on reaching the house they saw the child with his mother Mary, they fell down to worship him, and opening their caskets they offered him gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh.

After they had gone, there appeared an angel of the Lord to Joseph in a dream, saying, "Rise, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt; stay there till I tell you. For Herod is going to search for the child and destroy him."

But when he noticed a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers, who told you to flee from the coming Wrath?

he said, "I will give you all that if you will fall down and worship me."

so he said to them, "Come, follow me, and I will make you fish for men."

"Blessed are those who feel poor in spirit! the Realm of heaven is theirs.

Why do you note the splinter in your brother's eye and fail to see the plank in your own eye?

[Relocated to follow vs 20] Any tree that does not produce sound fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

The rain came down, the floods rose, the winds blew and beat upon that house, but it did not fall, for it was founded on rock.

The rain came down, the floods rose, the winds blew and beat upon that house, and down it fell ??with a mighty crash."

A scribe came up and said to him, "Teacher, I will follow you anywhere";

Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead."

As Jesus passed along from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax-office; he said to him, "Follow me"; and he rose and followed him.

When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next; truly I tell you, you will not have covered the towns of Israel before the Son of man arrives.

Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground unless your Father wills it.

he who will not take his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me.

But when the Pharisees heard of it they said, "This fellow only casts out daemons by Beelzebul the prince of daemons."

You brood of vipers, how can you speak good when you are evil? For the mouth utters what the heart is full of.

and as he sowed some seeds fell on the road and the birds came and ate them up.

Some other seeds fell on stony soil where they had not much earth, and shot up at once because they had no depth of soil;

Some other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them.

Some other seeds fell on good soil and bore a crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirtyfold.

When it was full, they dragged it to the beach and sitting down they gathered the good fish into vessels but flung away the bad.

When evening fell, the disciples came up to him and said, "It is a desert place and the day is now gone; send off the crowds to buy food for themselves in the villages."

Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind, and if one blind man leads another, both of them will fall into a pit."

"No, sir," she said, "but even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master's table."

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me;

When the disciples heard the voice they fell on their faces in terror;

So the servant fell down and prayed him, 'Have patience with me, and I will pay you it all.'

But as that servant went away, he met one of his fellow-servants who owed him twenty pounds, and seizing him by the throat he said, 'Pay your debt!'

So his fellow-servant fell down and implored him, saying, 'Have patience with me, and I will pay you.'

Now when his fellow-servants saw what had happened they were greatly distressed, and they went and explained to their master all that had happened.

Ought you not to have had mercy on your fellow-servant, as I had on you?'

Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go and sell your property, give the money to the poor and you shall have treasure in heaven; then come and follow me."

Tell the daughter of Sion, 'Here is your king coming to you, He is gentle and mounted on an ass, And on a colt the foal of a beast of burden.'

Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! you are like tombs white-washed; they look comely on the outside, but inside they are full of dead men's bones and all manner of impurity.

So to men you seem just, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

And you will fill up the measure that your fathers filled.

it is that on you may fall the punishment for all the just blood shed on earth from the blood of Abel the just down to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it!

and if he starts to beat his fellow-servants and to eat and drink with drunkards,

But he took Peter and the two sons of Zebedaeus along with him; and when he began to feel distressed and agitated,

Then he went forward a little and fell on his face praying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass me. Yet, not what I will but what thou wilt."

and said, "This fellow declared, 'I can destroy the temple of God and build it in three days.'"

When he went out to the gateway another maidservant noticed him and said to those who were there, "This fellow was with Jesus the Nazarene."

Then Jesus came forward to them and said, "Full authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth;

so Jesus said to them, "Come, follow me and I will make you fish for men."

he called them at once, and they left their father Zebedaeus in the boat with the crew and went to follow him.

As he passed along he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax-office; he said to him, "Follow me," and he rose and followed him.

And whenever the unclean spirits saw him they fell down before him, screaming, "You are the Son of God!"

and as he sowed it chanced that some seed fell on the road, and the birds came and ate it up;

some other seed fell on stony soil where it had not much earth, and it shot up at once because it had no depth of earth,

some other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked it, so it bore no crop;

some other seed fell on good soil and bore a crop that sprang up and grew, yielding at the rate of thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold."

