The whole town gathered by the door.

Some people came bringing to him a paralytic, carried by four of them.

There on the hillside, a great herd of pigs was feeding.

Now the Pharisees and some of the experts in the law who came from Jerusalem gathered around him.

But they were silent, for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest.

They were even more astonished and said to one another, “Then who can be saved?”

He threw off his cloak, jumped up, and came to Jesus.

So he sent another slave to them again. This one they struck on the head and treated outrageously.

The angel came to her and said, “Greetings, favored one, the Lord is with you!”

And who am I that the mother of my Lord should come and visit me?

the oath that he swore to our ancestor Abraham. This oath grants

and all who heard it were astonished at what the shepherds said.

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

He told them, “Collect no more than you are required to.”

and ‘with their hands they will lift you up, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’”

He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you understand it?”

He then told them a parable: “The land of a certain rich man produced an abundant crop,

Now large crowds were accompanying Jesus, and turning to them he said,

If he cannot succeed, he will send a representative while the other is still a long way off and ask for terms of peace.

So Jesus told them this parable: