Then you will call your brother, “My People” (Ammi)! You will call your sister, “Pity” (Ruhamah)!

Surely they will be totally consumed like entangled thorn bushes, like the drink of drunkards, like very dry stubble.

Shout for joy, Daughter Zion! Shout out, Israel! Be happy and boast with all your heart, Daughter Jerusalem!

When he saw the crowds, he went up the mountain. After he sat down his disciples came to him.

And if you only greet your brothers, what more do you do? Even the Gentiles do the same, don’t they?

Then some of the experts in the law along with some Pharisees answered him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”

Now when the Pharisees and Sadducees came to test Jesus, they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

He said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and I will give you whatever is right.’

But they said, “Not during the feast, so that there won’t be a riot among the people.”

So the Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?”

For he had healed many, so that all who were afflicted with diseases pressed toward him in order to touch him.

Now the Pharisees and some of the experts in the law who came from Jerusalem gathered around him.

Now people were bringing little children to him for him to touch, but the disciples scolded those who brought them.

Peter remembered and said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree you cursed has withered.”

For they said, “Not during the feast, so there won’t be a riot among the people.”

Now while Zechariah was serving as priest before God when his division was on duty,

Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also was baptized. And while he was praying, the heavens opened,

Then he began to tell them, “Today this scripture has been fulfilled even as you heard it being read.”

On another Sabbath, Jesus entered the synagogue and was teaching. Now a man was there whose right hand was withered.

This report about Jesus circulated throughout Judea and all the surrounding country.