Then you could know how reliable the information is that you have been told.

But the angel told him, "Stop being afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to name him John.

You will have great joy and delight, and many will rejoice over his birth,

Listen carefully, you will be continually silent and unable to speak until the day when these things take place, because you did not believe what I told you; but my words will be fulfilled at their proper time.”

Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.

Then the angel told her:

Do not be afraid, Mary,
for you have found favor with God.

For, as soon as your greeting reached my ears, the child moved within me with delight!

And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.

And Mary dwelt with her about three months, and returned to her house.

but the mother told them, "No, the child is to be called John."

Their friends told her, "None of your relatives has that name."

And fear came on all that dwelt round about them: and all these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country of Judaea.

He has dealt mercifully with our fathers
and remembered His holy covenant—

Then the angel told them, "Stop being afraid! Listen! I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people.

When the angels had left them and gone back to heaven, the shepherds told one another, "Let's go to Bethlehem and see what has taken place that the Lord has told us about."

And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child.

And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds.

While Mary treasured up all that they said, and dwelt upon it in her thoughts.

And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.

At that time there dwelt at Jerusalem one Simeon, an honest, religious man, one who expected the appearance of the Messiah, and was endued with the spirit of prophecy.

and it hath been divinely told him by the Holy Spirit -- not to see death before he may see the Christ of the Lord.

Then Simeon blessed them and told His mother Mary: “Indeed, this child is destined to cause the fall and rise of many in Israel and to be a sign that will be opposed—

And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.

But they did not understand what he told them.

Then he went down along with them to Nazaret, and did as they told him. His mother treasured up everything in her heart.

To the crowds who came out to get baptized by him John said, "You brood of vipers, who told you to flee from the coming Wrath?

He told them, “Don’t collect any more than what you have been authorized.”

Even some soldiers were asking him, "And what should we do?" He told them, "Never extort money from anyone by threats or blackmail, and be satisfied with your pay."

And so with many different exhortations John told his Good News to the people.

But when Herod [Antipas] the tetrarch was repeatedly reprimanded [and convicted by John’s disapproval] for having Herodias, his brother’s wife [as his own], and for all the wicked things that Herod had done,

and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form as a dove upon him; and a voice came out of heaven, Thou art my beloved Son, in thee I have found my delight.

The Devil told him, "Since you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become a loaf of bread."

He told Jesus, "I will give you all this authority, along with their glory, because it has been given to me, and I give it to anyone I please.

The Devil also took him into Jerusalem and had him stand on the highest point of the Temple. He told Jesus, "Since you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here,

Jesus answered, "We have been told, 'You shall not try the Lord your God.' "

So he told them, "You will probably quote this proverb to me, "Doctor, heal yourself! Do everything here in your hometown that we hear you did in Capernaum.'"

And when it became daylight He left [Simon's house] and went to a deserted place [i.e., to pray. See Mark 1:35]. The crowds were looking for Him and [upon finding Him] went to Him and tried to discourage Him from leaving them.

But he told them, "I have to proclaim the good news about the kingdom of God in other cities, because I was sent to do that also."

When he had finished speaking, he told Simon, "Push out into deep water, and lower your nets for a catch."

and so were James and John, Zebedee’s sons, who were Simon’s partners.

“Don’t be afraid,” Jesus told Simon. “From now on you will be catching people!”

Then Jesus told Simon, "Stop being afraid. From now on you will be catching people." So when they brought the boats to shore, they left everything and followed Jesus.

But so you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—He told the paralyzed man, “I tell you: Get up, pick up your mat, and go home.”

After that, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax collector's desk. He told him, "Follow me!"

Then they told him, "John's disciples frequently fast and pray, and so do those of the Pharisees. But your disciples keep right on eating and drinking."

But Jesus told them, "You can't force the wedding guests to fast while the groom is still with them, can you?

He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and puts it on an old one; otherwise he will both tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old.

Then He told them, “The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

But He knew their thoughts and told the man with the paralyzed hand, “Get up and stand here.” So he got up and stood there.

After looking around at them all, He told him, “Stretch out your hand.” He did so, and his hand was restored.

When daylight came, He summoned His disciples, and He chose 12 of them—He also named them apostles:

give, and you will have ample measure given you ??they will pour into your lap measure pressed down, shaken together, and running over; for the measure you deal out to others will be dealt back to yourselves."

He also told them a parable: “Can a blind man guide [another] blind man? Will they not both fall into a hole in the ground?

When the Lord saw her, he felt compassion for her. He told her, "You can stop crying."

And the disciples of John told him of all these things.

And, answering, he said unto them - Go and bear tidings unto John, as to what ye have seen and heard: The blind, are receiving sight, the lame, walk, lepers, are cleansed, and, the deaf, hear, the dead, are raised, the destitute, are told the glad-message;

Now the Pharisee who had invited Jesus saw this and told himself, "If this man were a prophet, he would have known who is touching him and what kind of woman she is. She's a sinner!"

