But the angel said to him: " Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth shall bear you a son, whom you shall call by the name John.

A week later they met to circumcise the child, and were about to call him 'Zechariah' after his father,

I have not come to call the religious, but the outcast, to repent."

Why do you call me 'Master! Master!' and yet fail to do what I tell you?

So the disciples came and roused him. "Sir, Sir," they cried, "we are lost!" Jesus rose and rebuked the wind and the rushing waves, and they fell, and a calm followed.

When James and John saw this, they said: "Master, do you wish us to call for fire to come down from the heavens and consume them?"

And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry;

'Your brother has come back,' the servant told him, 'and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has him back safe and sound.'

But, no sooner has this son of yours come, who has eaten up your property in the company of prostitutes, than you have killed the fattened calf for him.'

"Why do you call me good?" answered Jesus. "No one is good but God.

Those who were in front kept telling him to be quiet, but he continued to call out the louder: "Son of David, take pity on me!"

But Jesus answered: "I tell you that if these men are silent, the very stones will call out."