He then directed them to go to Bethlehem, adding, "Go and make careful inquiry about the child, and when you have found him, bring me word, that I too may come and do him homage."

When they were gone, and angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Rise: take the babe and His mother and escape to Egypt, and remain there till I bring you word. For Herod is about to make search for the child in order to destroy Him."

He it is who was spoken of through the Prophet Isaiah when he said, "The voice of one crying aloud, 'In the desert prepare ye a road for the Lord: make His highway straight.'"

His winnowing-shovel is in His hand, and He will make a thorough clearance of His threshing-floor, gathering His wheat into the storehouse, but burning up the chaff in unquenchable fire."

And He said to them, "Come and follow me, and I will make you fishers of men."

leave your gift there before the altar, and go and make friends with your brother first, and then return and proceed to offer your gift.

And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black.

But make His Kingdom and righteousness your chief aim, and then these things shall all be given you in addition.

"Whatever town or village you enter, inquire for some good man; and make his house your home till you leave the place.

This is he of whom it is written, "'See I am sending My messenger before Thy face, and he will make Thy road ready before Thee.'

And if Satan is expelling Satan, he has begun to make war on himself: how therefore shall his kingdom last?

Leave both to grow together until the harvest, and at harvest-time I will direct the reapers, Collect the darnel first, and make it up into bundles to burn it, but bring all the wheat into my barn.'"

Here the Pharisees and Sadducees came to Him; and, to make trial of Him, they asked Him to show them a sign in the sky.

Then the mother of the sons of Zabdi came to Him with her sons, and knelt before Him to make a request of Him.

And everything they do they do with a view to being observed by men; for they widen their phylacteries and make the tassels large,

"Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you scour sea and land in order to win one convert--and when he is gained, you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourselves.

"You are blind! Why, which is greater? --the offering, or the altar which makes the offering holy?

and will make the sheep stand at His right hand, and the goats at His left.

On the first day of the Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus with the question, "Where shall we make preparations for you to eat the Passover?"

Then the High Priest stood up and asked Him, "Have you no answer to make? What is it these men are saying in evidence against you?"

Then the Governor's soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium, and called together the whole battalion to make sport of Him.

"You can have a guard," said Pilate: "go and make all safe, as best you can."

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations; baptize them into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit;

"The voice of one crying aloud: 'In the Desert prepare a road for the Lord: Make His highways straight.'"

"Come and follow me," said Jesus, "and I will make you fishers for men."

For if civil war breaks out in a kingdom, nothing can make that kingdom last;

Wherever you enter a house, make it your home till you leave that place.

So He directed them to make all sit down in companies on the green grass.

There is nothing outside a man which entering him can make him unclean; but it is the things which come out of a man that make him unclean."

"Have *you* also so little understanding?" He replied; "do you not understand that anything whatever that enters a man from outside cannot make him unclean,

"What comes out of a man," He added, "that it is which makes him unclean.

all these wicked things come out from within and make a man unclean."

The amazement was extreme. "He succeeds in everything he attempts," they exclaimed; "he even makes deaf men hear and dumb men speak!"

The Pharisees followed Him and began to dispute with Him, asking Him for a sign in the sky, to make trial of Him.

but from the beginning of the creation the rule was, 'Male and female did God make them.

Then James and John, the sons of Zabdi, came up to Him and said, "Rabbi, we wish you would grant us whatever request we make of you."

Jesus, however, called them to Him and said to them, "You are aware how those who are deemed rulers among the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men make them feel their authority;

That is why I tell you, as to whatever you pray and make request for, if you believe that you have received it it shall be yours.

Then he will himself show you a large room upstairs, ready furnished: there make preparation for us."

"This is my blood," He said, "which is to be poured out on behalf of many--the blood which makes the Covenant sure.

At last the High Priest stood up, and advancing into the midst of them all, asked Jesus, "Have you no answer to make? What is the meaning of all this that these witnesses allege against you?"

Pilate again and again asked Him, "Do you make no reply? Listen to the many charges they are bringing against you."

and he will be His forerunner in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn fathers' hearts to the children, and cause the rebellious to walk in the wisdom of the upright, to make a people perfectly ready for the lord."

as it is written in the book of the prophet Isaiah, "The voice of one crying aloud! 'In the Desert prepare ye a road for the Lord: make His highway straight.

On another occasion, when He was in one of the towns, there was a man there covered with leprosy, who, seeing Jesus, threw himself at His feet and implored Him, saying, "Sir, if only you are willing, you are able to make me clean."

He ordered him to tell no one. "But go," He said, "show yourself to the Priest, and make the offering for your purification which Moses appointed, as evidence for them."

John is the man about whom it is written, 'See, I am sending My messenger before thy face, and he shall make ready thy way before thee.'

Whatever house you enter, make that your home, and from it start afresh.

But He said to His disciples, "Make them sit down in parties of about fifty each."

At times a spirit seizes him and he suddenly cries out. It convulses him, and makes him foam at the mouth, and does not leave him till it has well-nigh covered him with bruises.

