And they came into the house, and saw the young child with Mary, his mother; and falling down on their faces they gave him worship; and from their store they gave him offerings of gold, perfume, and spices.

In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned up in the fire which will never be put out.

Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.

But make a store for yourselves in heaven, where it will not be turned to dust and where thieves do not come in to take it away:

See the birds of heaven; they do not put seeds in the earth, they do not get in grain, or put it in store-houses; and your Father in heaven gives them food. Are you not of much more value than they?

And there came up a great storm in the sea, so that the boat was covered with the waves: but he was sleeping.

You offspring of snakes, how are you, being evil, able to say good things? because out of the heart's store come the words of the mouth.

The good man out of his good store gives good things; and the evil man out of his evil store gives evil things.

And he gave them teaching in the form of a story, saying, A man went out to put seed in the earth;

Give ear, then, to the story of the man who put the seed in the earth.

And he gave them another story, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a man who put good seed in his field:

Let them come up together till the getting in of the grain; and then I will say to the workers, Take up first the evil plants, and put them together for burning: but put the grain into my store-house.

He put another story before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his field:

Another story he gave to them: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took, and put in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.

All these things Jesus said to the people in the form of stories; and without a story he said nothing to them:

Then he went away from the people, and went into the house; and his disciples came to him, saying, Make clear to us the story of the evil plants in the field.

The kingdom of heaven is like a secret store of wealth in a field, which a man came across and put back again; and in his joy he goes and gives all he has, to get that field.

And he said to them, For this reason every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house, who gives out from his store things new and old.

Then Peter said to him, Make the story clear to us.

Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.

And the chief priests took the silver and said, It is not right to put it in the Temple store for it is the price of blood.

And turning to them, he said to them in the form of a story, How is it possible for Satan to put out Satan?

And he said to them, If you are not clear about this story, how will you be clear about the others?

And he said, What picture may we give of the kingdom of God, or with what story may we make it clear?

And without a story he said nothing to them: but privately to his disciples he made all things clear.

And a great storm of wind came up, and the waves came into the boat, so that the boat was now becoming full.

And they made attempts to take him; but they were in fear of the people, because they saw that the story was against them; and they went away from him.

In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned in the fire which will never be put out.

And he said to them, in a story, No man takes a bit of cloth from a new coat and puts it on to an old coat, for so the new coat would be damaged and the bit from the new would not go well with the old.

And he gave them teaching in the form of a story, saying, Is it possible for one blind man to be guide to another? will they not go falling together into a hole?

The good man, out of the good store of his heart, gives good things; and the evil man, out of his evil store, gives evil: for out of the full store of the heart come the words of the mouth.

And this story about him went through all Judaea and the places round about.

And when a great number of people came together, and men from every town went out to him, he gave them teaching in the form of a story:

And his disciples put questions to him about the point of the story.

Now this is the point of the story: The seed is the word of God.

But while they were sailing he went to sleep: and a storm of wind came down on the sea, and the boat became full of water and they were in danger.

Then they came to him and, awaking him out of his sleep, said, Master, Master, destruction is near. And he, when he was awake, gave orders to the wind and the rolling waves, and the storm came to an end, and all was calm.

And he said to them, in a story, The land of a certain man of great wealth was very fertile:

And he said, This I will do: I will take down my store-houses and make greater ones, and there I will put all my grain and my goods.

And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy.

Give thought to the ravens; they do not put seeds into the earth, or get together grain; they have no store-houses or buildings; and God gives them their food: of how much greater value are you than the birds!

And he made up this story for them: A certain man had a fig-tree in his garden, and he came to get fruit from it, and there was no fruit.

And he gave teaching in the form of a story to the guests who came to the feast, when he saw how they took the best seats; saying to them,

And he made a story for them, saying,

And he made a story for them, the point of which was that men were to go on making prayer and not get tired;

And he made this story for some people who were certain that they were good, and had a low opinion of others:

And while they were giving ear to these words, he made another story for them, because he was near Jerusalem, and because they were of the opinion that the kingdom of God was coming straight away.

And he gave the people this story: A man made a vine-garden and gave the use of it to some field-workers and went into another country for a long time.

And the chief priests and the scribes made attempts to get their hands on him in that very hour; and they were in fear of the people, for they saw that he had made up this story against them.

But even Moses made it clear that the dead come back to life, saying, in the story of the burning thorn-tree, The Lord, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

And he made a story for them: See the fig-tree, and all the trees;

And they said to the woman, Now we have faith, but not because of your story: we ourselves have given ear to his words, and we are certain that he is truly the Saviour of the world.

In this Jesus was teaching them in the form of a story: but what he said was not clear to them.

My brothers and fathers, give ear to the story of my life which I now put before you.

And as they were there for some days, Festus gave them Paul's story, saying, There is a certain man here who was put in prison by Felix:

And, still fighting the storm with all our strength, the day after they made a start at getting the goods out of the ship;

And as we had not seen the sun or stars for a long time, and a great storm was on us, all hope of salvation was gone.

But we give the news of the secret wisdom of God, which he had kept in store before the world came into existence, for our glory;

On the first day of the week, let every one of you put by him in store, in measure as he has done well in business, so that it may not be necessary to get money together when I come.

This is now the third time that I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a trouble to you: my desire is for you, not for your property: for it is not the children's business to make store for their fathers, but the fathers for the children.

Through the hope which is in store for you in heaven; knowledge of which was given to you before in the true word of the good news,

Your gold and your silver are wasted and their waste will be a witness against you, burning into your flesh. You have put by your store in the last days.

We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.

These are fountains without water, and mists before a driving storm; for whom the eternal night is kept in store.

Violent waves of the sea, streaming with their shame, wandering stars for whom the darkest night is kept in store for ever.