I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town!

Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus to register all the empire for taxes.

But those days are coming, and when the bridegroom is taken from them, at that time they will fast.”

Now by chance a priest was going down that road, but when he saw the injured man he passed by on the other side.

Even if he comes in the second or third watch of the night and finds them alert, blessed are those slaves!

Blessed is that slave whom his master finds at work when he returns.

For I tell you, not one of those individuals who were invited will taste my banquet!’”

Then after he had spent everything, a severe famine took place in that country, and he began to be in need.

So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, because Jesus was going to pass that way.

Everyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and the one on whom it falls will be crushed.”

where for forty days he endured temptations from the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were completed, he was famished.

At that very time Jesus cured many people of diseases, sicknesses, and evil spirits, and granted sight to many who were blind.

Now a large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside, and the demonic spirits begged Jesus to let them go into them. He gave them permission.

Wherever they do not receive you, as you leave that town, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”

After the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. So they kept silent and told no one at that time anything of what they had seen.

That servant who knew his master’s will but did not get ready or do what his master asked will receive a severe beating.

So he went and worked for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.

There was also a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’

But those who are regarded as worthy to share in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.

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.