This John had his clothes made of camel's hair, with a leather girdle round his loins; his food was locusts and wild honey.

I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier, and I am not fit even to carry his sandals; he will baptize you with the holy Spirit and fire.

said to him, "If you are God's son, throw yourself down; for it is written, He will give his angels charge of you; they will bear you on their hands, lest you strike your foot against a stone."

You are the salt of the earth. But if salt becomes insipid, what can make it salt again? After that it is fit for nothing, fit only to be thrown outside and trodden by the feet of men.

nor by earth, for it is the footstool of his feet, nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King;

Therefore I tell you, do not trouble about what you are to eat or drink in life, nor about what you are to put on your body; surely life means more than food, surely the body means more than clothes!

Do not give dogs what is sacred and do not throw pearls before swine, in case they trample them under foot and turn to gore you.

The captain answered, "Sir, I am not fit to have you under my roof; only say the word, and my servant will be cured.

Whoever will not receive you or listen to your message, leave that house or town and shake off the very dust from your feet.

When Jesus heard it he withdrew by boat to a desert place in private; but the crowds heard of it and followed him on foot from the towns.

When evening fell, the disciples came up to him and said, "It is a desert place and the day is now gone; send off the crowds to buy food for themselves in the villages."

Jesus said to them, "They do not need to go away; give them some food yourselves."

"Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands when they take their food."

And large crowds came to him bringing the lame, and the blind, the dumb, the maimed, and many others; they laid them at his feet, and he healed them.

If your hand or your foot is a hindrance to you, cut it off and throw it away; better be maimed or crippled and get into Life, than keep both feet or hands and be thrown into the everlasting fire.

Listen to another parable. There was a householder who planted a vineyard, put a fence round it, dug a wine-vat inside it, and built a watchtower: then he leased it to vinedressers and went abroad.

Once more he sent some other servants, saying, 'Tell the invited guests, here is my supper all prepared, my oxen and fat cattle are killed, everything is ready; come to the marriage-banquet.'

Then said the king to his servants, 'Take him hand and foot, and throw him outside, out into the darkness; there men will wail and gnash their teeth.

The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand, till I put your enemies under your feet.'

he will cut him in two and assign him the fate of the impious. There men will wail and gnash their teeth.

For I was hungry and you fed me, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you entertained me,

Then the just will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and fed you? or thirsty and gave you drink?

For I was hungry but you never fed me, I was thirsty but you never gave me drink,

And Jesus himself met them, saying, "Hail!" So they went up to him and caught hold of his feet and worshipped him;

He announced, "After me one who is mightier will come, and I am not fit to stoop and untie the string of his sandals:

A president of the synagogue called Jairus came up, and on catching sight of him fell at his feet

And if any place will not receive you and the people will not listen to you, shake off the very dust under your feet when you leave, as a warning to them."

However a number of people who saw them start and recognized them, got to the place before them by hurrying there on foot from all the towns.

send them off to the farms and villages round about to buy some food for themselves."

He replied, "Give them some food, yourselves." They said, "Are we to go and buy ten pounds' worth of food and give them that to eat?"

They noticed that some of his disciples ate their food with 'common' (that is, unwashed) hands.

Then the Pharisees and scribes put this question to him, "Why do your disciples not follow the tradition of the elders? Why do they take their food with 'common' hands?"

It does not enter his heart but his belly and passes from that into the drain" (thus he pronounced all food clean).

a woman heard of him, whose daughter had an unclean spirit, and she came in and fell at his feet

If I send them home without food they will faint on the road. Besides, some of them have come a long way."

If your foot is a hindrance to you, cut it off: better get into Life a cripple, than keep your two feet and be thrown into Gehenna.

David himself said in the holy Spirit, The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand, till I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.'

He replied, "Let everyone who possesses two shirts share with him who has none, and let him who has food do likewise."

John said to them all, "I baptize you with water, but after me one who is mightier will come, and I am not fit to untie the string of his sandals; he will baptize you with the holy Spirit and fire.

and They will bear you on their hands, lest you strike your foot against a stone."

And after exhausting every kind of temptation the devil left him till a fit opportunity arrived.

So Jesus went with them. But he was not far from the house when the captain sent some friends to tell him, "Do not trouble yourself, sir, I am not fit to have you under my roof,

and so I did not consider myself fit even to come to you. Just say the word, and let my servant be cured.

and stood behind him at his feet in tears; her tears began to wet his feet, so she wiped them with the hair of her head, pressed kisses on them, and anointed them with the perfume.

