The angel came to her and said, “Greetings, favored one, the Lord is with you!”

Today your Savior is born in the city of David. He is Christ the Lord.

Then he said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”

And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unrighteous judge says!

They replied, “The Lord needs it.”

and saying, “The Lord has really risen, and has appeared to Simon!”

The Lord replied, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom the master puts in charge of his household servants, to give them their allowance of food at the proper time?

“This is what the Lord has done for me at the time when he has been gracious to me, to take away my disgrace among people.”

“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, because he has come to help and has redeemed his people.

When the Lord saw her, he had compassion for her and said to her, “Do not weep.”

But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things,

Blessed is that slave whom his master finds at work when he returns.

If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ just say, ‘The Lord needs it.’”

So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

For David himself says in the book of Psalms, ‘The Lord said to my lord, “Sit at my right hand,

He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David.

Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her.

So the master said to his slave, ‘Go out to the highways and country roads and urge people to come in, so that my house will be filled.

Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What should I do? I will send my one dear son; perhaps they will respect him.’

After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him two by two into every town and place where he himself was about to go.