The birth of Jesus Christ came about this way: After His mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, it was discovered before they came together that she was pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

Be glad and rejoice, because your reward is great in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

In the same way, let your light shine before men, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.

So whenever you give to the poor, don’t sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be applauded by people. I assure you: They’ve got their reward!

Don’t be like them, because your Father knows the things you need before you ask Him.

Don’t give what is holy to dogs or toss your pearls before pigs, or they will trample them with their feet, turn, and tear you to pieces.

Right away a man with a serious skin disease came up and knelt before Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.”

Suddenly they shouted, “What do You have to do with us, Son of God? Have You come here to torment us before the time?”

As He was telling them these things, suddenly one of the leaders came and knelt down before Him, saying, “My daughter is near death, but come and lay Your hand on her, and she will live.”

You will even be brought before governors and kings because of Me, to bear witness to them and to the nations.

When they persecute you in one town, escape to another. For I assure you: You will not have covered the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

“Therefore, everyone who will acknowledge Me before men, I will also acknowledge him before My Father in heaven.

But whoever denies Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father in heaven.

This is the one it is written about:

Look, I am sending My messenger ahead of You;
he will prepare Your way before You.

But when Herod’s birthday celebration came, Herodias’s daughter danced before them and pleased Herod.

But she came, knelt before Him, and said, “Lord, help me!”

When they reached the crowd, a man approached and knelt down before Him.

When he began to settle accounts, one who owed 10,000 talents was brought before him.

“At this, the slave fell facedown before him and said, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay you everything!’

“Which of the two did his father’s will?”

“The first,” they said.

Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you!

For in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah boarded the ark.

All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

“I assure you,” Jesus said to him, “tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times!”

and Peter remembered the words Jesus had spoken, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly.

Now Jesus stood before the governor. “Are You the King of the Jews?” the governor asked Him.

Jesus answered, “You have said it.”

They twisted together a crown of thorns, put it on His head, and placed a reed in His right hand. And they knelt down before Him and mocked Him: “Hail, King of the Jews!”

The next day, which followed the preparation day, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate

He told the man with the paralyzed hand, “Stand before us.”

Whenever the unclean spirits saw Him, those possessed fell down before Him and cried out, “You are the Son of God!”

When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and knelt down before Him.

And he cried out with a loud voice, “What do You have to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg You before God, don’t torment me!”

Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came with fear and trembling, fell down before Him, and told Him the whole truth.

Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke the loaves. He kept giving them to His disciples to set before the people. He also divided the two fish among them all.

Then He commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground. Taking the seven loaves, He gave thanks, broke the loaves, and kept on giving them to His disciples to set before the people. So they served the loaves to the crowd.

As He was setting out on a journey, a man ran up, knelt down before Him, and asked Him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

“But you, be on your guard! They will hand you over to sanhedrins, and you will be flogged in the synagogues. You will stand before governors and kings because of Me, as a witness to them.

“I assure you,” Jesus said to him, “today, this very night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times!”

Then the high priest stood up before them all and questioned Jesus, “Don’t You have an answer to what these men are testifying against You?”

Immediately a rooster crowed a second time, and Peter remembered when Jesus had spoken the word to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times.” When he thought about it, he began to weep.

When it was already evening, because it was preparation day (that is, the day before the Sabbath),

When his division was on duty and he was serving as priest before God,

And he will go before Him
in the spirit and power of Elijah,
to turn the hearts of fathers
to their children,
and the disobedient
to the understanding of the righteous,
to make ready for the Lord a prepared people.

And child, you will be called
a prophet of the Most High,
for you will go before the Lord
to prepare His ways,

Then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.

When the eight days were completed for His circumcision, He was named Jesus—the name given by the angel before He was conceived.

It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he saw the Lord’s Messiah.

But Jesus rebuked him and said, “Be quiet and come out of him!”

And throwing him down before them, the demon came out of him without hurting him at all.

Just then some men came, carrying on a mat a man who was paralyzed. They tried to bring him in and set him down before Him.

Since they could not find a way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him on the mat through the roof tiles into the middle of the crowd before Jesus.

Immediately he got up before them, picked up what he had been lying on, and went home glorifying God.

