Is not life more than food, and the body than its clothing?
And I say to you, my friends, Have no fear of those who may put the body to death, and are able to do no more than that.
But when you give a feast, send for the poor and the blind and those who are broken in body:
And she said with a loud voice: May blessing be on you among women, and a blessing on the child of your body.
And the servant came back and gave his master an account of these things. Then the master of the house was angry and said to the servant, Go out quickly into the streets of the town and get the poor, the blind, and those who are broken in body.
For, truly, when the sound of your voice came to my ears, the baby in my body made a sudden move for joy.
And they, answering him, said, Where, Lord? And he said to them, Where the body is, there will the eagles come together.
And he took bread and, having given praise, he gave it to them when it had been broken, saying, This is my body, which is given for you: do this in memory of me.
This man went to Pilate and made a request for the body of Jesus.
And he took it down, and folding it in a linen cloth, he put it in a place cut in the rock for a dead body; and no one had ever been put in it.
And the women who had come with him from Galilee went after him and saw the place and how his body had been put to rest;
But on the first day of the week, at dawn, they came to the place where his body had been put, taking the spices which they had got ready.
But Peter got up and went to the place where the body had been put, and looking in he saw nothing but the linen cloths, and he went to his house full of wonder at what had taken place.
And certain women among us gave us cause for wonder, for they went early to the place where his body had been put,
And they went in, but the body of the Lord Jesus was not there.
And they took him and put him to death, pushing his body out of the garden.
And while they were taking food, he took bread, and after blessing it, he gave the broken bread to them, and said, Take it: this is my body.
And a certain young man went after him, with only a linen cloth about his body; and they put their hands on him;
She has done what she was able: she has put oil on my body to make it ready for its last resting-place.
There came Joseph of Arimathaea, a responsible man in high honour, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God; and he went in to Pilate without fear, and made a request for the body of Jesus.
And when he had news of it from the captain, he let Joseph have the body.
And very early after dawn on the first day of the week, they came at the time of the coming up of the sun to the place where the body had been put.
And straight away the fountain of her blood was stopped, and she had a feeling in her body that her disease had gone and she was well.
And when his disciples had news of it, they came and took up his body, and put it in its last resting-place.
And have no fear of those who put to death the body, but are not able to put to death the soul. But have fear of him who has power to give soul and body to destruction in hell.
But when he was giving thought to these things, an angel of the Lord came to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, have no fear of taking Mary as your wife; because that which is in her body is of the Holy Spirit.
And his disciples came, and took up his body and put it in the earth; and they went and gave Jesus news of what had taken place.
And there came to him great numbers of people having with them those who were broken in body, or blind, or without voice, or wounded, or ill in any way, and a number of others; they put them down at his feet and he made them well:
And the blind and the broken in body came to him in the Temple, and he made them well.
Wherever the dead body is, there will the eagles come together.
For in putting this perfume on my body, she did it to make me ready for my last resting-place.
And when they were taking food, Jesus took bread and, after blessing it, he gave the broken bread to the disciples and said, Take it; this is my body.
This man went in to Pilate, and made a request for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate gave orders for it to be given to him.
And Joseph took the body, folding it in clean linen,
Give orders, then, that the place where his body is may be made safe till the third day, for fear that his disciples come and take him away secretly and say to the people, He has come back from the dead: and the last error will be worse than the first.
So they went, and made safe the place where his body was, putting a stamp on the stone, and the watchmen were with them.
Now late on the Sabbath, when the dawn of the first day of the week was near, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the place where his body was.
And if your right eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell.
And if your right hand is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell.
The light of the body is the eye; if then your eye is true, all your body will be full of light.
But if your eye is evil, all your body will be dark. If then the light which is in you is dark, how dark it will be!
So I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about food or drink, or about clothing for your body. Is not life more than food, and the body more than its clothing?
Saying, Lord, my servant is ill in bed at the house, with no power in his body, and in great pain.
Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of sheep or with ten thousand rivers of oil? am I to give my first child for my wrongdoing, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
The body-covers of his fighting men have been made red, the men of war are clothed in bright red: the war-carriages are like flames of fire in the day when he gets ready, the horses are shaking.
And from that time, half of my servants were doing their part of the work, and half kept the spears and body-covers and the bows and the metal war-dresses; and the chiefs were at the back of the men of Judah.
Let her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half wasted when he comes out from the body of his mother.
Anyone touching a dead body will be unclean for seven days:
Anyone touching the body of a dead man without making himself clean in this way, makes the House of the Lord unclean; and that man will be cut off from Israel: because the water was not put on him, he will be unclean; his unclean condition is unchanged.
And anyone touching one who has been put to death with the sword in the open country, or the body of one who has come to his end by a natural death, or a man's bone, or the resting-place of a dead body, will be unclean for seven days.
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