Remember, I have told you ahead of time.

Then you should have deposited my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have received my money back with interest!

I was a stranger and you did not receive me as a guest, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’

And he said to him, “I will give you all these things if you throw yourself to the ground and worship me.”

He said to them, “Follow me, and I will turn you into fishers of people.”

Give us today our daily bread,

And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

For she kept saying to herself, “If only I touch his cloak, I will be healed.”

‘We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance; we wailed in mourning, yet you did not weep.’

For my yoke is easy to bear, and my load is not hard to carry.”

The young man said to him, “I have wholeheartedly obeyed all these laws. What do I still lack?”

But he replied, ‘I tell you the truth, I do not know you!’

When did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’

But after I am raised, I will go ahead of you into Galilee.”

Get up, let us go. Look! My betrayer is approaching!”

“I baptize you with water, for repentance, but the one coming after me is more powerful than I am – I am not worthy to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I say to this one, ‘Go’ and he goes, and to another ‘Come’ and he comes, and to my slave ‘Do this’ and he does it.”

But John tried to prevent him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and yet you come to me?”

Then it says, ‘I will return to the home I left.’ When it returns, it finds the house empty, swept clean, and put in order.

This fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet: “I will open my mouth in parables, I will announce what has been hidden from the foundation of the world.”