The Babylonian tyrant pulls them all up with a fishhook; he hauls them in with his throw net. When he catches them in his dragnet, he is very happy.

You pierce the heads of his warriors with a spear. They storm forward to scatter us; they shout with joy as if they were plundering the poor with no opposition.

She is disobedient; she refuses correction. She does not trust the Lord; she does not seek the advice of her God.

I struck all the products of your labor with blight, disease, and hail, and yet you brought nothing to me,’ says the Lord.

Howl, fir tree, because the cedar has fallen; the majestic trees have been destroyed. Howl, oaks of Bashan, because the impenetrable forest has fallen.

Instead he will say, ‘I am no prophet – indeed, I am a farmer, for a man has made me his indentured servant since my youth.’

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?

So now we consider the arrogant to be happy; indeed, those who practice evil are successful. In fact, those who challenge God escape!’”

The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed; it was utterly destroyed!”

Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go; just as you believed, it will be done for you.” And the servant was healed at that hour.

But a woman who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak.

Aren’t two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.

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 Jesus answered him, “You are blessed, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father in heaven!

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

After they arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the temple tax came to Peter and said, “Your teacher pays the double drachma tax, doesn’t he?”

Then his fellow slave threw himself down and begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will repay you.’

Now when Jesus finished these sayings, he left Galilee and went to the region of Judea beyond the Jordan River.

They said to him, ‘Because no one hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You go and work in the vineyard too.’

When it was evening the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the workers and give the pay starting with the last hired until the first.’