Therefore stay alert, because you do not know the day or the hour.

How then would the scriptures that say it must happen this way be fulfilled?”

He denied it again with an oath, “I do not know the man!”

When some of the bystanders heard it, they said, “This man is calling for Elijah.”

When they found him, they said, “Everyone is looking for you.”

Now after some days, when he returned to Capernaum, the news spread that he was at home.

When his family heard this they went out to restrain him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.”

for she kept saying, “If only I touch his clothes, I will be healed.”

He said, “What comes out of a person defiles him.

Regaining his sight he said, “I see people, but they look like trees walking.”

So also you, when you see these things happening, know that he is near, right at the door.

(For he knew that the chief priests had handed him over because of envy.)

But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled back.

And when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they did not believe.

And blessed is she who believed that what was spoken to her by the Lord would be fulfilled.”

because he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name;

Today your Savior is born in the city of David. He is Christ the Lord.

For my eyes have seen your salvation

for it is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you, to protect you,’

and ‘with their hands they will lift you up, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’”