And call no one your ‘father’ on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.

so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is yours.’

Then Jesus came up and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

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

In the wilderness John the baptizer began preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

Just then there was a man in their synagogue with an unclean spirit, and he cried out,

His disciples answered him, “Where can someone get enough bread in this desolate place to satisfy these people?”

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

So they hurried off and located Mary and Joseph, and found the baby lying in a manger.

They appeared in glorious splendor and spoke about his departure that he was about to carry out at Jerusalem.

“Now his older son was in the field. As he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing.

But the older son became angry and refused to go in. His father came out and appealed to him,

Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot, people were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;

For David himself says in the book of Psalms, ‘The Lord said to my lord, “Sit at my right hand,

He is not here, but has been raised! Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee,

In those days Peter stood up among the believers (a gathering of about one hundred and twenty people) and said,

About him all the prophets testify, that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”

But Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch, teaching and proclaiming (along with many others) the word of the Lord.

Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him, along with all those who were in his house.

Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?