The birth of Christ was thus. His mother Mary having been espoused to Joseph, before they came together, was found to be with child by the Holy Spirit.

Then he began to rebuke those cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they changed not their minds.

Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works which have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have changed their minds long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

And you, Capernaum, which are exalted even to heaven, shall go down even to hades; for if the mighty works which have been done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will declare things which have been concealed from the foundation of the world.

and she, having been put forward by her mother, said, Give me here on a plate the head of John the Baptist.

and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

for at that time there shall be great affliction, such as has not been from the beginning of the world even till now, nor ever shall be.

His lord said to him, Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few [talents], I will place you over many: enter into the joy of your lord.

His Lord said to him, Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few [talents], I will place you over many: enter into the joy of your lord.

This could have been sold for much and given to the poor.

The Son of man goes indeed, as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it would be good for him if that man had not been born.

And those who saw related to them how it had been with the demoniac, and concerning the swine.

And entering into the ship, the man that had been a demoniac besought him that he might go with him;

But Herod hearing of him, said, This is John whom I beheaded; he has been raised up.

for those days shall be an affliction, such as has not been from the beginning of the creation that God created till now, and shall not be.

For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii [$42] and given to the poor; and they blamed her.

The Son of man goes indeed as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! It would be good for him if that man had not been born.

And Pilate wondered that he was already dead; and calling the centurion asked him if he had been dead for some time.

She went and told those who had been with him, who were weeping and lamenting;

and when they heard that he was alive, and had been seen by her, they did not believe it.

that you may know the certainty of the words concerning which you have been taught.

and she had been a widow eighty-four years, and departed not from the temple, serving God night and day with fastings and prayers.

But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God as to themselves, not having been baptized by him.

and certain women who had been cured of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, from whom went out seven demons,

for he had commanded the impure spirit to go out of the man; for it had often seized him; and he had been bound with chains, and confined with fetters; and breaking his bonds he had been driven by the demon into solitary places.

And those who had seen related to them how the demoniac had been cured.

Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which have been done in you, they would long ago have changed their minds, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

that the blood of all the prophets which has been poured out since the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,

and behold, there was a woman who had been subject to a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bent down, and was not able to lift herself up at all.

When you are invited by any one to a wedding, do not sit down in the first place, lest at some time a more honorable man than you should have been invited by him,

If, therefore, you have not been faithful in the riches procured by injustice, who will commit to you the true?

And if you have not been faithful in another's, who will give you yours?

And he called and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am in pain in this flame.

But Abraham said, Son, remember that you received your good things in your life, and Lazarus in like manner evil things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in pain.

And he said to him, Well, good servant; because you have been faithful in the least, have authority over ten cities.

for the Son of man goes as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed.

And Pilate and Herod became friends to each other on that day; for they had before been enemies to each other.

but neither has Herod, for I sent you to him, and behold, nothing worthy of death has been done by him;

who had been cast into prison for a certain sedition made in the city, and a murder.

and taking it down, he wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a tomb cut out of a rock, in which no man had yet been laid.

Jesus answered and said to him, I tell you most truly, unless one has been born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.

The Spirit breathes where it wills, and you hear its voice, but you know not whence it comes, nor whither it goes; so is every one that has been born of the Spirit.

He that believes in him is not judged; but he that believes not has been judged already; because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

And there was a certain man there who had been sick thirty-eight years.

Jesus seeing him lying, and knowing that he had now been sick a long time, said to him, Do you wish to become well?

And on that account he said, I told you that no one can come to me unless it has been given him by my Father.

Then the Jews did not believe of him that he had been blind and received his sight, till they called the parents of him that had received his sight.

Then they called the man who had been blind, a second time, and said to him, Give glory to God; we know that this man is a sinner.

Then he answered, Whether he is a sinner I know not; one thing I know, that having been blind, I now see.

Since the world began it has not been heard that any one opened the eyes of one born blind;

unless this man was from God he would have been able to do nothing.

Then Jesus coming found that he had been four days in the tomb.

