&#8220;When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast,<n id="1" /> do not take<n id="2" /> the place of honor, because a person more distinguished than you may have been invited by your host.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;The law and the prophets were in force<n id="1" /> until John;<n id="2" /> since then,<n id="3" /> the good news of the kingdom of God<n id="4" /> has been proclaimed, and everyone is urged to enter it.<n id="5" />

It would be better for him to have a millstone<n id="1" /> tied around his neck and be thrown into the sea<n id="2" /> than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Would any one of you say<n id="1" /> to your slave<n id="2" /> who comes in from the field after plowing or shepherding sheep, &#8216;Come at once and sit down for a meal&#8217;?<n id="3" />

For just like the lightning flashes<n id="1" /> and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.<n id="2" />

Then another<n id="1" /> slave<n id="2" /> came and said, &#8216;Sir, here is<n id="3" /> your mina that I put away for safekeeping<n id="4" /> in a piece of cloth.<n id="5" />

But when the tenants saw him, they said to one another, &#8216;This is the heir; let&#8217;s kill him so the inheritance will be ours!&#8217;

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;But be on your guard<n id="1" /> so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life, and that day close down upon you suddenly like a trap.<n id="2" />

For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit<n id="1" /> of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.&#8221;<n id="2" />

And in the same way he took<n id="1" /> the cup after they had eaten,<n id="2" /> saying, &#8220;This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant<n id="3" /> in my blood.p>

For who is greater, the one who is seated at the table,<n id="1" /> or the one who serves? Is it not<n id="2" /> the one who is seated at the table? But I am among you as one<n id="3" /> who serves.p>

but I have prayed for you, Simon,<n id="1" /> that your faith may not fail.<n id="2" /> When<n id="3" /> you have turned back,<n id="4" /> strengthen<n id="5" /> your brothers.&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> that very day two of them<n id="2" /> were on their way to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles<n id="3" /> from Jerusalem.<n id="4" />

but they urged him,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Stay with us, because it is getting toward evening and the day is almost done.&#8221; So<n id="2" /> he went in to stay with them.p>

They<n id="1" /> said to each other, &#8220;Didn&#8217;t<n id="2" /> our hearts<n id="3" /> burn within us<n id="4" /> while he was speaking with us on the road, while he was explaining<n id="5" /> the scriptures to us?&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Zechariah<n id="1" /> said to the angel, &#8220;How can I be sure of this?<n id="2" /> For I am an old man, and my wife is old as well.&#8221;<n id="3" />

When<n id="1" /> his parents<n id="2" /> saw him, they were overwhelmed. His<n id="3" /> mother said to him, &#8220;Child,<n id="4" /> why have you treated<n id="5" /> us like this? Look, your father and I have been looking for you anxiously.&#8221;<n id="6" />

Then<n id="1" /> he went down with them and came to Nazareth,<n id="2" /> and was obedient<n id="3" /> to them. But<n id="4" /> his mother kept all these things<n id="5" /> in her heart.<n id="6" />p>

They got up, forced<n id="1" /> him out of the town,<n id="2" /> and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that<n id="3" /> they could throw him down the cliff.<n id="4" />

But the person who hears and does not put my words into practice<n id="1" /> is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When<n id="2" /> the river burst against that house,<n id="3" /> it collapsed immediately, and was utterly destroyed!&#8221;<n id="4" />p>