And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unrighteous judge says!

He replied, “What is impossible for mere humans is possible for God.”

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box.

Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which is called the Passover, was approaching.

Then the day for the feast of Unleavened Bread came, on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.

“But look, the hand of the one who betrays me is with me on the table.

Then Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers, and the people,

because the sun’s light failed. The temple curtain was torn in two.

He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.

Then he opened their minds so they could understand the scriptures,

In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth,

For the instant the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.

On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they wanted to name him Zechariah after his father.

But when John rebuked Herod the tetrarch because of Herodias, his brother’s wife, and because of all the evil deeds that he had done,

Then Jesus, in the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee, and news about him spread throughout the surrounding countryside.

Now Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, and the crowd was pressing around him to hear the word of God.

Then he looked up at his disciples and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for the kingdom of God belongs to you.

Now when the days drew near for him to be taken up, Jesus set out resolutely to go to Jerusalem.

For just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so the Son of Man will be a sign to this generation.