Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup,<n id="1" /> so that the outside may become clean too!p>

And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the whole inhabited earth as a testimony to all the nations,<n id="1" /> and then the end will come.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;So when you see <i>the abomination of desolationi><n id="1" /> &#8211; spoken about by Daniel the prophet &#8211; standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;Learn<n id="1" /> this parable from the fig tree: Whenever its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;But as for that day and hour no one knows it &#8211; not even the angels in heaven<n id="1" /> &#8211; except the Father alone.

But Peter was following him from a distance, all the way to the high priest&#8217;s courtyard. After<n id="1" /> going in, he sat with the guards<n id="2" /> to see the outcome.

Above<n id="1" /> his head they put the charge against him,<n id="2" /> which read:<n id="3" /> &#8220;This is Jesus, the king of the Jews.&#8221;

Many<n id="1" /> women who had followed Jesus from Galilee and given him support<n id="2" /> were also there, watching from a distance.

<t /><p class="bodytext">While<n id="1" /> they were going, some<n id="2" /> of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests everything that had happened.

So they took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story is told among the Jews to this day.<n id="1" />p>

Then Jesus came up and said to them,<n id="1" /> &#8220;All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember,<n id="1" /> I am with you<n id="2" /> always, to the end of the age.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now the birth of Jesus Christ happened this way. While his mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, but before they came together,<n id="1" /> she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.

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" />

He stayed there until Herod<n id="1" /> died. In this way what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet was fulfilled: &#8220;<b><i>I called my Son out of Egypti>b>.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">But when he saw many Pharisees<n id="1" /> and Sadducees<n id="2" /> coming to his baptism, he said to them, &#8220;You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

<t /><p class="bodytext">As<n id="1" /> he was walking by the Sea of Galilee he saw two brothers, Simon (called Peter) and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea (for they were fishermen).<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.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;You are the salt<n id="1" /> of the earth. But if salt loses its flavor,<n id="2" /> how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled on by people.

<t /><p class="bodytext">When he came to the other side, to the region of the Gadarenes,<n id="1" /> two demon-possessed men coming from the tombs met him. They were extremely violent, so that no one was able to pass by that way.