I spoke to the prophets; I myself revealed many visions; I spoke in parables through the prophets.”

Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for your sin has been your downfall!

Tell your children about it, have your children tell their children, and their children the following generation.

Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for a holy war! Call out the warriors! Let all these fighting men approach and attack!

Bravehearted warriors will run away naked in that day.” The Lord is speaking!

But you are the ones who will be forced to leave! For this land is not secure! Sin will thoroughly destroy it!

Then Haggai, the Lord’s messenger, spoke the Lord’s word to the people: “I am with you!” says the Lord.

The angelic messenger who had been speaking with me then returned and woke me, as a person is wakened from sleep.

When Jesus heard this he said, “Those who are healthy don’t need a physician, but those who are sick do.

And when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more. But each one also received the standard wage.

The girl got up at once and began to walk around (she was twelve years old). They were completely astonished at this.

But when Herod heard this, he said, “John, whom I beheaded, has been raised!”

He took a little child and had him stand among them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them,

“But as for that day or hour no one knows it – neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son – except the Father.

So Jesus said to them, “You cannot make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you?

“A certain creditor had two debtors; one owed him five hundred silver coins, and the other fifty.

and they went on to another village.

But give from your heart to those in need, and then everything will be clean for you.

If then you haven’t been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will entrust you with the true riches?

And if you haven’t been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you your own?