John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him because he was not following us.”

Then he sat down opposite the offering box, and watched the crowd putting coins into it. Many rich people were throwing in large amounts.

“Learn this parable from the fig tree: Whenever its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near.

Now one of the Pharisees asked Jesus to have dinner with him, so he went into the Pharisee’s house and took his place at the table.

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.

Now about eight days after these sayings, Jesus took with him Peter, John, and James, and went up the mountain to pray.

Then Jesus said to them, “When I sent you out with no money bag, or traveler’s bag, or sandals, you didn’t lack anything, did you?” They replied, “Nothing.”

When he had taken his place at the table with them, he took the bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them.

John said, “I am the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet said.”

“Sir,” the woman said to him, “you have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do you get this living water?

On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, Jesus stood up and shouted out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and

(Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against him.) Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

Many came to him and began to say, “John performed no miraculous sign, but everything John said about this man was true!”

The jailer brought them into his house and set food before them, and he rejoiced greatly that he had come to believe in God, together with his entire household.

Now all the Jews know the way I lived from my youth, spending my life from the beginning among my own people and in Jerusalem.

You who tell others not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

For circumcision has its value if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

And will not the physically uncircumcised man who keeps the law judge you who, despite the written code and circumcision, transgress the law?

Against hope Abraham believed in hope with the result that he became the father of many nations according to the pronouncement, “so will your descendants be.”

It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel,