on reaching the house they saw the child with his mother Mary, they fell down to worship him, and opening their caskets they offered him gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh.

He went and settled in a town called Nazaret, so that what had been said by the prophets might be fulfilled: 'He shall be called a Nazarene.'

The axe is lying all ready at the root of the trees; any tree that is not producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

Now when Jesus had been baptized, the moment he rose out of the water, the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God coming down like a dove upon him.

said to him, "If you are God's son, throw yourself down; for it is written, He will give his angels charge of you; they will bear you on their hands, lest you strike your foot against a stone."

he said, "I will give you all that if you will fall down and worship me."

So when he saw the crowds, he went up the hill and sat down; his disciples came up to him

You are the light of the world. A town on the top of a hill cannot be hidden.

thy Reign begin, thy will be done on earth as in heaven!

[Relocated to follow vs 20] Any tree that does not produce sound fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

The rain came down, the floods rose, the winds blew and beat upon that house, but it did not fall, for it was founded on rock.

The rain came down, the floods rose, the winds blew and beat upon that house, and down it fell ??with a mighty crash."

When he came down from the hill, he was followed by large crowds.

On entering the house of Peter, Jesus noticed his mother-in-law was down with fever,

He said to them, "Begone!" So out they came and went to the swine, and the entire drove rushed down the steep slope into the sea and perished in the water.

The herdsmen fled; they went off to the town and reported the whole affair of the demoniacs.

Then all the town came out to meet Jesus, and when they saw him they begged him to move out of their district.

So he embarked in the boat and crossed over to his own town.

Now when Jesus reached the official's house and saw the flute-players and the din the crowd were making,

These twelve men Jesus despatched with the following instructions, "Do not go among the Gentiles, and do not enter a Samaritan town,

Whatever town or village you go into, find out a deserving inhabitant and stay with him till you leave.

Whoever will not receive you or listen to your message, leave that house or town and shake off the very dust from your feet.

I tell you truly, on the day of judgment it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorra than for that town.

When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next; truly I tell you, you will not have covered the towns of Israel before the Son of man arrives.

but, as great crowds gathered to him, he entered a boat and sat down, while all the crowd stood on the beach.

He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' The servants said to him, 'Then would you like us to go and gather them?'

When it was full, they dragged it to the beach and sitting down they gathered the good fish into vessels but flung away the bad.

For the Son of man is coming in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will reward everyone for what he has done.

As they went down the hill Jesus ordered them, "Tell this vision to nobody until the Son of man is raised from the dead."

I tell you another thing: if two of you agree on earth about anything you pray for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven.

So the servant fell down and prayed him, 'Have patience with me, and I will pay you it all.'

So his fellow-servant fell down and implored him, saying, 'Have patience with me, and I will pay you.'

They said to him, "Then why did Moses lay it down that we were to divorce by giving a separation-notice?"

When the ten heard of this, they were angry at the two brothers,

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

Jesus answered, "I tell you truly, if you have faith, if you have no doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree but even if you say to this hill, 'Take and throw yourself into the sea,' it will be done.

The same happened with the second and the third, down to the seventh.

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

This is why I will send you prophets, wise men, and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, some of whom you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town;

it is that on you may fall the punishment for all the just blood shed on earth from the blood of Abel the just down to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

but he replied to them, "You see all this? I tell you truly, not a stone here will be left upon another, without being torn down."

a man on the housetop must not go down to fetch what is inside his house,

Then shall the Realm of heaven be compared to ten maidens who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom and the bride.

But Jesus was aware of what they said, and he replied, "Why are you annoying the woman? It is a beautiful thing she has done to me.

I tell you truly, wherever this gospel is preached through all the world, men will speak of what she has done in memory of her."

Again he went away for the second time and prayed, "My Father, if this cup cannot pass unless I drink it, thy will be done."

Peter followed him at a distance as far as the courtyard of the high priest, and when he got inside he sat down beside the attendants to see the end.

Then he flung down the silver pieces in the temple and went off and hung himself.

"Why," said the governor, "what has he done wrong?" But they shouted on more fiercely than ever, "Have him crucified!"

and sat down there to keep watch over him.

and calling, "You were to destroy the temple and build it in three days! Save yourself, if you are God's Son! Come down from the cross!"

"He saved others," they said, "but he cannot save himself! He the 'king of Israel'! Let him come down now from the cross; then we will believe in him!

But a great earthquake took place; an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and went and rolled away the boulder and sat on it.

