(just as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every firstborn male will be set apart to the Lord”),

and to offer a sacrifice according to what is specified in the law of the Lord, a pair of doves or two young pigeons.

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

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

So he stood over her, commanded the fever, and it left her. Immediately she got up and began to serve them.

But they were filled with mindless rage and began debating with one another what they would do to Jesus.

Now when Jesus returned, the crowd welcomed him, because they were all waiting for him.

For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

But some of them said, “By the power of Beelzebul, the ruler of demons, he casts out demons.”

As he spoke, a Pharisee invited Jesus to have a meal with him, so he went in and took his place at the table.

If then you haven’t been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will entrust you with the true riches?

And if you haven’t been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you your own?

Now on the way to Jerusalem, Jesus was passing along between Samaria and Galilee.

As Jesus approached Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the road begging.

So he said to them, “Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

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

Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no basis for an accusation against this man.”

While they were talking and debating these things, Jesus himself approached and began to accompany them

and repentance for the forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

Now during the blessing he departed and was taken up into heaven.