Take my yoke<n id="1" /> on you and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure, hidden in a field, that a person found and hid. Then because of joy he went and sold all that he had and bought that field.p>

After<n id="1" /> he went out, that same slave found one of his fellow slaves who owed him one hundred silver coins.<n id="2" /> So<n id="3" /> he grabbed him by the throat and started to choke him,<n id="4" /> saying, &#8216;Pay back what you owe me!&#8217;<n id="5" />

and said to them, &#8220;Go to the village ahead of you.<n id="1" /> As soon as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there that has never been ridden.<n id="2" /> Untie it and bring it here.

But<n id="1" /> since they found<n id="2" /> no way to carry him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof<n id="3" /> and let him down on the stretcher<n id="4" /> through the roof tiles<n id="5" /> right<n id="6" /> in front of Jesus.<n id="7" />

When Jesus heard this, he was amazed<n id="1" /> at him. He turned and said to the crowd that followed him, &#8220;I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such faith!&#8221;<n id="2" />

So<n id="1" /> the people went out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus. They<n id="2" /> found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus&#8217; feet, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;When an unclean spirit<n id="1" /> goes out of a person,<n id="2" /> it passes through waterless places<n id="3" /> looking for rest but<n id="4" /> not finding any. Then<n id="5" /> it says, &#8216;I will return to the home I left.&#8217;<n id="6" />

Blessed are those slaves<n id="1" /> whom their master finds alert<n id="2" /> when he returns! I tell you the truth,<n id="3" /> he will dress himself to serve,<n id="4" /> have them take their place at the table,<n id="5" /> and will come<n id="6" /> and wait on them!<n id="7" />

<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.

So<n id="1" /> he said to the worker who tended the vineyard, &#8216;For<n id="2" /> three years<n id="3" /> now, I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and each time I inspect it<n id="4" /> I find none. Cut<n id="5" /> it down! Why<n id="6" /> should it continue to deplete<n id="7" /> the soil?&#8217;

&#8220;Which one<n id="1" /> of you, if he has a hundred<n id="2" /> sheep and loses one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture<n id="3" /> and go look for<n id="4" /> the one that is lost until he finds it?<n id="5" />

Returning<n id="1" /> home, he calls together<n id="2" /> his<n id="3" /> friends and neighbors, telling them, &#8216;Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost.&#8217;

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Or what woman, if she has ten silver coins<n id="1" /> and loses<n id="2" /> one of them,<n id="3" /> does not light a lamp, sweep<n id="4" /> the house, and search thoroughly until she finds it?

I tell you, he will give them justice speedily.<n id="1" /> Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith<n id="2" /> on earth?&#8221;p>

telling them,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Go to the village ahead of you.<n id="2" /> When<n id="3" /> you enter it, you will find a colt tied there that has never been ridden.<n id="4" /> Untie it and bring it here.

They<n id="1" /> began to accuse<n id="2" /> him, saying, &#8220;We found this man subverting<n id="3" /> our nation, forbidding<n id="4" /> us to pay the tribute tax<n id="5" /> to Caesar<n id="6" /> and claiming that he himself is Christ,<n id="7" /> a king.&#8221;

and said to them, &#8220;You brought me this man as one who was misleading<n id="1" /> the people. When I examined him before you, I<n id="2" /> did not find this man guilty<n id="3" /> of anything you accused him of doing.

<p class="bodytext">After this Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, &#8220;Look, you have become well. Don&#8217;t sin any more,<n id="1" /> lest anything worse happen to you.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Then the Jewish leaders<n id="1" /> said to one another, &#8220;Where is he<n id="2" /> going to go that we cannot find him?<n id="3" /> He is not going to go to the Jewish people dispersed<n id="4" /> among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?<n id="5" />