“Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, in terrible anguish.”

Another of the disciples said to him, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”

Therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest.”

But when he saw the strong wind he became afraid. And starting to sink, he cried out, “Lord, save me!”

The lord had compassion on that slave and released him, and forgave him the debt.

And in anger his lord turned him over to the prison guards to torture him until he repaid all he owed.

Blessed is that slave whom the master finds at work when he comes.

But if that evil slave should say to himself, ‘My master is staying away a long time,’

But the one who had received one talent went out and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money in it.

After a long time, the master of those slaves came and settled his accounts with them.

They became greatly distressed and each one began to say to him, “Surely not I, Lord?”

and said, “Sir, we remember that while that deceiver was still alive he said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’

the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make his paths straight.’”

Both those who went ahead and those who followed kept shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!

They were both righteous in the sight of God, following all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blamelessly.

he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to enter the holy place of the Lord and burn incense.

“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.”

“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, because he has come to help and has redeemed his people.

And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High. For you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,

and to offer a sacrifice according to what is specified in the law of the Lord, a pair of doves or two young pigeons.