Then<n id="1" /> he said to them, &#8220;What are these matters<n id="2" /> you are discussing so intently<n id="3" /> as you walk along?&#8221; And they stood still, looking sad.

<t /><p class="bodytext">While they were saying these things, Jesus<n id="1" /> himself stood among them and said to them, &#8220;Peace be with you.&#8221;<n id="2" />

He<n id="1" /> will be great,<n id="2" /> and will be called the Son of the Most High,<n id="3" /> and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father<n id="4" /> David.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;And look,<n id="1" /> your relative<n id="2" /> Elizabeth has also become pregnant with<n id="3" /> a son in her old age &#8211; although she was called barren, she is now in her sixth month!<n id="4" />

All<n id="1" /> their neighbors were filled with fear, and throughout the entire hill country of Judea all these things were talked about.

where for forty days he endured temptations<n id="1" /> from the devil. He<n id="2" /> ate nothing<n id="3" /> during those days, and when they were completed,<n id="4" /> he was famished.

The devil said to him, &#8220;If<n id="1" /> you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.&#8221;<n id="2" />

But Jesus<n id="1" /> said to them, &#8220;I must<n id="2" /> proclaim the good news of the kingdom<n id="3" /> of God to the other towns<n id="4" /> too, for that is what I was sent<n id="5" /> to do.&#8221;<n id="6" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">After<n id="1" /> this, Jesus<n id="2" /> went out and saw a tax collector<n id="3" /> named Levi<n id="4" /> sitting at the tax booth.<n id="5" /> &#8220;Follow me,&#8221;<n id="6" /> he said to him.

Jesus<n id="1" /> answered them,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Haven&#8217;t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry &#8211;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> it was during this time that Jesus<n id="2" /> went out to the mountain<n id="3" /> to pray, and he spent all night<n id="4" /> in prayer to God.<n id="5" />

When<n id="1" /> they came<n id="2" /> to Jesus, they urged<n id="3" /> him earnestly,<n id="4" /> &#8220;He is worthy<n id="5" /> to have you do this for him,

At that very time<n id="1" /> Jesus<n id="2" /> cured many people of diseases, sicknesses,<n id="3" /> and evil spirits, and granted<n id="4" /> sight to many who were blind.

This is the one about whom it is written, &#8216;<b><i>Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you,i>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>who will prepare your way before youi>b>.&#8217;<n id="2" />

But as for the seed that landed on good soil, these are the ones who, after hearing<n id="1" /> the word, cling to it<n id="2" /> with an honest and good<n id="3" /> heart, and bear fruit with steadfast endurance.<n id="4" />p>

But he replied<n id="1" /> to them, &#8220;My mother and my brothers are those<n id="2" /> who hear the word of God and do it.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

Now a large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside,<n id="1" /> and the demonic spirits<n id="2" /> begged Jesus<n id="3" /> to let them go into them. He gave them permission.<n id="4" />

because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying.<n id="1" />p> <p class="bodytext">As Jesus was on his way, the crowds pressed<n id="2" /> around him.

Wherever<n id="1" /> they do not receive you,<n id="2" /> as you leave that town,<n id="3" /> shake the dust off<n id="4" /> your feet as a testimony against them.&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> about eight days<n id="2" /> after these sayings, Jesus<n id="3" /> took with him Peter, John, and James, and went up the mountain to pray.