Now when Jesus had been baptized, the moment he rose out of the water, the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God coming down like a dove upon him.

Ask and the gift will be yours, seek and you will find, knock and the door will open to you;

Now, everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts upon them will be like a sensible man who built his house on rock.

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.

And everyone who listens to these words of mine and does not act upon them will be like a stupid man who built his house on sand.

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

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.

Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find your souls refreshed;

He replied, "Because it is granted you to understand the open secrets of the Realm of heaven, but it is not granted to these people.

Jesus said all this to the crowds in parables; he never spoke to them except in a parable ??35 to fulfil what had been said by the prophet, I will open my mouth in parables, I will speak out what has been hidden since the foundation of the world.

However, not to give any offence to them, go to the sea, throw a hook in, and take the first fish you bring up. Open its mouth and you will find a five-shilling piece; take that and give it to them for me and for yourself."

Then he laid his hands on them and went upon his way.

And when he went out at five o'clock he came upon some others who were standing; he said to them, 'Why have you stood doing nothing all the day?'

[Everyone who falls on this stone will be shattered, and whoever it falls upon will be crushed.]"

The whole Law and the prophets hang upon these two commands."

You say again, 'Swear by the altar, and it means nothing; but swear by the gift upon it, and the oath is binding.'

he who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits upon it.

I tell you truly, it will all come upon this generation.

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."

Afterwards the rest of the maidens came and said, 'Oh sir, oh sir, open the door for us!'

And the moment he rose from the water he saw the heavens cleft and the Spirit coming down upon him like a dove;

and he said to them: "The open secret of the Realm of God is granted to you, but these outsiders get everything by way of parables,

He also said to them, "Is a lamp brought to be placed under a bowl or a bed? Is it not to be placed upon the stand?

and looking up to heaven with a sigh he said to him, "Ephphatha" (which means, Open).

they prey upon the property of widows and offer long unreal prayers. All the heavier will their sentence be!"

They struck him on the head with a stick and spat upon him and bent their knees to him in homage.

The angel answered her, "The holy Spirit will come upon you, the power of the Most High will overshadow you; hence what is born will be called holy, Son of God.

and an angel of the Lord flashed upon them, the glory of the Lord shone all round them. They were terribly afraid,

and as for Mary, she treasured it all up and mused upon it.

Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Symeon, an upright and devout man, who was on the outlook for the Consolation of Israel. The holy Spirit was upon him;

and the holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon him; and a voice came from heaven, "Thou art my son, the Beloved, to-day have I become thy father."

and was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah; on opening the book he came upon the place where it was written,

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me: for he has consecrated me to preach the gospel to the poor, he has sent me to proclaim release for captives and recovery of sight for the blind, to set free the oppressed,

Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and acts upon them, I will show you whom he is like.

so he said, "It is granted you to understand the open secrets of the Reign of God, but the others get it in parables, so that for all their seeing they may not see, and for all their hearing they may not understand.

So I tell you, ask and the gift will be yours, seek and you will find, knock and the door will open to you;

it was that the blood of all the prophets shed from the foundation of the world might be charged upon this generation,

from the blood of Abel down to the blood of Zechariah who was slain between the altar and the House of God ??yes, I tell you, it will all be charged upon this generation.

and be like men who are expecting their lord and master on his return from a marriage-banquet, so as to open the door for him at once when he comes and knocks.

once the master of the House has got up and closed the door. You may stand outside and knock at the door, crying, 'Lord, open for us,' but he will answer you, 'I do not know where you come from.'

"Which of you," he said to them, "when an ass or an ox has fallen into a well, will not pull him out at once upon the sabbath day?"

So he got up and went off to his father. But when he was still far away his father saw him and felt pity for him and ran to fall upon his neck and kiss him.

He also told the following parable to certain persons who were sure of their own goodness and looked down upon everybody else.

So they brought it to Jesus, and throwing their clothes on the colt they mounted Jesus upon it.

and raze you and your children within you to the ground, leaving not one stone upon another within you ??and all because you would not understand when God was visiting you."

but they could not discover what was to be done, for the whole of the people hung upon his lips.

Everyone who falls on that stone will be shattered, and whoever it falls upon will be crushed."

they prey upon the property of widows and offer long unreal prayers. All the heavier will their sentence be!"

"As for what you see, there are days coming when not a stone will be left upon another, without being torn down."

Woe to women with child and to women who give suck in those days, for sore anguish will come upon the land and Wrath on this people;

For it will come upon all dwellers on the face of all the earth.

Nobody has ever seen God, but God has been unfolded by the divine One, the only Son, who lies upon the Father's breast.

He said to him, "Truly, truly I tell you all, you shall see heaven open wide and God's angels ascending and descending upon the Son of man."

Moses gave you the rite of circumcision (not that it came from Moses, it came from your ancestors), and you will circumcise a man upon the sabbath.

