But Jesus answered him, "Let it be so now, for this is the fitting way for both of us to do our full duty to God." Then he yielded to Him.

Keep on rejoicing and leaping for ecstasy, for your reward will be rich in heaven; for this is the way they persecuted the prophets who lived before you.

Let your light shine before people in such a way that they may see your good deeds, and praise your Father in heaven.

So if your right eye causes you to do wrong, pluck it out of your way; for it is better to have one part of your body suffer loss than to have your whole body go down to the pit.

And if your right hand causes you to do wrong, cut it off and put it out of your way, for it is better to have one part of your body suffer loss than to have your whole body go down to the pit.

But your way of speaking must be a simple 'Yes' or 'No.' Anything beyond this comes from the evil one.

So this is the way you must pray: Our Father in heaven, Your name be revered.

When He reached the other side, in the district of Gadara, there faced Him two men, who were under the power of demons, who were just coming out from the tombs. They were such terrors that nobody could pass that way.

If not, what did you go out there to see? A man dressed in silks and satins? No, people who dress in that way are found in the palaces of kings.

and in this way fulfilled the saying spoken by the prophet Isaiah:

"Then it goes and gets seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and make their home there, and so the end of that man is worse than the beginning. This is the way it will be with the wicked leaders of this age."

And in stories, by way of comparison, He told them many things, as He continued to speak: "A sower went out to sow,

He went to His own home town, and kept teaching in their synagogue in such a way that they were dumbfounded, and said, "Where did He get this wisdom and this power to do such wonder-works?

For Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him out of the way by putting him in prison, just to please Herodias, his brother Philip's wife,

but the boat was already a long way from shore, and was being tossed by the waves, for the wind was against them.

Then Jesus called His disciples to Him, and said, "My heart is moved with pity for the crowd, for it is now three days they have been staying with me, and they have nothing at all left to eat, and I fear they might give out on the way home."

But He turned and said to Peter, "Get out of my way, you Satan! You are a hindrance to me, for this view of yours is not from God but from men."

"And if your own hand or your own foot makes you do wrong, cut it off and put it out of your way. It is better for you to get into life maimed or crippled than to have both hands or both feet to be thrown into everlasting torture.

And if your own eye makes you do wrong, pluck it out and put it out of your way. It is better for you to go into life with a single eye than to have both eyes to be thrown into the pit of torture.

This is the way my heavenly Father too will deal with you, if you do not, each one, heartily forgive your brother."

Then they asked Him, "Why did Moses command us to give a written divorce charge, and in this way to divorce a wife?"

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?'

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.

Again he sent other slaves, and more than at first, and they treated them exactly the same way.

So they sent to Him their disciples with the Herodians, to say to Him, "Teacher, we know that you are in the habit of telling the truth and of teaching the way of God in honesty, and you do not care what anyone says, for you are not partial.

Then many will fall by the way, and will betray one another and hate one another.

In the same way the man who had received the two thousand made two thousand more.

And He took Peter and Zebedee's two sons along with Him and He began to give way to His grief and distress of heart.

How then could the Scriptures be fulfilled, for they say this is the way it must be?"

In that way the words spoken by the prophet Jeremiah were fulfilled: "They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of the one whose price had been fixed by some Israelites,

Even the robbers who were crucified with Him made sport of Him in the same way.

While they were on their way, some members of the guard went into the city and told the high priests everything that had taken place.

As it is written in the prophet Isaiah: "Here I send my messenger ahead of you; He will prepare your way.

"Why is He talking this way? He is blaspheming. Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

but it does not take real root in them, and so they last only a little while; then when trouble or persecution comes on account of the truth, they at once fall by the way.

He left the neighborhood of Tyre and went by way of Sidon through the district of the Ten Cities down to the Sea of Galilee.

And if I send them home hungry, they will give out on the road, for some of them are a long way from home."

Then Jesus and His disciples left Galilee and went to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way there He was asking His disciples, "Who do people say that I am?"

But He turned and glanced at His disciples and reproved Peter by saying, "Get out of my way, Satan, for this view of yours is not from God but from men!"

Then they reached Capernaum. When He got home, He asked them, "What were you discussing on the way home?"

Then the high priests and the scribes heard of this, and they kept looking for some way to destroy Him, for they were afraid of Him, for everybody was swept off his feet at what He said.

Then they argued with one another in this way, "If we say, 'It was from heaven,' He will say, 'Then why did you not believe him?'

And they came up and said to Him, "We know that you always tell the truth, and pay no personal consideration to anyone, but teach the way of God honestly. Is it right to pay poll-tax to Caesar, or not?

Now the feast of the Passover and of Unleavened Bread was two days later. So the high priests and scribes kept looking for some way to arrest Him by stratagem and have Him put to death,

And when the captain who stood facing him saw that He expired in this way, he said, "This man was surely God's Son!"

After this He showed Himself in a different form to two of them as they were walking along, on their way into the country.

And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, for you will go before the Lord to make ready His ways,

to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace."

But He Himself passed through the midst of them and went on His way.

