Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot, people were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;

but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

and said to them, “Thus it stands written that the Christ would suffer and would rise from the dead on the third day,

But they did not have a child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both very old.

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

And the child kept growing and becoming strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day he was revealed to Israel.

Now when the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, Joseph and Mary brought Jesus up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord

There was also a prophetess, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old, having been married to her husband for seven years until his death.

She had lived as a widow since then for eighty-four years. She never left the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.

But when the feast was over, as they were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it,

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.

After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

Now it was during this time that Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and he spent all night in prayer to God.

When morning came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles:

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.

Now about eight days after these sayings, Jesus took with him Peter, John, and James, and went up the mountain to pray.

After the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. So they kept silent and told no one at that time anything of what they had seen.

Now when the days drew near for him to be taken up, Jesus set out resolutely to go to Jerusalem.

Then he said to them, “Which of you, if you have a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?”

After a few days, the younger son gathered together all he had and left on a journey to a distant country, and there he squandered his wealth with a wild lifestyle.