And Joseph, as soon as he awoke out of sleep, did as the angel of the Lord bade him, and took his wife unto him:

And he took to himself his wife, and knew her not till she brought forth her first born son: and be called his name Jesus.

And now also the axe lies at the root of the trees; therefore every one not making good fruit is cut off and cast into fire.

And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

For these are all things the heathen are in pursuit of, and your heavenly Father knows well that you need all this.

Why do you look at the [insignificant] speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice and acknowledge the [egregious] log that is in your own eye?

Every tree not making good fruit is cut off, and cast into fire.

and then will I avow unto them, I never knew you. Depart from me, workers of lawlessness.

The herdsmen ran off, went into the town, and told everything that had happened to the demon-possessed men.

But they went out and spread the news about Him throughout that whole district.

These twelve Jesus sent out when he had charged them, saying, Go not off into the way of the nations, and into a city of Samaritans enter ye not;

“A battered reed He will not break off,
And a smoldering wick He will not put out,
Until He leads justice to victory.

then saith he, I will return into my house, that I came out of; and when he cometh, he findeth it empty, swept, and set off to advantage:

‘This people honors Me with their lips,
But their heart is far away from Me.

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wishes to follow Me [as My disciple], he must deny himself [set aside selfish interests], and take up his cross [expressing a willingness to endure whatever may come] and follow Me [believing in Me, conforming to My example in living and, if need be, suffering or perhaps dying because of faith in Me].

Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.

“See that you do not despise or think less of one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven [are in the presence of and] continually look upon the face of My Father who is in heaven.

But, if thy brother sin, withdraw, convince him, betwixt thee and him, alone, - If unto thee he hearken, thou hast gained thy brother;

But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

And I tell you, whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits sexual unfaithfulness [toward her], unless the reason for the divorce was sexual unfaithfulness [on his wife's part]. And the person who marries a woman who has been divorced commits sexual sin with her [i.e., because she is still rightfully married to her first husband]."

and hand Him over to the Gentiles to be made sport of and scourged and crucified; and on the third day He will be raised to life."

But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.

And Jesus, answering, said unto them - Verily, I say unto you, If ye have faith, and do not doubt, not only, this of the fig-tree, shall ye do, - but, even if, unto this mountain, ye shall say, Be lifted up, and be cast into the sea, it shall be done.

But if we say, ‘From men,’ we are afraid of the [response of the] crowd; for they all regard John as a prophet.”

Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother:

Then two men will be in the field; one is carried off, and one is left behind;

two women will be grinding at the mill, one is carried off, and one is left behind.

and will cut him off, and his portion with the hypocrites will appoint; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.

But the servant who had got the two hundred and fifty pounds went off and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's money.

So I was afraid and went off and hid your talent in the ground. Look, you have what is yours.’

But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest's palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end.

After binding him, they led him off and handed him over to Pontius Pilate the governor.

And throwing the pieces of silver into the temple sanctuary, he left; and went away and hanged himself.

At last, when they had finished their mocking, they took the robe off, and put his own garments on him, and led him away to crucify him.

So one of them at once ran off and took a sponge and soaked it in vinegar, put it on a stick and held it up to Him to drink.

So they went and made the tomb secure, and along with [stationing] a guard of soldiers [to be on watch] they set a seal on the stone.

John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins [that is, requiring a change of one’s old way of thinking, turning away from sin and seeking God and His righteousness].

But he went off and proceeded to proclaim it aloud and spread news of the affair both far and wide. The result was that Jesus could no longer enter any town openly; he stayed outside in lonely places, and people came to him from every quarter.

but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit and His power [by attributing the miracles done by Me to Satan] never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an everlasting sin [a sin which is unforgivable in this present age as well as in the age to come]”—

And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full.

He had often been bound with ropes and chains but had broken the chains off and torn the ropes to pieces. And no one had enough strength to subdue him.

The men who tended them ran off and reported it in the town and the countryside, and people went to see what had happened.

So he went off and began to proclaim throughout Decapolis all that Jesus had done for him; it made everyone astonished.

and so at once ordered a soldier of his guard to bring his head. The soldier went off and beheaded John in the prison

And he went off and beheaded him in the prison and brought back his head on a platter and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother.

