And she will have a son, and you must name Him Jesus, for it is He who is to save His people from their sins."

"The virgin will become pregnant and have a son, and they will call Him Immanuel" -- which means "God with us."

'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.'"

This very John had his clothing made of camel's hair, and wore a leather belt around his waist; his food was dried locusts and wild honey.

I am baptizing you in water to picture your repentance. But He that is coming after me is stronger than I am, and I am not fit to carry His shoes. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and in fire;

His winnowing-fork is in His hand, and He will clean out His threshing-floor and store His wheat in His barn, but He will burn up the chaff with fire that never can be put out."

and said to Him, "If you are God's Son, throw yourself down, for the Scripture says: "'He will give His angels directions about you, And they will bear you up on their hands, so you will never strike your foot against a stone.'"

and said to Him, "Every bit of this I will give to you, if you will fall on your knees and worship me."

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

"Blessed are the mourners, for they will be comforted.

"Blessed are the lowly in mind, for they will possess the land.

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for being and doing right, for they will be completely satisfied.

"Blessed are those who show mercy, for they will have mercy shown them.

"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called God's sons.

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.

Whoever, therefore, breaks one of the least of these commands and teaches others so to do, will be ranked as least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices them and teaches others so to do, will be ranked as great in the kingdom of heaven.

For I tell you that unless your righteousness far surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never get into the kingdom of heaven at all.

"You have heard that it was said to the men of old, 'You must not murder,' and 'Whoever murders will have to answer to the court.'

But I say to you: "Everyone who harbors malice against his brother, will have to answer to the court, and whoever speaks contemptuously to his brother, will have to answer to the supreme court; and whoever says to his brother, 'You cursed fool? will have to pay the penalty in the pit of torture.

I solemnly say to you, you will never get out at all until you have paid the last penny.

For if you practice loving only those who love you, what reward will you get? Do not even the tax-collectors practice that?

"Take care not to do your good deeds in public, to attract the attention of people; if you do, you will get no reward from your Father in heaven.

so that your deed of charity may be secret, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.

But whenever you, follower of mine, pray, you must go to your most private place, shut the door, and pray to your Father in secret, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.

And whenever you pray, you must not keep on repeating set phrases, as the heathen do, for they suppose that they will be heard in accordance with the length of their prayers,

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

"For if you forgive others their shortcomings your heavenly Father will forgive you, too.

But if you do not forgive others, your heavenly Father will not forgive your shortcomings either.

so that your fasting may be seen, not by men but by your Father who is unseen, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.

For wherever your treasure is, there too your heart will be.

"The eye is the very lamp of the body. If then your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

But if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the very source of light in you is darkness, how dense is that darkness!

No one can be a slave to two masters, for either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot be slaves of God and money.

So I tell you, stop worrying about your life, as to what you will have to eat or drink, or about your body, as to what you will have to wear. Is not life worth more than food and the body worth more than clothes?

Take a good look at the wild birds, for they do not sow or reap, or store up food in barns, and yet your heavenly Father keeps on feeding them. Are you not worth more than they?

And why should you worry about clothes? Look at the wild lilies and learn how they grow. They do not toil or spin;

Now if God so gorgeously dresses the wild grass which today is green but tomorrow is tossed into the furnace, will He not much more surely clothe you, O you with little faith?

But as your first duty keep on looking for His standard of doing right, and for His will, and then all these things will be yours besides.

So never worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries of its own. Each day has evil enough of its own."

For exactly as you criticize others, you will be criticized, and in accordance with the measure that you give to others, it will be measured back to you.

"Keep on asking, and the gift will be given you; keep on seeking, and you will find; keep on knocking, and the door will open to you.

For everyone who keeps on asking, receives, and everyone who keeps on seeking, finds, and to the one who keeps on knocking, the door will open.

What human father among you, when his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?

Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a snake?

So if you, in spite of your being bad, know how to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your heavenly Father give what is good to those who keep on asking Him?

Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will get into the kingdom of heaven, but only those who practice doing the will of my Father in heaven.

Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, was it not in your name that we prophesied, and in your name that we drove out demons, and in your name that we did many wonder-works?'

And then I will say to them openly, 'I never knew you at all. Go away from me, you who practiced doing wrong.'

"So everyone who listens to my words and practices their teaching, will be like a prudent man who built his house on a rocky foundation.

And anyone who listens to my words and does not practice their teaching, will be like an imprudent man who built his house on sand.

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.

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,

while the heirs of the kingdom will be turned out into the darkness outside, where they will be weeping and grinding their teeth."

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

And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes, even wild birds have roosts, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head."

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."

For she kept saying to herself, "If I can only touch His coat, I will get well."

And whoever will not welcome you, or listen to your words, on leaving that place shake off from your feet its very dust.

I tell you, the punishment on the day of judgment will be lighter for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.

Be on your guard against men, for they will turn you over to the courts and will flog you in their synagogues,

and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness to them and the heathen.

But when they turn you over to the courts, you must not worry at all about how or what you ought to speak, for it will be given you at that hour what you ought to speak.

One brother will turn another over to death, and a father his child, and children will take a stand against their parents, and will have them put to death.

And you will be hated by all men, because you bear my name, but whoever bears up to the end will be saved.

But whenever they persecute you in one town, flee to a different one. For I solemnly say to you, you will not cover all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man returns.

The pupil should be satisfied to become like his teacher, and the slave should be satisfied to become like his master. If men have called the Head of the house Beelzebub, how much worse names will they heap upon the members of His family!

So you must never be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will not be uncovered, nor a secret that will not be known.

Therefore, everyone who will own me before men I will own before my Father in heaven,

but anyone who disowns me before men I will disown before my Father in heaven.

and a man's enemies will be members of his own family.

Anybody who gains his lower life will lose the higher life, and anybody who loses his lower life for my sake will gain the higher life.

Whoever welcomes a prophet as a prophet will receive the same reward as a prophet, and whoever welcomes an upright man as such will receive the same reward as the upright man.

And I solemnly say to you, no one who gives a cup of cold water to one of the least of my disciples, because he is a disciple, will ever fail to get his reward."

This is the man of whom the Scripture says, "'Attention! I am sending my messenger on before you; He will prepare the road ahead of you.'

Moreover, I tell you, on the day of judgment the punishment will be lighter for Tyre and Sidon than for you!

But I tell you, on the day of judgment the punishment will be lighter for the land of Sodom than for you!"

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

Put on my yoke, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls,

But He said to them, "What man is there among you, if he has only one sheep and it falls into a ditch on the sabbath, will not lay hold on it and lift it out?

"Here is my Servant whom I have chosen, My Beloved, in whom my soul delights itself. I will endow Him with my Spirit, and He will announce a judgment to the heathen.

He will not debate, nor challenge anyone; His voice will no one hear in the streets;

A broken reed He will not break off; a flickering wick He will not put out, until He brings His judgment to victory.

On His name the heathen will set their hopes."

So I tell you, every sin and all abusive speech will be forgiven men, but abuse against the Spirit cannot be forgiven.

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.

So I tell you, for every worthless word that men utter they will have to give account on the day of judgment;

for it is by your words that you will be acquitted and by your words that you will be condemned."

But He answered, "Only a wicked and treacherous age is hankering for a spectacular sign, and no sign will be given it but the sign of the prophet Jonah.

For as Jonah was in the whale's stomach for three days and nights, the Son of Man will be three days and nights in the heart of the earth.

The men of Nineveh will rise with the leaders of this age at the judgment and condemn them, for they turned to the message preached by Jonah, and there is more than Jonah here!

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!

Then it says, 'I will go back to my house which I left,' and it finds it unoccupied, swept, and ready for use.

"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."

For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my mother and sister and brother."

For to anyone who has, more will be given, and his supply will overflow, but from anyone who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.

So in them the prophecy of the prophet Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: "'You will listen and listen and not understand, and you will look and look and never see at all,

For this people's soul has grown dull, and with their ears they can scarcely hear, and they have shut tight their eyes, so that they will never see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn to me, so that I may cure them!'