"A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; she wouldn't be comforted, because they are no more."

he said to them, "Make room, because the girl isn't dead, but sleeping." They were ridiculing him.

But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.

Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they didn't repent.

Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn't have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.

When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.

Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see, and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand.

yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

He didn't do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.

When he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.

He answered them, "Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

he shall not honor his father or mother.' You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.

Jesus summoned his disciples and said, "I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way."

Jesus, perceiving it, said, "Why do you reason among yourselves, you of little faith, 'because you have brought no bread?'

He said to them, "Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

"Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!

But because he couldn't pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

Then his lord called him in, and said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me.

He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

"They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' "He said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.'

Isn't it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?'

When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet.

"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don't enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.

Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.

However, knowing this, Jesus said to them, "Why do you trouble the woman? Because she has done a good work for me.

Then Jesus said to them, "All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'

But Peter answered him, "Even if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to stumble."

For he knew that because of envy they had delivered him up.

While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, "Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him."

He healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons. He didn't allow the demons to speak, because they knew him.

He said to them, "Let's go elsewhere into the next towns, that I may preach there also, because I came out for this reason."

He spoke to his disciples that a little boat should stay near him because of the crowd, so that they wouldn't press on him.

-- because they said, "He has an unclean spirit."

Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.

When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts forth the sickle, because the harvest has come."

because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces. Nobody had the strength to tame him.

He marveled because of their unbelief. He went around the villages teaching.

Jesus came out, saw a great multitude, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.

because it doesn't go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, thus purifying all foods?"

"I have compassion on the multitude, because they have stayed with me now three days, and have nothing to eat.

They reasoned with one another, saying, "It's because we have no bread."

Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, "Why do you reason that it's because you have no bread? Don't you perceive yet, neither understand? Is your heart still hardened?

John said to him, "Teacher, we saw someone who doesn't follow us casting out demons in your name; and we forbade him, because he doesn't follow us."

For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you are Christ's, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.

The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.

Jesus answered them, "Isn't this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?

For they said, "Not during the feast, because there might be a riot of the people."

Jesus said to them, "All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.'

When evening had now come, because it was the Preparation Day, that is, the day before the Sabbath,

Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn't believe those who had seen him after he had risen.

But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.

But the angel said to him, "Don't be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard, and your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

Behold, you will be silent and not able to speak, until the day that these things will happen, because you didn't believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time."

because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the dawn from on high will visit us,

Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David;

She brought forth her firstborn son, and she wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no room for them in the inn.

"The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

Demons also came out from many, crying out, and saying, "You are the Christ, the Son of God!" Rebuking them, he didn't allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.

Not finding a way to bring him in because of the multitude, they went up to the housetop, and let him down through the tiles with his cot into the midst before Jesus.

He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock.

Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew, it withered away, because it had no moisture.

Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him; and he was very perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead,

John answered, "Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him, because he doesn't follow with us."

They didn't receive him, because he was traveling with his face set towards Jerusalem.

I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.

He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?'

Jesus answered them, "Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered such things?

The ruler of the synagogue, being indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the multitude, "There are six days in which men ought to work. Therefore come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day!"

and you will be blessed, because they don't have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous."

He said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.'

"His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded? I think not.

yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.'"

He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn't because of the crowd, because he was short.

Jesus said to him, "Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.

As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that the Kingdom of God would be revealed immediately.

"He said to him, 'Well done, you good servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.'

for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn't lay down, and reap that which you didn't sow.'

and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn't know the time of your visitation."

But when these things begin to happen, look up, and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near."

When he rose up from his prayer, he came to the disciples, and found them sleeping because of grief,

They all said, "Are you then the Son of God?" He said to them, "You say it, because I am."

Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad, for he had wanted to see him for a long time, because he had heard many things about him. He hoped to see some miracle done by him.

Jesus answered him, "Because I told you, 'I saw you underneath the fig tree,' do you believe? You will see greater things than these!"

But Jesus didn't trust himself to them, because he knew everyone,

and because he didn't need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.

He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn't believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

John also was baptizing in Enon near Salim, because there was much water there. They came, and were baptized.

He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.

From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, "He told me everything that I did."

Many more believed because of his word.

They said to the woman, "Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world."

For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.

For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man.

I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don't seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

You don't have his word living in you; because you don't believe him whom he sent.

"You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.