“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.

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,

“When the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.

Now after the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.

The experts in the law who came down from Jerusalem said, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and, “By the ruler of demons he casts out demons.”

When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of pieces did you pick up?” They replied, “Twelve.”

For I tell you the truth, whoever gives you a cup of water because you bear Christ’s name will never lose his reward.

Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him and said, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask.”

And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High. For you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,

Now when the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, Joseph and Mary brought Jesus up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord

But the news about him spread even more, and large crowds were gathering together to hear him and to be healed of their illnesses.

do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

Now when the commander of the temple guard and the chief priests heard this report, they were greatly puzzled concerning it, wondering what this could be.

This became known to all who lived in Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks; fear came over them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was praised.

While they were trying to kill him, a report was sent up to the commanding officer of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.

so that the righteous requirement of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

who are Israelites. To them belong the adoption as sons, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.

those who use the world as though they were not using it to the full. For the present shape of this world is passing away.

Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? We don’t need letters of recommendation to you or from you as some other people do, do we?