When they saw him, they related what they had been told about this child,

Then Simeon blessed them and said to his mother Mary, “Listen carefully: This child is destined to be the cause of the falling and rising of many in Israel and to be a sign that will be rejected.

After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

Yet his parents did not understand the remark he made to them.

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.

So John said to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, “You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Therefore produce fruit that proves your repentance, and don’t begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

And in this way, with many other exhortations, John proclaimed good news to the people.

So Jesus, when he began his ministry, was about thirty years old. He was the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,

Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘Man does not live by bread alone.’”

Then he began to tell them, “Today this scripture has been fulfilled even as you heard it being read.”

They were amazed at his teaching, because he spoke with authority.

They were all amazed and began to say to one another, “What’s happening here? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”

So he stood over her, commanded the fever, and it left her. Immediately she got up and began to serve them.

Demons also came out of many, crying out, “You are the Son of God!” But he rebuked them, and would not allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.

and so were James and John, Zebedee’s sons, who were Simon’s business partners. Then Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching people.”

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 some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?”

“Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject you as evil on account of the Son of Man!

A disciple is not greater than his teacher, but everyone when fully trained will be like his teacher.