because the sun’s light failed. The temple curtain was torn in two.

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be charged against this generation.

For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

They were both righteous in the sight of God, following all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blamelessly.

he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to enter the holy place of the Lord and burn incense.

Now the whole crowd of people were praying outside at the hour of the incense offering.

Just as it was in the days of Noah, so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man.

So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

Thus they were unable in the presence of the people to trap him with his own words. And stunned by his answer, they fell silent.

At the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was named Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

He said to them, “What things?” “The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene,” they replied, “a man who, with his powerful deeds and words, proved to be a prophet before God and all the people;

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

While the people were filled with anticipation and they all wondered whether perhaps John could be the Christ,

So the demons came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the herd of pigs rushed down the steep slope into the lake and drowned.

Then he said to the disciples, “The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.

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.”

like the accounts passed on to us by those who were eyewitnesses and servants of the word from the beginning.

And who am I that the mother of my Lord should come and visit me?