You are witnesses of these things.

Whenever you enter a house, first say, ‘May peace be on this house!’

But they could not reply to this.

I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town!

For all the nations of the world pursue these things, and your Father knows that you need them.

Everyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and the one on whom it falls will be crushed.”

But we had hoped that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. Not only this, but it is now the third day since these things happened.

Herod said, “I had John beheaded, but who is this about whom I hear such things?” So Herod wanted to learn about Jesus.

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.

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

But the twelve understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they did not grasp what Jesus meant.

So they asked him, “Teacher, when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that these things are about to take place?”

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! For there will be great distress on the earth and wrath against this people.

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

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

This will be a sign for you: You will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth and lying in a manger.”

Herod added this to them all: He locked up John in prison.

When they heard this, all the people in the synagogue were filled with rage.

When they had done this, they caught so many fish that their nets started to tear.

John’s disciples informed him about all these things. So John called two of his disciples