'It's' in the Bible

Then Jesus told them, "A lamp isn't brought indoors to be put under a basket or under a bed, is it? It's to be put on a lamp stand, isn't it?

It's like a mustard seed planted in the ground. Although it's the smallest of all the seeds on earth,

when it's planted it comes up and becomes larger than all the garden plants. It grows such large branches that the birds in the sky can nest in its shade."

John had been telling Herod, "It's not lawful for you to have your brother's wife."

When it was quite late, his disciples came to him and said, "This is a deserted place, and it's already late.

All of them saw him and were terrified. Immediately he told them, "Have courage! It's me. Stop being afraid!"

Nothing that goes into a person from the outside can make him unclean. It's what comes out of a person that makes a person unclean.

Then he continued, "It's what comes out of a person that makes a person unclean,

because it's from within, from the human heart, that evil thoughts come, as well as sexual immorality, stealing, murder,

Then Peter told Jesus, "Rabbi, it's good that we're here! Let's set up three shelters one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."

So if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It's better for you to enter life injured than to have two hands and go to hell, to the fire that cannot be put out.

And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It's better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.

And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It's better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell.

It's easier for a camel to squeeze through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to get into the kingdom of God."

Jesus looked at them intently and said, "For humans it's impossible, but not for God. All things are possible for God."

Jesus told them, "You will drink from the cup that I'm going to drink and be baptized with the baptism with which I'm going to be baptized. But it's not up to me to grant you a seat at my right or my left. Those positions have already been prepared for others."

It's like a man who went on a trip. As he left home, he put his servants in charge, each with his own work, and he ordered the doorkeeper to be alert.

He told them, "It's one of you Twelve, the one who is dipping his bread into the bowl with me.