The magicians listened to the king and then went their way. And the star they had seen rise went in front of them till it stopped over the place where the child was.

(This was the man spoken of by the prophet Isaiah: The voice of one who cries in the desert, 'Make the way ready for the Lord, level the paths for him.')

Be quick and make terms with your opponent, so long as you and he are on the way to court, in case he hands you over to the judge, and the judge to the jailer, and you are thrown into prison;

Enter by the narrow gate: for [the gate] is broad and the road is wide that leads to destruction, and many enter that way.

rather make your way to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

This is he of whom it is written, Here I send my messenger before your face to prepare the way for you.

He said, "Come." Then Peter got out of the boat and walked over the water on his way to Jesus;

Nay, I tell you Elijah has already come, but they have not recognized him ??they have worked their will on him. And the Son of man will suffer at their hands in the same way."

Then he laid his hands on them and went upon his way.

When he entered the temple, the high priests and elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching, and said, "What authority have you for acting in this way? Who gave you this authority?"

For John showed you the way to be good and you would not believe him; the taxgatherers and harlots believed him, and even though you saw that, you would not change your mind afterwards and believe him.

They sent him their disciples with the Herodians, who said, "Teacher, we know you are sincere and that you teach the Way of God honestly and fearlessly; you do not court human favour.

So Jesus left the temple and went on his way. His disciples came forward to point out to him the temple-buildings,

The robbers who were crucified with him also denounced him in the same way.

While they were on their way, some of the sentries went into the city and reported all that had taken place to the high priests,

As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, Here I send my messenger before your face to prepare the way for you:

the voice of one who cries in the desert, 'Make the way ready for the Lord, level the paths for him' ??4 John appeared baptizing in the desert and preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;

Conscious at once that they were arguing to themselves in this way, Jesus asked them, "Why do you argue thus in your hearts?

Now it happened that he was passing through the cornfields on the sabbath, and as the disciples made their way through they began to pull the ears of corn.

So he called them and said to them by way of parable, "How can Satan cast out Satan?

and he said to them: "The open secret of the Realm of God is granted to you, but these outsiders get everything by way of parables,

he never spoke to them except by way of parable, but in private he explained everything to his own disciples.

He said to her, "Well, go your way; the daemon has left your daughter, since you have said that."

If I send them home without food they will faint on the road. Besides, some of them have come a long way."

Now the Pharisees came out and started to argue with him, asking him for a Sign from heaven, by way of tempting him.

They were on the way up to Jerusalem, Jesus walking in front of them: the disciples were in dismay and the company who followed were afraid. So once again he took the twelve aside and proceeded to tell them what was going to happen to himself.

and asked him, "What authority have you for acting in this way? Who gave you authority to act in this way?"

They came up and said to him, "Teacher, we know you are sincere and fearless; you do not court human favour, you teach the Way of God honestly. Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?

They forced Simon a Cyrenian who was passing on his way from the country (the father of Alexander and Rufus) to carry his cross,

Now when the army-captain who stood facing him saw that he expired in this way, he said, "This man was certainly a son of God."

After this he appeared in another form to two of them as they were walking on their way to the country.

And you, my child, shall be called a prophet of the Most High; for you shall go in front of the Lord to make his ways ready,

to shine on those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our steps into the way of peace."

and he went into all the Jordan-district preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins ??4 as it is written in the book of the sayings of the prophet Isaiah, The voice of one who cries in the desert, 'Make the way ready for the Lord, level the paths for him.

But he made his way through them and went off.

It was shortly afterwards that he made his way to a town called Nain, accompanied by his disciples and a large crowd.

This is he of whom it is written, Here I send my messenger before your face, to prepare the way for you.

Go your way; I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.

Next morning he took out a couple of shillings and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, 'Attend to him, and if you are put to any extra expense I will refund you on my way back.'

Others by way of tempting him demanded he should give them a Sign from heaven.

Thus, when you go before the magistrate with your opponent, do your utmost to get quit of him on the way there, in case he hales you before the judge; then the judge will hand you over to the jailer and the jailer will throw you in prison.

On he went, teaching from one town and village to another, as he made his way to Jerusalem.

With these words he went forward on his way up to Jerusalem.

"Tell us," they said, "what authority you have for acting in this way? Who was it that gave you this authority?"

They put this question to him, "Teacher, we know you are straight in what you say and teach, you do not look to human favour but teach the Way of God honestly.

Then he went outside and made his way to the Hill of Olives, as he was accustomed. The disciples followed him,

Day after day I was beside you in the temple, and you never stretched a hand against me. But this is your hour, and the dark Power has its way."

As they led him off they caught hold of Simon a Cyrenian on his way from the country and laid the cross on him to carry after Jesus.

That very day two of them were on their way to a village called Emmaus about seven miles from Jerusalem.

He said, "I am the voice of one who cries in the desert, 'level the way for the Lord' ??as the prophet Isaiah said."

Then the Jews accosted him with the words, "What sign of authority have you to show us, for acting in this way?"

They set out from the town on their way to him.

