He answered them, “Do you think these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered these things?

This was the first registration, taken when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

“To what then should I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like?

Then his disciples asked him what this parable meant.

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

They will say, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish!’

So Jesus told them this parable:

Was no one found to turn back and give praise to God except this foreigner?”

But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

because these are days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.

There was also an inscription over him, “This is the king of the Jews.”

He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.

But these words seemed like pure nonsense to them, and they did not believe them.

After some time his wife Elizabeth became pregnant, and for five months she kept herself in seclusion. She said,

But she was greatly troubled by his words and began to wonder about the meaning of this greeting.

In those days Mary got up and went hurriedly into the hill country, to a town of Judah,

Then he began to tell them, “Today this scripture has been fulfilled even as you heard it being read.”

This report about Jesus circulated throughout Judea and all the surrounding country.

But those who were at the table with him began to say among themselves, “Who is this, who even forgives sins?”

so that this generation may be held accountable for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning of the world,