Jesus told him, "Simon, I have something to ask you." "Teacher," he replied, "ask it."

Simon answered, “I suppose the one he forgave more.”

“You have judged correctly,” He told him.

Then, turning to the woman, he told Simon, "Do you see this woman? I came into your house. You didn't give me any water for my feet, but this woman has washed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair.

Then Jesus told her, "Your sins are forgiven!"

But Jesus told the woman, "Your faith has saved you. Go in peace."

Then when a large crowd assembled and people from every town were coming to Jesus, He told them this parable [i.e., a brief story to illustrate His teaching]:

And He said to them, "You [disciples] are being given an understanding of the secrets of the kingdom of God, but the rest of the people [are being told] in parables, so that [even though they appear to be] seeing, they will not [actually] see; and [even though they seem to] hear, they will not understand.

And it was told him by certain which said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee.

One day He and His disciples got into a boat, and He told them, “Let’s cross over to the other side of the lake.” So they set out,

And when he came out upon the land, there met him a certain man from the city, who had been possessed with demons for a long time, and who wore no clothes, and dwelt in no house, but in the tombs.

When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went and told it in the city and in the country.

They also which saw it told them by what means he that was possessed of the devils was healed.

"Go back to your home, and tell all that God has done for you." And he went and told all over the town what Jesus had done for him.

And [when] the woman saw that she did not escape notice, she came trembling and falling down before him. In the presence of all the people, she told for what reason she had touched him, and that she was healed immediately.

Then he told her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace."

While he was still speaking, someone came from the synagogue leader's home and told him, "Your daughter is dead. Stop bothering the teacher anymore."

But when Jesus heard this, he told the synagogue leader, "Stop being afraid! Just believe, and she will get well."

Her spirit returned, and she got up immediately. Then he told them to give her something to eat.

“Take nothing for the road,” He told them, “no walking stick, no traveling bag, no bread, no money; and don’t take an extra shirt.

And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all that they had done. And he took them, and went aside privately into a desert place belonging to the city called Bethsaida.

“You give them something to eat,” He told them.

“We have no more than five loaves and two fish,” they said, “unless we go and buy food for all these people.”

(For about 5,000 men were there.)

Then He told His disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about 50 each.”

He told them that the Son of Man must undergo much suffering, and be rejected by the Councillors, and Chief Priests, and Teachers of the Law, and be put to death, and rise on the third day.

Then he told all of them, "If anyone wants to come with me, he must deny himself, pick up his cross every day, and follow me continuously,

Just as Moses and Elijah were leaving, Peter told Jesus, "Master, it's good that we're here! Let's set up three shelters one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah." (Peter didn't know what he was saying.)

And when the voice was past, Jesus was found alone. And they kept it close, and told no man in those days any of those things which they had seen.

And they were all astonished at the greatness of God.

While everyone was amazed at all the things He was doing, He told His disciples,

and He told them, “Whoever welcomes this child in My name welcomes Me; and whoever welcomes Me [also] welcomes Him who sent Me; for the one who is least among all of you [that is, the one who is genuinely humble—the one with a realistic self-view]—he is the one who is [truly] great.”

Then [the apostle] John answered and said, "Master, we saw someone driving out evil spirits by [using] your name, so we told him not to, because he was not following [you] with us."

But Jesus told him, “Do not stop him; for he who is not against you is for you.”

While they were walking along the road, a man told him, "I will follow you wherever you go."

And Jesus told him, “Foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.”

He told another man, "Follow me." But he said, "Lord, first let me go and bury my father."

But He told him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and spread the news of the kingdom of God.”

Jesus told him, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God."

He told them: “The harvest is abundant, but the workers are few. Therefore, pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.

He told them, "I watched Satan falling from heaven like lightning.

In the self-same hour, exulted he in the Holy Spirit, and said - I openly give praise unto thee, Father! Lord of heaven and earth! in that thou hast hid these things from the wise and discerning, and hast revealed them unto babes, - Yea, O Father! that, so, hath it become, a delight, before thee.

Then turning to his disciples in private, he told them, "How blessed are the eyes that see what you see!

“You’ve answered correctly,” He told him. “Do this and you will live.”

Then the next day he gave the lodge keeper two coins [Note: These coins amounted to two days of a farm laborer's pay, or about $140 in 1994] and told him, 'Take care of this [injured] man; and whatever more you have to spend on him I will repay you when I come back [this way] again.'

“The one who showed mercy to him,” he said.

Then Jesus told him, “Go and do the same.”

Once Jesus was praying in a certain place. After he had finished, one of his disciples told him, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples."

So he told them, "Whenever you pray you are to say, "Father, may your name be kept holy. May your kingdom come.