Those on the rock are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while, but in a time of testing fall away.

About that time King Herod laid hands on some from the church to harm them.

For I consider that our present sufferings cannot even be compared to the glory that will be revealed to us.

For this is what the promise declared: “About a year from now I will return and Sarah will have a son.”

So we must not grow weary in doing good, for in due time we will reap, if we do not give up.

So then, whenever we have an opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who belong to the family of faith.

who by God’s power are protected through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

They cried out, “Son of God, leave us alone! Have you come here to torment us before the time?”

When the harvest time was near, he sent his slaves to the tenants to collect his portion of the crop.

They said to him, “He will utterly destroy those evil men! Then he will lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his portion at the harvest.”

He said, “The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the gospel!”

At harvest time he sent a slave to the tenants to collect from them his portion of the crop.

You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how can you not know how to interpret the present time?

Now there were some present on that occasion who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

who will not receive many times more in this age – and in the age to come, eternal life.”

When harvest time came, he sent a slave to the tenants so that they would give him his portion of the crop. However, the tenants beat his slave and sent him away empty-handed.

But stay alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that must happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

You go up to the feast yourselves. I am not going up to this feast because my time has not yet fully arrived.”

He told them, “You are not permitted to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.

Therefore repent and turn back so that your sins may be wiped out,