Now you will keep silent and be unable to talk until the day when this takes place, because you did not believe what I told you, for it will be fulfilled at the proper time."

As they did not find Him, they returned to Jerusalem in anxious search for Him.

When His parents saw Him, they were utterly amazed, and yet His mother said to Him, "My child, why did you treat us so? Just see how your father and I, in agony of mind, have been searching for you!"

Then He said to them, "Why is it that you were searching for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?"

But they did not understand what He said to them.

He said to them, "Doubtless you will quote this proverb to me, 'Doctor, cure yourself! Do the things here in your hometown that we hear you did in Capernaum.'"

They did so and caught so vast a shoal of fish that their nets began to break.

Jesus answered them, "Did you never read what David did, when he and his soldiers became hungry?

Then He glanced around at them all and said to him, "Put out your hand." And he did so, and his hand was at once completely restored.

And so I did not deem myself worthy even to come to you. But simply speak the word, and let my servant-boy be cured.

But when John's messengers had gone, He began to speak to the crowds about John: "What did you go out into the desert to gaze at? A reed that is tossed to and fro by the wind?

If not, what did you go out there to see? A man dressed in silks and satins? No. People who dress gorgeously and live luxuriously are found in royal palaces.

If not, then what did you go out there to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and one who is far more than a prophet.

They are like little children sitting in the market-place and calling to their fellows in the game: "'We played the wedding march for you, but you did not dance. We sang the funeral dirge, but you did not mourn.'

And turning face to face with the woman He said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I came to your house; you did not give me any water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with tears and wiped them with her hair.

You did not give me a kiss, but she, from the moment I came in, has not ceased to kiss my feet with affection.

You did not anoint my head with oil, but she anointed my feet with perfume.

As soon as He stepped out upon the shore, there met Him a man from town, who was under the power of demons; and for a long time he had worn no clothes, and did not stay in a house but in tombs.

And they did so, and made all the people sit down and recline.

And just as they were starting to leave Him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three tents, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah" -- although he did not know what he was saying.

But they remained ignorant of what this meant; indeed, it had been hidden from them, so that they did not grasp it, and they were afraid to ask Him about this statement.

For I tell you, many prophets and kings have wished to see what you are seeing, but they did not, and to hear what you are hearing, but they did not."

The Pharisee noticed that He did not first wash before lunch, and was surprised.

You fools! Did not the One who made the outside make the inside too?

So you testify to what your forefathers did and approve it, because they killed them and you build monuments for them.

A curse on you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to the door of knowledge! You did not go in yourselves, and you kept out those who tried to get in."

By no means, I tell you, but unless you repent, you will all perish as they did.

By no means, I tell you, but unless you repent, you will all perish as they did."

Then He told them this story: "A man had a fig tree planted by his vineyard, and he kept going and looking for figs on it, but did not find any.

But they did not understand about these things, and this statement was an insoluble riddle to them; they did not even begin to grasp what He meant.

For I lived in constant dread of you, because you are a stern man, you pick up what you did not put down, you reap what you did not sow.'

He said to him, 'On the ground of what you say I will sentence you, you wicked slave! You knew that I was a stern man, that I picked up what I did not put down, and reaped what I did not sow.

So why did you not put my money into the bank? In that case, when I came back I could have gotten interest on my principal.'

But bring those enemies of mine here who did not want me to become king over them and slay them in my presence!'"

and they will throw you and your children within you to the ground, and they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know when God visited you."

And they argued with one another, and said, "If we say, 'From heaven,' He will say, 'Why did you not believe him?'

So they answered and said that they did not know where it was from.

and the third, married her; as also the seven did who died but left no child.

For they did not dare to ask Him any more questions.

Then He said to them, "When I sent you out without purse or bag or shoes, you did not need anything, did you?" They answered, "Nothing at all."

and yet on going inside they did not find the body.

Then some of our company went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but they did not see Him."

Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and thus to enter into His glory?"

Then they said to each other, "Did not our hearts keep burning in our bosoms as He was talking to us on the road, as He went on explaining the Scriptures to us?"