But his mother replied, “No! He must be named John.”

But Jesus gently took her by the hand and said, “Child, get up.”

They said to her, “But none of your relatives bears this name.”

And he summoned ten of his slaves, gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Do business with these until I come back.’

So every day Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, but at night he went and stayed on the Mount of Olives.

While he was still speaking, suddenly a crowd appeared, and the man named Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He walked up to Jesus to kiss him.

So they made signs to the baby’s father, inquiring what he wanted to name his son.

(just as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every firstborn male will be set apart to the Lord”),

She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to what he said.

raised their voices and said, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.”

At the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was named Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

Listen: You will become pregnant and give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus.

On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they wanted to name him Zechariah after his father.

When he returned after receiving the kingdom, he summoned these slaves to whom he had given the money. He wanted to know how much they had earned by trading.

Pilate addressed them once again because he wanted to release Jesus.

and sent them to Jesus to ask, “Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?”

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

But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son; you will name him John.

But they kept on shouting, “Crucify, crucify him!”

Now a man named Zacchaeus was there; he was a chief tax collector and was rich.