So the soldiers took the money and followed their instructions; and this story has been disseminated among the Jews down to the present day.

And the moment he rose from the water he saw the heavens cleft and the Spirit coming down upon him like a dove;

Now when evening came, when the sun set, they brought him all who were ill or possessed by daemons ??33 indeed the whole town was gathered at the door ??34 and he cured many who were ill with various diseases and cast out many daemons; but as the daemons knew him he would not let them say anything.

But he went off and proceeded to proclaim it aloud and spread news of the affair both far and wide. The result was that Jesus could no longer enter any town openly; he stayed outside in lonely places, and people came to him from every quarter.

And whenever the unclean spirits saw him they fell down before him, screaming, "You are the Son of God!"

But the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said, "He has Beelzebul," and "It is by the prince of daemons that he casts out daemons."

Once more he proceeded to teach by the seaside, and a crowd gathered round him greater than ever, so he entered a boat on the sea and sat down, while all the crowd stayed on shore.

And Jesus gave them leave. Then out came the unclean spirits and entered the swine, and the drove rushed down the steep slope into the sea (there were about two thousand of them) and in the sea they were drowned.

The herdsmen fled and reported it to the town and the hamlets. So the people came to see what had happened,

and when they reached Jesus they saw the lunatic sitting down, clothed and in his sober senses ??the man who had been possessed by 'Legion.' That frightened them.

but he said, "Go home to your own people, and report to them all the Lord has done for you and how he took pity on you."

So he went off and began to proclaim throughout Decapolis all that Jesus had done for him; it made everyone astonished.

But he kept looking round to see who had done it,

and the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came forward in fear and trembling and fell down before him, telling him all the truth.

Now the apostles gathered to meet Jesus and reported to him all they had done and taught.

He replied, "Give them some food, yourselves." They said, "Are we to go and buy ten pounds' worth of food and give them that to eat?"

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

whatever village or town or hamlet he went to, they would lay their invalids in the marketplace, begging him to let them touch even the tassel of his robe ??and all who touched him recovered.

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

As they went down the hill, he forbade them to tell anyone what they had seen, till such time as the Son of man rose from the dead.

As for Elijah, I tell you he has come already, and they have done to him whatever they pleased ??as it is written of him."

and whenever it seizes him it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth. He is wasting away with it; so I told your disciples to cast it out, but they could not."

Jesus said to him, "'If you can'! Anything can be done for one who believes."

So he sat down and called the twelve. "If anyone wants to be first," he said to them, "he must be last of all and the servant of all."

So he replied, "What did Moses lay down for you?"

As he went out on the road a man ran up and knelt down before him. "Good teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit life eternal?"

Now when the ten heard of this, they burst into anger at James and John;

also he taught them. "Is it not written," he asked, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations? You have made it a den of robbers."

I tell you truly, whoever says to this hill, 'Take and throw yourself into the sea,' and has not a doubt in his mind but believes that what he says will happen, he will have it done.

Sitting down opposite the treasury, he watched the people putting their money into the treasury. A number of the rich were putting in large sums,

Jesus said to him, "You see these great buildings? Not a stone shall be left on another, without being torn down."

a man on the housetop must not go down into the house or go inside to fetch anything out of his house,

But Jesus said, "Let her alone. Why are you annoying her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.

She has done all she could ??she has anticipated the perfuming of my body for burial.

I tell you truly, wherever the gospel is preached all over the world, men will speak of what she has done in memory of her."

Peter followed him at a distance till he got inside the courtyard of the high priest, where he sat down with the attendants to warm himself at the fire.

"Why," said Pilate, "what has he done wrong?" But they shouted more fiercely than ever, "Crucify him!"

Come down from the cross and save yourself!"

Let 'the Christ,' 'the king of Israel' come down now from the cross! Let us see that and we will believe!" Those who were crucified with him also denounced him.

One man ran off, soaked a sponge in vinegar, and put it on the end of a stick to give him a drink, saying, "Come on, let us see if Elijah does come to take him down!"

He, after buying a linen sheet, took him down and swathed him in the linen, laying him in a tomb which had been cut out of the rock and rolling a boulder up against the opening of the tomb.

Then after speaking to them the Lord Jesus was taken up to heaven and sat down at the right hand of God,

exactly as these have been handed down to us by the original eyewitnesses who were in the service of the Gospel Message,

"The Lord has done this for me," she said, "he has now deigned to remove my reproach among men."

In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazaret,

In those days Mary started with haste for the hill-country, for a town of Judah;

What have I done to have the mother of my Lord come to me?