Then he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, "Go and make careful inquiry about the child, and as soon as you have found him bring me word, that I, too, may go and worship him."

When they were gone an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying; "Rise! Take the young child and his mother and flee into Egypt, and there remain until I bring you word; for Herod intends to make a search for the child, in order to put him to death."

This John it was of whom it was said through Isaiah, the prophet, The voice of one who cries aloud in the desert, "Prepare a way for the Lord, Make the paths straight for him."

"Come, follow me," said Jesus, "And I will make you fishers of men."

"leave there your gift before the altar, and go and make friends with your brother, first of all; then come and offer your gift.

But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of unchastity, makes her an adulteress, and whoever marries her when so divorced, commits adultery.

"Nor must you swear by your head, since you cannot make one hair white or black.

"So you will become sons of your heavenly Father; for he makes his sun to rise upon sinners as well as saints, and sends rain upon the unjust and the just.

And behold! a leper came and knelt before him, saying, "Lord if you choose, you can make me clean."

"Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt; for by its fruit the tree is known.

"But the seed sown in good soil is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit, and makes now an hundredfold, now sixty, now thirty."

is in no way bound to honor his father. Thus do you make void the word of God by your tradition!

Then Peter said to Jesus. "Master, it is good that we are here! If you are willing I will make here three tents, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

But the crowd checked them, to make them keep still. They cried out all the louder, saying, "Master, have pity on us, Son of David!"

"Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you scour sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is gained, you make him twofold more a son of hell than you are, yourselves.

On the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and said, "Where do you want us to make preparation for you eat the Passover?"

Rising to his feet the high priest asked Jesus. "Do you make no answer? What is it that these are testifying against you?"

"You can have a guard," said Pilate. "Go your way, make it as secure as you can."

Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit;

The voice of one crying aloud. In the desert make ready a road for the Lord. Make his paths straight.

so Jesus said to them, "Come after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men."

One Sabbath he was walking along through the wheat-fields, and his disciples, as they began to make their way across, were pulling the heads of wheat.

But over and over, he strictly forbade them to make him known.

Then he directed them to make all sit down by companies on the green grass.

and people were amazed beyond measure saying. "How successfully he does things! Even the deaf he makes to hear, and the dumb to speak."

Taking the blind man by the hand, he led him outside the village; and, after spitting on his eyes, he laid his hands on him and asked, "Can you make out anything?"

The man looked up and said, "I can make out the people, for as they move about, I see them like trees."

"You know that those who are regarded as rulers among the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones make them feel their authority.

David himself said in the Holy Spirit, "The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand until I make thy foes the footstool of thy feet.'

they who consume the property of widows and make long, pretentious prayers. The greater shall their condemnation be."

And the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread, the day for killing the paschal lamb, his disciples asked him, "Where do you want us to go and make preparation for you to eat the Passover?"

He will himself show you a large, upper room, furnished and ready. there make preparation for us."

Then the high priest rose and stood forth among them. "Have you no answer to make?" he asked Jesus; "What is it that these testify against you?"

"Do you make no answer?" he said,

So Pilate, who wished to make himself strong with the crowd, released Barabbas to them, and gave Jesus over for crucifixion, after he had scourged him.

"He shall go before Him in the wisdom and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, and so to make ready for the Lord a people prepared for him."

As it is written in the book of the prophet Isaiah. The voice of one crying in the desert, Prepare the way for God, make straight paths for him.

Another time when he was in one of their cities, there was a man there full of leprosy. And he, upon seeing Jesus, fell on his face and implored him. "Lord," he said, "if only you choose you can make me clean."

And instantly the leprosy left him. Jesus ordered him to tell no one, "But be off," he said, "show yourself to the priest, and make the offering for your cleansing, as Moses commanded, for a testimony to them."

Again they said unto him. "Why do the disciples of John fast frequently, and make supplications, as also do the disciples of the Pharisees, but your disciples are eating and drinking?"

"Can you make the bridal party fast," he asked, while the bridegroom is still with them?

(For there were about five thousand men.) "Make them sit down in table-companies, of about fifty each," he said to his disciples.

And when they were preparing to depart from him Peter said to Jesus. "Master, it is good for us to be here; and let us make three tents, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah"??ot knowing what he was saying.

and sent messengers before him. These went and entered into a Samaritan village to make ready for him.

"Foolish men! Did not He who made the outside make the inside also?

"Happy are those slaves whom their master shall find watching when he comes. I tell you truly that will gird himself, and make them sit down to meat, and come and serve them.

"Do you think that I am come to make peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather dissension.

"But when you make a reception, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind.

"Said the master to his slave. 'Go out into the roads and the hedges, and make them come in, so that my house may be filled.

"'"I am no more worthy to be called your son; only make me like one of your hired men."'

"'Bring that fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry,

"So they began to make merry. But his elder son was in the field, and as he drew near to the house he heard music and dancing,

"'All these years I have been slaving for you and never disobeyed a command of yours. Yet you never gave me even a kid so that I might make merry with my friends.

"'But it was fitting that we should make merry and rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead and is alive; he was lost and is found.'"

"And to you I say, Use mammon, dishonest as it is, to make yourselves friends, so that when it shall fail they will welcome you to the eternal tabernacles.

Until I make thy enemies the footstool at thy feet.

"but they devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. These shall receive severer condemnation."

"Then he will show you a large upper room furnished. There make your preparations."

He said, "I am a voice of one who cries aloud in the desert, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,' as said the prophet Isaiah."

and said to those who were selling doves. "Take these things away! Make not my Father's house a house of trade!

"For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them alive, even so the Son makes whom he will alive.

"Make the men sit down," said Jesus. The ground was covered with thick grass; so the men sat down, in numbers about five thousand. "of righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you will no longer see me;

When Jesus perceived that they intended to seize him in order to make him a king, he retired again to the hill all by himself.

"and you shall know the truth, and the truth will make you free."

"For judgment am I come into the world, to make the sightless see, and to make the seeing blind."

He hath blinded their eyes and make their hearts hard, Lest they should see with their eyes, perceive with their minds, And should turn, and I should heal them.

Jesus replied. "If any loves me he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

But when he is come, that Spirit of Truth, he will guide you into the whole truth. For he will not speak on his own authority, but all that he hears he will speak, and will make known to you that which is to come.

He will glorify me; for he will take of what is mine and will make known to you.

Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said that he will take of what is mine and make it known to you.

After that Pilate began to seek to release him, but the Jews shouted out. "If you release this man you are no friend of the Emperor. Any man who makes himself out to be king is a rebel against the Emperor."

"Until I make thine enemies A footstool under thy feet.

"Next day he came upon two of them fighting, and tried to make peace between them. "'Sirs,' he said, 'you are brothers. Why are you wronging each other?'

"Said they to Aaron. "Make Gods for us who shall march in front of us! As for this Moses who led us forth out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has happened to him.

"In the wilderness our ancestors had the Tabernacle of Testimony built, as he appointed who told Moses to make it according to the pattern he had seen.

Did not my hand make this universe?

And the Lord said to him. "Arise, go into the street named 'Straight,' and make inquiries in the house of Judas for a man of Tarsus, one Saul.

but information of their plot was given Saul, and although they kept watch day and night on the gates, in order to make away with him,

Peter said to him. "Aeneas, Jesus Christ cures you! Rise and make your own bed!"

So Peter arose and went with them. On his arrival they took him up-stairs, and all the widows stood near him, weeping, and showing him the cloaks and garments which Dorcas used to make, while she was still with them.

He gathered them together with others of like occupation, and said: "Men, you know that by this business we make our money.

"Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make in your presence."

"I fell into a trance and saw him saying to me, "'Make haste and go quickly out of Jerusalem, because they will not receive your testimony concerning me.'

Then at a nod from the governor, Paul spoke. "Because I know that for many years you have been a judge in this nation, I feel encouraged to make my defense.

Then Agrippa said to Paul, "You are permitted to speak for yourself." So Paul stretched forth his hand and began to make his defense.

"I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you this day, in regard to all the accusations brought against me by the Jews;

"In all the synagogues also I punished them oftentimes, and tried to make them blaspheme; and in my mad fury I was pursuing them even to foreign cities.

Do we then render law invalid through faith? Certainly not; on the contrary we make it stand.

But if the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from dead is dwelling in you, He who raised up Jesus from the dead is dwelling in you, He who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also make your dying bodily self live by his indwelling Spirit in your lives.

Or has not the potter power over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for noble, and another for ignoble uses?

But what if God, while intending to show forth his wrath, and to make known his power, yet endured, with much long-suffering, vessels of wrath, fitted to destruction?

And what if he thus purposed to make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared for glory?

But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, And make no provisions for your earthly nature And the gratification of its lusts.

Who are you just that judges the household-servant of another? To his own lord he stands or falls. And stand he will, for his Master has power to make him stand.

So then let is eagerly pursue the things that make for peace and the upbuilding of each other.

Let each one of us try to make his neighbor happy for his good, unto his upbuilding.

For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make an offering for the poor among the saints at Jerusalem.

So let no one make boast in men. For all things are yours;

So make no hasty judgment until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make plain the purpose of men's hearts. Then each man's due praise will come to him from God.

For who makes you a differ, brother? Or what have you that you did not receive? But if you did receive it, why are you boasting as if you had not received it?