The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

But because they were forbidden by God in a dream to go back to Herod, they returned to their own country by another route.

"I tell you truly that you would certainly not get out from there until you had paid back the last cent.

"not even a bag for the journey, or a change of clothes, or sandals, or even a stick; for the worker is worth his rations.

"Then it says, "'I will go back to my house which I left'; and on arrival finds it empty, swept, and garnished.

and such a great crowd gathered about him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while all the crowd stood on the beach.

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

they led back the ass and her colt, and placed their cloaks on them.

At dawn, when he was on his way back into the city, he was hungry;

"He will utterly destroy those wretches," they answered, "and will entrust his vineyard to other vine-dressers, who will pay back the fruits to him in their season."

and the man in the field not turn back to get his cloak.

Then you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my property with interest.

Then Jesus said to him. "Put back your sword into its place! for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.

Then when Judas, his betrayer, saw that he was condemned, he repented and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders.

Over and over he continued to beg Jesus not to send them away out of the country.

Then they began to beg Jesus to depart from their district.

But when Herod heard, he said, "That John whom I beheaded has come back to life."

When the apostles had come back to Jesus, they told him all the things they had done, and all they had taught.

"True, Master," she answered, "but the dogs under the table do pick up the children's crumbs."

"And when the seven for the four thousand, how many hampers full of fragments did you pick up?"

And if any man asks you, 'Why are you doing that?" answer, 'The Lord has need of him, and he will immediately send him back.'"

But in regard to the rising again of the dead, have you never read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, "I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

and he who is in the field, let him not turn back to get his cloak.

they shall pick up serpents, and if they drink any poison it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover."

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.

Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, came back from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the desert for forty days, all the time tempted by the devil.

Then rolling up the papyrus, he gave it back to the attendant and sat down.

Give to every one who asks you; And do not demand your goods back from him who is taking them away.

"And if you lend to those from whom you are hoping to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, so as to get as much back.

"Pardon, and you shall be pardoned; Give, and gifts shall be given to you; Full measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, they shall pour into your bosom. For with what measure you measure, they will measure back to you."

And he said to them. "Take nothing for your journey, neither staff, nor bag, nor bread, nor money, and do not have two tunics.

and a man called out of the crowd saying. "Teacher, I beg you to look upon my son; for he is my only boy,

But while he was yet coming the demon dashed him down, and cruelly convulsed him. Then Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and cured the boy, and gave him back to his father.

But Jesus answered him, "No man who puts his hand to the plow and then looks back, is fit for the kingdom of God."

"Carry no purse, no bag, no shoes; and do not salute any one on your journey.

"The next day he took two silver pieces and gave them to the landlord and said, "'Take care of him, and whatever more you spend I will repay it to you on my way back.'

"Whenever a foul spirit is gone out of a man, it roams through waterless places, in search of rest; but when it can find none, it says, 'I will go back to the house which I have left.'

"Now the steward said to himself. 'What shall I do, now that my master is taking away my stewardship? I am not strong enough to dig, to beg I am ashamed.

"'I beg you then, father,' he said, 'send him to my fathers house. For I have five brothers.

Now one of them, as he saw that he was cured, came back, glorifying God in a loud voice,

"On that day, if a man is on the housetop and his goods inside, let him not go down to take them away; nor should a man in the field turn back.

"But the tax-gatherer, standing far back, would not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven, but kept beating his breast and saying, "'O God be merciful to me, the sinner!'

"'Then why did you not put my money into the bank, so that at my coming I might I might have gotten it back with interest?'

"for David himself say's in the book of the Psalms, "The Lord said to my Lord. Sit at my right hand,

Then Herod and his soldiers set him at naught, and mocked him, and throwing about him a gorgeous robe, sent him back to Pilate.

Neither does Herod; for he sent him back to us. You see that he has done nothing worthy of death.

So he came back again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. Now there was one of the king's officers whose son was lying ill at Capernaum.

Therefore many of his disciples drew back and no longer companied with him.

At dawn, however, he came back to the Temple, where the people came to him in crowds. He had taken his seat and was teaching them,

Then he said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (a word which means "sent"). So the man went and washed his eyes, and came back seeing.

Upon this the neighbors and those who used to know him by sight as a beggar, began asking, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

he still remained where he was for two days; then after that he said to his disciples, "Let us go back again to Judea."

Next day the big crowd who had come up for the Passover heard that Jesus was coming into Jerusalem,

So that disciples just leaned back against Jesus' breast and said to him, "Lord, who is it?"

"He cuts back any of my branches that bear no fruit, and prunes every fruit-bearing branch, that it may bear more.

When Jesus said "I am he," they drew back and fell to the ground;

Then the disciples went back again to their home.

