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

She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to what he said.

be like people waiting for their master to come back from the wedding celebration, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.

That servant who knew his master’s will but did not get ready or do what his master asked will receive a severe beating.

But the worker answered him, ‘Sir, leave it alone this year too, until I dig around it and put fertilizer on it.

So the master said to his slave, ‘Go out to the highways and country roads and urge people to come in, so that my house will be filled.

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

Then another slave came and said, ‘Sir, here is your mina that I put away for safekeeping in a piece of cloth.

Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What should I do? I will send my one dear son; perhaps they will respect him.’

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.

All who heard these things kept them in their hearts, saying, “What then will this child be?” For the Lord’s hand was indeed with him.

As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, “The voice of one shouting in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make his paths straight.

and sent them to Jesus to ask, “Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?”

After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him two by two into every town and place where he himself was about to go.

He said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest.

But Martha was distracted with all the preparations she had to make, so she came up to him and said, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Tell her to help me.”

Now Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he stopped, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.”

But the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.

Blessed are those slaves whom their master finds alert when he returns! I tell you the truth, he will dress himself to serve, have them take their place at the table, and will come and wait on them!

But if that slave should say to himself, ‘My master is delayed in returning,’ and he begins to beat the other slaves, both men and women, and to eat, drink, and get drunk,