She had lived as a widow since then for eighty-four years. She never left the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.

But when the feast was over, as they were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it,

But he replied, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

where for forty days he endured temptations from the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were completed, he was famished.

Now Jesus’ mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not get near him because of the crowd.

John answered, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him because he is not a disciple along with us.”

Woe to you experts in religious law! You have taken away the key to knowledge! You did not go in yourselves, and you hindered those who were going in.”

And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the person who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how can you not know how to interpret the present time?

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?”

In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all his own possessions.

He replied to him, ‘If they do not respond to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’”

Then he said to the disciples, “The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.

For a while he refused, but later on he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor have regard for people,

But the twelve understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they did not grasp what Jesus meant.

He was trying to get a look at Jesus, but being a short man he could not see over the crowd.

Why then didn’t you put my money in the bank, so that when I returned I could have collected it with interest?’

So they discussed it with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’

“As for these things that you are gazing at, the days will come when not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!”

And when you hear of wars and rebellions, do not be afraid. For these things must happen first, but the end will not come at once.”