Now the time came for Elizabeth to have her baby, and she gave birth to a son.

On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they wanted to name him Zechariah after his father.

While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child.

Now when the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, Joseph and Mary brought Jesus up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord

So Simeon, directed by the Spirit, came into the temple courts, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what was customary according to the law,

At that moment, she came up to them and began to give thanks to God and to speak about the child to all who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem.

Then he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them. But his mother kept all these things in her heart.

during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness.

So John said to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, "You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, "Teacher, what should we do?"

and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, "You are my one dear Son; in you I take great delight."

Now Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read,

But Jesus rebuked him: "Silence! Come out of him!" Then, after the demon threw the man down in their midst, he came out of him without hurting him.

Demons also came out of many, crying out, "You are the Son of God!" But he rebuked them, and would not allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.

The next morning Jesus departed and went to a deserted place. Yet the crowds were seeking him, and they came to him and tried to keep him from leaving them.

So they motioned to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both boats, so that they were about to sink.

While Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came to him who was covered with leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he bowed down with his face to the ground and begged him, "Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean."

When morning came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles:

Then he came down with them and stood on a level place. And a large number of his disciples had gathered along with a vast multitude from all over Judea, from Jerusalem, and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon. They came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases,

He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep, and laid the foundation on bedrock. When a flood came, the river burst against that house but could not shake it, because it had been well built.

When they came to Jesus, they urged him earnestly, "He is worthy to have you do this for him,

Then he came up and touched the bier, and those who carried it stood still. He said, "Young man, I say to you, get up!"

When the men came to Jesus, they said, "John the Baptist has sent us to you to ask, 'Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?'"

Other seed fell on rock, and when it came up, it withered because it had no moisture.

Now Jesus' mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not get near him because of the crowd.

and as they sailed he fell asleep. Now a violent windstorm came down on the lake, and the boat started filling up with water, and they were in danger.

They came and woke him, saying, "Master, Master, we are about to die!" So he got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waves; they died down, and it was calm.

So the demons came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the herd of pigs rushed down the steep slope into the lake and drowned.

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

Then a man named Jairus, who was a ruler of the synagogue, came up. Falling at Jesus' feet, he pleaded with him to come to his house,

She came up behind Jesus and touched the edge of his cloak, and at once the bleeding stopped.

When the woman saw that she could not escape notice, she came trembling and fell down before him. In the presence of all the people, she explained why she had touched him and how she had been immediately healed.

While he was still speaking, someone from the synagogue ruler's house came and said, "Your daughter is dead; do not trouble the teacher any longer."

Now when he came to the house, Jesus did not let anyone go in with him except Peter, John, and James, and the child's father and mother.

Now the day began to draw to a close, so the twelve came and said to Jesus, "Send the crowd away, so they can go into the surrounding villages and countryside and find lodging and food, because we are in an isolated place."

As he was saying this, a cloud came and overshadowed them, and they were afraid as they entered the cloud.

Then a voice came from the cloud, saying, "This is my Son, my Chosen One. Listen to him!"

So too a Levite, when he came up to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.

But a Samaritan who was traveling came to where the injured man was, and when he saw him, he felt compassion for him.

But Martha was distracted with all the preparations she had to make, so she came up to him and said, "Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Tell her to help me."

The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with the people of this generation and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon -- and now, something greater than Solomon is here!

Then Jesus told this parable: "A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and found none.

At that time, some Pharisees came up and said to Jesus, "Get away from here, because Herod wants to kill you."

So the slave came back and reported this to his master. Then the master of the household was furious and said to his slave, 'Go out quickly to the streets and alleys of the city, and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.'

But when he came to his senses he said, 'How many of my father's hired workers have food enough to spare, but here I am dying from hunger!

"Now his older son was in the field. As he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing.

But the older son became angry and refused to go in. His father came out and appealed to him,

But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!'

who longed to eat what fell from the rich man's table. In addition, the dogs came and licked his sores.

People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage -- right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

So Jesus stopped and ordered the beggar to be brought to him. When the man came near, Jesus asked him,

And when Jesus came to that place, he looked up and said to him, "Zacchaeus, come down quickly, because I must stay at your house today."

So he came down quickly and welcomed Jesus joyfully.

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost."

So the first one came before him and said, 'Sir, your mina has made ten minas more.'

Then the second one came and said, 'Sir, your mina has made five minas.'

Then another slave came and said, 'Sir, here is your mina that I put away for safekeeping in a piece of cloth.

Now one day, as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple courts and proclaiming the gospel, the chief priests and the experts in the law with the elders came up

So they replied that they did not know where it came from.

When harvest time came, he sent a slave to the tenants so that they would give him his portion of the crop. However, the tenants beat his slave and sent him away empty-handed.

Now some Sadducees (who contend that there is no resurrection) came to him.

And all the people came to him early in the morning to listen to him in the temple courts.

Then the day for the feast of Unleavened Bread came, on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.

Now when the hour came, Jesus took his place at the table and the apostles joined him.

When he came to the place, he said to them, "Pray that you will not fall into temptation."

When he got up from prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping, exhausted from grief.

When day came, the council of the elders of the people gathered together, both the chief priests and the experts in the law. Then they led Jesus away to their council

So when they came to the place that is called "The Skull," they crucified him there, along with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left.

It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon,

and when they did not find his body, they came back and said they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive.

A man came, sent from God, whose name was John.

He came as a witness to testify about the light, so that everyone might believe through him.

He himself was not the light, but he came to testify about the light.

He came to what was his own, but his own people did not receive him.

Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory -- the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father.

For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ.

I did not recognize him, but I came baptizing with water so that he could be revealed to Israel."

Jesus answered, "Come and you will see." So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. Now it was about four o'clock in the afternoon.

When the head steward tasted the water that had been turned to wine, not knowing where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he called the bridegroom

came to Jesus at night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs that you do unless God is with him."

After this, Jesus and his disciples came into Judean territory, and there he spent time with them and was baptizing.

Now a dispute came about between some of John's disciples and a certain Jew concerning ceremonial washing.

So they came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, the one who was with you on the other side of the Jordan River, about whom you testified -- see, he is baptizing, and everyone is flocking to him!"

Now he came to a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

A Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me some water to drink."

Now at that very moment his disciples came back. They were shocked because he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, "What do you want?" or "Why are you speaking with her?"

So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking him to stay with them. He stayed there two days,

So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem at the feast (for they themselves had gone to the feast).

Now he came again to Cana in Galilee where he had made the water wine. In Capernaum there was a certain royal official whose son was sick.

Now when evening came, his disciples went down to the lake,

Then they wanted to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat came to the land where they had been heading.

But some boats from Tiberias came to shore near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

So when the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and came to Capernaum looking for Jesus.

Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began complaining about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven,"

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread your ancestors ate, but then later died. The one who eats this bread will live forever."

However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision (not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child on the Sabbath.

Early in the morning he came to the temple courts again. All the people came to him, and he sat down and began to teach them.

Jesus answered, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you people do not know where I came from or where I am going.

Jesus said to them, "I tell you the solemn truth, before Abraham came into existence, I am!"