It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.

The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”

and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written,

Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him.

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

After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax booth. “Follow me,” he said to him.

Then Levi gave a great banquet in his house for Jesus, and there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others sitting at the table with them.

After looking around at them all, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” The man did so, and his hand was restored.

Soon afterward Jesus went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went with him.

Simon answered, “I suppose the one who had the bigger debt canceled.” Jesus said to him, “You have judged rightly.”

Some time afterward he went on through towns and villages, preaching and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. The twelve were with him,

Now Jesus’ mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not get near him because of the crowd.

The man from whom the demons had gone out begged to go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,

because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. As Jesus was on his way, the crowds pressed around him.

When the apostles returned, they told Jesus everything they had done. Then he took them with him and they withdrew privately to a town called Bethsaida.

But Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”

The expert in religious law said, “The one who showed mercy to him.” So Jesus said to him, “Go and do the same.”

Then he said to them, “Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the person who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

Then someone from the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”