The Pharisees heard the people discussing Jesus in this way, so the high priests and the Pharisees despatched attendants to arrest him.

At this they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus concealed himself and made his way out of the temple.

And you know the way to where I am going."

"Lord," said Thomas, "we do not know where you are going, and how are we to know the way?"

Jesus said to him, "I am the real and living way: no one comes to the Father except by means of me.

After that, Jesus disclosed himself once more to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. It was in this way.

Then they made their way back to Jerusalem from the hill called 'The Olive-Orchard'; it is close to Jerusalem, only a sabbath day's journey from it.

Peter and John were on their way up to the temple for the hour of prayer at three in the afternoon,

It was for you first that God raised up his Servant, and sent him to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways."

In this way they excited the people, the elders, and the scribes, who rushed on him, dragged him away, and took him before the Sanhedrin.

So he got up and went on his way. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a high official of Candace the queen of the Ethiopians (he was her chief treasurer), who had come to Jerusalem for worship

and was on his way home. He was sitting in his chariot, reading the prophet Isaiah.

When they came up from the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the eunuch lost sight of him. He went on his way rejoicing,

and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus empowering him to put any man or woman in chains whom he could find belonging to the Way, and bring them to Jerusalem.

Now those who had been scattered by the trouble which arose over Stephen made their way as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, but they preached the word to none except Jews.

At Iconium the same thing happened. They went into the synagogue of the Jews and spoke in such a way that a great body both of Jews and Greeks believed.

shouting, "Men, what is this you are doing? We are but human, with natures like your own! The gospel we are preaching to you is to turn from such futile ways to the living God who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that in them is.

In bygone ages he allowed all nations to go their own ways,

No, it is by the grace of the Lord Jesus that we believe and are saved, in the same way as they are."

Hence, in my opinion, we ought not to put fresh difficulties in the way of those who are turning to God from among the Gentiles,

He made his way through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.

She followed Paul and the rest of us, shrieking, "These men are servants of the Most High God, they proclaim to you the way of salvation!"

The brothers then sent off Paul at once on his way to the sea, while Silas and Timotheus remained where they were.

He had been instructed in the Way of the Lord and he preached and taught about Jesus with ardour and accuracy, though all the baptism he knew was that of John.

In the synagogue he was very outspoken at first; but when Aquila and Priscilla listened to him, they took him home and explained more accurately to him what the Way of God really meant.

But as some grew stubborn and disobedient, decrying the Way in presence of the multitude, he left them, withdrew the disciples, and continued his argument every day from eleven to four in the lecture-room of Tyrannus.

After these events Paul resolved in the Spirit to travel through Macedonia and Achaia on his way to Jerusalem. "After I get there," he said, "I must also visit Rome."

It was about that time that a great commotion arose over the Way. This was how it happened.

When the tumult had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples and encouraged them; he then took leave of them and went his way to Macedonia.

I showed you how this was the way to work hard and succour the needy, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, who said, 'To give is happier than to get.'"

I persecuted this Way of religion to the death, chaining and imprisoning both men and women,

I said, 'What am I to do?' And the Lord said to me, 'Get up and make your way into Damascus; there?you shall be told about all you are destined to do.'

till the commander ordered him to be taken inside the barracks and examined under the lash, so as to find out why the people shouted at him in this way.

Now you and the Sanhedrin must inform the commander that you propose to investigate this case in detail, so that he may have Paul brought down to you. We will be all ready to kill him on the way down."

So Paul was summoned, and then Tertullus proceeded to accuse him. "Your excellency," he said to Felix, "as it is owing to you that we enjoy unbroken peace, and as it is owing to your wise care that the state of this nation has been improved in every way and everywhere,

As Felix had a pretty accurate knowledge of the Way, he remanded Paul, telling the Jews, "When Lysias the commander comes down, I will decide your case."

while the rest were to manage with planks or pieces of wreckage. In this way it turned out that the whole company got safe to land.

where we came across some of the brotherhood, who invited us to stay a week with them. In this way we reached Rome.

asking if I may at last be sped upon my way to you by God's will.

and in the same way the males have abandoned the natural use of women and flamed out in lust for one another, men perpetrating shameless acts with their own sex and getting in their own persons the due recompense of their perversity.

Much in every way. This to begin with ??Jews were entrusted with the scriptures of God.

But if our iniquity thus serves to bring out the justice of God, what are we to infer? That it is unfair of God to inflict his anger on us? (I speak in a merely human way.)

their ways bring destruction and calamity,

they know nothing of the way of peace;

In what way? When he was a circumcised man or an uncircumcised man? Not when he was circumcised, but when he was uncircumcised.

but now we are done with the Law, we have died to what once held us, so that we can serve in a new way, not under the written code as of old but in the Spirit.

Once you disobeyed God, and now you enjoy his mercy thanks to their disobedience; in the same way they at present are disobedient,

Never revenge yourselves, beloved, but let the Wrath of God have its way; for it is written, Vengeance is mine, I will exact a requital ??the Lord has said it. No,