But Joseph her husband, because he was just a man and unwilling to disgrace her, was minded to put her away secretly.

But because they were forbidden by God in a dream to go back to Herod, they returned to their own country by another route.

A voice was heard in Ramah, Weeping and lamentation??achel weeping for her children, Inconsolable, because they were no more!

"Rejoice and exult in it, because your reward was great in the heavens; for so did they persecute the prophets before you.

And because Jesus knew well their thought, he said:

And when he saw the crowds he had compassion on them because they were distressed and fainting, like sheep without a shepherd.

"You will be hated by all men because of my name; and he who endures to the end shall be saved.

"Whoever receives a prophet because he is a prophet, shall receive a prophet's reward; and whoever receives a righteous man, shall receive a righteous man's reward.

"And whoever gives to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only, because he is a disciple, I tell you in solemn truth, he shall not lose his reward.

Then he began to upbraid the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they had not repented.

"Woe unto you, Chorazin! Woe unto you, Bethsaida! Because if the mighty works which have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented, long ago, in sackcloth and ashes.

Because Jesus knew what was in their minds, he said to them. "Any kingdom divided against itself will become desolate; and any city or household divided against himself will not stand.

"The men of Nineveh will stand up in the Judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented under the preaching of Jonah, and lo! a greater than Jonah is here!

"The Queen of the South will rise in the judgment with this generation, and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon; and lo! a greater than Solomon is here!

Some fell on rocky ground where there was not much earth. Now because it had no depth of soil, it sprang up at once;

but when the sun rose it was scorched, and withered away because it had no root.

"This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

"But happy are your eyes, because they see, and your ears because they hear.

And he did no mighty works there, because of their lack of faith.

because John kept telling him, "It is not right for you to have her."

The king was displeased because of this, but because of his oaths and his guests he ordered it to be given her.

But he answered her not a word. Then the disciples came up and kept beseeching him. "Send her away," they said, "because she wails after us."

And they began discussing it among themselves, saying, "It is because we did not bring any bread."

When Jesus knew it he said: "Weaklings in faith! Why are you arguing among yourselves, because you have no bread?

But he turned and said to Peter. "Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling-block to me, because you are not intent on what pleases God, but what pleases men."

"Because of your little faith," he answered. "In solemn truth I tell you that if you have faith the size of a mustard-seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from this place to that!' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.

"Woe unto the world because of such stumbling-blocks! They will surely come, but woe unto each man by whom they come!

"Immediately his master summoned him and said: "'You wicked slave! I forgave you all that debt because you implored me.

"'Because no one has hired us,' they replied. "He said to them, 'Do you also go into the vineyard.'

"Have I not the right to do what I choose with my own property? Or is your eye evil because I am generous?'

but although they longed to apprehend him, they were afraid of the crowds, because they held him to be a prophet.

And Jesus, because he knew their malice, said:

In answer Jesus said: "You err because you do not know the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

"And call no one 'Leader,' because One is your leader, even the Christ.

and because of the increase of iniquity the love of the majority will grow cold;

But if, because he is a bad slave, he should say to himself, 'My Master is a long time in coming,'

Now because the bridegroom tarried, they all fell to nodding and went on sleeping.

The chief priests took the money, and said, "It would be wrong to put it into the temple-treasury, because it is the price of blood."

He knew well that it was because of enmity that they had brought Jesus before him.

And while he was seated upon the judgment-seat, his wife had sent to him, saying, "Have nothing to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered many things today, in a dream, because of him."

He cured many who were ill with various diseases, and drove out many demons. But he did not allow the demons to speak, because they knew who he was.

"Let us go away," he answered, "to the neighboring country towns, that I may preach there, too; because for that purpose I came forth."

When they could not get him near to Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof under which he stood, and after making an opening, they let down the cot on which the paralytic was lying.

From Judea, too, and Jerusalem, and Idumea, and from beyond Jordan, and from the district of Tyre and Sidon, they came to him a vast multitude, because they heard what he was doing.

So he directed his disciples to keep a little boat in readiness for him, because of the crowd, to prevent their crushing him.

Because they kept saying, "He has an unclean spirit."

some other seed fell on stony soil, where it had not much earth; and it sprang up quickly because it had no depth of soil,

but when the sun rose it was scorched and withered away because it had no root.

but because they have no root in themselves they last for a time; but when suffering or persecution ensues because of the Word, they at once fall away.

