This was the first registration, taken when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

Everyone went to his own town to be registered.

He went to be registered with Mary, who was promised in marriage to him, and who was expecting a child.

Yet his parents did not understand the remark he made to them.

And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and with people.

He went into all the region around the Jordan River, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

So the crowds were asking him, “What then should we do?”

John answered them all, “I baptize you with water, but one more powerful than I am is coming – I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

And in this way, with many other exhortations, John proclaimed good news to the people.

Herod added this to them all: He locked up John in prison.

and ‘with their hands they will lift you up, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’”

So when the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until a more opportune time.

He began to teach in their synagogues and was praised by all.

When they heard this, all the people in the synagogue were filled with rage.

So the news about him spread into all areas of the region.

When they had done this, they caught so many fish that their nets started to tear.

Yet Jesus himself frequently withdrew to the wilderness and prayed.

Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called the Zealot,

Then he came down with them and stood on a level place. And a large number of his disciples had gathered along with a vast multitude from all over Judea, from Jerusalem, and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon. They came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases,

Treat others in the same way that you would want them to treat you.