Now he was casting out a demon that was mute. When the demon had gone out, the man who had been mute began to speak, and the crowds were amazed.

But when they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, do not worry about how you should make your defense or what you should say,

be like people waiting for their master to come back from the wedding celebration, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.

Jesus also said to the crowds, “When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once, ‘A rainstorm is coming,’ and it does.

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

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

So Jesus asked the experts in religious law and the Pharisees, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?”

Then he said to them, “Which of you, if you have a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?”

Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going out to examine them. Please excuse me.’

Then when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.’

After a few days, the younger son gathered together all he had and left on a journey to a distant country, and there he squandered his wealth with a wild lifestyle.

So he went and worked for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.

I will get up and go to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.

“Now his older son was in the field. As he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing.

“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.

“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries someone else commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

who longed to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. In addition, the dogs came and licked his sores.

And in hell, as he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far off with Lazarus at his side.

Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times returns to you saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”

When he saw them he said, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went along, they were cleansed.