How<n id="1" /> else can someone enter a strong man&#8217;s<n id="2" /> house and steal his property, unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can thoroughly plunder the house.<n id="3" />

and in the morning, &#8216;It will be stormy today, because the sky is red and darkening.&#8217;<n id="1" /> You know how to judge correctly the appearance of the sky,<n id="2" /> but you cannot evaluate the signs of the times.

He went away a second time and prayed,<n id="1" /> &#8220;My Father, if this cup<n id="2" /> cannot be taken away unless I drink it, your will must be done.&#8221;

But as the man<n id="1" /> went out he began to announce it publicly and spread the story widely, so that Jesus<n id="2" /> was no longer able to enter any town openly but stayed outside in remote places. Still<n id="3" /> they kept coming<n id="4" /> to him from everywhere.p>

When they were not able to bring him in because of the crowd, they removed the roof<n id="1" /> above Jesus.<n id="2" /> Then,<n id="3" /> after tearing it out, they lowered the stretcher the paralytic was lying on.

But no one is able to enter a strong man&#8217;s<n id="1" /> house and steal his property unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can thoroughly plunder his house.<n id="2" />

when it is sown, it grows up,<n id="1" /> becomes the greatest of all garden plants, and grows large branches so that the wild birds<n id="2" /> can nest in its shade.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

There is nothing outside of a person that can defile him by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles him.&#8221;p>

But Jesus said, &#8220;Do not stop him, because no one who does a miracle in my name will be able soon afterward to say anything bad about me.

But Jesus said to them, &#8220;You don&#8217;t know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I experience?&#8221;<n id="1" />

They said to him, &#8220;We are able.&#8221;<n id="1" /> Then Jesus said to them, &#8220;You will drink the cup I drink, and you will be baptized with the baptism I experience,

And now,<n id="1" /> because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their time,<n id="2" /> you will be silent, unable to speak,<n id="3" /> until the day these things take place.&#8221;p>

When<n id="1" /> he came out, he was not able to speak to them. They<n id="2" /> realized that he had seen a vision<n id="3" /> in the holy place,<n id="4" /> because<n id="5" /> he was making signs to them and remained unable to speak.<n id="6" />

Therefore produce<n id="1" /> fruit<n id="2" /> that proves your repentance, and don&#8217;t begin to say<n id="3" /> to yourselves, &#8216;We have Abraham as our father.&#8217;<n id="4" /> For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!<n id="5" />

Then<n id="1" /> the experts in the law<n id="2" /> and the Pharisees began to think<n id="3" /> to themselves,<n id="4" /> &#8220;Who is this man<n id="5" /> who is uttering blasphemies?<n id="6" /> Who can forgive sins but God alone?&#8221;

Then<n id="1" /> he will reply<n id="2" /> from inside, &#8216;Do not bother me. The door is already shut, and my children and I are in bed.<n id="3" /> I cannot get up and give you anything.&#8217;<n id="4" />

So<n id="1" /> he called the manager<n id="2" /> in and said to him, &#8216;What is this I hear about you?<n id="3" /> Turn in the account of your administration,<n id="4" /> because you can no longer be my manager.&#8217;

Besides all this,<n id="1" /> a great chasm<n id="2" /> has been fixed between us,<n id="3" /> so that those who want to cross over from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us.&#8217;

<p class="bodytext">Jesus answered, &#8220;I tell you the solemn truth,<n id="1" /> unless a person is born of water and spirit,<n id="2" /> he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

I can do nothing on my own initiative.<n id="1" /> Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just,<n id="2" /> because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.<n id="3" />p>