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And they went out quickly from the place, because fear and great wonder had come on them: and they said nothing to anyone, because they were full of fear that Three dots are used where it is no longer possible to be certain of the true sense of the Hebrew words, and for this reason no attempt has been made to put them into Basic English.

And later he was seen by the eleven themselves while they were taking food; and he said sharp words to them because they had no faith and their hearts were hard, and because they had no belief in those who had seen him after he had come back from the dead.

And they were without children, because Elisabeth had never given birth, and they were at that time very old.

Now, see, you will be without voice or language till the day when these things come about, because you had not faith in my words, which will have effect at the right time.

And the people were waiting for Zacharias and were surprised because he was in the Temple for such a long time.

And Mary said to the angel, How may this be, because I have had no knowledge of a man?

Because of the loving mercies of our God, by which the dawn from heaven has come to us,

And Joseph went up from Galilee, out of the town of Nazareth, into Judaea, to Beth-lehem, the town of David, because he was of the house and family of David,

And she had her first son; and folding him in linen, she put him to rest in the place where the cattle had their food, because there was no room for them in the house.

But Herod the king, because John had made a protest on account of Herodias, his brother's wife, and other evil things which Herod had done,

The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make well those who are broken-hearted; to say that the prisoners will be let go, and the blind will see, and to make the wounded free from their chains,

And evil spirits came out of a number of them, crying out and saying, You are the Son of God. But he gave them sharp orders not to say a word, because they had knowledge that he was the Christ.

But he said to them, I have to give the good news of the kingdom of God in other towns, because that is why I was sent.

And because of the mass of people, there was no way to get him in; so they went up on the top of the house and let him down through the roof, on his bed, into the middle in front of Jesus.

Happy are you, when men have hate for you, and put you away from among them and say angry words to you, turning away in disgust at your name, because of the Son of man.

He is like a man building a house, who went deep and put the base of it on a rock; and when the water came up and the river was driving against that house, it was not moved, because the building was good.

It is right for you to do this for him, because he is a friend to our nation, and himself has put up a Synagogue for us.

And so I say to you, She will have forgiveness for her sins which are great in number, because of her great love: but he who has small need of forgiveness gives little love.

And some went on the rock, and when it came up it became dry and dead because it had no water.

And his mother and his brothers came to him, and they were not able to get near him because of the great number of people.