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?”

Then the seventy-two returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name!”

Now he was casting out a demon that was mute. When the demon had gone out, the man who had been mute began to speak, and the crowds were amazed.

Now if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.

“No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a hidden place or under a basket, but on a lampstand, so that those who come in can see the light.

He answered them, “Do you think these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered these things?

“The law and the prophets were in force until John; since then, the good news of the kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone is urged to enter it.

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

Then the disciples said to him, “Where, Lord?” He replied to them, “Where the dead body is, there the vultures will gather.”

When Jesus noticed this, he said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!

And those who were in front scolded him to get him to be quiet, but he shouted even more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”

But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to be king over us!’

For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and surround you and close in on you from every side.

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

When harvest time came, he sent a slave to the tenants so that they would give him his portion of the crop. However, the tenants beat his slave and sent him away empty-handed.

But when the tenants saw him, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir; let’s kill him so the inheritance will be ours!’

But those who are regarded as worthy to share in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.

But even Moses revealed that the dead are raised in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

For I will give you the words along with the wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.

Then Jesus said to them, “When I sent you out with no money bag, or traveler’s bag, or sandals, you didn’t lack anything, did you?” They replied, “Nothing.”