When he got up to leave the synagogue he went to the house of Simon. Simon's mother-in-law was laid up with a severe attack of fever, so they asked him about her;

he stood over her and checked the fever, and it left her. Then she instantly got up and ministered to them.

Simon replied, "Master, we worked all night and got nothing! However, I will lower the nets at your command."

Instantly he got up before them, lifted what he had been lying on, and went home glorifying God.

They got a report from those who had seen how the lunatic was cured,

And her spirit returned, she got up instantly, and he ordered them to give her something to eat.

He said to them, "Give them some food yourselves." They said, "We have only got five loaves and two fish. Unless ??are we to go and buy food for the whole of this people?"

Now a jurist got up to tempt him. "Teacher," he said, "what am I to do to inherit life eternal?"

once the master of the House has got up and closed the door. You may stand outside and knock at the door, crying, 'Lord, open for us,' but he will answer you, 'I do not know where you come from.'

So he got up and went off to his father. But when he was still far away his father saw him and felt pity for him and ran to fall upon his neck and kiss him.

The servant told him, 'Your brother has arrived, and your father has killed the fatted calf because he has got him back safe and sound.'

But Abraham said, 'Remember, my son, you got all the bliss when you were alive, just as Lazarus got the ills of life; he is in comfort now, and you are in anguish.

'They have got Moses and the prophets,' said Abraham, 'they can listen to them.'

Why then did you not put my money into the bank, so that I could have got it with interest when I came back?'

So they got up and returned that very hour to Jerusalem, where they found the eleven and their friends all gathered,