Now Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read,

And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, yet none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.”

They were all amazed and began to say to one another, “What’s happening here? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”

Rejoice in that day, and jump for joy, because your reward is great in heaven. For their ancestors did the same things to the prophets.

To the person who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other as well, and from the person who takes away your coat, do not withhold your tunic either.

Why do you see the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own?

Then he came up and touched the bier, and those who carried it stood still. He said, “Young man, I say to you, get up!”

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

Some time afterward he went on through towns and villages, preaching and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. The twelve were with him,

So the demons came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the herd of pigs rushed down the steep slope into the lake and drowned.

While he was still speaking, someone from the synagogue ruler’s house came and said, “Your daughter is dead; do not trouble the teacher any longer.”

(Now about five thousand men were there.) Then he said to his disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”

Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”

Stay in that same house, eating and drinking what they give you, for the worker deserves his pay. Do not move around from house to house.

Woe to you! You are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without realizing it!”

And I will say to myself, “You have plenty of goods stored up for many years; relax, eat, drink, celebrate!”’

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.

But the twelve understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they did not grasp what Jesus meant.

Why then didn’t you put my money in the bank, so that when I returned I could have collected it with interest?’

Not so with you; instead the one who is greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the leader like the one who serves.