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

and a woman was there who had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten herself up completely.

The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate that will belong to me.’ So he divided his assets between them.

Then the disciples said to him, “Where, Lord?” He replied to them, “Where the dead body is, there the vultures will gather.”

yet because this widow keeps on bothering me, I will give her justice, or in the end she will wear me out by her unending pleas.’”

But the twelve understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they did not grasp what Jesus meant.

Why then didn’t you put my money in the bank, so that when I returned I could have collected it with interest?’

Jesus was teaching daily in the temple courts. The chief priests and the experts in the law and the prominent leaders among the people were seeking to assassinate him,

So they asked him, “Teacher, when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that these things are about to take place?”

And when you hear of wars and rebellions, do not be afraid. For these things must happen first, but the end will not come at once.”

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 began to question one another as to which of them it could possibly be who would do this.

Then a slave girl, seeing him as he sat in the firelight, stared at him and said, “This man was with him too!”

Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And after he said this he breathed his last.

Now when the centurion saw what had happened, he praised God and said, “Certainly this man was innocent!”

and when they did not find his body, they came back and said they had seen a vision of angels, who said he was alive.

Then some of those who were with us went to the tomb, and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see him.”

When the angels left them and went back to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, that the Lord has made known to us.”

During the reign of Herod king of Judea, there lived a priest named Zechariah who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah, and he had a wife named Elizabeth, who was a descendant of Aaron.

But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son; you will name him John.