When the herdsmen saw what had happened, they ran off and spread the news in the town and countryside.

As he was praying, the appearance of his face was transformed, and his clothes became very bright, a brilliant white.

“Take these words to heart, for the Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men.”

But Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”

“The one who listens to you listens to me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”

The expert in religious law said, “The one who showed mercy to him.” So Jesus said to him, “Go and do the same.”

“No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a hidden place or under a basket, but on a lampstand, so that those who come in can see the light.

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be charged against this generation.

Woe to you experts in religious law! You have taken away the key to knowledge! You did not go in yourselves, and you hindered those who were going in.”

And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the person who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how can you not know how to interpret the present time?

Now there were some present on that occasion who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

At the time for the banquet he sent his slave to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come, because everything is now ready.’

So the master said to his slave, ‘Go out to the highways and country roads and urge people to come in, so that my house will be filled.

But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’

So he contacted his master’s debtors one by one. He asked the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’

“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.

“Now the poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried.

Then he said to the disciples, “The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.

Remember Lot’s wife!