His winnowing-fan is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing-floor, and store his grain in the barn, but the chaff he will burn with inextinguishable fire."

Do not store up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

But store up treasures for yourselves in Heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal.

Suddenly so great a storm came on upon the Sea, that the waves broke right over the boat. But Jesus was asleep;

So the soldiers took the money, and did as they were instructed. And this story has been current among the Jews from that day to this.

The man, however, went away, and began to speak about it publicly, and to spread the story so widely, that Jesus could no longer go openly into a town, but stayed outside in lonely places; and people came to him from every direction.

In order that you may be able to satisfy yourself of the accuracy of the story which you have heard from the lips of others.]

All their neighbors were awe-struck at this; and throughout the hill-country of Judea the whole story was much talked about;

"Have no fear," the angel said. "For I bring you good news of a great joy in store for all the nation.

All who heard the shepherds were astonished at their story,

His winnowing-fan is in his hand, that he may clear his threshing-floor, and store the grain in his barn, but the chaff he will burn with inextinguishable fire."

However, the story about Jesus spread all the more, and great crowds came together to listen to him, and to be cured of their illnesses;

And this story about Jesus spread all through Judea, and in the neighboring countries as well.

"Go back to your home," he said, "and relate the story of all that God has done for you." So the man went through the whole town and proclaimed, as he went, all that Jesus had done for him.

And he began to ask himself 'What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?

This is what I will do,' he said; 'I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and store all my grain and my goods in them;

And to the people Jesus said: "When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once 'There is a storm coming,' and come it does.

All who heard their story, moved by a common impulse, raised their voices to God in prayer: "O Sovereign Lord, it is you who has 'made the heavens, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them,'

When the Officer in charge at the Temple and the Chief Priests heard their story, they were perplexed about the Apostles and as to what all this would lead to.

In his lowly condition justice was denied him. Who will tell the story of his generation? For his life is cut off from earth.'

Barnabas, however, taking him by the hand, brought him to the Apostles, and told them the whole story of how Saul on his journey had seen the Lord, and how the Lord had talked to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken out fearlessly in the Name of Jesus.

And, after telling them the whole story, sent them to Jaffa.

You yourselves know the story which spread through all Judea, how, beginning form Galilee, after the baptism which John proclaimed--

The story, I mean, of Jesus of Nazareth, and how God consecrated him his Christ by enduing him with the Holy Spirit and with power; and how he went about doing good and curing all who were under the power of the Devil, because God was with him.

The Church, therefore, sent them on their journey, and they made their way through Phoenicia and Samaria, telling the story of the conversion of the Gentiles, to the great joy of all the Brethren.

And a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, was gradually overcome with great drowsiness, as Paul continued his address. At last, quite overpowered by his drowsiness, he fell from the third story to the ground, and was picked up for dead.

So violently were we tossed about by the storm, that the next day they began throwing the cargo overboard,

It was now the fourteenth night of the storm, and we were drifting about in the Adriatic Sea, when, about midnight, the sailors began to suspect that they were drawing near land.

God has not rejected his People, whom he chose from the first. Have you forgotten the words of Scripture in the story of Elijah- how he appeals to God against Israel?

This story may be taken as an allegory. The women stand for two Covenants. One Covenant, given from Mount Sinai, produces a race of slaves and is represented by Hagar

It is not to tangible 'flaming fire' that you have drawn near, nor to 'gloom, and darkness, and storm,

He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and reduced them to ashes, holding them up as a warning to the godless of what was in store for them;

Because you kept in mind the story of my endurance, I will keep you in the hour of trial that is about to come upon the whole world, the hour that will test all who are living upon earth.

Then the Temple of God in Heaven was opened, and the Ark containing his Covenant was seen in his Temple; and there followed 'flashes of lightning, cries, peals of thunder,' an earthquake, and 'a great storm of hail.'