Then Herod, because he saw that a trick had been played on him by the stargazers, was very angry, and sent and slaughtered all the boy babies in Bethlehem and in all that neighborhood, from two years down, in accordance with the time which he had found out from the stargazers.

He went to a town called Nazareth and made his home there, so that the saying of the prophet was fulfilled: "He shall be called a Nazarene."

Now the axe is already lying at the roots of the trees. Every tree then that fails to bear good fruit is to be cut down and thrown into the fire.

And as soon as Jesus was baptized, He at once went up out of the water, and look! the heavens opened, and John saw the Spirit of God coming down like a dove upon Him,

and said to Him, "If you are God's Son, throw yourself down, for the Scripture says: "'He will give His angels directions about you, And they will bear you up on their hands, so you will never strike your foot against a stone.'"

So if your right eye causes you to do wrong, pluck it out of your way; for it is better to have one part of your body suffer loss than to have your whole body go down to the pit.

And if your right hand causes you to do wrong, cut it off and put it out of your way, for it is better to have one part of your body suffer loss than to have your whole body go down to the pit.

to prove that you are sons of your Father in heaven, for He makes His sun rise on bad as well as good people, and makes the rain come down on doers of right and of wrong alike.

Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is done in heaven.

Any tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and burned up.

When he came down from the mountain, great crowds followed Him.

Then Jesus said to the captain, "Go; it must be done for you as you have believed." And his servant-boy was cured that very hour.

So they went to Him and woke Him up, and said, "Lord, save us; we are going down!"

And the men who fed them fled, and went off to the town, and told it all, and what occurred to the two men who were under the power of demons.

And suddenly all the town turned out to meet Jesus, and as soon as they saw Him, they begged Him to move on and leave their neighborhood.

And He got into a boat and crossed to the other side, and went into His home town.

Then He touched their eyes, and said, "In accordance with your faith it must be done for you."

Jesus sent these twelve out, after giving them the following charge: "Do not go to the heathen, or to any Samaritan town,

Into whatever town or village you go, inquire for some deserving person, and stay at his house until you leave the place.

I tell you, the punishment on the day of judgment will be lighter for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.

But whenever they persecute you in one town, flee to a different one. For I solemnly say to you, you will not cover all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man returns.

Then He began to censure the cities in which His many, many wonder-works had been done, because they did not repent.

"A curse on you, Chorazin! A curse on you, Bethsaida! For if the wonder-works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, long ago they would have repented in sackcloth and ashes.

And you, Capernaum, are you to be exalted to heaven? No, you belong to the regions of the dead! For if the wonder-works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have continued until today.

He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' Then they said to him, 'Do you want us, then, to go and gather them?'

"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet that was let down into the sea, and gathered fish of every kind,

which, when it was full, the fishermen drew up on the shore, and sat down and picked out the good fish for their baskets and threw the bad away.

He went to His own home town, and kept teaching in their synagogue in such a way that they were dumbfounded, and said, "Where did He get this wisdom and this power to do such wonder-works?

After ordering the crowds to sit down on the grass, He took the five loaves and two fish and looked up to heaven and blessed them; then He broke the loaves in pieces and gave them to the disciples, and they gave them to the people.

And He said, "Come." And Peter got down out of the boat and walked on the water, and he went toward Jesus.

But when he felt the wind, he was frightened, and as he began to go down, he cried out, "Lord, save me!"

"Why do your disciples break the rules handed down by our forefathers? For they do not practice washing their hands when they take their meals."

But He answered, "Why do you too break God's command for the sake of the rules that have been handed down to you?

is under no obligation at all to help his parent.' So you have set aside what God has said for the sake of what has been handed down to you.

Then He ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground,

For the Son of Man is going to come in His Father's splendor, with His angels, and then He will pay back to everyone in accordance with what he has done.

And as they were going down the mountain, Jesus warned them, saying, "Never mention to anyone what you have seen until the Son of Man is raised from the dead."

but still, that we may not influence them to do anything wrong, go down to the sea and throw over a hook. Pull in the first fish that bites, open its mouth and you will find in it a dollar. Take it and pay the tax for both of us."

And when he began, a man was brought to him who owed him ten million dollars.

So the slave fell down at his feet and pleaded, 'Give me time, and I will pay you every cent of it.'

"And his fellow-slave fell down before him and pleaded, 'Give me time, and I will pay you.'

Ought you not to have shown mercy to your fellow-slave, as I too had done for you?'

When the other ten heard of it, they were indignant at the two brothers.

And Jesus went into the temple and drove out all the buyers and sellers, and turned the money-changers' tables and the dove-dealers' seats upside down,

And Jesus answered them, "I solemnly say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt at all, you will not only do the sort of wonder done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, 'Get up and throw yourself into the sea,' it will be done.

The second also died, and the third, and all down to the seventh.

"A curse on you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees! For you pay tithes on mint and dill and cummin, and yet leave out the more vital matters of the law, justice, love and fidelity. These latter especially you ought to have done, but ought not to have left out the former.

You blind leaders, who are straining out the gnat but gulping down the camel!

