Zechariah said to the angel, "How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is old as well."

Therefore produce fruit that proves your repentance, and don't begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

And he said to him, "To you I will grant this whole realm -- and the glory that goes along with it, for it has been relinquished to me, and I can give it to anyone I wish.

While Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came to him who was covered with leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he bowed down with his face to the ground and begged him, "Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean."

Then the experts in the law and the Pharisees began to think to themselves, "Who is this man who is uttering blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

So Jesus said to them, "You cannot make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you?

He also told them a parable: "Someone who is blind cannot lead another who is blind, can he? Won't they both fall into a pit?

How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me remove the speck from your eye,' while you yourself don't see the beam in your own? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

"No one lights a lamp and then covers it with a jar or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a lampstand so that those who come in can see the light.

Now the day began to draw to a close, so the twelve came and said to Jesus, "Send the crowd away, so they can go into the surrounding villages and countryside and find lodging and food, because we are in an isolated place."

"No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a hidden place or under a basket, but on a lampstand, so that those who come in can see the light.

"I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more they can do.

And which of you by worrying can add an hour to his life?

be like people waiting for their master to come back from the wedding celebration, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.

You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how can you not know how to interpret the present time?

Then if it bears fruit next year, very well, but if not, you can cut it down.'"

He said also to the man who had invited him, "When you host a dinner or a banquet, don't invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors so you can be invited by them in return and get repaid.

In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all his own possessions.

"Salt is good, but if salt loses its flavor, how can its flavor be restored?

So he called the manager in and said to him, 'What is this I hear about you? Turn in the account of your administration, because you can no longer be my manager.'

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money."

Besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us, so that those who want to cross over from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us.'

Those who heard this said, "Then who can be saved?"

In fact, they can no longer die, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, since they are sons of the resurrection.

If David then calls him 'Lord,' how can he be his son?"