You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”

Blessed is that slave whom his master finds at work when he returns.

Whoever does not carry his own cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.

Then the second one came and said, ‘Sir, your mina has made five minas.’

“Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”

Then they will see the Son of Man arriving in a cloud with power and great glory.

When he got up from prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping, exhausted from grief.

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

On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they wanted to name him Zechariah after his father.

So they hurried off and located Mary and Joseph, and found the baby lying in a manger.

but (because they assumed that he was in their group of travelers) they went a day’s journey. Then they began to look for him among their relatives and acquaintances.

“Ha! Leave us alone, Jesus the Nazarene! Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are – the Holy One of God.”

“Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and puts them into practice – I will show you what he is like:

When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, asking him to come and heal his slave.

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

For nothing is hidden that will not be revealed, and nothing concealed that will not be made known and brought to light.

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.”

Then he said to them all, “If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me.

So he said to them, “When you pray, say: Father, may your name be honored; may your kingdom come.

be like people waiting for their master to come back from the wedding celebration, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.