As Joseph her husband was a just man but unwilling to disgrace her, he resolved to divorce her secretly;

but after he had planned this, there appeared an angel of the Lord to him in a dream saying, "Joseph, son of David, fear not to take Mary your wife home, for what is begotten in her comes from the holy Spirit.

but he did not live with her as a husband till she bore a son, whom he called Jesus.

A cry was heard in Rama, weeping and sore lamentation ??Rachel weeping for her children, and inconsolable because they are no more.

This John had his clothes made of camel's hair, with a leather girdle round his loins; his food was locusts and wild honey.

But I tell you, any one who even looks with lust at a woman has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

It used to be said, Whoever divorces his wife must give her a divorce-certificate.

But I tell you, anyone who divorces his wife for any reason except unchastity makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

nor shall you swear by your head, for you cannot make a single hair white or black.

Then Jesus said to the captain, "Go; as you have had faith, your prayer is granted." And the servant was cured at that very hour.

so he touched her hand; the fever left her and she rose and ministered to him.

They shrieked, "Son of God, what business have you with us? Have you come here to torture us before it is time?"

As he said this, an official came in and knelt before him, saying, "My daughter is just dead; do come and lay your hand on her, and she will live."

Then Jesus turned round, and when he saw her he said, "Courage, my daughter, your faith has made you well." And the woman was well from that hour.

But after the crowd had been put out, he went in and took her hand, and the girl rose up.

what I tell you in the dark, you must utter in the open, what you hear in a whisper you must proclaim on the housetop.

I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;

Jesus answered them, "Go and report to John what you hear and see:

the blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, and the dead are raised.

This is he of whom it is written, Here I send my messenger before your face to prepare the way for you.

the Son of man has come eating and drinking, and men say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of taxgatherers and sinners!' Nevertheless, Wisdom is vindicated by all that she does."

I tell you, One is here who is greater than the temple.

Here is my servant whom I have selected, my Beloved in whom my soul delights; I will invest him with my Spirit, and he will proclaim religion to the Gentiles.

He will not wrangle or shout, no one will hear his voice in the streets.

The men of Ninive will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for when Jonah preached they did repent, and here is One greater than Jonah.

The queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon, and here is One greater than Solomon.

Stretching out his hand towards his disciples he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers!

This is why I speak to them in parables, because for all their seeing they do not see and for all their hearing they do not hear or understand.

In their case the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled: You will hear and hear but never understand, you will see and see but never perceive.

For the heart of this people is obtuse, their ears are heavy of hearing, their eyes they have closed, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they understand with their heart and turn again, and I cure them.

But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears, for they hear!

I tell you truly, many prophets and good men have longed to see what you see, but they have not seen it; and to hear what you hear, but they have not heard it.

Are not his sisters settled here among us? Then where has he got all this?"

since John had told him, "You have no right to her."

whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatever she wanted.

And she, at the instigation of her mother, said, "Give me John the Baptist's head this moment on a dish."

The king was sorry, but for the sake of his oath and his guests he ordered it to be given her;

his head was brought on a dish and given to the girl, and she took it to her mother.

He said, "Bring them here to me."

Then the disciples came up and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees have taken offence at what they hear you say?"

But he made no answer to her. Then his disciples came up and pressed him, saying, "Send her away, she is wailing behind us."

At that Jesus replied, "O woman, you have great faith; your prayer is granted as you wish." And from that hour her daughter was cured.

I tell you truly, there are some of those standing here who will not taste death till they see the Son of man coming himself to reign."

So Peter addressed Jesus and said, "Lord, it is a good thing we are here; pray let me put up three tents here, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

Jesus answered, "O faithless and perverse generation, how long must I still be with you? How long have I to bear with you? Bring him here to me."

So Jesus checked the daemon and it came out of him, and from that hour the boy was healed.

He said to them, "Because you have so little faith. I tell you truly, if you had faith the size of a grain of mustard-seed, you could say to this hill, 'Move from here to there,' and remove it would; nothing would be impossible for you."

At that hour the disciples came and asked Jesus, "Who is greatest in the Realm of heaven?"

For the Realm of heaven is like a householder who went out early in the morning to hire labourers for his vineyard;

'These last,' they said, 'have only worked a single hour, and yet you have ranked them equal to us who have borne the brunt of the day's work and the heat!'

