Now after the birth of Jesus at Bethlehem in Judea, in the days of King Herod, astrologers from the east arrived at Jerusalem,

When King Herod heard of this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

Then Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole Jordan valley went out to him,

Great crowds followed him about, from Galilee and the Ten Towns and Jerusalem and Judea and from the other side of the Jordan.

or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great king.

Then some Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, and said to him,

It was then that Jesus Christ for the first time explained to his disciples that he had to go to Jerusalem and endure great suffering there at the hands of the elders, high priests, and scribes, and be killed, and be raised to life on the third day.

When Jesus was about to go up to Jerusalem, he took the Twelve off by themselves, and said to them as they were on the way,

"We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the high priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death,

When they were near Jerusalem and had come to Bethphage and the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples on ahead,

When he came into Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred, and everyone asked, "Who is he?"

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! murdering the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you refused!

And all Judea and everybody in Jerusalem went out to him there, and accepted baptism from him in the Jordan River, acknowledging their sins.

and Jerusalem and Idumea and from the other side of the Jordan and from the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon a great many who had heard of the things he was doing came to him.

And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said that he was possessed by Beelzebub and drove out demons by the help of the prince of demons.

The Pharisees gathered about him with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem.

As they went on their way up to Jerusalem, Jesus walked ahead of them, and they were in dismay, and those who still followed were afraid. And he took the Twelve aside again and began to tell them what was going to happen to him.

"See!" he said, "we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the high priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death and hand him over to the heathen

When they were getting near Jerusalem, and had come to Bethphage and Bethany near the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples on ahead,

And he came into Jerusalem and into the Temple, and looked it all over; then, as it was already late, he went out with the Twelve to Bethany.

When they reached Jerusalem, he went into the Temple, and began to drive out of it those who were buying or selling things in it, and he upset the money-changers' tables and the pigeon-dealers' seats,

Then they went into Jerusalem again. And as Jesus was walking about in the Temple, the high priests, scribes, and elders came up

who used to accompany him and wait on him when he was in Galilee??esides many other women who had come up to Jerusalem with him.

When their purification period under the Law of Moses was over, they took him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord,

Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Symeon, an upright, devout man, who was living in expectation of the comforting of Israel, and under the influence of the holy Spirit.

She came up just at that time and gave thanks to God and spoke about the child to all who were living in expectation of the liberation of Jerusalem.

His parents used to go to Jerusalem every year at the Passover Festival.

When they started back the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem without his parents' knowledge.

As they could not find him, they went back to Jerusalem in search of him.

And he took him to Jerusalem, and made him stand on the summit of the Temple, and said to him, "If you are God's son, throw yourself down from here,

One day as he was teaching, there were some Pharisees and experts in the Law sitting near by, who had come from every village in Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was there, so that he might cure people.

And he came down with them and took his stand on a level place with a great throng of his disciples, and a large number of people from all over Judea and from Jerusalem and the seacoast district of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear him and to be cured of their diseases.

and they appeared in glory and spoke of his departure which he was to go through with at Jerusalem.

As the time approached when he was to be taken up to heaven, he set his face toward Jerusalem,

And the people there would not receive him, because he was going to Jerusalem.

Jesus replied, "A man was on his way down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers, and they stripped him and beat him and went off leaving him half dead.

Or those eighteen people at Siloam who were killed when the tower fell upon them??o you think they were worse offenders than all the other people who live in Jerusalem?

So he went about among the towns and villages, teaching and making his way toward Jerusalem.

But I must go on today and tomorrow and the next day, for it is not right for a prophet to die outside Jerusalem.'

O Jerusalem! Jerusalem! murdering the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you refused!

It happened that, on his way to Jerusalem, he passed through Samaria and Galilee.

And he took the Twelve aside and said to them, "See! we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything written in the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled.

As they were listening to this, Jesus went on to give them an illustration, because he was near Jerusalem and they supposed that the Kingdom of God was immediately going to appear.

With these words he went on ahead of them, on his way to Jerusalem.

But when you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, then you must understand that her devastation is at hand.

They will fall by the edge of the sword, and be carried off as prisoners among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled under foot by the heathen, until the time of the heathen comes.

and learning that he belonged to Herod's jurisdiction he turned him over to Herod, for Herod was in Jerusalem at that time.

But Jesus turned to them and said, "Women of Jerusalem, do not weep for me but weep for yourselves and for your children,

That same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem,

and one of them named Cleopas said to him, "Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know what has happened there lately?"

And they got up immediately and went back to Jerusalem, and found the eleven and their party all together,

You are to be witnesses to all this, beginning at Jerusalem.

