“For it is like a man going on a journey, who summoned his slaves and entrusted his property to them.

To one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey.

Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A slave girl came to him and said, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.”

So he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis what Jesus had done for him, and all were amazed.

Then the woman, with fear and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before him and told him the whole truth.

He was not able to do a miracle there, except to lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them.

They all ate and were satisfied,

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and for the gospel will save it.

In the same way even the chief priests – together with the experts in the law – were mocking him among themselves: “He saved others, but he cannot save himself!

When he was in Galilee, they had followed him and given him support. Many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem were there too.

On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they wanted to name him Zechariah after his father.

She had lived as a widow since then for eighty-four years. She never left the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.

After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from brambles.

and as they sailed he fell asleep. Now a violent windstorm came down on the lake, and the boat started filling up with water, and they were in danger.

Stay in that same house, eating and drinking what they give you, for the worker deserves his pay. Do not move around from house to house.

So if Satan too is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? I ask you this because you claim that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.

But when a stronger man attacks and conquers him, he takes away the first man’s armor on which the man relied and divides up his plunder.

But I will warn you whom you should fear: Fear the one who, after the killing, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him!

Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower in Siloam fell on them, do you think they were worse offenders than all the others who live in Jerusalem?