There were then many other signs which Jesus performed in the presence of his disciples, which have not been written in this book;

But when day was dawning Jesus stood on the beach. The disciples, however, did not recognize that it was Jesus.

Peter turned around and saw that the disciple whom Jesus loved was following??e who at the supper leaned back upon his breast and said, "Lord, who is to betray you?"

and they said: "Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing into the sky? This same Jesus who has been taken up from you into the sky will come back in just the same way as you have seen him going into the sky."

"For it is written in the Book of Psalms, Let his dwelling-place be desolate; Let no man dwell there, also, Let another take his work.

and recognized that this was the man who used to sit and beg at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, they were filled with awe and amazement at what had happened to him.

kept back some of the purchase price, with the connivance of his wife. He brought only a part and laid it at the apostles' feet.

"Ananias," said Peter, "why has Satan so filled your heart that you are lying to the Holy Spirit, and keeping back part of the price of the land?

But the officers who went did not find them in the prison; so they came back and reported,

"To him our ancestors would not be obedient, but thrust him aside, and in their hearts turned back into Egypt.

"So God turned from them, and gave them up to the worship of the heavenly host, as it is written in the book of the Prophets. "Did you offer unto me slain beasts as sacrifices during the forty years in the wilderness, O House of Israel?

Then he gave her his hand and raised her up, and after calling the saints and the widows, he gave her back to them alive.

From Paphos Paul and his party set sail for Perga in Pamphylia; but John Mark left them and went back to Jerusalem.

But as the disciples collected around him, he rose and went back into the city. The next day he went off with Barnabas into Derbe;

and after preaching the gospel to that town, and winning many converts, they went back to Lystra and Iconium and Antioch,

And after some days Paul said to Barnabas, "Let is go back and visit the brothers in every city in which we have proclaimed the word of the Lord. Let us see how they fare."

So he sent two of his assistants, Timothy and Erastus, into Macedonia, while he himself kept back for a time on his way into Asia.

When, however, our time was up, we left and started on our journey; and all of them, with wives and children, were escorting us on our way until we were out of the city; then, kneeling down on the beach, we prayed,

"To this the high priest and all the council of elders are witnesses. It was from them that I received letters to the brothers in Damascus, and I was already on my way to bring those also who were there back to Jerusalem, in bonds, for punishment.

"But not to weary you too much, I beg of your Excellency to listen to a few words from us.

"So I beg you to take some food, for this is for your safety. For there shall not a hair perish from the head of any one of you."

When it was day they tried in vain to recognize the land, but they spied an inlet with a sandy beach, and they began conferring to see whether they could drive the ship into it.

They cast off the anchors and left them in the sea, and unloosing at the same time the ropes that tied the rudders, they hoisted the foresail to the breeze, and headed for the beach.

They became whisperers, back-biters, hated of God, insolent, haughty, boastful. They invented sins. They were disobedient to parents.

Do not pay back evil for evil. Aim to do what is honorable in the eyes of all.

I beg you to give her a Christian welcome, as the saints should; and to assist her in any matter in which she may have need of you. For she herself has been made an overseer to many people, including myself.

Now I beg you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to speak in accord, all of you, and to have no divisions among you, but to be knit together in a common mind and temper.

I beg you then to imitate my example.

I beg you this, my brothers??ou know the household of Stephanus, that they were the first-fruits of Achaia, and that they devoted themselves to the service of the saints??16 so I want you also to show deference to such, and to every fellow worker, and laborer.

So I beg you to reinstate him in your love.

On Christ's behalf, then, I come as ambassador. It is as though God was entreating you, through me, on Christ's behalf I beg you to be reconciled to God.

or even going up to Jerusalem to see those who had been apostles before me, I went off at once to Arabia, and on my return came back to Damascus.

For until certain men came from James he used to eat with the Gentile Christians, but when they came, he began to draw back and to separate himself, because he was afraid of the circumcision party.

but a curse rests on those who have their root in the works of the Law; for it is written. Cursed is every one that continues not in all the things written in the Book of the Law, to do them.

Now, however, when you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you are beginning to turn back to those weak and beggarly externalities, eager to be in bondage to them again?

for every one must carry his own pack load.

So I beg you not to lose heart over my tribulations in your behalf; they are your glory.

yes, and I beg you also, my true yokefellow, to help them; for these women shared my toil in the furtherance of the gospel, together with Clement, and the rest of my fellow workers whose names are in the book of life.

For he who wrongs another will be paid back for his wrong-doing, and there will be no favoritism.

For truly God's justice must render back trouble to those who are troubling you,

And now you know what is holding him back, to the end that he may be revealed in his appointed time.

Luke only is with me. Pick up Mark, and bring him with you, for he is useful to me in my ministry.

I am sending him back to you, he himself, that is, my very heart!