Again I say, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter into the kingdom of God.”

For this reason I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.

Jesus answered them, “You are deceived, because you don’t know the scriptures or the power of God.

And whoever swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and the one who sits on it.

and declared, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.’”

Now after John was imprisoned, Jesus went into Galilee and proclaimed the gospel of God.

He said, “The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the gospel!”

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

And immediately the man stood up, took his stretcher, and went out in front of them all. They were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this!”

And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God.”

He said to them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those outside, everything is in parables,

I tell you the truth, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.”

Then Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!”

Jesus said to them, “Aren’t you deceived for this reason, because you don’t know the scriptures or the power of God?

Jesus answered, “The most important is: ‘Listen, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.

Now when the centurion, who stood in front of him, saw how he died, he said, “Truly this man was God’s Son!”

After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.

In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth,

He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David.

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