But just as this thought occurred to him, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, and said, "Joseph, descendant of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for it is through the influence of the Holy Spirit that she has become an expectant mother.

And just as He was saying these things to them, an official came up and fell on his knees before Him, and said, "My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand upon her and she will come to life."

but it takes no real root in him, and he lasts only a little while, and just as soon as suffering and persecution come for the truth's sake, he at once yields and falls.

Just as the wild wheat plants are gathered and burned up, so it will be at the close of the age.

Just at that moment the disciples came up and asked Jesus, "Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?"

just as the Son of Man has come, not to be served but to serve, and to give His life a ransom price to set many free."

For just as the lightning starts in the east and flashes clear to the west, so the coming of the Son of Man will be.

"Now learn what the story of the fig tree means. Just as soon as its branches grow tender, and put forth leaves, you know that summer is near.

For just as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

For just as in the days before the Flood people went on eating and drinking, marrying and being married, until the very day Noah entered the ark,

and all the nations will be gathered before him, and He will separate them from one another, just as a shepherd separates his sheep from his goats,

And just as soon as He started to come up out of the water, He saw the heavens split open and the Spirit coming down like a dove to enter Him.

Just at that moment there was a man in their synagogue who was under the spell of a foul spirit, and so he screamed,

But I tell you, Elijah has already come, and people treated him just as they pleased, as the Scripture says about him."

"Now learn what the story of the fig tree means. Just as soon as its branches grow tender, and put forth leaves, you know that summer is near.

So off the disciples went; they reached the city, found everything just as He had told them, and they got the Passover supper ready.

But you go and tell His disciples and Peter, 'He is going back to Galilee to meet you; you will see Him there, just as He told you.'"

just as the original eyewitnesses who became ministers of the message

Then the shepherds went back continuing to give glory and praise to God for all that they had heard and seen, just as it had been told them.

Just at that time she came up and began to give thanks to God and to speak about the child to all who were expecting the deliverance of Jerusalem.

Then He warned him not to tell anybody, but rather He said, "Go, show yourself to the priest, and, to prove it to the people, make the offering for your purification, just as Moses prescribed."

Continue to be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

And just as they were starting to leave Him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three tents, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah" -- although he did not know what he was saying.

Just as He was saying this, a woman in the crowd lifted her voice and said, "Blessed is the mother who bore you and nursed you!"

For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so the Son of Man will be a sign to this age.

Just at that time some people came up to tell Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate mingled with that of their sacrifices.

Just at that time some Pharisees came up and said to Him, "Get out at once! Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you!"

for just as when the lightning flashes, it shines from one end of the sky to the other, so will the Son of Man be when He comes.

And just as it was in the time of Noah, so it will be in the time of the Son of Man.

said, "Go on to the village in front of you, in which, just as you enter, you will find a colt tied, which no man has ever yet ridden. Untie it and bring it here to me.

So off the two messengers went and found it just as He had told them.

Just as He was approaching the city, going down the Mount of Olives, the whole throng of the disciples began to praise God exultantly and loudly for all the wonder-works that they had seen,

As He approached it, just as soon as He saw the city, He burst into tears over it,

So they went off and found it just as He had said, and they prepared the Passover supper.

Then some of our company went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see Him."

And just as Moses in the desert lifted the serpent on the pole, the Son of Man must be lifted up,

and Jacob's spring was there. So Jesus, tired from His journey, was sitting by the spring just as He was. It was about noon.

For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them live on, so the Son too makes alive any whom He chooses to.

For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted to the Son to have life in Himself.

Just as the living Father has sent me and I live because of the Father, so whoever keeps on eating me will live because of me.

Then Jesus said to them, "Just a little while longer I am to be with you, and then I am going back to Him who has sent me.

just as the Father knows me and I know the Father, and I am giving my own life for my sheep.

I give you a new command, to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you too must love one another.

In just a little while the world will not see me any more, but you will be seeing me. Because I am to live on, you too will live on.

You must remain in union with me and I will remain in union with you. Just as no branch by itself can bear fruit unless it remains united to the vine, so you cannot unless you remain in union with me.

I have loved you just as the Father has loved me. You must remain in my love.

If you continue to keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain in His love.

"In just a little while you will not see me any longer; and yet, in just a little while after you will see me again."

So some of His disciples said to one another, "What does He mean by telling us, 'In just a little while you will not see me, and yet in just a little while after you will see me again,' and 'Because I am going away to the Father'?"

Jesus knew that they wanted to ask Him a question, and so He said to them, "Are you inquiring of one another about this saying of mine, 'In just a little while you will not see me, and yet in just a little while after you will see me again'?

just as you have given Him authority over all mankind to give eternal life to all whom you have given Him.

So now, Father, glorify me up there in your presence just as you did before the world existed.

And now I am no longer to be in the world, but they are to stay on in the world, while I am going to be with you. Holy Father, keep them by the power which you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are.

I have given them your message, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to it.

They do not belong to the world just as I do not belong to it.

