Thus Jesus asked, “What is the kingdom of God like? To what should I compare it?

Then people will come from east and west, and from north and south, and take their places at the banquet table in the kingdom of God.

In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner who repents.”

Then one of them, when he saw he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice.

nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is in your midst.”

He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected people.

Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.

In fact, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”

In fact, they can no longer die, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, since they are sons of the resurrection.

So also you, when you see these things happening, know that the kingdom of God is near.

For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”

But from now on the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power 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.

At that moment, she came up to them and began to give thanks to God and to speak about the child to all who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem.

The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”

Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘You are to worship the Lord your God and serve only him.’”

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

But Jesus said to them, “I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns too, for that is what I was sent to do.”