“And look, your relative Elizabeth has also become pregnant with a son in her old age – although she was called barren, she is now in her sixth month!

All who heard these things kept them in their hearts, saying, “What then will this child be?” For the Lord’s hand was indeed with him.

But when the feast was over, as they were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it,

“Ha! Leave us alone, Jesus the Nazarene! Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are – the Holy One of God.”

So they motioned to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both boats, so that they were about to sink.

“Woe to you who are well satisfied with food now, for you will be hungry. “Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

He also told them a parable: “Someone who is blind cannot lead another who is blind, can he? Won’t they both fall into a pit?

Some time afterward he went on through towns and villages, preaching and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. The twelve were with him,

While he was still speaking, someone from the synagogue ruler’s house came and said, “Your daughter is dead; do not trouble the teacher any longer.”

Now Herod the tetrarch heard about everything that was happening, and he was thoroughly perplexed, because some people were saying that John had been raised from the dead,

Woe to you! You are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without realizing it!”

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

“The law and the prophets were in force until John; since then, the good news of the kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone is urged to enter it.

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.’”

And he summoned ten of his slaves, gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Do business with these until I come back.’

People will be fainting from fear and from the expectation of what is coming on the world, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

but I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. When you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”

While he was still speaking, suddenly a crowd appeared, and the man named Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He walked up to Jesus to kiss him.

He released the man they asked for, who had been thrown in prison for insurrection and murder. But he handed Jesus over to their will.

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.