In those days John the Baptist appeared, and kept preaching in the desert of Judea,

When He got back to Capernaum, a Roman military captain came up to Him and kept begging Him,

And suddenly a furious storm came up, so that the boat was being covered over by the bursting billows, but He kept on sleeping.

And the demons kept begging Him and saying, "If you are going to drive us out, send us into the drove of hogs."

For she kept saying to herself, "If I can only touch His coat, I will get well."

But the Pharisees kept on saying, "It is by the help of the prince of the demons that He drives them out."

Jesus kept visiting all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and curing every sort of sickness and ailment.

He went to His own home town, and kept teaching in their synagogue in such a way that they were dumbfounded, and said, "Where did He get this wisdom and this power to do such wonder-works?

But He did not answer her a word. And His disciples came up and kept begging Him, "Send her away, for she keeps on screaming after us."

But she came and bowed to Him, and kept praying, "Lord, help me!"

Then Jesus left there and went to the shore of the sea of Galilee. Then He went up the hill and kept sitting there,

and He took the seven loaves and the fish and gave thanks; then He broke them in pieces, and kept giving the pieces to the disciples, and they to the crowds.

Then Moses and Elijah appeared to them and kept talking with Him.

The young man said, "I have kept all these commandments; what more do I lack?"

And the crowds kept saying, "He is the prophet Jesus of Nazareth in Galilee."

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! The city that has kept on murdering the prophets, and stoning those who have been sent to her, how often I have yearned to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, but you refused!

At last the rest of the bridesmaids came, and kept begging, 'Master, master, open the door for us!'

But they kept saying, "It must not be at the feast, for a riot may break out among the people."

So from that time he kept looking for a good opportunity to turn Him over to them.

But Jesus kept silent. So the high priest said to Him, "I charge you, on your oath, in the name of the living God, tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God."

He asked, "Why, what has He done that is wrong?" But they kept on shouting louder and louder, "Have Him crucified!"

And they spit on Him, and took the stick and kept hitting Him on the head.

and sitting down they kept watch of Him there.

And the passers-by kept hissing at Him, shaking their heads

And Mary of Magdala and the other Mary kept sitting there in front of the tomb.

And people from all over Judea and everybody in Jerusalem kept on going out to him and being baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.

He kept preaching the following message, "After me there is coming One who is stronger than I am, whose shoes I am not fit to stoop down and untie.

They were all so dumbfounded that they kept discussing it among themselves, and asking, "What does this mean? It is a new teaching. He gives orders with authority even to foul spirits, and they obey Him."

In the evening, when the sun had gone down, they kept on bringing to Him all the people who were sick or under the power of demons,

But he went out and began to publish it so much and to spread the story so far, that Jesus could not any more go into any town openly, but had to stay out in thinly settled places. But the people kept coming to Him from every quarter.

He went out of the town again and along the seashore, and all the people kept coming to Him and He kept teaching them.

And they kept closely watching Him, to see whether He would cure him on the Sabbath, to get a charge to bring against Him.

and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and from the other side of the Jordan, and from the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon -- yes, a vast throng of people, as they kept hearing of the great things that He was doing, came to Him.

For He cured so many people that all who had ailments kept crowding up against Him to touch Him.

His kinsmen heard of it and came over to get hold of Him, for they kept saying, "He has gone crazy."

And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem kept saying, "He is under the spell of Beelzebub and by the help of the prince of the demons He drives out the demons."

He said so, because they kept saying, "He is under the spell of a foul spirit."

Then He kept on saying: "How can I further picture the kingdom of God, or by what story can I illustrate it?

With many stories like these He kept on telling them the message, as far as they could understand it.

He did not tell them anything except by stories, but to His own disciples He kept on privately explaining everything.

All night and all day he kept screaming among the tombs and on the hills, and kept gashing himself with stones.

And they kept on earnestly begging Him not to send them out of that country.

And as He was getting into the boat, the once insane man kept begging Him to let him go with Him.

and kept earnestly begging Him, saying, "My dear little daughter is at the point of death. Come, lay your hands on her, so that she may get well and live."

So He went off with him, and a great crowd kept following Him, and jostling Him.

for she kept saying, "If I can only touch His clothes, I shall get well."

But the disciples kept saying to Him, "You see the crowd jostling you, and yet you ask, 'Who touched me?'"

Still He kept looking around to see her who had done it.

For John kept saying to Herod, "It is not right for you to be living with your brother's wife."

He kept on saying, "The thing that comes from the inside of a man is the thing that makes him foul,

She was a heathen who spoke Greek and had been born in Syro-Phenicia. And she kept begging Him to drive the demon out of her daughter.

Then He charged them not to tell anybody about it, but the more He kept charging them, the more they kept spreading the news.

So the people were overwhelmingly dumbfounded, and kept saying, "How wonderfully He has done everything! He even makes deaf people hear and dumb people talk."