But He answered them, "Do you see all these things? I solemnly say to you, there shall not be left here one stone upon another that shall not be torn down."

let him who is on the roof of his house not come down to get his household goods out;

"Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten bridesmaids who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

His master said to him 'Well done, my good and faithful slave, you have been faithful in the use of a small amount; I will put you in charge of a larger one. Come, share your master's joy!'

His master said to him, 'Well done, my good and faithful slave, you have been faithful in the use of a small amount; I will put you in charge of a larger one. Come, share your master's joy!'

So take the thousand dollars away from him and give it to him who has ten thousand.

But Jesus, because He understood them, said to them, "Why do you embarrass the woman? She has done a good deed to me,

For in putting this perfume on my body she has done it to prepare me for my burial.

I solemnly say to you, all over the world wherever this good news is proclaimed, the good deed that she has done will be told, in memory of her."

Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and He said to the disciples, "Sit down here while I go over yonder and pray."

A second time He went away and prayed, "My Father, if it cannot pass by without my drinking it, your will be done."

and said, "This man said, 'I can tear down the temple of God, and build it again in three days.'"

He asked, "Why, what has He done that is wrong?" But they kept on shouting louder and louder, "Have Him crucified!"

and sitting down they kept watch of Him there.

and saying, "You who would tear down the temple and build another in three days, save yourself! If you are really the Son of God, come down from the cross."

"He saved others but He cannot save Himself. He is the king of Israel, is He? Well, let Him come down from the cross, and we will believe in Him.

Now there had been a great earthquake. For an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and went and rolled the boulder back and remained sitting upon it.

So they took the money and did as they were told. And this story has been told among the Jews down to the present time.

and as soon as they saw Him, they fell down and worshiped Him, though some were in doubt about it.

and teach them to practice all the commands that I have given you. And I myself will surely be with you all the days, down to the very close of an age."

He kept preaching the following message, "After me there is coming One who is stronger than I am, whose shoes I am not fit to stoop down and untie.

And just as soon as He started to come up out of the water, He saw the heavens split open and the Spirit coming down like a dove to enter Him.

In the evening, when the sun had gone down, they kept on bringing to Him all the people who were sick or under the power of demons,

and the whole town gathered at the door.

But he went out and began to publish it so much and to spread the story so far, that Jesus could not any more go into any town openly, but had to stay out in thinly settled places. But the people kept coming to Him from every quarter.

And as they could not get him near to Jesus, on account of the crowd, they dug through the roof over the spot where He was standing and let the pallet down that the paralyzed man was lying on.

He went out of the town again and along the seashore, and all the people kept coming to Him and He kept teaching them.

And whenever the foul spirits saw Him, they fell down before Him and screamed, "You are the Son of God."

And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem kept saying, "He is under the spell of Beelzebub and by the help of the prince of the demons He drives out the demons."

He was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. So they woke Him up and said to Him, "Teacher, is it no concern to you that we are going down?"

On catching a glimpse of Jesus from a distance, he ran up and fell down on his knees before Him,

Then the hog-feeders fled and spread the news in the town and in the country around; and the people came to see what had taken place.

However, He did not let him, but said to him, "Go home to your folks, and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and has taken pity on you."

And so he went away and began to tell everybody in the Ten Cities how much Jesus had done for him; and everybody was dumbfounded.

Still He kept looking around to see her who had done it.

When the Sabbath came, He began to teach in the synagogue. And the people were dumbfounded when they heard Him, and said, "Where did He get all these things? What sort of wisdom is it that has been given Him? And such mighty deeds are done by Him!

So Herodias had it in for him and wanted to have him killed. But she could not have it done,

The apostles returned and met Jesus and reported to Him everything, how many things they had done and taught.

Then He ordered them all to sit down in rows on the green grass.

And so they tumbled down in groups of hundreds and fifties.

For the Pharisees and all the Jews practice the customs handed down to them from their forefathers,

And so the Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, "Why is it that your disciples do not practice the customs handed down from our forefathers, but eat their meals without purifying their hands?"

you cling to what men hand down. You are fine teachers to cancel what God commanded, in order to keep what men have handed down!

and so you set aside what God has said by what you have handed down. You have many other practices like these."

He left the neighborhood of Tyre and went by way of Sidon through the district of the Ten Cities down to the Sea of Galilee.

So the people were overwhelmingly dumbfounded, and kept saying, "How wonderfully He has done everything! He even makes deaf people hear and dumb people talk."

So He ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then He took the seven loaves and gave thanks and broke them in pieces and gave them to His disciples to pass, and they passed them to the people.

And while they were going down the mountain, He cautioned them not to tell anyone what they had seen, until the Son of Man should rise from the dead.

So He sat down and called the Twelve to Him and said, "If anyone wants to be the first, he must be the last of all and the servant of all."

If your hand makes you do wrong, cut it off. You might better go into life maimed than keep both your hands and go down to the pit, to the fire that is never put out.

When the other ten heard of it, they were at first very indignant at James and John.

In the morning as they were passing along, they noticed that the fig tree was withered, clear down to its roots.