So they made signs to the baby’s father, inquiring what he wanted to name his son.

I begged your disciples to cast it out, but they could not do so.”

Simeon took him in his arms and blessed God, saying,

And the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom, and the favor of God was upon him.

Other seed fell among the thorns, and they grew up with it and choked it.

But when Jesus discerned their innermost thoughts, he took a child, had him stand by his side,

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!”

There will be two women grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left.”

For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”

On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they wanted to name him Zechariah after his father.

And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do the same.

Why then didn’t you put my money in the bank, so that when I returned I could have collected it with interest?’

Then he took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, and placed it in a tomb cut out of the rock, where no one had yet been buried.

“A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled on, and the wild birds devoured it.

But they did not understand this statement; its meaning had been concealed from them, so that they could not grasp it. Yet they were afraid to ask him about this statement.

“Which one of you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go look for the one that is lost until he finds it?