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

But at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus whose body was covered with sores,

Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box.

He also saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins.

For they all offered their gifts out of their wealth. But she, out of her poverty, put in everything she had to live on.”

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!”

He said, “I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put in more than all of them.

(This was a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection started in the city, and for murder.)

Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”

And if this is how God clothes the wild grass, which is here today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven, how much more will he clothe you, you people of little faith!

But the worker answered him, ‘Sir, leave it alone this year too, until I dig around it and put fertilizer on it.

He released the man they asked for, who had been thrown in prison for insurrection and murder. But he handed Jesus over to their will.

[But Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.”] Then they threw dice to divide his clothes.

Then the devil brought him to Jerusalem, had him stand on the highest point of the temple, and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here,

And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins and will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.

It is like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the wild birds nested in its branches.”

As you are going with your accuser before the magistrate, make an effort to settle with him on the way, so that he will not drag you before the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.