This is the one about whom it is written, ‘Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.’

So Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” He replied, “Say it, Teacher.”

Now when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do you want us to call fire to come down from heaven and consume them?”

Jesus said to another, “Follow me.” But he replied, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”

The expert in religious law said, “The one who showed mercy to him.” So Jesus said to him, “Go and do the same.”

So you testify that you approve of the deeds of your ancestors, because they killed the prophets and you build their tombs!

But when they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, do not worry about how you should make your defense or what you should say,

At that time, some Pharisees came up and said to Jesus, “Get away from here, because Herod wants to kill you.”

But he said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Look, I am casting out demons and performing healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will complete my work.

So the master said to his slave, ‘Go out to the highways and country roads and urge people to come in, so that my house will be filled.

But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’

The man replied, ‘A hundred measures of olive oil.’ The manager said to him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and write fifty.’

“Would any one of you say to your slave who comes in from the field after plowing or shepherding sheep, ‘Come at once and sit down for a meal’?

saying, “If you had only known on this day, even you, the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

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.

So they all said, “Are you the Son of God, then?” He answered them, “You say that I am.”

But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

“Do not suppose that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope.

They replied, “You aren’t from Galilee too, are you? Investigate carefully and you will see that no prophet comes from Galilee!”

She replied, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “I do not condemn you either. Go, and from now on do not sin any more.”]]