Now when Jesus was born at Bethlehem in Judea in the days of King Herod, stargazers came from the East to Jerusalem

and asked, "Where is He that is born King of the Jews? We saw His star when it rose and have come to worship Him."

'And you, Bethlehem in Judah's land, You are not at all the least among the leading places of Judah, for out of you will come a ruler, who will shepherd my people Israel.'"

So he sent them to Bethlehem with this order, "Go and carefully search for the child, and when you find Him, bring back word to me, and I too may come and do Him homage."

After listening to the king, they started on their journey, and the star which they had seen rise led them on until it came and stopped over the place where the child was.

Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John to be baptized by him.

But John tried to prevent Him, by saying, "I have need to be baptized by you, and you come to me!"

And the tempter came up and said to Him, "If you are God's Son, order these stones to turn to bread."

Then the devil left Him, and angels came and continued to wait upon Him.

He said to them, "Come! Follow me, and I will make you fishermen for catching men."

When He saw the crowds, He went up on the mountain. After He had taken His seat, His disciples came up to Him.

"Do not suppose that I have come to set aside the law or the prophets.

I have not come to set them aside but to fill them up to the brim. For I solemnly say to you, heaven and earth would sooner pass away than the dotting of an 'i' or the crossing of a 't' from the law, until it all becomes in force.

leave your grit right there at the altar, and first go and make peace with your brother, and then come back and present your gift.

Be quick to come to terms with your opponent while you are on the road to court with him, so that he may not turn you over to the judge and the judge turn you over to the officer, and you be put in prison.

to prove that you are sons of your Father in heaven, for He makes His sun rise on bad as well as good people, and makes the rain come down on doers of right and of wrong alike.

Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is done in heaven.

"Look out for false prophets, who come to you under the guise of sheep, but inside they are devouring wolves.

When he came down from the mountain, great crowds followed Him.

And a leper came up to Him, and prostrated himself before Him, and said, "Lord, if you choose to, you can cure me."

When He got back to Capernaum, a Roman military captain came up to Him and kept begging Him,

He said to him, "I will come and cure him."

But the captain answered, "I am not fit for you to come under my roof, but simply speak the word, and my servant-boy will be cured.

For I, too, am under authority of others, and have soldiers under me, and I order this one to go, and he goes, another to come, and he comes, my slave-boy to do this, and he does it."

I tell you, many will come from the east and from the west and take their seats at the feast with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, 'in the kingdom of heaven,

When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were under the power of demons, and at a mere word He drove the spirits out, and cured all who were sick,

And a scribe came up and said to Him, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you may go."

And suddenly a furious storm came up, so that the boat was being covered over by the bursting billows, but He kept on sleeping.

And they suddenly screamed, "What do you want of us, you Son of God? Have you come here before the appointed time to torture us?"

While He was at table in the house many tax-collectors and notorious sinners came in and took their seats at table with Jesus and His disciples.

Go, learn what this means, 'It is mercy and not sacrifice that I want.' It is not upright but sinful people that I have come to invite."

Jesus said to them, "The wedding guests cannot mourn, can they, as long as they have the bridegroom with them? But a time will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

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."

And a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years came up and touched the tassel on His coat.

and if the house should prove deserving, may your good wish for peace upon it come true, but if not, may your good wish bring peace to yourselves.

"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace but a sword.

For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,

"Are you the One who was to come, or should we keep on looking for a different one?"

and if you are willing to accept it, John himself is the Elijah who was to come.

"But to what can I compare the leaders of this age? They are like little children sitting in the market places and calling to their fellows in the game,

For John came neither eating nor drinking with others, and yet they said, 'He has a demon.'

The Son of Man came eating and drinking with others, and they say, 'Just look at Him! A glutton and a wine-drinker, a chum of tax-collectors and notorious sinners!' And yet wisdom is vindicated by her doings!"

Come to me, all of you who toil and carry burdens, and I, yes, I, will lead you into rest.

But if I by the Spirit of God am driving the demons out, then the kingdom of God has come to you.

And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven for it, but whoever speaks abusively against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven for it, either in this world or in the world to come.

The queen of the south will rise with the leaders of this age at the judgment and condemn them, for she came from the farthest limits of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom, and there is more than Solomon here!

and as he was sowing, some of the seed fell along the path, and the birds came and ate them up,

Then His disciples came up to Him and asked, "Why do you speak to them in stories?"

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.

But while the world was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed wild wheat seed in the midst of the good seed, and went away.

