Whatever house you go into, stay there and leave from there.

Whoever will not receive you, leave that town and shake off the very dust from your feet as a testimony against them."

So they went out from village to village preaching the gospel and healing everywhere.

When Herod the tetrarch heard all that was going on, he was quite at a loss; for some said that John had risen from the dead,

When they were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is a good thing we are here; let us put up three tents, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah" (not knowing what he was saying).

but a voice came from the cloud, "This is my Son, my Chosen one; listen to him."

"Teacher," shouted a man from the crowd, "look at my son, I beg of you, for he is my only boy,

But they did not understand this saying ??indeed it was kept a secret from them, to prevent them from fathoming it ??and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

So when the disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, will you have us bid fire come down from heaven and consume them?"

Stay at the same house, eating and drinking what the people provide (for the workman deserves his wages); you are not to shift from one house to another.

'The very dust of your town that clings to us, we wipe off from our feet as a protest. But mark this, the Reign of God is near!'

He said to them, "Yes, I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning.

He thrilled with joy at that hour in the holy Spirit, saying, "I praise thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for concealing this from the wise and learned and revealing it to the simple-minded; yes, Father, I praise thee that such was thy chosen purpose." Then turning to the disciples he said,

Jesus rejoined, "A man going down from Jerusalem to Jericho fell among robbers who stripped and belaboured him and then went off leaving him half-dead.

Mary has chosen the best dish, and she is not to be dragged away from it."

And suppose he answers from the inside, 'Don't bother me; the door is locked by this time, and my children are in bed with me. I can't get up and give you anything.'

Well, if for all your evil you know to give your children what is good, how much more will your Father give the holy Spirit from heaven to those who ask him?"

Others by way of tempting him demanded he should give them a Sign from heaven.

The queen of the South will rise at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them; for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon, and here is One greater than Solomon.

it was that the blood of all the prophets shed from the foundation of the world might be charged upon this generation,

from the blood of Abel down to the blood of Zechariah who was slain between the altar and the House of God ??yes, I tell you, it will all be charged upon this generation.

lying in ambush to catch a word from his lips.

and be like men who are expecting their lord and master on his return from a marriage-banquet, so as to open the door for him at once when he comes and knocks.

whereas he who was ignorant and did what deserves a beating, will receive few lashes. He who has much given him will have much required from him, and he who has much entrusted to him will have all the more demanded of him.

there was a woman who for eighteen years had suffered weakness from an evil spirit; indeed she was bent double and quite unable to raise herself.

Jesus noticed her and called to her, "Woman, you are released from your weakness."

The Lord replied to him, "You hypocrites, does not each of you untether his ox or ass from the stall on the sabbath and lead it away to drink?

And this woman, a daughter of Abraham, bound by Satan for all these eighteen years, was she not to be freed from her bondage on the sabbath?"

On he went, teaching from one town and village to another, as he made his way to Jerusalem.

once the master of the House has got up and closed the door. You may stand outside and knock at the door, crying, 'Lord, open for us,' but he will answer you, 'I do not know where you come from.'

'I tell you,' he will say, 'I do not know where you come from; begone everyone of you, you evildoers.'

Yes, and people will come from east and west and north and south to their places at the feast within the Realm of God.

Just then some Pharisees came up to tell him, "Get away from here, for Herod intends to kill you."

The factor said to himself, 'What am I to do, now that my master is taking the factorship away from me? I am too weak to dig, I am ashamed to beg.

Ah, I know what I will do, so that people will welcome me to their houses when I am deposed from the factorship.'

and fain to eat up the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. (The very dogs used to come and lick his ulcers.)

Besides all that, a great gulf yawns between us and you, to keep back those who want to cross from us to you and also those who want to pass from you to us.'

'No, father Abraham,' he said, 'but if someone only goes to them from the dead, they will repent.'

He said to him, 'If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced, not even if one rose from the dead."

Which of you, with a servant out ploughing or shepherding, will say to him when he comes in from the field, 'Come at once and take your place at table'?

for like lightning that flashes from one side of the sky to the other, so will the Son of man be on his own day.

but on the day that Lot left Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.

He said, "I have observed all these commands from my youth."

However, they did not understand a word of this; indeed the saying was hidden from them, and they did not know what he meant.

Then he said to the bystanders, 'Take the five pounds from him and give it to the man with fifty.'

