But the angel said to him, "Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer is heard; and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus.

for he has regarded the lowly state of his servant; for behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed.

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

"Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say?

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

"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.

At that very time some Pharisees came, and said to him, "Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you."

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!

And bring the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and be merry;

And he called out, 'Father Abraham, have mercy upon me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am in agony in this flame.'

So Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone.

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

But when the tenants saw him, they reasoned among themselves and said, 'This is the heir. Let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.'

And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to kill him, for they feared the people.