Then Jesus asked, “Who was it who touched me?” When they all denied it, Peter said, “Master, the crowds are surrounding you and pressing against you!”

After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him two by two into every town and place where he himself was about to go.

Now one Sabbath when Jesus went to dine at the house of a leader of the Pharisees, they were watching him closely.

For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You withdraw what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.’

“As for these things that you are gazing at, the days will come when not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!”

For this is certain: The days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!’

Now on the first day of the week, at early dawn, the women went to the tomb, taking the aromatic spices they had prepared.

The women were terribly frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead?

and entered Zechariah’s house and greeted Elizabeth.

Give, and it will be given to you: A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be poured into your lap. For the measure you use will be the measure you receive.”

The good person out of the good treasury of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasury produces evil, for his mouth speaks from what fills his heart.

When he saw Jesus, he cried out, fell down before him, and shouted with a loud voice, “Leave me alone, Jesus, Son of the Most High God! I beg you, do not torment me!”

“Get dressed for service and keep your lamps burning;

This will be a time for you to serve as witnesses.

By your endurance you will gain your lives.

like the accounts passed on to us by those who were eyewitnesses and servants of the word from the beginning.

so that you may know for certain the things you were taught.

Now the whole crowd of people were praying outside at the hour of the incense offering.

An angel of the Lord, standing on the right side of the altar of incense, appeared to him.

But she was greatly troubled by his words and began to wonder about the meaning of this greeting.