He<n id="1" /> answered them, &#8220;Do you think these Galileans were worse sinners<n id="2" /> than all the other Galileans, because they suffered these things?

This was the first registration, taken when Quirinius was governor<n id="1" /> of Syria.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;To what then should I compare the people<n id="1" /> of this generation, and what are they like?

<p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> his disciples asked him what this parable meant.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Now the parable means<n id="1" /> this: The seed is the word of God.

They will say,<n id="1" /> &#8216;This man<n id="2" /> began to build and was not able to finish!&#8217;<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">So<n id="1" /> Jesus<n id="2" /> told them<n id="3" /> this parable:<n id="4" />

Was no one found to turn back and give praise to God except this foreigner?&#8221;<n id="1" />

But first he must<n id="1" /> suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

because these are days of vengeance,<n id="1" /> to fulfill<n id="2" /> all that is written.

There was also an inscription<n id="1" /> over him, &#8220;This is the king of the Jews.&#8221;p>

He went to Pilate and asked for the body<n id="1" /> of Jesus.

But these words seemed like pure nonsense<n id="1" /> to them, and they did not believe them.

<p class="bodytext">After some time<n id="1" /> his wife Elizabeth became pregnant,<n id="2" /> and for five months she kept herself in seclusion.<n id="3" /> She said,<n id="4" />

But<n id="1" /> she was greatly troubled<n id="2" /> by his words and began to wonder about the meaning of this greeting.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">In those days<n id="1" /> Mary got up and went hurriedly into the hill country, to a town of Judah,<n id="2" />

Then<n id="1" /> he began to tell them, &#8220;Today<n id="2" /> this scripture has been fulfilled even as you heard it being read.&#8221;<n id="3" />

This<n id="1" /> report<n id="2" /> about Jesus<n id="3" /> circulated<n id="4" /> throughout<n id="5" /> Judea and all the surrounding country.p>

But<n id="1" /> those who were at the table<n id="2" /> with him began to say among themselves, &#8220;Who is this, who even forgives sins?&#8221;

so that this generation may be held accountable<n id="1" /> for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning<n id="2" /> of the world,<n id="3" />