Do not imagine I have come to destroy the Law or the prophets; I have not come to destroy but to fulfil.

(I tell you truly, till heaven and earth pass away not an iota, not a comma, will pass from the Law until it is all in force.

For where your treasure lies, your heart will lie there too.

Well then, whatever you would like men to do to you, do just the same to them; that is the meaning of the Law and the prophets.

On entering the house of Peter, Jesus noticed his mother-in-law was down with fever,

Jesus said to him, "The foxes have their holes, the wild birds have their nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head."

As he said this, an official came in and knelt before him, saying, "My daughter is just dead; do come and lay your hand on her, and she will live."

I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;

For all the prophets and the law prophesied of it until John: ??14 if you care to believe it, he is the Elijah who is to come.

Have you not read in the Law that the priests in the temple are not guilty when they desecrate the sabbath?

need not honour his father or mother. So you have repealed the law of God to suit your own tradition.

They said to him, "Then why did Moses lay it down that we were to divorce by giving a separation-notice?"

Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray over them. The disciples checked the people,

"Teacher," he said, "what is the greatest command in the Law?"

The whole Law and the prophets hang upon these two commands."

They make up heavy loads and lay them on men's shoulders, but they will not stir a finger to remove them.

Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and omit the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faithfulness; these latter you ought to have practised ??without omit ting the former.

a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of expensive perfume which she poured over his head as he lay at table.

When evening came he lay at table with the disciples,

He is not here, he has risen, as he told you he would. See, here is the place where he [the Lord] lay.

Simon's mother-in-law was in bed with fever, so they told him at once about her,

and as they could not get near Jesus on account of the crowd they tore up the roof under which he stood and through the opening they lowered the pallet on which the paralytic lay.

with earnest entreaties. "My little girl is dying," he said, "do come and lay your hands on her that she may recover and live,"

Then he gave orders that they were to make all the people lie down in parties on the green grass;

whatever village or town or hamlet he went to, they would lay their invalids in the marketplace, begging him to let them touch even the tassel of his robe ??and all who touched him recovered.

And a deaf man who stammered was brought to him, with the request that he would lay his hand on him.

So he replied, "What did Moses lay down for you?"

"Teacher," they said, "Moses has written this law for us, that if a man's brother dies leaving a wife but no child, his brother is to take the woman and raise offspring for his brother.

they will handle serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick and make them well."

When the days for their purification in terms of the Mosaic law had elapsed, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord

(as it is written in the law of the Lord: every male that opens the womb must be considered consecrated to the Lord)

and also to offer the sacrifice prescribed in the law of the Lord, a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.

By an inspiration of the Spirit he came to the temple, and when the parents of the child Jesus carried him in to perform the customary regulations of the law for him,

When they had finished all the regulations of the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazaret.

Every valley shall be filled up, every hill and mound laid low, the crooked made straight, the rough roads smooth;

Soldiers also asked him, "And what are we to do?" He said to them, "Never extort money, never lay a false charge, but be content with your pay."

When he got up to leave the synagogue he went to the house of Simon. Simon's mother-in-law was laid up with a severe attack of fever, so they asked him about her;

One day he was teaching, and near him sat Pharisees and doctors of the Law who had come from every village of Galilee and Judaea as well as from Jerusalem. Now the power of the Lord was present for the work of healing.

Some men came up carrying a man who was paralysed; they tried to carry him inside and lay him in front of Jesus,

(There were about five thousand men of them.) He said to his disciples, "Make them lie down in rows of about fifty."

They did so, and made them all lie down.

Jesus said to him, "The foxes have their holes, the wild birds have their nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head."

He said to him, "What is written in the law? What do you read there?"

When he finished speaking, a Pharisee asked him to take a meal in his house; so he went in and lay down at table.

For where your treasure lies, your heart will lie there too.

father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."

"When anyone invites you to a marriage-banquet," he said, "never lie down in the best place, in case a more distinguished guest than yourself has been invited;

The Law and the prophets lasted till John; since then the good news of the Realm of God is preached, and anyone presses in.

Yet it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for an iota of the Law to lapse.

Outside his door lay a poor man called Lazarus; he was a mass of ulcers,

At that hour the scribes and high priests tried to lay hands on him, but they were afraid of the people. They knew he had meant this parable for them.

"Teacher," they said, "Moses has written this law for us, that if a man's married brother dies and is childless, his brother is to take the woman and raise offspring for his brother.

But before all that, men will lay hands on you and persecute you, handing you over to synagogues and prisons; you will be dragged before kings and governors for the sake of my name.

And as he lay at table with them he took the loaf, blessed it, broke it and handed it to them.

