But they took him and beat him and sent him back empty-handed.

So at the proper time He sent a slave to the tenants, that they might pay him his part of the grape-crop, but the tenants beat him and sent him back empty-handed.

Then again he sent another slave, and they beat him and insulted him, and sent him back empty-handed.

He has satisfied the hungry with good things and sent the rich away with empty hands.

"Why do your disciples break the rules handed down by our forefathers? For they do not practice washing their hands when they take their meals."

And so the Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, "Why is it that your disciples do not practice the customs handed down from our forefathers, but eat their meals without purifying their hands?"

you cling to what men hand down. You are fine teachers to cancel what God commanded, in order to keep what men have handed down!

charge them to continue doing good and being rich in good deeds, open-handed and generous hearted,

But He answered, "Why do you too break God's command for the sake of the rules that have been handed down to you?

is under no obligation at all to help his parent.' So you have set aside what God has said for the sake of what has been handed down to you.

For the Pharisees and all the Jews practice the customs handed down to them from their forefathers,

and so you set aside what God has said by what you have handed down. You have many other practices like these."

have handed them down to us, I too, most excellent Theophilus, because I have carefully investigated them all from the start, have felt impressed to write them out in order for you

The roll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him, and He unrolled it and found the place where it was written:

The next day he took out a half dollar and handed it to the innkeeper, and said, 'Take care of him, and on my way back I will repay you.'

And after He had taken His place at table with them, He took the loaf and blessed it and broke it in pieces and handed it to them.

Then Jesus said to Peter, "Put your sword back into the sheath. Must I not drink the cup which the Father has handed me?"

for we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will tear this place down, and change the customs which Moses handed down to us."

This is the one who in the congregation in the desert went between the angel, who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and our forefathers, who also received, to be handed down to you, utterances that still live.

Some people came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised in accordance with the custom that Moses handed down, you cannot be saved."

and how I outstripped many of my own age among my people in my devotion to the Jewish religion, because I surpassed all others in my zeal for the traditions handed down by my forefathers.

Then I heard a loud voice from the sanctuary say to the seven angels: "Go and empty the seven bowls of God's wrath upon the earth."

Their worship of me is an empty show; the things they teach are only men's precepts.'"

Their worship of me is but an empty show; the things they teach are but men's precepts.'

So the first angel went and emptied his bowl upon the earth, and horrible, painful sores broke out on the men who bore the mark of the wild beast and worshiped his statue.

Then the second angel emptied his bowl into the sea, and it turned into blood like a dead man's, and every living thing that was in the sea died.

Then the third angel emptied his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they turned into blood.

Then the fourth angel emptied his bowl upon the sun, and permission was given it to scorch mankind with its fiery heat,

Then the fifth angel emptied his bowl upon the throne of the wild beast, and his kingdom was shrouded in darkness, and men in agony gnawed their tongues,

Then the sixth angel emptied his bowl upon the great river Euphrates, and its waters were dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the east.

Then the seventh angel emptied his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the sanctuary from the throne, saying, "It is done."

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the good news -- but not by means of wisdom and rhetoric, so that the cross of Christ may not be emptied of its power.