine all over the land,

And he stood over her and reproved the fever and it left her, and she got up and waited on them.

But Jesus saw what they were discussing, and said to them, "What are you pondering over in your minds?

They said to him, "John's disciples observe frequent fasts and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but your disciples eat and drink."

And he came down with them and took his stand on a level place with a great throng of his disciples, and a large number of people from all over Judea and from Jerusalem and the seacoast district of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear him and to be cured of their diseases.

To the man that strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from the man who takes away your coat, do not keep back your shirt either.

Give, and they will give to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, they will pour into your lap. For the measure you use with others they in turn will use with you."

This story about him spread all over Judea and the surrounding country.

Then the demons came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the drove rushed over the steep bank into the lake, and were drowned.

"Go back to your home, and tell all that God has done for you." And he went and told all over the town what Jesus had done for him.

Then he called the Twelve together, and gave them power and authority over all the demons, and to cure diseases,

And they all ate and had enough, and the pieces left over that were gathered up filled twelve baskets.

For whoever wants to preserve his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for me will preserve it.

"You must store up these teachings in your minds, for the Son of Man is going to be handed over to men."

and said to them, "Whoever welcomes this child on my account is welcoming me, and whoever welcomes me, welcomes him who has sent me. For it is the lowliest among you all who is really great."

Stay at the same house, eating and drinking what they offer you, for the workman deserves his pay. Do not change from one house to another.

Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever disregards you disregards me, and whoever disregards me disregards him who sent me."

Everything has been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is but the Father, nor who the Father is but the Son, and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."

I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am till it is over!

For when you are going before the magistrate with your opponent, do your best on the way to get rid of him, or he may hurry you off to the judge and the judge hand you over to the constable and the constable throw you into prison.

I tell you, in just that way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinful person who repents, than over ninety-nine upright people who do not need any repentance.

In just that way, I tell you, there is joy among the angels of God over one sinful person who repents!"

Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and whoever marries a woman who has been divorced from her husband commits adultery.

Besides there is a great chasm set between you and us, so that those who want to go over from this side to you cannot, and they cannot cross from your side to us.'

Whoever tries to preserve his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.

I tell you, whoever does not accept the Kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all."

And he said, "I have obeyed all these commandments ever since I was a child."

For he will be handed over to the heathen, and ridiculed and insulted and spat upon,

But his countrymen hated him, and they sent a delegation after him to say, 'We do not want this man made king over us.'

But bring those enemies of mine here who did not want me made king over them, and slaughter them in my presence!' "

As he approached the city and saw it, he wept over it,

Whoever falls on that stone will be shattered, but whoever it falls upon will be pulverized."

So they kept watch of him and set some spies who pretended to be honest men to fasten on something that he said, so that they might hand him over to the control and authority of the governor.

But before all this, men will arrest you and persecute you, and hand you over to synagogues and prisons and have you brought before kings and governors on my account.

And he accepted their offer, and watched for an opportunity to betray him to them without a disturbance.

But he said to them, "The kings of the heathen lord it over them, and their authorities are given the title of Benefactor.

But you are not to do so, but whoever is greatest among you must be like the youngest, and the leader like a servant.

But they persisted and said, "He is stirring up the people all over Judea by his teaching. He began in Galilee and he has come here."

and learning that he belonged to Herod's jurisdiction he turned him over to Herod, for Herod was in Jerusalem at that time.

He released the man they asked for, who had been put in prison for riot and murder, and handed Jesus over to their will.

It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole country, and lasted until three in the afternoon,

They were in great perplexity over this, when suddenly two men in dazzling clothing stood beside them.

when he said that the Son of Man must be handed over to wicked men and be crucified and rise again on the third day."

but they urged him not to, and said, "Stay with us, for it is getting toward evening, and the day is nearly over." So he went in to stay with them.