Then Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died;

Then Mary, when she came where Jesus was, and saw him, fell down at his feet, saying to him, Lord, if you had been here my brother would not have died.

Jesus said, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of the dead, said to him, Lord, by this time he smells; for he has been dead four days.

that the word of Isaiah the prophet, which he spoke, might be fulfilled; Lord, who has believed our report? and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

When he had gone out Jesus said, Now the Son of man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.

If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and will immediately glorify him.

Jesus said to him, Have I been so long a time with you and have you not known me, Philip? He that has seen me has seen the Father; and how say you, Show us the Father?

and you shall also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

and of judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

For when a woman is in labor she has pain, because her time has come; but when she has borne the child she no longer remembers the distress, because of joy that a man is born into the world.

for the Father himself is a friend to you, because you have been friends to me, and believed that I came forth from God.

When I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name which thou gayest me, and preserved [them], and no one of them has been lost, except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled;

Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom had been of this world my officers would have fought for me, that I should not be given up to the Jews; but now my kingdom is not here.

Jesus answered, You would have had no power against me if it had not been given you from above; therefore he that delivered me to you has a greater sin.

For these things were done that the Scripture might be fulfilled, Not a bone of him shall be broken;

if we are to-day examined concerning the good work done to the sick man, by what means he has been cured,

And seeing the boldness of Peter and John, and supposing that they were illiterate and common men, they wondered, and perceived that they had been with Jesus;

saying, What shall we do to these men? for that a notable miracle has been performed by them is manifest to all that live at Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it;

and thence sailed to Antioch, whence they had been commended to the favor of God for the work which they performed.

And after there had been much debate, Peter rose and said to them, Men and brothers, you know that in former days God chose among you that the gentiles should hear by my mouth the word of the gospel and believe.

that the rest of men may seek the Lord, even all the nations on whom my name has been called, says the Lord who does these things,

And when he went through the cities he gave them the ordinances to observe which had been determined by the apostles and elders at Jerusalem.

And when these things were accomplished, Paul was disposed by the Spirit, passing through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there I must see Rome.

and they have been informed of you, that you teach all the Jews among the gentiles to apostatize from Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children, nor to walk according to the customs.

And the procurator making a sign to him to speak, Paul answered, Knowing that you have been for many years a judge of this nation, I shall defend myself cheerfully,

Then there having been long abstinence from food, Paul stood up in the midst of them and said, You ought, men, taking my advice, not to have sailed from Crete, and to have saved this injury and loss.

BUT now God's righteousness has been made manifest without the law, being testified to by the law and the prophets,

Having been justified therefore by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

through whom also we have been introduced into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.

and the hope makes not ashamed, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit given us.

We have been buried therefore with him through baptism in death, that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life.

For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall much more be of his resurrection;

But now having been made free from sin and made servants to God, you have your fruit in sanctification, and the end eternal life.

For we know that all the creation groans and is in pain till now;

who is he that condemns? Is it Christ who died, and still more, who has also been raised, and who is on the right hand of God, and who makes intercession for us?

that I have great grief and continual pain in my heart;

As also Isaiah said before, Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a posterity, we should have been like Sodom, and should have resembled Gomorrah.

and how shall they preach unless they have been sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of those that publish good news of peace, that publish good news of good things.

For if you have been cut from an olive wild by nature, and grafted contrary to nature into a good olive, how much more shall they according to nature be grafted into their own olive.

Let every soul be subject to the superior powers. For there is no power except from God, and the [powers] which exist have been ordained by God.

And I have been anxious so to preach where Christ was not named, that I might not build on another's foundation;

For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make some contribution for the poor of the saints at Jerusalem.

They have been pleased indeed, and their debtors they are; for if the nations have participated in their spiritual things, they ought also to serve them in things pertaining to the flesh.

that you receive her in the Lord worthily of the saints, and assist her in any thing in which she may have need of you; for she has been an assistant of many, and of myself also.

For I have been informed of you, my brothers, by the family of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

For I think that God has shown us the apostles last, as devoted to death, for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

to the Jews I have been as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to those under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain those under the law;