Many peoples and powerful nations will come to Jerusalem to seek the Lord who rules over all and to ask his favor.

Do we not all have one father? Did not one God create us? Why do we betray one another, in this way making light of the covenant of our ancestors?

Because Joseph, her husband to be, was a righteous man, and because he did not want to disgrace her, he intended to divorce her privately.

After assembling all the chief priests and experts in the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born.

People do not light a lamp and put it under a basket but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house.

But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to desire her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

For by the standard you judge you will be judged, and the measure you use will be the measure you receive.

“Everyone who hears these words of mine and does them is like a wise man who built his house on rock.

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were bewildered and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

‘We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance; we wailed in mourning, yet you did not weep.’

At that time Jesus went through the grain fields on a Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pick heads of wheat and eat them.

Then he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out and it was restored, as healthy as the other.

Then it says, ‘I will return to the home I left.’ When it returns, it finds the house empty, swept clean, and put in order.

For whoever has will be given more, and will have an abundance. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.

This fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet: “I will open my mouth in parables, I will announce what has been hidden from the foundation of the world.”

and he said to his servants, “This is John the Baptist. He has been raised from the dead! And because of this, miraculous powers are at work in him.”

But he did not answer her a word. Then his disciples came and begged him, “Send her away, because she keeps on crying out after us.”

A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” Then he left them and went away.

How could you not understand that I was not speaking to you about bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!”

And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he will rejoice more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.