Then He kept warning them by saying, "Look out! Keep on guarding yourselves against the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod."

And they brought the boy to Him. As soon as the spirit saw Him, it convulsed the boy, and he fell on the ground and kept rolling over and foaming at the mouth.

But he said to Him, "Teacher, I have kept all these commandments ever since I was a child."

Many of the people began to rebuke him and to tell him to keep quiet, but all the louder he kept shouting, "You son of David, do pity me!"

Then the high priests and the scribes heard of this, and they kept looking for some way to destroy Him, for they were afraid of Him, for everybody was swept off his feet at what He said.

Now the feast of the Passover and of Unleavened Bread was two days later. So the high priests and scribes kept looking for some way to arrest Him by stratagem and have Him put to death,

for they kept saying, "It must not be at the feast, for there might be a riot."

It might have been sold for more than sixty dollars, and the money have been given to the poor." So they kept on grumbling at her.

They were delighted to hear it, and promised to pay him for it. So he kept looking for a good opportunity to betray Him to them.

But Peter kept on emphatically saying, "Even if I have to die with you, I will never disown you." And they all kept saying the same thing.

Then He walked on a few steps and threw Himself upon the ground and kept praying that if it were possible He might escape the hour of agony,

But He kept silent and made no answer at all. So the high priest again questioned Him in these words, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?"

And the high priests kept piling up accusations against Him.

And they kept hitting Him on the head with a stick, and kept spitting on Him, and on bending knees they kept doing Him homage.

And the passers-by kept hissing at Him, shaking their heads and saying, "Aha! You are the man who would tear down the temple and build another in three days!

The high priests too made sport of Him to one another with the scribes, and kept saying, "He saved others but He cannot save Himself!

And they kept saying to one another, "Who will roll the boulder back from the doorway of the tomb for us?"

Then they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord kept on working with them and confirming their message by the signs that attended it.

Meanwhile the people kept waiting for Zechariah and wondering why he stayed so long in the sanctuary.

But when he came out, he could not speak to them, and so they knew that he had seen a vision in the sanctuary. Meanwhile he kept on making signs to them, and remained dumb.

So after this his wife Elizabeth became pregnant, and she kept herself in seclusion for five months, saying,

and all who heard them kept them in their hearts, and said, "What then is this child to be?" for the hand of the Lord was with him.

And His father and mother kept wondering at the things spoken by Symeon about Him.

and took her stand behind Him at His feet, continually weeping. Then she began to wet His feet with her tears, but she continued to wipe them off with the hair of her head, and she kept right on kissing His feet with affection and anointing them with the perfume.

For there is nothing hidden which shall not come out into the open, and nothing kept secret which shall not be known and come to light.

When the voice had ceased, Jesus was found to be alone. And they kept silence and told no one anything that they had seen at that time.

A curse on you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to the door of knowledge! You did not go in yourselves, and you kept out those who tried to get in."

Then He told them this story: "A man had a fig tree planted by his vineyard, and he kept going and looking for figs on it, but did not find any.

And so was it not right for this woman, a descendant of Abraham, whom Satan has for eighteen years kept bound, to be freed from this bond on the Sabbath?"

But he said, "I have kept all these commandments ever since I was a child."

But another one came in and said, 'Here is your twenty dollars, sir, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief.

Now one of the criminals who were hanging from their crosses kept abusing Him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Then save yourself and us too!"

But we kept hoping that He was the One who was coming to set Israel free. Moreover, besides all this, it is now the third day since these things occurred.

and said to him, "Everybody, as a rule, serves his good wine first, and his poorer wine after people have drunk freely; you have kept the good wine till now."

After this, Jesus and His disciples went into Judea, and for some time He stayed there with them and kept baptizing people.

So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they kept on urging Him to stay with them; so He did stay there two days.

It was on account of this that the Jews tried all the harder to put Him to death, because He not only persisted in breaking the Sabbath, but also kept on saying that God was His Father, and so was making Himself equal to God.

John was the lamp that kept on burning and shining, and you decided for a time to delight yourselves in his light.

But the Jews kept on wrangling with one another and saying, "How can He give us His flesh to eat?"

Now the Jews at the feast were looking for Him and kept asking, "Where is He?"

Then they kept on trying to arrest Him, and yet no one laid a hand on Him, for the time had not yet come.

Now his neighbors and those who saw that he was formerly blind, kept saying, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

So they kept on asking him, "How in the world did you come to see?"

So the Jews surrounded Him and kept asking Him, "How much longer are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are really the Christ, tell us so plainly."

And many people came to Him and kept on saying, "John did not perform any wonder-works, but everything he ever said about this man was true."

But some of them said, "Could not this man, who made that blind man see, have kept Lazarus from dying?"

So they kept looking for Jesus and saying to one another, as they stood in the temple, "What do you think? Do you think He will not come to the feast at all?"