And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and with people.

“Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”

What did you go out to see? A man dressed in fancy clothes? Look, those who wear fancy clothes and live in luxury are in kings’ courts!

“The one who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and the one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.

So he continued to preach in the synagogues of Judea.

who will not receive many times more in this age – and in the age to come, eternal life.”

Woe to you Pharisees! You love the best seats in the synagogues and elaborate greetings in the marketplaces!

They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

“Beware of the experts in the law. They like walking around in long robes, and they love elaborate greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets.

And all the people came to him early in the morning to listen to him in the temple courts.

Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’

But those who are regarded as worthy to share in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.

Simeon took him in his arms and blessed God, saying,

and were continually in the temple courts blessing God.

that you have prepared in the presence of all peoples:

So then whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms will be proclaimed from the housetops.

And in hell, as he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far off with Lazarus at his side.

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

Just as it was in the days of Noah, so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man.

And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.