“The one who listens to you listens to me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”

And who am I that the mother of my Lord should come and visit me?

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and the regaining of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed,

But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

and said to them, “Whoever welcomes this child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me, for the one who is least among you all is the one who is great.”

Day after day when I was with you in the temple courts, you did not arrest me. But this is your hour, and that of the power of darkness!”

Look at my hands and my feet; it’s me! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones like you see I have.”