Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Truly I say to you that the tax collectors and prostitutes will get into the kingdom of God before you.
Again he sent another group of slaves larger than the first; and they did the same thing to them.
Now there were seven brothers with us; and the first married and died, and having no children left his wife to his brother;
You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, so that the outside of it may become clean also.
Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?”
Therefore, give orders for the grave to be made secure until the third day, otherwise His disciples may come and steal Him away and say to the people, ‘He has risen from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”
Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to look at the grave.
But no one can enter the strong man’s house and plunder his property unless he first binds the strong man, and then he will plunder his house.
The soil produces crops by itself; first the blade, then the head, then the mature grain in the head.
And He was saying to her, “Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”
They asked Him, saying, “Why is it that the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
And He said to them, “Elijah does first come and restore all things. And yet how is it written of the Son of Man that He will suffer many things and be treated with contempt?
Sitting down, He called the twelve and said to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all.”
But many who are first will be last, and the last, first.”
and whoever wishes to be first among you shall be slave of all.
There were seven brothers; and the first took a wife, and died leaving no children.
The gospel must first be preached to all the nations.
On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was being sacrificed, His disciples said to Him, “Where do You want us to go and prepare for You to eat the Passover?”
Very early on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.
[Now after He had risen early on the first day of the week, He first appeared to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had cast out seven demons.
This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria.
Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother’s eye.
And He said to another, “Follow Me.” But he said, “Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.”
Another also said, “I will follow You, Lord; but first permit me to say good-bye to those at home.”
Whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house.’
Then it goes and takes along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first.”
When the Pharisee saw it, he was surprised that He had not first ceremonially washed before the meal.
Under these circumstances, after so many thousands of people had gathered together that they were stepping on one another, He began saying to His disciples first of all, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
And behold, some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last.”
But they all alike began to make excuses. The first one said to him, ‘I have bought a piece of land and I need to go out and look at it; please consider me excused.’
For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it?
Or what king, when he sets out to meet another king in battle, will not first sit down and consider whether he is strong enough with ten thousand men to encounter the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
And he summoned each one of his master’s debtors, and he began saying to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’
But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.
The first appeared, saying, ‘Master, your mina has made ten minas more.’
Now there were seven brothers; and the first took a wife and died childless;
When you hear of wars and disturbances, do not be terrified; for these things must take place first, but the end does not follow immediately.”
Then came the first day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.
But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared.
He found first his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which translated means Christ).
and said to him, “Every man serves the good wine first, and when the people have drunk freely, then he serves the poorer wine; but you have kept the good wine until now.”
for an angel of the Lord went down at certain seasons into the pool and stirred up the water; whoever then first, after the stirring up of the water, stepped in was made well from whatever disease with which he was afflicted.]
“Our Law does not judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, does it?”
But when they persisted in asking Him, He straightened up, and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.”
And He went away again beyond the Jordan to the place where John was first baptizing, and He was staying there.
These things His disciples did not understand at the first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of Him, and that they had done these things to Him.
and led Him to Annas first; for he was father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.
So the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first man and of the other who was crucified with Him;
Nicodemus, who had first come to Him by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds weight.
Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came early to the tomb, while it was still dark, and saw the stone already taken away from the tomb.
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