'I tell you, to everyone who has shall more be given, but from him who has nothing, even what he has shall be taken.

and as he was now close to the descent from the Hill of Olives, all the multitude of the disciples started joyfully to praise God with a loud voice for all they had seen,

saying, "Would that you too knew even to-day on what your peace depends! But no, it is hidden from you!

did the baptism of John come from heaven or from men?"

Now they reasoned to themselves, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask, 'Why did you not believe him?'

And if we say, 'From men,' the whole of the people will stone us, for they are convinced John was a prophet."

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

but those who are considered worthy to attain yonder world and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are married,

there will be great earthquakes with famine and pestilence here and there, there will be awful portents and great signs from heaven.

From hour to hour keep awake, praying that you may succeed in escaping all these dangers to come and in standing before the Son of man."

saying, "Father, if it please thee, take this cup away from me. But thy will, not mine, be done."

[And an angel from heaven appeared to strengthen him;

Then rising from prayer he went to the disciples, only to find them asleep from sheer sorrow.

So they said, "What more evidence do we need? We have heard it from his own lips."

But they insisted, "He stirs up the people by teaching all over Judaea. He started from Galilee and now he is here."

As they led him off they caught hold of Simon a Cyrenian on his way from the country and laid the cross on him to carry after Jesus.

As for his acquaintances, they were all standing at a distance to look on, with the women who had accompanied him from Galilee.

So the women who had accompanied him from Galilee and who had followed Joseph, noted the tomb and the position of the body;

The boulder they found rolled away from the tomb,

and turning away from the tomb they reported all this to the eleven and all the others.

That very day two of them were on their way to a village called Emmaus about seven miles from Jerusalem.

though they were prevented from recognizing him.

Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, but he vanished from their sight.

"Thus," he said, "it is written that the Christ has to suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,

and that repentance and the remission of sins must be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

And I will send down on you what my Father has promised; wait in the city till you are endued with power from on high."

And as he blessed them he parted from them [and was carried up to heaven].

through him all existence came into being, no existence came into being apart from him.

So the Logos became flesh and tarried among us; we have seen his glory ??glory such as an only son enjoys from his father ??seen it to be full of grace and reality.

For we have all been receiving grace after grace from his fulness;

And John bore this testimony also: "I saw the Spirit descend like a dove from heaven and rest on him.

he met Nathanael and told him, "We have found him whom Moses wrote about in the Law, and also the prophets ??it is Jesus, the son of Joseph, who comes from Nazaret."

and when the manager of the feast tasted the water which had become wine, not knowing where it had come from (though the servants who had drawn it knew), he called the bridegroom

and when the disciples recalled what he had said, after he had been raised from the dead, they believed the scripture and the word of Jesus.

and required no evidence from anyone about human nature; well did he know what was in human nature.

he came one night to Jesus and said, "Rabbi, we know you have come from God to teach us, for no one could perform these Signs of yours unless God were with him."

Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, no one can see God's Realm unless he is born from above."

Do not wonder at me telling you, 'You must all be born from above.'

The wind blows where it wills; you can hear its sound, but you never know where it has come from or where it goes: it is the same with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

And yet the Son of man, descended from heaven, is the only one who has ever ascended into heaven.

John answered, "No one can receive anything except as a gift from heaven.

He who comes from above is far above all others; he who springs from earth belongs to earth and speaks of earth; he who comes from heaven [is far above all others.

Are you a greater man than Jacob, our ancestor? He gave us this well, and he drank from it, with his sons and his cattle."

You are worshipping something you do not know; we are worshipping what we do know ??for salvation comes from the Jews.

They set out from the town on their way to him.

when he heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judaea, he went to him and begged him to come down and cure his son, who was at the point of death.

For an angel used to descend from time to time into the bath, and disturb the water; whereupon the first person who stepped in after the water was disturbed was restored to health, no matter what disease he had been afflicted with].

Truly, truly I tell you, he who listens to my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life; he will incur no sentence of judgment, he has already passed from death across to life.

(though I accept no testimony from man ??I only speak of this testimony, that you may be saved);

I accept no credit from men,

How can you believe, you who accept credit from one another instead of aiming at the credit which comes from the only God?

They gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with pieces of the five loaves left over from the meal.

So, as some boats from Tiberias had put in near the spot where they had eaten bread after the Lord's thanksgiving,

Our ancestors ate manna in the desert: as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat."

Then said Jesus, "What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the real bread from heaven ??33 for the bread of God is what comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."