Then Jesus told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and found none.

They will demolish you – you and your children within your walls – and they will not leave within you one stone on top of another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”

Now one day, as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple courts and proclaiming the gospel, the chief priests and the experts in the law with the elders came up

Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered him, “Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who doesn’t know the things that have happened there in these days?”

They were both righteous in the sight of God, following all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blamelessly.

Listen: You will become pregnant and give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus.

In those days Mary got up and went hurriedly into the hill country, to a town of Judah,

to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus to register all the empire for taxes.

While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child.

But Mary treasured up all these words, pondering in her heart what they might mean.

(just as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every firstborn male will be set apart to the Lord”),

and to offer a sacrifice according to what is specified in the law of the Lord, a pair of doves or two young pigeons.

during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness.

Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also was baptized. And while he was praying, the heavens opened,

Then the devil led him up to a high place and showed him in a flash all the kingdoms of the world.

Then he began to tell them, “Today this scripture has been fulfilled even as you heard it being read.”

And he added, “I tell you the truth, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.

So he went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath he began to teach the people.

Now in the synagogue there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,