It was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost and is found.’”

So they replied that they did not know where it came from.

Finally the woman died too.

And he went outside and wept bitterly.

Then the women remembered his words,

and he took it and ate it in front of them.

And Zechariah, visibly shaken when he saw the angel, was seized with fear.

and entered Zechariah’s house and greeted Elizabeth.

from generation to generation he is merciful to those who fear him.

Then his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied,

This will be a sign for you: You will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth and lying in a manger.”

Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, “Teacher, what should we do?”

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

and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.

Whatever house you enter, stay there until you leave the area.

Then two men, Moses and Elijah, began talking with him.

I begged your disciples to cast it out, but they could not do so.”

So too a Levite, when he came up to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.

When it returns, it finds the house swept clean and put in order.

And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, ‘There will be scorching heat,’ and there is.