But the angel said to him, "Don't be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard, and your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

Behold, you will conceive in your womb, and bring forth a son, and will call his name 'Jesus.'

for he has looked at the humble state of his handmaid. For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

Then Jesus said to them, "I will ask you something: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?"

"Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and don't do the things which I say?

They are like children who sit in the marketplace, and call one to another, saying, 'We piped to you, and you didn't dance. We mourned, and you didn't weep.'

Therefore also the wisdom of God said, 'I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute,

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

On that same day, some Pharisees came, saying to him, "Get out of here, and go away, for Herod wants to kill you."

He also said to the one who had invited him, "When you make a dinner or a supper, don't call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.

Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and celebrate;

He cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.'

Jesus asked him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good, except one -- God.

They will scourge and kill him. On the third day, he will rise again."

But bring those enemies of mine who didn't want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.'"

"But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, 'This is the heir. Come, let's kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.'