Then he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, "Go and make careful inquiry about the child, and as soon as you have found him bring me word, that I, too, may go and worship him."

Then were fulfilled the words spoken through Jeremiah, the prophet, saying,

Then Jerusalem began to go out to him, and all Judea, and the whole neighborhood of the Jordan,

Then bring forth fruit worthy of repentance.

I indeed am baptizing you in water, unto repentance; but One is coming after me, mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and in fire.

Then he consented. And after Jesus was baptized, as soon as he rose out of the water, lo! the heavens opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon him,

Then Jesus was led up into the desert by the Spirit, to be tempted by the devil.

Then the devil took him up into the Holy City and stood him on the parapet of the temple,

Then the devil took Jesus to a very high mountain, and showed all the kingdoms of the earth and the glory of them,

Then the devil left him, and behold! angels came and began ministering to him.

Then Jesus went about through Galilee, teaching in the synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and infirmity among the people.

"leave there your gift before the altar, and go and make friends with your brother, first of all; then come and offer your gift.

And if your eye, your right eye, entices you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better for you to lose one of your bodily organs, than to have your whole body go down into the pit.

And if your right hand entices you into sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of your bodily organs, than to have your whole body go down into the pit.

"Even the tax-gatherers do that, do they not? And if you show courtesy to your brother only, what are you doing more than others? Even the Gentiles do that, do they not?

"You then must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect."

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the Evil One; For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory. Amen.

"but if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be darkened. If then the very light within you is darkness, how dense is that darkness!

"For this reason I say to you, do not be anxious about your life, inquiring what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor yet for your body, inquiring what you shall wear. Is not your life more than its food, and your body than its clothing?

"Behold! the birds in the sky! They neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them; and are not you worth more than they?

"Why be anxious then about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They toil not, neither do they spin.

"If God then so clothes the grass of the field, which blooms today, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, you of little faith?

"Then do not be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'"

"Do not then be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own anxieties. Enough for each day are its own troubles."

"Hypocrite! First cast out the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly how to cast the mote out of your brother's eye.

"Do not give what is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before swine; lest in turn they trample them under their feet, and then turn and attack you.

"If you then, evil as you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him?

"Then I will tell them plainly, "'I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of iniquity.'

Then Jesus said to the captain. "Go! As you have believed, so be it unto you." And his slave was healed in that very hour.

Then he went in board a fishing-boat, his disciples accompanying him;

"Why are you afraid?" he said, "you men of little faith!" Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there came a great calm.

"But that you may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins"??e then says to the paralytic, "Rise, take up your bed, and go to your home."

"Can the friends fast at a wedding-feast," said Jesus, "so long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom has been taken from them, and then they will fast.

Then he touched their eyes, saying "According to your faith be it unto you," and their eyes were opened.

"I tell you solemnly it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the Day of Judgment than for that town.

"Behold, it is I who am sending you forth like sheep among wolves. Be then as serpents and as guileless as doves.

"Cease to be afraid! You are of greater value than many sparrows.

"Every one, then, who will confess me before men, I also will confess before my Father who is in heaven.

"He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;

"But why did you go? To see a prophet? I tell you, yes, and more than a prophet;

"In solemn truth I tell you that there has not arisen among those born of women a greater than John the Baptist; yet one of the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

Then he began to upbraid the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they had not repented.

"Moreover, I tell you it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the Day of Judgment, than for you.

"I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the Day of Judgment, than for you."

"But I tell you that One is here who is greater than the temple.

"And how much more is a man worth than a sheep? Therefore it is right to do good on the Sabbath."

Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand."

Then they brought to him a blind and deaf demoniac; and he healed him, so that the dumb both spoke and saw.

"So if Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then will his kingdom stand?

"Or how can any one enter the strong man's house and carry off his goods without first binding the strong man? Then he can rob his house.

Then some of the Scribes and Pharisees accosted him. "Teacher," they said, "we want to see some sign from you."

"The men of Nineveh will stand up in the Judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented under the preaching of Jonah, and lo! a greater than Jonah is here!