And as they could not find a way because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down with his pallet through the tiles, among the people right in front of Jesus.

Burst into joy on that day and leap for ecstasy, for your reward will be rich in heaven; for this is the way your forefathers used to treat the prophets.

A curse on you when everyone speaks well of you, for this is the way their forefathers used to treat the false prophets.

Now as a great crowd was coming together and people were coming to Him from one town after another, He said by way of a story:

Jesus answered: "A man was on his way down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell into the hands of robbers, who both stripped him and beat him till he was half dead, and then went off and left him.

Now a priest happened to be going that way, but when he saw him, he went by on the other side of the road.

The next day he took out a half dollar and handed it to the innkeeper, and said, 'Take care of him, and on my way back I will repay you.'

For instance, when you are on the way to court with your opponent, take the utmost pains on the way to get entirely rid of him, so that he may not rush you before the judge, and the judge turn you over to the sheriff, and the sheriff put you in prison.

Then He was traveling from town to town and from village to village, teaching and making His way toward Jerusalem.

But I must continue on my way, for it is not possible for a prophet to perish outside Jerusalem.'

Another said, 'I have just bought five yoke of oxen, and I am on my way to try them. Please excuse me.'

So he got up and went to his father. But, while he was still a long way off, his father saw him, and his heart was moved with pity for him, and he ran and fell on his neck, and kissed him affectionately.

Then He said to him, "Get up and go on your way. Your faith has cured you."

After saying these things, He went on ahead of them, on His way to Jerusalem.

They asked Him, "Teacher, we know that you speak and teach what is right, and show no favors to anyone, but teach the way of God honestly.

On that very day, strange to say, two of them were on their way to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem,

Then the Jews addressed Him and asked, "What sign can you show us that you have authority to act in this way?"

The wind blows where it pleases, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. That is just the way it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

At this the Jews took up stones to stone Him, but Jesus made His way out of the temple unperceived.

If we let Him go on this way, everybody will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and blot out both our city and nation."

And you know the way to the place where I am going."

Thomas said to Him, "Lord, we do not know where you are going, and so how can we know the way?"

Jesus answered him, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

I now leave you the blessing of peace, I give you the blessing of my own peace. I myself do not give it in the way the world gives it. Stop letting your hearts be troubled or timid.

By your continuously bearing abundant fruit and in this way proving yourselves to be real disciples of mine, my Father is glorified.

After He had said this, one of the attendants standing by slapped Jesus in the face, and said, "Is this the way you answer the high priest?"

After this Jesus again showed Himself to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias, and this is the way He showed Himself.

and said to them, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into heaven? This very Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will come back in just the way you have seen Him go up into heaven."

You have made known to me the ways of life, and you will fill me with delight in your presence.'

Peter and John were on their way up to the temple at the three o'clock hour of prayer,

when a man crippled from his birth was being carried by, who used to be laid every day at what was called The Beautiful Gate of the temple, to beg from people on their way into the temple.

But in this way God fulfilled what He by the lips of all the prophets foretold, that the Christ should suffer.

It was to you first that He sent His Servant, after raising Him from the dead, to bless you by causing every one of you to turn from his wicked ways."

So, after further threatening them, they turned them loose, because they could not find any way to punish them, on account of the people, because they all continued to praise God for what had taken place,

Peter said to her, "How could both of you agree in such a way to test the Spirit of the Lord? Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door; they will carry you out, too."

So after they had given their testimony and spoken the Lord's message, they started back to Jerusalem, and on the way continued to tell the good news in many Samaritan villages.

and now was on his way home. He was seated in his chariot, reading the prophet Isaiah.

and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, that if he found any men or women belonging to The Way he might bring them in chains to Jerusalem.

Now while Peter was still at a loss to know what the vision he had seen could mean, the men who had been sent by Cornelius had asked for the way to Simon's house and had stopped at the gate;

Now the fugitives from the persecution that started over Stephen went all the way to Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, telling the message to none but Jews.

Now the news about them came to the ears of the church at Jerusalem, and so they sent Barnabas all the way to Antioch.

He was an intimate friend of the governor, Sergius Paulus, who was an intelligent man. The governor sent for Barnabas and Saul and in this way tried to hear God's message.

At Iconium too they went to the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a great number of both Jews and Greeks came to believe.

In ages past He let all the heathen go on in their own ways;

and in this way He put no difference between us and them, because He cleansed their hearts by faith.

So I give it as my opinion, we ought not to put difficulties in the way of the heathen who turn to God,

Once as we were on our way to the place of prayer, a slave girl met us who had the gift of magical fortune-telling, and continued to make great profits for her owners by fortune-telling.

This girl kept following Paul and the rest of us, shrieking, "These men are slaves of the Most High God, and they are proclaiming to you a way of salvation."

The men who acted as Paul's bodyguard took him all the way to Athens, and then went back with orders for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible.

and said, "This fellow is inducing people to worship God in ways that violate our laws."

He had been instructed about the way of the Lord, and with spiritual fervor he was speaking and was accurately teaching some details about Jesus, although he knew of no baptism but John's.