Others, to test him, began asking for a sign from heaven.

“As for these things that you are gazing at, the days will come when not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!”

then the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not foresee, and will cut him in two, and assign him a place with the unfaithful.

“Or what woman, if she has ten silver coins and loses one of them, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search thoroughly until she finds it?

“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, because he has come to help and has redeemed his people.

What did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.

Now when Jesus returned, the crowd welcomed him, because they were all waiting for him.

You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”

He was longing to eat the carob pods the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.

Then the father said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and everything that belongs to me is yours.

Watch yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

And he said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.

Then a little later someone else saw him and said, “You are one of them too.” But Peter said, “Man, I am not!”

He said, “You have been given the opportunity to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so that although they see they may not see, and although they hear they may not understand.

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

The experts in the law and the Pharisees watched Jesus closely to see if he would heal on the Sabbath, so that they could find a reason to accuse him.

Fear seized them all, and they began to glorify God, saying, “A great prophet has appeared among us!” and “God has come to help his people!”

“So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

Consider how the flowers grow; they do not work or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these!

You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how can you not know how to interpret the present time?