Then he said to them, "When I was still with you, this is what I told you, that whatever is written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled."

In him life lay, and this life was the Light for men:

while the Law was given through Moses, grace and reality are ours through Jesus Christ.

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 in so doing he arrived at a Samaritan town called Sychar; it lay near the territory which Jacob had given to his son Joseph,

where a crowd of invalids used to lie, the blind, the lame, and folk with shrivelled limbs [waiting for the water to bubble.

Jesus said, "Get the people to lie down." Now there was plenty of grass at the spot, so the men lay down, numbering about five thousand.

Did not Moses give you the Law? ??and yet none of you honestly obeys the Law. Else, why do you want to kill me?"

Well, if a man gets circumcised upon the sabbath, to avoid breaking the Law of Moses, are you enraged at me for curing, not cutting, the entire body of a man upon the sabbath?

As for this mob, with its ignorance of the Law ??it is accursed!"

"But surely our Law does not condemn the accused before hearing what he has to say and ascertaining his offence?"

Now Moses has commanded us in the Law to stone such creatures; but what do you say?"

Why, it is written in your own Law that the evidence of two persons is valid:

You belong to your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires; he was a slayer of men from the very beginning, and he has no place in the truth because there is no truth in him: when he tells a lie, he is expressing his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

(just as the Father knows me and I know the Father,) and I lay down my life for the sheep.

This is why my Father loves me, because I lay down my life to take it up again.

No one takes it from me, I lay it down of my own accord: I have power to lay it down and also power to take it up again; I have my Father's orders for this.

Jesus answered, "Is it not written in your Law, 'I said, you are gods'?

If the Law said they were gods, to whom the word of God came ??and scripture cannot be broken ??36 do you mean to tell me, whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am God's Son'?

So the people answered, "We have learned from the Law that the Christ is to remain for ever; what do you mean by saying that the Son of man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?"

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?

"Lord," said Peter, "why cannot I follow you just now? I will lay down my life for you."

Jesus replied, "Lay down your life for me? Truly, truly I tell you, before the cock crows, you will have disowned me thrice over.

To lay life down for his friends, man has no greater love than that.

It is that the word written in their Law may be fulfilled: they hated me for no cause.

and brought him first of all to Annas (for Annas was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year ??14 the Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it was for their interests that one man should die for the people).

Then said Pilate, "Take him yourselves, and sentence him according to your own Law." The Jews said, "We have no right to put anyone to death"

The Jews retorted, "But we have a Law, and by [our] Law he is bound to die, because he has made himself out to be God's Son."

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.

But a Pharisee in the Sanhedrin called Gamaliel, a doctor of the Law who was highly respected by all the people, got up and ordered the apostles to be removed for a few moments.

They also brought forward false witnesses to say, "This fellow is never done talking against this holy Place and the Law!

Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Just One. And here you have betrayed him, murdered him! ??53 you who got the Law that angels transmitted, and have not obeyed it!"

saying, "Let me share this power too, so that anyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the holy Spirit."

and he has seen a man called Ananias enter and lay his hands upon him to bring back his sight."

The very night before Herod meant to have him produced, Peter lay asleep between two soldiers; he was fastened by two chains, and sentries in front of the door guarded the prison.

and, after the reading of the Law and the prophets, the presidents of the synagogue sent to tell them, "Brothers, if you have any word of counsel for the people, say it."

and that by him everyone who believes is absolved from all that the law of Moses never could absolve you from.

But some of the believers who belonged to the Pharisaic party got up and said, "Gentiles must be circumcised and told to observe the law of Moses."

crying, "This fellow incites men to worship God contrary to the Law."

But as these are merely questions of words and persons and your own Law, you can attend to them for yourselves. I decline to adjudicate upon matters like that."

They glorified God when they heard it. Then they said to him, "Brother, you see how many thousands of believers there are among the Jews, all of them ardent upholders of the Law.

associate yourself with them, purify yourself with them, pay their expenses so that they may be free to have their heads shaved, and then everybody will understand there is nothing in these stories about you, but that, on the contrary, you are guided by obedience to the Law.

shouting, "To the rescue, men of Israel! Here is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against the People and the Law and this Place! And he has actually brought Greeks inside the temple and defiled this holy Place!"

"I am a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel in all the strictness of our ancestral Law, ardent for God as you all are to-day.

Then a certain Ananias, a devout man in the Law, who had a good reputation among all the Jewish inhabitants,

At this Paul said to him, "You whitewashed wall, God will strike you! You sit there to judge me by the Law, do you? And you break the Law by ordering me to be struck!"