Bible Verses About The Christ Jesus

saying, "I sinned in betraying an innocent man to death." "What is that to us?" they answered. "That's your problem."

So the eleven talmidim went to the hill in the Galil where Yeshua had told them to go.

When they saw him, they prostrated themselves before him; but some hesitated.

He proclaimed: "After me is coming someone who is more powerful than I -- I'm not worthy even to bend down and untie his sandals.

I have immersed you in water, but he will immerse you in the Ruach HaKodesh."

Immediately the Spirit drove him out into the wilderness,

and he was in the wilderness forty days being tempted by the Adversary. He was with the wild animals, and the angels took care of him.

As Yeshua was in Levi's house eating, many tax-collectors and sinners were sitting with Yeshua and his talmidim, for there were many of them among his followers.

When the Torah-teachers and the P'rushim saw that he was eating with sinners and tax-collectors, they said to his talmidim, "Why does he eat with tax-collectors and sinners?"

But, hearing the question, Yeshua answered them, "The ones who need a doctor aren't the healthy but the sick. I didn't come to call the `righteous' but sinners!"

Also Yochanan's talmidim and the P'rushim were fasting; and they came and asked Yeshua, "Why is it that Yochanan's talmidim and the talmidim of the P'rushim fast, but your talmidim don't fast?"

Yeshua answered them, "Can wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is still with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, fasting is out of the question.

But the time will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them; and when that day comes, they will fast.

No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old coat; if he does, the new patch tears away from the old cloth and leaves a worse hole.

And no one puts new wine in old wineskins; if he does, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the skins will be ruined. Rather, new wine is for freshly prepared wineskins."

and once more, such a crowd came together that they couldn't even eat.

When his family heard about this, they set out to take charge of him; for they said, "He's out of his mind!"

Seeing Yeshua from a distance, he ran and fell on his knees in front of him

and screamed at the top of his voice, "What do you want with me, Yeshua, Son of God Ha`Elyon? I implore you in God's name! Don't torture me!"

Isn't he just the carpenter? the son of Miryam? the brother of Ya`akov and Yosi and Y'hudah and Shim`on? Aren't his sisters here with us?" And they took offense at him.

But Yeshua said to them. "The only place people don't respect a prophet is in his home town, among his own relatives, and in his own house."

So he could do no miracles there, other than lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them.

He was amazed at their lack of trust. Then he went through the surrounding towns and villages, teaching.

Next, Yeshua left that district and went off to the vicinity of Tzor and Tzidon. There he found a house to stay in and wanted to remain unrecognized, but keeping hidden proved impossible.

Instead, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit in her came to him and fell down at his feet.