And the farmer's slaves came up to him and said, 'Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Then where did the wild wheat plants come from?'

It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it is grown it is the largest of plants; yea, it grows into a tree, so that the wild birds come and roost in its branches."

Then He left the crowds and went into His house. And His disciples came up to Him and said, "Explain to us the story of the wild wheat in the field."

But when Herod's birthday came, Herodias' daughter danced before the guests. Herod was fascinated by her,

Then John's disciples came and carried off his corpse, and buried him, and went and reported it to Jesus.

But when it was evening, His disciples came to Him and said, "This is a destitute place, and the day is over; send the crowds off to the villages to buy themselves food."

After He had dismissed the crowds, He went up the hill alone to pray. And after the evening came on, He was there alone,

Peter answered Him, "Lord, if it is you, let me come to you on the water."

And He said, "Come." And Peter got down out of the boat and walked on the water, and he went toward Jesus.

And they crossed over to the other side and came to Gennesaret.

Then some Pharisees and scribes from Jerusalem came to Jesus, and asked Him,

Then His disciples came up to Him and asked, "Do you know that the Pharisees were knocked breathless to hear what you have just said?"

But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and they make the man foul.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, immorality, stealing, false witnessing, irreverent speech.

And a Canaanite woman of that district came out and pleaded, saying, "Do pity me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is suffering horrors from a demon."

But He did not answer her a word. And His disciples came up and kept begging Him, "Send her away, for she keeps on screaming after us."

But she came and bowed to Him, and kept praying, "Lord, help me!"

and great crowds came up to Him bringing with them the lame, the crippled, the blind, the deaf, and many others. They laid them at His feet, and He cured them,

The Pharisees and the Sadducees came up, and to test Him asked Him to show them a spectacular sign from heaven.

For the Son of Man is going to come in His Father's splendor, with His angels, and then He will pay back to everyone in accordance with what he has done.

Then Jesus came and touched them, and said, "Get up and do not be so afraid."

The disciples asked Him, "Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"

He answered, "Elijah does come and will get everything ready.

But I say to you, Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but treated him as they pleased. Just so the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands."

When they reached the crowd, a man came up to Him, kneeling before Him and saying,

And Jesus reproved the demon, and it came out of him, and the boy was cured that very moment.

After that the disciples came to Jesus and privately asked, "Why is it we could not drive it out?"

When they reached Capernaum, the collectors of the temple tax came to Peter and asked, "Does your Teacher pay the temple tax?"

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

A curse on the world for such influences to do wrong! For they must come, but a curse on the man from whom these influences come!

Then Peter came up to Him and asked, "Lord, how many times may my brother wrong me and I have to forgive him? As many as seven?"

And some Pharisees came up to Him, to try Him out with the question, "Is it right for a man to divorce his wife for any cause?"

And a man came up to Him and asked, "What is there good that I can do to possess eternal life?"

Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go and sell everything you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; then come back here and follow me."

"When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last and ending with the first.'

And they who had been hired at five o'clock came and received twenty cents each.

And those who were hired first, when they came, supposed that they would receive more, but they too received twenty cents each.

Then the mother of Zebedee's sons came up to Him with her sons, kneeling to Him and asking a favor of Him.

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."

When they were near Jerusalem and had come to Bethphage and the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples on ahead,

When He came into Jerusalem, the whole city was trembling with excitement, and asking, "Who is He?"

Then blind and crippled people came to Him, and He cured them.

As He saw a fig tree by the roadside, He came to it but found on it nothing but leaves, and said to it, "Never again shall a fig grow on you!" And the fig tree at once withered up.

And when He had come into the temple, the high priests and elders of the people came up to Him while He was teaching, and asked, "What sort of authority have you for doing these things, and who gave you this authority?"

Where did John's baptism come from? From heaven, or from men?" They argued it out among themselves in this way, "If we say, 'From heaven,' He will say to us, 'Then why did you not believe him?'

"But what do you think? There was a man who had two sons, He came to the first and said, 'Son, go and work in my vineyard today.'

Then he came to the second and said the same thing. And he answered, 'I will not.' But afterward he changed his mind and went.

For John came to you walking in the way of uprightness, and yet you did not believe him. The tax-collectors and prostitutes did believe him, but you, even though you saw that, would not change your minds afterward and believe him.

But when the tenants saw the son, they said among themselves, 'This is his heir, come on, let us kill him, and get all that is coming to him!'

And he sent his slaves to summon those who had been invited to the wedding reception, but they refused to come.