On that day, anyone who is on the roof, with his goods in the house, must not come down to take them away, and likewise the person in the field must not turn back.

The tax collector, however, stood far off and would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, be merciful to me, sinner that I am!’

They asked him, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies leaving a wife but no children, that man must marry the widow and father children for his brother.

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

And all who heard Jesus were astonished at his understanding and his answers.

So the news about him spread into all areas of the region.

Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.

On that same occasion Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your gracious will.

Others, to test him, began asking for a sign from heaven.

But the one who did not know his master’s will and did things worthy of punishment will receive a light beating. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required, and from the one who has been entrusted with much, even more will be asked.

They were delighted and arranged to give him money.

(but their eyes were kept from recognizing him).

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.

Now an expert in religious law stood up to test Jesus, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

and said to him, “Tell us: By what authority are you doing these things? Or who it is who gave you this authority?”

that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again.”

All things have been given to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.”

But the president of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the crowd, “There are six days on which work should be done! So come and be healed on those days, and not on the Sabbath day.”

As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, “The voice of one shouting in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make his paths straight.

When the men came to Jesus, they said, “John the Baptist has sent us to you to ask, ‘Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?’”