In King Darius’ fourth year, on the fourth day of Kislev, the ninth month, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah.

Though I scatter them among the nations, they will remember in far-off places – they and their children will sprout forth and return.

Jesus went throughout all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of disease and sickness among the people.

But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to desire her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye,’ while there is a beam in your own?

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. The one who has ears had better listen!

For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?

Again, I tell you the truth, if two of you on earth agree about whatever you ask, my Father in heaven will do it for you.

For I tell you, you will not see me from now until you say, ‘Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!’”

Just then the temple curtain was torn in two, from top to bottom. The earth shook and the rocks were split apart.

Going on a little farther, he saw James, the son of Zebedee, and John his brother in their boat mending nets.

He instructed them to take nothing for the journey except a staff – no bread, no bag, no money in their belts –

But Jesus said, “Do not stop him, because no one who does a miracle in my name will be able soon afterward to say anything bad about me.

They said to him, “Permit one of us to sit at your right hand and the other at your left in your glory.”

When he was in Galilee, they had followed him and given him support. Many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem were there too.

and to offer a sacrifice according to what is specified in the law of the Lord, a pair of doves or two young pigeons.

Then he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them. But his mother kept all these things in her heart.

For they all offered their gifts out of their wealth. But she, out of her poverty, put in everything she had to live on.”

There will be great earthquakes, and famines and plagues in various places, and there will be terrifying sights and great signs from heaven.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies,