<t /><p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> Jesus<n id="2" /> told this parable: &#8220;A man had a fig tree<n id="3" /> planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and found none.

They will demolish you<n id="1" /> &#8211; you and your children within your walls<n id="2" /> &#8211; and they will not leave within you one stone<n id="3" /> on top of another,<n id="4" /> because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now one<n id="1" /> day, as Jesus<n id="2" /> was teaching the people in the temple courts<n id="3" /> and proclaiming<n id="4" /> the gospel, the chief priests and the experts in the law<n id="5" /> with the elders came up<n id="6" />

Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered him,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who doesn&#8217;t know<n id="2" /> the things that have happened there<n id="3" /> in these days?&#8221;

They<n id="1" /> were both righteous in the sight of God, following<n id="2" /> all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blamelessly.<n id="3" />

Listen:<n id="1" /> You will become pregnant<n id="2" /> and give birth to<n id="3" /> a son, and you will name him<n id="4" /> Jesus.<n id="5" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">In those days<n id="1" /> Mary got up and went hurriedly into the hill country, to a town of Judah,<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">to guide our feet into the way<n id="2" /> of peace.&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> in those days a decree<n id="2" /> went out from Caesar<n id="3" /> Augustus<n id="4" /> to register<n id="5" /> all the empire<n id="6" /> for taxes.

While<n id="1" /> they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child.<n id="2" />

But Mary treasured up all these words, pondering in her heart what they might mean.<n id="1" />

(just as it is written in the law of the Lord, &#8220;<i>Every firstborn malei><n id="1" /> <i>will be set apart to the Lordi>&#8221;<n id="2" />),

and to offer a sacrifice according to what is specified in the law of the Lord, <b><i>a pair of dovesi>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>or two young pigeonsi>b>.<n id="2" />p>

during the high priesthood<n id="1" /> of Annas and Caiaphas, the word<n id="2" /> of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now when<n id="1" /> all the people were baptized, Jesus also was baptized. And while he was praying,<n id="2" /> the heavens<n id="3" /> opened,

<p class="bodytext">Then<n id="1" /> the devil<n id="2" /> led him up<n id="3" /> to a high place<n id="4" /> and showed him in a flash all the kingdoms of the world.

Then<n id="1" /> he began to tell them, &#8220;Today<n id="2" /> this scripture has been fulfilled even as you heard it being read.&#8221;<n id="3" />

And he added,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I tell you the truth,<n id="2" /> no prophet is acceptable<n id="3" /> in his hometown.

<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,