But he passed through the crowd<n id="1" /> and went on his way.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">as he spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets from long ago,<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Because of<n id="1" /> our God&#8217;s tender mercy<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the dawn<n id="3" /> will break<n id="4" /> upon us from on highp>

Another<n id="1" /> said, &#8216;I just got married, and I cannot come.&#8217;<n id="2" />

You will be hated by everyone because of my name.<n id="1" />

and were continually in the temple courts<n id="1" /> blessing<n id="2" /> God.<n id="3" />p>

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" />

I tell you, even though the man inside<n id="1" /> will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of the first man&#8217;s<n id="2" /> sheer persistence<n id="3" /> he will get up and give him whatever he needs.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">While a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus<n id="1" /> from one town after another,<n id="2" /> he spoke to them<n id="3" /> in a parable:

Other seed fell on rock,<n id="1" /> and when it came up, it withered because it had no moisture.

&#8220;Exert every effort<n id="1" /> to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now on<n id="1" /> the way to Jerusalem,<n id="2" /> Jesus<n id="3" /> was passing along<n id="4" /> between Samaria and Galilee.

In fact, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle<n id="1" /> than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.&#8221;

If anyone asks you, &#8216;Why are you untying it?&#8217; just say, &#8216;The Lord needs<n id="1" /> it.&#8217;&#8221;

(This<n id="1" /> was a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection<n id="2" /> started in the city, and for murder.)<n id="3" />

Then<n id="1" /> he said to them, &#8220;Why are you frightened,<n id="2" /> and why do doubts<n id="3" /> arise in your hearts?

But<n id="1" /> the Pharisees<n id="2" /> and their experts in the law<n id="3" /> complained<n id="4" /> to his disciples, saying, &#8220;Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?&#8221;<n id="5" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Jesus<n id="1" /> was going through the grain fields on<n id="2" /> a Sabbath,<n id="3" /> and his disciples picked some heads of wheat,<n id="4" /> rubbed them in their hands, and ate them.<n id="5" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now Jesus&#8217;<n id="1" /> mother and his brothers<n id="2" /> came to him, but<n id="3" /> they could not get near him because of the crowd.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now Herod<n id="1" /> the tetrarch<n id="2" /> heard about everything that was happening, and he was thoroughly perplexed,<n id="3" /> because some people were saying that John<n id="4" /> had been raised from the dead,