“When an unclean spirit goes out of a person, it passes through waterless places looking for rest but does not find it.

The people there were amazed by his teaching, because he taught them like one who had authority, not like the experts in the law.

He also said to them, “A lamp isn’t brought to be put under a basket or under a bed, is it? Isn’t it to be placed on a lampstand?

The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for evidence against Jesus so that they could put him to death, but they did not find anything.

Not so with you; instead the one who is greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the leader like the one who serves.

I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”

For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.

(Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God – he has seen the Father.)

However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision (not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child on the Sabbath.

Don’t the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant of David and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”

Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously as a beggar began saying, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?”

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.

(Now Judas said this not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money box, he used to steal what was put into it.)

Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they would not confess Jesus to be the Christ, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue.

“Lord,” Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “what has happened that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”

He told them, “You are not permitted to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.

Then a famine occurred throughout Egypt and Canaan, causing great suffering, and our ancestors could not find food.

For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts were darkened.

And the gift is not like the one who sinned. For judgment, resulting from the one transgression, led to condemnation, but the gracious gift from the many failures led to justification.

because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so.