After Jesus was baptized, just as he was coming up out of the water, the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming on him.

But the centurion replied, "Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof. Instead, just say the word and my servant will be healed.

Then Jesus said to the centurion, "Go; just as you believed, it will be done for you." And the servant was healed at that hour.

Just then some people brought to him a paralytic lying on a stretcher. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Have courage, son! Your sins are forgiven."

As he was saying these things, a ruler came, bowed low before him, and said, "My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her and she will live."

For just as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish for three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.

Should you not have shown mercy to your fellow slave, just as I showed it to you?'

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

For just like the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so the coming of the Son of Man will be.

For just like the days of Noah were, so the coming of the Son of Man will be.

And the king will answer them, 'I tell you the truth, just as you did it for one of the least of these brothers or sisters of mine, you did it for me.'

Then he will answer them, 'I tell you the truth, just as you did not do it for one of the least of these, you did not do it for me.'

Just then the temple curtain was torn in two, from top to bottom. The earth shook and the rocks were split apart.

He is not here, for he has been raised, just as he said. Come and see the place where he was lying.

And just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens splitting apart and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.

Just then there was a man in their synagogue with an unclean spirit, and he cried out,

So after leaving the crowd, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat, and other boats were with him.

Just as Jesus was getting out of the boat, a man with an unclean spirit came from the tombs and met him.

But Jesus, paying no attention to what was said, told the synagogue ruler, "Do not be afraid; just believe."

And wherever he would go -- into villages, towns, or countryside -- they would place the sick in the marketplaces, and would ask him if they could just touch the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.

But I tell you that Elijah has certainly come, and they did to him whatever they wanted, just as it is written about him."

So the disciples left, went into the city, and found things just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.

But go, tell his disciples, even Peter, that he is going ahead of you into Galilee. You will see him there, just as he told you."

And he will go as forerunner before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers back to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared for him."

So the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen; everything was just as they had been told.

(just as it is written in the law of the Lord, "Every firstborn male will be set apart to the Lord"),

Just then some men showed up, carrying a paralyzed man on a stretcher. They were trying to bring him in and place him before Jesus.

Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

But when Jesus heard this, he told him, "Do not be afraid; just believe, and she will be healed."

Now Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he stopped, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples."

For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so the Son of Man will be a sign to this generation.

Another said, 'I just got married, and I cannot come.'

For just like the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.

Just as it was in the days of Noah, so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man.

Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot, people were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;

If anyone asks you, 'Why are you untying it?' just say, 'The Lord needs it.'"

So they went and found things just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.

For the Son of Man is to go just as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!"

Thus I grant to you a kingdom, just as my Father granted to me,

Then some of those who were with us went to the tomb, and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see him."

Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes.

so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

For just as the Father has life in himself, thus he has granted the Son to have life in himself,

I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.

Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"

Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes me will live because of me.

let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says, 'From within him will flow rivers of living water.'"

Then Jesus said, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak just what the Father taught me.

just as the Father knows me and I know the Father -- and I lay down my life for the sheep.

The disciples replied, "Rabbi, the Jewish leaders were just now trying to stone you to death! Are you going there again?"

Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written,

And I know that his commandment is eternal life. Thus the things I say, I say just as the Father has told me."

Just before the Passover feast, Jesus knew that his time had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now loved them to the very end.

For I have given you an example -- you should do just as I have done for you.

Children, I am still with you for a little while. You will look for me, and just as I said to the Jewish religious leaders, 'Where I am going you cannot come,' now I tell you the same.

"I give you a new commandment -- to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go from here."

Remain in me, and I will remain in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.

"Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love.

If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commandments and remain in his love.

My commandment is this -- to love one another just as I have loved you.

just as you have given him authority over all humanity, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him.

I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one.

I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

They do not belong to the world just as I do not belong to the world.

Just as you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world.

that they will all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they will be in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me.

The glory you gave to me I have given to them, that they may be one just as we are one --

I in them and you in me -- that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.

So Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. Just as the Father has sent me, I also send you."

Jesus said, "Bring some of the fish you have just now caught."

"Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man clearly attested to you by God with powerful deeds, wonders, and miraculous signs that God performed among you through him, just as you yourselves know --

Our ancestors had the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as God who spoke to Moses ordered him to make it according to the design he had seen.

"No one can withhold the water for these people to be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did, can he?"

Then as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as he did on us at the beginning.

From the descendants of this man God brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, just as he promised.

The priest of the temple of Zeus, located just outside the city, brought bulls and garlands to the city gates; he and the crowds wanted to offer sacrifices to them.

"Men, why are you doing these things? We too are men, with human natures just like you! We are proclaiming the good news to you, so that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them.

And God, who knows the heart, has testified to them by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,

But just as Paul was about to speak, Gallio said to the Jews, "If it were a matter of some crime or serious piece of villainy, I would have been justified in accepting the complaint of you Jews,

"I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated with strictness under Gamaliel according to the law of our ancestors, and was zealous for God just as all of you are today.

The following night the Lord stood near Paul and said, "Have courage, for just as you have testified about me in Jerusalem, so you must also testify in Rome."

Therefore keep up your courage, men, for I have faith in God that it will be just as I have been told.

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I may have some fruit even among you, just as I already have among the rest of the Gentiles.

For the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel from faith to faith, just as it is written, "The righteous by faith will live."

And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done.

For just as it is written, "the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."

Absolutely not! Let God be proven true, and every human being shown up as a liar, just as it is written: "so that you will be justified in your words and will prevail when you are judged."

just as it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one,

This was also to demonstrate his righteousness in the present time, so that he would be just and the justifier of the one who lives because of Jesus' faithfulness.

So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people because all sinned --

Consequently, just as condemnation for all people came through one transgression, so too through the one righteous act came righteousness leading to life for all people.

For just as through the disobedience of the one man many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of one man many will be made righteous.

so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life.

(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

just as it is written: "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."

Just as Isaiah predicted, "If the Lord of armies had not left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have resembled Gomorrah."

just as it is written, "Look, I am laying in Zion a stone that will cause people to stumble and a rock that will make them fall, yet the one who believes in him will not be put to shame."