Then the mother of the sons of Zebedaeus came up to him with her sons, praying him for a favour.

He said to her, "What do you want?" She said, "Give orders that my two sons are to sit at your right hand and at your left in your Realm."

saying to them, "Go to the village in front of you and you will at once find an ass tethered with a colt alongside of her; untether them and bring them to 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.'

they said to him, "Do you hear what they are saying?" "Yes," said Jesus, "have you never read Thou hast brought praise to perfection from the mouth of babes and sucklings?"

But when the vinedressers saw his son they said to themselves, 'Here is the heir; come on, let us kill him and seize his inheritance!'

Once more he sent some other servants, saying, 'Tell the invited guests, here is my supper all prepared, my oxen and fat cattle are killed, everything is ready; come to the marriage-banquet.'

So he said to him, 'My man, how did you get in here without a wedding-robe?' The man was speech less.

Now at the resurrection whose wife will she be? They all had her."

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!

but he replied to them, "You see all this? I tell you truly, not a stone here will be left upon another, without being torn down."

You will hear of wars and rumours of wars; see and do not be alarmed. These have to come, but it is not the end yet.

For nation will rise against nation, and realm against realm; there will be famines and earthquakes here and there.

If anyone tells you at that time, 'Here is the Christ!' or, 'there he is!' do not believe it;

If they tell you, 'Here he is in the desert,' do not go out; 'here he is in the chamber,' do not believe it.

Immediately after the misery of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not yield her light, the stars will drop from heaven and the orbs of the heavens will be shaken.

Now no one knows anything about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, but only my Father.

So be ready yourselves, for the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

that servant's lord and master will arrive on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour which he does not know;

But at midnight the cry arose, 'Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!'

Keep on the watch then, for you know neither the day nor the hour.

Then the servant who had got the twelve hundred pounds came forward, bringing twelve hundred more; he said, 'You handed me twelve hundred pounds, sir; here I have gained another twelve hundred.'

Then the servant with the five hundred pounds came forward. He said, 'You handed me five hundred pounds, sir; here I have gained another five hundred.'

I tell you truly, wherever this gospel is preached through all the world, men will speak of what she has done in memory of her."

Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he told the disciples, "Sit here till I go over there and pray."

he said to them, "My heart is sad, sad even to death; stay here and watch with me."

Then he went to the disciples and found them asleep; and he said to Peter, "So the three of you could not watch with me for a single hour?

Then he went to the disciples and said to them, "Still asleep? still resting? The hour is near, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

Come, get up and let us go. Here is my betrayer close at hand!"

At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, "Have you sallied out to arrest me like a robber, with swords and cudgels? Day after day I sat in the temple teaching, and you never seized me.

Then Pilate said to him, "Do you not hear all their evidence against you?"

He is not here, he has risen, as he told you he would. See, here is the place where he [the Lord] lay.

As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, Here I send my messenger before your face to prepare the way for you:

John was dressed in camel's hair, with a leather girdle round his loins, and he ate locusts and wild honey.

Simon's mother-in-law was in bed with fever, so they told him at once about her,

and he went up to her and taking her hand made her rise; the fever left her at once and she ministered to them.

but he said to them, "Let us go somewhere else, to the adjoining country-towns, so that I may preach there as well; that is why I came out here."

there was a crowd sitting round him, and he was told, "Here are your mother and brothers and sisters wanting you outside."

He added, "Anyone who has ears to hear, let him listen to this."

As for those 'on the road,' when the seed is sown there ??as soon as they hear it, Satan at once comes and carries off the word sown within them.

If anyone has an ear to hear, let him listen to this."

Also he said to them, "Take care what you hear; the measure you deal out to others will be dealt out to yourselves, and you will receive extra.

with earnest entreaties. "My little girl is dying," he said, "do come and lay your hands on her that she may recover and live,"

And there was a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years ??26 she had suffered a great deal under a number of doctors and had spent all her means but was none the better; in fact she was rather worse.

And at once the hemorrhage stopped, and she felt in her body that she was cured of her complaint.

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.

He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace and be free from your complaint."

then he took the child's hand and said to her, "Talitha koum" ??which may be translated, "Little girl, I am telling you to rise."

But he strictly forbade them to let anyone know about it, and told them to give her something to eat.

Is this not the joiner, the son of Mary and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? Are not his sisters settled here among us?" So they were repelled by him.