And where they will not welcome you, leave that town and shake off the very dust from your feet as a protest against them."

'The very dust of your town that sticks to our feet we wipe off in protest. But understand this: the Kingdom of God is at hand!'

As the crowds pressed a round him, he went on to say, "This is a wicked age! It demands a sign, and no sign will be given it but the sign of Jonah.

If, therefore, your whole body is light with no darkness in it at all, it will all be as light as a lamp makes things for you by its light."

And did not this woman, who is a descendant of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen years, have to be released from those bonds on the Sabbath day?"

O Jerusalem! Jerusalem! murdering the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you refused!

Besides there is a great chasm set between you and us, so that those who want to go over from this side to you cannot, and they cannot cross from your side to us.'

And the Master said, "If your faith is as big as a mustard seed, you might have said to this mulberry tree, 'Be pulled up by the roots and planted in the sea,' and it would have obeyed you!

They said to him, "Where will this be, Master?" And he said to them, "Wherever there is a dead body the vultures will flock!"

Jesus said to him, "Salvation has come to this house today, for he too is a descendant of Abraham.

"Master, Moses made us a law that if a man's brother die leaving a wife but no children, the man should marry the widow and raise up a family for his brother.

But he said to them, "How can the scribes say that the Christ is a son of David?

And he said, "Take care not to be misled. For many will come under my name, and say, 'I am he,' and 'The time is at hand.' Do not follow them.

But when you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, then you must understand that her devastation is at hand.

So when you see these things happen, you must know that the Kingdom of God is at hand.

About an hour later, another man insisted, "This man was certainly with him too, for he is a Galilean!"

and they made this charge against him: "Here is a man whom we have found misleading our nation, and forbidding the payment of taxes to the emperor, and claiming to be an anointed king himself."