After these days Elizabeth, his wife, conceived, and she hid herself five months, saying,

It happened on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zechariah, after the name of the father.

It happened after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions.

After these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, "Follow me."

After he had finished speaking in the hearing of the people, he entered into Capernaum.

He said to all, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me.

It happened about eight days after these sayings, that he took with him Peter, John, and James, and went up onto the mountain to pray.

Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy-two others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place, where he was about to come.

When the crowds were gathering together to him, he began to say, "This generation is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah.

"I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him, who after he has killed, has power to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him.

For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.

If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.'"

Whoever does not bear his own cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

"Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?

Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.

And they will tell you, 'Look, there.' or 'Look, here.' Do not go away, nor follow after them,

But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, 'We do not want this man to reign over us.'

Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the New Covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

After a little while someone else saw him, and said, "You also are one of them." But Peter answered, "Man, I am not."

After about one hour passed, another confidently affirmed, saying, "Truly this man also was with him, for he is a Galilean."

When they led him away, they grabbed one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and placed on him the cross, to carry it after Jesus.

The women, who had come with him out of Galilee, followed after, and saw the tomb, and how his body was placed.