And they went back with great joy to Jerusalem,

Now the Jewish Passover was approaching, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Now when he was at Jerusalem, at the Passover Festival, many, when they saw the signs that he showed, came to believe in him.

Our forefathers worshiped God on this mountain, and yet you Jews say that the place where people must worship God is at Jerusalem."

Jesus said to her, "Believe me, the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor at Jerusalem.

So when he reached Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, for they had seen everything he had done at Jerusalem, at the festival, for they too had gone to the festival.

After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheepgate a pool called in Hebrew Bethzatha, which has five colonnades.

Some of the people of Jerusalem said, "Is not this the man they want to kill?

That was the time of the Rededication Festival at Jerusalem. It was winter time

Now Bethany is only about two miles from Jerusalem,

Now the Jewish Passover Festival was approaching and many people went up to Jerusalem from the country, to purify themselves before the Passover.

On the following day the crowds that had come up to the festival, hearing that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

And once when he ate with them, he instructed them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised. "You have heard me speak of it," he said,

but you will be given power when the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be witnesses for me in Jerusalem and all over Judea and Samaria and to the very ends of the earth."

Then they went back to Jerusalem from the hill called the Olive-orchard, which is near Jerusalem, half a mile away.

This fact was well known to all the residents of Jerusalem, so that the piece of land came to be called in their language Akeldamach, the bloody field.)

Now there were devout Jews from every part of the world living in Jerusalem.

Then Peter stood up with the eleven around him, and raising his voice addressed them. "Men of Judea," he said, "and all you residents of Jerusalem, let me explain this to you, and pay attention to what I say.

On the next day the leading members of the council, the elders, and the scribes met in Jerusalem,

They said, "What are we to do with these men? For it is plain to everyone in Jerusalem that an extraordinary wonder has been done by them. We cannot deny that.

Even from the towns around Jerusalem crowds would come in bringing sick people and those who were troubled with foul spirits, and they were all cured.

"We strictly forbade you," he said, "to teach on this authority, and here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and propose to hold us responsible for this man's death!"

So God's message continued to spread; the number of the disciples in Jerusalem increased rapidly, and a great many priests accepted the faith.

And Saul entirely approved of his being put to death. A great persecution of the church in Jerusalem broke out that day, and they were all scattered over Judea and Samaria except the apostles.

When the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted God's message, they sent Peter and John there.

After they had given their testimony and delivered the Lord's message, they went back to Jerusalem, telling the good news in many Samaritan villages on the way.

But an angel of the Lord said to Philip, "Get up and go south, by the road that runs from Jerusalem to Gaza." (The town is now deserted.)

So he got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a member of the court of Candace, queen of Ethiopia, her chief treasurer, who had come up to Jerusalem to worship,

and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women there who belonged to the Way, he might bring them in chains to Jerusalem.

But Ananias answered, "Lord, I have heard many people tell of this man, and the harm he has done to your people in Jerusalem.

Everyone was astonished, and said, "Is not he the man who made such havoc of the people in Jerusalem who call upon that name, and who came here especially for the purpose of arresting such persons and taking them before the high priests?"

When he reached Jerusalem he tried to join the disciples, and they were all afraid of him, for they could not believe that he was really a disciple.

After that, he associated with them freely in Jerusalem,

We are witnesses of everything that he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. Yet they put him upon a cross and killed him.

and when Peter returned to Jerusalem, the advocates of circumcision took him to task,

The news about them came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas all the way to Antioch.

About that time some prophets from Jerusalem came down to Antioch,

When Barnabas and Saul had performed their mission to Jerusalem, they went back, taking John who was called Mark with them.

Paul and his companions sailed from Paphos and went to Perga in Pamphylia. There John left them and returned to Jerusalem,

For the people of Jerusalem and their leaders refused to recognize him, and condemned him, thus fulfilling the very utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath,

and for many days he appeared to those who had come up to Jerusalem with him from Galilee, and they are now witnesses for him to the people.

This created a disturbance and a serious discussion between Paul and Barnabas and them, and it was agreed that Paul and Barnabas and some others of their number should go up to Jerusalem to confer with the apostles and elders about this question.

When they reached Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church, the apostles, and the elders, and they reported how God had worked with them.

As they traveled on from one town to another, they passed on to the brothers for their observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders at Jerusalem.

When he reached Caesarea, he went up to Jerusalem and paid his respects to the church, and then went on to Antioch.

After these events, Paul, under the Spirit's guidance, resolved to go to Jerusalem, and to revisit Macedonia and Greece on the way. "After I have gone there," he said, "I must see Rome also."

For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he would not have to lose any time in Asia, for he was hurrying to reach Jerusalem, if possible, by the day of the Harvest Festival.