<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;When<n id="1" /> the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.

I was a stranger and you did not receive me as a guest, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.&#8217;

I tell you the truth,<n id="1" /> wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.&#8221;p>

He<n id="1" /> answered, &#8220;The one who has dipped his hand into the bowl with me<n id="2" /> will betray me.

Jesus said to him, &#8220;I tell you the truth,<n id="1" /> on this night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.&#8221;

Then Jesus said to him, &#8220;Put your sword back in its place!<n id="1" /> For all who take hold of the sword will die by the sword.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. A<n id="1" /> slave girl<n id="2" /> came to him and said, &#8220;You also were with Jesus the Galilean.&#8221;

Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.p>

Then Jesus came up and said to them,<n id="1" /> &#8220;All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

<p class="bodytext">When Herod<n id="1" /> saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he became enraged. He sent men<n id="2" /> to kill all the children in Bethlehem<n id="3" /> and throughout the surrounding region from the age of two and under, according to the time he had learned from the wise men.

So anyone who breaks one of the least of these commands and teaches others<n id="1" /> to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever obeys them and teaches others to do so will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

But whenever you pray, go into your room,<n id="1" /> close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now the birth of Jesus Christ happened this way. While his mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, but before they came together,<n id="1" /> she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.

&#8220;<b><i>Look! The virgin will conceive and bear a son, and they will call himi>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>Emmanueli>b>,&#8221;<n id="2" /> which means<n id="3" /> &#8220;<i>God with usi>.&#8221;<n id="4" />

<p class="otpoetry">&#8216;<i><b>Andb> <b>you, Bethlehem,b> in the land of Judah,i>p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>are in no way least among the rulers of Judah,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><i><b>for out of you will come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israelb>.i>&#8217;&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

After listening to the king they left, and once again<n id="1" /> the star they saw when it rose<n id="2" /> led them until it stopped above the place where the child was.

For he is the one about whom Isaiah the prophet had spoken:<n id="1" />p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8220;<b><i>The voicei>b><n id="2" /> <b><i>of one shouting in the wilderness,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8216;<b><i>Prepare the way for the Lord, makei>b><n id="3" /> <i><b>his paths straightb>.i>&#8217;&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

and don&#8217;t think you can say to yourselves, &#8216;We have Abraham as our father.&#8217; For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

His winnowing fork<n id="1" /> is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse,<n id="2" /> but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

Going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in a boat<n id="1" /> with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. Then<n id="2" /> he called them.