He trusts in God – let God, if he wants to, deliver him now because he said, ‘I am God’s Son’!”

These are the ones on the path where the word is sown: Whenever they hear, immediately Satan comes and snatches the word that was sown in them.

So the king sent an executioner at once to bring John’s head, and he went and beheaded John in prison.

Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with each other.”

Then as they went into the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side; and they were alarmed.

But when the feast was over, as they were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it,

Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him.

Yet Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to a woman who was a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.

Just then some men showed up, carrying a paralyzed man on a stretcher. They were trying to bring him in and place him before Jesus.

(Now about five thousand men were there.) Then he said to his disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”

John answered, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him because he is not a disciple along with us.”

Stay in that same house, eating and drinking what they give you, for the worker deserves his pay. Do not move around from house to house.

Consider how the flowers grow; they do not work or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these!

Then Jesus told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and found none.

Then people will come from east and west, and from north and south, and take their places at the banquet table in the kingdom of God.

When one of those at the meal with Jesus heard this, he said to him, “Blessed is everyone who will feast in the kingdom of God!”

And the king said to him, ‘Well done, good slave! Because you have been faithful in a very small matter, you will have authority over ten cities.’

For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and surround you and close in on you from every side.

When he learned that he was from Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him over to Herod, who also happened to be in Jerusalem at that time.

Now many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the report of the woman who testified, “He told me everything I ever did.”