Then when the angel left them and returned to heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let us now go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, which the Lord has told us."

After the devil had finished every sort of temptation, he left Him till another time.

On another Sabbath He found Himself in the synagogue teaching; and there was there a man whose right hand was withered.

And if you ever lend to people expecting to get it back, what credit do you get for that? Even notorious sinners practice lending to one another, expecting to get it back in full.

Then He told them a story: "Can one blind man lead another? Will they not both fall into the ditch?

For I too am under authority of others, and have soldiers under me, and I order one to go, and he goes, another to come, and he comes, my slave to do this, and he does it."

Now as a great crowd was coming together and people were coming to Him from one town after another, He said by way of a story:

Another portion of them fell upon the rock, and as soon as they sprang up, they withered, because they had no moisture.

Still another portion fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up with them and choked them out.

And another portion fell in rich soil and grew and yielded a crop of a hundredfold." As He said this, He exclaimed, "Let him who has ears to hear with, listen!"

Then He said to them, "Where is your faith?" But they were frightened and astounded, and continued to say to one another, "Who can He be? For He gives orders even to the winds and the water, and they obey Him."

He said to another man, "Follow me." But he said, "Let me first go back and bury my father."

Still another man said, "I will follow you, Lord, but let me first say 'Goodbye' to the homefolks."

But He knew what they were thinking, and so said to them, "Any kingdom that is not united is in the process of destruction, and one house falls after another.

Meanwhile as the people had gathered in tens of thousands, so that they were trampling upon one another, He began to say, first of all, to His disciples: "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is, hypocrisy.

Another said, 'I have just bought five yoke of oxen, and I am on my way to try them. Please excuse me.'

Another said, 'I have just gotten married, and so I cannot come.'

"Or what king, when he is going to make an attack on another king, does not first sit down and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand soldiers to meet the other king who is coming against him with twenty thousand?

Then he asked another, 'And how much do you owe?' He answered, 'Twelve hundred bushels of wheat:' He said to him, 'Take your bill and write nine hundred and sixty.'

Any man who divorces his wife to marry another woman commits adultery, and the man who marries the woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

"Be always looking out for another. If your brother ever sins, reprove him, and if he repents, forgive him.

As they were listening to these things, He told them another story, because He was near Jerusalem and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was going to appear at once.

But another one came in and said, 'Here is your twenty dollars, sir, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief.

and they will throw you and your children within you to the ground, and they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know when God visited you."

And they argued with one another, and said, "If we say, 'From heaven,' He will say, 'Why did you not believe him?'

Then again he sent another slave, and they beat him and insulted him, and sent him back empty-handed.

"As for all this that you are admiring, the time is coming when not one stone will be left upon another, that will not be torn down."

Then He continued to say to them, "One nation will go to war with another, and one kingdom with another.

About an hour later another man emphatically asserted, "He certainly was with Him, for he is a Galilean!"