“There was a rich man who dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.

Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.

So the first one came before him and said, ‘Sir, your mina has made ten minas more.’

But if we say, ‘From people,’ all the people will stone us, because they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

Everyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and the one on whom it falls will be crushed.”

Then a little later someone else saw him and said, “You are one of them too.” But Peter said, “Man, I am not!”

But the other rebuked him, saying, “Don’t you fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?

The angel answered him, “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God, and I was sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news.

So Mary said, “Yes, I am a servant of the Lord; let this happen to me according to your word.” Then the angel departed from her.

But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid! Listen carefully, for I proclaim to you good news that brings great joy to all the people:

After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.

Yet Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to a woman who was a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.

Then the experts in the law and the Pharisees began to think to themselves, “Who is this man who is uttering blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

But they did not understand this statement; its meaning had been concealed from them, so that they could not grasp it. Yet they were afraid to ask him about this statement.

So if Satan too is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? I ask you this because you claim that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.

“I tell you, whoever acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man will also acknowledge before God’s angels.

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.

Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going out to examine them. Please excuse me.’

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

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!’