He<n id="1" /> went into all the region around the Jordan River,<n id="2" /> preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.<n id="3" />p>

But<n id="1" /> a Samaritan<n id="2" /> who was traveling<n id="3" /> came to where the injured man<n id="4" /> was, and when he saw him, he felt compassion for him.<n id="5" />

For the Son of Man came<n id="1" /> to seek and to save the lost.&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then the day for the feast<n id="1" /> of Unleavened Bread came, on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.<n id="2" />

Then<n id="1" /> the second one came and said, &#8216;Sir, your mina has made five minas.&#8217;

But when this son of yours<n id="1" /> came back, who has devoured<n id="2" /> your assets with prostitutes,<n id="3" /> you killed the fattened calf<n id="4" /> for him!&#8217;

People<n id="1" /> were eating,<n id="2" /> they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage &#8211; right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then<n id="3" /> the flood came and destroyed them all.<n id="4" />

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" />

So<n id="1" /> Simeon,<n id="2" /> directed by the Spirit,<n id="3" /> came into the temple courts,<n id="4" /> and when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what was customary according to the law,<n id="5" />

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>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> Jesus<n id="2" /> came to Nazareth,<n id="3" /> where he had been brought up, and went into the synagogue<n id="4" /> on the Sabbath day, as was his custom.<n id="5" /> He<n id="6" /> stood up to read,<n id="7" />

Then<n id="1" /> a man named Jairus, who was a ruler<n id="2" /> of the synagogue,<n id="3" /> came up. Falling<n id="4" /> at Jesus&#8217; feet, he pleaded<n id="5" /> with him to come to his house,

When<n id="1" /> the woman saw that she could not escape notice,<n id="2" /> she came trembling and fell down before him. In<n id="3" /> the presence of all the people, she explained why<n id="4" /> she had touched him and how she had been immediately healed.

The queen of the South<n id="1" /> will rise up at the judgment<n id="2" /> with the people<n id="3" /> of this generation and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon &#8211; and now,<n id="4" /> something greater<n id="5" /> than Solomon is here!

<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 got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way from home<n id="2" /> his father saw him, and his heart went out to him;<n id="3" /> he ran and hugged<n id="4" /> his son<n id="5" /> and kissed him.

And when Jesus came to that place, he looked up<n id="1" /> and said to him, &#8220;Zacchaeus, come down quickly,<n id="2" /> because I must<n id="3" /> stay at your house today.&#8221;<n id="4" />