Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness,

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.

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.

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

For just like the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.

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.

And look, I am sending you what my Father promised. But stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”

He went to be registered with Mary, who was promised in marriage to him, and who was expecting a child.

There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves thrown out.

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 he replied, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

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.

Then a slave girl, seeing him as he sat in the firelight, stared at him and said, “This man was with him too!”

Even Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him. Then, dressing him in elegant clothes, Herod sent him back to Pilate.

Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon who was righteous and devout, looking for the restoration of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

Jesus was going through the grain fields on a Sabbath, and his disciples picked some heads of wheat, rubbed them in their hands, and ate them.

For I tell you that this scripture must be fulfilled in me, ‘And he was counted with the transgressors.’ For what is written about me is being fulfilled.”

She exclaimed with a loud voice, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child in your womb!

At the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was named Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

Why then didn’t you put my money in the bank, so that when I returned I could have collected it with interest?’