"Do not suppose that I have come to do away with the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to do away with them but to enforce them.

For I tell you, as long as heaven and earth endure, not one dotting of an i or crossing of a t will be dropped from the Law until it is all observed.

Therefore, you must always treat other people as you would like to have them treat you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

Jesus went into Peter's house, and there he found Peter's mother-in-law sick in bed with fever.

And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes and wild birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no where to lay his head!"

Just as he said this to them, an official came up and bowing low before him said to him, "My daughter has just died. But come! Lay your hand on her and she will come to life!"

For I have come to turn a man against his father and a daughter against her mother and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,

For up to the time of John all the Prophets and the Law itself prophesied about it,

But the Pharisees saw it and said to him, "Look! Your disciples are doing something which it is against the Law to do on the Sabbath!"

How is it that he went into the House of God and that they ate the Presentation Loaves which it was against the Law for him and his companions to eat, or for anyone except the priests?

Or did you never read in the Law how the priests in the Temple are not guilty when they break the Sabbath?

Then some children were brought up to him so that he might lay his hands on them and pray, but his disciples reproved the people for it.

Then the mother of Zebedee's sons came up to him with her sons, bowing low, to ask a favor of him.

and one of them, an expert in the Law, to test him, asked,

"Master, what command is greatest in the Law?"

These two commands sum up the whole of the Law and the Prophets."

"Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you pay tithes on mint, dill, and cummin, and you have let the weightier matters of the Law go??ustice, mercy, and integrity. But you should have observed these, without overlooking the others.

Simon's mother-in-law was in bed, sick with a fever, and they immediately told him about her.

And the Pharisees said to him, "Look! Why are they doing what it is against the law to do on the Sabbath?"

How is it that he went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest, and ate the Presentation Loaves, which it is against the law for anyone but the priests to eat, and gave some to his companions too?"

and appealed to him, saying, "My little daughter is at the point of death. Come, lay your hands on her, so that she may get well and live!"

And whatever village or town or farm he went to, they would lay their sick in the market-place and beg him to let them touch just the tassel of his cloak, and all who touched it were cured.

And they brought to him a man who was deaf and hardly able to speak, and they begged him to lay his hand on him.

But Jesus said to them, "It was on account of your perversity that he laid down that law for you.

"Master," they said, "Moses made us a law that if a man's brother died, leaving a wife but no child, the man should marry the widow and raise up a family for his brother.

For they all gave of what they had to spare, but she in her want has put in everything she possessed??ll she had to live on."

they will take snakes in their hands, and if they drink poison it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will get well."

When their purification period under the Law of Moses was over, they took him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord,

in fulfilment of the requirement of the Law of the Lord, "Every first-born male shall be considered consecrated to the Lord,"

and to offer the sacrifice prescribed in the Law of the Lord, "A pair of turtle-doves or two young pigeons."

And under the Spirit's influence he went into the Temple, and when Jesus' parents brought him there to do for him what the Law required,

When they had done everything that the Law of the Lord required, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.

When he got up and left the synagogue, he went to Simon's house. And Simon's mother-in-law was suffering with a severe attack of fever, and they asked him about her.

One day as he was teaching, there were some Pharisees and experts in the Law sitting near by, who had come from every village in Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was there, so that he might cure people.

Some men came up carrying on a bed a man who was paralyzed, and they tried to get him in and lay him before Jesus.

And some of the Pharisees said, "Why do you do what it is against the Law to do on the Sabbath?"

How he went into the house of God and took the Presentation Loaves, which it was against the Law for anyone but the priests to eat, and ate them with his companions?"

but the Pharisees and experts in the Law thwarted God's purpose for themselves, by refusing to be baptized by him.

Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes, and wild birds have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head!"

Then an expert in the Law got up to test him and said, "Master, what must I do to make sure of eternal life?"

Jesus said to him, "What does the Law say? How does it read?"

At this, one of the experts in the Law said to him, "Master, when you say that, you affront us too."

But he said, "Yes, alas for you experts in the Law too! For you load men with burdens they can hardly carry, and you will not touch them yourselves with a single finger.

Alas for you experts in the Law! For you have taken the key to the door of knowledge, but you have not entered it yourselves, and you have kept out those who tried to enter."

Father will be against son, and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."

And Jesus said to the Pharisees and the experts in the Law, "Is it right to cure people on the Sabbath or not?"

Until John came, it was the Law and the Prophets. From that time the Kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone has been crowding into it.

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one dotting of an i in the Law to go unfulfilled.

for I was afraid of you, for you are a stern man. You pick up what you did not lay down, and reap what you did not sow.'

He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth I will convict you, you wretched slave! You knew, did you, that I was a stern man, and that I pick up what I did not lay down, and harvest what I did not sow?

"Master, Moses made us a law that if a man's brother die leaving a wife but no children, the man should marry the widow and raise up a family for his brother.

Then he said to them, "This is what I told you when I was still with you??hat everything that is written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must come true."

