But when your son here came, who has eaten up your property with women of the street, for him you killed the calf you have been fattening!'

Until John came, it was the Law and the Prophets. From that time the Kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone has been crowding into it.

and eager to satisfy his hunger with what was thrown away from the rich man's table. Why, the very dogs came and licked his sores.

And it came about that the beggar died and was carried away by the angels to the companionship of Abraham, and the rich man too died and was buried.

But one of them, when he saw that he was cured, came back, loudly praising God,

People went on eating, drinking, marrying, and being married up to the very day that Noah got into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all.

There was a widow in the city and she came to him and said, 'Protect me from my opponent.'

It is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into the Kingdom of God!"

And Jesus stopped and ordered the man to be brought to him. When he came up, Jesus asked him,

And he came down quickly and welcomed him gladly.

The first one came in and said, 'Your twenty dollars has made two hundred, sir!'

The second came in and said, 'Your twenty dollars has made a hundred, sir!'

And the other one came in and said, 'Here is your twenty dollars, sir. I have kept it put away in a handkerchief,

Then why did you not put my money in the bank, so that when I came back I could have gotten it with interest?'

One day as he was teaching the people in the Temple, and preaching the good news, the high priests and scribes came up with the elders

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

Then some of the Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection, came up and asked him,

When the day of Unleavened Bread came, on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed,

When the time came, he took his place at the table, with the apostles about him.

While he was still speaking, a crowd of people came up, with the man called Judas, one of the Twelve, at their head, and he stepped up to Jesus to kiss him.

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

who had not voted for the plan or action of the council. He came from the Jewish town of Arimathea and lived in expectation of the Kingdom of God.

And as they were talking and discussing them, Jesus himself came up and went with them,

and could not find his body, but came back and said that they had actually seen a vision of angels who said that he was alive.

Everything came into existence through him, and apart from him nothing came to be.

It was by him that life came into existence, and that life was the light of mankind.

He came to give testimony, to testify to the light, so that everyone might come to believe in it through him.

He was not the light; he came to testify to the light.

He came into the world, and though the world came into existence through him, the world did not recognize him.

He came to his home, and his own family did not welcome him.

Now when he was at Jerusalem, at the Passover Festival, many, when they saw the signs that he showed, came to believe in him.

Yet no one has gone up into heaven except the Son of Man who came down from heaven.

John too was baptizing at Aenon, near Salim, for there was plenty of water there, and people came there and were baptized.

So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph,

A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."

Just then his disciples came back, and they were surprised to find him talking with a woman, yet no one of them asked him what he wanted or why he was talking with her.

Many of the Samaritans in that town came to believe in him because of the testimony the woman gave when she said, "He has told me everything I ever did!"

So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they asked him to stay with them, and he did stay there two days.

So he came back to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water into wine. There was at Capernaum one of the king's officials whose son was sick.

We know that God spoke to Moses, but we do not know where this man came from."

The man answered, "There is something very strange about this! You do not know where he came from, and yet he has made me able to see!

And people came to him in great numbers, and they said of him, "John did not show any sign in proof of his mission, but all that he said about this man was true."

When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, and said, "Master, if you had been here, my brother would not have died!"

The dead man came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and with his face muffled with a handkerchief. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him and let him move."

So it came about that many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary and saw what Jesus did, came to believe in him,

Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead, was living.

A great many of the Jews found out that he was there, and they came to Bethany not only to see Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

Father, honor your own name!" Then there came a voice from the sky, "I have honored it, and I will honor it again!"

Jesus answered, "It was not for my sake that the voice came, but for yours.

Yet for all that, even among the leading men, many came to believe in him, but on account of the Pharisees they would not acknowledge it, for fear of being excluded from the synagogues,

So he came to Simon Peter. He said to him, "Master, are you going to wash my feet?"

for I have given them the truths that you gave me, and they have accepted them and been convinced that I came from you, and they believe that you sent me.

So Judas got out the garrison and some attendants from the high priests and Pharisees, and came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.

Then Jesus, as he knew everything that was going to happen to him, came forward and said to them, "Who is it you are looking for?"

So Pilate came outside to them, and said, "What charge do you make against this man?"

Pilate said to him, "Then you are a king?" Jesus answered, "As you say, I am a king. It was for this that I was born and for this that I came to the world, to give testimony for truth. Everyone who is on the side of truth listens to my voice."

