The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!”

(just as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every firstborn male will be set apart to the Lord”),

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

And he will go as forerunner before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers back to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared for him.”

Now when the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, Joseph and Mary brought Jesus up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord

So he contacted his master’s debtors one by one. He asked the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’

So the slave came back and reported this to his master. Then the master of the household was furious and said to his slave, ‘Go out quickly to the streets and alleys of the city, and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.’