Then as soon as the crop is ready the man has the sickle put in at once, because harvest-time is come.

but she could not, for Herod was afraid of John because he knew that he was a just and holy man. So he kept him safe. When he listened to John he was much exercised, yet he found pleasure in listening to him.

So when Jesus landed he saw a vast multitude, and he was moved with compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.

because it does not go into his heart, but into his belly, and passes away, ejected from him?" By these words he pronounced all foods clean.

"My heart aches for the crowd, because they have remained with me three days now, and they have nothing to eat;

And they began arguing with one another because they had no bread, He noted this and said to them.

"Why are you arguing together because you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive and understand?

"Master," said John, "we saw a man casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him because he did not follow us."

For whoever gives you even a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ, in solemn truth I tell you, that he shall certainly not lose his reward.

But Jesus said to them. "Moses gave you that command because of the hardness of your hearts;

The chief priests and the Scribes heard this, and they began to seek means of destroying him; for they were afraid of him because all the crowd were greatly struck with his teaching.

Afterward he appeared to the Eleven themselves, as they were eating, and reproached them for their lack of faith, and stubborn hearts, because they disbelieved those who had seen him risen.

But the Angel said to him. "Do not be afraid, Zachariah, because your petition has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to call him John.

"And now you shall be silent and unable to speak until the day the day when this has taken place; because you did not believe my words??ords which will be fulfilled at their appointed time."

And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city if Nazareth, into Judea, to David's town of Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David.

And she gave birth to her firstborn son; and she wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn.

"Because my eyes had seen the salvation,

but Herod, the Tetrarch, when reproved by him because of Herodias, his brother's wife, and because of all the wicked deeds that he had done,

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me Because He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, He has sent me to proclaim release to the prisoners, And recovery of sight to the blind; To set at liberty those that are bruised,

They were deeply impressed by his teaching because his speech was with authority.

Demons also came out of many, screaming and saying, "You are the Son of God." But he rebuked them, and did not permit them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.

And behold there came men carrying a paralytic on a bed; and they tried to bring him and lay him before Jesus, but they could not because of the crowd.

The whole crowd were trying to touch him, because power emanated from him and cured them all.

"Blessed are you when men shall hate you, And excommunicate you and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil because of the Son of man.

"He is like a man who is building a house who digged and went deep and laid a foundation upon rock. And, when a flood came, the torrent dashed against that house, but could not move, because it had been founded upon rock.

"Some other seed dropped on the rock, as soon as it grew it withered away, because it had no moisture.

There came to him his mother and his brothers, and they could not reach him because of the crowd.

They began to laugh him to scorn, because they knew well that she was dead.

Now Herod, the Tetrarch, heard of all that was happening; and he was perplexed because of its being said by someone that John was risen from the dead;

"Master," said John, "we saw a man who was casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him, because he was not following us."

But they did not receive him because his face was set to go to Jerusalem.

"I tell you that, though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his importunate persistence he will rise and give him whatever he needs.

"The queen of the South shall rise up in Judgment with the men of this generation, and shall condemn them; because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon, and lo, one greater than Solomon is here!

"Do you suppose," he answered them, "that those Galileans were worse sinners than the rest of the Galileans because they have suffered thus?

"Then you will be blessed, because they have no means to repay you, but you shall be paid in the Resurrection of the Just."

"'Your brother is come,' he replied, 'and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has him safe and sound.'

"And the master praised the unjust steward because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of this world are in relation to their own generation wiser than the sons of the light.

"Does he think the slave because he did the things that were commanded?

"'yet because this woman annoys me I will give her justice, lest by her continual coming she wear me out.'

Moreover he spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves because they were righteous, and looked down upon the rest.

And he kept trying to see what sort of a man Jesus was; but he could not see because he was short.

As they were listening to his words he added this parable, because he was near Jerusalem and they thought that the kingdom of God was immediately to appear.

"And he said to him, 'Well done, good slave! Because you have been faithful in a very little, have authority over ten cities.'

"'For I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man. You take what you did not sow.'

"you and your children within you. And they will not leave in you one stone upon the another. Because you knew not the time of your visitation."

Now when Herod saw Jesus he was exceedingly glad. He had long been wanting to see him, because he had heard so much about him, and was hoping to see some miracles performed by him.

Then Pilate spoke to them again, because he wished to release Jesus;

Jesus said in reply. "Do you believe because I said to you, 'I saw you under the fig tree?'

but for his part Jesus was not trusting himself to them, because he knew all men,

He who trusts in him is not condemned, but he who does not trust has already been condemned, because he has not put his trust in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

And this is the condemnation, that Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.