The smoke coming from the incense, along with the prayers of the saints, ascended before God from the angel’s hand.

When Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and preach in their towns.

“To what should I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to one another,

And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have participated with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’

The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, because our lamps are going out.’

But the angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid; I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified.

Now in those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan River.

Now immediately, when Jesus realized in his spirit that they were contemplating such thoughts, he said to them, “Why are you thinking such things in your hearts?

In those days there was another large crowd with nothing to eat. So Jesus called his disciples and said to them,

In his teaching Jesus also said, “Watch out for the experts in the law. They like walking around in long robes and elaborate greetings in the marketplaces,

“But in those days, after that suffering, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light;

they will pick up snakes with their hands, and whatever poison they drink will not harm them; they will place their hands on the sick and they will be well.”

But they did not have a child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both very old.

And the child kept growing and becoming strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day he was revealed to Israel.

While the people were filled with anticipation and they all wondered whether perhaps John could be the Christ,

where for forty days he endured temptations from the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were completed, he was famished.

But Jesus said to them, “I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns too, for that is what I was sent to do.”

When Jesus perceived their hostile thoughts, he said to them, “Why are you raising objections within yourselves?

Jesus was going through the grain fields on a Sabbath, and his disciples picked some heads of wheat, rubbed them in their hands, and ate them.

Now it was during this time that Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and he spent all night in prayer to God.