so that you may know the certainty of the story which you have been taught by the word of mouth.

All their neighbors were awe-struck at this; and throughout the hill-country of Judea the whole story was much talked about;

All who heard the story treasured it in their memories. "What then will this child be?" they said. For the lord's hand was indeed with him.

"Have no fear," the angel said. "For I bring you good news of a great joy in store for all the nation.

When they saw this, they informed them of the story that had been told about this child.

All who heard the shepherds were astonished at their story,

and the child grew in stature and in all the improvements of the mind; he was stor'd with wisdom, and was the object of divine favour.

In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned in the fire which will never be put out.

However, the story about Jesus spread all the more, and great crowds came together to listen to him, and to be cured of their illnesses;

And he said to them, in a story, No man takes a bit of cloth from a new coat and puts it on to an old coat, for so the new coat would be damaged and the bit from the new would not go well with the old.

And he gave them teaching in the form of a story, saying, Is it possible for one blind man to be guide to another? will they not go falling together into a hole?

The good man, out of the good store of his heart, gives good things; and the evil man, out of his evil store, gives evil: for out of the full store of the heart come the words of the mouth.

And this story about him went through all Judaea and the places round about.

And when a great number of people came together, and men from every town went out to him, he gave them teaching in the form of a story:

And his disciples put questions to him about the point of the story.

Now this is the point of the story: The seed is the word of God.

But as they sailed he fell asleep: and there came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filling with water , and were in jeopardy.

Then they came to him and, awaking him out of his sleep, said, Master, Master, destruction is near. And he, when he was awake, gave orders to the wind and the rolling waves, and the storm came to an end, and all was calm.

"Go back to your home," he said, "and relate the story of all that God has done for you." So the man went through the whole town and proclaimed, as he went, all that Jesus had done for him.

"You must store away in your memories these words, for the Son of Man is going to be turned over to the hands of men!"

And he said to them, in a story, The land of a certain man of great wealth was very fertile:

And he pondered within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have nowhere I will store my crops?

And he said, This I will do: I will take down my store-houses and make greater ones, and there I will put all my grain and my goods.

And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy.

Consider the ravens, that they sow not, neither reap; which have no store-chamber nor barn; and God feedeth them: of how much more value are ye than the birds!

For wherever you store your valuables, that is where your heart [i.e., your real concern] will be also.

Peter said to Him, "Lord, do you mean this story for us, or is it for everybody?"

He also said to the crowds: “When you see a cloud rising in the west, right away you say, ‘A storm is coming,’ and so it does.

And he made up this story for them: A certain man had a fig-tree in his garden, and he came to get fruit from it, and there was no fruit.

And he gave teaching in the form of a story to the guests who came to the feast, when he saw how they took the best seats; saying to them,

And he made a story for them, saying,

It was the law and the prophets until John, but ever since that time the good news of the kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everybody has been taking it by storm.

but the very day that Lot went out of Sodom, a storm of lightning and thunder fell from heaven and destroy'd them all.

And he made a story for them, the point of which was that men were to go on making prayer and not get tired;

And he made this story for some people who were certain that they were good, and had a low opinion of others:

And while they were giving ear to these words, he made another story for them, because he was near Jerusalem, and because they were of the opinion that the kingdom of God was coming straight away.

And he gave the people this story: A man made a vine-garden and gave the use of it to some field-workers and went into another country for a long time.

And the chief priests and the scribes made attempts to get their hands on him in that very hour; and they were in fear of the people, for they saw that he had made up this story against them.

But even Moses made it clear that the dead come back to life, saying, in the story of the burning thorn-tree, The Lord, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

And he made a story for them: See the fig-tree, and all the trees;

But the whole story seemed to them an idle tale; they could not believe the women.