He also sent them to Bethlehem, telling them, "Go and make a careful search for the child, and when you have found him report to me, so that I may go and worship him too."

(This was the man spoken of by the prophet Isaiah: The voice of one who cries in the desert, 'Make the way ready for the Lord, level the paths for him.')

so he said to them, "Come, follow me, and I will make you fish for men."

You are the salt of the earth. But if salt becomes insipid, what can make it salt again? After that it is fit for nothing, fit only to be thrown outside and trodden by the feet of men.

Be quick and make terms with your opponent, so long as you and he are on the way to court, in case he hands you over to the judge, and the judge to the jailer, and you are thrown into prison;

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.

that you may be sons of your Father in heaven: he makes his sun rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

When you give alms, make no flourish of trumpets like the hypocrites in the synagogues and the streets, so as to win applause from men; I tell you truly, they do get their reward.

(pagans make all that their aim in life) for your heavenly Father knows quite well you need all that.

rather make your way to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

charging them strictly not to make him known ??17 it was for the fulfilment of what had been said by the prophet Isaiah,

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

and told them, "It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you make it a den of robbers."

No one could make any answer to him, and from that day no one ventured to put another question to him.

They make up heavy loads and lay them on men's shoulders, but they will not stir a finger to remove them.

Besides, all they do is done to catch the notice of men; they make their phylacteries broad, they wear large tassels,

Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you traverse sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when you succeed you make him a son of Gehenna twice as bad as yourselves.

You are senseless and blind! for which is the greater, the gold or the sanctuary that makes the gold sacred?

You are blind! for which is the greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?

So the high priest rose and said to him, "Have you no reply to make? What of this evidence against you?"

Pilate said to them, "Take a guard of soldiers, go and make it as secure as you can."

go and make disciples of all nations, baptize them in the name of the Father and the Son and the holy Spirit,

the voice of one who cries in the desert, 'Make the way ready for the Lord, level the paths for him' ??4 John appeared baptizing in the desert and preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;

so Jesus said to them, "Come, follow me and I will make you fish for men."

But he charged them strictly and severely not to make him known.

and on entering he asked them, "Why make a noise and wail? The child is not dead but asleep."

Then he gave orders that they were to make all the people lie down in parties on the green grass;

they were astounded in the extreme, saying, "How splendidly he has done everything! He actually makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak!"

He began to see and said, "I can make out people, for I see them as large as trees, moving."

He said to them, "Nothing can make this kind come out but prayer and fasting."

David himself said in the holy Spirit, The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand, till I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.'

So the high priest rose in their midst and asked Jesus, "Have you no reply to make? What about this evidence against you?"

and once more Pilate asked him, "Have you no reply to make? Look at all their charges against you."

they will handle serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick and make them well."

he will go in front of Him with the spirit and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of fathers to their children, turning the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make a people ready and prepared for the Lord."

And you, my child, shall be called a prophet of the Most High; for you shall go in front of the Lord to make his ways ready,

by the tender mercy of our God, who will make the Dawn visit us from on high,

and he went into all the Jordan-district preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins ??4 as it is written in the book of the sayings of the prophet Isaiah, The voice of one who cries in the desert, 'Make the way ready for the Lord, level the paths for him.

Jesus said to them, "Can you make friends at a wedding fast while the bride groom is beside them?

so, when the captain heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, asking him to come and make his servant well.

(There were about five thousand men of them.) He said to his disciples, "Make them lie down in rows of about fifty."

He sent messengers in front of him. They went and entered a Samaritan village to make preparations for him,

Anxious to make an excuse for himself, however, he said to Jesus, "But who is my neighbour?"

Foolish men! did not He who made the outside make the inside of things too?

pagans make food and drink their aim in life, but your Father knows quite well you need that;

Sell what you possess and give it away in alms, make purses for yourselves that never wear out: get treasure in heaven that never fails, that no thief can get at, no moth destroy.

Blessed are those servants whom the lord and master finds awake when he comes! I tell you truly, he will gird himself, make them recline at table, and come forward to wait on them.

You think I am here to make peace on earth? No, I tell you, it is dissension.

then the host will tell you, 'Make room for him,' and you will proceed in shame to take the lowest place.

the master said to the servant, 'Go out to the roads and hedges and make people come in, to fill up my house.

For which of you wants to build a tower and does not first sit down to calculate the expense, to see if he has enough money to complete it? ??29 in case, after he has laid the foundation and then is unable to finish the building, all the spectators start to make fun of him,

I don't deserve to be called your son any more; only make me like one of your hired men."'

for my son here was dead and he has come to life, he was lost and he is found.' So they began to make merry.

but he replied, 'Look at all the years I have been serving you! I have never neglected any of your orders, and yet you have never given me so much as a kid, to let me make merry with my friends.

