he was chosen by lot to go into the sanctuary of the Lord and burn incense, according to the custom of the priests.

Then Mary said, "Truly I am the Lord's servant. Let everything you have said happen to me." Then the angel left her.

Because of the tender mercy of our God, his light from on high has visited us,

and she gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him in strips of cloth and laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no place for them in the guest quarters.

When the angels had left them and gone back to heaven, the shepherds told one another, "Let's go to Bethlehem and see what has taken place that the Lord has told us about."

Led by the Spirit, he went into the Temple. When the parents brought the child Jesus to do for him what was customary under the Law,

a light that will reveal salvation to unbelievers and bring glory to your people Israel."

Then Jesus, filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan. He was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

They got up, forced Jesus out of the city, and led him to the edge of the hill on which their city was built, intending to throw him off.

In the synagogue was a man who had a demon. He screamed with a loud voice,

When they couldn't find a way to get him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down on his stretcher through the tiles into the middle of the room, right in front of Jesus.

He also told them a parable: "One blind person can't lead another blind person, can he? Both will fall into a ditch, won't they?

How can you say to your brother, "Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,' when you don't see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you'll see clearly enough to remove the speck from your brother's eye."

That's why I didn't presume to come to you. But just say the word, and let my servant be healed,

But others fell on good soil, and when they came up, they produced 100 times as much as was planted." As he said this, he called out, "Let the person who has ears to hear, listen!"

"No one lights a lamp and hides it under a bowl or puts it under a bed. Instead, he puts it on a lamp stand so that those who come in will see the light.

There is nothing hidden that won't be revealed, and there is nothing secret that won't become known and come to light.

One day, Jesus and his disciples got into a boat. He told them, "Let's cross to the other side of the lake." So they started out.

When he saw Jesus, he screamed, fell down in front of him, and cried out in a loud voice, "What do you want from me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you not to torture me!"

Now a large herd of pigs was grazing there on the hillside. So the demons begged Jesus to let them go into those pigs, and he consented to that.

Now the man from whom the demons had gone out kept begging Jesus to let him go with him. But Jesus sent him away, saying,

Just as Moses and Elijah were leaving, Peter told Jesus, "Master, it's good that we're here! Let's set up three shelters one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah." (Peter didn't know what he was saying.)

He told another man, "Follow me." But he said, "Lord, first let me go and bury my father."

But he told him, "Let the dead bury their own dead. But you go and proclaim the kingdom of God."

Still another man said, "I will follow you, Lord, but first let me say goodbye to those at home."

The Lord answered her, "Martha, Martha! You worry and fuss about a lot of things.

Then he told them, "Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, "Friend, let me borrow three loaves of bread.

"No one lights a lamp and puts it in a hiding place or under a basket, but on a lamp stand, so that those who enter may see its light.

Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light. But when it's evil, your body is full of darkness.

Therefore, be careful that the light in you isn't darkness.

Now if your whole body is full of light, with no part of it in darkness, it will be as full of light as when a lamp gives you light with its rays."

Jesus said, "How terrible it will be for you experts in the Law, too! You load people with burdens that are hard to carry, yet you don't even lift a finger to ease those burdens.

But be sure of this: if the homeowner had known at what time the thief were coming, he would have watched and would not have let his house be broken into.

But the servant who did things that deserved a beating without knowing it will receive a light beating. Much will be required from everyone to whom much has been given. But even more will be demanded from the one to whom much has been entrusted."

The Lord replied to him, "You hypocrites! Doesn't each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or donkey and lead it out of its stall to give it some water?

It's suitable neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. People throw it away. Let the person who has ears to hear, listen!"

Bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let's eat and celebrate!

Whoever is faithful with very little is also faithful with a lot, and whoever is dishonest with very little is also dishonest with a lot.

But one of them, when he saw that he had been healed, came back and praised God with a loud voice.

So it was in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.

But on the day when Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed all of them.

Remember Lot's wife!

Jesus, however, called for the children and said, "Let the little children come to me, and stop keeping them away, because the kingdom of God belongs to people like these.

He was now approaching the descent from the Mount of Olives. The whole crowd of disciples began to rejoice and to praise God with a loud voice because of all the miracles they had seen.

But when the farmers saw him, they talked it over among themselves and said, "This is the heir. Let's kill him so that the inheritance will be ours!'

Then they arrested him, led him away, and brought him to the high priest's house. But Peter was following at a distance.

So I will punish him and let him go."

But Pilate wanted to let Jesus go, so he appealed to them again,

Then he spoke to them a third time: "What has he done wrong? I have found nothing in him worthy of death. So I will punish him and let him go."

But they kept pressing him with loud shouts, demanding that Jesus be crucified, and their shouts began to prevail.

So he released the man who had been put in prison for revolt and murder the man whose release they continued to demand but he let them have their way with Jesus.

As they led Jesus away, they grabbed Simon, a man from Cyrene, as he was coming in from the country, and they put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus.

Two others, who were criminals, were also led away to be executed with Jesus.

Meanwhile, the people stood looking on. The leaders were mocking him by saying, "He saved others. Let him save himself, if he is the Messiah of God, the chosen one!"

Then Jesus cried out with a loud voice and said, "Father, into your hands I entrust my spirit." After he said this, he breathed his last.

Then he took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid it in a tomb cut in the rock, in which no one had yet been laid.

So the women who had come with Jesus from Galilee, following close behind, saw the tomb and how his body was laid.

Later, he led them out as far as Bethany, lifted up his hands, and blessed them.