Immediately she hurried back to the king and made her request: “I want the head of John the Baptist on a platter immediately.”

Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one question. Answer me and I will tell you by what authority I do these things:

So Mary said, “Yes, I am a servant of the Lord; let this happen to me according to your word.” Then the angel departed from her.

After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax booth. “Follow me,” he said to him.

Then he said to them all, “If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me.

Then a man from the crowd cried out, “Teacher, I beg you to look at my son – he is my only child!

Yet another said, “I will follow you, Lord, but first let me say goodbye to my family.”

Then he said to them, “Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

Then when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.’

The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate that will belong to me.’ So he divided his assets between them.

yet because this widow keeps on bothering me, I will give her justice, or in the end she will wear me out by her unending pleas.’”

On the next day Jesus wanted to set out for Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, “Follow me.”

You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but rather, ‘I have been sent before him.’

The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”

Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Surely he can’t be the Messiah, can he?”

But he answered them, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”

Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away.

My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father’s hand.

For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak.