1991

WATCH TOWER BIBLE AND TRACT S OCIETY

OF PENNSYLVANIA
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New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, 1984 Edition

The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived

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Messages From Heaven

Honored Before He Was Born
The Preparer of the Way Is Born
Pregnant but Not Married
Jesus' Birth-Where and When?
The Child of Promise
Jesus and the Astrologers
Escape From a Tyrant
Jesus' Early Family Life

10 Trips to Jerusalem
11 John Prepares the Way

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Jesus' Baptism
Learning From Jesus' Temptations
Jesus' First Disciples
Jesus' First Miracle
Zeal for Jehovah's Worship
Teaching Nicodemus
John Decreases, Jesus Increases
Teaching a Samaritan Woman
Second Miracle While in Cana
In Jesus' Hometown Synagogue
Four Disciples Are Called
More Miracles in Capernaum
Why Jesus Came to Earth
Compassion for a Leper

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Back Home in Capernaum

The Calling of Matthew
Questioned About Fasting
Doing Good Works on the Sabbath
Answering His Accusers
Plucking Grain on the Sabbath
What Is Lawful on the Sabbath?
Fulfilling Isaiah's Prophecy
Choosing His Apostles
The Most Famous Sermon Ever Given
An Army Officer's Great Faith
Jesus Dispels a Widow's Grief
Did John Lack Faith?
The Proud and the Lowly
A Lesson in Mercy
A Center of Controversy
Jesus Rebukes the Pharisees
Teaching With illustrations
Silencing a Terrifying Storm
An Unlikely Disciple
She Touched His Garment
Tears Thrned to Great Ecstasy
LeavingJairus' Home and Revisiting Nazareth
Another Preaching Tour of Galilee
Preparation to Face Persecution
Murder During a Birthday Party
Jesus Miraculously Feeds Thousands

53 A Desired Superhuman Ruler

54 "True Bread From Heaven"
55 Many Disciples Quit Following Jesus
56 What Defiles a Man?
57 Compassion for the Aftlicted
58 The Loaves and the Leaven
59 Who Really Is Jesus?
60 A Preview of Christ's Kingdom Glory
61 Possessed Boy Healed
62 A Lesson in Humility
63 Further Corrective Counsel
64 A Lesson in Forgiveness
65 A Secret Trip to Jerusalem

66 At the Festival of Tabernacles

67 They Fail to Arrest Him
68 Further Teaching on the Seventh Day
69 The Question of Fatherhood
70 Healing a Man Born Blind
71 Pharisees' Willful Unbelief

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Jesus Sends Out the 70

A Neighborly Samaritan
Counsel to Martha, and Instruction on Prayer
The Source of Happiness
Dining With a Pharisee
The Question of Inheritance
Keep Ready!

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80 The Sheepfolds and the Shepherd

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Further Attempts to Kill Jesus

Jesus Again Heads for Jerusalem
Entertained by a Pharisee
The Responsibility of Discipleship
Searching for the Lost
The Story of a Lost Son

87 Provide for the Future With Practical Wisdom

88 The Rich Man and Lazarus
89 A Mission of Mercy Into Judea
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The Resurrection Hope

When Lazarus Is Resurrected
Ten Lepers Healed During Jesus' Final Trip to Jerusalem
When the Son of Man Is Revealed

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The Need for Prayer and for Humility

Lessons on Divorce and on Love for Children
Jesus and a Rich Young Ruler
Workers in the Vineyard
The Disciples Argue as Jesus' Death Nears

99 Jesus Teaches at Jericho

100 The Illustration of the Minas
101 At Bethany, in the House of Simon
102 Christ's Triumphal Entry Into Jerusalem
103 Visiting the Temple Again
104 God's Voice Heard a Third Time
105 Beginning of a Crucial Day
106 Exposed by Vineyard Illustrations

107 Illustration of the Marriage Feast

108 They Fail to Entrap Jesus
109 Jesus Denounces His Opposers
110 Ministry at the Temple Completed
111 Sign of the Last Days
112 Jesus' Final Passover Is At Hand
113 Humility at the Last Passover
114 The Memorial Supper
115 An Argument Erupts
116 Preparing the Apostles for His Departure
117 Agony in the Garden
118 Betrayal and Arrest
119 Taken to Annas, Then to Caiaphas
120 Denials in the Courtyard
121 Before the Sanhedrin, Then to Pilate
122 From Pilate to Herod and Back Again
123 "Look! The Man!"
124 Handed Over and Led Away
125 Agony on the Stake
126 "Certainly This Was God's Son"
127 Buried Friday-An Empty Tomb Sunday
128 Jesus Is Alive!
129 Further Appearances
130 At the Sea of Galilee
131 Final Appearances, and Pentecost 33 C.E.
132 At God's Right Hand
133 Jesus Finishes All God Asks

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