Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth,

to a virgin there engaged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.

Now in those days Mary got up and hurried off to the hill country, to a town in Judah,

Now when the period of their purification ended, in accordance with the law of Moses, they took Him up to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord, to do as it is written in the law of the Lord,

Then the devil said to Him, "If you are God's Son, order this stone to turn to a loaf of bread."

and yet Elijah was not sent to a single one of them except to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.

As day broke He left the house and went to a lonely spot, and the crowds continued to look for Him; they overtook Him, and tried to keep Him from leaving them.

One day as He was teaching, there were some Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with Him to cure people.

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."

Soon afterwards He chanced to go to a town called Nain, and His disciples and a great throng of people were going along with Him.

"Two men were in debt to a money-lender. One owed him a hundred dollars, the other ten.

Now the apostles returned and told Jesus all that they had done. Then He took them and privately retired to a town called Bethsaida.

For what benefit will it be to a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

Now as the time was coming to a head when He should be taken up to heaven, He firmly set His face to continue His journey to Jerusalem;

Then they went on to a different village.

Whenever you go to a house for headquarters, first say, 'Peace to this household.'

So he went to him and dressed his wounds by pouring oil and wine upon them, and then he put him on his donkey and brought him to an inn and took care of him.

Now as they were journeying on, He came to a certain village where a woman named Martha welcomed Him to her house.

"When you are invited by anyone to a wedding supper, never take the best place, for someone of greater distinction than you may have been invited,

But when you are invited anywhere, go and take the lowest place, so that when your host comes in, he may say to you, 'My friend, come up to a better place.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all your fellow-guests.

Not many days after that, the younger son got together all he had and went away to a distant country, and there he squandered all his property by living in dissipation.

So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, and he sent him to his fields to feed hogs.

So He said: "Once upon a time a man of noble birth went off to a distant country to get for himself a kingdom and then return.

On that very day, strange to say, two of them were on their way to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem,