Do you think I have come to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division!

They will flog him severely and kill him. Yet on the third day he will rise again.”

On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they wanted to name him Zechariah after his father.

Then they told what had happened on the road, and how they recognized him when he broke the bread.

because a friend of mine has stopped here while on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him.’

“I have come to bring fire on the earth – and how I wish it were already kindled!

but they could not find a way to do it, for all the people hung on his words.

Then the day for the feast of Unleavened Bread came, on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.

Whenever you enter a house, first say, ‘May peace be on this house!’

When he heard a crowd going by, he asked what was going on.

An angel of the Lord, standing on the right side of the altar of incense, appeared to him.

I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town!

Meanwhile, when many thousands of the crowd had gathered so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples, “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Now by chance a priest was going down that road, but when he saw the injured man he passed by on the other side.

So Jesus asked the experts in religious law and the Pharisees, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?”

because he has looked upon the humble state of his servant. For from now on all generations will call me blessed,

that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

For he will be handed over to the Gentiles; he will be mocked, mistreated, and spat on.

Now a large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside, and the demonic spirits begged Jesus to let them go into them. He gave them permission.

Then shouldn’t this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be released from this imprisonment on the Sabbath day?”