He told Jesus, "Since you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, because it is written, "God will put his angels in charge of you,' and, "With their hands they will hold you up, so that you will never hit your foot against a rock.'"

"That's why I'm telling you to stop worrying about your life what you will eat or what you will drink or about your body what you will wear. Life is more than food, isn't it, and the body more than clothing?

Look at the birds in the sky. They don't plant or harvest or gather food into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. You are more valuable than they are, aren't you?

"Never give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs. Otherwise, they will trample them with their feet and then turn around and attack you."

or a traveling bag for the trip, or an extra shirt, or sandals, or a walking stick, because a worker deserves his food.

If no one welcomes you or listens to your words, as you leave that house or town, shake its dust off your feet.

When Jesus heard this, he left that place and went by boat to a deserted place by himself. The crowds heard of it and followed him on foot from the neighboring towns.

When evening had come, the disciples went to him and said, "This is a deserted place, and it's already late. Send the crowds away so that they can go into the villages and buy food for themselves."

Large crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, those unable to talk, and many others. They placed them at his feet, and he healed them.

Then Jesus called his disciples and said, "I have compassion for the crowd because they have already been with me for three days and have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away without food, or they may faint on the road."

The disciples asked him, "Where in the wilderness are we to get enough bread to feed such a crowd?"

"So if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life injured or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.

Then the king told his servants, "Tie his hands and feet, and throw him into the darkness outside!' In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth,

"The Lord told my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet."'?

"How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to make a single convert, and when this happens you make him twice as fit for hell as you are.

"Who, then, is the faithful and wise servant whom his master has put in charge of his household to give the others their food at the right time?

Suddenly, Jesus met them and said, "Greetings!" They went up to him, took hold of his feet, and worshipped him.

Then a synagogue leader named Jairus arrived. When he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet

If any place will not welcome you and the people refuse to listen to you, when you leave, shake its dust off your feet as a testimony against them."

But when many people saw them leave and recognized them, they hurried on foot from all the towns and arrived ahead of them.

In fact, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him and came and fell down at his feet.

His disciples answered him, "Where could anyone get enough bread to feed these people out here in the wilderness?"

And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It's better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.

David himself said by the Holy Spirit, "The Lord told my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet."'

to shine on those who sit in darkness and in death's shadow, and to guide our feet into the way of peace."

He answered them, "The person who has two coats must share with the one who doesn't have any, and the person who has food must do the same."

With their hands they will hold you up, so that you will never hit your foot against a rock.'"

and knelt at his feet behind him. She was crying and began to wash his feet with her tears and dry them with her hair. Then she kissed his feet over and over again, anointing them constantly with the perfume.

Then, turning to the woman, he told Simon, "Do you see this woman? I came into your house. You didn't give me any water for my feet, but this woman has washed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair.

You didn't give me a kiss, but this woman, from the moment I came in, has not stopped kissing my feet.

You didn't anoint my head with oil, but this woman has anointed my feet with perfume.

So the people went out to see what had happened. When they came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone out sitting at Jesus' feet, dressed and in his right mind, they were frightened.

Just then a synagogue leader by the name of Jairus arrived. He fell at Jesus' feet and kept begging him to come to his home,

if people don't welcome you, when you leave that city, shake its dust off your feet as a testimony against them."

As the day was drawing to a close, the Twelve came to him and said, "Send the crowd away to the neighboring villages and farms so they can rest and get some food, because we are here in a deserted place."

But he told them, "You give them something to eat." They replied, "We have nothing more than five loaves of bread and two fish unless we go and buy food for all these people."

Jesus told him, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God."

"We're wiping off your town's dust that clings to our feet in protest against you! But realize this: the kingdom of God is near!'

She had a sister named Mary, who sat down at the Lord's feet and kept listening to what he was saying.

because life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.

The Lord said, "Who, then, is the faithful and careful servant manager whom his master will put in charge of giving all his other servants their share of food at the right time?

"Or suppose a king is going to war against another king. He will first sit down and consider whether with 10,000 men he can fight the one coming against him with 20,000 men, won't he?

So he went out to work for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

"Then he came to his senses and said, "How many of my father's hired men have more food than they can eat, and here I am starving to death!

But the father told his servants, "Hurry! Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.

He fell on his face at Jesus' feet and thanked him. Now that man was a Samaritan.

until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet."'

Look at my hands and my feet, because it's really me. Touch me and look at me, because a ghost doesn't have flesh and bones as you see that I have."

After he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.

since his disciples had gone off into town to buy food.

But he told them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about."

Jesus told them, "My food is doing the will of the one who sent me and completing his work.

Do not work for food that perishes but for food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set his seal on him."

because my flesh is real food, and my blood is real drink.

Mary was the woman who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair. Her brother Lazarus was the one who was ill.

As soon as Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell down at his feet and told him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother wouldn't have died."

