And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be thrown down to Hades!

So he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

Others, to test him, began asking for a sign from heaven.

John’s baptism – was it from heaven or from people?”

[Then an angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him.

but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

There will be great earthquakes, and famines and plagues in various places, and there will be terrifying sights and great signs from heaven.

Now when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do you want us to call fire to come down from heaven and consume them?”

You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how can you not know how to interpret the present time?

So they discussed it with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’

and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, “You are my one dear Son; in you I take great delight.”

“A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled on, and the wild birds devoured it.

Jesus said to him, “Foxes have dens and the birds in the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

If you then, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

It is like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the wild birds nested in its branches.”

On that same occasion Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your gracious will.