So he asked for a writing tablet and wrote down, "His name is John."

In those days Augustus Caesar issued an edict for a census of the whole inhabited world.

"Behold this child is set for the falling and rising up of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

So, after exhausting on him every kind of temptation, the devil left him for a time.

When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, "Push out into deep water, and let down your nets for a haul."

And instantly the leprosy left him. Jesus ordered him to tell no one, "But be off," he said, "show yourself to the priest, and make the offering for your cleansing, as Moses commanded, for a testimony to them."

"Those on the rock are people who, upon hearing, receive the word with joy; but they have no root. For a time indeed they all believe, but in time of temptation they fall away.

When he landed here he was met by a certain townsman who was possessed by demons. For a long time he had worn no clothes and nor lived in any house, but in tombs.

"for a friend of mine is come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him.'

"What father is there among you who, if his son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish will give him instead a serpent?

"Or if he asks for an egg, will offer him a scorpion?

"for as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so shall the Son of man be to this generation.

And to the people he said, "Take heed and guard yourselves from all covetousness, for a man's life does not consist in the abundance of the things which he possesses."

"For as you go before the magistrate with your opponent do your utmost to get quit of him, lest he drag you before the judge, and the judge delivers you over to the officer, and the officer cast you into prison.

"Yet I must continue my journey today, tomorrow, and the day following; for it would never do for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem!

"For as the lightning when it lightens out of the one part under heaven shines to the other part under heaven, so shall the Son of man be in his day.

"For a while he would not, but afterwards he said to himself, 'Though I have neither reverence for God nor regard for man,

Why, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God."

For as they were untying the colt, the owners said to them, "Why are you untying the colt?"

Then he began to tell the people this parable. "There was a man who planted a vineyard, and let it out to vine-dressers, and went to another country for a long time.

"but they devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. These shall receive severer condemnation."

"It shall turn out for a testimony to you.

He consented to this, and looked for an opportunity to betray him, when the people were not present.

But their eyes continued to be held that they should not recognize him even for an instant,

"Look at my hands and my feet. It is I! Feel me and see; for a ghost has not flesh and blood as I have."