Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I am a virgin?”

When the angels had gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds began saying to one another, “Let us go straight to Bethlehem then, and see this thing that has happened which the Lord has made known to us.”

While He was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man covered with leprosy; and when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and implored Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.”

The scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, “Who is this man who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?”

And Jesus said to them, “You cannot make the attendants of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them, can you?

And He also spoke a parable to them: “A blind man cannot guide a blind man, can he? Will they not both fall into a pit?

Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother’s eye.

and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and sicknesses: Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,

The people went out to see what had happened; and they came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting down at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind; and they became frightened.

But the man from whom the demons had gone out was begging Him that he might accompany Him; but He sent him away, saying,

But Jesus said, “Someone did touch Me, for I was aware that power had gone out of Me.”

And He was casting out a demon, and it was mute; when the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke; and the crowds were amazed.

The Queen of the South will rise up with the men of this generation at the judgment and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.

“I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that have no more that they can do.

And which of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life’s span?

So then, none of you can be My disciple who does not give up all his own possessions.

“Or what woman, if she has ten silver coins and loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it?

When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin which I had lost!’

And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’

No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.”

They who heard it said, “Then who can be saved?”

When they saw it, they all began to grumble, saying, “He has gone to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.”

By your endurance you will gain your lives.