Jesus said to another, “Follow me.” But he replied, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”

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

because he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name;

Thus I grant to you a kingdom, just as my Father granted to me,

“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.”

You gave me no kiss of greeting, but from the time I entered she has not stopped kissing my feet.

He answered them, “I will also ask you a question, and you tell me:

“Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?” They said, “Caesar’s.”

So Mary said, “Yes, I am a servant of the Lord; let this happen to me according to your word.” Then the angel departed from her.

After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax booth. “Follow me,” he said to him.

Then he said to them all, “If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me.

Then a man from the crowd cried out, “Teacher, I beg you to look at my son – he is my only child!

Yet another said, “I will follow you, Lord, but first let me say goodbye to my family.”

Then he said to them, “Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

Then when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.’

The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate that will belong to me.’ So he divided his assets between them.

yet because this widow keeps on bothering me, I will give her justice, or in the end she will wear me out by her unending pleas.’”

Jesus said to them, “No doubt you will quote to me the proverb, ‘Physician, heal yourself!’ and say, ‘What we have heard that you did in Capernaum, do here in your hometown too.’”

But Martha was distracted with all the preparations she had to make, so she came up to him and said, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Tell her to help me.”

Then he will reply from inside, ‘Do not bother me. The door is already shut, and my children and I are in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything.’