But the angel said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for look, I proclaim to you good news of great joy that will be for all the people:

When His parents saw Him, they were astonished, and His mother said to Him, “Son, why have You treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for You.”

and the Holy Spirit descended on Him in a physical appearance like a dove. And a voice came from heaven:

You are My beloved Son.
I take delight in You!

As the crowd was pressing in on Jesus to hear God’s word, He was standing by Lake Gennesaret.

He saw two boats at the edge of the lake; the fishermen had left them and were washing their nets.

A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher.

“Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but don’t notice the log in your own eye?

Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself don’t see the log in your eye? Hypocrite! First take the log out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck in your brother’s eye.

I will show you what someone is like who comes to Me, hears My words, and acts on them:

He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. When the flood came, the river crashed against that house and couldn’t shake it, because it was well built.

But the one who hears and does not act is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The river crashed against it, and immediately it collapsed. And the destruction of that house was great!”

and sent them to the Lord, asking, “Are You the One who is to come, or should we look for someone else?”

When the men reached Him, they said, “John the Baptist sent us to ask You, ‘Are You the One who is to come, or should we look for someone else?’”

What then did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft robes? Look, those who are splendidly dressed and live in luxury are in royal palaces.

This is the one it is written about:

Look, I am sending My messenger
ahead of You;
he will prepare Your way before You.

“To what then should I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like?

They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to each other:

We played the flute for you,
but you didn’t dance;
we sang a lament,
but you didn’t weep!

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

One day He and His disciples got into a boat, and He told them, “Let’s cross over to the other side of the lake.” So they set out,

and as they were sailing He fell asleep. Then a fierce windstorm came down on the lake; they were being swamped and were in danger.

The demons came out of the man and entered the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and drowned.

Just then a man from the crowd cried out, “Teacher, I beg You to look at my son, because he’s my only child.

Now go; I’m sending you out like lambs among wolves.

He said to them, “I watched Satan fall from heaven like a lightning flash.

Look, I have given you the authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy; nothing will ever harm you.

The queen of the south will rise up at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and look—something greater than Solomon is here!

The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at Jonah’s proclamation, and look—something greater than Jonah is here!

“Woe to you! You are like unmarked graves; the people who walk over them don’t know it.”

“Consider how the wildflowers grow: They don’t labor or spin thread. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was adorned like one of these!

You must be like people waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once.

He said, therefore, “What is the kingdom of God like, and what can I compare it to?

It’s like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the sky nested in its branches.”

It’s like yeast that a woman took and mixed into 50 pounds of flour until it spread through the entire mixture.”

He said to them, “Go tell that fox, ‘Look! I’m driving out demons and performing healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will complete My work.’

I’m no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired hands.’

But he replied to his father, ‘Look, I have been slaving many years for you, and I have never disobeyed your orders, yet you never gave me a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.

He longed to be filled with what fell from the rich man’s table, but instead the dogs would come and lick his sores.

no one will say, ‘Look here!’ or ‘There!’ For you see, the kingdom of God is among you.”

They will say to you, ‘Look there!’ or ‘Look here!’ Don’t follow or run after them.

It will be like that on the day the Son of Man is revealed.

The Pharisee took his stand and was praying like this: ‘God, I thank You that I’m not like other people —greedy, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

I assure you: Whoever does not welcome the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”

When Jesus heard this, He told him, “You still lack one thing: Sell all that you have and distribute it to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”

Then Peter said, “Look, we have left what we had and followed You.”

But Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, “Look, I’ll give half of my possessions to the poor, Lord! And if I have extorted anything from anyone, I’ll pay back four times as much!”

For they cannot die anymore, because they are like angels and are sons of God, since they are sons of the resurrection.

Then He told them a parable: “Look at the fig tree, and all the trees.

like a trap. For it will come on all who live on the face of the whole earth.

But look, the hand of the one betraying Me is at the table with Me!

But it must not be like that among you. On the contrary, whoever is greatest among you must become like the youngest, and whoever leads, like the one serving.

“Simon, Simon, look out! Satan has asked to sift you like wheat.

He also said to them, “When I sent you out without money-bag, traveling bag, or sandals, did you lack anything?”

“Not a thing,” they said.

“Lord,” they said, “look, here are two swords.”

“Enough of that!” He told them.

Being in anguish, He prayed more fervently, and His sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.]

Look, the days are coming when they will say, ‘The women without children, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed, are fortunate!’

But these words seemed like nonsense to them, and they did not believe the women.

Peter, however, got up and ran to the tomb. When he stooped to look in, he saw only the linen cloths. So he went home, amazed at what had happened.

Look at My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself! Touch Me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you can see I have.”

And look, I am sending you what My Father promised. As for you, stay in the city until you are empowered from on high.”