Instructed by her mother, she said, “Give me the head of John the Baptist here on a platter.”

His head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother.

“For this reason, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his slaves.

But if we say, ‘From people,’ we fear the crowd, for they all consider John to be a prophet.”

As they were going out, they found a man from Cyrene named Simon, whom they forced to carry his cross.

And a voice came from heaven: “You are my one dear Son; in you I take great delight.”

After throwing him into convulsions, the unclean spirit cried out with a loud voice and came out of him.

Now a great windstorm developed and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was nearly swamped.

Then the Pharisees came and began to argue with Jesus, asking for a sign from heaven to test him.

Then they came to Bethsaida. They brought a blind man to Jesus and asked him to touch him.

He took a little child and had him stand among them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them,

But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why are you bothering her? She has done a good service for me.

Then they went to a place called Gethsemane, and Jesus said to his disciples, “Sit here while I pray.”

Listen: You will become pregnant and give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus.

Now the time came for Elizabeth to have her baby, and she gave birth to a son.

For he has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David,

and ‘with their hands they will lift you up, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’”

So he went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath he began to teach the people.

Jesus answered them, “Those who are well don’t need a physician, but those who are sick do.

As he was saying this, a cloud came and overshadowed them, and they were afraid as they entered the cloud.