And the child grew and became strong,<n id="1" /> filled with wisdom,<n id="2" /> and the favor<n id="3" /> of God<n id="4" /> was upon him.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">So<n id="1" /> Jesus, when he began his ministry,<n id="2" /> was about thirty years old. He was<n id="3" /> the son (as was supposed)<n id="4" /> of Joseph, the son<n id="5" /> of Heli,

<t /><p class="bodytext">So<n id="1" /> he went down to Capernaum,<n id="2" /> a town<n id="3" /> in Galilee, and on the Sabbath he began to teach the people.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> in the synagogue<n id="2" /> there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean<n id="3" /> demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,

A centurion<n id="1" /> there<n id="2" /> had a slave<n id="3" /> who was highly regarded,<n id="4" /> but who was sick and at the point of death.

They appeared in glorious splendor and spoke about his departure<n id="1" /> that he was about to carry out<n id="2" /> at Jerusalem.<n id="3" />

Whenever<n id="1" /> you enter a town<n id="2" /> and the people<n id="3" /> welcome you, eat what is set before you.

But whenever<n id="1" /> you enter a town<n id="2" /> and the people<n id="3" /> do not welcome<n id="4" /> you, go into its streets<n id="5" /> and say,

It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with<n id="1" /> three measures<n id="2" /> of flour until all the dough had risen.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;There was a rich man who dressed in purple<n id="1" /> and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously<n id="2" /> every day.

He<n id="1" /> fell with his face to the ground<n id="2" /> at Jesus&#8217; feet and thanked him.<n id="3" /> (Now<n id="4" /> he was a Samaritan.)<n id="5" />

He said,<n id="1" /> &#8220;In a certain city<n id="2" /> there was a judge<n id="3" /> who neither feared God nor respected people.<n id="4" />

Now<n id="1" /> a man named Zacchaeus was there; he was a chief tax collector<n id="2" /> and was rich.

(This<n id="1" /> was a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection<n id="2" /> started in the city, and for murder.)<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">It was now<n id="1" /> about noon,<n id="2" /> and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon,<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">And the child kept growing<n id="1" /> and becoming strong<n id="2" /> in spirit, and he was in the wilderness<n id="3" /> until the day he was revealed<n id="4" /> to Israel.p>

It<n id="1" /> had been revealed<n id="2" /> to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die<n id="3" /> before<n id="4" /> he had seen the Lord&#8217;s Christ.<n id="5" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">There was also a prophetess, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old,<n id="1" /> having been married to her husband for seven years until his death.

and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He<n id="1" /> unrolled<n id="2" /> the scroll and found the place where it was written,p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret,<n id="2" /> and the crowd was pressing around him<n id="3" /> to hear the word of God.