Jesus answered them, “Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry –

But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man who had the withered hand, “Get up and stand here.” So he rose and stood there.

“Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied. “Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

At that very time Jesus cured many people of diseases, sicknesses, and evil spirits, and granted sight to many who were blind.

Then Jesus asked, “Who was it who touched me?” When they all denied it, Peter said, “Master, the crowds are surrounding you and pressing against you!”

After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him two by two into every town and place where he himself was about to go.

Now one Sabbath when Jesus went to dine at the house of a leader of the Pharisees, they were watching him closely.

For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You withdraw what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.’

“As for these things that you are gazing at, the days will come when not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!”

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!’

Now on the first day of the week, at early dawn, the women went to the tomb, taking the aromatic spices they had prepared.

The women were terribly frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead?

Jesus said to him, “Because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, because I am not alone when I judge, but I and the Father who sent me do so together.

I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!”

Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet!” Jesus replied, “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.”

God raised up his servant and sent him first to you, to bless you by turning each one of you from your iniquities.”

Then he fell to his knees and cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he died.

Because Lydda was near Joppa, when the disciples heard that Peter was there, they sent two men to him and urged him, “Come to us without delay.”