Then I heard a human voice coming from between the banks of the Ulai. It called out, “Gabriel, enable this person to understand the vision.”

I struck all the products of your labor with blight, disease, and hail, and yet you brought nothing to me,’ says the Lord.

But for you who respect my name, the sun of vindication will rise with healing wings, and you will skip about like calves released from the stall.

not by earth, because it is his footstool, and not by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King.

At that time Jesus went through the grain fields on a Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pick heads of wheat and eat them.

And concerning them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says: ‘You will listen carefully yet will never understand, you will look closely yet will never comprehend.

For Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,

Jesus said to them, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hard hearts, but from the beginning it was not this way.

But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,” – he said to the paralytic –

The Pharisees and the experts in the law asked him, “Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with unwashed hands?”

The disciples were astonished at these words. But again Jesus said to them, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Many scolded him to get him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”

Both those who went ahead and those who followed kept shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!

[[Early on the first day of the week, after he arose, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had driven out seven demons.

So John said to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, “You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Then Levi gave a great banquet in his house for Jesus, and there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others sitting at the table with them.

At that very time Jesus cured many people of diseases, sicknesses, and evil spirits, and granted sight to many who were blind.

But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.

Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but he was born blind so that the acts of God may be revealed through what happens to him.