Draw yourselves water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!

So now we consider the arrogant to be happy; indeed, those who practice evil are successful. In fact, those who challenge God escape!’”

When it was evening, many demon-possessed people were brought to him. He drove out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick.

no bag for the journey, or an extra tunic, or sandals or staff, for the worker deserves his provisions.

And if the house is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you.

Then they brought to him a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute. Jesus healed him so that he could speak and see.

And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? For this reason they will be your judges.

For this reason I speak to them in parables: Although they see they do not see, and although they hear they do not hear nor do they understand.

For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?

And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he will rejoice more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.

They tie up heavy loads, hard to carry, and put them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing even to lift a finger to move them.

He was in the wilderness forty days, enduring temptations from Satan. He was with wild animals, and angels were ministering to his needs.

And he said to them, “Take care about what you hear. The measure you use will be the measure you receive, and more will be added to you.

When Jesus had crossed again in a boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered around him, and he was by the sea.

Jesus knew at once that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched my clothes?”

Immediately Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he dispersed the crowd.

For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.” (This means all foods are clean.)

They came again to Jerusalem. While Jesus was walking in the temple courts, the chief priests, the experts in the law, and the elders came up to him

He had one left, his one dear son. Finally he sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

But he denied it: “I don’t even understand what you’re talking about!” Then he went out to the gateway, and a rooster crowed.