that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies, may serve him without fear,

Then he began to tell them, "Today this scripture has been fulfilled even as you heard it being read."

As he approached the town gate, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother (who was a widow), and a large crowd from the town was with her.

People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage -- right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

He was trying to get a look at Jesus, but being a short man he could not see over the crowd.

For I tell you that this scripture must be fulfilled in me, 'And he was counted with the transgressors.' For what is written about me is being fulfilled."