They went and entered a village of the Samaritans to make ready for Him.

Foolish men! Did not He who made the outside make the inside also?

After He had left the house, the Scribes and Pharisees commenced a vehement attempt to entangle Him and make Him give off-hand answers on numerous points,

But make His Kingdom the object of your pursuit, and these things shall be given you in addition.

that servant's Master will come on a day when he is not expecting Him and at an hour that he knows not of, and will punish him severely, and make him share the lot of the unfaithful.

To this they could make no reply.

and the man who invited you both will come and will say to you, 'Make room for this guest,' and then you, ashamed, will move to the lowest place.

and he longed to make a hearty meal of the pods the swine were eating, but no one gave him any.

We are bound to make merry and rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead and has come back to life, he was lost and has been found.'"

covered with sores and longing to make a full meal off the scraps flung on the floor from the rich man's table. Nay, the dogs, too, used to come and lick his sores.

and will not rather say to him, 'Get my dinner ready, make yourself tidy, and wait upon me till I have finished my dinner, and then you shall have yours'?

Any man who makes it his object to keep his own life safe, will lose it; but whoever loses his life will preserve it.

"O that at this time thou hadst known--yes even thou--what makes peace possible! But now it is hid from thine eyes.

So they put a question to Him. "Rabbi," they said, "we know that you say and teach what is right and that you make no distinctions between one man and another, but teach God's way truly.

"Make up your minds, however, not to prepare a defence beforehand,

"And he will show you a large furnished room upstairs. There make your preparations."

"I am the voice," he replied, "of one crying aloud, 'Make straight the Lord's way in the Desert,' fulfilling the words of the Prophet Isaiah."

"Make the people sit down," said Jesus. The ground was covered with thick grass; so they sat down, the adult men numbering about 5,000.

Perceiving, however, that they were about to come and carry Him off by force to make Him a king, Jesus withdrew again up the hill alone by Himself.

and you shall know the Truth, and the Truth will make you free."

If then the Son shall make you free, you will be free indeed.

Are you really greater than our forefather Abraham? For he died. And the prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?"

He who holds his life dear, is destroying it; and he who makes his life of no account in this world shall keep it to the Life of the Ages.

In my Father's house there are many resting-places. Were it otherwise, I would have told you; for I am going to make ready a place for you.

And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will return and take you to be with me, that where I am you also may be.

If you make any request of me in my name, I will do it.

"If any one loves me," replied Jesus, "he will obey my teaching; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

But when He has come--the Spirit of Truth--He will guide you into all the truth. For He will not speak as Himself originating what He says, but all that He hears He will speak, and He will make known the future to you.

He will glorify me, because He will take of what is mine and will make it known to you.

Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said that the Spirit of Truth takes of what is mine and will make it known to you.

At that time you will make your requests in my name; and I do not promise to ask the Father on your behalf,

"I am making request for them: for the world I do not make any request, but for those whom Thou hast given me. Because they are Thine,

Make them holy in the truth: Thy Message is truth.

"Nor is it for them alone that I make request. It is also for those who trust in me through their teaching;

And I have made known Thy name to them and will make it known, that the love with which Thou hast loved me may be in them, and that I may be in them."

until I make thy foes a footstool under thy feet.'

And seeing the man standing with them--the man who had been cured--they had no reply to make.

And they, upon hearing the story, all lifted up their voices to God and said, "O Sovereign Lord, it is Thou who didst make Heaven and earth and sea, and all that is in them,

"We strictly forbad you to teach in that name--did we not?" he said. "And see, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and are trying to make us responsible for that man's death!"

And God declared that Abraham's posterity should for four hundred years make their home in a country not their own, and be reduced to slavery and be oppressed.

The next day, also, he came and found two of them fighting, and he endeavoured to make peace between them. "'Sirs,' he said, 'you are brothers. Why are you wronging one another?'

They said to Aaron, "'Make gods for us, to march in front of us; for as for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.'

"Our forefathers had the Tent of the Testimony in the Desert, built as He who spoke to Moses had instructed him to make it in imitation of the model which he had seen.

In His humiliation justice was denied Him. Who will make known His posterity? For He is destroyed from among men."

Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus Christ cures you. Rise and make your own bed." He at once rose to his feet.

So Peter rose and went with them. On his arrival they took him upstairs, and the widow women all came and stood by his side, weeping and showing him the underclothing and cloaks and garments of all kinds which Dorcas used to make while she was still with them.

Then Peter began to speak. "I clearly see," he said, "that God makes no distinctions between one man and another;

Everywhere they strengthened the disciples by encouraging them to hold fast to the faith, and warned them saying, "It is through many afflictions that we must make our way into the Kingdom of God."

and because he was of the same trade--that of tent-maker--he lodged with them and worked with them.

Then some of the people crowded round Alexander, whom the Jews had pushed forward; and Alexander, motioning with his hand to get silence, was prepared to make a defence to the people.