Then turning to the woman he said to Simon, "You see this woman? When I came into your house, you never gave me water for my feet, while she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair;

you never gave me a kiss, while ever since she came in she has kept pressing kisses on my feet;

you never anointed my head with oil, while she has anointed my feet with perfume.

The people came out to see what had occurred and when they reached Jesus they discovered the man whom the daemons had left, seated at the feet of Jesus, clothed and sane. That frightened them.

A man called Jairus came, who was a president of the synagogue, and falling at the feet of Jesus entreated him to come to his house,

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

He said to them, "Give them some food yourselves." They said, "We have only got five loaves and two fish. Unless ??are we to go and buy food for the whole of this people?"

'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!'

She had a sister called Mary, who seated herself at the feet of the Lord to listen to his talk.

life is something more than food, and the body is something more than clothes.

So do not seek food and drink and be worried;

pagans make food and drink their aim in life, but your Father knows quite well you need that;

that servant's lord and master will arrive on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour which he does not know; he will cut him in two and assign him the fate of unbelievers.

Or what king sets out to fight against another king without first sitting down to deliberate whether with ten thousand men he can encounter the king who is attacking him with twenty thousand?

so he went and attached himself to a citizen of that land, who sent him to his fields to feed swine.

But the father said to his servants, 'Quick, bring the best robe and put it on him, give him a ring for his hand and sandals for his feet,

and he fell on his face at the feet of Jesus and thanked him. The man was a Samaritan.

till I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.'

Look at my hands and feet. It is I! Feel me and see; a ghost has not flesh and bones as you see I have."

[With these words he showed them his hands and feet.]

Even yet they could not believe it for sheer joy; they were lost in wonder. So he said to them, "Have you any food here?"

and I am not fit to untie the string of his sandal."

(his disciples had gone to the town to buy some food).

But he said to them, "I have food, of which you know nothing."

Jesus said, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

Work for no perishing food, but for that lasting food which means eternal life; the Son of man will give you that, for the Father, God, has certified him."

for my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.

(The Mary whose brother Lazarus was ill was the Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair.)

But when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she dropped at his feet, crying, "Had you been here, Lord, my brother would not have died."

Out came the dead man, his feet and hands swathed in bandages, and his face tied up with a towel. Jesus said, "Untie him, and let him move."

Then Mary, taking a pound of expensive perfume, real nard, anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair, till the house was filled with the scent of the perfume.

then poured water into a basin, and began to wash the feet of the disciples, wiping them with the towel he had tied round him.

He came to Simon Peter. "Lord," said he, "you to wash my feet!"

Said Peter, "You will never wash my feet, never!" "Unless I wash you," Jesus replied, "you will not share my lot."

"Lord," said Simon Peter, "then wash not only my feet but my hands and head."

Jesus said, "He who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed; he is clean all over. And you are clean ??but not all of you"

Then, after washing their feet and putting on his robe, he lay down again. "Do you know," he said to them, "what I have been doing to you?

Well, if I have washed your feet, I who am your Lord and Teacher, you are bound to wash one another's feet;

and noticed two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet.

Then after breakfast Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than the others do?" "Why, Lord," he said, "you know I love you." "Then feed my lambs," said Jesus.

For the third time he asked him, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Now Peter was vexed at being asked a third time, "Do you love me?" So he replied; "Lord, you know everything, you can see I love you." Jesus said, "Then feed my sheep.

till I make your enemies a footstool for your feet'.

And catching him by the right hand he raised him. Instantly his feet and ankles grew strong,

he leapt to his feet, started to walk, and accompanied them into the temple, walking, leaping, and praising God.

laying the money before the feet of the apostles; it was then distributed according to each individual's need.

sold a farm belonging to him and brought the money, which he placed before the feet of the apostles.

appropriated some of the purchase-money with the connivance of his wife; he only brought part of it to lay before the feet of the apostles.

Instantly she fell down at their feet and expired. The younger men came in to find her dead; they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.

During these days, when the disciples were increasing in number, the Hellenists began to complain against the Hebrews, on the ground that their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.

But he did not give him any inheritance in it, not even a foot of the land. All be did was to promise that he would give it as a possession to him and to his offspring after him (he at the time being childless).

But, hearing there was food in Egypt, Jacob sent our ancestors on their first visit to that country;

But the Lord said to him, 'Take the sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is sacred ground.

Heaven is my throne, the earth is a footstool for my feet! What house would you build me? saith the Lord. On what spot could I settle?

Putting him outside the city, they proceeded to stone him (the witnesses laid their clothes at the feet of a youth called Saul).

Then he took some food and felt strong again. For several days he stayed at Damascus with the disciples.

He became very hungry and longed for some food. But as they were getting the meal ready, a trance came over him.