“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among people with whom he is pleased!”

So when they had brought their boats to shore, they left everything and followed him.

“I have come to bring fire on the earth – and how I wish it were already kindled!

For it will overtake all who live on the face of the whole earth.

Do you think I have come to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division!

It is of no value for the soil or for the manure pile; it is to be thrown out. The one who has ears to hear had better listen!”

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tiny stroke of a letter in the law to become void.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon,

But as for the seed that landed on good soil, these are the ones who, after hearing the word, cling to it with an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with steadfast endurance.

You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how can you not know how to interpret the present time?

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! For there will be great distress on the earth and wrath against this people.

“And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth nations will be in distress, anxious over the roaring of the sea and the surging waves.

And in his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.]

The women were terribly frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead?

But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, when the sky was shut up three and a half years, and there was a great famine over all the land.

He got into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little way from the shore. Then Jesus sat down and taught the crowds from the boat.

But the person who hears and does not put my words into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the river burst against that house, it collapsed immediately, and was utterly destroyed!”

But other seed fell on good soil and grew, and it produced a hundred times as much grain.” As he said this, he called out, “The one who has ears to hear had better listen!”

As Jesus stepped ashore, a certain man from the town met him who was possessed by demons. For a long time this man had worn no clothes and had not lived in a house, but among the tombs.