so much that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked.

When the foolish ones took their lamps, they did not take extra olive oil with them.

For you will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me!

Six days later Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John the brother of James, and led them privately up a high mountain.

teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

“Look! The virgin will conceive and bear a son, and they will call him Emmanuel,” which means “God with us.”

Then large crowds came to him bringing with them the lame, blind, crippled, mute, and many others. They laid them at his feet, and he healed them.

Jesus answered, “You unbelieving and perverse generation! How much longer must I be with you? How much longer must I endure you? Bring him here to me.”

I tell you, from now on I will not drink of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”

Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there, so the last state of that person is worse than the first. It will be that way for this evil generation as well!”