Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps.

But he denied it in front of them all:<n id="1" /> &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;re talking about!&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now from noon until three,<n id="1" /> darkness came over all the land.<n id="2" />

<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.

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.

After assembling all the chief priests and experts in the law,<n id="1" /> he asked them where the Christ<n id="2" /> was to be born.

Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these!

But above all pursue his kingdom<n id="1" /> and righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

For everyone who asks<n id="1" /> receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad<n id="1" /> tree bears bad fruit.

The<n id="1" /> herdsmen ran off, went into the town,<n id="2" /> and told everything that had happened to the demon-possessed men.

And you will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now when Jesus learned of this, he went away from there. Great<n id="1" /> crowds<n id="2" /> followed him, and he healed them all.

All the crowds were amazed and said, &#8220;Could this one be the Son of David?&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the crowds; he did not speak to them without a parable.

When he found a pearl of great value, he went out and sold everything he had and bought it.p>

They all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up the broken pieces left over, twelve baskets full.

They<n id="1" /> all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up the broken pieces left over, seven baskets full.

Then the slave threw himself to the ground<n id="1" /> before him, saying,<n id="2" /> &#8216;Be patient with me, and I will repay you everything.&#8217;

And in anger his lord turned him over to the prison guards to torture him<n id="1" /> until he repaid all he owed.