(For the earth bears crops by itself, the blade first, the ear of corn next, and then the grain full in the ear.)

And he woke up, checked the wind, and told the sea, "Peace, be quiet." The wind fell and there was a great calm.

A president of the synagogue called Jairus came up, and on catching sight of him fell at his feet

and the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came forward in fear and trembling and fell down before him, telling him all the truth.

Then the Pharisees and scribes put this question to him, "Why do your disciples not follow the tradition of the elders? Why do they take their food with 'common' hands?"

a woman heard of him, whose daughter had an unclean spirit, and she came in and fell at his feet

Do you not remember how many baskets full of fragments you picked up when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand?" They said, "Twelve."

Then he called the crowd to him with his disciples and said to them, "If anyone wishes to follow me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and so follow me;

So they brought the boy to him, and when the spirit saw Jesus it at once convulsed the boy; he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth.

John said to him, "Teacher, we saw a man casting out daemons in your name; but he does not follow us, and so we stopped him."

Jesus looked at him and loved him. "There is one thing you want," he said; "go and sell all you have; give the money to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, take up the cross, and follow me."

But his face fell at that, and he went sadly away, for he had great possessions.

The passover and the festival of unleavened bread fell two days later; so the high priests and scribes were trying how to get hold of him by craft and have him put to death.

So he despatched two of his disciples, telling them, "Go into the city and you will meet a man carrying a water-jar; follow him,

and when evening fell he arrived along with the twelve.

But he took Peter and James and John along with him; and as he began to feel appalled and agitated,

Then he went forward a little and fell to the earth, praying that the hour might pass away from him, if possible.

one young man did follow him, with only a linen sheet thrown round his body, but when the [young] men seized him

Again the maidservant who had noticed him began to tell the bystanders, "That fellow is one of them."

And for those who believe, these miracles will follow: they will cast out daemons in my name, they will talk in foreign tongues,

it fell to him by lot, as was the custom of the priesthood, to enter the sanctuary of the Lord and burn incense,

When Zechariah saw him he was troubled, and fear fell on him;

Then fear fell on all their neighbours, and all these events were talked of through the whole of the hill-country of Judaea.

After spending the full number of days they came back, but the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know of this;

Every valley shall be filled up, every hill and mound laid low, the crooked made straight, the rough roads smooth;

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?

From the Jordan Jesus came back full of the holy Spirit,

But when Simon Peter saw it he fell at the knees of Jesus, crying, "Lord, leave me; I am a sinful man."

When he was in one of their towns, there was a man full of leprosy who, on seeing Jesus, fell on his face and besought him, "If you only choose, sir, you can cleanse me."

On going outside after this he noticed a taxgatherer called Levi sitting at the tax-office and said to him, "Follow me";

Woe to you who have your fill to-day! you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh to-day! you will wail and weep.

He also told them a parabolic word: "Can one blind man lead another? will they not both fall into a pit?

Why do you note the splinter in your brother's eye and fail to see the plank in your own eye?

The good man produces good from the good stored in his heart, and the evil man evil from his evil: for a man's mouth utters what his heart is full of.

His fellow guests began to say to themselves, "Who is this, to forgive even sins?"

"A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some seed fell on the road and was trampled down, and the wild birds ate it up;

some other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up along with it and choked it;

some other seed fell on sound soil, and springing up bore a crop, a hundredfold." When he said this he called out, "He who has an ear, let him listen to this."

Those 'on the rock' are people who on hearing the word welcome it with enthusiasm, but they have no root; they believe for a while and fall away in the hour of trial.

As for the seed that fell among thorns, that means people who hear but who go and get choked with worries and money and the pleasures of life, so that they never ripen.

During the voyage he fell asleep. But when a gale of wind came down on the lake and they were being swamped and in peril,

And they all ate and had enough. What they had left over was picked up, twelve baskets full of fragments.

He said to all, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross day after day, and so follow me;

And as they journeyed along the road a man said to him, "I will follow you anywhere."

He said to another man, "Follow me"; but he said, "Let me go and bury my father first of all."

Another man also said to him, "I will follow you, Lord. But let me first say good-bye to my people at home."