But Jesus met them, saying, “Greetings!” They came to him, held on to his feet and worshiped him.

Immediately he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed him.

Now a leper came to him and fell to his knees, asking for help. “If you are willing, you can make me clean,” he said.

He said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions were hungry –

For his hands and feet had often been bound with chains and shackles, but he had torn the chains apart and broken the shackles in pieces. No one was strong enough to subdue him.

Then the woman, with fear and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before him and told him the whole truth.

for they all saw him and were terrified. But immediately he spoke to them: “Have courage! It is I. Do not be afraid.”

Instead, a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him and came and fell at his feet.

If I send them home hungry, they will faint on the way, and some of them have come from a great distance.”

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

He asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Christ.”

Now as Jesus was starting out on his way, someone ran up to him, fell on his knees, and said, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

Then they brought the colt to Jesus, threw their cloaks on it, and he sat on it.

Now they wanted to arrest him (but they feared the crowd), because they realized that he told this parable against them. So they left him and went away.

Now one of the experts in the law came and heard them debating. When he saw that Jesus answered them well, he asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?”

Now as Jesus was going out of the temple courts, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, look at these tremendous stones and buildings!”

When he came again he found them sleeping; they could not keep their eyes open. And they did not know what to tell him.

When he was in Galilee, they had followed him and given him support. Many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem were there too.

“And look, your relative Elizabeth has also become pregnant with a son in her old age – although she was called barren, she is now in her sixth month!

After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.