Well, if a man gets circumcised upon the sabbath, to avoid breaking the Law of Moses, are you enraged at me for curing, not cutting, the entire body of a man upon the sabbath?

I have a great deal to say about you and many a judgment to pass upon you; but he who sent me is true, and so I tell the world what I have learned from him."

"What did he do to you?" they repeated; "How did he open your eyes?"

It is unheard of, since the world began, that anyone should open a blind man's eyes.

Others said, "These are not a madman's words. Can a madman open the eyes of the blind?"

Whereupon the Jews said, "See how he loved him!" ??37 though some of them asked, "Could he not have prevented him from dying, when he could open a blind man's eyes?"

He will glorify me, for he will draw upon what is mine and disclose it to you.

All that the Father has is mine; that is why I say, 'he will draw upon what is mine and disclose it to you.'

Upon this the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, went inside too, and when he saw for himself he was convinced.

You will receive power when the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses at Jerusalem, throughout all Judaea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."

Then they cast lots for them, and the lot fell upon Matthias, who was assigned his position with the eleven apostles.

No, this is what was predicted by the prophet Joel ??17 In the last days, saith God, then will I pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, your sons and daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams:

the sun shall be changed into darkness and the moon into blood, ere the great, open Day of the Lord arrives.

if we are being cross-examined to-day upon a benefit rendered to a cripple, upon how this man got better,

the apostles gave their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus with great power, and great grace was upon them all.

these men they presented to the apostles, who, after prayer, laid their hands upon them.

Next day he came upon two of them fighting and tried to pacify them. "You are brothers!" he said, "why injure one another?"

"Look," he said, "I see heaven open and the Son of man standing at God's right hand!"

(As yet it had not fallen upon any of them; they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)

Saul got up from the ground, but though his eyes were open he could see nothing; so they took his hand and led him to Damascus.

and he has seen a man called Ananias enter and lay his hands upon him to bring back his sight."

Barnabas, however, got hold of him and brought him to the apostles. To them he related how he had seen the Lord upon the road, how He had spoken to him, and how he had spoken freely in the name of Jesus at Damascus.

He saw heaven open and a vessel coming down, like a huge sheet lowered by the four corners to the earth,

While Peter was still speaking, the holy Spirit fell upon all who listened to what he said.

Now just as I began to speak, the holy Spirit fell upon them as upon us at the beginning;

As there was a bitter feud between him and the inhabitants of Tyre and Sidon, they waited on him unanimously, and after conciliating the royal chamberlain Blastus they made overtures for peace, as their country depended for its food-supply upon the royal territory.

See here, the Lord's hand will fall on you, and you will be blind, unable for a time to see the sun." In a moment a dark mist fell upon him, and he groped about for someone to take him by the hand.

The crowd also joined in the attack upon them, while the praetors, after having them stripped and after ordering them to be flogged with rods,

all of a sudden there was a great earthquake which shook the very foundations of the prison; the doors all flew open in an instant and the fetters of all the prisoners were unfastened.

When the jailer started from his sleep and saw the prison-doors open, he drew his sword and was on the point of killing himself, supposing the prisoners had made their escape;

Why, as I passed along and scanned your objects of worship, I actually came upon an altar with the inscription TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Well, I proclaim to you what you worship in your ignorance.

But as these are merely questions of words and persons and your own Law, you can attend to them for yourselves. I decline to adjudicate upon matters like that."

and after Paul laid his hands on them the holy Spirit came upon them, they spoke with 'tongues' and prophesied.

but Paul went downstairs, threw himself upon him, and embraced him. "Do not lament," he said, "the life is still in him."

They all broke into loud lamentation and falling upon the neck of Paul kissed him fondly,

As Festus wanted to ingratiate himself with the Jews, he asked Paul, "Will you go up to Jerusalem and be tried there by me upon these charges?"

Then Agrippa said to Paul, "You have our permission to speak upon your own behalf." At this Paul stretched out his hand and began his defence.

Upon this, O king Agrippa, I did not disobey the heavenly vision;

asking if I may at last be sped upon my way to you by God's will.

'We know the doom of God falls justly upon those who practise such vices.'

Their throat is an open grave, they are treacherous with their tongues, the venom of an asp lies under their lips.

That is why all turns upon faith; it is to make the promise a matter of favour, to make it secure for all the offspring, not simply for those who are adherents of the Law but also for those who share the faith of Abraham ??of Abraham who is the father of us all

but the gift is very different from the trespass. For while the rest of men died by the trespass of one man, the grace of God and the free gift which comes by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ overflowed far more richly upon the rest of men.

and though the children were still unborn and had done nothing either good or bad (to confirm the divine purpose in election which depends upon the call of God, not on anything man does),

For if you have been cut from an olive which is naturally wild, and grafted, contrary to nature, upon a garden olive, how much more will the natural branches be grafted into their proper olive?

For God never goes back upon his gifts and call.