and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and disabilities: Mary (called Magdalene), from whom seven demons had gone out,

So the demons came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the herd of pigs rushed down the steep slope into the lake and drowned.

Then a man from the crowd cried out, “Teacher, I beg you to look at my son – he is my only child!

Now when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do you want us to call fire to come down from heaven and consume them?”

“I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more they can do.

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’

“The law and the prophets were in force until John; since then, the good news of the kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone is urged to enter it.

“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries someone else commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

And in hell, as he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far off with Lazarus at his side.

There was also a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’

He was trying to get a look at Jesus, but being a short man he could not see over the crowd.

‘I tell you that everyone who has will be given more, but from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.

saying, “If you had only known on this day, even you, the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

When harvest time came, he sent a slave to the tenants so that they would give him his portion of the crop. However, the tenants beat his slave and sent him away empty-handed.

But they persisted in saying, “He incites the people by teaching throughout all Judea. It started in Galilee and ended up here!”

(He had not consented to their plan and action.) He was from the Judean town of Arimathea, and was looking forward to the kingdom of God.

Now that very day two of them were on their way to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.

For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.

Don’t the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant of David and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”

Now when they heard this, they began to drift away one at a time, starting with the older ones, until Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.