In these there used to lie a great number of people who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed.

Now it was the Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "It is the Sabbath, and it is against the Law for you to carry your mat."

Was it not Moses who gave you the Law? Yet not one of you obeys the Law. Why are you trying to kill me?"

But if a person undergoes circumcision on a Sabbath, to avoid breaking the Law of Moses, are you angry at me for making a man perfectly well on a Sabbath?

But these common people who do not know the Law are doomed!"

"Does our Law condemn the accused without first hearing what he has to say, and finding out what he has done?"

Why, in your own Law it is stated that the testimony of two persons is valid.

The devil is the father you are sprung from, and you want to carry out your father's wishes. He was a murderer from the first, and he has nothing to do with the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in his true character, for he is a liar and the father of them.

Jesus answered, "Is it not declared in your Law, 'I said, "You are gods" '?

The crowd answered, "We have learned from the Law that the Christ is to remain here forever. So how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"

He leaned back from where he lay, on Jesus' breast, and said to him, "Master, who is it?"

Peter said to him, "Master, why cannot I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you."

Jesus answered, "You will lay down your life for me? I tell you, before a cock crows, you will disown me thrice over!

But the saying of their Law, 'They hated me without cause,' must be fulfilled.

and they took him first to Annas. For he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves, and try him by your law." The Jews said to him, "We have no authority to put anyone to death."

The Jews answered, "We have a law, and by our law he deserves death, for declaring himself to be a son of God."

And Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan taken such possession of your heart that you should lie to the holy Spirit, by appropriating part of the price of your land?

As long as it was unsold was it not yours, and after it was sold was not the money under your control? How could you think of doing such a thing? You did not lie to men but to God!"

so that people would carry their sick out into the streets, and lay them down on beds and mats, to have at least Peter's shadow fall on some of them as he went by.

But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the Law highly regarded by all the people, got up in the council and ordered the men to be removed for a while,

Then they brought forward false witnesses, who said, "This man is constantly saying things against this holy place and against the Law,

Which of the prophets did your forefathers not persecute? They killed the men who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and killed??53 you who had the Law given to you by angels, and did not obey it!"

Then falling on his knees, he cried out, "Lord, do not lay this sin up against them!" With these words he fell asleep.

Everyone there, high and low, made much of him, and said, "He must be what is known as the Great Power of God!"

He has had a vision and seen a man named Ananias come in and lay his hands on him, to restore his sight."

and he said to them, "You know that it is against the Law for a Jew to associate with a foreigner or to visit one; but God has taught me not to call anyone vulgar or unclean.

After the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the synagogue authorities sent to them, saying, "Brothers, if you have any appeal to make to the people, proceed."

and that through union with him everyone who believes is cleared of every charge of which the Law of Moses could not clear you.

But some members of the Pharisees' party who had become believers got up and said that such converts ought to be circumcised and told to obey the Law of Moses.

For the holy Spirit and we have decided not to lay upon you any burden but this indispensable one,

They are advocating practices which it is against the law for us as Romans to adopt or observe."

"This fellow," they said, "is trying to induce people to worship God in ways that are against the law."

But as it is only a question of words and titles and your own law, you must look after it yourselves. I refuse to decide such matters."

They praised God when they heard it, and they said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousand believers there are among the Jews, all of them zealous upholders of the Law.

Join them, undergo the rites of purification with them, and pay their expenses so that they can have their heads shaved. Then everybody will understand that there is no truth in the stories about you, but that you yourself observe the Law.

shouting, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everybody everywhere against our people and the Law and this place, and besides he has actually brought Greeks into the Temple and desecrated this sacred place."

"I am a Jew, and I was born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but was brought up here in this city, and thoroughly educated under the teaching of Gamaliel in the Law of our forefathers. I was zealous for God, just as all of you are today.

There a man named Ananias, a devout observer of the Law, highly respected by all the Jews who lived there,

Then Paul said to him, "God will strike you, you white-washed wall! Do you sit there to try me by the Law, and order them to strike me in violation of the Law?"

and found that their accusations had to do with questions about their Law, but that he was not charged with anything that would call for his death or imprisonment.

I admit that in worshiping the God of my forefathers I follow the way of life that they call a sect, but I believe everything that is taught in the Law or written in the prophets,

Paul said in his own defense, "I have committed no offense against the Jewish Law or the Temple or the emperor."

To this day I have had God's help and I stand here to testify to high and low alike, without adding a thing to what Moses and the prophets declared would happen,

Putting to sea from there, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, as the wind was against us,

For a number of days we made slow progress and had some difficulty in arriving off Cnidus. Then as the wind kept us from going on, we sailed under the lee of Crete, off Cape Salmone,

As we passed under the lee of a small island called Cauda, we managed with great difficulty to secure the ship's boat.

So they fixed a day, and came in even larger numbers to the place where he was staying, and from morning till night he explained to them the Kingdom of God and gave his testimony, trying to convince them about Jesus from the Law of Moses and the Prophets.