Honor widows who are truly in need.

“If you love me, you will obey my commandments.

But when they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, do not worry about how you should make your defense or what you should say,

And he placed his hands on them and went on his way.

In this way they will train the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Disarming the rulers and authorities, he has made a public disgrace of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

Then Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple courts, and turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves.

Then they came to Jerusalem. Jesus entered the temple area and began to drive out those who were selling and buying in the temple courts. He turned over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves,

In this way what was spoken by Isaiah the prophet was fulfilled: “He took our weaknesses and carried our diseases.”

For his hands and feet had often been bound with chains and shackles, but he had torn the chains apart and broken the shackles in pieces. No one was strong enough to subdue him.

And if the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would be saved. But because of the elect, whom he chose, he has cut them short.

So every day Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, but at night he went and stayed on the Mount of Olives.

I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to force them to blaspheme. Because I was so furiously enraged at them, I went to persecute them even in foreign cities.

But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous, forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteousness.

Then one of the elders asked me, “These dressed in long white robes – who are they and where have they come from?”

and he was baptizing them in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.

Do not take gold, silver, or copper in your belts,

Now when Jesus finished these parables, he moved on from there.

They love the place of honor at banquets and the best seats in the synagogues

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