<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Woe to you, Chorazin!<n id="1" /> Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if<n id="2" /> the miracles<n id="3" /> done in you had been done in Tyre<n id="4" /> and Sidon,<n id="5" /> they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

I tell you, even though the man inside<n id="1" /> will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of the first man&#8217;s<n id="2" /> sheer persistence<n id="3" /> he will get up and give him whatever he needs.p>

If you then, although you are<n id="1" /> evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit<n id="2" /> to those who ask him!&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">As<n id="1" /> the crowds were increasing, Jesus<n id="2" /> began to say, &#8220;This generation is a wicked generation; it looks for a sign,<n id="3" /> but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.<n id="4" />

If<n id="1" /> then<n id="2" /> your whole body is full of light, with no part in the dark,<n id="3" /> it will be as full of light as when the light of a lamp shines on you.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief<n id="1" /> was coming, he would not have let<n id="2" /> his house be broken into.

Or what king, going out to confront another king in battle, will not sit down<n id="1" /> first and determine whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose<n id="2" /> the one coming against him with twenty thousand?

So<n id="1" /> the Lord replied,<n id="2" /> &#8220;If<n id="3" /> you had faith the size of<n id="4" /> a mustard seed, you could say to this black mulberry<n id="5" /> tree, &#8216;Be pulled out by the roots and planted in the sea,&#8217;<n id="6" /> and it would obey<n id="7" /> you.p>

But Zacchaeus stopped and said to the Lord, &#8220;Look, Lord, half of my possessions I now give<n id="1" /> to the poor, and if<n id="2" /> I have cheated anyone of anything, I am paying back four times as much!&#8221;

The people also stood there watching, but the rulers ridiculed<n id="1" /> him, saying, &#8220;He saved others. Let him save<n id="2" /> himself if<n id="3" /> he is the Christ<n id="4" /> of God, his chosen one!&#8221;

He also told them a parable:<n id="1" /> &#8220;No one tears a patch from a new garment and sews<n id="2" /> it on an old garment. If he does, he will have torn<n id="3" /> the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old.<n id="4" />

But he said to them, &#8220;You<n id="1" /> give them something to eat.&#8221; They<n id="2" /> replied,<n id="3" /> &#8220;We have no more than five loaves and two fish &#8211; unless<n id="4" /> we go<n id="5" /> and buy food<n id="6" /> for all these people.&#8221;

&#8220;If anyone comes to me and does not hate<n id="1" /> his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life,<n id="2" /> he cannot be my disciple.