When He began His ministry, Jesus Himself was about thirty years of age, being, as was supposed, the son of Joseph, the son of Eli,

But Jesus Himself would often slip away to the wilderness and pray.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil men.

Now when the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet He would know who and what sort of person this woman is who is touching Him, that she is a sinner.”

When the apostles returned, they gave an account to Him of all that they had done. Taking them with Him, He withdrew by Himself to a city called Bethsaida.

And He was saying to them all, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me.

For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits himself?

Now after this the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them in pairs ahead of Him to every city and place where He Himself was going to come.

But wishing to justify himself, he said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.

And he began reasoning to himself, saying, ‘What shall I do, since I have no place to store my crops?’

So is the man who stores up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; but I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these.

Blessed are those slaves whom the master will find on the alert when he comes; truly I say to you, that he will gird himself to serve, and have them recline at the table, and will come up and wait on them.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig; I am ashamed to beg.

For a while he was unwilling; but afterward he said to himself, ‘Even though I do not fear God nor respect man,

The Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself: ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

So He said, “A nobleman went to a distant country to receive a kingdom for himself, and then return.

For David himself says in the book of Psalms,
‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at My right hand,

And they began to accuse Him, saying, “We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar, and saying that He Himself is Christ, a King.”

And when he learned that He belonged to Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent Him to Herod, who himself also was in Jerusalem at that time.

And the people stood by, looking on. And even the rulers were sneering at Him, saying, “He saved others; let Him save Himself if this is the Christ of God, His Chosen One.”

While they were talking and discussing, Jesus Himself approached and began traveling with them.

Then beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures.

While they were telling these things, He Himself stood in their midst and *said to them, “Peace be to you.”