So it seemed good to me as well, because I have followed all things carefully from the beginning, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,

because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. As Jesus was on his way, the crowds pressed around him.

Now when he came to the house, Jesus did not let anyone go in with him except Peter, John, and James, and the child’s father and mother.

Now he was casting out a demon that was mute. When the demon had gone out, the man who had been mute began to speak, and the crowds were amazed.

When he went out from there, the experts in the law and the Pharisees began to oppose him bitterly, and to ask him hostile questions about many things,

But he will reply, ‘I don’t know where you come from! Go away from me, all you evildoers!’

Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, because it is impossible that a prophet should be killed outside Jerusalem.’

So he contacted his master’s debtors one by one. He asked the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’

After Jesus left the synagogue, he entered Simon’s house. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked Jesus to help her.

As she stood behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. She wiped them with her hair, kissed them, and anointed them with the perfumed oil.

But one after another they all began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please excuse me.’

Joy and gladness will come to you, and many will rejoice at his birth,

Then his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied,

He began to teach in their synagogues and was praised by all.

bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.

Then his disciples asked him what this parable meant.

So he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

As he rode along, they spread their cloaks on the road.

Now the men who were holding Jesus under guard began to mock him and beat him.