‘I tell you that everyone who has will be given more, but from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.

saying, “If you had only known on this day, even you, the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and surround you and close in on you from every side.

So they discussed it with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’

But even Moses revealed that the dead are raised in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

For the Son of Man is to go just as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!”

So they all said, “Are you the Son of God, then?” He answered them, “You say that I am.”

But they persisted in saying, “He incites the people by teaching throughout all Judea. It started in Galilee and ended up here!”

When he learned that he was from Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him over to Herod, who also happened to be in Jerusalem at that time.

For this is certain: The days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!’

But the other rebuked him, saying, “Don’t you fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?

that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise again.”

but they urged him, “Stay with us, because it is getting toward evening and the day is almost done.” So he went in to stay with them.

On that same occasion Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your gracious will.

But the president of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the crowd, “There are six days on which work should be done! So come and be healed on those days, and not on the Sabbath day.”

When he came out, he was not able to speak to them. They realized that he had seen a vision in the holy place, because he was making signs to them and remained unable to speak.

Therefore produce fruit that proves your repentance, and don’t begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

And he said to him, “To you I will grant this whole realm – and the glory that goes along with it, for it has been relinquished to me, and I can give it to anyone I wish.

They were all amazed and began to say to one another, “What’s happening here? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to ungrateful and evil people.