Then the man standing among the myrtle trees spoke up and said, “These are the ones whom the Lord has sent to walk about on the earth.”

Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go; just as you believed, it will be done for you.” And the servant was healed at that hour.

And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? For this reason they will be your judges.

Then little children were brought to him for him to lay his hands on them and pray. But the disciples scolded those who brought them.

Then you should have deposited my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have received my money back with interest!

Peter said to him, “Even if I must die with you, I will never deny you.” And all the disciples said the same thing.

But they have no root in themselves and do not endure. Then, when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately they fall away.

The Pharisees and the experts in the law asked him, “Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with unwashed hands?”

Jesus ordered them not to tell anything. But as much as he ordered them not to do this, they proclaimed it all the more.

He sent two of his disciples and told them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him.

Simon answered, “Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing! But at your word I will lower the nets.”

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

yet because this widow keeps on bothering me, I will give her justice, or in the end she will wear me out by her unending pleas.’”

Now people were even bringing their babies to him for him to touch. But when the disciples saw it, they began to scold those who brought them.

After this Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “Look, you have become well. Don’t sin any more, lest anything worse happen to you.”

When they persisted in asking him, he stood up straight and replied, “Whoever among you is guiltless may be the first to throw a stone at her.”

But Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword back into its sheath! Am I not to drink the cup that the Father has given me?”

Then they took Jesus’ body and wrapped it, with the aromatic spices, in strips of linen cloth according to Jewish burial customs.

But to keep this matter from spreading any further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more to anyone in this name.”

But the magician Elymas (for that is the way his name is translated) opposed them, trying to turn the proconsul away from the faith.