Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you, is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil, to save a life or to destroy it?”

After looking around at them all, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” The man did so, and his hand was restored.

“If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

“Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and puts them into practice – I will show you what he is like:

But he replied to them, “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it.”

He said to them, “Take nothing for your journey – no staff, no bag, no bread, no money, and do not take an extra tunic.

Wherever they do not receive you, as you leave that town, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”

When the apostles returned, they told Jesus everything they had done. Then he took them with him and they withdrew privately to a town called Bethsaida.

Now when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do you want us to call fire to come down from heaven and consume them?”

Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a certain village where a woman named Martha welcomed him as a guest.

Then he said to them, “Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

So you testify that you approve of the deeds of your ancestors, because they killed the prophets and you build their tombs!

For this reason also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,’

Then he said to them, “Which of you, if you have a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?”

When he saw them he said, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went along, they were cleansed.

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

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 all said, “Are you the Son of God, then?” He answered them, “You say that I am.”

That very day Herod and Pilate became friends with each other, for prior to this they had been enemies.

A third time he said to them, “Why? What wrong has he done? I have found him guilty of no crime deserving death. I will therefore flog him and release him.”