The nations<n id="1" /> will walk by its light and the kings of the earth will bring their grandeur<n id="2" /> into it.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> he came down with them and stood on a level place.<n id="2" /> And a large number<n id="3" /> of his disciples had gathered<n id="4" /> along with<n id="5" /> a vast multitude from all over Judea, from<n id="6" /> Jerusalem,<n id="7" /> and from the seacoast of Tyre<n id="8" /> and Sidon.<n id="9" /> They came to hear him and to be healed<n id="10" /> of their diseases,

and likewise the men also abandoned natural relations with women<n id="1" /> and were inflamed in their passions<n id="2" /> for one another. Men<n id="3" /> committed shameless acts with men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.p>

<p class="otpoetry">&#8220;<i><b>For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those daysb>, <b>says the Lordb>. <b>I will putb>i><n id="1" /> <b><i>my laws in their mindsi>b><n id="2" /> <i><b>and I will inscribe them on their heartsb>. <b>And I will be their God and they will be my peopleb>.i><n id="3" />p>

Now<n id="1" /> this is what the horses and their riders<n id="2" /> looked like in my<n id="3" /> vision: The riders had breastplates that were fiery red,<n id="4" /> dark blue,<n id="5" /> and sulfurous<n id="6" /> yellow in color.<n id="7" /> The<n id="8" /> heads of the horses looked like lions&#8217; heads, and fire, smoke, and sulfur<n id="9" /> came out of their mouths.

As they came into the house and saw the child with Mary his mother, they bowed down<n id="1" /> and worshiped him. They opened their treasure boxes and gave him gifts of gold, frankincense,<n id="2" /> and myrrh.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Jesus<n id="1" /> went throughout all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues,<n id="2" /> preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of disease and sickness among the people.

Thus whenever you do charitable giving,<n id="1" /> do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in synagogues<n id="2" /> and on streets so that people will praise them. I tell you the truth,<n id="3" /> they have their reward.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;Whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray while standing in synagogues<n id="1" /> and on street corners so that people can see them. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.

Look at the birds in the sky:<n id="1" /> They do not sow, or reap, or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds<n id="2" /> them. Aren&#8217;t you more valuable<n id="3" /> than they are?

Do not give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs; otherwise they will trample them under their feet and turn around and tear you to pieces.<n id="1" />p>

Just then<n id="1" /> some people<n id="2" /> brought to him a paralytic lying on a stretcher.<n id="3" /> When Jesus saw their<n id="4" /> faith, he said to the paralytic, &#8220;Have courage, son! Your sins are forgiven.&#8221;<n id="5" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then Jesus went throughout all the towns<n id="1" /> and villages, teaching in their synagogues,<n id="2" /> preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and sickness.<n id="3" />

Now when Jesus<n id="1" /> realized what they were thinking, he said to them,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Every kingdom divided against itself is destroyed,<n id="3" /> and no town or house divided against itself will stand.

Then<n id="1" /> he came to his hometown<n id="2" /> and began to teach the people<n id="3" /> in their synagogue.<n id="4" /> They<n id="5" /> were astonished and said, &#8220;Where did this man get such wisdom and miraculous powers?

<p class="bodytext">As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Do not tell anyone about the vision until the Son of Man is raised from the dead.&#8221;

And I tell you that Elijah has already come. Yet they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted. In<n id="1" /> the same way, the Son of Man will suffer at their hands.&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;See that you do not disdain one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.

What do you think? If someone<n id="1" /> owns a hundred<n id="2" /> sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go look for the one that went astray?<n id="3" />

And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet blast, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven<n id="1" /> to the other.p>