This is the one it is written about:

Look, I am sending My messenger
ahead of You;
he will prepare Your way before You.

When he saw Jesus, he cried out, fell down before Him, and said in a loud voice, “What do You have to do with me, Jesus, You Son of the Most High God? I beg You, don’t torment me!”

When the woman saw that she was discovered, she came trembling and fell down before Him. In the presence of all the people, she declared the reason she had touched Him and how she was instantly cured.

Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke them. He kept giving them to the disciples to set before the crowd.

When you enter any town, and they welcome you, eat the things set before you.

When the Pharisee saw this, he was amazed that He did not first perform the ritual washing before dinner.

“And I say to you, anyone who acknowledges Me before men, the Son of Man will also acknowledge him before the angels of God,

but whoever denies Me before men will be denied before the angels of God.

Whenever they bring you before synagogues and rulers and authorities, don’t worry about how you should defend yourselves or what you should say.

As you are going with your adversary to the ruler, make an effort to settle with him on the way. Then he won’t drag you before the judge, the judge hand you over to the bailiff, and the bailiff throw you into prison.

But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and persecute you. They will hand you over to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors because of My name.

But be alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Then He said to them, “I have fervently desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.

Then the Lord turned and looked at Peter. So Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had said to him, “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny Me three times.”

When daylight came, the elders of the people, both the chief priests and the scribes, convened and brought Him before their Sanhedrin.

Then their whole assembly rose up and brought Him before Pilate.

“What things?” He asked them.

So they said to Him, “The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene, who was a Prophet powerful in action and speech before God and all the people,

(John testified concerning Him and exclaimed,
“This was the One of whom I said,
‘The One coming after me has surpassed me,
because He existed before me.’”)

This is the One I told you about: ‘After me comes a man who has surpassed me, because He existed before me.’

“How do you know me?” Nathanael asked.

“Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you,” Jesus answered.

“Sir,” the official said to Him, “come down before my boy dies!”

Then what if you were to observe the Son of Man ascending to where He was before?

“Our law doesn’t judge a man before it hears from him and knows what he’s doing, does it?”

Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Before Abraham was, I am.”

All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.

The Jewish Passover was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the country to purify themselves before the Passover.

Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was, the one Jesus had raised from the dead.

Before the Passover Festival, Jesus knew that His hour had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

“I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am He.

I have told you now before it happens so that when it does happen you may believe.

“If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me before it hated you.

Now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence
with that glory I had with You
before the world existed.

Father,
I desire those You have given Me
to be with Me where I am.
Then they will see My glory,
which You have given Me
because You loved Me before the world’s foundation.

The sun will be turned to darkness
and the moon to blood
before the great and remarkable Day of the Lord comes.

For David says of Him:

I saw the Lord ever before me;
because He is at my right hand,
I will not be shaken.

After they had Peter and John stand before them, they asked the question: “By what power or in what name have you done this?”

let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene—whom you crucified and whom God raised from the dead—by Him this man is standing here before you healthy.

After they brought them in, they had them stand before the Sanhedrin, and the high priest asked,

They had them stand before the apostles, who prayed and laid their hands on them.

“Brothers and fathers,” he said, “listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,

At this time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in God’s sight. He was cared for in his father’s home three months,

They told Aaron:

Make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what’s happened to him.

Our ancestors in turn received it and with Joshua brought it in when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our fathers, until the days of David.

You have no part or share in this matter, because your heart is not right before God.

Now the Scripture passage he was reading was this:

He was led like a sheep to the slaughter,
and as a lamb is silent before its shearer,
so He does not open His mouth.

But the Lord said to him, “Go! For this man is My chosen instrument to take My name to Gentiles, kings, and the Israelites.

Looking intently at him, he became afraid and said, “What is it, lord?”

The angel told him, “Your prayers and your acts of charity have come up as a memorial offering before God.

Cornelius replied, “Four days ago at this hour, at three in the afternoon, I was praying in my house. Just then a man in a dazzling robe stood before me

Therefore I immediately sent for you, and you did the right thing in coming. So we are all present before God, to hear everything you have been commanded by the Lord.”

On the night before Herod was to bring him out for execution, Peter, bound with two chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, while the sentries in front of the door guarded the prison.