But I will keep watching for the Lord; I will wait for the God who delivers me. My God will hear my lament.

No one can withstand his indignation! No one can resist his fierce anger! His wrath is poured out like volcanic fire, boulders are broken up as he approaches.

“I have heard Moab’s taunts and the Ammonites’ insults. They taunted my people and verbally harassed those living in Judah.

“Enter through the narrow gate, because the gate is wide and the way is spacious that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.

For whoever has will be given more, and will have an abundance. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.

Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A slave girl came to him and said, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.”

For whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.”

Then he came up and touched the bier, and those who carried it stood still. He said, “Young man, I say to you, get up!”

Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a certain village where a woman named Martha welcomed him as a guest.

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

It is written in the prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who hears and learns from the Father comes to me.

The one who belongs to God listens and responds to God’s words. You don’t listen and respond, because you don’t belong to God.”

Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but he was born blind so that the acts of God may be revealed through what happens to him.

So the Pharisees asked him again how he had gained his sight. He replied, “He put mud on my eyes and I washed, and now I am able to see.”

Now the Jewish religious leaders refused to believe that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned the parents of the man who had become able to see.

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is devout and does his will, God listens to him.

The Jewish leaders surrounded him and asked, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”

I knew that you always listen to me, but I said this for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me.”

When Jesus had said this, one of the high priest’s officers who stood nearby struck him on the face and said, “Is that the way you answer the high priest?”

“Brothers, I can speak confidently to you about our forefather David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.