But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how can you not know how to interpret the present time?

Therefore be resolved not to rehearse ahead of time how to make your defense.

A centurion there had a slave who was highly regarded, but who was sick and at the point of death.

I tell you, you will never get out of there until you have paid the very last cent!”

But they remained silent. So Jesus took hold of the man, healed him, and sent him away.

At this point their eyes were opened and they recognized him. Then he vanished out of their sight.

So John said to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, “You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Then Levi gave a great banquet in his house for Jesus, and there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others sitting at the table with them.

At that very time Jesus cured many people of diseases, sicknesses, and evil spirits, and granted sight to many who were blind.

But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.

Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness,

For I will give you the words along with the wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.

When they had made a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat down among them.

and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written,

Then he looked up at his disciples and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for the kingdom of God belongs to you.

Then a man named Jairus, who was a ruler of the synagogue, came up. Falling at Jesus’ feet, he pleaded with him to come to his house,

And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the person who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

Then shouldn’t this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be released from this imprisonment on the Sabbath day?”

The man replied, ‘A hundred measures of olive oil.’ The manager said to him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and write fifty.’