And they began to beg him not to order them to depart into the abyss.

So those who were sent ahead found it exactly as he had told them.

So they went and found things just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.

When his time of service was over, he went to his home.

As they were walking along the road, someone said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.”

Then people will say to you, ‘Look, there he is!’ or ‘Look, here he is!’ Do not go out or chase after them.

He went away and discussed with the chief priests and officers of the temple guard how he might betray Jesus, handing him over to them.

So Mary said, “Yes, I am a servant of the Lord; let this happen to me according to your word.” Then the angel departed from her.

So he stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing. Be clean!” And immediately the leprosy left him.

Immediately he stood up before them, picked up the stretcher he had been lying on, and went home, glorifying God.

When John’s messengers had gone, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

Jesus said to another, “Follow me.” But he replied, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”

But Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”

Then some of those who were with us went to the tomb, and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see him.”

Then he ordered the man to tell no one, but commanded him, “Go and show yourself to a priest, and bring the offering for your cleansing, as Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”

Then all the people of the Gerasenes and the surrounding region asked Jesus to leave them alone, for they were seized with great fear. So he got into the boat and left.

“Return to your home, and declare what God has done for you.” So he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole town what Jesus had done for him.

Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him, beat him up, and went off, leaving him half dead.

But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. He bent down and saw only the strips of linen cloth; then he went home, wondering what had happened.

When the angels left them and went back to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, that the Lord has made known to us.”