But he answered, “It is written, ‘One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ ”

So, for the sake of your tradition, you nullify the word of God.

thus nullifying the word of God through your tradition that you have handed on. And you do many things like this.”

And the disciples were perplexed at these words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!

during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness.

Jesus Calls the First Disciples

Once while Jesus was standing beside the Lake of Gennesaret and the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God,

The Parable of the Sower Explained

“Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

But he said to them, “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it.”

But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it!”

He asked them, “What things?” They replied, “The things about Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people,

He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure.

Whoever is from God hears the words of God. The reason you do not hear them is that you are not from God.”

If those to whom the word of God came were called ‘gods’—and the scripture cannot be annulled—

When they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God with boldness.

And the twelve called together the whole community of the disciples and said, “It is not right that we should neglect the word of God in order to wait on tables.

The word of God continued to spread; the number of the disciples increased greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests became obedient to the faith.

Now when the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them.

Peter’s Report to the Church at Jerusalem

Now the apostles and the brothers and sisters who were in Judea heard that the gentiles had also accepted the word of God.

But the word of God continued to advance and gain adherents.

When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the Jewish synagogues. And they had John also to assist them.

He was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man who summoned Barnabas and Saul and wanted to hear the word of God.

Then both Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, “It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken first to you. Since you reject it and judge yourselves to be unworthy of eternal life, we are now turning to the gentiles.

But when the Jews of Thessalonica learned that the word of God had been proclaimed by Paul in Beroea as well, they came there, too, to stir up and incite the crowds.

He stayed there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

It is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all those descended from Israel are Israelites,