And the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom, and the favor of God was upon him.

So Jesus, when he began his ministry, was about thirty years old. He was the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,

So he went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath he began to teach the people.

Now in the synagogue there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,

A centurion there had a slave who was highly regarded, but who was sick and at the point of death.

They appeared in glorious splendor and spoke about his departure that he was about to carry out at Jerusalem.

Whenever you enter a town and the people welcome you, eat what is set before you.

But whenever you enter a town and the people do not welcome you, go into its streets and say,

It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of flour until all the dough had risen.”

“There was a rich man who dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.

He fell with his face to the ground at Jesus’ feet and thanked him. (Now he was a Samaritan.)

He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected people.

Now a man named Zacchaeus was there; he was a chief tax collector and was rich.

(This was a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection started in the city, and for murder.)

It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon,

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

It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.

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.

and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written,

Now Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, and the crowd was pressing around him to hear the word of God.