“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.

When it was evening the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the workers and give the pay starting with the last hired until the first.’

“Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.

and will cut him in two, and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?

and said, “What will you give me to betray him into your hands?” So they set out thirty silver coins for him.

As he went along the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew, Simon’s brother, casting a net into the sea (for they were fishermen).

So many gathered that there was no longer any room, not even by the door, and he preached the word to them.

Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like this.”

There is nothing outside of a person that can defile him by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles him.”

After Jesus took him aside privately, away from the crowd, he put his fingers in the man’s ears, and after spitting, he touched his tongue.

Six days later Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John and led them alone up a high mountain privately. And he was transfigured before them,

but to sit at my right or at my left is not mine to give. It is for those for whom it has been prepared.”

Then he will send angels and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.

Then the high priest stood up before them and asked Jesus, “Have you no answer? What is this that they are testifying against you?”

“I am,” said Jesus, “and you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power and coming with the clouds of heaven.”

And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High. For you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,

It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.

While the people were filled with anticipation and they all wondered whether perhaps John could be the Christ,

where for forty days he endured temptations from the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were completed, he was famished.