He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David.

“And look, your relative Elizabeth has also become pregnant with a son in her old age – although she was called barren, she is now in her sixth month!

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

Soon afterward Jesus went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went with him.

and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and disabilities: Mary (called Magdalene), from whom seven demons had gone out,

When the apostles returned, they told Jesus everything they had done. Then he took them with him and they withdrew privately to a town called Bethsaida.

She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to what he said.

So the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, ‘Give this man your place.’ Then, ashamed, you will begin to move to the least important place.

At the time for the banquet he sent his slave to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come, because everything is now ready.’

And he summoned ten of his slaves, gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Do business with these until I come back.’

Now when he approached Bethphage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples,

So every day Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, but at night he went and stayed on the Mount of Olives.

So Jesus said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those in authority over them are called ‘benefactors.’

So when they came to the place that is called “The Skull,” they crucified him there, along with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left.

But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son; you will name him John.

The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the child to be born will be holy; he will be called the Son of God.

So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family line of David.

Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who and what kind of woman this is who is touching him, that she is a sinner.”

Then his son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you host a dinner or a banquet, don’t invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors so you can be invited by them in return and get repaid.