When he had contemplated this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, "Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, because the child conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.

He sent them to Bethlehem and said, "Go and look carefully for the child. When you find him, inform me so that I can go and worship him as well."

After listening to the king they left, and once again the star they saw when it rose led them until it stopped above the place where the child was.

As they came into the house and saw the child with Mary his mother, they bowed down and worshiped him. They opened their treasure boxes and gave him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

After they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Get up, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to look for the child to kill him."

Then he got up, took the child and his mother during the night, and went to Egypt.

saying, "Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child's life are dead."

So he got up and took the child and his mother and returned to the land of Israel.

Whenever they hand you over for trial, do not worry about how to speak or what to say, for what you should say will be given to you at that time.

"Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

"Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?"

"To what should I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to one another,

He called a child, had him stand among them,

Whoever then humbles himself like this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

And whoever welcomes a child like this in my name welcomes me.

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

For there are some eunuchs who were that way from birth, and some who were made eunuchs by others, and some who became eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who is able to accept this should accept it."

"Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert, and when you get one, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves!

"Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You give a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, yet you neglect what is more important in the law -- justice, mercy, and faithfulness! You should have done these things without neglecting the others.

But if that evil slave should say to himself, 'My master is staying away a long time,'

Then you should have deposited my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have received my money back with interest!

Pilate said to them, "Then what should I do with Jesus who is called the Christ?" They all said, "Crucify him!"

When he entered he said to them, "Why are you distressed and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep."

And they began making fun of him. But he put them all outside and he took the child's father and mother and his own companions and went into the room where the child was.

Then, gently taking the child by the hand, he said to her, "Talitha koum," which means, "Little girl, I say to you, get up."

He strictly ordered that no one should know about this, and told them to give her something to eat.

So they went out and preached that all should repent.

So she went out and said to her mother, "What should I ask for?" Her mother said, "The head of John the baptizer."

But he answered them, "You give them something to eat." And they said, "Should we go and buy bread for two hundred silver coins and give it to them to eat?"

She went home and found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.

He took a little child and had him stand among them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them,

I tell you the truth, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will never enter it."

When they came they said to him, "Teacher, we know that you are truthful and do not court anyone's favor, because you show no partiality but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay or shouldn't we?"

Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

"But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then those in Judea must flee to the mountains.

But they did not have a child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both very old.

The angel replied, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the child to be born will be holy; he will be called the Son of God.

She exclaimed with a loud voice, "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child in your womb!

And who am I that the mother of my Lord should come and visit me?

On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they wanted to name him Zechariah after his father.

All who heard these things kept them in their hearts, saying, "What then will this child be?" For the Lord's hand was indeed with him.

that we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all who hate us.

And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High. For you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,

And the child kept growing and becoming strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day he was revealed to Israel.

He went to be registered with Mary, who was promised in marriage to him, and who was expecting a child.

While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child.

When they saw him, they related what they had been told about this child,

So Simeon, directed by the Spirit, came into the temple courts, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what was customary according to the law,

So the child's father and mother were amazed at what was said about him.

Then Simeon blessed them and said to his mother Mary, "Listen carefully: This child is destined to be the cause of the falling and rising of many in Israel and to be a sign that will be rejected.

At that moment, she came up to them and began to give thanks to God and to speak about the child to all who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem.

And the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom, and the favor of God was upon him.

When his parents saw him, they were overwhelmed. His mother said to him, "Child, why have you treated us like this? Look, your father and I have been looking for you anxiously."

So the crowds were asking him, "What then should we do?"

Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, "Teacher, what should we do?"

Then some soldiers also asked him, "And as for us -- what should we do?" He told them, "Take money from no one by violence or by false accusation, and be content with your pay."

and sent them to Jesus to ask, "Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?"

When the men came to Jesus, they said, "John the Baptist has sent us to you to ask, 'Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?'"

"To what then should I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like?

Now when he came to the house, Jesus did not let anyone go in with him except Peter, John, and James, and the child's father and mother.

But Jesus gently took her by the hand and said, "Child, get up."

Then a man from the crowd cried out, "Teacher, I beg you to look at my son -- he is my only child!

But when Jesus discerned their innermost thoughts, he took a child, had him stand by his side,

and said to them, "Whoever welcomes this child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me, for the one who is least among you all is the one who is great."

"But woe to you Pharisees! You give a tenth of your mint, rue, and every herb, yet you neglect justice and love for God! But you should have done these things without neglecting the others.

But I will warn you whom you should fear: Fear the one who, after the killing, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him!

But when they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, do not worry about how you should make your defense or what you should say,

so he thought to himself, 'What should I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?'

But if that slave should say to himself, 'My master is delayed in returning,' and he begins to beat the other slaves, both men and women, and to eat, drink, and get drunk,

So he said to the worker who tended the vineyard, 'For three years now, I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and each time I inspect it I find none. Cut it down! Why should it continue to deplete the soil?'

But the president of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the crowd, "There are six days on which work should be done! So come and be healed on those days, and not on the Sabbath day."

Thus Jesus asked, "What is the kingdom of God like? To what should I compare it?

Again he said, "To what should I compare the kingdom of God?

Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, because it is impossible that a prophet should be killed outside Jerusalem.'

Then the manager said to himself, 'What should I do, since my master is taking my position away from me? I'm not strong enough to dig, and I'm too ashamed to beg.

But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus likewise bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in anguish.

So you too, when you have done everything you were commanded to do, should say, 'We are slaves undeserving of special praise; we have only done what was our duty.'"

Then Jesus told them a parable to show them they should always pray and not lose heart.

I tell you the truth, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will never enter it."

Then the owner of the vineyard said, 'What should I do? I will send my one dear son; perhaps they will respect him.'

When those who were around him saw what was about to happen, they said, "Lord, should we use our swords?"

So Pilate decided that their demand should be granted.

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

"Sir," the official said to him, "come down before my child dies."

Now this is the will of the one who sent me -- that I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up at the last day.

However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision (not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child on the Sabbath.

But if a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

(Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should report it, so that they could arrest him.)

"Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say? 'Father, deliver me from this hour'? No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour.

I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in darkness.

For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak.

The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, that he should betray Jesus.

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

When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.

Then, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies should not stay on the crosses on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was an especially important one), the Jewish leaders asked Pilate to have the victims' legs broken and the bodies taken down.

Now when they heard this, they were acutely distressed and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "What should we do, brothers?"

saying, "What should we do with these men? For it is plain to all who live in Jerusalem that a notable miraculous sign has come about through them, and we cannot deny it.

He did not give any of it to him for an inheritance, not even a foot of ground, yet God promised to give it to him as his possession, and to his descendants after him, even though Abraham as yet had no child.

He said to them, "You know that it is unlawful for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile, yet God has shown me that I should call no person defiled or ritually unclean.

"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.