Just as you have sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world, too.

for them all to be one, just as you, Father, are in union with me and I in union with you, for them to be in union with us, so that the world may be convinced that you have sent me.

I have given them the glory which you gave me, so that they may be one, just as we are,

I in union with them and you in union with me, so that they may be perfectly united, and the world may be sure that you sent me and that you have loved them just as you have loved me.

Jesus again said to them, "Peace be with you! Just as my Father has sent me forth, so I am now sending you."

Just a week later the disciples were in the room again and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were bolted, Jesus came in and stood among them, and said, "Peace be with you!"

Now just as day was breaking, Jesus took His stand on the shore, though the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.

It was this Moses who said to the descendants of Israel, 'God will raise up a prophet for you from among you, just as He did me.'

Now this was the passage of Scripture that he was reading: "Like a sheep He was led away to be slaughtered, and just as a lamb is dumb before its shearer, so He does not open His mouth.

Just at that time it happened that she had been taken ill and had died. They washed her body and laid her out in a room upstairs.

But Peter lifted him to his feet, saying, "Get up, I too am just a man myself."

"No one can refuse the use of water, can he, for these to be baptized, since they have received the Holy Spirit just as we did ourselves?"

Just at that moment three men, who had been sent from Caesarea for me, stopped at the house where we were staying.

Now just as Herod was going to bring him out, that is, the very night before, Peter was fastened with two chains and was sleeping between two soldiers, and the guards were at the door guarding the prison.

that God has fulfilled it to us their children, by raising Jesus to life, just as the Scripture says in the Second Psalm, 'You are my Son, today I have become your Father.'

In fact, we believe that it is through the favor of the Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are."

where he stayed three months. Just as he was about to sail for Syria, he changed his mind and returned by way of Macedonia, because a plot against him had been laid by the Jews.

But that same night the Lord stood by Paul's side and said, "Courage! For just as you have testified for me in Jerusalem, you must testify for me in Rome, too."

While I was performing these duties they found me just as I had completed the rites of my purification in the temple; however, there was no crowd with me and no disturbance at all.

So keep up your courage, men, for I have confidence in my God that it will all come out just as I was told.

For in the good news God's Way of man's right standing with Him is uncovered, the Way of faith that leads to greater faith, just as the Scripture says, "The upright man must live by faith."

Abraham, building on hope in spite of hopeless circumstances, had faith, and so he actually became the father of many nations, just as it had been told him, "So numberless shall your descendants be."

For just as by that man's disobedience the whole race of men were constituted sinners, so by this One's obedience the whole race of men may be brought into right standing with God.

so that just as sin had reigned by death, so His favor too might reign in right standing with God which issues in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

So through baptism we have been buried with Him in death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father's glorious power, so we too should live an entirely new life.

I am speaking in familiar human terms because of the frailty of your nature. For just as you formerly offered the parts of your bodies in slavery to impurity and to ever increasing lawlessness, so now you must once for all offer them in slavery to right-doing, which leads to consecration.

Just as He says in Hosea: "I will call a people that was not mine, my people, and her who was not beloved, my beloved,

and so in that way all Israel will be saved, just as the Scripture says: "From Zion the Deliverer will come; He will remove ungodliness from Jacob;

For just as you once disobeyed God, but now have had mercy shown you because of their disobedience,

For just as we have many parts united in our physical bodies, and the parts do not all have the same function,

Therefore, practice receiving one another into full Christian fellowship, just as Christ has so received you to Himself.

If the structure which one builds is burned up, he will get no pay; and yet he himself will be saved, but just as one who goes through a fire.

This is why I have sent Timothy to you. He is a dear child of mine and trustworthy in the Lord's work; he will call to your minds my methods in the work of Christ Jesus, just as I teach them everywhere in every church.

However, I should like for everyone to be just as I am myself, yet each of us has his own special gift from God, one for one way, another for another.

just as I myself am in the habit of pleasing everybody in everything, not aiming at my own welfare but at that of as many people as possible, in order that they may be saved.

You must follow my example, just as I myself am following Christ's.

For just as woman originated from man, so man is born of woman, and both, with everything else, originated from God.

For just as the human body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, many as they are, constitute but one body, so it is with Christ.

But as it now is, God has placed the parts, every one of them, in the body just as He wanted them to be.

So it is with you; unless in your ecstatic speaking you speak a message that is clearly intelligible, how can the message spoken by you be understood? You might just as well be talking to the air!

Women must keep quiet in the churches, for no permission is given them to speak. On the contrary, they must take a subordinate place, just as the law says.

For just as all men die by virtue of their descent from Adam, so all such as are in union with Christ will be made to live again.

If Timothy gets there, see that he is at ease among you, for he is devotedly doing the work of the Lord, just as I am.

For just as my sufferings for Christ are running over the cup, so through Christ my comfort is running over too.

My hope for you is well founded; because I know that just as you, brothers, are sharers of my sufferings, so you will be sharers of my comfort too.