On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they wanted to name him Zechariah after his father.

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

So the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen; everything was just as they had been told.

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

At that moment, she came up to them and began to give thanks to God and to speak about the child to all who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem.

John answered them, “The person who has two tunics must share with the person who has none, and the person who has food must do likewise.”

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

The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”

Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘You are to worship the Lord your God and serve only him.’”

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.

“Ha! Leave us alone, Jesus the Nazarene! Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are – the Holy One of God.”

But Jesus said to them, “I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns too, for that is what I was sent to do.”

He saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gotten out of them and were washing their nets.

But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!”

But the news about him spread even more, and large crowds were gathering together to hear him and to be healed of their illnesses.

But the Pharisees and their experts in the law complained to his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

Jesus was going through the grain fields on a Sabbath, and his disciples picked some heads of wheat, rubbed them in their hands, and ate them.

After looking around at them all, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” The man did so, and his hand was restored.

When morning came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles:

“Woe to you when all people speak well of you, for their ancestors did the same things to the false prophets.