We could not but make merry and rejoice, for your brother here was dead and has come to life again, he was lost but he has been found.' "

And I tell you, use mammon, dishonest as it is, to make friends for yourselves, so that when you die they may welcome you to the eternal abodes.

till I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.'

Then he will show you a large room upstairs with couches spread; make your preparations there."

whereas anyone whose life is true comes out into the light, to make it plain that his actions have been divinely prompted.

The Father loves the Son and shows him all that he is doing himself. He will show him still greater deeds than these, to make you wonder;

for as the Father raises the dead and makes them live, so the Son makes anyone live whom he chooses.

Whereupon Jesus perceived they meant to come and seize him to make a king of him; so he withdrew by himself to the hill again.

I know you are Abraham's offspring! Yet you want to kill me, since my word makes no headway among you!

Then said Jesus, "It is for judgment that I have come into this world, to make the sightless see, to make the seeing blind."

The Jews retorted, "We mean to stone you, not for a good deed, but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, make yourself God."

he cuts away any branch on me which is not bearing fruit, and cleans every branch which does bear fruit, to make it bear richer fruit.

Now we are sure you know everything, and need no one to put questions to you. This makes us believe you have come forth from God."

This made Pilate anxious to release him, but the Jews yelled, "If you release him, you are no friend of Caesar's! Anyone who makes himself a king is against Caesar!"

till I make your enemies a footstool for your feet'.

On hearing this the commander of the temple and the high priests were quite at a loss to know what to make of it.

"We strictly forbade you to teach about this Name, did we not? And here you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine! You want to make us responsible for this man's death!"

When they heard this, they were so furious that they determined to make away with the apostles.

They told Aaron, 'Make gods that will march in front of us! As for this Moses who led us out of Egypt, we don't know what has happened to him!'

In the desert our fathers had the tent of witness as arranged by Him who told Moses to make it after the pattern he had seen.

Did not my hand make all this?

and the Jews, after a number of days had elapsed, conspired to make away with him.

But their plot came to the ears of Saul, and, although they kept watch on the gates day and night in order to make away with him,

he also held conversations and debates with the Hellenists. But when the brothers learned that the Hellenists were attempting to make away with him,

"Aeneas," said Peter, "Jesus the Christ cures you! Get up and make your bed!" He got up at once.

So Peter got up and went with them. When he arrived, they took him up to the room, where all the widows stood beside him crying as they showed him the garments and dresses that Dorcas used to make when she was with them.

He heard Paul speaking, and Paul, gazing steadily at him and noticing that he had faith enough to make him better,

who makes this known from of old.

"Brothers and fathers, listen to the defence I now make before you."

I said, 'What am I to do?' And the Lord said to me, 'Get up and make your way into Damascus; there?you shall be told about all you are destined to do.'

and saw Him saying to me, 'Make haste, leave Jerusalem quickly, for they will not accept your evidence about me.'

Then at a nod from the governor Paul made his reply. "As I know you have administered justice in this nation for a number of years," he said, "I feel encouraged to make my defence,

Or are you slighting all his wealth of kindness, forbearance, and patience? Do you not know his kindness is meant to make you repent?

You say, "If my perfidy serves to make the truthfulness of God redound to his glory, why am I to be judged as a sinner?

He only got circumcision as a sign or seal of the righteousness which belonged to his faith as an uncircumcised man. The object of this was to make him the father of all who believe as uncircumcised persons and thus have righteousness counted to them,

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

(as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations). Such a faith implies the presence of the God in whom he believed, a God who makes the dead live and calls into being what does not exist.

Just as one man's disobedience made all the rest sinners, so one man's obedience will make all the rest righteous.

Sin is not to reign, then, over your mortal bodies and make you obey their passions;

but then I find quite another law in my members which conflicts with the law of my mind and makes me a prisoner to sin's law that resides in my members.

And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells within you, then He who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies live by his indwelling Spirit in your lives.

You have received no slavish spirit that would make you relapse into fear; you have received the Spirit of sonship. And when we cry, "Abba! Father!",

Thus God has mercy on anyone just as he pleases, and he makes anyone stubborn just as he pleases.

But who are you, my man, to speak back to God? Is something a man has moulded to ask him who has moulded it, "Why did you make me like this?"

What! has the potter no right over the clay? Has he no right to make out of the same lump one vessel for a noble purpose and another for a menial?