The man who had died came out, his hands and feet tied with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a handkerchief. Jesus told them, "Untie him, and let him go."

Mary took a litron of very expensive perfume made of pure nard and anointed Jesus' feet. She wiped his feet with her hair, and the house became filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

Then he poured some water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to dry them with the towel that was tied around his waist.

Then he came to Simon Peter, who asked him, "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?"

Peter told him, "You must never wash my feet!" Jesus answered him, "Unless I wash you, you cannot be involved with me."

Simon Peter told him, "Lord, not just my feet, but my hands and my head as well!"

Jesus told him, "Whoever has bathed is entirely clean. He doesn't need to wash himself further, except for his feet. And you men are clean, though not all of you."

When Jesus had washed their feet and put on his outer robe, he sat down again and told them, "Do you realize what I've done to you?

So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you must also wash one another's feet.

Jesus answered, "My kingdom does not belong to this world. If my kingdom belonged to this world, my servants would fight to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish leaders. But for now my kingdom is not from here."

She saw two angels in white clothes who were sitting down, one at the head and the other at the foot of the place where Jesus' body had been lying.

When they had finished breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" Peter told him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." Jesus told him, "Feed my lambs."

Jesus told him, "Feed my sheep. "Truly, I tell you emphatically, when you were young, you would fasten your belt and go wherever you liked. But when you get old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will fasten your belt and take you where you don't want to go."

United in purpose, they went to the Temple every day, ate at each other's homes, and shared their food with glad and humble hearts.

Then Peter took hold of his right hand and began to help him up. Immediately his feet and ankles became strong,

and he sprang to his feet, stood up, and began to walk. Then he went with them into the Temple, walking, jumping, and praising God.

and lay it at the apostles' feet. Then it was distributed to anyone who needed it.

sold a field that belonged to him, brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet.

With his wife's full knowledge, he kept back some of the money for himself and brought the remainder and laid it at the apostles' feet.

"How could you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord?" Peter asked her. "Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and these men will carry you outside as well."

She instantly fell down at Peter's feet and died. When the young men came in, they found her dead. So they carried her out and buried her next to her husband.

In those days, as the number of the disciples was growing larger and larger, a complaint was made by the Hellenistic Jews against the Hebraic Jews that their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution of food.

God gave him no property here, not even a foot of land, yet he promised to give it to him and to his descendants after him as a permanent possession, even though he had no child.

"But a famine spread throughout Egypt and Canaan, and with it great suffering, and our ancestors couldn't find any food.

Then the Lord told him, "Remove your sandals from your feet, because the place where you are standing is holy ground.

ran him outside of the city, and began to stone him to death. Meanwhile, the witnesses laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul.

He got up and was baptized, and after eating some food, he felt strong again. For several days he stayed with the disciples in Damascus.

He became very hungry and wanted to eat, and while the food was being prepared, he fell into a trance

When Peter was about to enter, Cornelius met him, bowed down at his feet, and began to worship him.

Now Herod had been in a violent quarrel with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they came to him as a group. After they had won over Blastus, who oversaw security for the king's sleeping quarters, they asked for a peace agreement because their country depended on the king's country for food.

When John was finishing his work, he said, "Who do you think I am? I'm not the Messiah. No, but he is coming after me, and I'm not worthy to untie the sandals on his feet.'

So Paul and Barnabas shook the dust off their feet in protest against them and went to Iconium.

Now in Lystra there was a man sitting down who couldn't use his feet. He had been crippled from birth and had never walked.

he said in a loud voice, "Stand up straight on your feet!" Then the man jumped up and began to walk.

yet he has not abandoned his witness: he continues to do good, to give you rain from heaven, to give you fruitful seasons, and to fill you with food and your hearts with joy."

to keep away from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from anything strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you avoid these things, you will do well. Goodbye."

Having received these orders, he put them into the inner cell and fastened their feet in leg irons.

He brought Paul and Silas upstairs into his house and set food before them. He was thrilled, as was his household, to believe in God.

We proceeded to the ship and sailed for Assos, where we intended to pick up Paul. He had arranged it this way, since he had planned to travel there on foot.

When they came to him, he told them, "You know how I lived among you the entire time from the first day I set foot in Asia.

He came to us, took Paul's belt, and tied his own feet and hands with it. Then he said, "The Holy Spirit says, "This is how the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem will tie up the man who owns this belt. Then they will hand him over to the gentiles.'"

As for the gentiles who have become believers, we have sent a letter with our decision that they should keep away from food that has been sacrificed to idols, from blood, from anything strangled, and from sexual immorality."

"I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia but raised in this city and educated at the feet of Gamaliel in the strict ways of our ancestral Law. I am as zealous for God as all of you are today.

Up to this point they listened to him, but then they began to shout, "Away with such a fellow from the earth! He's not fit to go on living!"