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.”

Or do you think that I cannot call on my Father, and that he would send me more than twelve legions of angels right now?

After a little while, those standing there came up to Peter and said, “You really are one of them too – even your accent gives you away!”

Then Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” Jesus said, “You say so.”

Suddenly there was a severe earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descending from heaven came and rolled away the stone and sat on it.

Jesus was going through the grain fields on a Sabbath, and his disciples began to pick some heads of wheat as they made their way.

For Herod himself had sent men, arrested John, and bound him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because Herod had married her.

But a suitable day came, when Herod gave a banquet on his birthday for his court officials, military commanders, and leaders of Galilee.

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

If I send them home hungry, they will faint on the way, and some of them have come from a great distance.”

For in those days there will be suffering unlike anything that has happened from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, or ever will happen.