So the child’s father and mother were amazed at what was said about him.

The whole crowd was trying to touch him, because power was coming out from him and healing them all.

After this many of his disciples quit following him and did not accompany him any longer.

No one has greater love than this – that one lays down his life for his friends.

While this was happening, the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.

Much more then, because we have now been declared righteous by his blood, we will be saved through him from God’s wrath.

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how fathomless his ways!

For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever! Amen.

He did this when he revealed to us the secret of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ,

but now he has reconciled you by his physical body through death to present you holy, without blemish, and blameless before him –

His feet were like polished bronze refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters.

Now John wore clothing made from camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his diet consisted of locusts and wild honey.

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire.”

It is enough for the disciple to become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the head of the house ‘Beelzebul,’ how much more will they defame the members of his household!

For the Son of Man will come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done.

“Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and father children for his brother.’

and after braiding a crown of thorns, they put it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand, and kneeling down before him, they mocked him: “Hail, king of the Jews!”

Then Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown, and among his relatives, and in his own house.”

It is like a man going on a journey. He left his house and put his slaves in charge, assigning to each his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to stay alert.

Now while Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, reclining at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of costly aromatic oil from pure nard. After breaking open the jar, she poured it on his head.