So Jesus came out, still wearing the wreath of thorns and the purple coat. And Pilate said to them, "Here is the man!"

But when they came to Jesus they saw that he was dead already, and they did not break his legs,

Then Simon Peter came up behind him, and he went inside the tomb, and saw the bandages lying on the ground,

When it was evening on that first day after the Sabbath, and the doors of the house where the disciples met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came in and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you!"

But Thomas, one of the Twelve, who was called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came in.

A week after, the disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were locked, Jesus came in and stood among them, and said, "Peace be with you!"

This fact was well known to all the residents of Jerusalem, so that the piece of land came to be called in their language Akeldamach, the bloody field.)

when suddenly there came from the sky a sound like a violent blast of wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.

As they were talking in this way to the people, the high priests, the commander of the Temple, and the Sadducees came up to them,

About three hours later, his wife came in, without having learned what had happened.

She instantly fell down at his feet and expired. When the young men came in they found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.

And they obeyed, and about daybreak went into the Temple and began to teach. The high priest and his party came over and called together the council and indeed the whole senate of the Israelites, and sent to the prison to have the apostles brought in.

But the attendants who went for them could not find them in the jail, and they came back and reported,

Someone came over and reported to them, "The men that you put in jail are standing right here in the Temple, teaching the people!"

and Jacob came down to Egypt. There he and our forefathers died,

The next day, he came across two of them fighting and tried to pacify them. He said to them, 'You are brothers. Why should you injure each other?'

for with loud cries foul spirits came out of many who had been possessed by them, and many paralytics and lame people were cured.

When they came, they prayed that the Samaritans might receive the holy Spirit,

As they went on along the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Here is some water! What is there to prevent my being baptized?"

When they came out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord hurried Philip away, and the eunuch saw nothing more of him. Full of joy, he went on with his journey,

Everyone was astonished, and said, "Is not he the man who made such havoc of the people in Jerusalem who call upon that name, and who came here especially for the purpose of arresting such persons and taking them before the high priests?"

This became known all over Joppa, and many came to believe in the Lord.

So it came about that Peter stayed for some time in Joppa, at the house of a tanner named Simon.

And a voice came to him, "Get up, Peter! Kill something and eat it!"

The voice came to him again a second time, "Do not call what God has cleansed unclean."

When Peter actually came in, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet and made obeisance to him.

That was why, when I was sent for, I came without any hesitation. And now I want to ask why you sent for me."

"I was praying in the town of Joppa, and while in a trance I had a vision. Something like a great sheet came down out of the sky, lowered by its four corners. It came right down to me,

The news about them came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas all the way to Antioch.

for he was an excellent man, full of the holy Spirit and faith. So a considerable number of people came over to the Lord.

and found him and brought him to Antioch. The result was that for a whole year they met with the church, and taught large numbers of people, and it was at Antioch that the disciples first came to be known as Christians.

About that time some prophets from Jerusalem came down to Antioch,

They passed the first guard and then the second, and came to the iron gate that led into the city. It opened to them of itself, and they passed out and went along one street, when suddenly the angel left him.

Then Peter came to himself, and he said, "Now I am certain that the Lord sent his angel and rescued me from the power of Herod and all that the Jewish people were expecting."

When he knocked at the outer door, a maid named Rhoda came to answer it,

But when morning came, there was no little commotion among the soldiers as to what could have become of Peter.

Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they came before him in a body, and after winning over Blastus, the king's chamberlain, they asked for a reconciliation, because their country depended upon the king's dominions for its food supply.

They went through the whole island as far as Paphos, and there they came across a Jewish magician and false prophet named Barjesus.

The priest of the temple of Zeus that stood at the entrance to the town came with crowds of people to the gates, bringing bulls and garlands, meaning to offer sacrifice to them.

But some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and won the people over, and they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the town, thinking that he was dead.

Some people came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers that unless they were circumcised as Moses prescribed, they could not be saved.

and they passed Mysia and came down to Troas.

She did this for a number of days, until Paul, very much annoyed, turned and said to the spirit in her, "In the name of Jesus Christ I order you to come out of her!" And it came out instantly.

and came and conciliated them, and took them out of the jail, and begged them to leave the town.