And look, I am sending you what my Father promised. But stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”

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

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.”

Simon answered, “Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing! But at your word I will lower the nets.”

But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!”

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 replied to them, “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it.”

Then he said to them all, “If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me.

Now an expert in religious law stood up to test Jesus, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

“So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

Now if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.

“I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more they can do.

Then someone from the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”

And I will say to myself, “You have plenty of goods stored up for many years; relax, eat, drink, celebrate!”’

But the worker answered him, ‘Sir, leave it alone this year too, until I dig around it and put fertilizer on it.

And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by how you use worldly wealth, so that when it runs out you will be welcomed into the eternal homes.

There was also a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’

For a while he refused, but later on he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor have regard for people,

But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to be king over us!’

But if we say, ‘From people,’ all the people will stone us, because they are convinced that John was a prophet.”