Then Jeremiah said to them, “You sent me to the Lord God of Israel to make your request known to him. Here is what he says to you:

I, the Lord, will be their God, and my servant David will be prince among them; I, the Lord, have spoken!

Then you will live in the land I gave to your fathers; you will be my people, and I will be your God.

This is the interpretation of the words: As for mene – God has numbered your kingdom’s days and brought it to an end.

So I turned my attention to the Lord God to implore him by prayer and requests, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

That idol was made by a workman – it is not God! The calf idol of Samaria will be broken to bits.

Our food has been cut off right before our eyes! There is no longer any joy or gladness in the temple of our God!

“Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel. Because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel!

Who knows? Perhaps God might be willing to change his mind and relent and turn from his fierce anger so that we might not die.”

So God sent a worm at dawn the next day, and it attacked the little plant so that it dried up.

They sweep by like the wind and pass on. But the one who considers himself a god will be held guilty.”

Jesus said to him, “Once again it is written: ‘You are not to put the Lord your God to the test.’”

And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God.”

He also asked, “To what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use to present it?

Then Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!”

In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth,

during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness.

Now it was during this time that Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and he spent all night in prayer to God.

But I tell you most certainly, there are some standing here who will not experience death before they see the kingdom of God.”

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