And the multitudes observed them going off, and many knew him, and ran thither on foot out of all the cities, and got before them, and came together unto him.

And after He said goodbye to them, He went to the mountain to pray.

And He went up into the boat to them. And the wind was cut off. And they were very much amazed within themselves beyond measure, and marveled.

He replied, “Rightly did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites (play-actors, pretenders), as it is written [in Scripture],

‘These people honor Me with their lips,
But their heart is far from Me.

because it does not reach his heart but only his stomach, and then passes off into the waste?" In thus speaking He made all foods clean.

if even thy hand should make thee transgress, saw it off, and cast it away, it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than to have both hands and go into Gehenna, the unextinguishable fire:

For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother [to establish a home with his wife],

and be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh: so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.

But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?

And they said unto him, We can. And Jesus said unto them, Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of; and with the baptism that I am baptized withal shall ye be baptized:

And they set off and found a colt tied in the street at the door of a house, and they untied it.

Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.

For the seven had her to wife. And Jesus answering said to them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?

and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul (life), and with all your mind (thought, understanding), and with all your strength.’

and to love Him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to [unselfishly] love one’s neighbor as oneself, is much more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

So the disciples went off, and came into the city, and found everything as he had told them.

Immediately morning came, the high priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and all the Sanhedrin, and after binding Jesus they led him off and handed him over to Pilate.

One man ran off and soaked a sponge in common wine, and put it on the end of a stick and held it up to him to drink, saying, "Let us see whether Elijah does come to take him down!"

as those who from the beginning were eye-witnesses of and attendants on the Word have delivered them to us,

Because of the tender mercy of our God,
With which the Sunrise (the Messiah) from on high will dawn and visit us,

They hurried off and found both Mary and Joseph, and the baby who was lying in the feeding trough.

Upon Annas and Caiaphas being chief priests, the word of And was upon John, son of Zacharias in the desert.

But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,

Now Jesus, full of [and in perfect communication with] the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness

Then Jesus went back to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and the news about Him spread through the entire region.

And, when he ceased speaking, he said unto Simon - Put off into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.

Jesus ordered him not to say a word to anybody, but to "Go off and show yourself to the priest, and offer whatever Moses prescribed for your cleansing, to notify men."

Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall cut you off, and when they shall reproach you and shall cast out your name as evil, for the sake of the Son of Man.

A Roman captain had a slave whom he thought a great deal of, and the slave was sick and at the point of death.

But as they sailed he fell asleep: and there came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filled with water, and were in jeopardy.

When the men who tended them saw what had happened, they ran off and reported it in the town and in the countryside.

"Go back to your home, and continue to tell what great things God has done for you." But he went off and told all over the town what great things Jesus had done for him.

Jesus answered: "A man was on his way down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell into the hands of robbers, who both stripped him and beat him till he was half dead, and then went off and left him.

If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand and continue to survive? For you are saying that I drive out demons by [the power of] Beelzebul.

Now if I drive out the demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons [the Jewish exorcists] drive them out? For this reason they will be your judges.

"Then it goes off and fetches seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the last state of that man is worse than the first."

For these are all things the nations of the world are in pursuit of, and your Father knows well that you need them.

the lord of that bondman shall come in a day when he does not expect it, and in an hour he knows not of, and shall cut him in two and appoint his portion with the unbelievers.

And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.

If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

If he cannot succeed, he will send a representative while the other is still a long way off and ask for terms of peace.

And after not many days the younger son gathering all together went away into a country a long way off, and there dissipated his property, living in debauchery.

At last, when he had spent everything, there came a terrible famine throughout that country, and he began to feel the pinch of want.

Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.

And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

But he said unto him - If, unto Moses and the Prophets, they do not hearken, neither, if one, from among the dead, should arise, would they be persuaded.

And they will say to you, 'See there!' 'See here!' Do not start off and go in pursuit.

The tax collector, however, stood far off and would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, be merciful to me, sinner that I am!'

He will be betrayed and handed over to the Gentiles (Roman authorities), and will be mocked and ridiculed and insulted and abused and spit on,

When the people saw it, they all began muttering [in discontent], “He has gone to be the guest of a man who is a [notorious] sinner.”

So those who were sent went off and found it as Jesus had told them.