He went into all the region around the Jordan River, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

But a Samaritan who was traveling came to where the injured man was, and when he saw him, he felt compassion for him.

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

Then the day for the feast of Unleavened Bread came, on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.

Then the second one came and said, ‘Sir, your mina has made five minas.’

But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’

People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage – right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

Then another slave came and said, ‘Sir, here is your mina that I put away for safekeeping in a piece of cloth.

So Simeon, directed by the Spirit, came into the temple courts, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what was customary according to the law,

Then he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them. But his mother kept all these things in her heart.

Now Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read,

Then a man named Jairus, who was a ruler of the synagogue, came up. Falling at Jesus’ feet, he pleaded with him to come to his house,

When the woman saw that she could not escape notice, she came trembling and fell down before him. In the presence of all the people, she explained why she had touched him and how she had been immediately healed.

The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with the people of this generation and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon – and now, something greater than Solomon is here!

Then Jesus told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and found none.

So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way from home his father saw him, and his heart went out to him; he ran and hugged his son and kissed him.

And when Jesus came to that place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down quickly, because I must stay at your house today.”