and then as a widow for 84 years. She never left the Temple, but continued to worship there night and day with times of fasting and prayer.

The Pharisees and their scribes started complaining to Jesus' disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?"

"If you love those who love you, what thanks do you deserve? Why, even sinners love those who love them.

If you do good to those who do good to you, what thanks do you deserve? Even sinners do that.

I will show you what everyone is like who comes to me, hears my words, and acts on them.

As he approached the entrance to the city, a man who had died was being carried out. He was his mother's only son, and she was a widow. A large crowd from the city was with her.

and sent them to the Lord to ask, "Are you the Coming One, or should we wait for someone else?"

When the men had come to Jesus, they said, "John the Baptist has sent us to you to ask, "Are you the Coming One, or should we wait for someone else?'"

Get going! See, I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.

"Whenever you go into a town and the people welcome you, eat whatever they serve you,

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who died between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be charged against this generation!

because at that time the Holy Spirit will teach you what you are to say."

Can any of you add an hour to the length of your life by worrying?

Then you will say, "We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.'

And if you haven't been faithful with what belongs to foreigners, who will give you what is your own?

Besides all this, a wide chasm has been fixed between us, so that those who want to cross from this side to you cannot do so, nor can they cross from your side to us.'

Of course not. Instead, he would say to him, "Get dinner ready for me, and put on your apron and wait on me until I eat and drink. Then you can eat and drink.'

That's the way it is with you. When you have done everything you were ordered to do, say, "We are worthless servants. We have done only what we ought to have done.'"

In that city there was also a widow who kept coming to him and saying, "Grant me justice against my adversary.'

Then Jesus asked his disciples, "When I sent you out without a wallet, traveling bag, or sandals, you didn't lack anything, did you?" They replied, "Nothing at all."

Because I tell you, what has been written about me must be fulfilled: "He was counted among the criminals.' Indeed, what is written about me must be fulfilled."

I am sending to you what my Father promised, so stay here in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high."