and said to him. "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down; for it is written, "He will give his angels charge over thee; Upon their hands they will bear thee up, Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone."

"Begone, Satan!" answered Jesus, for it is written, "Thou must worship the Lord thy God, and Him only must thou serve."

"What man of you is there who, when his son asks a loaf, will give him a stone?

and behold, a sudden storm arose on the sea, so that the boat began to be buried by the waves.

"Woe unto you, Chorazin! Woe unto you, Bethsaida! Because if the mighty works which have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented, long ago, in sackcloth and ashes.

"Moreover, I tell you it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the Day of Judgment, than for you.

"So if Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then will his kingdom stand?

Jesus then left that place, and withdrew into the region of Tyre and Sidon.

But he turned and said to Peter. "Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling-block to me, because you are not intent on what pleases God, but what pleases men."

"Have you never read in the Scriptures," Jesus answered, "how The stone that the builders rejected Has been made the corner-stone; This is the Lord's doing, It is wonderful in our eyes?

"He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; but he upon whom it falls will be scattered as dust."

"You see all these buildings?" he answered them; "I tell you solemnly that there shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be torn down."

So Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock; and after rolling a great stone against the opening of the tomb, he went away.

So they went and made the sepulcher secure, by sealing the stone in the presence of the guard.

There had been a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord had come down from heaven, and gone and rolled away the stone, and was sitting upon it.

and he remained in the desert for forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was among the wild beasts, but the angels were ministering to him.

From Judea, too, and Jerusalem, and Idumea, and from beyond Jordan, and from the district of Tyre and Sidon, they came to him a vast multitude, because they heard what he was doing.

So when he had called them to him he spoke to them in parables. "How," said he, "can Satan cast out Satan?

and if Satan has revolted against himself, and is divided, he cannot stand. Nay, he meets his end!

As soon as they hear it, Satan immediately comes and snatches away the Word which has been sown in them.

After he rose and left that place, he went away into the region of Tyre and Sidon. Here he went into a house and wished no one to know it but he could not be hid.

Again he left the region of Tyre, and passed through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, crossing the District of the Ten Towns.

But he turned round, and looked upon his disciples, and rebuked Peter. "Get thee behind me, Satan," he said, "for your thoughts are not God's thoughts, but man's."

"Have you not read this Scripture?" (he continued) "The very stone which the builders rejected Has now become the corner-stone;

"You see these mighty buildings? There shall not be left here one stone upon another which shall not be thrown down," he answered.

So Joseph bought him a sheet, and took Jesus down, wound him in the sheet, and laid him in a tomb which had been hewn out of a rock, and then rolled a stone against the opening of the tomb;

and they kept saying to one another, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the door of the tomb?"

But then as they looked up they saw that the stone, which was a very large one, was already rolled away;

The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God tell this stone to become bread."

"They will bear thee up in their hands, Lest thou dash thy food against a stone."

"yet Elijah was not sent to any one of them, but only to a widow in Zarephath in Sidon.

With these he came down till he reached a level place, where there was a great crowd of his disciples and a great many people from all Judea and Jerusalem and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon. These came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases.

"Woe unto you, Chorazin! Woe unto you, Bethsaida! For had the mighty been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

"However, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you.

And he said to them. "I watched Satan fall from heaven like a lightning flash.

"What father is there among you who, if his son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish will give him instead a serpent?

"And if Satan also is divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand?

"and this woman, who is the daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound these eighteen years, ought she not have been loosened from bondage, though the day be the Sabbath?"

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!

"you and your children within you. And they will not leave in you one stone upon the another. Because you knew not the time of your visitation."

"And if we say, 'From man,' all the people will stone us, for they were persuaded that John was a prophet."

He looked at them and said: "Then what does this scripture mean. "The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner?

"Every one who falls on that stone will be broken in pieces; but whoever it falls upon will be scattered as dust."

"As for what you are looking at, the time is coming when not one stone will be left upon another, that shall not be thrown down."

Satan however, entered into Judas (the man called Iscariot), who was one of the twelve.

"Simon, Simon," said the Lord, "behold, Satan has asked to have you all that he might sift you like wheat.

But he himself withdrew from them about a stone's throw, kneeling down he prayed repeatedly, saying.

And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb,

Now there were six stone water-jars standing there, according to the Jewish rites of purification, each holding about twenty gallons.

