But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and the inheritance will be ours!’

Jesus answered, “The most important is: ‘Listen, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.

The expert in the law said to him, “That is true, Teacher; you are right to say that he is one, and there is no one else besides him.

For nation will rise up in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines. These are but the beginning of birth pains.

But he denied it again. A short time later the bystanders again said to Peter, “You must be one of them, because you are also a Galilean.”

Then Levi gave a great banquet in his house for Jesus, and there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others sitting at the table with them.

I tell you, among those born of women no one is greater than John. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he is.”

because this son of mine was dead, and is alive again – he was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.

“The one who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and the one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.

He was trying to get a look at Jesus, but being a short man he could not see over the crowd.

But if we say, ‘From people,’ all the people will stone us, because they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

Then a little later someone else saw him and said, “You are one of them too.” But Peter said, “Man, I am not!”

And after about an hour still another insisted, “Certainly this man was with him, because he too is a Galilean.”

So they all said, “Are you the Son of God, then?” He answered them, “You say that I am.”

When he learned that he was from Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him over to Herod, who also happened to be in Jerusalem at that time.

This is the one about whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who is greater than I am, because he existed before me.’

John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming to him and being baptized.

You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but rather, ‘I have been sent before him.’

Jacob’s well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside the well. It was about noon.

But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped out, since there was a crowd in that place.