But afterwards, having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their own country by another road.

But, hearing that Archelaus had succeeded his father Herod as King of Judea, he was afraid to go back there; and having been warned in a dream, he went into the part of the country called Galilee.

Not even with a bag for the journey, or a change of clothes, or sandals, or even a staff; for the worker is worth his food.

While these men were going back, Jesus began to say to the crowds with reference to John:

About the same time Jesus walked through the corn-fields one Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and began to pick some ears of wheat and eat them.

Then it says 'I will go back to the home which I left'; but, on coming there, it finds it unoccupied, and swept, and put in order.

such great crowds gathered round him, that he got into a boat, and sat in it, while all the people stood upon the beach.

When it was full, they hauled it up on the beach, and sat down and sorted the good fish into baskets, but threw the worthless ones away.

They led the ass and the foal back, and, when they had put their cloaks on them, he seated himself upon them.

nor must one who is on his farm turn back to get his cloak.

And coming back again he found them asleep, for their eyes were heavy.

Some days later, when Jesus came back to Capernaum, the news spread that he was in a house there;

One Sabbath, as Jesus was walking through the cornfields, his disciples began to pick the ears of wheat as they went along.

Upon which they began to beg Jesus to leave their neighborhood.

But Jesus refused. "Go back to your home, to your own people," he said, "and tell them of all that the Lord has done for you, and how he took pity on you."

"My little daughter," he said, "is at the point of death; I beg you to come and place your hands on her, that her life may be spared."

He instructed them to take nothing but a staff for the journey- -not even bread, or a bag, or pence in their purse;

When the Apostles came back to Jesus, they told him all that they had done and all that they had taught.

And when the seven for the four thousand, how many basketfuls of broken pieces did you pick up?" "Seven," they said.

And, if any one says to you 'Why are you doing that?', say 'The Master wants it, and will be sure to send it back here at once.'"

As to the dead, and the fact that they rise, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the Bush, how God spoke to him thus--'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?

Nor must one who is on his farm turn back to get his cloak.

And coming back again he found them asleep, for their eyes were heavy; and they did not know what to say to him.

But, on looking up, they saw that the stone had already been rolled back; it was a very large one.

Now, when the angels had left them and gone back to Heaven, the shepherds said to one another: "Let us go at once to Bethlehem, and see this thing that has happened, of which the Lord has told us."

And the shepherds went back, giving glory and praise to God for all that they had heard and seen, as it had been told them.

The book given him was that of the Prophet Isaiah; and Jesus opened the book and found the place where it says--

Then, closing the book and returning it to the attendant, he sat down. The eyes of all in the Synagogue were fixed upon him,

When a man gives one of you a blow on the cheek, offer the other cheek as well; and, when any one takes away your cloak, do not keep back your coat either.

For every tree is known by its own fruit. People do not gather figs off thorn bushes, nor pick a bunch of grapes off a bramble.

By the seed which fell upon the rock are meant those who, as soon as they hear the Message, welcome it joyfully; but they have no root, and believe it only for a time, and, when the time of temptation comes, they draw back.

"Go back to your home," he said, "and relate the story of all that God has done for you." So the man went through the whole town and proclaimed, as he went, all that Jesus had done for him.

"Do not," he said to them, "take anything for your journey; not even a staff, or a bag, or bread, or any silver, or a change of clothes with you.

While the boy was coming up to Jesus, the demon dashed him down and threw him into convulsions. But Jesus rebuked the foul spirit, and cured the boy, and gave him back to his father.

But Jesus answered: "No one who looks back, after putting his hand to the plough, is fitted for the Kingdom of God."

Do not take a purse with you, or a bag, or sandals; and do not stop to greet any one on your journey.

Then, if any one there is deserving of a blessing, your blessing will rest upon him; but if not, it will come back upon yourselves.

The next day he took out four shillings and gave them to the inn-keeper. 'Take care of him,' he said, 'and whatever more you may spend I will myself repay you on my way back.'

No sooner does a foul spirit leave a man, than it passes through places where there is no water, in search of rest; and finding none, it says 'I will go back to the home which I left';

'Your brother has come back,' the servant told him, 'and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has him back safe and sound.'

'What am I to do,' the steward asked himself, 'now that my master is taking the steward's place away from me? I have not strength to dig, and I am ashamed to beg.

'Then, Father,' he said, 'I beg you to send Lazarus to my father's house--

One of them, finding he was cured, came back, praising God loudly,

Were there none to come back and praise God except this foreigner?

On that day, if a man is on his house-top and his goods in the house, he must not go down to get them; nor again must one who is on the farm turn back.

But Zacchaeus stood forward and said to the Master: "Listen, Master! I will give half my property to the poor, and, if I have defrauded any one of anything, I will give him back four times as much."

Then they led it back to Jesus, and threw their cloaks on the foal and put Jesus upon it.

For David, in the Book of Psalms, says himself--'The Lord said to my lord: "Sit at my right hand,

Then he said to them all: "When I sent you out as my Messengers, without either purse, or bag, or sandals, were you in need of anything?" "No; nothing," they answered.

"Now, however," he said, "he who has a purse must take it and his bag as well; and he who has not must sell his cloak and buy a sword.

And Herod, with his soldiers, treated Jesus with scorn; he mocked him by throwing a gorgeous robe round him, and then sent him back to Pilate.

Nor did Herod either; for he has sent him back to us. And, as a fact, he has not done anything deserving death;

He called the bridegroom and said to him: "Every one puts good wine on the table first, and inferior wine afterwards, when his guests have drunk freely; but you have kept back the good wine till now!"

"Go and call your husband," said Jesus, "and then come back."

So the woman, leaving her pitcher, went back to the town, and said to the people:

And, getting into a boat, began to cross to Capernaum. By this time darkness had set in, and Jesus had not yet come back to them;

After this many of his disciples drew back, and did not go about with him any longer.

Upon this his neighbors, and those who had formerly known him by sight as a beggar, exclaimed: "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

Being in this position, that disciple leant back on Jesus' shoulder, and asked him: "Who is it, Master?"

When Jesus said 'I am he,' they drew back and fell to the ground.

There were many other signs of his mission that Jesus gave in presence of the disciples, which are not recorded in this book;

Just as day was breaking, Jesus came and stood on the beach; but the disciples did not know that it was he.

Peter turned round, and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following--the one who at the supper leant back on the Master's shoulder, and asked him who it was that would betray him.

"For in the Book of Psalms," Peter continued, "it is said-- 'Let his dwelling become desolate, and let no one live in it'; and also--'His office let another take.'

This man used to be set down every day at the gate of the Temple called 'the Beautiful Gate,' to beg of those who went in.

And, with her connivance, kept back some of the proceeds. He brought only a part and laid it at the Apostles' feet.

"Ananias," Peter exclaimed, "how is it that Satan has so taken possession of your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit, and kept back a part of the money paid for the land?

Yet our ancestors refused him obedience; more than that, they rejected him, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,

So God turned from them and left them to the worship of the Starry Host, as is written in the Book of the Prophets--'Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me, O House of Israel, all those forty years in the Desert?

But, when the disciples had gathered round him, he got up and went back into the town; the next day he went with Barnabas to Derbe.

Some time after this, Paul said to Barnabas: "Let us go back and visit the Brethren in every town in which we have told the Lord's Message, and see how they are prospering."

Saying this, he drove them back from the Bench.

As he took his leave, "I will come back again to you, please God," and then set sail from Ephesus.

However, when we had come to the end of our visit, we went on our way, all the disciples with their wives and children escorting us out of the city. We knelt down on the beach, and prayed,

"No," said Paul, "I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of a city of some note; and I beg you to give me permission to speak to the people."

The men who were to have examined Paul immediately drew back, and the Officer, finding that Paul was a Roman citizen, was alarmed at having put him in chains.

But--not to be tedious--I beg you, with your accustomed fairness, to listen to a brief statement of our case.

Especially as you are so well-versed in all the customs and questions of the Jewish world. I beg you therefore to give me a patient hearing.

When daylight came, they could not make out what land it was, but, observing a creek in which there was a beach, they consulted as to whether they could run the ship safely into it.

Then they cast off, and abandoned the anchors, and at the same time unlashed the gear of the steering oars, hoisted the foresail to the wind, and made for the beach.

They became back-biters, slanderers, impious, insolent, boastful. They devised new sins. They disobeyed their parents.

This, indeed, is what he says in the Book of Hosea-'I will call those my People who were not my People, and her my beloved who was not beloved.

If you were cut off from your natural stock--a wild olive-- and were grafted, contrary to the course of nature, upon a good olive, much more will they--the natural branches--be grafted back into their parent tree.

The very purpose for which Christ died and came back to life was this--that he might be Lord over both the dead and the living.

I beg you, then, Brothers, by Jesus Christ, our Lord, and by the love inspired by the Spirit, to join me in earnest prayer to God on my behalf.

For I am afraid that perhaps, when I come, I may find that you are not what I want you to be, and, on the other hand, that you may find that I am what you do not want me to be. I am afraid that I may find quarreling, jealousy, ill-feeling, rivalry, slandering, back-biting, self-assertion, and disorder.

Or even going up to Jerusalem to see those who were Apostles before me, I went to Arabia, and came back again to Damascus.

But, on account of the false Brothers who had stolen in, the men who had crept in to spy upon the liberty which we have through union with Christ Jesus, in order to bring us back to slavery--

All who rely upon obedience to Law are under a curse, for Scripture says--'Cursed is every one who does not abide by all that is written in the Book of the Law, and do it.'

But now that you have found God--or, rather, have been found by him--how is it that you are turning back to that poor and feeble puerile teaching, to which yet once again you are wanting to become slaves?

Therefore I beg you not to be disheartened at the sufferings that I am undergoing for your sakes; for they redound to your honor.

Yes, and I ask you, my true comrade, to help them, remembering that they toiled by my side in spreading the Good News; and so, too, did Clement and my other fellow-workers, whose names are 'in the Book of Life.'

Further, Brothers, we beg and exhort you in the name of our Lord Jesus to carry out more fully than ever--as indeed you are already doing--all that you have heard from us as to what your daily life must be, if it is to please God.

We beg you, Brothers, to value those who toil among you, and are your leaders in the Lord's service, and give you counsel.

Take care that none of you ever pays back wrong for wrong, but always follow the kindest course with one another and with every one.

As to the Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our being gathered to meet him, we beg you, Brothers,

I beg you, as I did when I was on my way into Macedonia, to remain at Ephesus; that you may instruct certain people there not to teach new and strange doctrines,

and while they retain the outward form of religion, they will not allow it to influence them. Turn your back on such men as these.

There is no one but Luke with me. Pick up Mark on your way, and bring him with you, for he is useful to me in my work.

And I am sending him back to you with this letter--though it is like tearing out of my very heart.