He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David.

For the instant the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.

because he has looked upon the humble state of his servant. For from now on all generations will call me blessed,

On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they wanted to name him Zechariah after his father.

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

She had lived as a widow since then for eighty-four years. She never left the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.

But he replied, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

But when John rebuked Herod the tetrarch because of Herodias, his brother’s wife, and because of all the evil deeds that he had done,

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

The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”

Then Jesus, in the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee, and news about him spread throughout the surrounding countryside.

and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written,

And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, yet none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.”

“Ha! Leave us alone, Jesus the Nazarene! Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are – the Holy One of God.”

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.”

Now Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, and the crowd was pressing around him to hear the word of God.

So Jesus said to them, “You cannot make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you?

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

Then he looked up at his disciples and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for the kingdom of God belongs to you.

To the person who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other as well, and from the person who takes away your coat, do not withhold your tunic either.