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

But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man who had the withered hand, “Get up and stand here.” So he rose and stood there.

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

Herod said, “I had John beheaded, but who is this about whom I hear such things?” So Herod wanted to learn about Jesus.

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.

Jesus also said to the crowds, “When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once, ‘A rainstorm is coming,’ and it does.

and a woman was there who had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten herself up completely.

who longed to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. In addition, the dogs came and licked his sores.

People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage – right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

And the king said to him, ‘Well done, good slave! Because you have been faithful in a very small matter, you will have authority over ten cities.’

saying, “If you had only known on this day, even you, the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

There will be great earthquakes, and famines and plagues in various places, and there will be terrifying sights and great signs from heaven.

But Peter said, “Man, I don’t know what you’re talking about!” At that moment, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.

[But Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.”] Then they threw dice to divide his clothes.

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Those along the path are the ones who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.

I tell you, in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need to repent.

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The king said to him, ‘I will judge you by your own words, you wicked slave! So you knew, did you, that I was a severe man, withdrawing what I didn’t deposit and reaping what I didn’t sow?

By your endurance you will gain your lives.