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But again he denied it. After a little while those standing there said to Peter again, “You certainly are one of them, since you’re also a Galilean.”

But Jesus still did not answer, and so Pilate was amazed.

But the chief priests stirred up the crowd so that he would release Barabbas to them instead.

They tried to give him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it.

In the same way, the chief priests with the scribes were mocking him among themselves and saying, “He saved others, but he cannot save himself!

But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you to Galilee; you will see him there just as he told you.’”

But they had no children because Elizabeth could not conceive, and both of them were well along in years.

But the angel said to him: “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will name him John.

But she was deeply troubled by this statement, wondering what kind of greeting this could be.

But his mother responded, “No. He will be called John.”

But the angel said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for look, I proclaim to you good news of great joy that will be for all the people:

But Mary was treasuring up all these things in her heart and meditating on them.

After those days were over, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it.

But they did not understand what he said to them.

John answered them all, “I baptize you with water, but one who is more powerful than I am is coming. I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

His winnowing shovel is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with fire that never goes out.”

But when John rebuked Herod the tetrarch because of Herodias, his brother’s wife, and all the evil things he had done,

But Jesus answered him, “It is written: Man must not live on bread alone.”

But I say to you, there were certainly many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days,

But he passed right through the crowd and went on his way.