"Now Moses, in the Law, has commanded us to stone such creatures. But you, what do you say?"

But Jesus stooped down, and began to write on the ground with his finger. When they continued to question him, he raised himself and said to them, "Let the innocent man among you be the first to throw the stone at her."

The Jews again took stones with which to stone him. Jesus said to them.

"I have shown you many good deeds from my Father. For which of these are you going to stone me?"

"We are not going to stone you for a good deed," answered the Jews, "but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, are making yourself God."

"Rabbi," answered his disciples, "it was but just now that the Jews were trying to stone you, and are you going there again?"

Jesus therefore, again shuddering in himself with indignation, came to the tomb, which was a cave with a stone lying upon it.

"Roll away the stone," said Jesus. "Master," said Martha, the sister of the dead man "he is offensive by this time, for he has been four days in the tomb."

Then they rolled the stone away; and Jesus lifted up his eyes and said:

So when he had dipped the bread, he took it and gave it to Judas Iscariot, son of Simon. And after he had received the piece of bread, Satan entered into him. "What you do, do quickly," said Jesus.

On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, while it was yet dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and discovered that the stone had been removed from the tomb.

"For he is the Stone, cast aside by you builders, which has become the head stone of the corner.

"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?

On this the officer went off with his men and fetched them, not, however, by force, for they were afraid that the people would stone them.

Now Herod was violently displeased with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So they came to him, with one accord, and after conciliating Blastus, the royal chamberlain, they begged for peace because their country depended upon the king's country for its food supply.

And when both the Gentiles and the Jews with their ruler made a hostile move to maltreat and to stone them,

"Since then we are God's offspring, we ought not to imagine that the Godhead is like to gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and device of man.

"'so that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, in order to receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'

The next day we touched at Sidon. There Julius treated Paul kindly, and gave him leave to visit his friends and refresh himself.

And why? Because they sought it not by faith, but thought to gain it by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;

even as it is written. Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense; but he that believes on Him shall not be put to shame.

The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

I have handed over such a man to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, that his spirit may be saved, in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Do not refuse one another, unless it is only temporary and by mutual consent, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, lest through your lack of self-control Satan begin to tempt you to sin.

for your sakes, that I may not be overreached by Satan, for I am not ignorant of his devices.

Since all can see that you are a letter of Christ transcribed by men, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on human hearts as tablets.

No wonder! for Satan himself disguises himself as an angel of light.

It was for this reason, lest I should be over-elated, that there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to buffet me, lest I should be over-elated.

You are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone.

For that reason I would fain have visited you??, Paul, again and again??ut Satan hindered me.

even he whose coming is according to the energy of Satan, in every power and sign and lying wonder,

Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have given over to Satan, so that they may be taught not to blaspheme.

For already some widows have gone astray after Satan.

Come to him then, that living Stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, and precious.

For, as Scripture says. Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner-stone, elect, precious, And he who believes on Him shall never be put to shame.

For you, then, that believe, is the preciousness; but for those who do not believe, A stone which the builders rejected, The same has become the head stone of the corner,

and, A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense. They stumble over it because they are disobeying God's word, and to this they were also appointed.

I know your persecution and your poverty??ut you are rich! I know the reviling of those who say that they themselves are Jews, when they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

I know where you dwell, where the throne of Satan is; and yet you are holding fast my name, and you have not denied my faith, even in the days of Antipas, my witness, my faithful one, who was slain among you, where Satan has his dwelling.

He who has ears, let him listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To him that overcomes I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, which no man knows, but he that receives it.

But to the rest of you in Thyatira, those who do not hold his teaching, and who do not know the "deep things" of Satan (as they call them),

Behold, I am making those of the synagogue of Satan, those who say they are Jews, but are not, but are lying; behold, I will make them to come and bow in reverence before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.

and he who sat was in appearance like a jasper stone and a sardius; and there was a rainbow round about the throne, like an emerald to look upon.

And the rest of mankind who were not killed with these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands. They would not give up the worship of demons and of idols made of gold and silver, and brass, and stone, and wood, which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk.

Now the great dragon was thrown down??hat old Serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent; and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for the plague of it is very great.

He gripped the dragon, that old serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,

And when the thousand years have been completed, Satan will be loosed out of his prison,

It had the glory of God. Its light was like some precious stone, like jasper, clear as crystal;

The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all kings of precious stones. The first foundation-stone was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,