Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And after he said this he breathed his last.

and when they did not find his body, they came back and said they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive.

He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you host a dinner or a banquet, don’t invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors so you can be invited by them in return and get repaid.

Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon who was righteous and devout, looking for the restoration of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

But the father said to his slaves, ‘Hurry! Bring the best robe, and put it on him! Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet!

Then shouldn’t this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be released from this imprisonment on the Sabbath day?”

Now one Sabbath when Jesus went to dine at the house of a leader of the Pharisees, they were watching him closely.

Then when Jesus noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, he told them a parable. He said to them,

But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to be king over us!’

And if a peace-loving person is there, your peace will remain on him, but if not, it will return to you.

As he was praying, the appearance of his face was transformed, and his clothes became very bright, a brilliant white.

“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.

As he said these things, a woman in the crowd spoke out to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you and the breasts at which you nursed!”

Look at my hands and my feet; it’s me! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones like you see I have.”

The man replied, ‘A hundred measures of olive oil.’ The manager said to him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and write fifty.’

For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You withdraw what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.’

Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish the tower, all who see it will begin to make fun of him.

While he was still speaking, suddenly a crowd appeared, and the man named Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He walked up to Jesus to kiss him.

There was also a prophetess, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old, having been married to her husband for seven years until his death.

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tiny stroke of a letter in the law to become void.