“So now, our God, accept the prayer and requests of your servant, and show favor to your devastated sanctuary for your own sake.

But the wise will shine like the brightness of the heavenly expanse. And those bringing many to righteousness will be like the stars forever and ever.

Many will be purified, made clean, and refined, but the wicked will go on being wicked. None of the wicked will understand, though the wise will understand.

Their wicked deeds do not allow them to return to their God; because a spirit of idolatry controls their heart, and they do not acknowledge the Lord.

But I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt. Therefore, you must not acknowledge any God but me; except me there is no Savior.

You threw me into the deep waters, into the middle of the sea; the ocean current engulfed me; all the mighty waves you sent swept over me.

You will once again have mercy on us; you will conquer our evil deeds; you will hurl our sins into the depths of the sea.

saying, “Where is the one who is born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.”

saying, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child’s life are dead.”

I tell you, many will come from the east and west to share the banquet with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven,

This is the one about whom it is written: ‘Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.’

But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

What defiles a person is not what goes into the mouth; it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles a person.”

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “I tell you the truth, it will be hard for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven!

And the landowner replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I am not treating you unfairly. Didn’t you agree with me to work for the standard wage?

Two blind men were sitting by the road. When they heard that Jesus was passing by, they shouted, “Have mercy on us, Lord, Son of David!”

The crowd scolded them to get them to be quiet. But they shouted even more loudly, “Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!”

For I tell you, you will not see me from now until you say, ‘Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!’”

For then there will be great suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the world until now, or ever will happen.

I tell you the truth, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”