Look, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions and on the full force of the enemy, and nothing will hurt you.

If you then, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

As he said these things, a woman in the crowd spoke out to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you and the breasts at which you nursed!”

then the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not foresee, and will cut him in two, and assign him a place with the unfaithful.

Then shouldn’t this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be released from this imprisonment on the Sabbath day?”

When he said this all his adversaries were humiliated, but the entire crowd was rejoicing at all the wonderful things he was doing.

So he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in anguish in this fire.’

Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through it.

But Zacchaeus stopped and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, half of my possessions I now give to the poor, and if I have cheated anyone of anything, I am paying back four times as much!”

When he returned after receiving the kingdom, he summoned these slaves to whom he had given the money. He wanted to know how much they had earned by trading.

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

So Pilate decided that their demand should be granted.

But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. He bent down and saw only the strips of linen cloth; then he went home, wondering what had happened.

So they gave him a piece of broiled fish,

Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled.”

After some time his wife Elizabeth became pregnant, and for five months she kept herself in seclusion. She said,

to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, a descendant of David, and the virgin’s name was Mary.

So the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God!

In those days Mary got up and went hurriedly into the hill country, to a town of Judah,

They said to her, “But none of your relatives bears this name.”