You are witnesses<n id="1" /> of these things.

Whenever<n id="1" /> you enter a house,<n id="2" /> first say, &#8216;May peace<n id="3" /> be on this house!&#8217;

But<n id="1" /> they could not reply<n id="2" /> to this.p>

I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom<n id="1" /> than for that town!<n id="2" />p>

For all the nations of the world pursue<n id="1" /> these things, and your Father knows that you need them.

Everyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces,<n id="1" /> and the one on whom it falls will be crushed.&#8221;<n id="2" />

But we had hoped<n id="1" /> that he was the one who was going to redeem<n id="2" /> Israel. Not only this, but it is now the third day since these things happened.

Herod said, &#8220;I had John<n id="1" /> beheaded, but who is this about whom I hear such things?&#8221; So Herod wanted to learn about Jesus.<n id="2" />p>

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it,<n id="1" /> but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.

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?

But<n id="1" /> the twelve<n id="2" /> understood none of these things. This<n id="3" /> saying was hidden from them, and they did not grasp<n id="4" /> what Jesus meant.<n id="5" />p>

So<n id="1" /> they asked him,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Teacher, when will these things<n id="3" /> happen? And what will be the sign that<n id="4" /> these things are about to take place?&#8221;

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! For there will be great distress<n id="1" /> on the earth and wrath against this people.

And who am I<n id="1" /> that the mother of my Lord should come and visit me?

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

This<n id="1" /> will be a sign<n id="2" /> for you: You will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth and lying in a manger.&#8221;<n id="3" />

Herod added this to them all: He locked up John in prison.p>

When they heard this, all the people<n id="1" /> in the synagogue were filled with rage.

When<n id="1" /> they had done this, they caught so many fish that their nets started to tear.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">John&#8217;s<n id="1" /> disciples informed him about all these things. So<n id="2" /> John called<n id="3" /> two of his disciples