Then Jesus said to him, “Go away, Satan! For it is written: ‘You are to worship the Lord your God and serve only him.’”

In the same way, let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good deeds and give honor to your Father in heaven.

But if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

And if the house is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you.

This fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet: “I will open my mouth in parables, I will announce what has been hidden from the foundation of the world.”

For Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,

Although it grieved the king, because of his oath and the dinner guests he commanded it to be given.

“What do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’

You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. Make sure that you are not alarmed, for this must happen, but the end is still to come.

For just like the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so the coming of the Son of Man will be.

I tell you the truth, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”

Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A slave girl came to him and said, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.”

Now after the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.

After listening to the king they left, and once again the star they saw when it rose led them until it stopped above the place where the child was.

But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. After being warned in a dream, he went to the regions of Galilee.

For he is the one about whom Isaiah the prophet had spoken: “The voice of one shouting in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make his paths straight.’”

and don’t think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

So a report about him spread throughout Syria. People brought to him all who suffered with various illnesses and afflictions, those who had seizures, paralytics, and those possessed by demons, and he healed them.

The seed sown among thorns is the person who hears the word, but worldly cares and the seductiveness of wealth choke the word, so it produces nothing.

Let both grow together until the harvest. At harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned, but then gather the wheat into my barn.”’”