"The Queen of the South will rise in the judgment with this generation, and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon; and lo! a greater than Solomon is here!

"Then it says, "'I will go back to my house which I left'; and on arrival finds it empty, swept, and garnished.

"Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits worse than itself; and they enter in and dwell there. And the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it be with this wicked generation."

Then he told them many truths in parables. "Behold," he said, "the sower went forth to sow;

"Listen then, to the parable of the sower.

"And when the blade shot up and formed the wheat-kernel, then the tares also appeared.

"The slaves of the owner went to him and said: "'Was it not good seed, sir, that you sowed in your field? From whence then, do you get tares?'

"This is indeed the smallest of seeds, but when it is grown it is greater than any herb, and becomes a tree, so that the winged things of the sky come and roost in its branches."

"And then shall the just shine forth like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Let him who has ears to hear, listen!

"The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in the ground, which a man finds but buries again, and then in his joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that land.

"Then," said he, "every scribe who has been instructed in the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his storehouse new things and old."

"Are not his sisters all living among us? Where, then, did he get all these powers?"

Just then Herod, the Tetrarch, heard of Jesus' fame, and said to his courtiers.

Then John's disciples went and removed his body, and came and told Jesus.

Then he told the people to sit down on the grass, and after taking the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven and blessed them. Then he broke the loaves and handed them to the disciples, and the disciples handed them to the crowds.

Then he made his disciples get aboard the boat and precede him to the other side, while he sent away the crowds.

"Come," said Jesus. Then Peter got down from the boat and walked on the water to go to Jesus.

Then as they climbed into the boat the wind grew weary,

Then they crossed over and came to land at Gennesaret;

Then some Scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem came to Jesus, saying,

Then Jesus called the people to him and said:

Then his disciples came to him and said, "Do you know that the Pharisees were scandalized when they heard that saying?" He replied.

Then Peter said to Jesus, "Explain the parable to us."

Jesus then left that place, and withdrew into the region of Tyre and Sidon.

But he answered her not a word. Then the disciples came up and kept beseeching him. "Send her away," they said, "because she wails after us."

Then Jesus answered her. "O woman, great is your faith. It shall be for you even as you desire." And from that hour her daughter was healed.

he took the seven loaves and the fish, and gave thanks, then he broke them and gave them to his disciples, and the disciples to the crowd.

Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came to him, and in order to test him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

Then they realized that he had not told them to beware of the leaven, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Then he enjoined his disciples to tell no one that he was the Christ.

Then Peter took him aside and began to reprove him, saying. "God forbid, Master! That shall never befall you."

Then Jesus said to his disciples. "If any man wishes to come after me, let him renounce self, take up his cross, and follow me.

For the Son of man is about to come in the glory of his Father, and his angels with him, and then will he reward each one in accordance with his actions.

Then Peter said to Jesus. "Master, it is good that we are here! If you are willing I will make here three tents, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

And his disciples asked him, saying, "Why then do the Scribes say that Elijah must first come?"

Then the disciples divined that he had been speaking to them about John, the Baptist.

Then Jesus rebuked the evil spirit, and it came out of him; and the boy was cured from that very hour.

And when he replied, "From aliens," Jesus said: "Then their people go free.

"If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, than to keep both hands or both feet and be cast into the everlasting burning.

"If your eye keeps causing you to stumble, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with only one eye, than to keep both eyes and be cast into the Gehenna of fire.

"And if he succeeds in finding it, I tell you solemnly that he rejoices over it more than over the ninety and nine that never strayed away.

Just then Peter came to him, and asked him, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?"

"So then the master pitied his slave, and let him go, and forgave him his debt.

"Then his fellow slave fell at his feet, and besought him, saying, "'Be patient with me, and I will pay you.'

"Then in hot anger his master handed him over to the torturers, until he should pay him all his debt.

They answered, "Why then did Moses command the husband to give her 'a written bill of divorce,' and so to put her away?"

Then young children were brought to him, that he might lay his hands on them and pray. His disciples interfered, but Jesus said to them.

"I tell you again, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven."